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[Guide] Fix for boot-loop and bricked Honor 8 (probably others too)

The reason I'm making this thread is because I was trying to root my Honor 8 and things just didn't work out in TWRP. Rebooted my phone and I realized I had bricked it since it would not boot after 10 minutes. Solutions seem to be scattered throughout different threads so here's guide for when you're stuck in a boot loop or you bricked your Honor 8.
What you'll need:
1. The firmware currently you are on. @Coolyou posted a guide for a firmware finder. Here is the post.
2. SD Card
What to do:
Step 1.
Download the correct firmware. It will be a .zip file.
Step 2.
Create a folder called dload in the root of your SD card, not your internal storage. Copy the .zip file the folder and unzip it or unzip it else where and copy the content into the dload folder
Step 3.
Power off Honor 8 (if possible, sometimes it'll auto boot up when forced shutdown)
Step 4.
Make sure your device is not plugged into a computer as it will load into something else.
Hold Vol+ & Vol- & Power. It will being to install the firmware from the dload folder if done correctly. If it instantly fails that means you downloaded the incorrect firmware the device is already one.
You're done! However, if your device does not go past the startup logo within 3 minutes proceed to step 5.
Step 5 is probably necessary as everytime I've bricked my device, I've had to do the next step.
Step 5.
Power off. Hold power and Vol+. Once in Recovery mode (not eRecovery), clear cache and format your device. Once done, reboot.
Ta-da, you're device is now back to normal.

Unfortunately, I cant seem to get to the part where it detects my dload folder and installs from the UPDATE.APP file. My phone keeps auto restarting whenever I try to turn off, and since bootloader is locked, I cant flash any images. Every time I hold down Vol+, Vol-, and power button the phone just vibrates twice and goes to the blue honor boot logo. I have successfully managed to get to the Fastboot menu by holding down Vol- and power button, but this menu is useless as bootloader is locked. Is there anything I can do?

Let go off the power button after the first vibration. Also make sure your phone is not plugged to a pc. With pc connected it boots into eRecovery instead of recovery. Good luck!
Edit:Also the guide does not make it 100% specific but the dload folder on the sd card needs to have the update.app file right inside it. If the structure is sd\dload\folder\update.app it also won't work.

Rakeen70210 said:
Unfortunately, I cant seem to get to the part where it detects my dload folder and installs from the UPDATE.APP file. My phone keeps auto restarting whenever I try to turn off, and since bootloader is locked, I cant flash any images. Every time I hold down Vol+, Vol-, and power button the phone just vibrates twice and goes to the blue honor boot logo. I have successfully managed to get to the Fastboot menu by holding down Vol- and power button, but this menu is useless as bootloader is locked. Is there anything I can do?
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i have same problem!
i can't reboot in download mode: it vibrates twice and reboot in blue screen always, even leaving power button after first vibration.
How can i fix this?
please help..!

alec_trikki said:
i have same problem!
i can't reboot in download mode: it vibrates twice and reboot in blue screen always, even leaving power button after first vibration.
How can i fix this?
please help..!
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i have same problem, you can fix this? help me please

Add me to the list, two soft bricked Honor 8's. Once I made the jump to Nougat and installed the Nougat version of TWRP 3.0.1-1, I started having issues. So, I tried to downgrade to FRD-L04C567B150 from FRD-L04C567B320 and had big problems installing B150. Always getting unable to load /data Has to be something to do with the new data structure of Nougat I have a copy of the full stock rom of B150 and B162 and have wiped the phone. I am trying to dload full B150 from SDcard but will fail immediately and says Wrong Version. I can get to fastboot and ADB. I also tried custom ROMs but that wont work because they need the basic Nougat structure to work from. I don't have a clue how to proceed seeing that I can't even wipe the phone and install a Full stock ROM B150 or B162??
Any help would be extremely appreciated.

