How to go back to stock EMUI 5.0 after flashing TWRP/Custom roms (Guide)

[RedSkull23]

My Honor 6x comes with 360, later on updated to 365 and 366, and then custom rom. If I want to go back, which stock recovery I should flash, from 360, 365 or 366?

If you're on 366, then 366 is what you want. Even 360 should work, but with 366 you're 100% safe

 

[johnnyrichter]

Tried this method after being on LineageOS for a week or two and having poor LTE signal, no MMS, and voicemail issues so I'm trying to go back to stock so I can have a fully functional phone since I rely on it heavily for work. Followed all steps using BLN-L24 B360 firmware. On step 10 I rebooted to update and it went right to "5% Installing Update" and stuck there for 5 mins, then rebooted itself, has been sitting at "honor" boot screen for 14 minutes so I made it reboot to EMUI recovery, wiped/factory reset, rebooted, loaded EMUI afte 2 more minutes. Appears to have worked and hopefully my issues are fixed!

Edit: Signal, mms, and voicemail issues fixed.

 

[shashank1320]

Tried this method after being on LineageOS for a week or two and having poor LTE signal, no MMS, and voicemail issues so I'm trying to go back to stock so I can have a fully functional phone since I rely on it heavily for work. Followed all steps using BLN-L24 B360 firmware. On step 10 I rebooted to update and it went right to "5% Installing Update" and stuck there for 5 mins, then rebooted itself, has been sitting at "honor" boot screen for 14 minutes so I made it reboot to EMUI recovery, wiped/factory reset, rebooted, loaded EMUI afte 2 more minutes. Appears to have worked and hopefully my issues are fixed!

Edit: Signal, mms, and voicemail issues fixed.

Yes thats the way to do it. If it gets stuck honor logo, best way is to biot to recovery and do factory reset and it will boot fine.
Glad you restored the phone.

 

[johnnyrichter]

Yes thats the way to do it. If it gets stuck honor logo, best way is to biot to recovery and do factory reset and it will boot fine.
Glad you restored the phone.

Only issue so far is when I go to change lock screen style, that screen is blank so I can't actually change anything.

 

[shashank1320]

Only issue so far is when I go to change lock screen style, that screen is blank so I can't actually change anything.

Flash the small data file for your current version via dload or via twrp.
Are you referring complete black and you can do anything or just when changing the theme cos i encountered similar things in my honor 8 yesterday which was fixed after upgrading to b389. Even factory reset was not helping as default home was setup wizard instead of Huawei home.

 

[johnnyrichter]

Flash the small data file for your current version via dload or via twrp.
Are you referring complete black and you can do anything or just when changing the theme cos i encountered similar things in my honor 8 yesterday which was fixed after upgrading to b389. Even factory reset was not helping as default home was setup wizard instead of Huawei home.

Not sure what you mean by the small data file.

When I go to Screen Lock & Passwords > Screen Lock Style it brings up a blank white screen that says "Lock Screen Style" at the top. I want to turn off icons and notifications on my lock screen.

 

[Jax]

what will you say to the service center ? do you say i installed a ota and this happen? and will they replace your mobile for free?

I said that its not booting,they thought that it is because of updating and i said yes,and they gave me a jobsheet and replaced motherboard in around 10 days for free

Sent from my BLN-L22 using Tapatalk

 

[shashank1320]

Not sure what you mean by the small data file.

When I go to Screen Lock & Passwords > Screen Lock Style it brings up a blank white screen that says "Lock Screen Style" at the top. I want to turn off icons and notifications on my lock screen.

Go to settings, notification and status bar, notification management and select the apps you want to display the notification on lock screen and disable others.

 

[asdf2000_15]

Since this is a post about GR5 BLL-L22, I just want to know if anyone was able to get their sim card working in any custom ROM
I tried both RROS, and unofficial Paranoid Android, but in both of them, my sim card would not show up

I would just like to know if any of you have experienced similar issues, and how u have solved them
(Sorry if I am a noob, but is this related to the vendor.img that had been provided in both posts?)

 

[lakshanupt]

tested devices:
Huawei gr5 bll-l22.

Hello all,
i just wanted to put this guide out there for anyone struggling with restoring stock after flashing a custom nougat rom/twrp. It took me several days to figure out this method, which has never failed to get me back to stock after screwing with my phone. You can also use this if you accidentally wiped data without removing your fingerprint.

