Guide How to Unlock Bootloader, Root, and Install TWRP on Android Huawei Mate 8

Guide How to Unlock Bootloader, Root, and Install TWRP on Android Huawei Mate 8.

Unlock Bootloader, Root, and Install TWRP Huawei Mate 8. This guide will show you how to Unlock Bootloader, Root, and Install TWRP on Android Huawei Mate 8. If you need this information you can continue to read this article, please read this carefully to apply this guide on your Huawei Mate 8 device. For some Android devices, the bootloader is present in a locked state. So you can't do a lot of things to explore these devices. If you unlock the bootloader on your Huawei Mate 8 device it will allow you to put custom ROMs on your device. But, once again this statement is not always true.

Huawei Mate 8 Smartphone also known as Huawei Ascend Mate8. Huawei Mate 8 is the smartphone with 6.0 Inchi IPS-NEO LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, work on Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow) and supported with Quad-core 2.3 GHz Cortex-A72 + quad-core 1.8 GHz Cortex A53 Processor, chipset HiSilicon Kirin 950, GPU Mali-T880 MP4. combined with 3 GB of RAM and 16 MP on Primary camera and 8 MP on secondary camera. This Huawei Mate 8 is released on 2015, November.

Below, we will show how to Unlock Bootloader on Huawei Mate 8. read this guide carefully and take your own risk.

Unlock Bootloader Huawei Mate 8.

There is two method that available to unlock the bootloader on Android Huawei Mate 8, You can choose which method will be used to unlock the bootloader on your device. One of the methods used is free, whereas other methods you have to spend a few dollars to pay for it.

  1. First Method. Unlock Huawei Mate 8 bootloader for free.
    • To use this first method you must create a Huawei ID on your device and stay signed in for fourteen days and go then online to unlock your bootloader and it should work on the website. Visit this website here
      http://click.xda-developers.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_145995276590113&key=f0a7f91912ae2b52e0700f73990eb321&libId=imo40p4i01000n4o000DA120hok0bho3vk&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fmate-8%2Fgeneral%2Fguide-unlock-bootloader-root-install-t3301371&v=1&out=https%3A%2F%2Funiportal.huawei.com%2Faccounts%2Fregister.do%3Fmethod%3DtoRegister&title=%5BGUIDE%5D%20Unlock%20Bootloader%2C%20Root%2C%20Install%20TWR%E2%80%A6%20%7C%20Huawei%20Mate%208&txt=https%3A%2F%2Funiportal.huawei.com%2Faccount...hod%3DtoRegister
  2. Second Method. Unlock Huawei Mate 8 Bootloader, Paid.
    • If you are willing to spend a few dollars ($4-$5), you can immediately unlock bootloader your Huawei Mate 8. You can then visit this link, on this website provide you the Unlocking code for your Huawei Mate 8 device.
    • http://click.xda-developers.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_145990911034214&key=f0a7f91912ae2b52e0700f73990eb321&libId=imo7mx8o01000n4o000DA13hjxduqro378&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fmate-8%2Fgeneral%2Fguide-unlock-bootloader-root-install-t3301371&v=1&out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dc-unlocker.com%2Fbuy&title=%5BGUIDE%5D%20Unlock%20Bootloader%2C%20Root%2C%20Install%20TWR%E2%80%A6%20%7C%20Huawei%20Mate%208&txt=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dc-unlocker.com%2Fbuy
    • How it's work?
      • First, you must download and install minimal ADB, see here for more instruction.
        http://guidebelajar.blogspot.com/2015/12/guide-to-install-android-sdk-adb-on-windows-computer.html
        or you can download minimal ADB here.
      • https://goo.gl/hgJXYc
      • First, you must Download the DC Unlocker Software.
      • Then, On their site, you can buy 4 credits. Prefer PayPal for this payment.you will spend for $5 USD for it.
      • On the next step, you can follow all instruction provide on this site. Then you can Choose “Read Bootloader Code” in DC-Unlocker to get your bootloader code. 
      • Now, put your Huawei Mate 8 into bootloader mode, how to do it?
        • Switch off your device. 
        • Then press & hold power button and volume down.
        • While connecting your Huawei Mate 8 to the computer.
      • If you download minimal ADB, now extract the Minimal ADB zip file using any extracting tool like WinRAR or 7zip. Run command.bat file & type the below command.
        • fastboot oem unlock xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      • Please note that xxxxxxx is your bootloader unlock code you got from DC Unlocker program.
      • If this is done, now you have successfully unlocked the bootloader on your Huawei Mate 8.

Guide to Install TWRP Recovery on Android Huawei Mate 8.

Once you have finished unlocked bootloader on Android Huawei Mate 8, you can be continued to Install TWRP Recovery on this device. follow this step below to install TWRO Recovery on Huawei Mate 8.

  1. At the first step, you must download TWRP recovery from here
  2. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2I5z1mFfUpcZXBJWHVvYlpKdHM/view?usp=sharing
  3. Now, put the downloaded TWRP image file in the Minimal ADB extracted folder. Rename the recovery image file to “twrp.img”
  4. https://goo.gl/hgJXYc
  5. Then put your Huawei Mate 8 into bootloader mode, how to do it?
    • Switch off your device. 
    • Then press & hold power button and volume down.
    • While connecting your Huawei Mate 8 to the computer.
  6. Now, type the below command to flash the recovery image.
    • fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
  7. Then type this at the command prompt.
    • fastboot reboot
  8. When your phone reboots shut it back down and then hold volume up and power until it turns on and keep holding volume up until the phone boots into TWRP recovery.

Guide to Root Android Huawei Mate 8.

To gain root access on Huawei Mate 8, you must follow the above procedure. TWRP recovery must be installed on your Huawei Mate 8 device. Now, follow this guide to Root Android Huawei Mate 8. On this guide doesn't require a computer or PC.
  1. Download SuperSU here 
  2. http://click.xda-developers.com/api/click?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_145991214658521&key=f0a7f91912ae2b52e0700f73990eb321&libId=imo7mx8o01000n4o000DA13hjxduqro378&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fmate-8%2Fgeneral%2Fguide-unlock-bootloader-root-install-t3301371&v=1&out=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F0B5I_q70mNuR4OWlXeTJuTjdoS0k%2Fview%3Fusp%3Dsharing&title=%5BGUIDE%5D%20Unlock%20Bootloader%2C%20Root%2C%20Install%20TWR%E2%80%A6%20%7C%20Huawei%20Mate%208&txt=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F0B5I...ew%3Fusp%3Dsharing
  3. Then, Transfer the SuperSU zip file to your Internal phone storage.
  4. Now Put your Huawei Mate 8 into bootloader mode, how to do it?
    • Switch off your device. 
    • Then press & hold power button and volume down.
  5. Once you enter the Recovery Mode, now select install.
    twrp recovery
    twrp recovery
  6. Then, select install from SD card and choose UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip.
  7. Once, installation was done you can reboot your device.
  8. To verify root status,  you can download Root Checker app from Playstore.
  9. Finish, enjoy it.