Honor is known for better hardware with competitive prices. In today’s post, we will share a rooting guide for Honor Play. This guide is suitable for all variants COR-L29, COR-AL00, and COR-AL10. This model is running on the same chip as P20 Pro but it was sold at a very low price. The kirin 970 was one of the most powerful CPUs in 2018. So far this phone has been updated to EMUI9.1.If you have a bootloader unlock code then you can root your phone following the guide given below. Otherwise, you will have to get the code 1st.

Honor Play Root ScreenShots:

Disclaimer

• You try everything at your own risk
• Don’t upgrade the Magisk version otherwise, you will lose root access
• Don’t factory reset a rooted phone
• This method has been tested on COR-L29 and should work for other models running EMUI9.1
• In case the phone gets bricked, download the same firmware version which is inside the phone and flash kernel, recovery_ramdisk, and system in fastboot mode. Then factory reset.
• If you are planning to use custom ROMs, you must downgrade to EMUI9.0
• In EMUI9.1 system partition can not be mounted as R/W, Don’t try to wipe anything with TWRP

Rooting Guide:

• Backup all important data from the phone
• Unlock the bootloader of your phone (click here to buy the code)
• Download the root file from THIS LINK (password=ministryofsolutions.com)
• Install latest magisk manager
• After that connect the phone in fastboot mode and open the extracted folder, double click MAF32.exe
• Then type ” fastboot flash recovery_ramdisk magisk_patched-V23000.img ”  and press enter
• After successful flash disconnect the phone from pc
• Hold volume up and power, keep holding both buttons until a screen appears with the message ” your device is booting now”
• Connect to wifi and open magisk manager, verify it says magisk 23.0 is installed (do not update magisk)
• Disconnect phone from pc
• If the Magisk manager asks to install the additional environmental fix, do it
• Go in Magisk settings and disable updates check
• Install root checker and verify root
• If you don’t hold the volume up and power at the start, then the phone will start without root access.
• The phone must be disconnected from the cable when you start it by holding the volume up and power
• Enable developer options on the phone and then disable automatic updates in developer options.
• Never install system updates when the phone is rooted.

Fix Safetynet:

• Open magisk settings and Disable magisk check-update
• Enable magisk hide
• Tap 2 times on systemless hosts
• Go to the magisk modules section
• Search and install ” magiskhide prop config “don’t reboot, go back.
• Again search and install “Riru” module. and then reboot the phone.
• Download SafetyNet fix v2.1.3 module and install it in Magisk Download Link.
• Reboot Phone
• Go to magisk hide settings and tick google play service
• check SafetyNet in magisk
• Profit 
• Make sure you disable automatic updates in developer options to stop the phone from installing new updates.