Last Updated on September 20, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

Huawei Honor 8Contrary to belief there are ways out there for you to get a custom ROM installed without a custom recovery image, or even by using the stock recovery for that matter, too—for example, you can get root access and then use a root application to install the custom ROM.

But for most people, the best way of getting a custom ROM installed is by flashing the unsigned zip files from a custom recovery image. You can also use the same custom recovery image for getting root access as well.

If you know you want a custom recovery and root access then the most efficient way of going about getting all that done is by flashing a custom recovery and ten flashing the root file from the custom recovery.

The Huawei Honor 8 smartphone has the official TWRP recovery made available for it, which means you’ll likely find at least a few good custom ROMs that can be installed for this device, as most of the time that there is an official custom recovery image developed for a device there are custom ROMs available for it, too.

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How to Install TWRP Recovery on Huawei Honor 8 Smartphones

1. Make sure you’ve installed the universal ADB driver on the computer.

2. You need to have the platform-tools part of the Android SDK on your computer.

3. Once you have the SDK Manager on your computer, check the box only for the platform-tools, so you end up with the adb and fastboot binaries installed on the computer.

4. Pick up the Huawei Honor 8 smartphone and navigate to the Settings > About and tap your finger over the build number at least seven times so that the Developer Options menu becomes unlocked. Then go back to the Settings, enter the Developer Options menu and then enable the USB debugging mode.

5. Connect the Huawei Honor 8 smartphone to the computer by using the USB cable that it comes with.

6. Now on the computer open the Command Prompt and type the adb reboot bootloader command and hit “Enter” on your keyboard to get the Huawei Honor 8 smartphone into the bootloader mode and ready for the flashing.

7. Make sure you have copied the TWRP image file to the same folder as the adb and fastboot binaries. Also when you’re there, change the name of the TWRP to “twrp.img” by right-clicking the mouse pointer on it and selecting the “rename” option from the menu.

8. From the command line type the fastboot flash recovery twrp.imgcommand and hit “Enter” on your keyboard to flash the custom recovery.

9. Lastly type the fastboot reboot command and as soon as the Huawei Honor 8 smartphone reboots, hold down the key combination to boot directly into the recovery mode. (If you don’t sometimes the stock recovery will wipe over the custom recovery you just installed.)

The custom recovery image for the Huawei Honor 8 smartphone is now installed, and you are ready to boot into recovery mode and start flashing the custom ROM or rooting zip files.