How to unlock the Mate 20 Pro bootloader (international versions LYA-L29 and LYA-L09)

Minotaur

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Someone posted in a different thread that Google Pay was not working with the Chinese version of the Mate20 Pro. Can anyone confirm if Google Pay works with the L29 or L09 after the BL has been unlocked?
 

QAM

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Hi @duraaraa , I am hoping you can help me out. I am in Canada with M20Pro with model LYA-L0C. I checked on FH website, but they don't mention this specific model. Does this mean that bootloader unlock / global ROM update is not available to us through FH method?
 

jc8bit

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It worked for me ! and didn't wipe my data or my setup , indeed it worked as an OTA

When you get the credit ( after paying for it ) , try to leave that "browser confirmation window" open

Something happened to me when the HiSuite began to download the firmware , it closed by itself several times.
Just open it again , select system recovery and it will resume the download where it left it , don't disconnect the phone at any point .

Saludos a ambos desde Costa Rica

Also worked for me, now the operator (Telcel) customizations are gone.
 

jhs39

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I'm getting "no internet connection" in HiSuite.
Internet is obviously connected and already configured firewall..

Anyone else had this problem?
Did you run the program that sets up your computer to use HiSuite with FH? That changes your host file so HiSuite redirects to FH but if you don't use the correct version of HiSuite you get that error. Previously when I tried to use the standard non-modded version of HiSuite I always got that error because I forgot that the host file on my computer had been changed.
 

Maddinuser

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I now get to the "install recovery" step or install software, depends.
Then HiSuite is force closing.
That's why TWRP is so important, you don't have to use the ****ty tools from the manufacturers.
 

jhs39

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I now get to the "install recovery" step or install software, depends.
Then HiSuite is force closing.
That's why TWRP is so important, you don't have to use the ****ty tools from the manufacturers.
The current process is definitely frustrating but if you stick with it you will complete the install eventually. It took me an hour and I needed to start over a bunch of times because it stopped at various points.
 

duraaraa

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I now get to the "install recovery" step or install software, depends.
Then HiSuite is force closing.
That's why TWRP is so important, you don't have to use the ****ty tools from the manufacturers.
HiSuite doesn't play well with some computer set-ups. I can't identify exactly which software is interfering, but there's some issue that makes in crash on some computers, and it doesn't on others.
Usually if you keep trying it will eventually go through, as long as there are no issues with your FunkyHuawei account, etc.
 

a-Rcky

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@duraaraa
Thanks for the information !!
I bought one credit ($18) , and manage to update my LYA-09 (C106) to the latest globlal ( LYA-LGRP2-OVS 9.0.0.171 )

You have to be really careful when following the installation steps

I updated because everyone else was receiving an update with some good stuff and benefits , and my carrier would probably release it on april 2019 ( its to much waiting time )

After the udpate your data and configuration remains the same , so dont worry thinking that you have to tweak all over again ( like a new phone )

Maybe later I will unlock my bootloader , but right now I find the cost kind of expensive ($55) and the waiting time can be extended to 14 days , so ....
Hi, can you guide me through out the steps you followed to do that. My carrier will also take forever or when the M30Pro comes out to release the updates... I already went to FH and bought the credit ($18). My M20Pro is also a LYA-L09.

I'd really appreciate your help.
 

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This is a very amusing development. People are going to voluntarily become hostages to international terrorists. They will pay money for the chance to install code onto their phones that almost certainly contains the means to cause a recursive loop of bricking and blackmail. Is there even a way to revert to absolute factory stock? I doubt it. And yet, we will line up like sheep to the slaughter, clinging to the impossible notion that a developer is going to release a branch of Magisk for the 26 people that have sold their children's corneas for a chance to cheat at Pokemon.

I have no moral qualms about this, in fact I think it is the most hilarious and ironic twist yet. We own phones that are being banned across the world for the potential to spy, and the first thing we do is beg Chinese operatives to give us even more suspicious code to install. You couldn't make this stuff up.

The first Magisk module will be a Tor based uploading service where we can send Hivision-scanned industrial espionage data directly to Xi in exchange for FunkyHuawei shrute buck credits.
 

jhs39

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This is a very amusing development. People are going to voluntarily become hostages to international terrorists. They will pay money for the chance to install code onto their phones that almost certainly contains the means to cause a recursive loop of bricking and blackmail. Is there even a way to revert to absolute factory stock? I doubt it. And yet, we will line up like sheep to the slaughter, clinging to the impossible notion that a developer is going to release a branch of Magisk for the 26 people that have sold their children's corneas for a chance to cheat at Pokemon.

I have no moral qualms about this, in fact I think it is the most hilarious and ironic twist yet. We own phones that are being banned across the world for the potential to spy, and the first thing we do is beg Chinese operatives to give us even more suspicious code to install. You couldn't make this stuff up.

The first Magisk module will be a Tor based uploading service where we can send Hivision-scanned industrial espionage data directly to Xi in exchange for FunkyHuawei shrute buck credits.
You do realize that people on XDA have been installing custom ROMs on their Android phones for years and that there was always the potential for those ROMs to contain malware or spyware if they were the work of developers with malicious intentions? For that matter the custom kernels that people have also been flashing for as long as XDA has been around always had the potential to contain malware or spyware? And that unlocking the bootloader and rooting a phone always made it less secure?

XDA seems like a very odd place for you to be making this paranoid rant after so many years and how exactly is anything you warn of unique to the M20P or Huawei?

Do you read a lot of Trump tweats by any chance?
 
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