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Will huawei upgrade it to Marshmallow??

Was wondering if Huawei has announced that they will upgrade Honor 7 to marshmallow. I have never used any Huawei device and am interested in Honor 7 so want to know how is Huawei in terms of SW upgrades etc. Does anyone in here has any experience of previous Huawei devices. I am really keen to know this as ROM development and SW upgrades are probably the most important aspects of a device's future.

Yes all Huawei flagships will get updated, while non flaships will get at lesser priority as well..
But they won't release as quick.. Rather depending on stability of the new android itself the update will delay and they will release it timed with release of their next flagship. So somewhere from January 2016 to May 2016.. That said, since Huawei is manufacturing this year's nexus things might be different.

As Warea said, we'll have the update.
I think google is going to surprise us with this new Android version, doing a global release for a lot of devices on Day 1.
Rumor says that Samsung has already the update ready for S6/S6Edge/Note4, .... And LG too. It's possible that this year, Google worked with manufacturers to make a global release for Android M because one of the things that Apple users are proud of is that every iOS device is updated at the same time with the same version. I think Google wants to fix that with Android.
We'll see !

is possible, but i doubt it, because on every android version, huawei must include emui new version, and they're veeeery slow making updates . honor 6 waiting lollipop yet in european version, and android m launches at end of this month...

no news yet on android 6, but the chinese editions of honor 7 are getting android 5.1 beta tests. http://cn.club.vmall.com/thread-4989272-1-1.html

pudup said:
Huawei updates really fast. They should release emui 4.0 marshmallow for honor 7 earliest by 2017 or maybe 2018 around the time they release the lollipop source code for honor 6.
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If you look at last year most of phone brands were quick to announce upgrades to lollipop but they delivered only 2nd quarter of this year, while the few who updated quick were left with lollipop bugs.
I'm in no hurry to android 6 because many of the features are already on emui.. So I rather prefer a properly optimized and bug free update, plus significant changes on emui enough to make it feel like an update.

Honor 6
Let's look at the good, the bad and the horrible worst..
The GOOD -
good built up design and hardware
At good price...
Awesome high end specs
Smooth working never lags
Charges superfast..
It's been a year to own a huawei honor 6 and it's still the same as newly purchased.. Quite happy with the product and fully satisfied And I'm upgrading to honor seven.. Just go for it. N its the best available in the market at this stage
The BAD-
-NO SOFTWARE UPDATES needs some improvements in software but no updates provided in India secondly no OTA updates you need to stress yourself to know how exactly to download and install softwares.
-Delayed updates... We hear Google talking about Marshmallow where as lollipop is on the verge and honor devices still running on kitkat.. Yes, lollipop updates were provided to download and install but manually and bro it's time for marshmallow and we here were dying to receive lollipop (stable) yet..
-Indian versions are not provided with the features available to Chinese versions.. Not 64gb storage available no dual Sim available
-Cloud storage available only in China
For honor 7 I guess marshmallow would be available in next year Q1
The horrible WORST -
It's not at all a loyal brand
I can purely tag Huawei as "use and throw" device because,
-WORST customer service support
If anything happens to the device after purchasing it... You just need to dump it in the garbage bin (service centre) without having a hope of recycle and getting it back so just forget the past and look for a new one..
So if you wanna avoid such circumstances you got to handle with care
Else it works great smooth efficient.. User friendly... Great specs and awesome built..
So if you are a person frequently updating your handset go for it.. But if you are a long term user suggest you to go for some good branded devices..
Just my opinion.. And no offence meant.. Sorryyyy

My newsfeed showed me following page.
http://www.themobileindian.com/news...et-Android-6.0-Marshmallow-Update-in-Jan-2016
don´t know how credible this is and whether it also affects the other H7 versions.

