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Ebay bought Mate 8 not updating..?

So I bought a (supposedly) sealed Mate 9 on ebay as a Christmas present to myself, and it's great! but i'm not getting any updates.. its an MHA-L29, Build no MHA-L29C432B182-log.
I'd previously been onto Huawei on facebook with an update query on my Mate 8, so I queried them about this phone with the same question. This was what I got back:
Hi Fred,
Thank you for getting back to us.
We have tried checking the IMEI numbers of your Mate 9 device in our system and although on the consumer website we were prompted with the information that the device is intended for China, while running them through our other software tools we were unable to gain access to any type of information.
For this reason we won't be able to provide any details related to the current Build Number available for the device, or any other details related to the updates intended for it.
Should any other questions arise, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards, Huawei
So it seems it's a China model and not a European one. Do I somehow flash it with a Chinese rom? If so - which one?!
Any help much appreciated!
Fred

I wont be much help on this subject, but you would certainly rebrand to a different region. There are a few threads around for that, Then use the region you want.

Bearded_1 said:
So it seems it's a China model and not a European one. Do I somehow flash it with a Chinese rom? If so - which one?!
Any help much appreciated!
Fred
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So, it is definitely Chinese model.
1. Huawei didn't tell you much info, just point to China.
2. Model that is selling in Europe can't have log suffix in build number. This is ROM for test purpose with logging and sending info to Huawei. Chinese sellers flashed it by inadvertence.
Don't look on it was sealed. It is too easy to seal box again.
Well, you can stay at C432 region, but I recommend flash release version like B198 using Firmware Finder.
Otherwise you can return to Chinese region ( C00 )
In this case you must get unlock code and unlock bootloader. Turn "oem unlock" in developer settings and remember that option is on world ROMs only.
Then you will able to rebrand.

Thanks for the input so far guys,
Would there be any benefit in putting a Chinese rom on? Am I right in thinking that China versions are getting Oreo at the moment? I'd rather not go through using the tool and rebranding (did it before with my Mate 8) so I think i'll try to work out the firmware finder app!
Thanks

Bearded_1 said:
Thanks for the input so far guys,
Would there be any benefit in putting a Chinese rom on? Am I right in thinking that China versions are getting Oreo at the moment? I'd rather not go through using the tool and rebranding (did it before with my Mate 8) so I think i'll try to work out the firmware finder app!
Thanks
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I believe the Chinese versions are somewhat limited and cannot access some Google apps and services.
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Good morning all,
I used the Firmware Finder to update to MHA-L29C432B198 and all good! Now I guess I just wait for the Oreo update to hit this region version. It needed a reset of course, so I had a fun evening of rebuilding and signing into all my apps while at the same time completely rebuilding my media centre pc which had refused to boot.. yay. Good times.
Fred

Bearded_1 said:
Good morning all,
I used the Firmware Finder to update to MHA-L29C432B198 and all good! Now I guess I just wait for the Oreo update to hit this region version. It needed a reset of course, so I had a fun evening of rebuilding and signing into all my apps while at the same time completely rebuilding my media centre pc which had refused to boot.. yay. Good times.
Fred
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Well, even if you updated, you're still "out of region". So chances are you won't get any update to Oreo.
Oreo builds for C432 are named MHA-L29 8.0.0.xxx (C432) in Firmware Finder, same with MHA-L09.
So you could try updating to Oreo through FF.

Thanks, I'll keep checking the finder app. I'd rather stay on the c432 chain as I'm in England if that makes a difference. Is Oreo still in beta for 432? So far they all say not approved for installation.

Unlock Bootloader BKL-L04

I cannot get the bootloader unlock code from Huawei. When I fill out the phone info form I get the error "SN and IMEI are mismatched." I've tried both IMEI1 and IMEI2.
Is this because it is the US version? Is there another way to unlock the bootloader?

I am having the same issue. I am very disappointed that they would lock the bootloader on a non-carrier branded phone. I am unable to port certain app data without root which is making it very hard for me to justify keeping the phone vs returning it and going with another brand where root is obtainable.

