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There are enough people with unlocked bootloaders that it *should* have resulted in some people putting work into roms for this phone, but I think there are just too many proprietary goodies that will be gimped in the process, especially the camera. It feels too late for anything to happen now...

I'm on Telus. I installed Hi-Care a week ago and tried to update, to no avail. Changed my location to all 274 countries on the planet (except Canada, which amusingly is not a selectable country on *any* Huawei menu system of any kind, anywhere), still nothing. I howled with rage and scratched...

Finally got 9.1, as others have mentioned it really didn't change anything. The phone *is* noticeably 'smoother', which is the only way to describe it. The update didn't break anything I had tweaked either, like running Nova with an icon pack and custom font, etc. One thing is for sure - the...

I installed HiCare and when it didn't update me to 9.2 I smashed my phone with a rock.

I hate to be 'that guy', but one of the things that made XDA great is that people are expected to do their own leg work. ALL the instructions you could possibly ever need are in this thread, laid out very neatly and clearly. Yes, it is a little imposing to see a thread with this many pages...

There are perfectly good Mega links in this thread that people put up after paying for the firmware...

Thanks. I'm trying to protect save files and settings for obscure ports, so I'll pass. Doing transplants by hand doesn't always work.

I've never even considered any of the 'brand name' backup solutions. Are you telling me that the Huawei backup is the same as a full nandroid snapshot? Because anything less isn't acceptable. How bizarre that after all these years Google still doesn't care in the slightest about a backup...

Well that makes sense, I guess. I would dload the update (thanks to those that went through the cost/trouble to supply it) but I really, really, really don't want to start from scratch again. Ironically you don't have any way to do a backup without root, and it seems like even at best we will...

Out of curiosity, why do you want to? I've seen it mentioned several times in this thread that stats show both file systems in use after the 9.1 upgrade, even with the dload method. People have muttered something about doing a factory reset to 'fix' this, but I haven't seen any bottom line...

Yeah, ummm... Just so you know that doesn't work for everyone, no matter what location you have. They are definitely rolling it out lottery style, there is NO WAY to force it through Hi-Care.

ORANGE MAN BAD, eh? Huawei has been a target of the U.S. long before Trump was in office. I guess Huawei stealing Billions of R&D from Nortel is just 'okay' by you, then. As far as the spying goes, everyone is spying. The whole Iran sanction thing is also laughable. Just please don't...

Strangely worded, it doesn't mention anything about support from the actual Google stuff.

Uhh... It's "just a phone" that I happened to be locked into a 2 year, $130 a month plan with. Maybe that is chump change to you, but it is a long term investment for me.

The wi-fi on my phone has been screwed since day one. It still 'works' for most things, like games and such, but web pages or links in a reddit app will mostly load (the progress bar will speed along and then grind to a halt) and then... Nothing. When I googled around, it seems like Huawei...

Gee, when I mentioned that this was a worry a few months ago, I was lambasted and called a 'Trump supporter' (???!??!?!).

Strange, I got the 236 update a couple of weeks ago now, on Telus.

To be fair, I think it is a poor translation. Not that it is any more exciting, but they 'normalized' all the system ring tones and such so that they aren't so damned quiet.

Interesting that they are converting over to a completely different file system without wiping the phone. I wonder how they accomplish that?

Mine came with the TPU case (Canada, Telus) along with the watch. The case is just about as slippery as the phone, somehow. It may save you from a corner drop but it won't stop the phone from sliding off of... Well, any surface of any kind. I have no idea how they made something rubbery...

I didn't realize we even had a toggle for that. Too bad they treat it the way they do - it should be a list of apps that automatically turn it on when they are running. EMUI 9.1 has something kinda like that, except it is a group of optimized settings that have been pre-made for specific...

This is an aside, but I have found that when I was forced to wipe my phone after unlocking the bootloader my fingerprint AND facial unlock work way, way better than before. I honestly found the fingerprint unlock to be pretty much a nuisance before, now it works almost perfectly as long as you...

Strange, I *know* that mine 'used to' stay at whatever setting it was left at before. I just tried it now, and it still stays on whatever it was last set to, BUT... It automatically toggles the 'allow debugging over USB' to OFF every time I plug my phone into my computer. Now I know it didn't...

Well, I ordered one of these from FastTech, and it arrived about a week ago. Amazingly quick shipping considering I bought about a dozen little el cheapo goodies and paid about $2 for the postage. The charging pad is genuine Huawei, in general anything on FastTech that outright claims to be...

You've "seen my posts" have you? Wow. I don't remember saying anything about 'stock roms'. I also don't remember saying I hate Huawei phones. I'll just pm you my login information and you can make my posts for me, okay? Just don't criticize the way Huawei handles themes, though. WHAT ABOUT...

This is the worst thread ever. There is zero need to clean any caches, and the notion of clearing the caches of all your apps to gain screen time... Um, wut.

Using all these apps is confusing as hell. To break it down, you drop the .hwt file into /Huawei/Themes, and then in the official theme app you go to 'Me' and then 'My Themes', where you will see the Google Sans font. Tap on it and hit 'apply'. This is the *only* way to import fonts manually...

