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Problem with installing Nougat firmware and apps onto Huawei P9 EVA-L09. Please help!

Hi.
I'm just wondering if anybody can help me please?
I have a UK Huawei P9 EVA-L09 with Marshmallow currently on it (B166) build I think. It is unlocked and has TWRP 3.0.2.0 Recovery installed on it.
I would like to upgrade to Nougat 7.0 and EMUI 5.0, but most of my attempts have failed and I have had to use the rollback method to get back to Marshmallow.
I have tried to do it by flashing an Update.zip and subsequent EU_Apps package.zip through TWRP to no avail.
I have also tried the 'Dload' folder method, also to no avail. The closest I've gotten is to build no B378, but it shows up as NRD90M Test-Keys on the Build No in the phone settings instead and all apps such as camera, NFC, Bluetooth are missing / not working etc. Trying to then flash the EU_Apps package through 'Dload' method doesn't alleviate the problem of missing apps.
Does anybody have any tips for what I could try to get it onto a working Nougat build with apps please?
Also, if anybody has any links to any relevant firmware etc, then that would be very helpful too.
I'm pulling my hair our trying to get this to work. Surely it's can't be that hard can it??
Many thanks, Bill.

Is your phone branded? For a particular UK network I mean? And if so are you flashing ROMs for that network?
I don't know if that's the problem but I was on Vodafone UK B137 (which is Marshmallow) and flashed the 2 update zips for a Vodafone Nougat ROM thru TWRP and it was successful. I then flashed an updated zip using the "dload method" and that was successful too.
When you say you flashed the zips in TWRP "to no avail", what exactly was the end result?
Also might help if you give the full version of your starting ROM, and what zips you were trying to flash, ie full names and sources.
I'm kinda new to this device forum but seems like people get varying results with different flashing methods, for no particular reason either!
Peace.

chris5s said:
Is your phone branded? For a particular UK network I mean? And if so are you flashing ROMs for that network?
I don't know if that's the problem but I was on Vodafone UK B137 (which is Marshmallow) and flashed the 2 update zips for a Vodafone Nougat ROM thru TWRP and it was successful. I then flashed an updated zip using the "dload method" and that was successful too.
When you say you flashed the zips in TWRP "to no avail", what exactly was the end result?
Also might help if you give the full version of your starting ROM, and what zips you were trying to flash, ie full names and sources.
I'm kinda new to this device forum but seems like people get varying results with different flashing methods, for no particular reason either!
Peace.
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Hi. Thanks for your reply.
When I tried to flash .Zips through TWRP it kept coming up with errors and didn't flash them (something about being umnable to mount /System).
I was on EE UK, but found a method yesterday for debranding my phone and setting it to C432. I also managed to successfully flash C432B182 firmware on it.
I have since attempted to flash Nougat B360 using the 'Dload' method and now my phone keeps asking me to enter my password to decrypt storage. Multiple attempts to reset my phone and wipe cache partitian don't seem to be working. Do you have any idea how I can get around this?
It's so hard and it's so annoying how other people seem to be getting it right and mine is proving to be a swine. Makes me want to get rid of it to be honest and get something easier.
Thanks again, Bill.

I'm concerned that this may be bricked right now. No amount of using eRecovery to reset the phone will stop it from going onto the dreaded 'enter password to decrypt storage' screen! I will see if I can re flash it using Fastboot, but I'm a bit concerned right now...

I have an O2 Branded one. I'm too chicken to mess with it in case I brick it!
Just waiting for the official UK O2 OTA update to arrive &

tmohammad said:
I have an O2 Branded one. I'm too chicken to mess with it in case I brick it!
Just waiting for the official UK O2 OTA update to arrive &
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Probably advisable unless you absolutely know what you're doing and don't mind taking the risk. I'm a bit annoyed with Huawei and my carrier, they are always so slow with providing updates and Hmui 5.0 is only what Hmui 4.0 should have been in the first place. I'm done with these manufacturer's stupid over bloated overlays and will be going to an official Google phone in future!