Devu21 said:
Honor 6
Let's look at the good, the bad and the horrible worst..
The GOOD -
good built up design and hardware
At good price...
Awesome high end specs
Smooth working never lags
Charges superfast..
It's been a year to own a huawei honor 6 and it's still the same as newly purchased.. Quite happy with the product and fully satisfied And I'm upgrading to honor seven.. Just go for it. N its the best available in the market at this stage
The BAD-
-NO SOFTWARE UPDATES needs some improvements in software but no updates provided in India secondly no OTA updates you need to stress yourself to know how exactly to download and install softwares.
-Delayed updates... We hear Google talking about Marshmallow where as lollipop is on the verge and honor devices still running on kitkat.. Yes, lollipop updates were provided to download and install but manually and bro it's time for marshmallow and we here were dying to receive lollipop (stable) yet..
-Indian versions are not provided with the features available to Chinese versions.. Not 64gb storage available no dual Sim available
-Cloud storage available only in China
For honor 7 I guess marshmallow would be available in next year Q1
The horrible WORST -
It's not at all a loyal brand
I can purely tag Huawei as "use and throw" device because,
-WORST customer service support
If anything happens to the device after purchasing it... You just need to dump it in the garbage bin (service centre) without having a hope of recycle and getting it back so just forget the past and look for a new one..
So if you wanna avoid such circumstances you got to handle with care
Else it works great smooth efficient.. User friendly... Great specs and awesome built..
So if you are a person frequently updating your handset go for it.. But if you are a long term user suggest you to go for some good branded devices..
Just my opinion.. And no offence meant.. Sorryyyy
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Honor 6.....no updates? You mean apart from all the updates it has received to go from 4.4 to 5.1.1
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mgolder said:
Honor 6.....no updates? You mean apart from all the updates it has received to go from 4.4 to 5.1.1
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No.... I received one update that was for emui 3.0 that's all and I hear lots of people updating their firmware but they do that manually.. And not OTA update so I get stuck as I didn't know how to do such updates manually..
But honor 7.. Marshmallow beta would be available from Jan I suppose..
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Kamran9558 said:
Was wondering if Huawei has announced that they will upgrade Honor 7 to marshmallow. I have never used any Huawei device and am interested in Honor 7 so want to know how is Huawei in terms of SW upgrades etc. Does anyone in here has any experience of previous Huawei devices. I am really keen to know this as ROM development and SW upgrades are probably the most important aspects of a device's future.
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What I feel is.. It's pointless in waiting for M update because it's skin emui 3.0 takes it all over the material design and I feel emui is awesome if they keep updating emui..
The lollipop update in honor 6 didn't have much change as the design would remain emui..

Devu21 said:
No.... I received one update that was for emui 3.0 that's all and I hear lots of people updating their firmware but they do that manually.. And not OTA update so I get stuck as I didn't know how to do such updates manually..
But honor 7.. Marshmallow beta would be available from Jan I suppose..
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What I feel is.. It's pointless in waiting for M update because it's skin emui 3.0 takes it all over the material design and I feel emui is awesome if they keep updating emui..
The lollipop update in honor 6 didn't have much change as the design would remain emui..
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Except the ota for the honor 6 & 6+ went out already. So again, saying it had no updates is nonsense.
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mgolder said:
Except the ota for the honor 6 & 6+ went out already. So again, saying it had no updates is nonsense.
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Sorry sir It may be nonsense for people having technical knowledge
And I'm sorry but I forgot to mention earlier that all the firmware updates were never officially by Huawei for "h60 L04" model (Indian variant) if you check out the official website of honor India there are no updates but when you check updates for Chinese model then you will find many software updates on their official site for honor 6 but none of them would end with model "h60 L04"
So on that part I told that there are no updates

Honor confirmed on twitter that the Honor 7 will be updated to 6.0 in Q1 2016.
Date not confirmed for the 6+.

Announcement Android 6.0:
http://emui.huawei.com/cn/portal.php?mod=view&aid=55

waliej said:
Announcement Android 6.0:
http://emui.huawei.com/cn/portal.php?mod=view&aid=55
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looks like PLK-L01 is not on the list....

simo6 said:
looks like PLK-L01 is not on the list....
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PLK-XX is Honor 7 where XX stands for different regional versions. It's the same with P8, the EU version (L01) is not on the list, probably because this list is not intended for European readers!