thekubiaks said:
Add me to the list, two soft bricked Honor 8's. Once I made the jump to Nougat and installed the Nougat version of TWRP 3.0.1-1, I started having issues. So, I tried to downgrade to FRD-L04C567B150 from FRD-L04C567B320 and had big problems installing B150. Always getting unable to load /data Has to be something to do with the new data structure of Nougat I have a copy of the full stock rom of B150 and B162 and have wiped the phone. I am trying to dload full B150 from SDcard but will fail immediately and says Wrong Version. I can get to fastboot and ADB. I also tried custom ROMs but that wont work because they need the basic Nougat structure to work from. I don't have a clue how to proceed seeing that I can't even wipe the phone and install a Full stock ROM B150 or B162??
Any help would be extremely appreciated.
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UPDATE : It freaking worked!!! After an entire weekend of hair pulling and going way deep into Nougat and MM trying to find the cause, it was a simple Full ROM B162 that I dloaded and three fingered from the SD card (of course it has to be the exact ROM for your phone such as FRD-L04C567B###). WOW, two phones are back. I'll stay at FRD-L04C567B162 and like it.
Lesson Learned: When you try to do an eRecovery and the Honor 8 starts downloading new firmware from the internet it creates a new folder on the sd card called something like HwOC. In that folder is stored the new firmware that erecover plans to use on the recovery. IF this HwOC folder is present and you try to do a Full ROM three finger install with the B150 or B162 firmware in the dload folder, the recovery will stop and say something like invalid version. To fix, remove the HwOC folder so that only dload is present, now do the three finger start and the firmware will install without error. Worked twice for me.

Hi, my device is still not booting up after installing the matching dload firmware on my device from the honor 8 website (FRD-L09).
Is there still anything I can do to maybe get this fixed?
I created a nandroid backup of all partitions that I were able to back up, but even rolling back all partitions did not make it boot again.
Sadly, I am not able to get the device into e.g. fastboot mode anymore because it is not booting anymore and therefore cant get an adb shell on it.
I can still enter recovery mode, but when trying to boot it just stays at the blue screen with the white "honor" text after the short boot animation with the 3d text

Hi,
my phone keeps entering eRecovery and my PC does not recognize it so please how can I access it to install files. I think I have installed a wrong boot.img and recovery.img version of firmware.
Please I need help.
Thanks

Lorog said:
Hi,
my phone keeps entering eRecovery and my PC does not recognize it so please how can I access it to install files. I think I have installed a wrong boot.img and recovery.img version of firmware.
Please I need help.
Thanks
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Same here on a Note 8 did you find a solution?

thekubiaks said:
UPDATE : It freaking worked!!! After an entire weekend of hair pulling and going way deep into Nougat and MM trying to find the cause, it was a simple Full ROM B162 that I dloaded and three fingered from the SD card (of course it has to be the exact ROM for your phone such as FRD-L04C567B###). WOW, two phones are back. I'll stay at FRD-L04C567B162 and like it.
Lesson Learned: When you try to do an eRecovery and the Honor 8 starts downloading new firmware from the internet it creates a new folder on the sd card called something like HwOC. In that folder is stored the new firmware that erecover plans to use on the recovery. IF this HwOC folder is present and you try to do a Full ROM three finger install with the B150 or B162 firmware in the dload folder, the recovery will stop and say something like invalid version. To fix, remove the HwOC folder so that only dload is present, now do the three finger start and the firmware will install without error. Worked twice for me.
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Do you have the link for the b162 full firmware?
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also what recovery did you have installed when you did this?

nickp22127 said:
Do you have the link for the b162 full firmware?
edit:
also what recovery did you have installed when you did this?
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Its erecovery

tiagoesbastos said:
i have same problem, you can fix this? help me please
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i have the same pblm...how did u both managed to boot it then??
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alec_trikki said:
i have same problem!
i can't reboot in download mode: it vibrates twice and reboot in blue screen always, even leaving power button after first vibration.
How can i fix this?
please help..!
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tiagoesbastos said:
i have same problem, you can fix this? help me please
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i have the same pblm...can u tell how did u managed to solve it???

oops, wrong thread

abbassbhai said:
i have the same pblm...how did u both managed to boot it then??
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i have the same pblm...can u tell how did u managed to solve it???
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Do you find a solution? I have the same problem!

