Huawei P9 lite (huawei-venus)

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Huawei P9 lite
Boot screen, Weston
Boot screen, Weston
Manufacturer Huawei
Name P9 lite
Codename huawei-venus
Released 2016
Type handset
Hardware
Chipset HiSilicon Kirin 650
CPU 4 x 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4 x 1.7 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Mali-T830MP2
Display 1080x1920 LCD
Storage 16 GB
Memory 2 GB
Architecture aarch64
Software
Original software Android (EMUI)
Original version 6.0 (EMUI 4.1)
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
postmarketOS kernel 4.1.18
Unixbench Whet/Dhry score 0.0
Features
Flashing
Works
USB Networking
Works
Internal storage
SD card
Battery
Works
Screen
Partial
Touchscreen
Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
Audio
Camera
Camera Flash
Connectivity
WiFi
Bluetooth
GPS
NFC
Modem
Calls
SMS
Mobile data
Miscellaneous
FDE
USB OTG
HDMI/DP
Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Haptics
Barometer


Contributors

  • TAO_Croatia

Users owning this device

  • Keith. (Notes: horrible condition, stock)
  • Zillion (Notes: Currently running LineageOS 17.1)

How to enter flash mode

To unlock the bootloader, a working method is using PotatoNV.

Hold Power + Volume Down to boot into fastboot mode

Additional Info

The display brightness can be set by writing a value between 0 and 255 to /sys/devices/platform/hisi_fb.1048577/leds/lcd_backlight0/brightness.

Initially it contains the value 102, but the display is dark. Sending a value one time seems to wake up the display.

$ sudo -i
# echo 255 > /sys/devices/platform/hisi_fb.1048577/leds/lcd_backlight0/brightness

See also

pmaports!2351 Initial merge request