Marshmallow Will arrive in january 2016.
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Honor 7 to get Marshmallow beta in a matter of weeks => http://www.androidcentral.com/honor-7-get-marshmallow-beta-matter-weeks

chato.pl said:
Honor 7 to get Marshmallow beta in a matter of weeks => http://www.androidcentral.com/honor-7-get-marshmallow-beta-matter-weeks
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Yep, I was at the same event. Beta test coming within the next month and is likely to be run through local forums so Honor can obtain feedback.

flibblesan said:
Yep, I was at the same event. Beta test coming within the next month and is likely to be run through local forums so Honor can obtain feedback.
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I've put my name down (via Honor's PR agency), and once you give your IMEI you'll be sent an OTA update automatically once it's ready. I'll let you all know the progress, but believe there will be a requirement NOT to share the code with others so please don't ask me to extract the files and release the ROM.
Of course, I'm sure someone will...

Any news on 7.1.1?

Anybody heard any news/rumors on when Honor 8 will get 7.1.1 release? Also, is 7.1.1 EMUI 5.1 or is EMUI 5.1 a separate release?
Axon 7 got its 7.1.1 update last week!

Lol, theirs been nothing from Honor for the US H8 sense January. All that's expected from here is a security patch and that's about it.
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clsA said:
Lol, theirs been nothing from Honor for the US H8 sense January. All that's expected from here is a security patch and that's about it.
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I agree. I've seen no signs that Honor has any honor regarding the make believe agreement with XDA (and their customers), but I'd love to be shown how wrong I am ;

Really bad. I bought Honor trusting they will be better at updates. If they don't, then it's to break that trust. OnePlus seems better off now in updates as well (along with Axon 7).

The L-04 is neglected if we are being honest here. The other models got that update to fix the battery issue on Nougat but then we have the L-04 still with a December 1 security update. The others have January...
Still a wonderful phone just that sometimes models get neglected while the others get the updates. However, I hear that they do all their testing in the Chinese forums where a 7.1 build is also.
Sent from my FRD-L04 using Tapatalk

I have the L14 really like the phone but Nougat and EMUI 5 has been disastrous for my battery life. Huawei communication is completely non-existent and disappointing. I am thinking of going back to MM and hopefully they'll fix the battery life. Unfortunately this has left a bitter taste so my next phone may be something else.

Might as well forget about 7.1.1 and hope it gets 7.1.2 at this point. By the time we get an update there will be Android O.

According to HuaweiEMUI page on Facebook(sorry I can't post url because I'm new to here), EMUI 5.1 won't be offered to honor 8 for now, however Huawei will release an update after June this year which includes fixes and feature enhancements.

Yeah updates for Honor 8 was a big letdown, my last honor device for sure.

breezyhill said:
According to HuaweiEMUI page on Facebook(sorry I can't post url because I'm new to here), EMUI 5.1 won't be offered to honor 8 for now, however Huawei will release an update after June this year which includes fixes and feature enhancements.
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So Honor 8 not getting 5.1 or get 5.1 after June? I just need them to solve the terrible battery life on my L14 on B360. This device has been excellent but their "2 year" to upgrades and updates is highly questionable.

To be fair, since honor use their own chip, it will take longer to update. But I'm agree, I expected better from honor, especially after their partnership with xda

breezyhill said:
According to HuaweiEMUI page on Facebook(sorry I can't post url because I'm new to here), EMUI 5.1 won't be offered to honor 8 for now, however Huawei will release an update after June this year which includes fixes and feature enhancements.
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Hi @breezyhill
https://www.facebook.com/HuaweiEMUI/
EMUI Unfortunately, EMUI 5.1 will not be offered to devices that have EMUI 5.0, EMUI 4.1 or lower systems for now. Some of the new functions from EMUI 5.1 will be built into a debugged, featured-enhanced version of EMUI 5.0 that will be released after June 2017. Stay tuned.
EMUI Hi all, at present we cannot provide a definite date on the release for your devices. However, the Android N (EMUI 5.0) updates will be available for Mate 8, P9, P9 Plus, P9 Lite, Honor 8, Honor 6X, Nova, and Nova Plus. If your phone is one of these mentioned, rest assured that we are actively developing and testing the N update to ensure the best performance for you. Thank you for your understanding and patience

