How To Install TWRP On Huawei Honor 8 Then Root It

Here you will learn to install TWRP on Huawei Honor 8 and root Huawei Honor 8 device. If you want to have more abilities that are impossibly provided on the default Honor 8 then you are advised to install TWRP recovery then root your Honor 8 to further flashing all the great root apps, mods and kernels.

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Preconditions.

• You already unlocked your Huawei Honor 8 bootloader. Learn to unlock any Huawei bootloader. Good.
• download TWRP and SuperSU to your device SD card.
• Then enable USB debugging mode.
• Already installed ADB & Fastboot drivers on your computer.
• Make backup now.

How to install TWRP recovery on Huawei Honor 8

1. On your computer, head to the folder where you downloaded ADB tools.
2. Now connect your computer to Huawei Honor 8 using a USB cable.
3. Inside the folder, press and hold Shift + Right Click on your mouse then select Open Command Prompt Window / CMOD.
4. You need to type the adb devices -- grant permission on your device then choose the box to always allow debugging from computer.
5. Now reboot your device to fastboot mode, by typing the adb reboot bootloader command line.
   
   
6. Now confirm to have a connection to PC, type fastboot device.
   
   
7. Now copy the TWRP.img then paste it to the ADB folder where the CMOD is opened.
8. Now type the fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-frd-modaco-rc1.img. The flashing processes will begin, just wait now, guys.
   
   
9. Now normally reboot your device.
10. Once your device's booted up, then launch the CMD again inside the ADB folder, then execute this command; adb reboot recovery.
    
    
11. Your device will reboot into the TWRP recovery mode.
12. Never change the permission to the read/write, instead set it into the read only, then do a backup.
13. Now make a backup inside the TWRP by choosing backup on the TWRP main menu.
    
    
14. Now check all the boxes there, continue your step with swiping to create a backup.
    
    
15. Once you have done that, enable read/write now.
16. You can do it by heading to mount, then uncheck the box that says mount system partition to read only.
    
    

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How to root Huawei Honor 8 via TWRP

1. Now you need to install the SuperSU file you downloaded earlier.
2. On the TWRP main menu, choose Install button, then find the SuperSU file you stored on your device.
   
   
3. Then choose the file.
4. The installation processes will start.
5. Once done, you need to reboot your device, using the Reboot System Now option.

Learn to install SuperSU via TWRP recovery to root any Android device.

Well done my friend now your Huawei Honor 8 is powered with TWRP recovery and rooted.