Today we discuss how to root and install custom recovery on Honor 6. Huawei Honor 6 is an affordable mid-range smartphone with a promising specification. Many people root their device to take full control of their device. You need to unlock bootloader of honor 6 first (check how to unlock the bootloader of Huawei devices), if you want to root Huawei Honor 6 or to install TWRP Recovery on Huawei Honor 6. So before we explain to you how to root and install custom recovery on Honor 6 you should check benefits of rooting.
Some benefits of Rooting –
- You can install custom ROM and custom kernel on your device for faster and better performance.
- Block Ads in apps with the help of ad blocker.
- Increase performance and battery life by killing background process automatically.
- After root and install custom recovery on Honor 6 you can install Xposed Framework to customize your device
- You can use Titanium Backup to restore all of your apps and data.
- You can uninstall bloatware (Pre-installed Apps)
Note:-
- Rooting may void your phone warranty, and you won’t claim it back.
- Follow the steps correctly otherwise you may brick your device. We are not responsible for any damage of your phone.
- It will erase all your personal data including data of internal storage, so we advise you first to take a complete backup of your phone and then proceed.
- Ensure that your phone has at least 50-60% charged to prevent the accidental shutdown in-between the process.
Files required to Root and Install custom recovery on Honor 6 –
- 1) Download ADB and fastboot driver for windows or ADB and Fastboot for Mac and install it on your PC. This will also install your device driver.
- 2) Download and install Universal ADB driver for Honor 6 if above doesn’t work.
- 3) Download TWRP Recovery for Honor 6 and place it in the folder where ADB installed and rename it to ‘recovery.img’.
- 4) Download SuperSu to root Honor 6 and copy it to your phone sd card.
How to Root and Install Custom Recovery on Honor 6 –
1) First enable USB debugging from setting>developer option>. To enable Developer Options, go to About phone and tap the Build Number 7 times.
2) Now go to installation directory open ADB folder and open the command window thereby pressing and hold the ‘shift’ key and right-clicked anywhere in that folder.
3) Now connect your phone to PC and reboot the device into fastboot mode by typing “adb reboot bootloader”.
4) In command prompt type “fastboot devices” and hit enter, it gives you serial numbers in return means your phone connect properly otherwise check the device driver again.
5) Type this command correctly in command prompt without quotes “fastboot flash recovery recovery.img” and then press enter. It starts flashing recovery on your phone.
6) Now type “fastboot boot recovery.img“ in command prompt it will reboot your phone into recovery mode.Now you successfully installed custom recovery on Honor 6.
7) You are in recovery mode now. In TWRP recovery navigate to Install Zip and select ‘SuperSu.zip’.
8) Swipe to install SuperSu and reboot your device. That’s it, you root and install custom recovery on Honor 6 successfully.
So this is the complete guide of how to root and install custom recovery on Honor 6 with easy steps. To verify root access, just download root checker from Google Play store and confirm if your device has gained root access. If you have any questions, comment below.
14 Comments
Thanks for the guide but please help me with this.
in the 6th step it is not booting..
iam getting this…..
C:\adb>fastboot boot recovery.img
downloading ‘boot.img’…
OKAY [ 1.374s]
booting…
FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)
finished. total time: 1.374s
i hope u help
Is fastboot flash recovery recovery.img works?
ye it worked but in 6th step is not booting
Skip the 6th step and boot directly into TWRP after flashing recovery with hardware button.
how do we perform that?
By using one of the combination Power+Volume Up or Power + Volume UP
NOT WORKING same message
How to unlock bootloader without product id.because phone is reseting on logo
To unlock the bootloader you need a product id..you can sent an email to [email protected] with my IMEI, SN and Product Number and ask for product id or unlock code.
Give solution if avilable
Hi
I can’t boot in twrp recovery mode.
I have my honor 7 with bootloader apparently unlocked. It says it is unlocked in fastboot window and it is unlocked also in the output of the command – fastboot oem get-bootinfo –
I have installed with success messages the TWRP.img in 4 different tested versions, and after every installation the Emui recovery keeps popping up.
What I am missing? It seems like I can write to the bootloader but after rebooting it reverts to the original.
Any help will be highly appreciated
First flash twrp and boot directly into twrp with hardware button and flash supersu.
Did everything except the 6 the one coz it’s not working. And I tried to root the device and it failed which means bootloader is not unlocked. What should I do?
power button + volume up is not working.. Im stucked in jonor logo when i do that. but i can manage to reboot if i long press the Power button. please help me to boot in TWRP recovery. I did all the steps but im stuck in step 6. thanks for the resonse.