So the other day my Huawei phone got a push update, but after installing it, seemingly nothing happened.

I just took a look at my Android version.

I was rolled back from Android 8 to 7.

Let the softroot begin!

wtf....
I am sure this violates some law....
They can't just downgrade....

I guess because Android 7 is completely free and open to use without any legal issues

@gitlog Isn't 8 and 9?

I don't wish to brag, but my Huawei is on 9

@Konsole there is some period where some legal factors are there

@Konsole it didn't blow an efuse so it's not deemed outside normality

Is it possible to root Huawei phones tho?

@Lor-inc they stopped allowing rooting of phones

@Lor-inc Softroot? Maybe.

ACTUAL root? Not unless we can get a master list of IMEI/bootloader unlock code pairs.

(btw softroot is root that doesn't persist, so, say, a vuln shell that's been elevated. Not too useful in general but has some merit. Traditional root is currently impossible due to locked bootloaders enforcing partition signing. No fakesign yet, either...)

@Tinshi wait what

details please for the love of root

@Tinshi only for Honor devices, not Huawei devices, and it's long over. Shame...

i'm aware Huawei and Honor are the same but like

@Tinshi also form's gone

"Unlock Codes seems to be back for chinese models only."

oh

@Tinshi this is for Huawei devices. Honor and Huawei devices had separate reopenings...

@Tinshi yeah even FunkyHuawei stopped handling codes... welp.