To root your Huawei P9, P9 Plus, or Lite smartphone, follow the simple guide outlined here to root your phone safely using Chainfire’s “systemless” rooting guide.
This root method works on all variants of Huawei P9, Plus, and Lite.
Rooting Huawei P9 Smartphones
Requirements:
- TWRP recovery – Huawei P9 – Huawei P9 Plus
- SuperSU – Download
You can also download stock ROM / firmware for all Huawei P9, P9 Plus, and P9 Lite variants.
Rooting…
- Download and install TWRP recovery from the link above
- Download SuperSU also, and copy to the root of your sdcard
- Power off your phone and boot into recovery mode
- You can access recovery mode by holding Power, Home and Volume Up buttons. Release the buttons once recovery screen shows up.
- Select Install, navigate to your sdcard root directory where you placed the SuperSU zip package
- Select it, the swipe to flash.
- Once flashing is complete, reboot your Huawei P9 smartphone.
Congratulations! You have successfully flashed the TWRP custom recovery and rooted your device. For questions, complaints, or requests, post in the comments section below.