Prerequisites:
- stock firmware for your device. If you were using a bll-l22, you need the firmware which matches your phone's model and it has only been tested with the same firmware version. You can use the huawei firmware update finder to get it.
- you'll need huaweiupdateextractor, find it here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433454 . All credit goes to the original creator of the tool, @worstenbrood .
- you also need a micro sd card in your phone, along with a micro sd card reader/ sd card reader (if you have a micro sd to sd card converter).
- you need a functioning computer with adb commands installed system wide.

Anyways, here goes:
1. Unzip the update zip file, and ensure you have the update.app .
2. Using huawei update extractor, extract only the boot.img, recovery.img, system.img, and vendor.img from the update.app . Those are the only files you need.
3. Boot into twrp and format data. Then wipe all partitions.
Hint: If you had your micro sd card merged with internal storage, make sure you partition your micro sd card in twrp via the partition sd card functionality, using ext3/4.
4. Reboot into twrp, and flash the vendor.img using the install image functionality in twrp.
5. Wipe all partitions and format data as well, and reboot into the bootloader (fastboot).
6. Flash the boot, recovery, and system images, in that order, using fastboot.
7. Reboot into fastboot, and remove your micro sd card.
8. Create a folder called dload in the folder where the update.app file is located, and place the update.app file inside the dload folder.
9. Copy the dload folder to the micro sd card you have connected to your pc via a card reader.
10. Place the micro sd card back inside the phone, and then hold power + volume up + volume down.
11. This should begin the flashing process, wait till it finishes flashing and reboots.
12. Boot into the stock recovery, and factory reset and also clear data.
13. Reboot.
14. Profit! You should be back on emui 5.0 with a fully functional phone once more.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask. Also, if the guide worked for you, please let me know and i'll compile a list of devices it has been tested on. Thanks guys!

Disclaimer: This method works flawlessly for me, and i have used it countless times with my huawei gr5 2017 (bll-l22). I am not responsible for any damage done to your phone, nor can i guarantee this will work on every single variant of the honor 6x. Do to this at your own discretion.

Hit thanks if i helped.

thanks a lot! You saved me!

 

[Deischen]

Stuck on android screen

After installation of update package, device rebooted but upon reboot is gets stuck on a screen that has android on it. Tried rebooting to recovery by holding the power button and volume up button simultaneously but nothing happens it just boots up. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

 

[natsusii]

Tested Devices:
Huawei GR5 BLL-L22.

Hello all,
I just wanted to put this guide out there for anyone struggling with restoring stock after flashing a custom nougat rom/TWRP. It took me several days to figure out this method, which has never failed to get me back to stock after screwing with my phone. You can also use this if you accidentally wiped data without removing your fingerprint.

Prerequisites:
- Stock firmware for your device. If you were using a BLL-L22, you need the firmware which matches your phone's model and it has only been tested with the same firmware version. You can use the Huawei firmware update finder to get it.
- You'll need HuaweiUpdateExtractor, find it here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433454 . All credit goes to the original creator of the tool, @worstenbrood .
- You also need a Micro SD card in your phone, along with a micro SD card reader/ SD card reader (if you have a micro SD to SD card converter).
- You need a functioning computer with ADB commands installed system wide.

Anyways, here goes:
1. Unzip the update zip file, and ensure you have the update.app .
2. Using Huawei Update Extractor, extract only the boot.img, recovery.img, system.img, and vendor.img from the update.app . Those are the only files you need.
3. Boot into TWRP and format data. then wipe ALL partitions.
HINT: If you had your Micro SD card merged with internal storage, MAKE SURE you partition your micro SD card in TWRP via the partition SD card functionality, using EXT3/4.
4. Reboot into TWRP, and flash the vendor.img using the install image functionality in TWRP.
5. Wipe all partitions and format data as well, and reboot into the bootloader (fastboot).
6. Flash the BOOT, RECOVERY, and SYSTEM images, in that order, using fastboot.
7. Reboot into fastboot, and remove your micro SD card.
8. Create a folder called dload in the folder where the update.app file is located, and place the update.app file inside the dload folder.
9. Copy the dload folder to the micro SD card you have connected to your PC via a card reader.
10. Place the micro SD card back inside the phone, and then hold power + volume up + volume down.
11. This should begin the flashing process, wait till it finishes flashing and reboots.
12. Boot into the stock recovery, and factory reset and also clear data.
13. Reboot.
14. PROFIT! You should be back on EMUI 5.0 with a fully functional phone once more.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask. Also, if the guide worked for you, please let me know and I'll compile a list of devices it has been tested on. Thanks guys!

