Guide for porting any of the 5c models or p9 lite roms onto your 5c - Honor 5C ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Develo

Hi all,
Just thought i share a little something i came across from playing about with the phone, I found you can flash any of the ROMs that the HiSilicon Kirin 650 chip set uses. Currently only two phones (5c and P9 lite)
First off you'll need the huawei update extractor http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433454 and the ROM from the model of phone you want to flash.
Use the update extractor to extract the boot.img and system.img file from the update.app file, then just flash the files on you phone (fastboot flash boot boot.img and fastboot flash system system.img)
Currently im using a stripped down P9 lite VNS L31 B130 ROM with GAPPS on a honor 5c nem-ul10 chinese phone. Working pretty good, seems fast and smooth. Battery life is not better or worse. Everything seems to be working fine.
Post any questions and i'll try to answer
Cheers
Paul

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Liffeyman said:
Hi all,
Just thought i share a little something i came across from playing about with the phone, I found you can flash any of the ROMs that the HiSilicon Kirin 650 chip set uses. Currently only two phones (5c and P9 lite)
First off you'll need the huawei update extractor http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433454 and the ROM from the model of phone you want to flash.
Use the update extractor to extract the boot.img and system.img file from the update.app file, then just flash the files on you phone (fastboot flash boot boot.img and fastboot flash system system.img)
Currently im using a stripped down P9 lite VNS L31 B130 ROM with GAPPS on a honor 5c nem-ul10 chinese phone. Working pretty good, seems fast and smooth. Battery life is not better or worse. Everything seems to be working fine.
Post any questions and i'll try to answer
Cheers
Paul
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Could you post the rom here..and does it support the fingerprint

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How did you do that

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PalakMi said:
How did you do that
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First off you need fastboot tools installed and the Huawei Update Extractor downloaded http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433454
Download b131 p9 lite rom http://update.hicloud.com:8180/TDS/data/files/p3/s15/G1164/g104/v53991/f1/full/update.zip. There is a later ROM for the p9 lite (b151) but the finger print sensor doesn't work with this ROM
Use the extractor to extract the boot.img and system.img files.
Use trwp to complete backup of phone to the micro SD card. Use trwp and select advanced wipe, wipe everything except the micro SD
Reboot to bootloader
Open command prompt from the folder you have extracted the boot and system images, type the following commands
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot
If you have the 5c chinese phone this rom is great, much more stock feel.
If like me you are having issues with the POB trwp, use the trwp made for the p9 lite
Any question let us know

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Great, no questions now so far

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Can I port a P9 Lite Rom to an european Honor 5c (without finger print sensor and NFC) ??

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minisaurio said:
Can I port a P9 Lite Rom to an european Honor 5c (without finger print sensor and NFC) ??
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Not sure, don't have the european phone. Once you have a complete backup to revert to, you can't really do much harm testing

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has anyone figured out, if this works for european copies of the phone as well?
and if yes, is there a chance to run the CM ROM from Meticulus?
i'd really love to see CM on my phone

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Thx nice work

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johdost said:
has anyone figured out, if this works for european copies of the phone as well?
and if yes, is there a chance to run the CM ROM from Meticulus?
i'd really love to see CM on my phone
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Yes, I've got the beta build of CM running on my european 5C - you need to follow the install instructions carefully, and there's a couple of extra steps for the 5C - you need to change the install script as described in this post to get it to install (this goes for the TWRP install too):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69989870&postcount=225
Once you've booted up, to get the camera to work you need to follow the instructions in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69990309&postcount=226
I've added the camera fix to a boot script so that I don't need to do it after every reboot. Once you've done that the ROM is working brilliantly (though with the same small issues the P9-lite users are having).

