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[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] renosj:
Thank for reply! Now I tried Reset all setting (under Factory reset) and .....now notifications working!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] letschky:
Yes after Factory Reset works fine with notifications
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] renosj:
No, now I found out, that it is because of Theme. When select defalt Magazine screen lock - its working. When use schem Tou net (downloaded), its not working.....
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] technotika:
Hi All. Spot of bother here. Tried to install my banking app and it failed to load after installing ok. Quick google yielded that any tampering, rooting or unlocked bootloader will be the culprit. So I just relocked phone as per previous few posts. When it rebooted after the relock. I got a message that said my data partion was badly damaged and must reformat. Did as I was told. Then I had option to download latest and recovery or shutdown / reboot. The download option connects to WLAN but fails every time saying packing info failed. Reboot; back to same choices, download latest, reboot or shutdown. If I shutdown and reboot, same as before. Looks like I well and truly bricked it. Any ideas? Thanks
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] technotika:
Found a post here after searching brick (lol) and there is a package you place [dload] on SD CARD and force a update with boot holding volume up and down. Problem is now I can't turn the phone off after re locking it. Just pings back on to a stuck blue honor screen. While wait till power drains and try again. Other than that I think it's toast. Not even sure I'll get my money back :(
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] renosj:
EMUI 5 battery life

As i wrote recently: "Dont update to B332, there is some battery bug, android Nougat drains battery at most! Nothing helped, wipe, hard reset."

Now there is a solution, it was because of SD card. Remove SD card, switch off phone and from recovery boot wipe cache, wipe all data/hard reset. After installation is complete, wipe cache again. Now, format your SD card in other phone or PC and after format insert into Note8 phone. After inserting into Note8, format SD card in this phone as well (I did it so). And now, complete, no more battery drain! Probably there have been some android files from previous firmware (EMUI 4.1, B29) and they caused problem with instant battery drain.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EduMonzter:
thanks, will try

battery life was impressive, now in mm is like a normal phone, 4 hours sot

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[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] renosj:
If your Android 7 system consumes the most energy as in my case, it should be working. I forgot to mention - after insert SD card into Note8, format SD card in this phone as well.... How I found this solution? After trying almost everything, I removed SD card from the phone for an 2 hours and didnt use it. After that I look at the battery consumption chart - voila - almost flat line for 2 hours. I was so happy! When inserted again, battery got worse. I format SD card at this phone, but it didnt help. When I ejected SD card again, no more battery saving, draining was badly as before. I was so desperade, just staring to 2 hours flat chart with no success to repeat it. So, last change was what I described as a solution and it worked! I didnt sleep well because of that for 3 days, trying many thinks during these nights. I was decided not to use phone anymore until new firmware will be available.......:)
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] King Grub:
Hello! I had to register just to say thanks for the suggestion to remove the SD Card. It completely fixed my battery issues with my Honor Note 8 since upgrading to Nougat / EMUI 5. Thanks again!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] letschky:
I think this fix not the Battery Issuees.

I have the HN8 and since Android 6 B017-B332 and always the same SD Card with the same Files on it. I have never formatted my SD Card.

I have never the Problem with Battery Issues or Battery drain
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] King Grub:
Maybe if you DO see the negative effect on battery life the upgrade to Nougat people have reported it is a possible solution. If you don't see degraded battery life after the upgrade, obviously Maybe whatever causes it, leftover files or whatever, doesn't happen to everyone during every upgrade. It happened on my Note 8, and the difference is clearly noticable after removing the SD card.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] technotika:
might be able to fix my phone using the force update package from the SD card. I have got one from this thread but must be for EMUI4 as the error says its not compatible with current version (at least it tried!!); I updated to EMUI5 before this mess. If any one has the DLOAD package for EMUI5 for sd card recovery that would amazing. Here's hoping..thanks!!!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EduMonzter:
se me here, with sd card never formatted, all stock from B017 to B332 but having battery issues

will try removing SD card after work

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[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] technotika:
Sorry for blasting this thread but finally I have recovered from a brick. And you know what? Some how...I really couldn't you...I am back on 4.1! I used the updates in this thread containing the update.app files. Between the 2 I kept trying and trying and it kept failing. Then things looked really bad as got red writing all over the screen at boot telling me the device verification process failed and will not boot. Then one time it just booted into this Chinese Keyboard as part of the recovery process and I had no idea what it was so I just typed anything and hit return. Then somehow it all went through. Wish I could tell you this step for step as on this journey I read you cant go back to 4.1 from 5? So glad not to have wasted a ton of cash!!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ch.esperado:
Just to confirm I'm using a SD card with one of my two SIM card glued on it, the same way than with my old Mediapad2. To be clear, two SIM *and* a SD card working in the same time.

