[Rom][28April]Ascend XT - Nexus_XT B160

[madvane20]

The first one i sent you was the slim version...

i was talking bout the bare minimum just to get google play store to work is what i mean

 

[Tmobilefan906]

i was talking bout the bare minimum just to get google play store to work is what i mean

This room is dope. Which one is best in terms of less battery sucking? Lol

 

[madvane20]

This room is dope. Which one is best in terms of less battery sucking? Lol

wont matter what rom ur use if u have brightness all the way up or up pretty high or have alot of apps installed which run in background etc. so which one is better well it depends how you use the rom. like i said theres different apps etc that will impact battery life.

 

[Tmobilefan906]

What are the odds of you getting us patient waiting folk on XDA a Resurrection Remix rom? That'd be sweet!

 

[clsA]

Bump for New version 2

This is my Daily Driver on the XT everything works great and battery life is exceptional

 

[clsA]

Bump again for v3

The pixel launcher is now moved to system/priv-app so the google news screen (swipe right from home) works

I posted a patch for v2 so if you already flashed v2 you can install the patch and then go to settings / apps / pixel launcher / force stop / and uninstall updates
reboot and you should now have the google now page on your phone

 

[Prodeje79]

Bump again for v3

The pixel launcher is now moved to system/priv-app so the google news screen (swipe right from home) works

I posted a patch for v2 so if you already flashed v2 you can install the patch and then go to settings / apps / pixel launcher / force stop / and uninstall updates
reboot and you should now have the google now page on your phone

I was just about to install the @madvane20 simple ROM and came across yours. As I currently have a 6p, I was hoping to find something more like it. I also have had the N4, N5, and N7.....

Will your ROM work with Android Pay? unlocked bootloaders/root tend to not allow it to work without doing workarounds.

I'd also be interested in a step by step guide taking my Stock B160, installing TWRP, and then ROM. I may move forward with the unrooted simple ROM for now, but may compare later to yours.

 

[madvane20]

I was just about to install the @madvane20 simple ROM and came across yours. As I currently have a 6p, I was hoping to find something more like it. I also have had the N4, N5, and N7.....

Will your ROM work with Android Pay? unlocked bootloaders/root tend to not allow it to work without doing workarounds.

I'd also be interested in a step by step guide taking my Stock B160, installing TWRP, and then ROM. I may move forward with the unrooted simple ROM for now, but may compare later to yours.

looks like safetynet added bootloader check to the list. im gonna see if i can find a work around in my rom

 

[clsA]

v4 Bug fix uploading now will post link asap

 

[Prodeje79]

v4 Bug fix uploading now will post link asap

What's being fixed?

Is there a way to relock bootloader or some other work around so Android pay works?

Regarding the first steps, can you elaborate or link to how to get TWRP on the phone?

My Nexus 6p will be back Monday, but id really like to have something setup on this for when my mom uses it.

 

[clsA]

What's being fixed?

Is there a way to relock bootloader or some other work around so Android pay works?

Regarding the first steps, can you elaborate or link to how to get TWRP on the phone?

My Nexus 6p will be back Monday, but id really like to have something setup on this for when my mom uses it.

Bugfix means I fixed things reported to me by others and things i found myself (I use this phone at work for Bluetooth / Music)
apps are all updated
changed to the Asus dialer
removed some bloat

In order to keep the rom size intact I had to remove some things i suggest you install from Play store right after install
Google Photos
Google Docs
Google Drive
Google Maps
Shuttle Music player
are all highly recommended

Unlocking bootloader, flashing / booting / TWRP is covered here >> https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/huawei-ascend-xt-h1611-t3507933/

Originally Posted by @divineBliss
I flashed TWRP, made TWRP backups, flashed SuperSU, and now I got root! Thanks guys!

My notes based on what enigma2446 posted.
I'm assuming you've done some of this before like using adb, fastboot, enabling USB debugging on phone, etc - but feel free to ask questions.
1. Must have unlocked bootloader (instructions early in this thread)
2. Must install adb and fastboot, and USB drivers (I prefer to add the adb/fastboot folder to my path so I don't have to work out of the adb/fastboot folder)
3. Backup all your files from internal storage. They are going to get blown away.
4. Put the SupserSU zip from https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=673368273298928679 on your microSD card and remember where you put it.
5. From windows command line with phone on and USB debugging enabled:
a) adb devices (to make sure you device is recognized)
b) adb shell reboot bootloader

6. Confirm phone goes to FASTBOOT & RESCUE mode.
a) fastboot devices (to make sure you device is recognized)
b) fastboot boot TWRP.img (boot the TWRP.img shared in earlier post)
c) Phone will boot into TWRP. Always select Keep Read Only from first screen every time you go into TWRP.
Peek around a bit if you want to, then use TWRP to backup your stock recovery to external micro SD.
d) Reboot bootloader from TWRP again to flash this custom recovery image.
e) fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img (flash TWRP recovery)

7. After phone reboots, get into TWRP recovery using previously described adb command or hold power button and volume up button from power off, then release when you see Huawei logo.
8. From TWRP:
a) Once again, always select Keep Read Only from first screen every time you go into TWRP!
b) Press Settings to adjust display brightness and vibrations settings, then press home button.
c) Wipe - Format Data (Warning: You are about to blow away your files on internal storage - which you should have backed up by now. Read the red text and confirm by typing yes and blue check mark button.
d) Home - Backup - Select all six partitions, then Select Storage - Micro SDCard (very important), OK, then Swipe to Backup. When the backup is finished, Home - Advanced, File Manager, /external_sd/TWRP/BACKUPS/........ and make sure your backup files exist for each of the six partitions.
e) Home - Install then Select Storage - Micro SDCard, find your SuperSU.zip, and flash it. Swipe to confirm Flash. Be patient, as it takes a few minutes.
f) After flashing SuperSU, Wipe Dalvik and Cache, then reboot. Be patient, as it takes a few minutes. My phone rebooted several times.

