unlocked, twrp'd & rooted... what now? - Huawei P9 Questions & Answers

I'm not really sure what I'm doing, I changed my country code from "demo" to eu and I'm on EVA-L09C432B182. There's so many different versions and I don't know which is good or even compatible. What would be the next thing you guys would do in order to get the most from my phone?
Edit - I just jumped in at the deep end and everything wen't well, I'm now on Nougat with emui 5.0, if you're in the same boat as I was, I used the Huawei Update in the second post of this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/help/p9-7-0-nougat-update-eva-lo9-b182-t3539754"]https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/help/p9-7-0-nougat-update-eva-lo9-b182-t3539754
worked a bloomin treat for me!

C900 country demo ?
Thorpy4p said:
I'm not really sure what I'm doing, I changed my country code from "demo" to eu and I'm on EVA-L09C432B182. There's so many different versions and I don't know which is good or even compatible. What would be the next thing you guys would do in order to get the most from my phone?
Edit - I just jumped in at the deep end and everything wen't well, I'm now on Nougat with emui 5.0, if you're in the same boat as I was, I used the Huawei Update in the second post of this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/help/p9-7-0-nougat-update-eva-lo9-b182-t3539754"]https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/help/p9-7-0-nougat-update-eva-lo9-b182-t3539754
worked a bloomin treat for me!
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I have an eva-L09 with C900B190 and have country "demo" ??
I read a lot of posts how to get from the C900B190 to a Rom that has ota updates.
Before I start and because I am a bit of a noob I want to be absolutely sure I get all steps correct...please help me out and confirm/correct this
1) set develloper usb debugging
2) make sure phone connects to pc
3) install latest twrp
4) unlock boot loader with tool (https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/development/huawei-p9-eva-l09-eva-l19-eva-l29-tool-t3591358)
5) make note of unlock code
6) use twrp to flash B136 (still have to find zip)
do I get ota to android 7 or I have to flash latest Rom meself (what is the best version for eva-L09?)
After that can I lock the boot loader and stay on android 7 or will the phone reset with locking and revert to android 6 again?
Thanks for helping

Contacted huawei, they were very helpful I will probably go to the service center to hopefully reset my phone to receive updates.
I also asked for an unlock code in case I need a plan B.

djaccob said:
Contacted huawei, they were very helpful I will probably go to the service center to hopefully reset my phone to receive updates.
I also asked for an unlock code in case I need a plan B.
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Seems I have no warranty (I got the phone from a friend and have no papers or anything) and have to pay for service centre. So I will try unlocking myself...
If anyone can help me out with all the steps in the right order I would be very grateful.

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Upgrade path from B123

I'm running a P7 with the firmware it shipped with and I'd really like to get it up to date, but every package I've tried so far has failed during package verification. There seems to be very little info on how to update your phone from such an old build. Can anyone please help because I'm at my wit's end here. I have a limited date cap so can't just keep downloading updates in the hopes that one of them will work.
I would be greatly indebted to anyone who could help me. This issue is making me want to cry.
Do you have a phone with a provider/network lock? Which roms did you try so far? You may give B133 a shot, if that doesn't work you'd have to go the way over a custom rom and then getting back to the stock one. I can describe the process more detailed in case it's necessary.
Thanks for the response!
I think the issue is that it is a network locked ROM. I got the phone from a provider called Vodacom and get their splash screen and everything. I went to speak to them and they told me I'm not supposed to be able to update my firmware because that requires rooting the phone, which voids my warranty. Sales people being sales people, I'm not sure how truthful this is. I can't imagine a provider refusing to let you update your phone.
So far I've tried B133, B609, B617 and B853, none of which works, sadly. Someone suggested I unlock the bootloader and I got the unlock code through the Huawei site, but when I try to boot using the three-button method it tells me that no update.app file was found, so I'm not sure how to get to where I enter the unlock code.
Hm, you might search around a bit and find an easier way, but if not, unlock the bootloader, flash twrp and any emui 2.3 based custom rom. Then flash the stock recovery and make a forced update (3 buttons) with B133.
To access the bootloader you have to press volume- and power until a white screen with some text appears.
Anyway, to update would definitely be worth it.
Yeah, I did precisely that last night and ended up soft-bricking my phone. It wouldn't even work when I flashed the original firmware. It's currently in at a repair shop and I hope they can fix it. Lesson learned though.
Thanks for the help anyway.
It's not that easy to hardbrick the P7, it's very likely that he will be able to fix it! With some time for trying, you probably would have been able to do it by yourself, too.
Your very welcome
Yeah, the thing is I was up all night trying to fix it. Flashing it back the original software should theoretically have done it, so I have no idea why it didn't.

