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[Honor 5X Real Life Review] KoeWaffle:
1 - Maybe a poor choice of words, what I am implying is the availability of complete and sound roms is below my average experience (that being the HTC Leo / HD2, DesireHD and N7000). In due time we might see complete custom roms, but that time is not now and I do not think we can say yet whether it will happen for sure (the developers are not paid to do this).

2 - It has been close for months now, they're waiting on Huawai to release the sources. Some say the sources have already been released but I haven't checked them out myself. For now it is not available and thus I say the available roms are incomplete.

3 - I would, if they want to buy a phone now and have a custom rom as a daily driver (/w all functionality) then it just isn't ready yet. Most people want a custom rom to get rid of the EMUI completely. And no, once you buy that other phone you probably stick with it. So if you want a more vanilla Android experience and don't care about the fingerprint sensor, pick the cheaper phone.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] ElBerretin:
1-Now that's something I can agree with

2-The sources were released iirc, but as you said developers are not paid for this so it's a game of wait and see

3-I would suggest people give EMUI a try for a while after buying the phone. It's not like I love it, but come on; the specs aren't anything out of this world, I know that, so if you so desperately want a custom ROM that you can't wait for a day- just get another phone, don't even consider the Honor 5X, or any phone that comes with a skin for that matter. Besides, the wait makes it more worthwile imo, how can you know how much better a ROM is than EMUI if you haven't actually run EMUI to begin with? Again, just my opinion...
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] pankaj786:
update

not happy with honor..... and dont even know if update comes or not think like jst making fool.......

using honor 5x and 6p from last 4 months have got any update even security patch in honor while in 6p it comes every month...... wer saying that we will get update of android 6.0 in last may but its naw june and no responce.................:confused::confused:

disappointed
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] nrpetonr:
Matter of opinion, I respect yours and fully agree with huawei ****ty update policy. At least they open bl and share some sources,which are, at least on qualcomm based huaweis, usable to some extent. I have different opinion on development strength, I see no problem with using crpalmers base (cm) for other ROMs as it working well w/o bugs mentioned by u. The last real things that are to be fixed are fingerprint (on the way,fixed by surdu petru ) and HDR mode on camera.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] nrpetonr:
Lol, where r good old times when LEO development started and bricks and following recoveries of thosr were daily practice ;)

Yes, huawei update policy is...
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
i was kinda afraid of development due to the fact that it is an honor device,bt now am happy that it has official cm13 and other cm based roms.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] Wolfhawke:
Very premium feeling phone for the price range, good features. Don't care that much for EMUI though, it's a bit iPhone-y and limited.

CM12 and CM13 ROMS are well represented here, and hope to see some Nougat/CM14 love here soon
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jkccl9:
Good support considering its huawei
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] rodolphe06:
A lot of ROMs hère so one for every taste.

If you are flasholic, you can get drunk with your honor5x : )
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jkccl9:
:D:D im a flashaholic!!
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
I made more than 10 ROMs. I hope that's good for everybody. :)
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
good luck with your next ROM
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Much appreciated. :)
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] krispy321:
Excellent development, enough ROMS to play with
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Have you tried some of my ROMs?
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jkccl9:
Yes very nice ?
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Really? You tried?
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] talksickisil:
Well sure its good but we all want more from you bro. Lol....Excited for the possibilities lately either way.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
I wil build atleast 20+ nougat roms in future ..
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jkccl9:
:good:
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] talksickisil:
Excellent!
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
My pleasure
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
Development is pretty strong. A lot of custom roms to try.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Yeah. True story
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
And you are one of the main reason for it. :D
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Lol. Too much of it
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
We really appreciate it.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Thanks ! glad to hear that.:D:D
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] shashank1320:
It is definitely one of the best. Section is flooded with bunch of roms from MM to Nougat.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
I will start the flood with oreo. Currently am not feeling good.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] shashank1320:
Get well soon bro.

Waiting for the flood.