9. You should have root after your phone boots up and you set it back up!
10. Be sure to make another TWRP backup of System, Data, and Boot after you get root and phone is set up again!

 

[two5ix]

I love it, except my Wi-Fi won't even turn on. Does anybody know anything about this?

 

[clsA]

I love it, except my Wi-Fi won't even turn on. Does anybody know anything about this?

Yeah it means you need to update to B160 before you flash the rom

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[two5ix]

Hmm I had thought I was updated and that was just the lastest OTA update. Sadly I think it's just done anyway... I tried to flash the Bare Naked build and had the same issue. Then I tried to restore my previous software,TWRP froze and now I can't even Fastboot to recovery. ? Unless I can find a method to do stock recovery I'm not sure what to do... Huawei doesn't list the H1611 on their site! I guess that's the risk of doing all this!

 

[madvane20]

Hmm I had thought I was updated and that was just the lastest OTA update. Sadly I think it's just done anyway... I tried to flash the Bare Naked build and had the same issue. Then I tried to restore my previous software,TWRP froze and now I can't even Fastboot to recovery. Unless I can find a method to do stock recovery I'm not sure what to do... Huawei doesn't list the H1611 on their site! I guess that's the risk of doing all this!

he will be releasing new version that will flash firmware and all give him time

 

[clsA]

Hmm I had thought I was updated and that was just the lastest OTA update. Sadly I think it's just done anyway... I tried to flash the Bare Naked build and had the same issue. Then I tried to restore my previous software,TWRP froze and now I can't even Fastboot to recovery. ? Unless I can find a method to do stock recovery I'm not sure what to do... Huawei doesn't list the H1611 on their site! I guess that's the risk of doing all this!

Trust me your phone's not bricked
The link to the b160 update is in the first post of this thread download it.

Put the phone into bootloader with power plus volume down while it's hooked to your PC

Put TWRP.img in your fastboot folder and flash or boot TWRP

fastboot boot TWRP.img
fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img

Once you get into TWRP
Flash the B160_full ROM (follow the guide)

Now you can flash any of the ROMs you want

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[two5ix]

Trust me your phone's not bricked
The link to the b160 update is in the first post of this thread download it.

Put the phone into bootloader with power plus volume down while it's hooked to your PC

Put TWRP.img in your fastboot folder and flash or boot TWRP

fastboot boot TWRP.img
fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img

Once you get into TWRP
Flash the B160_full ROM (follow the guide)

Now you can flash any of the ROMs you want

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Thanks, I'll give it a try. Right now it's stuck in the bootloader and says "PHONE Unlocked" and "FRP Unlock". When I try to "fastboot boot" the TWRP image I've been using it flashes the TeamWin splash screen and then just reboots to the bootloader. I feel like something went bad during the flash and I need to somehow clear the partition or something. But I'll try downloading your TWRP (I got the other H1611 one from another thread) and see, and I'll download the B160 package in case I can get it back into TWRP... unfortunately my download speed was reasonably fast this morning (about 10 minutes to download 1.7 GB) and now it's telling me 9 hours to download 1.9 GB...

 

[two5ix]

Well, I think part of the issue is I keep losing partitions... I'm not sure why. My DATA partition was completely gone so TWRP didn't know what to do. I was finally able to extract the RECOVERY.img from the B160 zip and use it to boot to Huawei's recovery and do a factory reset. Once DATA was a thing again I was able to get TWRP to work again. Now CACHE seems to be gone and TWRP can't seem to format that partition. It's now seemingly stuck on the boot animation for Nexus_XT (and has been for more than 5 minutes). Sigh...

---------- Post added at 07:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:00 PM ----------

I ended up booting into the Huawei recovery again, did another factory reset and a cache wipe and then I was able to boot... but in the process it messed up the settings. It reverted me back to Huawei Home instead of the Pixel Launcher and such. But it's clean and fast so far since I have hardly any apps. Wi-Fi works! Thank you very much! I had all but given up since I couldn't even get into any recovery.

 

[RN_ReFlux]

Still no idea why, but I'm still unable to receive calls on this. If I make a call then immediately call back it will ring, if I let phone sleep then it will not ring again until I've made another call. Permissions are approved.

I've now tested this on two different phones and both have the same problem.

 

[clsA]

Still no idea why, but I'm still unable to receive calls on this. If I make a call then immediately call back it will ring, if I let phone sleep then it will not ring again until I've made another call. Permissions are approved.

I've now tested this on two different phones and both have the same problem.

Yeah I'm still unable to reproduce the problem

My phones on T-Mobile and I have never given out the number and the phone still rings several times a week.

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