Custom ROMs for Huawei Honor 8 Pro: Huawei Honor 8 Pro is the budget friendly smartphone with a sleek design, powerful specifications which perform like the top tier Android smartphone. Huawei Honor 8 Pro is packed with a 5.7-inch Gorilla Glass Scratch Resistant display with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels at 428 PPI and 6GB of RAM with HiSilicon Kirin 960 chipset and Non-removable Li-po 4000 mAh battery.
What is ROM and Custom ROM?
ROM stands for read-only-memory. A custom ROM will change the Android operating system with a new firmware. Most of the people flash a custom ROM on their device for better performance, better battery life, different features, more stable and faster ROM and to remove the bloatware stock applications put on the operating system by Huawei.
For flashing a custom ROM on Huawei Honor 8 Pro your device must have been installed a custom recovery. In this post, we’ll tell you all the steps in easy words. Below you can find the download links of Custom ROMs for Huawei Honor 8 Pro with XDA developer page. Read and proceed carefully:
Note:
- Follow the steps correctly, and at your own risk, you may brick your device. We are not responsible for any problem or damage of your device.
- Unlocked Bootloader, TWRP Recovery Required
- Custom ROM flash process will erase all data from the device, take a complete backup of your phone and then proceed.
- Make sure your device has at least 50-60% charged to prevent the accidental shutdown in-between the process.
Downloads
Resurrection Remix for Honor 8 Pro (Android 7.1.2) | vendor.zip – XDA
LineageOS for Honor 8 Pro [Android 7.1.2] | vendor.zip – XDA
Paranoid Android for Honor 8 Pro (Android 7.1.2) – XDA
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Note: Do refer XDA links for more details and features
Steps to Install Custom ROMs for Huawei Honor 8 Pro
- Reboot your device into TWRP Recovery.
- Switch off your device.
- Press and hold “Volume down + Power” buttons until you see anything on the screen.
- Now in the TWRP main menu, Click on Wipe and swipe to factory reset on the bottom of the screen.
- Download and Install ADB drivers on your PC.
- Download the vendor.img.tar file and save the file in ADB folder (In C: Drive).
- Go to ADB folder (In C: Drive) and then press “Shift + Right mouse key” and tap on “Open command window here.”
- Now connect your device to the PC using a USB data cable.
- Boot your device into “bootloader” mode and give the following command reboot bootloader
adb reboot bootloader
- Now to flash vendor.img on the device type the following command.
adb shell dd if=/external_sd/vendor.img of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/vendor_a
- Download custom ROM for Honor 9 and Gapps from above link.
- Transfer both file into your device.
- Reboot your device into TWRP Recovery.
- Switch off your device.
- Press and hold “Volume down + Power” buttons until you see anything on the screen.
- In TWRP main menu, tap on install and select the custom ROM zip file which you have saved in your device.
- After selecting the custom ROM zip file, do swipe to confirm flash to begin the installation process.
- Once the installation process is completed, You will see Wipe cache/Dalvik option, tap on it and Swipe to wipe.
- Done!!!
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