REDLOTUS Update tool

What is it?

This is an update tool which helps you to convince certain HUAWEI-Phones there is a new update available.

You can call it a "force update" method, or even an alternative to funkyhuawei, if you will. However, unlike the latter paid option, I can not compete with their excellent support.

Why should I use use REDLOTUS rather than FunkyHuawei?

• It's free.
• It's open source: Learn and participate, or simply review the existing stuff.
• It's self hosted: Setting foreign DNS to your infrastructure allows them to Man-in-the-middle a lot more than just the update-traffic.

Why should I use FunkyHuawei rather than REDLOTUS?

• FunkyHuawei offers excellent chat support, it's really worth it.
• FunkyHuawei still offers a broader range of features (see roadmap)
• REDLOTUS's audience is developers or experts who know what they're doing.

What can it do?

• Help you flash official Huawei Updates to your working Huawei Phone using Hisuite.
• Help you download the respective firmware to your computer, so that the actual flashing goes faster.

Roadmap

• Verify the downloaded package using the checksums
• Fully play along with eRecovery, so that we can recover "bricked" phones.

Usage

Prerequisities

You'll need a version of node.js installed, I have tested mostly with 7.3.

Also, you'll want to run hisuite on your computer, and make sure your phone recognizes it.

Preparation

0. Make sure you understand that you are responsible of what you're doing with your phone.
1. Check out your local copy of REDLOTUS somewhere on your hard disk
2. Open a terminal in that directory
3. Install the dependencies: npm install

Download a firmware

1. Navigate to the excellent Huawei Firmware Database by Developer Team MT
2. Locate the firmware version you'd like to install and copy the URL to filelist.xml to your clipboard
3. Open your terminal again and enter npm run download <path-to-firmware-xml> (without <>, of course.
4. Go to bed as huawei's download servers are rather slow.

Option A: Use HiSuite to update your non-broken phone

1. On the same computer as your HiSuite installation, open Notepad as administrator
2. Click File - Open and navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
3. Select "all files" at the bottom right and choose the file called hosts
4. Add a new line: 127.0.0.1 query.hicloud.com and save
5. Open a terminal in your checkout folder and start REDLOTUS: npm run listen-hisuite
6. Start Hisuite, connect your phone. If all went well, it will detect the downloaded firmware as "REDLOTUS". Congratulations!

Option B: Still working on getting eRecovery to work.