Guide: How to bootloader unlock your Honor 5X (official and unofficial methods)

[snazzyman89]

hey bro I need ur help are u online?

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bro its not showing up as a qualcom device with or without the battery, without the battery it just vibrates and nothing shows up on the pc

Keep the two points contacted with a metal object when you plug your usb cable. don't take off the metal object until you see the qualcomm usb loader on QFIL.

 

[Ibrahim Tariq]

Keep the two points contacted with a metal object when you plug your usb cable. don't take off the metal object until you see the qualcomm usb loader on QFIL.

thank u very much brother it worked and I now have root

lost my bottom screws in the process XD

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Keep the two points contacted with a metal object when you plug your usb cable. don't take off the metal object until you see the qualcomm usb loader on QFIL.

were u able to flash twrp if yes then how

when I boot to recovery huawei erecovery shows up

edit the bootloader is still locked

 

[snazzyman89]

sorry bro, as i stressed out in my posts, i wasn't able to extract the bootloader code. the adb shell never gave me a code and i tried other methods and they didn't work either. also, just so you don't waste your time; don't try to flash a recovery image from the twrp android app, i've tried that and it didn't work.
try opening your adb in cmd and do this, it could give you a bootloader code:
1. Turn USB debugging On in phone.
2. type 'adb devices' and see it gives you a serial number for your phone, if it does then you're good to go.
3. type 'adb shell'
3. type 'su' (allow root permission to ADB if you get a prompt)
4. type this code: grep -m1 -aoE 'WVLOCK.{14}[0-9]{16}' /dev/block/mmcblk* | grep -aoE '[0-9]{16}'

 

[Ibrahim Tariq]

sorry bro, as i stressed out in my posts, i wasn't able to extract the bootloader code. the adb shell never gave me a code and i tried other methods and they didn't work either. also, just so you don't waste your time; don't try to flash a recovery image from the twrp android app, i've tried that and it didn't work.
try opening your adb in cmd and do this, it could give you a bootloader code:
1. Turn USB debugging On in phone.
2. type 'adb devices' and see it gives you a serial number for your phone, if it does then you're good to go.
3. type 'adb shell'
3. type 'su' (allow root permission to ADB if you get a prompt)
4. type this code: grep -m1 -aoE 'WVLOCK.{14}[0-9]{16}' /dev/block/mmcblk* | grep -aoE '[0-9]{16}'

tried everything wasted my whole day on it. no one is doing anything for this model, I think its old thats why. .

I realy wanted that lineage os rom for this phone the stock rom is SH*t

anyways thanks for your time. . .and lets hope someone unlocks this phone soon.

 

[clsA]

tried everything wasted my whole day on it. no one is doing anything for this model, I think its old thats why. .

I realy wanted that lineage os rom for this phone the stock rom is SH*t

anyways thanks for your time. . .and lets hope someone unlocks this phone soon.

Well you can blame Honor, their whole company is a POS. They left all of there loyal users holding the bag after months of broken promises. Your 5x was cheap and manufactured over 4 years ago. Honor only cares if your buying the newest release at Top Dollar price, and even then they will leave you with no updates just as soon as the new phone comes out. Screw Honor get a OnePlus or a OPPA

 

[snazzyman89]

tried everything wasted my whole day on it. no one is doing anything for this model, I think its old thats why. .

I realy wanted that lineage os rom for this phone the stock rom is SH*t

anyways thanks for your time. . .and lets hope someone unlocks this phone soon.

If this had been a Kirin phone, we'd have gotten the bootloader code from it using the adb code. Its strange because even qualcomm should store its bootloader code somewhere in the files, yet we were never able to find it...
Maybe if we can software-flash an unlocked 5x's boot.img on the phone, it would unlock it too?

Tbh, im kinda disappointed no devs in here are helping us, i thought this place was full of them.

 

[clsA]

If this had been a Kirin phone, we'd have gotten the bootloader code from it using the adb code. Its strange because even qualcomm should store its bootloader code somewhere in the files, yet we were never able to find it...
Maybe if we can software-flash an unlocked 5x's boot.img on the phone, it would unlock it too?

Tbh, im kinda disappointed no devs in here are helping us, i thought this place was full of them.

Well when your 1 - 3 years late to the party what else did you expect ?
I have had probably 6 - 8 phones since this one.
The Kiwi was a blast when it came out but those days are long gone my friends

 

[sina63441]

If this had been a Kirin phone, we'd have gotten the bootloader code from it using the adb code. Its strange because even qualcomm should store its bootloader code somewhere in the files, yet we were never able to find it...
Maybe if we can software-flash an unlocked 5x's boot.img on the phone, it would unlock it too?

Tbh, im kinda disappointed no devs in here are helping us, i thought this place was full of them.

Hello, is there a way in Android 5 unlock bootloader honor5x ?

 

[harleymk2]

Hi,
my old unlockcode for my honor 5x is not working anymore.
I have unlocked and rooted my phone years ago and have installed twrp 3.4.0 and lineage 16 sometime ago.
My phone bricked anyway and now i can only go to "fastboot&rescue mode) (volume down and power)

the command 'fastboot oem unlock <unlockcode>' give 'FAILED (remote: Invalid key,unlock fail)'
I have checked a few times, the code is for the main imei und i checked the code a few times, no mistyping

fastboot oem get-bootinfo
...
(bootloader) *******************************************
(bootloader) Bootloader Lock State: LOCKED
(bootloader) Root State: ROOT
(bootloader) Bootloader WidevineKey: WidevineKey_INVALID
(bootloader) System State: need to verify
(bootloader) Boot image need to be verified
(bootloader) Recovery image need to be verified
(bootloader) Bootloader Version: 001.001.000
(bootloader) *******************************************
OKAY [ 1.345s]
finished. total time: 1.345s

Can i do anything?

harleymk2

 

[snazzyman89]

Unless someone can provide an ADB command to extract the bootloader code from Qualcomm system files or possibly provide an unlocked Aboot image, There is nothing that you can do further than the downgrade and root method i explained in my earlier post.

 

[methuselah]

Well when your 1 - 3 years late to the party what else did you expect ?
I have had probably 6 - 8 phones since this one.
The Kiwi was a blast when it came out but those days are long gone my friends

but here it is still working for me as a temp phone. And strangely, lineageOs after few days of usage is very smooth, with some hiccups because of 2gb ram.

 

[clsA]

but here it is still working for me as a temp phone. And strangely, lineageOs after few days of usage is very smooth, with some hiccups because of 2gb ram.

Yeah my Backup essential phone is still working great also

 

[mattmasc]

Any update about how to unlock bootloader without buying the code?

 

[djibe89]

Any update about how to unlock bootloader without buying the code?

Nope. $4 from either:

- DC Unlocker ($4 + VAT): https://www.dc-unlocker.com/supported_models_1/huawei_phones
- MinistryOfSolutions ($4): https://ministryofsolutions.com/huawei-bootloader-unlock-paid-service-html

 

[S5830er]

Couldn't anyone of the nerds here read out the communication while
unlocking it with Netgear Nighthawk or ministryofsolutions, post it and make it usable for all of us here?