A couple of questions for a new magic owner...

[TGUY25]

Got a magic from China. Beautiful phone running on AT&T with no problems. Have run into a few roadblocks.

1. Can't seem to install any other launchers. Tried many including Nova (my favorite) and they are all giving me a 504 play store error in install. No problems with any other apps but can't get a launcher. Google Now launcher did install but only a few widgets show and none for clock or weather.
2. Tired to add new widgets to standard magic UI - can't seem to be able to do it. Any idea how? Also want to remove home screen weather widget as weather app only show centigrade.
3. Any idea how to assign sounds to email? Can't seem to find that setting. There is a 'select ringtone' setting under mail but turning it in or off seems to have no effect.

Thanks

 

[warea]

I have read the same complain about widgets. The weather widget cannot be removed. Hopefully that would be fixed in rom updates. You can also provide some feedback in the built in feedback app.
You can go through content in Huawei China forum here for similar issues and possible fixes: http://club.huawei.com/forum-2770-1.html

There is rom update already out, which seem to add some features and also change how the navigation using fingerprint sensor works. I think the rom update is part of the "development version" and you might have to register.

 

[TGUY25]

Thanks for the link. Thank goodness for google translate. I also see it has an NFC radio but not yet enabled. Hopefully soon.

 

[thilak devraj]

Thanks for the link. Thank goodness for google translate. I also see it has an NFC radio but not yet enabled. Hopefully soon.

dont worry, they have the hardware, and software part is just of updates.. they will roll out..

 

[jurtjee]

Got a magic from China. Beautiful phone running on AT&T with no problems. Have run into a few roadblocks.

1. Can't seem to install any other launchers. Tried many including Nova (my favorite) and they are all giving me a 504 play store error in install. No problems with any other apps but can't get a launcher. Google Now launcher did install but only a few widgets show and none for clock or weather.
2. Tired to add new widgets to standard magic UI - can't seem to be able to do it. Any idea how? Also want to remove home screen weather widget as weather app only show centigrade.
3. Any idea how to assign sounds to email? Can't seem to find that setting. There is a 'select ringtone' setting under mail but turning it in or off seems to have no effect.

Thanks

Apart from launchers, do other apps from the playstore just install?

 

[TGUY25]

pretty much everything else has been fine. I am having some problems getting notifications regularly. They don't seem to come with any consistency. I tried moving from the native mail application to the outlook.com application but it was the same - you don't have as much control over battery/notification settings with this ROM as you do with the standard XIAOMI UI.

Phone says it has NFC but I guess it's not activated in the ROM. I haven't had any problems installing any other programs. Just no other launchers/widgets work.

 

[jkccl9]

pretty much everything else has been fine. I am having some problems getting notifications regularly. They don't seem to come with any consistency. I tried moving from the native mail application to the outlook.com application but it was the same - you don't have as much control over battery/notification settings with this ROM as you do with the standard XIAOMI UI.

Phone says it has NFC but I guess it's not activated in the ROM. I haven't had any problems installing any other programs. Just no other launchers/widgets work.

do you get any errors if you download the apk for nova launcher online and install it?

 

[hammad5507]

do you get any errors if you download the apk for nova launcher online and install it?

yes it was 504 error code and already applied google Solution regarding this error code but not worked or solve the issue.

 

[samanbabah]

Got a magic from China. Beautiful phone running on AT&T with no problems. Have run into a few roadblocks.

1. Can't seem to install any other launchers. Tried many including Nova (my favorite) and they are all giving me a 504 play store error in install. No problems with any other apps but can't get a launcher. Google Now launcher did install but only a few widgets show and none for clock or weather.
2. Tired to add new widgets to standard magic UI - can't seem to be able to do it. Any idea how? Also want to remove home screen weather widget as weather app only show centigrade.
3. Any idea how to assign sounds to email? Can't seem to find that setting. There is a 'select ringtone' setting under mail but turning it in or off seems to have no effect.

Thanks

I can't install ANY launcher! did you ever find a fix for this?