I recently got the Honor 8, they need to push out the B380 update to USA users, at least give us some security patches.

frommars6 said:
I recently got the Honor 8, they need to push out the B380 update to USA users, at least give us some security patches.
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It's bad that your having to ask for this as it was Honor USA that worked with XDA to promise two years of updates.
U should go onto Honor USA Google+ group to hassle them for your updates.
Remind them that it was then that made this promise

Message of honor
Hi Luis, EMUI 5.1 will not be offered to devices that have EMUI 5.0, EMUI 4.1 or lower systems for now. Please be assured that some of the new EMUI 5.1 features will be incorporated into a debugged and enhanced EMUI 5.0 release that will be released after June 2017. Thank you for your understanding and patience. stay tuned
Enviado desde mi FRD-L09 mediante Tapatalk

luisjo_ace said:
Message of honor
Hi Luis, EMUI 5.1 will not be offered to devices that have EMUI 5.0, EMUI 4.1 or lower systems for now. Please be assured that some of the new EMUI 5.1 features will be incorporated into a debugged and enhanced EMUI 5.0 release that will be released after June 2017. Thank you for your understanding and patience. stay tuned
Enviado desde mi FRD-L09 mediante Tapatalk
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At least they are giving all of us the same message.
Word for word.
They must have know that we would all be asking this question.
Why we can't have this update ???
They hadn't said

johnhux7 said:
At least they are giving all of us the same message.
Word for word.
They must have know that we would all be asking this question.
Why we can't have this update ???
They hadn't said
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Because they think we are idiots and we will buy newest phones xD

Sheldd said:
Because they think we are idiots and we will buy newest phones xD
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Yep your very probably right

ETA for Nougat 7.1.1 on the Huawei P10 Plus?

Hi,
Does anyone know when we can expect to get 7.1.1 on the Plus?
I'm interested due to the battery improvements brought by 7.1.1.
Thanks!

wondering same here flagship with slow updates like my axon 7 mini

TBH I don't think there will be Android 7.1.1 at all since around September the first devices will already receive Android O and hopefully from that point on it won't be long until we do, too.

Craphead said:
TBH I don't think there will be Android 7.1.1 at all since around September the first devices will already receive Android O and hopefully from that point on it won't be long until we do, too.
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How long will it take for us to get Android 8? Care to guesstimate?

Andrei Morar said:
How long will it take for us to get Android 8? Care to guesstimate?
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Well I'm GUESSING (and hoping!) it will be around November but then again if I look at how long it took Huawei to eventually update all devices with Android 7 it might as well be later than that. It of course also depends which corner of the world you live in. The Europe version of the P9 Plus for example, which I had before the P10 Plus, has received 7 only in MARCH (!) this year... I really hope they are gonna do it more quickly than that this time.

Craphead said:
Well I'm GUESSING (and hoping!) it will be around November but then again if I look at how long it took Huawei to eventually update all devices with Android 7 it might as well be later than that. It of course also depends which corner of the world you live in. The Europe version of the P9 Plus for example, which I had before the P10 Plus, has received 7 only in MARCH (!) this year... I really hope they are gonna do it more quickly than that this time.
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Thanks! I also live in Europe and hope that Huawei get their **** together and update my P10 Plus to Android O in 2017, not in 2018.
The P10 Plus really needs the battery improvements and other under the hood tweaks brought by Android O.

Craphead said:
Well I'm GUESSING (and hoping!) it will be around November but then again if I look at how long it took Huawei to eventually update all devices with Android 7 it might as well be later than that. It of course also depends which corner of the world you live in. The Europe version of the P9 Plus for example, which I had before the P10 Plus, has received 7 only in MARCH (!) this year... I really hope they are gonna do it more quickly than that this time.
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Andrei Morar said:
Thanks! I also live in Europe and hope that Huawei get their **** together and update my P10 Plus to Android O in 2017, not in 2018.
The P10 Plus really needs the battery improvements and other under the hood tweaks brought by Android O.
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My bet is that it will receive Android O around December/January.
Most probably the Mate 10 will come with Android O, and from there, we have to wait 3-4 months for last generation of devices to update.
The same story was last year, with the Mate 9 announced with Nougat and the P9 and Mate 9 updated later in December.
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Honor 8 removed from list from interview with CEO