I'm getting the same error. I emailed them last night about it and just got a reply a little bit ago. They told me that Huawei USA does not provide bootloader unlock codes. Since they're apparently refusing to provide codes for the US version, does anyone know another way to get one?
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Rebrand it to EU version... It's in the forum

bhargavpa said:
Rebrand it to EU version... It's in the forum
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I doubt that it will work and will ultimately result in a bricked device. Per the FunkyHuawei website:
"Warning: EMUI 8.1 devices are not yet supported. EMUI 8.0 and below only for now."
There is also a warning about the USA version of the Mate 10 (Different phone but same idea) and trying to re-brand to another region.

Rebranding it is not possible (It's an EMUI 8.1 device) and will not help.

I'm highly ticked over this, I'd never bought this phone if I'd known you couldn't unlock it and root it!!!

dennyjjohnson said:
I'm highly ticked over this, I'd never bought this phone if I'd known you couldn't unlock it and root it!!!
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I am right there with you. I keep trying different departments at Huawei in the hopes someone will provide the bootloader unlock code. I wish the OnePlus 5T (8GB/128GB) was still available b/c I would return this phone and get that one instead. I only bought this one b/c that one was no longer being sold and this phone seemed like the next best choice. They need to have a disclaimer on their store site if they don't intend to allow unlocking for a specific region regardless if they present the option upon logging into my account with them.

That is b/c you didn't register your country as United States. I know this b/c of the URL of the website you used to log into. If you had, you would have been prompted to be redirected to a different site as it won't let you log into that specific URL if you registered with United States. I attempted to register with a different country using another e-mail account but since I already attempted using both IMEI numbers under my United States account it was logged as being not allowed already.

This is Huaweis official reply to this problem!
[cid:23a7799f-a2bc-466e-a6b4-81f70c8cf56a]
Dear Denny,
We widely appreciate your preference and we thank you for contacting us.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, however Huawei USA does not provide codes to unlock the bootloader.
We kindly inform you that this action can potentially "brick" the device or in other words, renders the phone completely unusable and voids the warranty service and device support as you mentioned. We have no control over how unlocking the bootloader will affect your device.
Please visit the following link to see our user agreement for this service, specially the point 4:
https://hwid5.vmall.com/CAS/portal/agreements/userAgreement/en-us_userAgreement.html?version=common
If you require additional assistance, or have any further questions, please contact us via:
• Live chat, go to our consumer webpage: http://consumer.huawei.com/us/index.htm
under the menu, select support>livechat
• Hotline service: 888.5HUAWEI / 888.548.2934 English / Spanish: From Monday to
Sunday 7:00am to 9:00pm.
Once again we thank you for contacting Huawei Technical Support, we remain at your service.
Best Regards.
P.T.H.
Dear Denny,
We widely appreciate your preference and we thank you for contacting us.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience, however Huawei USA does not provide codes to unlock the bootloader.
We kindly inform you that this action can potentially "brick" the device or in other words, renders the phone completely unusable and voids the warranty service and device support as you mentioned. We have no control over how unlocking the bootloader will affect your device.
Please visit the following link to see our user agreement for this service, specially the point 4:
https://hwid5.vmall.com/CAS/portal/agreements/userAgreement/en-us_userAgreement.html?version=common
If you require additional assistance, or have any further questions, please contact us via:
• Live chat, go to our consumer webpage: http://consumer.huawei.com/us/index.htm
under the menu, select support>livechat
• Hotline service: 888.5HUAWEI / 888.548.2934 English / Spanish: From Monday to
Sunday 7:00am to 9:00pm.
Once again we thank you for contacting Huawei Technical Support, we remain at your service.
Best Regards.
P.T.H.

.... So the US version can't be bootloader unlocked? Time to cancel my order on Amazon then.

freeza said:
.... So the US version can't be bootloader unlocked? Time to cancel my order on Amazon then.
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i unlocked mine yesterday. had to select a country that hid the phone number field ... worked just fine

kevp75 said:
i unlocked mine yesterday. had to select a country that hid the phone number field ... worked just fine
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Please clarify.
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kevp75 said:
i unlocked mine yesterday. had to select a country that hid the phone number field ... worked just fine
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....reordered! thanks lmao

Does the US honor view 10 ship with 8.1?