Rakeen70210 said:
Unfortunately, I cant seem to get to the part where it detects my dload folder and installs from the UPDATE.APP file. My phone keeps auto restarting whenever I try to turn off, and since bootloader is locked, I cant flash any images. Every time I hold down Vol+, Vol-, and power button the phone just vibrates twice and goes to the blue honor boot logo. I have successfully managed to get to the Fastboot menu by holding down Vol- and power button, but this menu is useless as bootloader is locked. Is there anything I can do?
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Did you find a solution? I have the same problem!

Rakeen70210 said:
Unfortunately, I cant seem to get to the part where it detects my dload folder and installs from the UPDATE.APP file. My phone keeps auto restarting whenever I try to turn off, and since bootloader is locked, I cant flash any images. Every time I hold down Vol+, Vol-, and power button the phone just vibrates twice and goes to the blue honor boot logo. I have successfully managed to get to the Fastboot menu by holding down Vol- and power button, but this menu is useless as bootloader is locked. Is there anything I can do?
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Hi, I have the exact same problem. Have you managed to fix it?

Same problems as other people above, couldn't load any recovery. Anyone can help us out?

Rakeen70210 said:
Unfortunately, I cant seem to get to the part where it detects my dload folder and installs from the UPDATE.APP file. My phone keeps auto restarting whenever I try to turn off, and since bootloader is locked, I cant flash any images. Every time I hold down Vol+, Vol-, and power button the phone just vibrates twice and goes to the blue honor boot logo. I have successfully managed to get to the Fastboot menu by holding down Vol- and power button, but this menu is useless as bootloader is locked. Is there anything I can do?
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Hi even I have the same problem with Honor 8 Pro.. Did you get any solution??

Hi even I have the same problem with Honor 8 Did you get any solution??

Huawei M3 bricked after update - not unlocked - Recovery?

Hello,
I have bricked my M3 during update process to newest android Nougat. Right now I got stucked on Huawei eRecovery, which of course doesn't work ("getting package info failed"). I don't have unlocked bootloader nor root. Is there anyway to recovery it and flash an img of any rom? Version of the M3 is BTV-DL09

Have you tried the Huawei desktop app Hisuite. It may have some recovery tool built into it.
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Not working, it says that this device is not supported

I had same problem. I solved the problem by downloading latest android 6 and emui 4 firmware from huawei support. Use sd card. Create a new folder and rename it to " dload ". Simply copy only the UPDATE.APP into that dload folder. Insert sd card and boot your tab pressing vol up/ vol down / power at the same time. Keep all pressed, till you see the update screen.
Takes about 5-10 min.
My m3 works now just fine, even though my update failed when 99% were done. But when tab was booting after that, everything was correct. :good:

Bimmer330xd said:
I had same problem. I solved the problem by downloading latest android 6 and emui 4 firmware from huawei support. Use sd card. Create a new folder and rename it to " dload ". Simply copy only the UPDATE.APP into that dload folder. Insert sd card and boot your tab pressing vol up/ vol down / power at the same time. Keep all pressed, till you see the update screen.
Takes about 5-10 min.
My m3 works now just fine, even though my update failed when 99% were done. But when tab was booting after that, everything was correct. :good:
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Do you have the firmware somewhere? I would be really grateful for that!

http://consumer.huawei.com/it/support/search/index.htm?keywords=btv-dl09&t=SupportSearch
There is a link. ?
Go to download and then choose the latest android 6 & emui 4.1 I think it was dated 30.3.2017...

Bimmer330xd said:
http://consumer.huawei.com/it/support/search/index.htm?keywords=btv-dl09&t=SupportSearch
There is a link. ?
Go to download and then choose the latest android 6 & emui 4.1 I think it was dated 30.3.2017...
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Working right now! I went to Nougat after that and it works flawlessly thank you a lot, you saved my tab!

Great! You are very welcome! ??

Oh, btw. Which nougat version did you put in? And how you did it? Same way, using sdcard or how?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_j7tfSbXSA&t=94s
I have a problem with that tablet fingerprint sensor, it works when it wants and after a while the tablet stops working. Even the menu settings disappears, fingerprint ID is gone
when I restart the effect is zero only when I reset the factors it works but after a while the fingerprint sensor refuses to work again. Does

Bimmer330xd said:
Oh, btw. Which nougat version did you put in? And how you did it? Same way, using sdcard or how?
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I have found nougat on some forum, just typed in "nougat geek update m3 tutorial" on Google , did it the way that was in the instruction. Works flawlessly

Bimmer330xd said:
http://consumer.huawei.com/it/support/search/index.htm?keywords=btv-dl09&t=SupportSearch
There is a link.
Go to download and then choose the latest android 6 & emui 4.1 I think it was dated 30.3.2017...
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Anyone know where to find this software now? Trying to break a bootloop problem with my M3 and can't find a EMUI download.