 

[TGUY25]

Never did and got impatient with the phone and sold it on ebay. The most recent update would never download (kept getting communication errors) which I think had to do with the server in China timing out downloading the file. A great phone but not enough support (even minimally) to work outside China (IMHO)

 

[adriansticoid]

Never did and got impatient with the phone and sold it on ebay. The most recent update would never download (kept getting communication errors) which I think had to do with the server in China timing out downloading the file. A great phone but not enough support (even minimally) to work outside China (IMHO)

You did the right thing man. You can get another phone with more support.

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[LakFu]

I can't install ANY launcher! did you ever find a fix for this?

I checked the log, it seems block all 3rd-party launcher..

06-22 11:52:40.505 29168-29168/? I/dex2oat: dex2oat took 3.715s (threads: 4)
06-22 11:52:40.587 1036-1065/? E/PackageManager: Launcher apk couldn't be installed,Package :com.microsoft.launcher
06-22 11:52:40.607 1036-1065/? I/art: Starting a blocking GC Explicit

06-22 12:02:02.560 1036-1065/? I/PackageManager.DexOptimizer: Running dexopt (dex2oat) on: /data/app/vmdl1315735607.tmp/base.apk pkg=com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher isa=arm64 vmSafeMode=false debuggable=false oatDir = /data/app/vmdl1315735607.tmp/oat
06-22 12:02:03.880 1036-1065/? E/PackageManager: Launcher apk couldn't be installed,Package :com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher
06-22 12:02:04.054 1036-1065/? I/art: Explicit concurrent mark sweep GC freed 16740(1027KB) AllocSpace objects, 6(184KB) LOS objects, 5% free, 65MB/69MB, paused 2.289ms total 163.744ms at PackageManager thread CareAboutPauseTimes 1

 

[LastStandingDroid]

I checked the log, it seems block all 3rd-party launcher..

06-22 11:52:40.505 29168-29168/? I/dex2oat: dex2oat took 3.715s (threads: 4)
06-22 11:52:40.587 1036-1065/? E/PackageManager: Launcher apk couldn't be installed,Package :com.microsoft.launcher
06-22 11:52:40.607 1036-1065/? I/art: Starting a blocking GC Explicit

06-22 12:02:02.560 1036-1065/? I/PackageManager.DexOptimizer: Running dexopt (dex2oat) on: /data/app/vmdl1315735607.tmp/base.apk pkg=com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher isa=arm64 vmSafeMode=false debuggable=false oatDir = /data/app/vmdl1315735607.tmp/oat
06-22 12:02:03.880 1036-1065/? E/PackageManager: Launcher apk couldn't be installed,Package :com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher
06-22 12:02:04.054 1036-1065/? I/art: Explicit concurrent mark sweep GC freed 16740(1027KB) AllocSpace objects, 6(184KB) LOS objects, 5% free, 65MB/69MB, paused 2.289ms total 163.744ms at PackageManager thread CareAboutPauseTimes 1

It's because they blocked 3rd party launchers. You need to install it as system app

Only installable launcher is google
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---------- Post added at 01:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:07 PM ----------

pretty much everything else has been fine. I am having some problems getting notifications regularly. They don't seem to come with any consistency. I tried moving from the native mail application to the outlook.com application but it was the same - you don't have as much control over battery/notification settings with this ROM as you do with the standard XIAOMI UI.

Phone says it has NFC but I guess it's not activated in the ROM. I haven't had any problems installing any other programs. Just no other launchers/widgets work.

Notifications are disabled by default you'll need to enable it.

Join evaluation experience and update it and you'll get nfc settings



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[mlee1999]

It's because they blocked 3rd party launchers. You need to install it as system app

Only installable launcher is google
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---------- Post added at 01:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:07 PM ----------



Notifications are disabled by default you'll need to enable it.

Join evaluation experience and update it and you'll get nfc settings



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Hi, I just got a Magic and not being able to install 3rd party launchers or widgets is killing me. Can someone help with the steps on fixing or installing new ROM? Thank you.

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[LastStandingDroid]

Hi, I just got a Magic and not being able to install 3rd party launchers or widgets is killing me. Can someone help with the steps on fixing or installing new ROM? Thank you.

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You'd need to be rooted in order to install 3Rd party launchers

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