Help with restoring stock Android 6 from huawei p9

I have recently flashed one of the nougat Roms and would like to return to the stock from with Android 6.
My phone is a virgin contract phone(with optus boot screen) eva-l09 FCC ID qiseva-l09 I 6369a-eval09.
Can anyone tell me which stock from to get so that things like Android Pay work?
Australian Virgin phone btw
Pleaae, search in the forum, there are some threads about this...
I have searched,there is a thread with a heap of different stock firmwares but I'm unsure which one is right because I flashed the nougat Roms and now I'm unsure of the model number of the phone and I have no backup.
Presumably the model number in the nougat Roms info is wrong,maybe I have cross flashed?
nuttzo33 said:
I have searched,there is a thread with a heap of different stock firmwares but I'm unsure which one is right because I flashed the nougat Roms and now I'm unsure of the model number of the phone and I have no backup.
Presumably the model number in the nougat Roms info is wrong,maybe I have cross flashed?
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Use the 136 full rom.
https://mega.nz/#!QE4TTSzJ!OjP6yXFtliK4XDRHLNIAKgxpf0gmhEeksDr_fjja0oY
1-. create folder "dload" in your external sdcard. Uncompress the rom zip inside it (one file "UPDATE.APP" and 2 folders: "dt" and "hw")
2-. turn off yout phone
3-. turn it pressing and holding power button + volume up + volume down
wait to restore.
Can you let me know if this works for you, nuttzo?
I've been trying to do the same as you for about a week now, with no progress
OK,ill have to find a different mirror for the file because that mega link seems to not work properly.
Through the phone I've tried downloading the file and both times the file is corrupted despite appearing to download fully.
On the raspberry pi the file stops once it hits 2gb and complains that the file is too big.
Thanks Iomunet but I can't download the file.
Mega sucks,i don't know why people use it.
Try installing mega app or from computer...
nuttzo33 said:
Thanks Iomunet but I can't download the file.
Mega sucks,i don't know why people use it.
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I only have a raspberry pi and the Android phone.
Mega sucks and doesn't work on both.
Unfortunately I don't have a Windows PC anymore.
OK I've managed to find another link to the stock ROM and have successfully downgraded back to marshmallow.
Android pay is still not working,any way to fix that?
Also Huawei id doesn't work,something about unable to service region.
Any way to fix these 2 issues?
OK it looks like if I install twrp after unlocking the bootloader I can flash the oeminfo IMG and remove the c900 build number from the phone.
That should get Android Pay working.
Now I have to pay for a bootloader code because I don't have Windows and I can't seem to get it through Huawei because their emails in chinglish are cryptic and the website links are broken.
Install adb and fastboot from your Pi
https://github.com/blobbsen/adb-fastboot-executables-for-ARM
lomunet said:
Install adb and fastboot from your Pi
https://github.com/blobbsen/adb-fastboot-executables-for-ARM
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You still have to unlock the bootloader to flash twrp don't you?
I have the Android and fastboot tools installed in Raspbian but I never checked the OEM unlock option in the developer options.
When I tried flashing twrp before it came up with an error something about unable to write due to permission error.
I assumed it was because the bootloader was locked.
you must unlock your bootloader first, yea. Huawei have a webpage to do it.
nuttzo33 said:
You still have to unlock the bootloader to flash twrp don't you?
I have the Android and fastboot tools installed in Raspbian but I never checked the OEM unlock option in the developer options.
When I tried flashing twrp before it came up with an error something about unable to write due to permission error.
I assumed it was because the bootloader was locked.
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lomunet said:
you must unlock your bootloader first, yea. Huawei have a webpage to do it.
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Haven't had success with getting to the Huawei page to unlock bootloader.
The closest I got to one I couldn't proceed because it required my mobile number but none of the country codes were from Australia so I couldn't get the SMS.
This is the email I got from Huawei which I couldn't make sense of.
Dear User,
