Haven't received latest OTA update yet? You are lucky..

rakesh2002

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For those who haven't yet received updates, know that the delay in rollout is good for you..how? you may ask:

OTAs intentionally start very slowly, both in terms of numbers and in terms of timing. The goal is to try to identify catastrophic failures that wouldn’t have been found in testing. Those things can happen, unfortunately. From the point where a phase of the OTA is sent out, it takes at least 2 days to collect enough information to make a decision about the next phase.

Phase by phase, the OTA gets exponentially deployed to more and more people, up to a point where enough people are running it to be able to extrapolate even rare issues to the entire population, at which point the flow gets much faster.

The point of going phase by phase is explicitly to be able to stop the process in case something goes wrong, and that’s why there can’t even be an ETA.
 
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blackspp

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Maybe that is so, maybe not. Did you receive this information from the horse's mouth directly or did you just made this up?
Not saying this could not be a strategy though.
 

rakesh2002

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I got this info from here : this is for Google though

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ausdro...pdates-and-why-they-are-slow-to-roll-out/amp/

You must know that Huawei software development teams, or for that matter any phone companies for their respective softwares, are constantly looking into and collecting feedbacks from popular English and Non-English community forums including XDA. That's why we need to participate actively and state out even smallest of bugs. OnePlus burnt it's fingers by inserting data snooping codes last year, so they will leverage as much as possible on community forums for feedbacks.
 

charliebigpot

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For those who haven't yet received updates, know that the delay in rollout is good for you..how? you may ask:

OTAs intentionally start very slowly, both in terms of numbers and in terms of timing. The goal is to try to identify catastrophic failures that wouldn’t have been found in testing. Those things can happen, unfortunately. From the point where a phase of the OTA is sent out, it takes at least 2 days to collect enough information to make a decision about the next phase.

Phase by phase, the OTA gets exponentially deployed to more and more people, up to a point where enough people are running it to be able to extrapolate even rare issues to the entire population, at which point the flow gets much faster.

The point of going phase by phase is explicitly to be able to stop the process in case something goes wrong, and that’s why there can’t even be an ETA.
I got this info from here : this is for Google though

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ausdro...pdates-and-why-they-are-slow-to-roll-out/amp/

You must know that Huawei software development teams, or for that matter any phone companies for their respective softwares, are constantly looking into and collecting feedbacks from popular English and Non-English community forums including XDA. That's why we need to participate actively and state out even smallest of bugs. OnePlus burnt it's fingers by inserting data snooping codes last year, so they will leverage as much as possible on community forums for feedbacks.
Maybe you are right but you should not generalize: if you know of any specific failures with any specific updates, please share that instead.
Also, the article you reference to is from 2013 and speaks about Google and their Nexus devices - Huawei and other companies might do their own testing before rolling out OTAs.
 

kaibosh99

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Meh, updates don't mean loss of power or features. If anything this is the most rock solid phone I have ever had, and as for raw performance - they have already found a very nice balance off efficiency. The Kirin 980 is crazy efficient, I do question just how aggressive the memory management is but I haven't seen performance throttled for heat or anything. We may be missing a few key features still (at least here in North America), but I'm still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. It doesn't seem like Hi-Vision was snipped because it was buggy, it is probably just the adjustments for the Western market that are holding it back. The only 'bug' I've seen is that wi-fi seems to slow down, toggling airplane mode seems to 'reset' it but I'm hoping updates make this better.
 
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For those who haven't yet received updates, know that the delay in rollout is good for you..how? you may ask:

OTAs intentionally start very slowly, both in terms of numbers and in terms of timing. The goal is to try to identify catastrophic failures that wouldn’t have been found in testing. Those things can happen, unfortunately. From the point where a phase of the OTA is sent out, it takes at least 2 days to collect enough information to make a decision about the next phase.

Phase by phase, the OTA gets exponentially deployed to more and more people, up to a point where enough people are running it to be able to extrapolate even rare issues to the entire population, at which point the flow gets much faster.

The point of going phase by phase is explicitly to be able to stop the process in case something goes wrong, and that’s why there can’t even be an ETA.
This feature can be used when charging is urgently needed, very good.
 
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asidhowz

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Stuck on .122 have a SIM free phone so not carrier locked, got the phone in Ireland but am travelling over the last few months, no update is showing, either on the phone or hi care on pc.. anyone know the story?
 
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