If you can get it into fastboot mode, flash TWRP, then you should be able to progress from there, hopefully by at least formatting data to get rid of the encryption! Sounds like.a royal pita tho to be honest.
When I flashed to Nougat from MM using TWRP I got a bunch of error messages too, but it (eventually) booted up ok....

chris5s said:
If you can get it into fastboot mode, flash TWRP, then you should be able to progress from there, hopefully by at least formatting data to get rid of the encryption! Sounds like.a royal pita tho to be honest.
When I flashed to Nougat from MM using TWRP I got a bunch of error messages too, but it (eventually) booted up ok....
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Hi again all.
Success! I finally managed to crack it.
I downloaded MM Firmware version C432B136 and used Huawei Extractor to extract the Boot.img, Recovery.img and System.img files and was able to boot into Fastboot mode fortunately. I used a Command Prompt to unlock the Bootloader again and flashed each .img file in line.
The phone booted up into the B136 firmware and I was then able to update OTA to B166, but not B182 strangely. So I downloaded a B182 version firmware and placed it in the 'dload' folder of the phone's S.D Card, before forcibly flashing it by holding volume up, volume down and the power button on boot up.
I subsequently used the below link, which showed me how to use Huawei Updater and HiSuite to update to B361 firmware.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70594380&postcount=2
Once on Nougat B361 firmware, my phone's update setting prompted me to update to the latest B378 firmware OTA.
Finally, to achieve Root status I followed the below guide and am now running root with SuperUser and BusyBox installed. I'm happy to report that both Nougat 7.0 and HMUI 5.0 are running smoothly on my phone and all features are working (i.e. Bluetooth, Camera and NFC) and performance and battery life are all noticeably better than ever.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70927601&postcount=456
Be aware that my phone is EVA-L09, so I followed all guides and downloaded all firmware that related to my specific phone model.
Phew! Thanks for all of your help and good luck to those who are attempting to get this working.
Bill.

b329 update and no music app

Hi everybody) A few days ago i updated my branded(vodafone) mate s to CRR-L09C02B329(MM) version, during update i had a fail message and when I restart the phone I found out that the update was installed successfully, but there music app was not installed so now I can't open mp3 files on my Mate S.. If someone else have had the same issue, how you solve it? Can I make downgrade the phone to my stock android 5.1 version by downloading the firmware from officila hghuawei site? I know that I cant flash c432 versions because it's not vodafone... Maby someone has the vodafone 5.1 firmware in this case, I would ask you to share the link with me) Thanks in advance for all xda audience))

Do a hard reset to see if this solves the problem. To find all the available roms for your version download the app firmware finder from play store.
For rollback to 5.1 see here https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=66710428
For a collection informs see also here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=66133801
Sent from my Huawei Mate S using Tapatalk

Thanks zan. for your replay) I have already tried a hard reset procedure) but it didn't help, seems that this two apps were not installed... Yeeh, I've seen in official huawei site the role back firmware but it's c900 and I'm not sure if I can flash this over c02 vodafone firmware..

Julik95 said:
Thanks zan. for your replay) I have already tried a hard reset procedure) but it didn't help, seems that this two apps were not installed... Yeeh, I've seen in official huawei site the role back firmware but it's c900 and I'm not sure if I can flash this over c02 vodafone firmware..
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C900 is global firmware and the procedure is the same for all versions. You can flash this and then flash a 5.1 rom with C02. The file has instructions on how to do the rollback.
Sent from my Huawei Mate S using Tapatalk

zan. Thanks for your help) Probably I will do this procedure but wanted to ask you: I found a full (and not OTA) verssion of the same firmware wich I have now CRR-L09C02B329(MM) Can I restart update procedure by dload? Maby the full firmware will fix that bugs..

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zan. Thanks for your help) Probably I will do this procedure but wanted to ask you: I found a full (and not OTA) verssion of the same firmware wich I have now CRR-L09C02B329(MM) Can I restart update procedure by dload? Maby the full firmware will fix that bugs..
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Yes, you can. Probably this will solve the problem. I suggest you to use the installation method with the three buttons so that to do a clean install. Note that with this method you will lose your data, so make a back-up.
Sent from my Huawei Mate S using Tapatalk

I have just tried to reinstall the same version update, but it does nothing... It finishes in less than a minute I found all thisngs just like they were before))

Julik95 said:
I have just tried to reinstall the same version update, but it does nothing... It finishes in less than a minute I found all thisngs just like they were before))
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What is the size of the rom file? Did you use the method with the 3 buttons?
Sent from my Huawei Mate S using Tapatalk

So the firmware size was 3Gb, yes I have already tried two procedures with three buttons and from menu by by digitting code #*#*2846579#*#* and selecting software update but nothing changes, yesterday I also looked for lollipop vodafone version, but I could not find anything.. I thought about flash role back c900 from official site and then retry to flash the same Marshmallow version... Can I do that?