Okay, so drop it into the /themes directory, and then in official theme app go to 'me' and then 'my themes' and then tap on the sans google font and hit 'apply'. Thanks, it worked. Sheesh, their software is obtuse.

EMUI sure is strange when it comes to support for themes or modifications of any kind to the interface. Without the 3rd party support of an entire host of apps to make changes actually possible, the stock 'theme app' is entirely useless. Okay, so you have to install a spammy app for theme...

It only does that to me when I lift my phone and it doesn't initially unlock with my face, so I mash my thumb onto the screen only to get blinded by the icon showing around the edges of my thumb putting out more lumens than Tsar Bomba, which triggers an epilectic fit of apoplectic rage during...

The auto-brightness on this phone is way too aggressive in the wrong direction, and the fact that it enables itself every single time you unlock your phone is beyond stupid. What is the bottom line on the powergenie method, does disabling this make the problem go away forever with no downsides?

Uh, quick cross pollinating link for all my Canukistanian comrades... It looks like unlock codes are on the menu, for cheap. Just jump into the end of the 'how to unlock' thread, wow are we finally there?

This happens on iphones too. The truth is we really don't know how secure this system is, or what the accuracy/fidelity of the scan has to be. Ironically the very IR blaster used to map your face can also be used to build a 3D model of your face, a person could get that printed and try it out...

I, umm... Have never set anything different. I just looked, in the 3 dot menu of the 'system update' itself there are 2 toggles, one to 'automatically download on wi-fi' and one to 'reboot at night'. I guess technically it could have downloaded the full update while I was still at home hours...

I can't see PayPal going after a company deep in mainland China, so the fine print must not be a blanket insurance type policy like what most credit cards have. By all means try to push it up the ladder, but it looks like they are stonewalling you at full throttle already. Certainly FH...

Last night my phone (by itself) downloaded .218 on cell data (Telus) and rebooted - which is cute considering the last three updates didn't even send me a notification on the matter. Uh, it says in the changelog that it 'updated the pre-loaded songs to your preference', which I take it is...

They say it is for 'usb dongles / modems'. I don't think it will help for a phone, and if such a thing ever exists don't trust it one inch. If a way to unlock our bootloader comes up there will be threads screaming about it here on XDA I assure you.

I did some serious Googling around, and it looks like there are always people who simply cannot use wifi with their Huawei phones going back years. It is possible that it is a specific issue with specific brands of routers, in fact I'm sure that is the case. Of course in general anyone's house...

The answer to every question is Nova Launcher. Nova Launcher is life. All hail Moloch the Destroyer of Worlds Nova Launcher!

I don't know if Huawei software engineers are somewhat disconnected from the hardware design team, but the notifications in general are absurdly broken on this phone. Combine absolute hijacking of 'notch space' with an AOD implementation that preschool children could improve using Roblox... I...

There are 'phantom notifications' happening on a regular basis. They disappear before your very eyes. I think they are all Huawei subsystem actions that somehow trigger a notification but not fully... What the OP is claiming is pretty insane, though. Can you clarify? At some point in time...

Just a quick update, I will have to look into it but I will pay FH $500 if they can install malware onto my pc that hijacks all my banking information as long as they can make my phone stop with the WORST AUTO-BRIGHTNESS NIGHTMARE EVAR. Like, seriously... Really? Really?!

lol, what are the odds that I would see a post about someone else carrying their Mate 20 Pro in the front pocket of coveralls at sub -30 temps? My phone has a rock solid cellular connection, but is absolute GASH on wi-fi. It is so bad I just gave up, thankful that I have a decent plan. The...

Honestly if you are worried about using Google Pay it will probably still work. There are several different things SafetyNet checks on and some of them can be falsely triggered.

I haven't seen much discussion on the actual capabilities of the video, and we will probably not see much 3rd party stuff for the camera(s) on this phone. Usually phone manufacturers are more worried about limitations on data storage and maintaining that write-speed over time rather than high...

There are several drop-in AOD replacement apps, and they work well, but... From all reports they drink your battery too much to be worth it. Too bad, not sure why Huawei didn't go that next obvious step and have control over 'per app' notifications and such. It pretty much makes the stock AOD...

Hmm, that sounds exactly like what they would do. We need someone to go through this and pull off a bit of a hack of their own and keep all the software/data they download onto your computer. I wonder how paranoid they are, surely they don't go so far as to run tools that wipe the free space...

Well, as of the past couple of days there is this: https://funkyhuawei.club/root But... Yeesh. Sadly, we missed our chance to buy one of the last few precious unlock codes - because we didn't know they would disappear before our firmware allowed us to do it in the first place.

If you have root you can most likely use the full features of 'Link2SD' to do whatever you want with this memory, remember it was Google who was foaming at the mouth to get rid of micro SD storage altogether for some bizarre reason. They have made it harder for Android to 'use' with every...

Thanks - but we can use any Qi charging pad right?