If you're a Mate 20 owner and not getting the EMUI 9.1 update, set region to China

[ca12bon]

Like the title says, every website out there was telling me that EMUI 9.1 is available to a plethora of Huawei devices. Needless to say, when I wasn't able to update my Mate 20 Pro through the HiCare app (or any other method), I was frustrated, and contacting Huawei support only came back with a generic response that didn't help at ALL.

I took a wild guess, and changed my region from USA --> China, and voila! Update was instantly available...

So yeah, if you've set your region to USA or any of the other countries China might have a beef with, they will not let you update to 9.1
Hopefully this can save some of you the headache that I had to endure

 

[chester2011]

got it in hicare app but thats it, no update in settings

 

[crixley]

Doesn't work

 

[Hally79]

Definitely doesn't work

 

[lummujaj]

Doesnt work

 

[francescnogales]

Doesnt work

Doent work. Me 2

Enviado desde mi LYA-L09 mediante Tapatalk

 

[TheMasterBaron]

Setting to Coasta Rica worked for me. I'm in the US.

 

[oslo83]

@ca12bon not usefull, not working.

 

[BlechBoX]

Germany

In germany it seems to be available
h**p://imgur.com/a/glcb5sr

 

[buncina]

Update via HiCare

I've deleted HiCare app before, today installed again. Tried to set region to China, Costa Rica, no update. Then changed back to Croatia, accepted few permissions and voila, update did came and currently is downloading.

h**ps://imgur.com/V13ZSqc

 

[ca12bon]

permissions might be another one.

for myself, I wasnt able to get update no matter what, so I backed up my phone first, then did a factory reset, and THEN finally changed all regions to China (in HiCare app as well as the phone settings).

Might not work for everyone but just providing some possible solutions

 

[NobleMonkey]

I've deleted HiCare app before, today installed again. Tried to set region to China, Costa Rica, no update. Then changed back to Croatia, accepted few permissions and voila, update did came and currently is downloading.

h**ps://imgur.com/V13ZSqc

What do you mean deleted?? You mean deactivated??

 

[buncina]

What do you mean deleted?? You mean deactivated??

Probably yes (over ADB), and downloaded new from version from google play, installed and got 9.1. Much faster phone, face recognition instant, new camera great. Overall now satisfied with phone, until now almost unusable how it was slow sometimes.

 

[jimgb17]

Got my Update today in uk region via hicare app :good: updating Now as i speak.

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[whtgrizzly]

Like the title says, every website out there was telling me that EMUI 9.1 is available to a plethora of Huawei devices. Needless to say, when I wasn't able to update my Mate 20 Pro through the HiCare app (or any other method), I was frustrated, and contacting Huawei support only came back with a generic response that didn't help at ALL.

I took a wild guess, and changed my region from USA --> China, and voila! Update was instantly available...

So yeah, if you've set your region to USA or any of the other countries China might have a beef with, they will not let you update to 9.1
Hopefully this can save some of you the headache that I had to endure

When you switched regions, did you have to register your account in that region?

 

[charliebigpot]

I put mine to UK and it worked, about 2-3 weeks ago.

 

[frorgaba]

I've tried with many countries but nothing works !

 

[ca12bon]

When you switched regions, did you have to register your account in that region?

Nope, I just changed the region to China. Just to make sure, I changed the region in the "HiCare" app itself, as well as from the phone settings.

 

[zolaisugly]

Nope, I just changed the region to China. Just to make sure, I changed the region in the "HiCare" app itself, as well as from the phone settings.

How do you change region in phone settings?

 

[frorgaba]

I asked Huawei France about the EMUI 9.1 update and they wrote me back that they have no details about the update.

"Je fais suite à votre mail à propos de la mise à jour EMUI 9.1 sur votre Huawei Mate 20 Pro. Je tiens à vous informer que jusqu'à présent nous n'avons toujours pas eu de détail sur le déploiement de la mise à jour 9.1 sur le Huawei Mate20 Pro mais une fois disponible vous serez notifié."