Julik95 said:
So the firmware size was 3Gb, yes I have already tried two procedures with three buttons and from menu by by digitting code #*#*2846579#*#* and selecting software update but nothing changes, yesterday I also looked for lollipop vodafone version, but I could not find anything.. I thought about flash role back c900 from official site and then retry to flash the same Marshmallow version... Can I do that?
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Download the app firmware finder from play store to see all the available roms for your version.
Sent from my Huawei Mate S using Tapatalk

I have already seen all roms of firmware finder but there are all OTA versions, and only c02b329 (which is my current version) is FULL. Is it illegal to flash current version over c900?
I have tried to install rollback and then once again c02b329... But after install rollback I didn't have c900b300 as axpected, but still have c02b329 and then reflash same version has no effect) But yesterday I found c02b110 which is an official firmware(lollipop) of vodafone, (if somebody else would need this firmware I will share a link) Can I try to flash this lollipop version just over my current firmware?
Thanks for all your replaies
C02B110 Vodafone: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t6ppevxie..._Firmware_VDF_Android 5.1.1_EMUI 3.1.zip?dl=0

Hi everybody here)) Finaly I installed c432b321 which i found at huawei site. All finished with success, I updated throught dload folder. Finaly i have music app:angel::angel: But now my version is C900B321 and not C432B321 as expected.. Someone knows how to pass from C900 to C432?
Thanks fo all)

[Help needed!] L09C635B361 can't update via either OTA or TWRP.

Hi guys, I am only a very junior user who randomly flash his phone but most of the time I want my phone to be stable for work. I have had the situation since the recent OTA available, suffered a lot, would like to seek any help or advice.
I have a L09C635B361, Japan version. I updated to Android 7 via OTA, then unlocked / rooted under the instructions in this forum, forgot which exact thread though. Never thought of flashing any customized rom so I haven't realized the update problem until the recent OTA update (from B361 to B382) released. I got the push, downloaded B382 OTA package, restart to TWRP, then the flash was failed in TWRP screen. Restart again, the system notified there was a recent update failure. Then I installed Firmware Finder, downloaded the 3 update zip files, restart back to TWRP, still failed installing. Please refer to the failure screenshot for detailed reson. I have no idea what it said and how I should do differently.
No other way to go, I backed up my system, then wiped my phone, reset to factory mode, but brand new system was very strange: only voice input, no keyboard, missing several key functions such as camera. So I have to restore to my previous system, everything worked well except I can't open "clock".
Right now I am looking at system notification of B382 all the time, but I can't figure out how to get it updated, I don't mind if there's a way enables me go back to stock rom, but it's really hard to find the stock firmware for C635......
Thanks, appreciate your help in advance.

Hey man, try follow this guide to debrand your phone (get onto C432). It will probably unroot you and get you back to stock firmware as well.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/how-to/guide-debranding-to-c432-updating-to-t3551523
Might want to check around first though, I dont want you bricking your phone on my account.
Good luck

xMrTROLLIPOPx said:
Hey man, try follow this guide to debrand your phone (get onto C432). It will probably unroot you and get you back to stock firmware as well.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p9/how-to/guide-debranding-to-c432-updating-to-t3551523
Might want to check around first though, I dont want you bricking your phone on my account.
Good luck
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Thanks bro. I will try the entire process when I have a backup phone.

One more thing is when I first tried to wipe phone, failed for several times. Plus the TWRP flashing error, I have suspect that there's something wrong with my partition information or format error. Can anyone help me to eliminate the possibility by the screenshot please?

On the other hand, I found 3 zip files on Firmware for same version update. Which one should I flash? If I need to flash all of the 3, is there a sequence?

The screenshot for the 3 zip files.

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The screenshot for the 3 zip files.
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You flash those in the order they appear. Except the last one, don't flash that (I think). From what I know it's always been update.zip and then update_hw.zip.
I see you're going to flash hw_jp which is the Japanese cust, so ignore the advice above about debranding to c432 as that's essentially the same thing as what you are about to do with those files. (C432 is the European version, which is called update_hw_eu.zip)
Also the voice input only bug is well known. You need to rollback to marshmallow (I forget which firmware but there's a thread on it here somewhere) and then OTA back to nougat and it should fix it.

lostunsunghero said:
You flash those in the order they appear. Except the last one, don't flash that (I think). From what I know it's always been update.zip and then update_hw.zip.
I see you're going to flash hw_jp which is the Japanese cust, so ignore the advice above about debranding to c432 as that's essentially the same thing as what you are about to do with those files. (C432 is the European version, which is called update_hw_eu.zip)
Also the voice input only bug is well known. You need to rollback to marshmallow (I forget which firmware but there's a thread on it here somewhere) and then OTA back to nougat and it should fix it.
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Well, it ended up with paying 20USD to some "pro"s on taobao.com to unbrick my P9...sigh...am I too old to do this :crying:

