Some Progress in Rooting the HAM2 - Huawei Ascend Mate 2

I personally own a HAM2 with model number MT2L03. I know in China, this phone but of different model number has been rooted. I was trying to re-do the rooting process on my own phone. After several weeks' work, I got some progress.
Thanks to your feedbacks! Now we have fully rooted the beloved phone! Hooray!
Since I am not an expert in Android system, I can not guarantee your success.
PLEASE TAKE YOUR OWN RISK.
Make long story short, the essential step is to unlock the bootlloader.
==WARNING: UNLOCKING BOOTLOADER WILL PERFORM FACTORY RESET. BACKUP YOUR PHONE FIRST!==
To unlock the bootloader, you need the unlock code of your phone. I asked a friend in China who had a software to get the unlock code for Huawei cellphones, or maybe you can email Huawei to get the one for you. I am not able to post links so I repacked the software and upload it here. Let me know if you think this is not appropriate.
Remark: There is an image down there for instructing using this software.
Please input your S/N and IMEI and make the setting like in the imaged packed. Click the lower left button, you should get your unlock code in a text file on your desktop, which is a 16 digits code.
Once you get your unlock code, please reboot into fastboot mode and unlock your phone. THIS STEP WILL DO A FACTORY RESET FOR YOUR PHONE.
For those who are not familiar with adb or fastboot, here is how.
First open the USB debugging mode on your phone and connected it to your computer. Use adb to enter the fastboot mode.
Code:
adb.exe wait-for-device
adb.exe reboot bootloader
Now your phone should have been rebooted into fastboot mode. There will be a note LOCKED on the top of the screen. Then use fastboot and your unlock code to unlock your phone
Code:
fastboot.exe devices
fastboot.exe oem unlock YOUR_UNLOCK_CODE
If everything goes well, your phone will do a factory reset and reboot automatically. Now you have successfully unlock your phone.
Then I use those one-click rooting softwares to get the root access. In my test, root genius and baidu root both did the job. I don't have recommendations for you since both root access management software s**k.
Update: Please use Kingo root on PC end or towelroot on the android end to get root access and install SuperSU
And you are all set. Should be able to gain root access and uninstall apps you don't need. Also Titanium backup acts just perfectly.
Update: Xposed Frameworks are partially functional. Please disable the resources API and it shall work.
Thanks for reading.

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To unlock the bootloader is one important first step. Great news.

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This great! I'll try on my phone after I get everything backed up. Did you try towelroot, framaroot or eroot?

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THIS IS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you.... After get this phone last week, and read enormous thread, onekey root method, failure, failure, now this come right on time!!!
D:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot oem unlock 118187202XXXXXXXXXXX
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(bootloader) Unlocking ...
OKAY [ 0.020s]
finished. total time: 0.020s
D:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot oem get-bootinfo
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(bootloader) *******************************************
(bootloader) Bootloader Lock State: UNLOCKED
(bootloader) System State: Bootloader in UNLOCKED state
(bootloader) Bootloader Version: 001.001.000
(bootloader) *******************************************
OKAY [ 0.040s]
finished. total time: 0.040s
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Just to warn everyone again, This will automatically factory reset your phone.

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Quickly I have made a translation of the software, please let me know if you have any questions.
I only use the software to retrieve the unlock code, and use command line to do the unlock.
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
The 16 alphanumeric S/N number should come from somewhere back of the battery after remove the back cover, or (more unreliable, but I am lazy) it is also in the sticker of the package.
If you get above error, it mean the gotcha code is wrong, you can click the link right of the gotcha image in step 7 to change the gotcha image to a easier one. Other error dialog box should have "SN" or "IMEI" text etc so I will not post picture.
Below attachment is same as above pic.

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aragon257 said:
This great! I'll try on my phone after I get everything backed up. Did you try towelroot, framaroot or eroot?
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Hello aragon257, I tried eroot but not working. towelroot not working either but didn't try change the mod strings. It might be possible to root the phone using towelroot. Let me know if you succeed.

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Can someone help me?
Here is what I am looking at...
I have question marks at the top. Also it doesnt seem to allow me to unlock because of the 3rd field. Something needs to go in it, but what?
EDIT:
Nevermind... @xordos description helped me

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xordos said:
Quickly I have made a translation of the software, please let me know if you have any questions.
I only use the software to retrieve the unlock code, and use command line to do the unlock.
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Thanks for your translation! I was too sleepy to do the job last night.

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has anyone tried Kingo?
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hey @ScoobSTi check this out
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
World's first rooted HAM2 US VERSION!!!!!

