Guide | Install Android Oreo on Huawei Honor 9 Smartphone.
Android Oreo Huawei Honor 9. By default, Huawei Honor 9 Smartphone comes with Android 7.0 (Nougat). And now, we try to install Android Oreo on this device. This trick comes from the XDA forum proudly presented by XDA member,
OldDroid. You must read carefully this article, in order to get the best result on your upgrade. And you need to know, all the risks that occur after installing Android Oreo on Huawei Honor 9 are your own responsibility.
Make sure device is Huawei Honor 9 to follow this guide, here are some specifications about Honor 9. This device is released on 2017, July. Comes with 5.15 inches LTPS IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors. Powered by Octa-core (4x2.4 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4x1.8 GHz Cortex-A53) CPU, HiSilicon Kirin 960 Chipset, and Mali-G71 MP8 GPU.
Now, just follow this step by step guide.
Prerequisite.
- At least 8 GB MicroSD card.
- D0wnload the C432 firmware and extract it from Here.
- Once it successfully downloaded, you must extract to the root of your MicroSD.
- Other files needed for this process are available at this Here.
- Make sure ADB installed on your computer. If not, you can see this guide.
Instruction guide.
First Part.
- Put the Firmware on MicroSD card.
- Then, if your device run Android Nougat you must flash TWRP via Fastboot. See this guide on how to flash TWRP recovery Huawei Honor 9.
- twrp-3.1.1-nougat-stf.img
- This TWRP file also available at prerequisite no. 4 above.
- Then, boot your Huawei Honor 9 to the recovery and connect your smartphone to the computer.
- Once your phone connected. Now start the command prompt to activate ADB shell. How to do it?
- Press and hold shift + right click, and click open command prompt here.
- You can perform this task where the ADB folder is located.
- Then execute the following commands.
dd if=/external_sd/STF_RECOVERY_NoCheck.img of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/recovery_a
dd if=/external_sd/STF_RECOVERY_NoCheck.img of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/recovery2_a
echo --update_package=/sdcard/update.zip > /cache/recovery/command
echo --update_package=/sdcard/update_data_full_public.zip >> /cache/recovery/command
echo --update_package=/sdcard/update_full_STF-L09_hw_normal.zip >> /cache/recovery/command
- Then reboot your Honor 9 via shell ADB, type the following command to do it.
- At this step, the installation should start, and then boot your Huawei Honor 9 into Android Oreo. But this step is not done yet.
Second Part.
- Now your Huawei Honor 9 is run on Android Oreo.
- In this part, you will see that boot animation is missing, and few other things don't work properly.
- Then, you must install TWRP for Android OREO on your Huawei Honor 9 using this command. See this guide how to flash TWRP recovery Huawei Honor 9.
- fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk twrp-3.1.1-oreo-stf.img
- This TWRP file also available at prerequisite no. 4 above.
- Then, Boot your Huawei Honor 9 into TWRP and flash the provided SuperSU zip
- You can use root browser - free or root explorer - paid or any root browser to open it.
- Go to /cust/hw rename "normal" folder to "eu" (without the quotes)
- Then go to /version/special_cust/STF-L09/hw rename "normal" folder to "eu" (without the quotes)
- Now, reboot your Huawei Honor 9.
Third Part.
- Actually, this part is not needed, but it's recommended.
- First thing you need to take action at the 3rd part is flash stock ramdisk to ramdisk partition using fastboot, type the following command at the fastboot;
- fastboot flash ramdisk RAMDISK.img
- Then, flash stock recovery ramdisk using fastboot, for that you must type this command.
- fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk RECOVERY_RAMDISK.img
- RAMDISK.img and RECOVERY_RAMDISK.img file also available at prerequisite no. 4 above.
- Then, boot your Huawei Honor 9 into recovery. How to do it?
- Once your Huawei Honor 9 enter recovery mode. Now, you must perform a factory reset.
- Reboot your phone, then setup your device.
