Huawei honor 8x max root/rebrand help

[blueeyeskeenan]

I need a complete genius help please...

I have this fairly new ARE-AL00(C00) Honor 8x Max, switched from an iPhone X, very new to this jailbreaking an android type of thing, but basically I have a chinese left swipe board called HiBoard and chinese launcher called huawei home and all that good stuff with the china build (C00) I am guessing. I heard if I switch my phone to a (C432) EU version, It would come with the google on the left side and all that google stuff which is what I want. I tried to go to funkyhuawei but I see maybe my phone isnt available yet and firmware. So then I decided maybe I could root my phone and change model number to something different so I can get other models and firmware correct to rebrand? Or will that not work? I have tried nova launcher and the companion but it goes away after some time even with the huawei home launcher disabled. So I am guessing rebranding would make the google stuff totally work correctly, but I am having so much trouble! tried to flash twrp but says unknown partition and getvar variable is not available.. I am running EMUI 8.2.0 Android Version 8.1.0 Build Number ARE-AL00 8.2.0.128(C00) Just need a real guide step by step or something please would be a miracle... loosing my mind trying to figure this out..

 

[Fredin_]

I need a complete genius help please...

I have this fairly new ARE-AL00(C00) Honor 8x Max, switched from an iPhone X, very new to this jailbreaking an android type of thing, but basically I have a chinese left swipe board called HiBoard and chinese launcher called huawei home and all that good stuff with the china build (C00) I am guessing. I heard if I switch my phone to a (C432) EU version, It would come with the google on the left side and all that google stuff which is what I want. I tried to go to funkyhuawei but I see maybe my phone isnt available yet and firmware. So then I decided maybe I could root my phone and change model number to something different so I can get other models and firmware correct to rebrand? Or will that not work? I have tried nova launcher and the companion but it goes away after some time even with the huawei home launcher disabled. So I am guessing rebranding would make the google stuff totally work correctly, but I am having so much trouble! tried to flash twrp but says unknown partition and getvar variable is not available.. I am running EMUI 8.2.0 Android Version 8.1.0 Build Number ARE-AL00 8.2.0.128(C00) Just need a real guide step by step or something please would be a miracle... loosing my mind trying to figure this out..

Jailbreaking and rooting can be a but confusing but are similar in many terms like both allow you to modify system .

About the rooting part....... Huawei just messed up things a while ago. You cannot get the bootloader unlock code which is needed to unlock bootloader to modify the system or any other partitions. Which means no root.


And how can you flash TWRP when you can't unlock the bootloader at the first place? And that might be what failed the TWRP installation

 

[hopkins31]

I also have that version but I don't have PC a guy over at twrpbuilder is offering to help build one for us but I can't extract none of the files because I don't have a PC in order to run Huawei update extractor I have the firmware file do you have a PC so you can extract the files and send them to him??

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[blueeyeskeenan]

I had it unlocked before but reset the phone which maybe after Huawei did that the oem unlock didn't show anymore, but I bought an unlock code and everything worked up until it was giving me the error codes. But I just ran Pixel launcher and got Google running in background all the time in app launch settings in battery like how it really should be using Google data anyway. Used ADB SHELL and app inspector to see files and hide/delete them, whatever the ADB she'll actually does. All is good. No root/boot unlock needed

 

[hopkins31]

I'm trying to get a twrp built for it but I don't have pc to get needed files


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[Злыдень]

Jailbreaking and rooting can be a but confusing but are similar in many terms like both allow you to modify system .

About the rooting part....... Huawei just messed up things a while ago. You cannot get the bootloader unlock code which is needed to unlock bootloader to modify the system or any other partitions. Which means no root.


And how can you flash TWRP when you can't unlock the bootloader at the first place? And that might be what failed the TWRP installation

У меня тоже honor 8X Max с разблокированным загрузчиком. При попытке прошить TWRP тоже пишет что нет такого раздела. Команда fastboot flash recovery ....img неправильная команда. Думаю, что команда должна быть, как на всех новых honor такая fastboot flash recovey_ramdisk ....img где .... имя прошиваемого файла.
Однако я рисковать не стал, так-как на случай неудачи нет оригинального образа recovery.

 

[Fredin_]

У меня тоже honor 8X Max с разблокированным загрузчиком. При попытке прошить TWRP тоже пишет что нет такого раздела. Команда fastboot flash recovery ....img неправильная команда. Думаю, что команда должна быть, как на всех новых honor такая fastboot flash recovey_ramdisk ....img где .... имя прошиваемого файла.
Однако я рисковать не стал, так-как на случай неудачи нет оригинального образа recovery.

Umm I'm not familiar with this language but I think it's Russian , or so says Google.

Well I don't think you should risk it until someone actually confirms its working

 

[Злыдень]

Umm I'm not familiar with this language but I think it's Russian , or so says Google.

Well I don't think you should risk it until someone actually confirms its working

That's right. My language is Russian. The team for sewing the image of the recoveries will most likely be exactly the one I wrote above. It would be safe to risk and select the appropriate TWRP if there was an original recovery image. All the firmware that was able to get in the open spaces of the Internet do not have the BOOT and recovery sections.

 

[abdoulgaf]

did someone find a working twrp recovery for honor 8x max?

 

[jamesbond22]

How do just check if the bootloader is locked or not in the phone Honor 8X Max?

 

[shashank1320]

How do just check if the bootloader is locked or not in the phone Honor 8X Max?

Boot to fastboot and see the phone status there Locked/unlocked
or boot to fastboot and run this command if you know about the ADB shell/commands
fastboot oem get-bootinfo
It will show the status on pc.

 

[jamesbond22]

or boot to fastboot and run this command if you know about the ADB shell/commands
fastboot oem get-bootinfo
It will show the status on pc.

A good start.... At least I know I have bootloader locked.

 

[avmad]

...got Google running in background all the time in app launch settings in battery like how it really should be using Google data anyway. Used ADB SHELL and app inspector to see files and hide/delete them, whatever the ADB she'll actually does. All is good. No root/boot unlock needed

@blueeyeskeenan: if you get a few minutes, would you mind writing up the steps you followed to get the google services / play store etc installed (and exactly where you sourced the apk files)? I've tried a couple that seem to work for others but not for me. So I'd appreciate anything you can tell me.

Cheers!

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...select the appropriate TWRP if there was an original recovery image.

There is a twrp listed here: https://twrp.me/huawei/huaweihonor8.html that is labeled as being for Honor 8X. However, it does not say if it will also work for the 8X Max. Am I right in thinking that the chip set is different in the 8X and the Max?

Also, I would have expected available roms to be listed here but none are shown as yet: https://www.getdroidtips.com/huawei-honor-8x-max-stock-firmware/ .

I will be watching closely for this myself as I want to shed this Chinese ROM asap

 

[jamesbond22]

To unlock the bootloader, I need to know only a long string of digits?

 

[tomdmca]

How do just check if the bootloader is locked or not in the phone Honor 8X Max?

It is locked by default. If you yourself didn't unlock it it's going to be locked

 

[PalakMi]

To unlock the bootloader, I need to know only a long string of digits?

Digits and letters, and it's unique for every single device