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dbmj said:
I also checked eroot without luck, and towelroot might work but was too sleepy to check all those mod strings. If you are able to do that and install SuperSU, please let me know.
And you are all set. Should be able to gain root access and uninstall apps you don't need. Also Titanium backup acts just perfectly.
Actually the root is not 100% success because of the lack of SuperSU. But still I can do a lot with the *partially* rooted phone. Hope this can help and some one could come up with a method to finish the root.
Thanks for reading.
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Hi, Have you installed Busybox?
I first attempt of install SuperSU also failed...Following is what I did and all looks worked:
1) update: RootGenius rooting come with KingUser as root management tool, not recommenced.
I use root RootGenius successfully root the phone, actually the english version not work, but the chinese version worked.
09/05/2014 10:34 AM 5,717,592 RootGenius.exe (worked)
09/05/2014 10:31 AM 4,954,744 RootGenius_en.exe (not work)
After root, the su binary is like this:
ls -l /system/xbin/su
-rwsr-sr-x root root 34124 2014-09-05 10:35 su
2) Then I installed busybox from play store, then installed SuperSU from "ChainFire".
ls -l /system/xbin/su
-rwxr-xr-x root root 125420 2014-09-05 10:42 su
-rwsr-sr-x root root 34124 2014-09-05 10:35 ku.sud
It first also show unsuccessful when updating su, but after a few retry, and rebooting, it says SU updated successfully.
EDIT: above su looks like not normal, but anyway, that maybe a different topic.

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Use Kingo...
WARNING!!! This took several minutes and phone rebooted probably a dozen times. Just do not unplug it and let it run its course.
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xordos said:
Hi, Have you installed Busybox?
I first attempt of install SuperSU also failed...Following is what I did and all looks worked:
1) I use root RootGenius successfully root the phone, actually the english version not work, but the chinese version worked.
09/05/2014 10:34 AM 5,717,592 RootGenius.exe (worked)
09/05/2014 10:31 AM 4,954,744 RootGenius_en.exe (not work)
After root, the su binary is like this:
ls -l /system/xbin/su
-rwsr-sr-x root root 34124 2014-09-05 10:35 su
2) Then I installed busybox from play store, then installed SuperSU from "ChainFire".
ls -l /system/xbin/su
-rwxr-xr-x root root 125420 2014-09-05 10:42 su
It first also show unsuccessful when updating su, but after a few retry, and rebooting, it says SU updated successfully.
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Thanks. I'll try when I get home.

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EVERYONE PAY UP!!!
ha ha ha ha
Look @Modding.MyMind
I just wanna say we all rallied together to get this done. Good work everyone! This phone just became 100 x better!

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zzEvilGeniuszz said:
has anyone tried Kingo?
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hey @ScoobSTi check this out
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
World's first rooted HAM2 US VERSION!!!!!
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You rooted your HAM2 with Kingo only?

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rekamyenom said:
You rooted your HAM2 with Kingo only?
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Unlock your bootloader using the instructions on page 1 of this topic then install Kingo on your PC. Put your phone in USB DEBUGGING and plug it in. Then root using Kingo.
That's it!
All along it was the locked bootloader that prevented root access, so naturally when the bootloader was unlocked it was much easier.
This took a while and seemed to hang but it did not. It rebooted probably a dozen times until it finally said ROOT SUCCESSFUL!
I unplugged phone and plugged it back in a checked root status on Kingo and it said it wasnt rooted. So then I installed a root checker on my phone from the play store and checked status and it said it was in fact rooted.
Since then, I have verified root so I do not know why Kingo said it wasnt rooted after i plugged it back in. No matter, it is done.

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zzEvilGeniuszz said:
Unlock your bootloader using the instructions on page 1 of this topic then install Kingo on your PC. Put your phone in USB DEBUGGING and plug it in. Then root using Kingo.
That's it!
All along it was the locked bootloader that prevented root access, so naturally when the bootloader was unlocked it was much easier.
This took a while and seemed to hang but it did not. It rebooted probably a dozen times until it finally said ROOT SUCCESSFUL!
I unplugged phone and plugged it back in a checked root status on Kingo and it said it wasnt rooted. So then I installed a root checker on my phone from the play store and checked status and it said it was in fact rooted.
Since then, I have verified root so I do not know why Kingo said it wasnt rooted after i plugged it back in. No matter, it is done.
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Cant get the bootloader unlock code... Got the ????????????? Like you had.

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rekamyenom said:
Cant get the bootloader unlock code... Got the ????????????? Like you had.
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zzEvilGeniuszz said:
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Yup, tried that like 10 times. I will take a screen shot of what I am getting

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rekamyenom said:
Yup, tried that like 10 times. I will take a screen shot of what I am getting
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This is what I get

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rekamyenom said:
Yup, tried that like 10 times. I will take a screen shot of what I am getting
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Do you have the correct drivers installed? Does ADB detect your device?
Try lowercasing the hx37