Huawei ShotX / Honor 7i TWRP and Root (Magisk)
Huawei ShotX also known as Honor 7i was 1st phone rotatable camera. Rooting this phone is very easy if you have proper files and detailed tutorial. In this post, we will provide the files required for root. We will use magisk rooting method which is new system-less root for Android phones. Magisk can help you to hide root from banking apps and many other features, we don’t see typical rooting methods.
Huawei ShotX Rooting Guide:
- This method is only tested on the Marshmallow version.
- Backup all important data from the phone
- Enable OEM unlock in developer options
- Unlock the bootloader of your phone (Buy bootloader code)
- Download root files from THIS LINK (password: ministryofsolutions.com)
- Extract downloaded files
- Copy the Magisk zip file to your sd card
- Connect the phone in fastboot mode and open MAF32.exe file
- Type ” fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img ” and press enter
- After successful flashing disconnect the phone from the computer
- Hold the volume up and power
- keep holding even after the reboot, when you see the Huawei logo leave the power button, but keep holding the volume up button, the phone will enter TWRP mode
- Swipe to allow modifications
- Then tap on Install and then tap on Select Storage and choose sd card
- Find Magisk zip and tap on it , then swipe to flash
- After that press reboot to the system, if you are asked to install anything press do not install.
- Profit, Your phone has been rooted
Video Tutorial
*Warning: Tutorials are provided free without any guarantee. try at your own risk