DISCLAIMER: This method works flawlessly for me, and I have used it countless times with my Huawei GR5 2017 (BLL-L22). I am not responsible for any damage done to your phone, nor can I guarantee this will work on every single variant of the Honor 6X. Do to this at your own discretion.

Hit thanks if I helped.

Hi guy. Can you make a video for tutalrial?

 

[iznodil]

hi,
great guide, thanks!
but, for me, noob with this phone bu familiar with command line, i'm in trouble
I have a Honor 6X Pro (64 Gb/ 4Gb Ram ) and in don't know which firmware take...
I install Lineage, and different custom Roms but still missing functonnalité (bluetooth, fingerprints, etc)
So, till yesterday, i'm trying to flash stock Rom but no success...
My phone Bootloop
I've tried dload method but its failed (propably because off wrong Firmware ? i don't know)
Any idea to save my phone ?
btw, thanks a lot for this community and works (and very sorry for my poor english!)

 

[Sandaru Tissera]

Can I have link to your vendor, version, product images??

So - the cleaning has not worked.
After checking the imags in the update package, I noticed they are all different.
Why did the system-reset fail at all? Where does that come from?

Here the file-checksums:

$ cat BLN-L21C432B360-FullOTA-MF-PV/md5sums.txt 
cbc1a5b85deb8caca46d7ed691f1d5d7  BOOT.img
78ccf0ff58d189284293e219f2aa8ce2  CACHE.img
eef4f7d2c4187b7cd195df1c1139950e  CRC.img
f6594819938b923bccf075349b250347  CURVER.img
a181b39b6095f221ffb207268d10d540  DTS.img
aa3a0518794c16bb22849676c13ba55c  EFI.img
0f1fcd32afb2db5183d86e527510c6b4  FASTBOOT.img
8379cfc96d5ddd57993da668c0e68da7  FW_HIFI.img
d60eb96f274cab285fe1bc5cb8ac874c  FW_LPM3.img
afd9223813961adfbf71b0a51c310f66  MODEM_FW.img
176c0d4b0489a639f5bd371b5445a466  MODEMNVM_UPDATE.img
f07fcca53b5337e003e9894ec4b231e6  PRODUCT.img
40c8ce310fb8dde705c6b29ce316a215  RECOVERY2.img
a3883873ca0054ec12fb8d0a71835ca9  RECOVERY.img
cd22975bcc99a3436a74d6123e9c2796  SENSORHUB.img
2c4fab4df4b00c7dcb08fd8a47c0228f  SHA256RSA.img
0565a9f075122ebf46c9f623eb6b22d2  TEEOS.img
e6a5b518daa00ea67a2a360408534dd9  TRUSTFIRMWARE.img
09e9dcef68ffddce4c1a41f1bbeae435  UPDATE.APP
19324f9cd1351119b4efdfa5c235200e  VENDOR.img
9219d25ed7eb999fb08c03bf493929a3  VERLIST.img
83c5d8c7866c34f4ff901e17536ad3b4  XLOADER.img

$ cat RollBack_DE/md5sum.txt 
6682ebf3c4c59b58e27cac42bc0a5760  BOOT.img
c9026aa21284a5c6575573bad6c67531  CACHE.img
643062216ba9a1a9c43091a56407b4e4  CRC.img
e665793d69c041c1a67ce25e342bb665  CURVER.img
862d05d2ac39567d48db9d4a996698e8  CUST.img
0c66cff221dd1adade7060d93f9f14db  DTS.img
997a84cac4901d8d47a13d03a41645c1  EFI.img
cfdb3c574a4e22e6918021eb551af744  FASTBOOT.img
6534c81facf064c61fbe838a844bcf53  FW_HIFI.img
2c6cf6c896c17ed938563779d4bc015d  FW_LPM3.img
330f6c5fe86c9c716ba675ade522a4c4  MODEM_FW.img
77ca34a576955b1aa7b09adcc43183aa  MODEMNVM_UPDATE.img
bf696a2a9eb149bf3d409ab3fab8da1b  RECOVERY2.img
ba1a5ef8d2d77dd03a4e5a3fb8be724b  RECOVERY.img
e73ae0c33807474e61caaf2f5864bd93  SENSORHUB.img
53d8a3d3afcfd61a73d4446d37602249  SHA256RSA.img
713c288402f5d540efc722e442218fc0  SYSTEM.img
29a07ee1454ece337416b595101a016f  TEEOS.img
15a226f7741aee2d026d760f755d6991  TRUSTFIRMWARE.img
b8100f45c08c2b54ec089e52d945fae9  VERLIST.img
7eb918861de29526259611fe95365e90  XLOADER.img