Hi guys.
I earlier posted an interview with Honor CEO George Zhao that the Honor 8 was confirmed to be recieveing the 8.0 Oreo update.
But since then, the Honor 8 has been removed from the devices which Zhao listed who are being updated.
What are your guys thoughts?

joelyons01 said:
Hi guys.
I earlier posted an interview with Honor CEO George Zhao that the Honor 8 was confirmed to be recieveing the 8.0 Oreo update.
But since then, the Honor 8 has been removed from the devices which Zhao listed who are being updated.
What are your guys thoughts?
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It could mean that even he isn't sure which models are actively testing Oreo or they haven't even started testing it. Until it's put through some type of early tests, they can't release any info.

Haha let's start speculation again.
You right.

I am assuming that he is very well aware of what's the Honor plan in near future. On the other hand it might be later found inconvenient for Huawei to let spread the official statement about last year Honor flagships -
Honor 8 and 8 Pro - are about to receive Oreo which might have significant impact on both Huawei and Honor new models sales (like still mentioned Honor 9 and V9). I think they will release official statement (now they surely have to) after Christmas, probably January 2018, about releasing Oreo for those phones in Q1 of 2018. Who knows Honor would then expect the release of OTA about April to May of 2018 practically.
While there is still a small chance that Huawei could even stop the release of the update if they are afraid of new models sales., I don't think they will play that card for good reason - credibility in the eyes of potential customers.

Where is that list, and where did you got this from?

Snowjack said:
I am assuming that he is very well aware of what's the Honor plan in near future. On the other hand it might be later found inconvenient for Huawei to let spread the official statement about last year Honor flagships -
Honor 8 and 8 Pro - are about to receive Oreo which might have significant impact on both Huawei and Honor new models sales (like still mentioned Honor 9 and V9). I think they will release official statement (now they surely have to) after Christmas, probably January 2018, about releasing Oreo for those phones in Q1 of 2018. Who knows Honor would then expect the release of OTA about April to May of 2018 practically.
While there is still a small chance that Huawei could even stop the release of the update if they are afraid of new models sales., I don't think they will play that card for good reason - credibility in the eyes of potential customers.
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I think that's an excellent argument, it's very possible that their reasoning is a new OS on an older phone will affect sales of a new phone. Wait a few months after the release of your new phone and then push out Oreo to the older phone. The marketing people may be in charge of this theory.

Snowjack said:
I am assuming that he is very well aware of what's the Honor plan in near future. On the other hand it might be later found inconvenient for Huawei to let spread the official statement about last year Honor flagships -
Honor 8 and 8 Pro - are about to receive Oreo which might have significant impact on both Huawei and Honor new models sales (like still mentioned Honor 9 and V9). I think they will release official statement (now they surely have to) after Christmas, probably January 2018, about releasing Oreo for those phones in Q1 of 2018. Who knows Honor would then expect the release of OTA about April to May of 2018 practically.
While there is still a small chance that Huawei could even stop the release of the update if they are afraid of new models sales., I don't think they will play that card for good reason - credibility in the eyes of potential customers.
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Great post! Finally someone using logic rather than just getting butthurt and saying I'm never buying a Huawei and I'm going to sell this ****.
Sent from my Honor 8 using XDA Labs

Not a good sign, that's what I think of

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Honor 8 is popular model which have many people, I think Huawei must make reputation with upgrade to Oreo. In future we can now Huawei will make 2 upgrades and this is good reason for buy this phones and new models
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I agree!

I hope they end up releasing an update for Honor 8. It's a great phone and still has lots of power!

This phone is dead.. no updates, no security patches, 3 year old moto g3 get oreo custom rom , security patches, this phone not even a single update since september... no custom roms as well.. I am blaming brand not the developers...

