Honor 8X LineageOS 16 Installation guide

Here is Honor 8X LineageOS 16 Installation guide which is similar as for other Huawei models. Since an official development for this phone is not available, we will let you know the process to install it. Many users have asked about installing LineageOS 16 on Honor 8X on Infofuge so we will be discussing this process.

About Huawei Honor 8X

  • Honor 8X is powered by a 2.2GHz octa-core processor and it comes with 4GB of RAM.
  • The internal storage of Honor 8X is of 64GB of that can be expanded up to 256G via microSD.
  • It has a display of 6.5 inches with a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels.
  • For the main camera, it has 20 MP + 2MP and 16 MP for the secondary camera.
  • Lastly, it has a 3750mAh Battery.

Full Specs

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What is LineageOS?

  • Lineage OS is an open-source operating system which can be used in Android Smartphone, set-top boxes, and computers.
  • This operating system is the successor of the open-source operating system or custom ROM CyanogenMod.
  • It was forked from CyanogenMod’s source code when it announced as discontinued.
  • Lineage OS was launched in December 2018. The development builds now covers more than 185 mobile phone models.
  • Furthermore, Lineage is one of the most popular Custom ROM with over 1.9 million active installs.

Read More about LineageOS

Pre-requisite

As we have discussed earlier that LineageOs is not available for Honor 8X. But as soon as the development is available on Xda-developers you can install this OS in your phone.

  1. Charge your phone up to 80% to 90%
  2. First of all backup your phone to prevent it from loss.
  3. You can use Titanium Backup to make the backup successfully.
  4. Now make sure you have FRP and Unlocked Bootloader.
  5. In case if you want to roll back to EMUI 8.0 later you should backup system partition.
  6. Download the ADB fastboot tool on your computer

Advantages of installing LineageOS 16 on your Honor 8X

  • It has a Privacy Guard to control the permissions installed apps can use, which gives the same experience as iOS provides.
  • LineageOS provides a Pure stock Android for your Honor 8X which is always up-to-date. Furthermore, it is the main reason why Android users install a Custom ROM.
  • Superuser
  • The AudioFX app installed in the OS provides which can be used to equalize audio controls.
  • Lastly, it has profiles option which can be founded under Settings > Users.

Instructions to install LineageOS on Honor 8X

  1. First, Unlock bootloader on Honor 8X.
  2. Second, Now go to the recovery and perform “Wipe data/factory reset” & “Wipe cache partition”
  3. Third, Connect your phone to computer via USB Cable
  4. Now you can flash the system image using fastboot mode.
  5. You have to move the system image into adb fastboot extracted folder.
  6. Now open the ADB fastboot folder then open the command window.
  7. Type following command to flash the system image – fastboot flash system system.img
  8. To boot into stock recovery use following command- fastboot reboot
  9. Now perform a factory reset and enjoy LineageOS on your Honor 8X.

Read also – Honor 8X Overheating issue Fix and other problems also solved

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