Huawei Customer Service is pleasure to be at your service,sorry to bring you the trouble,if you want to unlock your phone, you should meet these conditions as follow:
1.Please register your Huawei ID in our official website http://huawei.com/en/ on your phone.
2.Log in your Huawei ID for continuously 14 days.
3.Each Huawei ID should not apply for the unlock code more than twice within half years.If you meet the information,please go to http://emui.huawei.com/en/ and click the 'download'button to login your Huawei ID other than any other third party ID to apply for the unlock code.Please contact us by mail or local service hotline as following if error message appears.
TEL: http://consumer.huawei.com/en/contact-us/index.htm?tag=hotline
Mail: http://consumer.huawei.com/en/contact-us/index.htm?tag=email
Please submit your mobile model, SN, IMEI/MEID and erro message in your e-mail.We also need to know that your phone is rooted, it can be out of the best working state and part of functions may not be able to work normally. In additon, the system is vulnerable to be invaded by viruses once your phone is permitted to unlock. What's more, for the lacking of fully tested, the third party software will not be compatible with your phone. Unlocking will bring unexpected negative impacts and the device will be not normal, and can not be restored, Huawei after-sales service office will not provide warranty service for your rooted phone, and you may bear the cost. So we strongly advise you to think it twice.
If you have any other problems, please send your feedback to us. We will be at your service to help you to solve your problems.
Once again thank you for contacting Huawei device.
Best Regards.
Huawei Device Customer Care Team
I think that exist a windows software to generate the code... If you want, send in a pm your phone info, imei, s/n... all data asked in huawei page and I can try to get the code tomorrow when I back to the office (I haven't windows at home)
nuttzo33 said:
Haven't had success with getting to the Huawei page to unlock bootloader.
The closest I got to one I couldn't proceed because it required my mobile number but none of the country codes were from Australia so I couldn't get the SMS.
This is the email I got from Huawei which I couldn't make sense of.
Dear User,
Huawei Customer Service is pleasure to be at your service,sorry to bring you the trouble,if you want to unlock your phone, you should meet these conditions as follow:
1.Please register your Huawei ID in our official website http://huawei.com/en/ on your phone.
2.Log in your Huawei ID for continuously 14 days.
3.Each Huawei ID should not apply for the unlock code more than twice within half years.If you meet the information,please go to http://emui.huawei.com/en/ and click the 'download'button to login your Huawei ID other than any other third party ID to apply for the unlock code.Please contact us by mail or local service hotline as following if error message appears.
TEL: http://consumer.huawei.com/en/contact-us/index.htm?tag=hotline
Mail: http://consumer.huawei.com/en/contact-us/index.htm?tag=email
Please submit your mobile model, SN, IMEI/MEID and erro message in your e-mail.We also need to know that your phone is rooted, it can be out of the best working state and part of functions may not be able to work normally. In additon, the system is vulnerable to be invaded by viruses once your phone is permitted to unlock. What's more, for the lacking of fully tested, the third party software will not be compatible with your phone. Unlocking will bring unexpected negative impacts and the device will be not normal, and can not be restored, Huawei after-sales service office will not provide warranty service for your rooted phone, and you may bear the cost. So we strongly advise you to think it twice.
If you have any other problems, please send your feedback to us. We will be at your service to help you to solve your problems.
Once again thank you for contacting Huawei device.
Best Regards.
Huawei Device Customer Care Team
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lomunet said:
I think that exist a windows software to generate the code... If you want, send in a pm your phone info, imei, s/n... all data asked in huawei page and I can try to get the code tomorrow when I back to the office (I haven't windows at home)
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Done,i sent you a pm.
Thank you for all your help.
You are a stand up guy/gal Iomunet,thanks for helping me.
Do I mark as solved or anything like that?
Just out of curiosity, how was nougat? Why did you switch back?

Huawei P9 (EE Network) EMUI 5.0 Update non existent?