$lim $hady said:
This phone is dead.. no updates, no security patches, 3 year old moto g3 get oreo custom rom , security patches, this phone not even a single update since september... no custom roms as well.. I am blaming brand not the developers...
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B398 OTA for L09C432 was pushed recently, and
some Croatian users reported B399 started to appear.
B398 includes November security patch.
B399 includes December security patch.
A new one, B401 just appeared on Firmware Finder, I suppose, according to the size, that it is nougat with January security patch.
So, even if I wish there were monthly updates for security, we have security updates.

pix106 said:
B398 OTA for L09C432 was pushed recently, and
some Croatian users reported B399 started to appear.
B398 includes November security patch.
B399 includes December security patch.
A new one, B401 just appeared on Firmware Finder, I suppose, according to the size, that it is nougat with January security patch.
So, even if I wish there were monthly updates for security, we have security updates.
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Great.. then it seems like honor is ignoring Indian model... This will be my last Honor phone..

$lim $hady said:
Great.. then it seems like honor is ignoring Indian model... This will be my last Honor phone..
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They do it all the time, after this the FRD-L09 models won't see updates for a while and all the other models will recieve updates. They did this before and I'm pretty sure they'll do it again. I just don't get why Honor doesn't have one universal model number for all regions like OnePlus or Google.
Sent from my Honor 8 using XDA Labs

ayush rao said:
They do it all the time, after this the FRD-L09 models won't see updates for a while and all the other models will recieve updates. They did this before and I'm pretty sure they'll do it again. I just don't get why Honor doesn't have one universal model number for all regions like OnePlus or Google.
Sent from my Honor 8 using XDA Labs
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this is why you stop supporting them. i have im just waiting to see what the new Sony phones look like but im just itching to buy a oneplus 5t. i bought 3 1+5s for my family but due to the front facing fingerprint reader i passed.
the 5t seems great aside from the lack of expandable storage so i hope the new Sony phones look good.

droidbot1337 said:
this is why you stop supporting them. i have im just waiting to see what the new Sony phones look like but im just itching to buy a oneplus 5t. i bought 3 1+5s for my family but due to the front facing fingerprint reader i passed.
the 5t seems great aside from the lack of expandable storage so i hope the new Sony phones look good.
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Yeah.. even i am thinking about it.. even if there is no stock updates atleast we get custom roms support on sony and one plus phones..

droidbot1337 said:
this is why you stop supporting them. i have im just waiting to see what the new Sony phones look like but im just itching to buy a oneplus 5t. i bought 3 1+5s for my family but due to the front facing fingerprint reader i passed.
the 5t seems great aside from the lack of expandable storage so i hope the new Sony phones look good.
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The reason I really like this phone is cause I got it on Black Friday last year with a bunch of accessories. The price I got it for was alot lesser than OnePlus at that time and honestly for me the current build is pretty stable for my usage (Teen with bunch of social media, YouTube and games).
Sent from my Honor 8 using XDA Labs

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Yeah.. even i am thinking about it.. even if there is no stock updates atleast we get custom roms support on sony and one plus phones..
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sony is great on software in fact its the best due to its large adds a large amount of code to aosp. they use vanilla ui with optimization and if they use a skin its easy to remove thanks to rro.
all oems should follow sony's ui methods. no one likes themes that are hard coded, they just suck! what im hoping is that google bakes security updates into treble so that they can be downloaded through the playstore in the future.

About two weeks ago I sent an Email to the honor support. I asked them about their once made promise to update the honor 8 for at least two years after the release. The answer was that the two years support would only include security updates. They wouldnt give any comment on oreo. I would guess it is rather unlikely that we will get an update to oreo for our device.

Did any US mate 9 receive oreo update?