Bluetooth not working

I'm using a rooted huawei p9 Eva l19 on b390 stock firmware. Unfortunately she is sick and her Bluetooth is not working. I read on the net that clearing the cache of the Bluetooth app would help but I can't find the app in settings.
Any suggestions
Pls reply

Hmm, i am on the same boat.
Will watch your thread too, hope someone will have a solution.

rwa66 said:
Hmm, i am on the same boat.
Will watch your thread too, hope someone will have a solution.
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Well seems like no one is wanting to help :crying:

Rollback to Marshmallow & Again update to Nougat

Great, thanks Rafa Mistry!
I tried to go back to B182, that's Marshallow, failed at 5%.
But I searched a bit and i think we can use the procedure suggested here, Abhisht009.
I don't have the time to try right now, but i will do it tomorrow night, let's hope we will have good working phones soon again.

If you need back to Android use rom from Huawei website and download Android 6 than use method 3 buttons

rwa66 said:
Great, thanks Rafa Mistry!
I tried to go back to B182, that's Marshallow, failed at 5%.
But I searched a bit and i think we can use the procedure suggested here, Abhisht009.
I don't have the time to try right now, but i will do it tomorrow night, let's hope we will have good working phones soon again.
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I dont have time right now to do this but I know how to
You must first download the rollback package for your p9 model from the huawei website
Then download an older version of marshmallow (not B182, use an older one)
First install the stock recovery
Flash the doll back package using dload
Boot up
Flash the marshmallow firmware
Done
You should probably remove the fingerprints before
Tell me if it works

After trying loads of older MM firmwares, which all gave me compatibility errors, i ended up flashing mOOnlight ROM.
Bluetooth is working, all is good now.

Huawei p9 l19 firmware

Hi all, i have problem with my p9 l19c432 eu version. I had l19 c432b386 android n and i wanted to go bac to mm. My device doesn't have root or unlocked bootloader or custom twrp. I have all stock.
Tried to go back to mm dload method
1. Rollback package c900b300
2. Full firmware
I did step 1 and instalation was successful 100% but now when i go to about phone my android version is 5.0 NRD90M test keys, not c900b300.
I didn't try to do step 2. because i don't know so much about nrd90m.
Maybe my rollback package is not good, is there difference about rollback package for l19 and l09?
Can anyone help me with my problem? Thank you very much

Kovacc56 said:
Hi all, i have problem with my p9 l19c432 eu version. I had l19 c432b386 android n and i wanted to go bac to mm. My device doesn't have root or unlocked bootloader or custom twrp. I have all stock.
Tried to go back to mm dload method
1. Rollback package c900b300
2. Full firmware
I did step 1 and instalation was successful 100% but now when i go to about phone my android version is 5.0 NRD90M test keys, not c900b300.
I didn't try to do step 2. because i don't know so much about nrd90m.
Maybe my rollback package is not good, is there difference about rollback package for l19 and l09?
Can anyone help me with my problem? Thank you very much
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That is the correct rollback. You just need to download and flash your stock Marshmallow firmware. In my case (eva-l29c636) it was B191. I had the exact same test keys in "about phone" , so just go ahead with step 2.

brookie229 said:
That is the correct rollback. You just need to download and flash your stock Marshmallow firmware. In my case (eva-l29c636) it was B191. I had the exact same test keys in "about phone" , so just go ahead with step 2.
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Thanks for your help. I was suspicious because it's not c900b300 after rollback package, it's ''NRD90m test keys'' and i didn't know can i flash full firmware when build number is nrd90m, so i stoped there. I will try to flash full firmware tomorrow.
Do i need to factory reset now or enable OEM in developer options before flashing full firmware or maybe flash rollback package again and maybe then i will get c900b300?
Thanks

Kovacc56 said:
Thanks for your help. I was suspicious because it's not c900b300 after rollback package, it's ''NRD90m test keys'' and i didn't know can i flash full firmware when build number is nrd90m, so i stoped there. I will try to flash full firmware tomorrow.
Do i need to factory reset now or enable OEM in developer options before flashing full firmware or maybe flash rollback package again and maybe then i will get c900b300?
Thanks
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No, you don't need to factory reset or anything---just flash your correct M firmware.

brookie229 said:
No, you don't need to factory reset or anything---just flash your correct M firmware.
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I will try. But before that i must ask, do i need to install something more, because many people have problem as i can see on forum with missing apps like camera, keyboard, calculator..??
One more thing, do rollback will erase my personal data and aplications? And when? I asking because when i flashed rollback package, after that my data and aplicafions was still there. Maybe it will erase after flashing full firmware?
Thanks for answer