Good evening all.....
I have already search for this amongst the forums but unfortunately I could not find anything so I am hoping you are able to help.
I currently own a Huawei P9 EVA-L09C440B138 with EMUI 4.1 - Android 6.0 Installed, locked to EE-UK. My partner has the same mobile but with a different network and she received the update to EMUI 5.0, Android 7.0, MONTHS ago. You may or may not have heard, all EE customers with Huawei P9's seem to be suffering from the same problem, and whenever we approach EE we get the same bull**** response "when the update is ready you will be notified", no timescale, nothing.
So my question is, is there a way I can bypass the standard update procedure as I fear I will never get that update, or am I going to have to be patient and wait until further notice.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Many thanks guys
See this link to get started:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/development/stock-rom-dload-file-p9-eva-l09-b136-t3382818
retsilred said:
See this link to get started:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/development/stock-rom-dload-file-p9-eva-l09-b136-t3382818
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Thank you very much for this it looks relatively simple to do but would you be able to advise me if I need any preliminary software or if I need to do anything prior to installing this update. Is there a plan B in case there is potential for my phone to be bricked. If I were to in future self this device to a shop would they be able to tell that this was not a genuine update directly from Huawei?
Whighty383 said:
Thank you very much for this it looks relatively simple to do but would you be able to advise me if I need any preliminary software or if I need to do anything prior to installing this update. Is there a plan B in case there is potential for my phone to be bricked. If I were to in future self this device to a shop would they be able to tell that this was not a genuine update directly from Huawei?
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Nothing extra needed.
There's always a plan B, there's several threads on her for recovering a bricked P9.
If you don't tell them, they'll probably never notice.

VTR-L29C576B114 not updating

Hi,
So, I have this p10 L29C576B114 for almost a month now and it.. ok phone.
Last week I got this notification that There's an update to B170. but it didn't work... restart, factory defaults, with and without Firmware Finder(dns, vpn)... tried all the tricks - nothing!
Verification fails at 1%.
Now... after my last attempt, there was a scary message that there was a problem and I had 3 options: vol-up for recovery (didn"t work), pwr to reboot (worked) and wait that it will power off by itself.
so, after successful restart as if nothing happened, the update option (b170) disappeared from the IMUI update screen (still showing B114).
Any Advice ?
Please Help ..
Official: Also Huawei, maybe send it to Huawei for warranty.
Unofficial:
You can rebrand your phone to international C432 version and receive updates from Huawei.
Huawei spreads the update very irregular, so for normal people like use there's no system behind their update politics.
Or you can try my script (Tutorial #1 because you're on Nougat).
For this you need to download the right firmware for your model - I've linked the firmware database by TeamMT where you can download it. I don't know if there's a new one for your model, take a look first.
NOTICE: Both methods are needing an unlocked bootloader so you may lose warranty. Also you'll lose all data on you phone because a bootloader unlock will cause a factory reset. So do a backup.
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Official: Also Huawei, maybe send it to Huawei for warranty.
Unofficial:
You can rebrand your phone to international C432 version and receive updates from Huawei.
Huawei spreads the update very irregular, so for normal people like use there's no system behind their update politics.
Or you can try my script (Tutorial #1 because you're on Nougat).
For this you need to download the right firmware for your model - I've linked the firmware database by TeamMT where you can download it. I don't know if there's a new one for your model, take a look first.
NOTICE: Both methods are needing an unlocked bootloader so you may lose warranty. Also you'll lose all data on you phone because a bootloader unlock will cause a factory reset. So do a backup.
Jannomag said:
Official: Also Huawei, maybe send it to Huawei for warranty.
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Thing is, after I bought it, I found that store is made of A-Hole and they refuse to service...
So, sending it to Huawei will leave me without a phone for who knows how long.
mch5 said:
Thing is, after I bought it, I found that store is made of A-Hole and they refuse to service...
So, sending it to Huawei will leave me without a phone for who knows how long.
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Than you have to wait or you can follow the "unofficial" methods.