And some for 6X plz
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Only if there is a tester.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
I believe Shashank can test.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Yes. But i should hear from him .
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] shashank1320:
I am always ready to test mate. 6X is my primary phone but if i know the rom is working i will test fot sure.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
great
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] chrisleLP:
Pretty strong development here.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] alimir98:
its pretty good dev doing a good job.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] itisiryan:
We can say development is really alive and kicking. :o
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Would you say that the honor 5X is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the honor 5X exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] vsriram92:
RAM Management is quite poor
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] Romiui:
Same issue with ram management but i have managed to get better performance with CM !:)
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jkccl9:
Lags from time to time
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] thilak devraj:
emui sucks
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jkccl9:
ahahahah
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] krispy321:
Poor ram management, app startup is not that good, emui4 made this ram management even poor. Wish this phone came with near stock android
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Snapdragon really does the job. A perfect SoC for it's prize.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] AtaliaKetch:
'Gets the job done'
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] sniperlife:D:
I love the speed. Overall it's pretty smooth.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] shashank1320:
Moderate and no lag whatsoever. Still doing well after 18 months of usage.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
ram management is poor
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] shashank1320:
Yes it was good till LP.. reduced drastically after MM and further
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
Yeah I dont know whats wrong with huawei.why they cant manage a ram better.....

All they did in mm just add 500mb zram..:laugh:
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] chrisleLP:
Really good after a few hours of reboot. Some lags after that.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] alimir98:
its fine..ram managemnt kills its performance
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] itisiryan:
Custom ROM have way better speeds than EMUI.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] Minions_Army:
Performance is very good running on stock or custom rom
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] Eiradiana:
It's not the fastest phone on the market, but it can definitely surprise you by the overall smoothness in mono-thread. In multi thread, EMUI kills the 3rd app launched. It reminds me of the Jelly bean era with low end phones...

And I found something even more interesting : as a mobile musician, I tried to use iGrand Piano from IK Multimedia and found out the phone has an imperceptible lag (i think it must be around 30ms max, and possibly under) which is really rare on the android market and on this price range. It's really great for choir when you want to quickly find a note. Seeing the potential, I then wanted to use an iRig Keys (mini-keys) with it but the stock firmware doesn't allow OTG. It's unfortunate because the OTG is present in the hardware. I couldn't unlock my phone because the Huawei website never wanted to give me my unlock code. So I got an Honor 9 Lite which was a lot more powerful and had OTG out of the box. What a deception : it had a latency of around 200-300ms out of the box with IK Multimedia iGrand Piano/iLectric. I tried deactivating a lot of stuff but it didn't change anything. Also, the smoothness of the screen is far inferior to the Honor 5x : it has a lot of remanence and although you can launch 50 apps without lag and everything launches 10x times faster than on the Honor 5X, the overall feeling of the screen is really crappy which is a shame for an "evolution".

I finally managed to unlock the bootloader of the Honor 5X this weekend : the Huawei website seemed to have evolved and asked for one more field than before et and it worked when I retried.

So I tried several Nougat OS 7.1.2 : Resurrction Remix, DotOS, Cosmic, and had the same lag (around 200-300ms) as on the Honor 9 Lite. I remembered it was absolutely perfect with the OEM skin on Marshmallow and decided it was more important to have low latency audio than the latest Android version. I tried a Cyanogenmod Marshmallow and a ResurrectionRemix 5.7.4 and it worked like a charm ! Around 30ms, almost imperceptible : it's less than a real organ or than my old Erard piano with bizarre insides and with which I learned the instrument.

So for you all : just check a Marshmallow custom Rom if you need low latency audio on this marvellous phone. It seemed it can be the equal or beat Nexus 6P phones and other high-end devices almost out of the box on this field.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] softkans:
After few months my Honor 5x was very laggy, After i did few tweaks, its now very responsive. Here i shared few tricks it may help others.

Please note i am on stock ROM without rooting.

1. Download & install "Google Go" app from playstore. (light version of "Google" app), uninstall/disable "Google app". I found significant improvement after doing this. (A restart required)

2. Install "Go" apps instead of regular ones. "Maps go", "files go", "youtube go", etc. note these are the latest light weight apps from google.

3. Disable & uninstall un necessary apps, i disabled few apps that i never used. ex: Google play books, google play games, google play movies, google play newstand, google+, Hangouts, Photos, Social Channels, etc.