I sent an e-mail to huawei to ask about this. Here is the reply:
Dear XXX,
We widely appreciate your preference and hope you are doing well. We thank you for contacting us and for showing interest on our products.
We kindly inform you that the update for the Mate 9 to oreo was already released, this update might vary depending the country, continent, location and carriers.
Please wait.
If you have any further questions do not hesitate to give us a call to 888.5HUAWEI / 888.548.2934 english/spanish: monday – sunday 7:00 am – 9:00 pm (CST).
We thank you for contacting Huawei Technical Support, we remain at your service.
J.C.A.
However I couldn't find a proved oreo firmware for us mate 9 (C567). How about you guys?

fairyland4ever said:
I sent an e-mail to huawei to ask about this. Here is the reply:
Dear XXX,
We widely appreciate your preference and hope you are doing well. We thank you for contacting us and for showing interest on our products.
We kindly inform you that the update for the Mate 9 to oreo was already released, this update might vary depending the country, continent, location and carriers.
Please wait.
If you have any further questions do not hesitate to give us a call to 888.5HUAWEI / 888.548.2934 english/spanish: monday – sunday 7:00 am – 9:00 pm (CST).
We thank you for contacting Huawei Technical Support, we remain at your service.
J.C.A.
However I couldn't find a proved oreo firmware for us mate 9 (C567). How about you guys?
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Theres already a thread regarding the C567 Oreo update, if youre up for the task theres a way you can install it
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9/how-to/mate-9-c567-t3705915

XERO_Racer said:
Theres already a thread regarding the C567 Oreo update, if youre up for the task theres a way you can install it
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-9/how-to/mate-9-c567-t3705915
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Can the C567 Oreo could install with Firmware finder, I tried all of them, they are not approved to be installed. I don't want to unlock my phone, it is not safe.

"already released" yeah, officially everywhere BUT the USA version.
I think Huawei is just going to cut their losses that the US government pressured AT&T to bail.
Oh well... Huawei's loss, & if they do, the Mate 9 will be the LAST of the 3 Huawei phones I will buy. No support/updates without having to jack around with it, I'm done.

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fairyland4ever said:
Can the C567 Oreo could install with Firmware finder, I tried all of them, they are not approved to be installed. I don't want to unlock my phone, it is not safe.
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There isn't any "approved" update yet, it seems that the us version will probably be the last to get it if at all.
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p51d007 said:
"already released" yeah, officially everywhere BUT the USA version.
I think Huawei is just going to cut their losses that the US government pressured AT&T to bail.
Oh well... Huawei's loss, & if they do, the Mate 9 will be the LAST of the 3 Huawei phones I will buy. No support/updates without having to jack around with it, I'm done.
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It's their loss, without any support or updates they will kill any possibility of breaking into the us market, this is my last Huawei phone as well.

revjamescarver said:
There isn't any "approved" update yet, it seems that the us version will probably be the last to get it if at all.
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It's their loss, without any support or updates they will kill any possibility of breaking into the us market, this is my last Huawei phone as well.
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same here..coming from samsung and I thought they were bad with updates. You can see on their facebook page people are asking about the update but all they say is wait for it for the last few months and yet they keep on saying they are committed to providing U.S. customers with best possible products and experiences.

It also makes no sense because the Oreo update that's on firmware finder (360) is fantastic. I've been using it since Friday and so far not a single bug or hiccup. My battery life is also better than on Nougat. I haven't even bothered with root this time. I'm on track for 9 hours of SOT on this charge without any special tricks or constantly managing location services and syncing (previously I would get 7.5 hours but I was disabling services and turning off location when not in use). They did a great job with the update. Release it already!
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same here..coming from samsung and I thought they were bad with updates. You can see on their facebook page people are asking about the update but all they say is wait for it for the last few months and yet they keep on saying they are committed to providing U.S. customers with best possible products and experiences.
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tim.malone said:
It also makes no sense because the Oreo update that's on firmware finder (360) is fantastic. I've been using it since Friday and so far not a single bug or hiccup. My battery life is also better than on Nougat. I haven't even bothered with root this time. I'm on track for 9 hours of SOT on this charge without any special tricks or constantly managing location services and syncing (previously I would get 7.5 hours but I was disabling services and turning off location when not in use). They did a great job with the update. Release it already!
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Well afaik huawei isnt the best company on updates.. Been in huawei quad xl before and i thought they already changed but i guess i was wrong. Sad.