-SilentAssassin- said:
Please clarify.
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the form.. on huawei's site aks u to select a country... pick one where the phone field disappears
freeza said:
Does the US honor view 10 ship with 8.1?
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mine did

Does emui allow booting with encryption disabled? As i understand it currently, official twrp is the only one working right now for the US model but can't decrypt data. Trying to decide if i should just cancel my order as nothing seems to be supporting the US version very much

freeza said:
Does emui allow booting with encryption disabled? As i understand it currently, official twrp is the only one working right now for the US model but can't decrypt data. Trying to decide if i should just cancel my order as nothing seems to be supporting the US version very much
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I've already made a mod to disable encryption on the view 10 your all good frieza. Thanks for saving Goku btw. Theres pretty much full support on all devices. Me and 20 other us based devs are tinkering away

joemossjr said:
I've already made a mod to disable encryption on the view 10 your all good frieza. Thanks for saving Goku btw
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Lmao you're welcome man [emoji16][emoji16]
Awesome on the mod. I was going to do it myself but wanted to know if it was even worth my time as some stock firmwares just don't boot without encryption. Good to know this one does. Where's your mod by the way? ?[emoji38]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=175GsJLI6zvoefKOGoW7bfd3I8jHeCjKb
just a simple change in vendor partition. which means since most roms are treble roms they wont effect being unencrypted lol just a fasctory wipe in twrp the flash the rom and go

Huawei P20 Pro 6/64 CLT-AL01

Hello everyone
I got my Huawei P20 Pro 6/64 CLT-AC01 today in the mail.
It is locked to Chinese region, and doesn't has any of the gapps installed.
I looked for several hours through the forum and on Google today, and I can't find any way to flash a different region ROM to it (often referred to as Debranding)
Also, I read that Huawei canceled the option to unlock the bootloader - I tried it on several ways today and got to a 404 on the unlock page.
Could someone tell me how do I change the region of the device to a normal international one?
Thanks! Can't wait to start using this beautiful device.

Your last option might be funkyhuawei

otonieru said:
funkyhuawei
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I don't think they support my device... That's their devices list

DeanNotDin said:
I don't think they support my device... That's their devices list
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Yours is uncommon one indeed. 90-99% P20 Pro out there is 6/128GB, yet you have 6/64

I talked to Huawei support in 3 countries.
They refuse to supply me with an unlock code and it looks like i'm stuck with this device

You probably got either a early test device or a fake one.
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It's the Chinese P20 Pro is normal to have 64GB...
I was in the same situation, same model of phone, two weeks ago but I had luck getting the unlock code the last day. When the unlocked bootloader I could debrand the phone following the guide in this forum. As they won't give the unlock code, your only option is funky or dc-unlocker when they support the phone. Also I found an indian guy that maybe could do it, his webpage is called ministry of solutions . But I don't know if it is reliable.
Good luck

gisbby said:
It's the Chinese P20 Pro is normal to have 64GB...
I was in the same situation, same model of phone, two weeks ago but I had luck getting the unlock code the last day. When the unlocked bootloader I could debrand the phone following the guide in this forum. As they won't give the unlock code, your only option is funky or dc-unlocker when they support the phone. Also I found an indian guy that maybe could do it, his webpage is called ministry of solutions . But I don't know if it is reliable.
Good luck
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Could you elaborate on how did you get the unlock code, and supply a link to the rebranding guide?

DeanNotDin said:
Could you elaborate on how did you get the unlock code, and supply a link to the rebranding guide?
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I got the code through the EMUI webpage (which doesn't work now because of Huawei's decission)
The link to guide is the following:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/hu...de-how-to-root-debrand-remove-retail-t3788326

Do you have any updates on your case so far???
How did it end?
Did you decide to learn chinese in the end or how did you resolve it??? *smile*
As far as i know theFunkyHuawei have that model listed as "CLT-AL01C00" or is this a different one??
THX

Huawei bootloader unlocking in general

I decided I would like to. Make a petition about terrible support for custom Rom community on Huawei devices. It's not the support itself, it is Huawei (how we all know) you know it sucks when you get an amazing deal on eBay for an p20 pro in this case and it turns out to be a demo model and you can't use it properly. Normally you as a member of the custom Rom community would unlock it and flahs latest official software on it, well not on a Huawei device, because they shut down their official unlock service quite some time ago, but I think this needs to stop. That's why I created a petition for unlocking Huawei phones officially (or whilst this isn't my goal, someone telling on how the read the code manually, but I prefer an official unlock)
[url]http://chng.it/NW5vbSJ8[/URL]
Yes, I published this once already but... It got removed I think... Never got an response

Why not just use the dload method to flash the last firmware? No need to unlock.