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Malcolm52 said:
Yes, I've got the beta build of CM running on my european 5C - you need to follow the install instructions carefully, and there's a couple of extra steps for the 5C - you need to change the install script as described in this post to get it to install (this goes for the TWRP install too):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69989870&postcount=225
Once you've booted up, to get the camera to work you need to follow the instructions in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69990309&postcount=226
I've added the camera fix to a boot script so that I don't need to do it after every reboot. Once you've done that the ROM is working brilliantly (though with the same small issues the P9-lite users are having).
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Have tried the following from an adb shell, but the camera still doesn't work. It doesn't give the error about not been able to connect, it just hangs and displays nothing.
How did you go about adding the fix to the boot script?
Thanks
Paul

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Here's the script I used, there may have been a typo in Meticulous' original:
#!/system/bin/sh
stop HwCamCfgSvr
HwCamCfgSvr hi6250 NEMO &
restart media
If you put those 4 lines in a file called:
/system/etc/init.d/99camerafix
Then make sure it's executable (chmod +x /system/etc/init.d/99camerafix) it should run on startup.

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Malcolm52 said:
Here's the script I used, there may have been a typo in Meticulous' original:
#!/system/bin/sh
stop HwCamCfgSvr
HwCamCfgSvr hi6250 NEMO &
restart media
If you put those 4 lines in a file called:
/system/etc/init.d/99camerafix
Then make sure it's executable (chmod +x /system/etc/init.d/99camerafix) it should run on startup.
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Should i name the file 99camerafix.sh or just 99camerafix?
Thanks again
Paul

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Liffeyman said:
Should i name the file 99camerafix.sh or just 99camerafix?
Thanks again
Paul
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Not sure it matters, but I created it without the .sh

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Malcolm52 said:
Not sure it matters, but I created it without the .sh
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Cool, im using the app solid explorer to give the file permissions. I gave it 777, were i think it should be 775. Let me try again.
Just out of curiosity, did you dirty flash the CM over an earlier version? Just reading some of the posts over on the p9 forms. Users are reporting a smoother rom when dirty flashing
Thanks
Paul

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Liffeyman said:
Cool, im using the app solid explorer to give the file permissions. I gave it 777, were i think it should be 775. Let me try again.
Just out of curiosity, did you dirty flash the CM over an earlier version? Just reading some of the posts over on the p9 forms. Users are reporting a smoother rom when dirty flashing
Thanks
Paul
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No, beta was the first build I tried. Nice and smooth for me, except when night mode is on or occasionally when balanced battery mode is selected - but performance battery mode seems to have reasonable battery life so I'm using that for now.

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solved problem already, had some troubles packing the zip together again (mac issues...)
it works fine on my phone now (including camera) thanks a lot for the help!

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With a little help.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-5c/help/dev-info-support-honor-5c-cm-13-builds-t3517159

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Thanks @Liffeyman.
Gonna try installing ur twrp backup of the p9-lite rom (stripped down of bloat + xtra app goodies). My model is the honor 5c Nem-l51. It's the uk 2gb ram/16gb storage without fingerprint sensor. I realize yours was the Chinese model so I'll let u know how I get on and hopefully it works just as well . Like u says, as long u perform a backup, there should be nothing to worry about :fingers-crossed:
If all goes well with that....I might download the B151 rom and extract the boot&system images and flash them as per your instructions previously. Hopefully that build will be even more stable/fast and the fact that the fingerprint sensor does not work is no problem for me as the uk model has no such sensor ?
Will post the outcome of my efforts in the next few days....

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iantechie1979 said:
Thanks @Liffeyman.
Gonna try installing ur twrp backup of the p9-lite rom (stripped down of bloat + xtra app goodies). My model is the honor 5c Nem-l51. It's the uk 2gb ram/16gb storage without fingerprint sensor. I realize yours was the Chinese model so I'll let u know how I get on and hopefully it works just as well . Like u says, as long u perform a backup, there should be nothing to worry about :fingers-crossed:
If all goes well with that....I might download the B151 rom and extract the boot&system images and flash them as per your instructions previously. Hopefully that build will be even more stable/fast and the fact that the fingerprint sensor does not work is no problem for me as the uk model has no such sensor
Will post the outcome of my efforts in the next few days....
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Just noticed with this, you will need to disable the Wi-Fi privacy police or it'll keep disbaling you wifi. I'll try upload a newer version of this shortly