The rollback one is supposed to be an intermediate entry - C900B300 - which was supposed to make a rollback to EMUI 4.x (Tried that route, because I couldn't update any EMUI 5 releases).

Any idea what to do?

Reloaded twrp. When I chec the internal storqage, I see:

Cache
Data
System
Vendor
Product
Micro SDCard
USB OTG

Could it be the Product partition? What's inside?

I wiped the vendor, product, and version images from TWRP and I now cannot get them back. Can you please give me a link to them or email me at [email protected]

 

[BiggDipper]

System Image remote partition error

I ran across this flashing it. I did find a fix for those who do have this error use using the s option of fastboot, fastboot -S 300M flash system system.img :good:

 

[ketchupboy]

I wiped the vendor, product, and version images from TWRP and I now cannot get them back. Can you please give me a link to them or email me at [email protected]

same problem here

 

[ketchupboy]

Tested Devices:
Huawei GR5 BLL-L22.

Hello all,
I just wanted to put this guide out there for anyone struggling with restoring stock after flashing a custom nougat rom/TWRP. It took me several days to figure out this method, which has never failed to get me back to stock after screwing with my phone. You can also use this if you accidentally wiped data without removing your fingerprint.

Prerequisites:
- Stock firmware for your device. If you were using a BLL-L22, you need the firmware which matches your phone's model and it has only been tested with the same firmware version. You can use the Huawei firmware update finder to get it.
- You'll need HuaweiUpdateExtractor, find it here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433454 . All credit goes to the original creator of the tool, @worstenbrood .
- You also need a Micro SD card in your phone, along with a micro SD card reader/ SD card reader (if you have a micro SD to SD card converter).
- You need a functioning computer with ADB commands installed system wide.

Anyways, here goes:
1. Unzip the update zip file, and ensure you have the update.app .
2. Using Huawei Update Extractor, extract only the boot.img, recovery.img, system.img, and vendor.img from the update.app . Those are the only files you need.
3. Boot into TWRP and format data. then wipe ALL partitions.
HINT: If you had your Micro SD card merged with internal storage, MAKE SURE you partition your micro SD card in TWRP via the partition SD card functionality, using EXT3/4.
4. Reboot into TWRP, and flash the vendor.img using the install image functionality in TWRP.
5. Wipe all partitions and format data as well, and reboot into the bootloader (fastboot).
6. Flash the BOOT, RECOVERY, and SYSTEM images, in that order, using fastboot.
7. Reboot into fastboot, and remove your micro SD card.
8. Create a folder called dload in the folder where the update.app file is located, and place the update.app file inside the dload folder.
9. Copy the dload folder to the micro SD card you have connected to your PC via a card reader.
10. Place the micro SD card back inside the phone, and then hold power + volume up + volume down.
11. This should begin the flashing process, wait till it finishes flashing and reboots.
12. Boot into the stock recovery, and factory reset and also clear data.
13. Reboot.
14. PROFIT! You should be back on EMUI 5.0 with a fully functional phone once more.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask. Also, if the guide worked for you, please let me know and I'll compile a list of devices it has been tested on. Thanks guys!

DISCLAIMER: This method works flawlessly for me, and I have used it countless times with my Huawei GR5 2017 (BLL-L22). I am not responsible for any damage done to your phone, nor can I guarantee this will work on every single variant of the Honor 6X. Do to this at your own discretion.

Hit thanks if I helped.

hello i downloaded some stock firmwares but non of them got a vendor.img? how and where can in find it?

 

[tissot73]

hello i do all steps but have a message in step 11 "Software install failed" i have bll-l21 and used last update 375 plz help me

 

[terique]

Does this work on the 6x?

 

[RedSkull23]

Does this work on the 6x?

Dude, it's a thread in Honor 6X forum, it certainly works.