4. Use only light weight apps, some suggesstions

Holo launcher, (not hola launcher)

Youtube go instead of youtube,

Pixel Music player

Focus Go (Gallery)

5. Allow only necessary apps to run on background. I only allowed whatsapp, gmail, etc. (go to phone manager->battery->protected apps to check)

Note: A restart required after.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jackching:
Never seen much feedback on the oreo roms. How is the phone responding with the oreo roms in terms of lag? Any better then the nougat roms?
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] ahvamaria:
Old thread but thought I would add that putting a new battery in the old beasts increases performance 100%.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
OMG! Kim K posted another selfie with tons of cleavage! Rate this thread to express how quickly apps launch on the honor 5X. A higher rating indicates that even the most intensive apps launch quickly and without hesitation, even if they are no longer in RAM.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] vsriram92:
Good speed unless it is opened already. If it is 4th or 5th app in the recent apps, it reopens it again. i.e RAM management is not great
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
poor ram management:rolleyes:
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jkccl9:
A bit slow
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] krispy321:
Not good
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] mj.vikram:
my phone will take some time to open any app, its almost an year with the phone and now its becoming too slow...
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jkccl9:
Flashing stock rom fixes it for a while
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
App launch speed is fast compared to other midrange phones.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] AtaliaKetch:
Out of 10 scores, I will mark it 8/10 considering it`s price.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Pretty nice score:)
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
not bad i would say.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] shashank1320:
But this is getting bad for me over period of time now. Started the phone yesterday after few weeks now and seeing battery drain as hell. 13% in no time (5 min max) without use :(
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
Ohh that high drain.. Using it for a day two may help.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] shashank1320:
Seems so brother. But 6X is primary atm
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
6x is a good phone..my brother have it.battery backup is good.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] shashank1320:
Yes it is. No issues in 10 months of usage.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] chrisleLP:
App launch speed is a little slow. Maybe because I got used to the 6X speed.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] alimir98:
its moderate
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] itisiryan:
Good speed. No noticeable hangs.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're busy and don't have time to wait, which is why you need to stop reading this thread and get back to organizing your Pogs. Rate this thread to express how the honor 5X performs when multitasking. A higher rating indicates that the honor 5X keeps many apps in memory so that they don't need to reload, and that when moving between apps, transitions are smooth and performance is excellent.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] PalakMi:
RAM management is not good, custom ROMS have a better management
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] vsriram92:
Honor needs to improve great on RAM management. Except RAM, it satisfies us in all terms.

But seems that Honor 8 performs well. It might have improved now. Since we didn feel it in our Honor 5X, we are yet to know about it.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] itsrustlife:
RAM management on EMUI 4.0 is not good, CM13 and other ROMS are much better, they need to optimize/fix the bad RAM management on EMUI for me to see it as bearable.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] methuselah:
well ram on EMIUI is badly managed. No developer has managed to get any good working kernel for the STOCK ROMs. Unlike other phones we have blaze kernel for CM which is kinda good. But when it comes to EMIUI there is nothing for it. Also the huawei crap on official ROMs makes phone lag even in 2gb of ram
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] PalakMi:
That's why they should minimize number of features and pre-installed apps.

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I hope EMUI 5 will have better management :fingers-crossed:
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] vsriram92:
But its the feature that defines the mobiles now, So new features must be welcome. Still they could have done good with RAM management. Its the only area which gets constant negative reviews on it.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] pankaj786:
very poor ram management i only get mac 600 mb from 2gb..... honor should do something regard this.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] PalakMi:
This issue kept me away from EMUI, I hope it gets fixed in version 5.

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But hey, it's good to have custom ROMs :)
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] methuselah:
well linux does not work that way. Free RAM is wasted. Keeping any **** inside makes it ****. And huawei load tonnes of ucking crap things on their ROMs. They should be like motorola ROMs. Pure Caf with some added stuff. RAM is kinda automatically managed in linux. So no need to worry about RAM in linux based system.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] PalakMi:
That's new to me (Linux RAM management).
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] vsriram92:
Oh.. Linux manages the RAM automatically..!!

Honor can't become Moto, Moto can't become honor.

Unlike Honor Moto provides only one software update.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] PalakMi:
moto is great when pushing new versions, but they are not good wgen it comes to patches
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] vsriram92:
Small correction. Moto was great. But not now in the hands of Lenovo.

