Download & install official Paranoid 7.2.1 on Huawei Honor 8 Pro

Alex Brian July 18, 2017

It’s just a week ago, official Paranoid 7.2.1 ROM has been in action again and now first official Paranoid 7.2.1 build rolled out for Huawei Honor 8 Pro. The official Paranoid 7.2.1 for Honor 8 Pro is based on Android 7.1.2 Nougat with latest feature including Accidental Touch Prevent, Pocket lock, Double Tap to sleep and a lot more, you can see the change log for complete information. The ROM is working currently working for the following variants of Honor 8 pro that includes, DUKE-AL10, AL20, AL30, TL-30 and AL-09.

Here the process to install Paranoid 7.2.1 on Honor 8 Pro is not difficult but infact a little lengthy for the users who are running stock firmware on their device because to install Paranoid 7.2.1 on Honor 8 you need to be running any AOSP ROM by OpenKirin. Don’t worry we have provided the link to download the Resurrection Remix 5.8.3 for Honor 8 in the link below, just install the RR 5.8.3 on Honor 8 and then install the official Paranoid 7.2.1 ROM on your device the same way.

Install official Paranoid 7.2.1 on Huawei Honor 8 Pro

Before you begin:

Your Huawei Honor 8 Pro must have a working TWRP recovery installed on it, if you think you haven’t installed it don’t worry, download TWRP recovery from here and then follow this guide to install it on your device.

Once recovery is installed on your device, create a Nandroid back up of important data including complete Android ROM with all apps and messages, follow this guide to create a Nandroid backup via TWRP recovery.

Upgrade latest USB drivers for your device on PC. Download latest Huawei USB drivers here [For a stable PC-phone connection].

Downloads section:

Download RR. 5.8.3. Here

Download official Paranoid 7.2.1 for Huawei Honor 8 Pro, Here. [File name: pa_duk-7.2.1-DEV-20170715.zip]

Download ARM64 Android 7.1.x Google Apps

Now transfer the ROM file along Google apps zip on your device storage.