And a funny story: I had (without any reason) my phone rebooting near each hour. Boring. So I decided to reset-it to factory. When done, my phone was ... in Chineese !!!!

And, of course, the stupid developpers had Hidden the language setting (the most important of them) on the sly in the very depths of the parameters (advanced-> language and inputs ->), Changing the ICONs to be sure Nobody can find-it. I Asked for help to several chineese in my city, all lost, before to find one of them used to the Huawey madness !
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ecoach:
Default laucnher keeps coming back even when Nova Launcher installed??

Hello

i got my Note 8 last wednesday.

Excellent phone.

It imediately updated to Nougat and EMUI 5

Now there is the problem.

I installed Nova Launcher (Premium) and it all workd fine.

Did it according the standard app settings etc.

But.... after a while (can't put my finger on it when exactly) the EMUI standard launcher is active again!

What setting i change, it always keeps coming back, even after half a day or so.

Can anybody help?

This is a real bugger and now it looks like i have to root......

Thanks.

Ray
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EduMonzter:
you have to set default launcher in settings/apps/default apps

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[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ecoach:
Thanks, but i did that.

Still after one hour or 4 hours or whatever time, there is EMUI Launcher again :(
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] edit:
Can show us some pictures please? Once you insert the cards sandwiched together can you take out easily or there a struggle there?

Have you shaved off the cards​ to make them thinner before glueing them together?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EduMonzter:
I am using nova launcher prime with no issues

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[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ecoach:
Did you do something with permissions or so??
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EduMonzter:
no, all stock

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[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] moviehunter2009:
Me too...no problem.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ch.esperado:
Of course, here they are.

Yes, no strugle.

You have to:

1- Remove the plastic off the printed circuit of the micro SIM you want to glue. (using some flame with caution).

see what I did for my mediapad 2 (i Use the same assembly) : http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/gsmgps...staller-telephone-seulement-sujet_30272_1.htm

2- Very Optional: shave with some soft sand paper a very little height of the spherical bulb of resin that protect the integrated circuit itself in order to save some thickness

Tip: try with some free prepaid sims to ensure you know how to not go too far. Touching the chip itself will destroy-it immediatly. So only do-it with lot of care if you have to strugle too much to insert the assembly in the phone.

3- Glue the two chips together with some Cyanoacrilate glue, helping-you with an adhesive tape to keep them in place (See picture 2) .
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] edit:
Thank you for the pictures and hints.

I might try but don't think i have the needed skills
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] juwel1998:
notification light for whatsapp not working

Hey everybody,

haven't been on here since a long while.

Some problem with my lovely phone came up....

The notification light is not working any longer when I receive a new whatsapp message.

If I get a call the light works fine.

I can recall I have changed something somewhere concerning whatsapp, but I cannot remember where I made the changes.

Can you specialists please help me with that.

Thanks in advance.

Greets,

Julia
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ch.esperado:
The 3 points menu in WhatsApp: "Parameters" ->"Notifications" then hit again on the 3 points : "Reset notifications" (something like this, my Whatsapp is not in English).

If it don't help, look at the permissions (Rights of the application).
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] renosj:
Hi everybody, one question for you. What about phone idle battery consumption, my is very high at Nougat 7 B332, same as display, its just me?Thanks in advance for your answers...
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] juwel1998:
notification light for whatsapp not working

Hello ch.esperado,

thanks for the help, but it didn't work out.

Where do I find those permissions? I really have no idea.

Greets,

JULIA
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] edit:
Overnight, 8-9 hours, with BT on, mobil data 3G always on, gmail active 1 account, WhatsApp active, my battery goes down only 2-3% max.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ecoach:
Did you switch on/off Bluetooth?

When i do that i have my phone set EMUI as default launcher every time.

If i should root my phone, is it then possible fix this?

If yes, how?

Thanks

Ray
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] moviehunter2009:
no problem with Bluetooth too... i used it all the time.. and root is not necessary to have nova as default.. im not rooted at 5 but i will soon. Something else is the problem with your phone.. software problems.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ecoach:
Thanks for your answer.