Moto E2 which was advertised to get at least one Android version update didn't get any.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] PalakMi:
You're correct
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
i could notice a slight gllitch while switching between apps, especially while using large apps and games
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] methuselah:
lol...you doesn't understand what i meant there....did you ? stop crying about free RAM. Android manages ram more better than you can imagine. I bet sometime in past moto g with 1 gb or ram is more flawless frm honor 5x. And never again say about updates.. You can imagine how many updates moto g falcon has got... 4.2,4.3,4.4,5.0,5.1 lol..... That belong to google that time. Try to understand what technically i meant....
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
you are right, i had previously using moto g and it was getting updates like hell mainly beacuse google was owning them at that time!!!!!
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] vsriram92:
Im not saying about the monthly security patches and all.. Just see the basic version. You got the update from 4 to 5 i.e KitKat to lollipop in 5 iterations. Honor also gives similar iterations. But it will be a long term one. Honor 4x started with KitKat and got EMUI 3, 3.1, 4 and now 4.1 soon.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
its actually from jellybean to kitkat and then to lollipop,and it was provided fast(jut some weeks after nexus got their update)

not like a slow adoptation like honor 4x.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] vsriram92:
Im not saying that Moto is not good in updates. People were buying moto for their faster OS updates when it was in the hands of google. And Since it's a stock like ROM, we can expect faster updates in it. But don't expect the same in the hands of Lenovo now. Currently i would say Honor overcomes Moto in terms of OS update.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
yeah, the situation totally changed after lenovo's adoption of motorola, now they lag behind with updates
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Lenovo is ruining moto, especially with verizon exclusives
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] amjl2000:
With L, the available ram was generall around 900mb, maybe more.

Upgrading to M, this is down to around 600, maybe 700 tops.

Its definitely noticeable, feels like only one or maybe two apps can be running at the same time, otherwise apps need to reload from cold (even if they have been set to always run in the background)
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
true, they have made the ram management more aggressive on MM, also the app launch time also has been worse on MM
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] talksickisil:
Ram is emuis downfall. And for the 5x, custom ROMs downfall is battery life from my experience. So basically you have to pick your poison and figure out which is more important: great battery life on emui or great ram management on custom ROMs. Personally I constantly waffle back and forth. I'm back on emui at the moment.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
ram management on emui is worst, lets hope emui5 would make it better!!!
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] vsriram92:
5X Ram management update is said to be improved by B370. So if you are using Indian Version, you will get it soon.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jkccl9:
Still needs to be optimised
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] krispy321:
RAM management could have been better
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
there is a notable change after b370 update
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] krispy321:
I still didnt receive the update
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] venom007:
you will get, its rolled out in phases
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] pankaj786:
ram management is getting better as updates are coming in 370 it is much better
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
I agree. :) Huawei is adjusting it.

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2GB RAM is sufficient for moderate to heavy usage.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] AtaliaKetch:
Personally, I think that 2GB RAM is not enough anymore. Huawei should have least put 2.5GB of RAM and 3GB RAM would be a sweet spot. Considering the CPU of the phone(Low end CPU), more RAM would benefit in Multi tasking. Before flashing a custom ROM, EMUI gave very bad multi tasking. Only able to keep 2 apps running in the foreground but with custom ROMs I am able to store around 3 or 4 apps.

Out of 10 scores, I will score it 6/10.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] PalakMi:
Well, huawei is starting to use 3GB RAM in it's midrange smartphones, which is good
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Its good . But they are using heavy UI which uses half of the ram which is bad
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] shashank1320:
Would have been better if it Has the 3GB ram but multitasking is not bad at all on this phone.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] hassanjavaid8181:
multi tasking is ok
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] chrisleLP:
2GB enough for casual use.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] alimir98:
ram management is bad in this device.so multitasking is not that great
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] itisiryan:
Custom ROM have better multitasking.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the honor 5X under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] pank.dhnd:
Scrolling issue exists on EMUI, which is proprietary UI for Huawei. With custom ROMs like Cyanogenmod, the scrolling works just fine.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] dinkmack:
Scrolling webpages and playstore was pretty bad until I installed Marshmallow. Marshmallow has improved the speed so much. It definitely feels smoother.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jkccl9:
A bit choppy
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] thilak devraj:
not much of an issue, scrolling is smooth, except some little areas, where you can notice a small framedrop..
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] krispy321:
Not bad, google plus hangs sometimes
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] gopinaidu77:
Stock ROM has smooth, sometimes laggy scrolling. CM based ROMs fixes it.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] rionline:
i do not think so. Scrolling is still choppy. I tested CM13 and LOS14.1.

Can someone recommend some kernel?
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jvc73:
For me scrolling at times is really bad, even on latest LOS.

I guess the SOC just can't keep up.

It is incredible I cannot recall having such a bad experience on my Galaxy S3.

I will end up changing phone because of this.
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] rionline:
I understand you completely, but it is not the soc. Cardinal os preforms very well... Aosp... From june does perform well as well ;)
[Honor 5X Real Life Review] jvc73:
Will have to try that then! Thanks!