Bimmer330xd said:
I had same problem. I solved the problem by downloading latest android 6 and emui 4 firmware from huawei support. Use sd card. Create a new folder and rename it to " dload ". Simply copy only the UPDATE.APP into that dload folder. Insert sd card and boot your tab pressing vol up/ vol down / power at the same time. Keep all pressed, till you see the update screen.
Takes about 5-10 min.
My m3 works now just fine, even though my update failed when 99% were done. But when tab was booting after that, everything was correct. :good:
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So I tried this method and my tablet simply doesn't do anything after pressing all three buttons for a while. Any ideas on why this would be? Maybe I need a different UPDATE.APP file? Thanks!

How to install ta-1025 on my ta-1000 after the Oreo update

Hello.
Is there any way I can get the original software on my ta-1000? I tried to get the original swipe up menu but I am not able to install it as I got Oreo update and installed it.
Any suggestions or help,* *it is highly appreciated.
Thank you.

Rayhan_azad said:
Hello.
Is there any way I can get the original software on my ta-1000? I tried to get the original swipe up menu but I am not able to install it as I got Oreo update and installed it.
Any suggestions or help,* *it is highly appreciated.
Thank you.
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yes you can, but the one you will be flash TA-1025 will also be the oreo only
means right now you can flash OREO TA-1025 over your current system
Follow this
Download nougat december OTA and February OREO zip from here
put them to sd card and put it to device
goto recovery
if it shows no command, hit power button+volume up+home button(fingerprint sensor) together for 2-3 times
you will get the recovery menu
now first install december patch
it will give error, dont worry
restart your device, it will directly take you to recovery
now install february oreo
done
hit thanks button if you find this helpful
happy flashing

sltushar said:
yes you can, but the one you will be flash TA-1025 will also be the oreo only
means right now you can flash OREO TA-1025 over your current system
Follow this
Download nougat december OTA and February OREO zip from here
put them to sd card and put it to device
goto recovery
if it shows no command, hit power button+volume up+home button(fingerprint sensor) together for 2-3 times
you will get the recovery menu
now first install december patch
it will give error, dont worry
restart your device, it will directly take you to recovery
now install february oreo
done
hit thanks button if you find this helpful
happy flashing
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Thank you very much for the suggestion, I will try now and let you know ASAP.

Rayhan_azad said:
Thank you very much for the suggestion, I will try now and let you know ASAP.
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Sure

sltushar said:
Sure
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Do I unzip and put the files in the SD card?

Rayhan_azad said:
Do I unzip and put the files in the SD card?
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Never in the life unzip, just copy the files and flash through recovery

Gonz19 said:
Never in the life unzip, just copy the files and flash through recovery
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Thank you. When I try to go to recover mode, it shows no command on the screen.
Any solution for this?

Need help, cannot go to recoery mode.
Please

Just hit these three button together, just hit, donot hold it
Volume up+ power button+home button (fingerprint sensor)
2-3 time together
U will get the recovery
Enjoy
Hit thanks button if you find this useful
Happy flashing

sltushar said:
Just hit these three button together, just hit, donot hold it
Volume up+ power button+home button (fingerprint sensor)
2-3 time together
U will get the recovery
Enjoy
Hit thanks button if you find this useful
Happy flashing
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i tried many time but nothing comes, is thete any videos regarding this?
And also my nokia 6 is switched off.
Nothing is happening.

Rayhan_azad said:
i tried many time but nothing comes, is thete any videos regarding this?
And also my nokia 6 is switched off.
Nothing is happening.
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Put it to charging, let it full charge
Put it atleast 3 hours and then try to go to recovery and follow the above command

sltushar said:
Put it to charging, let it full charge
Put it atleast 3 hours and then try to go to recovery and follow the above command
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Ok i will try after full charge and let you know.