Huawei wants its own echosystem, unless locked bootloader affect its profit seriously, Huawei won't think bit of the choice at all. So I don't think Huawei would care about your petition.
And, after buying P20 Pro, I say thousands times of 'good bey' to Huawei.

nms247 said:
Why not just use the dload method to flash the last firmware? No need to unlock.
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What Dload method. SD card expansion isn't possible

@Some random
USB OTG

So sad p20 pro can't be BL unlocked...

titi66200 said:
@Some random
USB OTG
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Well gotta get a new adapter then

Yeah, I would try the dlaod method via USB OTG. Huawei is not going to unlock their bootloaders because of a petition. There are larger issues that motivate them to keep it locked.

Best petition, stop buying their bootloader locked devices.
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Limeybastard said:
Best petition, stop buying their bootloader locked devices.
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This. It's sad since Huawei makes beautiful Hardware, but vote with your wallet. I know my (BL unlocked) P20 Pro will be my last Huawei.

raph84 said:
This. It's sad since Huawei makes beautiful Hardware, but vote with your wallet. I know my (BL unlocked) P20 Pro will be my last Huawei.
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I agree. Great hardware.
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Why no ROMs for P30pro ?

Since i bought the P30pro the first what i made was take a look into XDA and searching for ROMs and Kernel Stuff, but what is the reason there is not only one Rom ? Is it the Fastboot Mode ?

Because Huawei doesn't allow us to unlock bootloaders. The worse company it's Huawei, too bad that they're making great devices, but customer support it's 0.

Huawei doesnt allow their bootloaders to be unlocked, they stopped giving out bootloader codes when they release EMUI 9

maybe because the chinese party doesn't want to lose the tracking code embedded in the official rom of Huawei devices

Many users waiting for a hack to do it.
Awesome device I love it all year's i use it already. One if the best phones i ever used.
But without custom stuff it feels always old :/
Maybe I have to learn coding and Hack the bootloader on my own

dferferfer said:
Many users waiting for a hack to do it.
Awesome device I love it all year's i use it already. One if the best phones i ever used.
But without custom stuff it feels always old :/
Maybe I have to learn coding and Hack the bootloader on my own
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There is a method to unlock P30 Pro bootloader now, you don't get a code to unlock but they have to connect to your pc and unlock it via special tools.

nizonrox said:
There is a method to unlock P30 Pro bootloader now, you don't get a code to unlock but they have to connect to your pc and unlock it via special tools.
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can you share it?

Yxles said:
can you share it?
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Huawei P30 Pro Bootloader Unlock Service VOG-L29/L09/L04/L0j/AL00
Now its possible to unlock bootloader of Huawei P30 Pro All variants are supported Only EMUI9.1 Supported
www.facebook.com
15$ paypal
Ministry of Solutions, I got in contact with them on whatsapp and they informed me i had to install team viewer and they would connect and do the rest pretty much. Just had to enable USB debugging and OEM unlock in dev settings.

nizonrox said:
Huawei P30 Pro Bootloader Unlock Service VOG-L29/L09/L04/L0j/AL00
Now its possible to unlock bootloader of Huawei P30 Pro All variants are supported Only EMUI9.1 Supported
www.facebook.com
15$ paypal
Ministry of Solutions, I got in contact with them on whatsapp and they informed me i had to install team viewer and they would connect and do the rest pretty much. Just had to enable USB debugging and OEM unlock in dev settings.
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I thought there's a new way for unlock bootloader for free lol but there's always been a paid bootloader unlocker

Любопитно след заветното отключване какво ще се случи, след като няма разработен ROM, който да замени фабричния.

Nothing new in this front?
That sux , cause its a amazing powerfull phone

oops

How to upgrade to HarmonyOS?

Yxles said:
I thought there's a new way for unlock bootloader for free lol but there's always been a paid bootloader unlocker
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is that serious?

J001A said:
Nothing new in this front?
That sux , cause its a amazing powerfull phone
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I've been shopping for a phone recently and can't find anything that compares to this device. Huawei is the best devices I've ever owned