How do I root / update my Huawei Ascend G7-L01?

[Dave96]

Hello there! I have been trying to find a working root / update for my model for quite a while now but I cannot
find anything that would work with my model... The numbers are always different from those that uploaders say
it works on. Can you help me root my phone and find a working update since there was no official update for my
country (Slovenia) for Lollipop. It can be a custom ROM too, I don' care as long as it will run faster than current version
which is preinstalled with a lot of crap and runs slow.

Here are the details: (let me know if you need anything else)

Model number: G7-L01
Android version: 4.4.4
EMUI version: 3.0
Baseband version: 11060009
Build number: G7-L01V100R001C00B263
Custom version: CUSTC432D001
Thank you for your time!

 

[peppeGb]

You can try with Kingo Root, I used it and my G7-L01 now are rooted.
Good luck

 

[csinef0403]

Hello there! I have been trying to find a working root / update for my model for quite a while now but I cannot
find anything that would work with my model... The numbers are always different from those that uploaders say
it works on. Can you help me root my phone and find a working update since there was no official update for my
country (Slovenia) for Lollipop. It can be a custom ROM too, I don' care as long as it will run faster than current version
which is preinstalled with a lot of crap and runs slow.

Here are the details: (let me know if you need anything else)

Model number: G7-L01
Android version: 4.4.4
EMUI version: 3.0
Baseband version: 11060009
Build number: G7-L01V100R001C00B263
Custom version: CUSTC432D001
Thank you for your time!

kingroot.apk

 

[pasqualm]

Hello Dave, I have done this a week ago. I summarize the steps you must take.

1. Prepare your phone to interact with the upgrade tools: you must enable developer mode in the phone and enable usb debugging. it’s easy, do a search in google to find the specific actions (I can’t post url’s there yet)
2. Dowload and install in your pc the tools for doing the job: you need two tools for doing the work, adb and fastboot, both come with android studio so you can download it to have the tools. If you are using Linux probably you can also install them from your package manager without having to install the full android studio.
3. Download your ROM and recovery: the recovery is some kind of rescue OS from where to boot the system and apply later the ROM, I have used as recovery the Recovery TWRP that is referred in a post called ‘[ROM][5.1.1][Unofficially | CM12.1 For Huawei Ascend G760] [2016-01-16]’. As ROM I have used the more recent in those referred in the ‘[ROM][6.0.1][Unofficially | CM13.0 For Huawei Ascend G760] [2016-04-01]’ post.
4. Download gapps: probably you can’t live without google apps (play store, etc) so download the suitable version from opengapps dot org.
5. Save your data: you are about to lose your data so make a copy of all data that is not saved automatically in the cloud.
6. Apply recovery: the fun starts, open a shell with root (or admin in Windows, I suppose), connect the phone to the pc with an usb cable, give permissions in the phone to the pc when it asks about it. Reboot the phone in boot mode with ‘adb reboot bootloader’, apply the recovery image with ‘fastboot flash recovery twrp-xxxxxxxx.img’, reboot in recovery mode mode with ‘adb reboot recovery’
7. Apply rom and gapps: transfer the rom and gapps to the phone with ‘adb push cm-13.0-xxxx.zip /sdcard/’ and ‘adb push open_gapps-arm-6.0-xxxxx.zip /sdcard/’, in the phone do a wipe->factory reset, and after that do an install from the main menu. Install first the cm-13.0 ROM and later the open_gapps. Those will take some time, when finish reboot the phone from the main screen
8. Boot and configure: if all has gone ok the phone will boot, configure apps and later you have some time configuring it and restoring the data

Seems easy, but what is easy is doing something wrong or forgetting something and ending with a bricked phone. So if your life depends on that phone or you are not sure to have the skills to troubleshoot things when going wrong better stay were you are now

Good luck