Rayhan_azad said:
Ok i will try after full charge and let you know.
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Sure buddy
Remember one thing, never put the tnsn on your face when u face some problem
During the tnsn, the problem become more powerful and thus make u feel weak instead of thinking about the solution
We are always here and happy to help you

Do I rename the files? If yes what would be the names.

Ok guys i did what you asked me to do but at the end of the oreo update, it shows error and now i cant start my nokia 6.
Please help.

Rayhan_azad said:
Ok guys i did what you asked me to do but at the end of the oreo update, it shows error and now i cant start my nokia 6.
Please help.
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i did something very stupid, iafter failing the methods you guys suggested me, my wont wont start so i went and tried to update through OST LA MENA firmware . Now my phone is flashing on and off and sometimes can see the no command screen.
How do i fix this please help me.
my handset is Nokia 6, TA-1000 was on Oreo without swipe up menu.
please let me know soon.

Plrase check the video on the link and help me please.
https://youtu.be/LuGNjN4HW-4

Rayhan_azad said:
Plrase check the video on the link and help me please.
https://youtu.be/LuGNjN4HW-4
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i cannot even enter recovery mode any more and dont know what to do.
please suggest me a way to get out of this mess.

Rayhan_azad said:
i cannot even enter recovery mode any more and dont know what to do.
please suggest me a way to get out of this mess.
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Dont get panic, this problem occurs, sometimes when u dont have enough battery at that it happens
You really hardbricked your device
Now
First charge your device, put it for atleast 6 hours on charge
Then if everything goes fine then you could enter to recovery mode
If u could enter to recovery mode then
Please this time keep patience and take long breath and follow the steps carefully
Goto this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/no...ink-ota-monthly-updates-t3733784/post75162860
And download TA-1000 OREO ZIP available on downside of first post, ACARGIA WILL BE MENTION THERE
And also December patch that u downloaded earlier
Put both of them to the sd card and then put sd card to the device
If u were able to enter to the recovery mode
Select update from sd card, remember adb sideloaded doesn't work on nokia 6
Now first install December OTA
it will give u error but dont worry
Reboot your device
Now you will see u have 7.1.2 recovery menu
Same select update from sd card
Now this time select oreo that u downloaded just now
At the end, u should be on official oreo TA-1000

sltushar said:
Dont get panic, this problem occurs, sometimes when u dont have enough battery at that it happens
You really hardbricked your device
Now
First charge your device, put it for atleast 6 hours on charge
Then if everything goes fine then you could enter to recovery mode
If u could enter to recovery mode then
Please this time keep patience and take long breath and follow the steps carefully
Goto this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/no...ink-ota-monthly-updates-t3733784/post75162860
And download TA-1000 OREO ZIP available on downside of first post, ACARGIA WILL BE MENTION THERE
And also December patch that u downloaded earlier
Put both of them to the sd card and then put sd card to the device
If u were able to enter to the recovery mode
Select update from sd card, remember adb sideloaded doesn't work on nokia 6
Now first install December OTA
it will give u error but dont worry
Reboot your device
Now you will see u have 7.1.2 recovery menu
Same select update from sd card
Now this time select oreo that u downloaded just now
At the end, u should be on official oreo TA-1000
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thank you very much. The thing is the phone was flashing all night and its becone hot as hell. Will yhe flashing stop if i full charge it?

I need the assistance of XDA wizards on recovering a poor students p9 lite

I'm in dire need of immediate assistance. I had previosly rooted my phone with this guide https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-p9lite/how-to/guide-unlock-bootloader-twrp-root-t3405701 and unlocked the bootloader. Long story short I made the decision to unroot and lock the booloader. Now im faced with a bootloop and this error message: https://imgur.com/a/ksz1kYY
I can't afford to lose this phone. If someone can help me recover this phone I can even throw in an extra 20$. The phone isn't recognised by pc and thus I cant run adb commands.