Question Need help Mi11 "your System has been Destroyed" Messeage

Hello everyone, im new to this Forum.
I need to ask if someone can help me. I remember using the cleaning Tool on my Mi11 on the Bus and seconds after closing the App the Phone suddenly Turned off & after Turning it back on it just displayed the Message
"your System has been destroyed" and constantly bootlooping.
Recovery Mode was not working, i can only get into fastboot Mode.
I tried flashing new Firmware with the tools provided by Xiaomi but they always tell me to unlock the bootloader wich i havent done and now i cant cause i cant get into the Phone.
I also tried unlocking the Bootloader with MiFlash Unlock but it tells me to add my account in the MIUI Developer Options..
I then contacted some Xiaomi unlocking Service and pay him 30€ to unlock my Phone in a teamviewer Session via AvatarAuthTool and some other stuff but even he was not able to do it.
I removed the backplate from the Phone and shortened the testpoint pins and he tried again with no luck..
i have no Idea how to get this Phone usable again and im desperatly looking for any help or advice bcuz im currently rocking my old Sony Erricson Walkman Phone..
thanks in advance for anyone who is taking the time to read all this and trying to help
You didn't mention if it's still on warranty and whether you can get it repaired from there?
You don't need to unlock the bootloader if you're using the right firmware for your variant.
Do you happen to remember whether it was EEA, MI, IN or etc version for your device?
Unknown.Guy said:
You didn't mention if it's still on warranty and whether you can get it repaired from there?
You don't need to unlock the bootloader if you're using the right firmware for your variant.
Do you happen to remember whether it was EEA, MI, IN or etc version for your device?
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I dont think i still have warranty cause i bought it as used from a friend, How do i find the correct Firmware as you say i dont need to unlock anything i might have tried with the wrong version. Also i believe its a global version.
Coolpenisbro said:
I dont think i still have warranty cause i bought it as used from a friend, How do i find the correct Firmware as you say i dont need to unlock anything i might have tried with the wrong version. Also i believe its a global version.
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No worries. You will have to try a couple of fastboot firmwares.
For each of them, you need to use the latest MiFlash Tool and make sure that CLEAN ALL only option is selected.
One thing to note here is that once you select the firmware folder in MiFlash, it automatically switches to Clean All and Lock
So you better make sure to look well and switch to CLEAN ALL only again before you hit the Flash button.
Latest Global:
Xiaomi Firmware Updater
The ultimate script that provides firmware packages for Xiaomi devices.
xiaomifirmwareupdater.com
Latest Global EEA:
Xiaomi Firmware Updater
The ultimate script that provides firmware packages for Xiaomi devices.
xiaomifirmwareupdater.com
Not so latest China Stable:
Xiaomi Firmware Updater
The ultimate script that provides firmware packages for Xiaomi devices.
xiaomifirmwareupdater.com
I couldn't find the latest fastboot version for China. Make sure you download fastboot versions for all of these and try one by one. At least one of these have to work for your bootloader.
If these don't work then we could try Indonesia, Turkey, Taiwan and Russia firmwares. No way none of them works.
Edit: Idk how it selected Bold but nvm. Also, these steps will wipe all data on phone. Will be like a factory reset.
Give this a try first, who knows it might work lol.
How to Fix “The System Has Been Destroyed” Issue on Xiaomi Phones - Techtrickz
Xiaomi smartphones usually work flawlessly, but sometimes it may act weirdly. An OTA update can cause the issue and sometimes it happened without any intervention by users. OTA updates sometimes will brick the phone leaving the message ‘the system has been destroyed’ on the boot screen. For...
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Unknown.Guy said:
Give this a try first, who knows it might work lol.
How to Fix “The System Has Been Destroyed” Issue on Xiaomi Phones - Techtrickz
Xiaomi smartphones usually work flawlessly, but sometimes it may act weirdly. An OTA update can cause the issue and sometimes it happened without any intervention by users. OTA updates sometimes will brick the phone leaving the message ‘the system has been destroyed’ on the boot screen. For...
techtrickz.com
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Dude thanks for your efforts in trying to Help. In the end i refunded my Money wich i paid to the first unlocking guy and looked on Telegram, where i found a 100% legit dude. he flashed it on first try. also he was ok with an afterwards payment + he was only 25€. I can link his page if someone is interested.

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