Kovacc56 said:
I will try. But before that i must ask, do i need to install something more, because many people have problem as i can see on forum with missing apps like camera, keyboard, calculator..??
One more thing, do rollback will erase my personal data and aplications? And when? I asking because when i flashed rollback package, after that my data and aplicafions was still there. Maybe it will erase after flashing full firmware?
Thanks for answer
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Yes, your data and apps will be gone. When you flash your M firmware it's going to make everything new as if you just opened the box. Sorry if you did not know that. I don't think there is any way to avoid that. I was just setting my device up and noticed an OTA update to B386 Nougat which I successfully updated to BUT then I found out that my P9 will not work on Nougat. I cannot scroll at all with it so I had to find the rollback firmware. I flashed it then immediately after that I flashed B191 Marshmallow and all is well. Nothing else. As I said, you will, however, lose all your data and I don't know if a backup can restore it for you.

brookie229 said:
Yes, your data and apps will be gone. When you flash your M firmware it's going to make everything new as if you just opened the box. Sorry if you did not know that. I don't think there is any way to avoid that. I was just setting my device up and noticed an OTA update to B386 Nougat which I successfully updated to BUT then I found out that my P9 will not work on Nougat. I cannot scroll at all with it so I had to find the rollback firmware. I flashed it then immediately after that I flashed B191 Marshmallow and all is well. Nothing else. As I said, you will, however, lose all your data and I don't know if a backup can restore it for you.
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Hey friend, i just install full mm firmware and everything is good now, i don`t have nrd90mtest keys, i have now l19c432b182, i found on huawei site for l09 they have rollback package and full firmware b182 so i found for l19. I think good firmware is the key of rollback, and b182 is the best for it. Thanks so much for your help!
I have only one problem, i can`t change themes. I can see themes and when i click apply it, it is successful but it didn`t change. Did you have that problem too?
Thanks again so much

Kovacc56 said:
Hey friend, i just install full mm firmware and everything is good now, i don`t have nrd90mtest keys, i have now l19c432b182, i found on huawei site for l09 they have rollback package and full firmware b182 so i found for l19. I think good firmware is the key of rollback, and b182 is the best for it. Thanks so much for your help!
I have only one problem, i can`t change themes. I can see themes and when i click apply it, it is successful but it didn`t change. Did you have that problem too?
Thanks again so much
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Happy that it worked out for you. I have an icon on my desktop called "Themes", but when I tap on it there is nothing. I just assumed that was something that you would have to download and install from a Huawei website or get from a 3rd party app. Anyway, it does not concern me as I only care about throwing a pic on for my desktop. What really annoys me is that I cannot run Nougat on my P9
Anyway, good that you have it running again. I am on B191 and it looks like that will be all I can do.

update to emui 5
Hi everyone My current version is EMUI 4.1 and Android 6.0, I have not received an update for Android 7
The mechanic version currently is EVA-C900B136
How do I update to the latest version?
Thanks

brookie229 said:
Happy that it worked out for you. I have an icon on my desktop called "Themes", but when I tap on it there is nothing. I just assumed that was something that you would have to download and install from a Huawei website or get from a 3rd party app. Anyway, it does not concern me as I only care about throwing a pic on for my desktop. What really annoys me is that I cannot run Nougat on my P9
Anyway, good that you have it running again. I am on B191 and it looks like that will be all I can do.
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I don`t know why is it like that, like some data folders missing from system. Old icons and theme problem, idk how to solve that.
You can see my screenshot of it, rly weird.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/album.php?albumid=14536&pictureid=56441
Can you see my image?
Maybe it`s better for you my friend, emui 5 have great design and everything i must say but battery life is better on mm, bcs of it i rollback to mm. But i don`t know why u can`t get official uograde. When i rollback to mm b182 i got instant upgrade to emui 5. Maybe your version of mm is not good bcs when i had emui4.1.3 i got upgrade to b386 and now when i have 4.1.1 i got upgrade to b383. Maybe you can try to install another version of mm.

adi128 said:
Hi everyone My current version is EMUI 4.1 and Android 6.0, I have not received an update for Android 7
The mechanic version currently is EVA-C900B136
How do I update to the latest version?
Thanks
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You can update with firmware finder app on playsore, search on forum, you will find tutorial for it.
Or with 3 buttons combination and dload if you can find update, or with twrp if you have it and you will need update file too. Just search on forum tutorial for it and CORRECT update for your phone, single or dual sim whatever you have and with c900 bcs u have global version.