Device: Honor Pad X9 (Wi-Fi / LTE variants)
Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 (or similar, depending on variant)
Firmware format: Usually update.app (Huawei/Honor old packaging) or payload.bin (for newer devices with dynamic partitions)
Goal: Extract, modify (e.g., remove preinstalled apps, add languages, change region), then repack into flashable format.
In the Honor/Huawei community, a repack usually refers to an official firmware package that has been modified to be flashable via custom recovery or a specific service tool. firmware+honor+pad+x9+repack
firmware apart. They aren't building a new OS from scratch; they are performing surgery on the existing one. Chapter 1: The Extraction Backup the device: Regularly backup the device to
repacked.zip containing the new payload.bin (with your modified images).update_payload_builder.py to reconstruct the payload manifest.The tool you use depends entirely on the chipset identified above: Create a repacked