This is my first Huawei. Previously mostly had LG phones. The way LG did it was they just stopped supporting the phones seemingly at random, or whenever they determined it wasn't worth the effort. Usually leaving a few large bugs in the last release (such as a terrible battery drain in the last Marshmallow release for the G4, with no way to downgrade). That makes some business sense I guess (not using the resources). In this case, Huawei already developed the update. In fact, there are two version of Oreo for US Mate 9s on Firmware Finder. They've already spent the money. Well, hopefully they'll make it official soon and they're just ironing out some bugs.
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Well afaik huawei isnt the best company on updates.. Been in huawei quad xl before and i thought they already changed but i guess i was wrong. Sad.
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tim.malone said:
This is my first Huawei. Previously mostly had LG phones. The way LG did it was they just stopped supporting the phones seemingly at random, or whenever they determined it wasn't worth the effort. Usually leaving a few large bugs in the last release (such as a terrible battery drain in the last Marshmallow release for the G4, with no way to downgrade). That makes some business sense I guess (not using the resources). In this case, Huawei already developed the update. In fact, there are two version of Oreo for US Mate 9s on Firmware Finder. They've already spent the money. Well, hopefully they'll make it official soon and they're just ironing out some bugs.
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I hope so because their not so old phones wont just get updates before

Guys am new to Huawei device so how do i update my mate 9 (L29C185) to oreo. System updater shows my phone is up to date.
Should I update using Firmware Finder (FF)?, if i update to oreo using FF is there any problem? Or should i wait till i get OTA? Please hlp...

i guess the reason Huawei make US market the last one for the rom update , was want to make sure there is no bugs when the time to do the OTA for US market which is a major one for Huawei. so i am also waiting for OTA

Guess they are holding off "officially" until after the U.S. release of the Mate 10?

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Guess they are holding off "officially" until after the U.S. release of the Mate 10?
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They are and if it is on feb then our updates will come march eventhough their official oreo updates were already released in asia december... Man thats 4 months lol

Burned*Snow said:
They are and if it is on feb then our updates will come march eventhough their official oreo updates were already released in asia december... Man thats 4 months lol
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I decided to rebrand to C432 and get the oreo update, I am tired of waiting, the cell phone has 1-2 years lifetime, I don't want to waste my life to stay with buggy EMUI 5.0 . EMUI 5.0 US B190 has a lot of bugs, and the security pack is April 2017, and the battery can rarely last for a whole day. Rebrand to C432 and enjoy smooth and battery-saving system.

fairyland4ever said:
I decided to rebrand to C432 and get the oreo update, I am tired of waiting, the cell phone has 1-2 years lifetime, I don't want to waste my life to stay with buggy EMUI 5.0 . EMUI 5.0 US B190 has a lot of bugs, and the security pack is April 2017, and the battery can rarely last for a whole day. Rebrand to C432 and enjoy smooth and battery-saving system.
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I don't understand this, I never had any battery problems when I was with Nougat, majority of the users on Nougat are satisfied with the battery life, yes there's some bugs on EMUI 5.0 but not enough to cause any major issues, are you sure you didn't do all the steps like back tracking on what apps were installed and etc.?
I only upgraded to Oreo for the security patch and for curiosity reasons, been having a good device experience so far

Stock mate9 here. I'm getting 7-9 hours sot. It is the best phone I've ever owned as far as battery goes. I just can't kill this thing in a day. I YouTube, game, hotspot, social, maps, and everything else.

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I don't understand this, I never had any battery problems when I was with Nougat, majority of the users on Nougat are satisfied with the battery life, yes there's some bugs on EMUI 5.0 but not enough to cause any major issues, are you sure you didn't do all the steps like back tracking on what apps were installed and etc.?
I only upgraded to Oreo for the security patch and for curiosity reasons, been having a good device experience so far
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When it was on EMUI 5, the android system consumed most of the power, after rebrand and upgrade to emui 8, battery and everything is amazing!

Finally got the official update on my US unlocked Mate 9 a little bit ago! Hopefully everyone else that has been chomping at the bit to get it and didn't want to use FirmwareFinder, etc. will see it soon

Got my update at 9am this morning, performance is definitely a lot better