Sadly due to huawei becoming the new apple, you can't do anything to restore it, unless you pay for a new motherboard.
If you are lucky enough, drain the battery until the phone no longer boots then charge it. You will have a very small chance for the device to boot and from there unlock the bootloader. If it can't boot up, then try it many times until it no longer boots in error mode.
The error means that the recovery mode cannot check if the device is valid or not, thus locking the device from unwanted access. I hope you get it fixed

MapBreak said:
I'm in dire need of immediate assistance. I had previosly rooted my phone with this guide https://forum.xda-developers.com/huawei-p9lite/how-to/guide-unlock-bootloader-twrp-root-t3405701 and unlocked the bootloader. Long story short I made the decision to unroot and lock the booloader. Now im faced with a bootloop and this error message: https://imgur.com/a/ksz1kYY
I can't afford to lose this phone. If someone can help me recover this phone I can even throw in an extra 20$. The phone isn't recognised by pc and thus I cant run adb commands.
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Hello, already tried to boot directly in fastboot mode ?
If not, turn off the device then connect it to cpu.
Press and hold vol - and power button until it boot.
Once booted ( hope so ) open adb/fastboot command and see if works now... :fingers-crossed:

Dadditz said:
Hello, already tried to boot directly in fastboot mode ?
If not, turn off the device then connect it to cpu.
Press and hold vol - and power button until it boot.
Once booted ( hope so ) open adb/fastboot command and see if works now... :fingers-crossed:
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Would try this but the device doesn't exactly turn off. Holding down the power button just shuts it down for a second and then it boots automatically back. And can you explain what you mean by connecting it to cpu?

MapBreak said:
Would try this but the device doesn't exactly turn off. Holding down the power button just shuts it down for a second and then it boots automatically back. And can you explain what you mean by connecting it to cpu?
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Ooops...
Yes, i was meaning connect it to your computer.. .
Connect it and try doing the way i told you.
If doesn't work let it completely discharges, then reconnect it to the computer and try again.
Wish you the best

Have you tried my method?

The Restless Soul said:
Have you tried my method?
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I took my phone to a repair shop and I just got it back from there. They said that the phone just turned on like regular, and it appeared to be working so they didn't charge me for a repair. I rebooted to check if they actually had done anything but the error came up once more. I guess the battery had run out and it turned on when they charged it? If I run out the battery again and charge it will it turn on again? If so, what should I do once I'm able to boot? I still can't access the recovery from there to try anything.
EDIT: I'm waiting for the phone to run out of battery again

MapBreak said:
I took my phone to a repair shop and I just got it back from there. They said that the phone just turned on like regular, and it appeared to be working so they didn't charge me for a repair. I rebooted to check if they actually had done anything but the error came up once more. I guess the battery had run out and it turned on when they charged it? If I run out the battery again and charge it will it turn on again? If so, what should I do once I'm able to boot? I still can't access the recovery from there to try anything.
EDIT: I'm waiting for the phone to run out of battery again
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Let it run out of battery and try to boot it into the rom. From there try to use firmware finder to reinstall your rom.

The Restless Soul said:
Let it run out of battery and try to boot it into the rom. From there try to use firmware finder to reinstall your rom.
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I've tried several times now to let it run out of battery and try to boot it into fastboot, but every time I'm unsuccessful and it boots up regularly. I've tried holding power + vol- and power + vol- + vol+ and every combination of those. Not sure how to proceed since running adb command -adb reboot bootloader but that just ends up getting me to the same error screen. I don't know what I can do. Is it possible to flash the stock recovery and rom without fastboot?

MapBreak said:
I've tried several times now to let it run out of battery and try to boot it into fastboot, but every time I'm unsuccessful and it boots up regularly. I've tried holding power + vol- and power + vol- + vol+ and every combination of those. Not sure how to proceed since running adb command -adb reboot bootloader but that just ends up getting me to the same error screen. I don't know what I can do. Is it possible to flash the stock recovery and rom without fastboot?
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Do not use adb or anything else.
Use firmware finder from Google play. Huawei has it's own eRecovery which is used for updates (OTA), so you shouldn't worry.
If you want to flash stock recovery, simply extract the update file and get the recovery.img, then flash it. It's a long method and hard to explain. Google it. Success

The Restless Soul said:
Do not use adb or anything else.
Use firmware finder from Google play. Huawei has it's own eRecovery which is used for updates (OTA), so you shouldn't worry.
If you want to flash stock recovery, simply extract the update file and get the recovery.img, then flash it. It's a long method and hard to explain. Google it. Success
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Yeah but the thing is I can't flash anything without getting into fastboot.

