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The third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, Huawei announced recently that its upcoming flagship smartphone sporting a 6GB RAM, the Huawei Mate 9 shall come with Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box.  With those recent improvements on embracing the Android 7.0 Nougat update, it is certainly not a surprising news to find out that the company is gearing the OS to be released even on its current Huawei Mate 8 smartphone.

Though the update has not been officially rolled out by Huawei, it is available currently through its servers. That shows that users have to wait for the Android 7.0 Nougat update until the company releases its upcoming flagship device, Huawei Mate 9, especially to the US market as well as across the globe.

However, Huawei Mate 8 users on the XDA Developer Forum have manually updated their Android OS to Android 7.0 Nougat recently and have shared on how it can be done in the device.

Android Nougat 7 for Huawei Mate 8 Installation guide

The following steps have to be followed to get the new Android 7.0 Nougat update on Huawei Mate 8 smartphones;

• Download the update.zip and update_data_full_all_cn.zip files.
• Copy the update files to an external storage device. Next,
• Then, download the stock firmware and use update.app to extract it.
• After the extraction, download SRKToolHuawei-Lod-Chong-V2.0-20161002.zip, and then unlock bootloader/TWRP/ROOT. Users will have to register the Huawei ID in order to generate a bootloader code.

You are just a few steps away...

(As mentioned in the Techtimes.com)

• Change build.prop parameter ro.build.display.id
• Set it to ro.build.display.id=NextL00B037 (SRKTOOL Huawei)
• Change OEM info to AL10 (SRKTOOL Huawei)
• Download AL10C00B386
• Unlock bootloader/TWRP again (SRKTOOL Huawei)
• After installing TWRP successfully, choose menu from TWRP, Wipe > format > type Yes
• After formatting, Don't' Reboot the System, choose Home then Install .zip files
  - update.zip (Don't Reboot the System, choose Home then Install)
  - update_data_full_all_cn.zip
• After installing update_data_full_all_cn.zip, you can reboot the Reboot System
  Don't worry if you get a message, "No OS installed"
• Boot into the system and check the build number, it should show AL10C00B523.
• Now, the phone will not be able to detect the sim Card, hence fast boot depends on the variant by SRKTOOL (support C636,C432,C185)
• After the Reboot, the phone should be able to detect the sim card (SRKTOOL Huawei).

The XDA developer forum has detailed clearly on the steps to be followed to do each of the above steps clearly so that users can easily get to taste the Android 7.0 Nougat update in their Huawei Mate 8 smartphones.

Reports say that indeed the Android 7.0 Nougat is running on Huawei Mate 8, and it looks undoubtedly wonderful!