MapBreak said:
Yeah but the thing is I can't flash anything without getting into fastboot.
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Then use Firmware finder method.

The Restless Soul said:
Then use Firmware finder method.
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How do I use firmware finder? I can download a update.app and something but those need to be flashed via fastboot right?
EDIT: Just tried to use firmware finder and update via proxy. I'm not able to get an update to show up despite multiple tries. Feels like I'm running out of options here.

MapBreak said:
How do I use firmware finder? I can download a update.app and something but those need to be flashed via fastboot right?
EDIT: Just tried to use firmware finder and update via proxy. I'm not able to get an update to show up despite multiple tries. Feels like I'm running out of options here.
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Download the update file using firmware finder, put the update into your sd card (update.app), dial *#*#2846579*#*#, press update then wait.

The Restless Soul said:
Download the update file using firmware finder, put the update into your sd card (update.app), dial *#*#2846579*#*#, press update then wait.
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You mean *#*#2846579#*#* ? It brings up a selection but the one ending in *#*# dorsn't. Software upgrade option said that it didn't find an update file. The factory reset option tries to reboot and then the error shows up again.

I got software upgrade to recognize the file but when I tried to update it just reboots back into error mode.

It's hard for me to explain how to fix it. Idk why it doesn't work to you. Have you tried going to a service and ask them to fix it for you?

The Restless Soul said:
It's hard for me to explain how to fix it. Idk why it doesn't work to you. Have you tried going to a service and ask them to fix it for you?
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Yeah I guess getting the mainboard replaced is the only thing I can do now. Should I go to a Huawei service center or a regular phone repair shop? Thanks for all your help.

MapBreak said:
Yeah I guess getting the mainboard replaced is the only thing I can do now. Should I go to a Huawei service center or a regular phone repair shop? Thanks for all your help.
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If you have the warranty tell them you got a bad update and it will fix them for free (there were cases where you would get bad updates via OTA, so you are covered)
If not, then a third party store but you will have to pay cash

Mate 8 problems

Hi hope someone can help?
I've messed up my mate 8 by downloading the firmware app and inadvertently flashed with wrong firmware.
I've got a L29C636 Which I believe is Asia model
but I've used DC Phoenix and tried to flash a C636 Stock rom.
It all flashes ok but the second step wants to put the phone in update mode which I can never do.
I've tried using a C636 update.app and put it on a SD card in the dload folder but it does nothing when I press vol up + vol down + power, all I get is the huawei logo for ages then either
your device has failed verification and may not work properly
or if I hold the power button for long enough it gives me the standard EMUI wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache etc
Anyone any idea to recover?
By using DC Phoenix I managed to glean I think I've got NXT-L29C432B192 but have also seen NXT-C900B170 too!
Mighty confused, can anyone offer any advice please?

BlackCat1969 said:
Hi hope someone can help?
I've messed up my mate 8 by downloading the firmware app and inadvertently flashed with wrong firmware.
I've got a L29C636 Which I believe is Asia model
but I've used DC Phoenix and tried to flash a C636 Stock rom.
It all flashes ok but the second step wants to put the phone in update mode which I can never do.
I've tried using a C636 update.app and put it on a SD card in the dload folder but it does nothing when I press vol up + vol down + power, all I get is the huawei logo for ages then either
your device has failed verification and may not work properly
or if I hold the power button for long enough it gives me the standard EMUI wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache etc
Anyone any idea to recover?
By using DC Phoenix I managed to glean I think I've got NXT-L29C432B192 but have also seen NXT-C900B170 too!
Mighty confused, can anyone offer any advice please?
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ok dc phoenix thinks I have nxt-l29-C636B180 now
Do you think I could try to get this firmware and flash with that? Anyone know where to get that? I can't find it anywhere.
When I use adb and phone in fastboot mode and use adb devices I get nothing even though device manager has driver loaded called Android Sooner Single ADB Interface
Am I wasting my time as ADB can't see it over USB?
Anyone any pointers please?