I did a factory reset.

Installed playstore (I am in The Netherlands)

Installed Nova Launcher Premium.

Set the default launcher according the instructions.

Then removed the Chinese apps i don't use.

That's all.

BT toggle? EMUI launcher back!

What did you do to set up your phone? And what region you're in?

Ray
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] King Grub:
I lose about 2 % overnight.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] billu:
I lose around 16% overnight. That's with airplane mode enabled which is absolutely pathetic.

Hope they bring an update quickly to fix this.

---------- Post added at 08:41 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:38 AM ----------

How did you update yours? Mine was just an OTA but I did have some huawai apps disabled before hand which seem to still be missing, so maybe it needs them after the update to function properly.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] renosj:
Did You try to remove SD card? I think its one of the main reasons for battery drain.....
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] billu:
I had the SD card ejected from the settings without it physically removing it, which didn't make any difference.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] King Grub:
Through the phones update function. I did a complete factory reset afterwards. That wasn't exactly fun, since it reverted to Chinese and it took some guesswork in the Settings to figure out how to change it back, then to download Google stuff again through HiApp from Chinese servers with a speed of 2-3 kB/s. But it's been working very smoothly since then. "Close apps after screen lock" doesn't seem to work properly, but I have read others having the same issue, so that might be a general bug.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] renosj:
I cant guarantee it, but try procedure at my post #1123, it helped to many users. Still, I have to say, even after that procedure (it helped a lot), when I eject SD card, phone idle battery consumption got little bit better. Dont know the exact reason, probably some application is searching SD card for some reason when phone is sleeping....I found this behaviour at others phones with Nougat 7 as well, so, it seems to be a bug of Android 7....
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] billu:
Ok thanks King Grub and renosj, I rather not hard reset and have the hassle of reinstall everything.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] renosj:
I understand, but good battery life is one of the most important features. At my case I wanted to not using phone until some fix will appear.... You can use Huawei backup for application and settings, it saves a lot of time after hard reset. On the other hand, I am not sure if restoring from backup doesnt bring a risk of restoring settings with the same bad battery situation like before hard reset, really not sure :). If you can live with it, OK, wait until next official update is released and we will see....
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] edit:
Like i said in a previous post

So : overnight, around 8-9 hours, with BT on, mobil data 3G always on, gmail active 1 account, sync on, WhatsApp active, sd card in 128gb samsung, formated exfat my battery goes down only 2-3% max.

After i upgraded to the latest I did a reset, wiped everything and reinstalled everything. My phone is the 64gb one...
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] letschky:
Same here,but i have 128 GB Sandisc SD Card.

Over Night lose 3% in 10 Hours.(64GB Version)

Mobile Data and Bluetooth is on.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] goeybones:
is anyone having problem with honor note 8 in granting access to sd card, im having error in grant access for my jet audio and power amp, and it was working fine before update the phone to nougat
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TITAN-23:
New KANGVIP Custom Rom EMUI5.0 B332!!!

Note8 EMUI5.0 B332

900 MB

EMUI5.0 Android7.x

Kangvip

2017.04.06

Rom

http://club.huawei.com/thread-12495077-1-1-4102.html

TWRP

http://club.huawei.com/thread-12494407-1-2.html
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ivanox1972:
whereto download?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ecoach:
OK forgot to ask: do you have Chinese version/firmware or International?

Seems International version does not have this bug.

Where would i become the international firmware for the note 8??

Cheers

Ray
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] edit:
This phone is made for the Chinese market only and it does not have an international firmware in the true sense and most likely it never will. Huawei somehow managed to make the firmware pretty decent considering that they allow you to install Google play store and let's you update the phone.

For instance Samsung A9 it is made also only for the Chinese market but it does not have and does not allow you to install Google apps... Also the phone can only be updated while you are in China, if you check for firmware updates OTA while you are outside China it can't contact the server.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ecoach:
OK thanks

But then i do not understand why some Note 8 users have no problem running Nova Launcher without having

it switch back to standard EMUI Launcher..... :(

What a pain of a bug this is!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] billu:
A question to those without any excessive battery drain in Nougat, how much SOT are you getting per battery charge?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EduMonzter:
I made factory reset to the phone in the Stock recovery and battery is back again [emoji3]

try the last option in nova settings, aggressive desktop

about 8/10 hours just browsing and texting, 5/7 hours playing games

after factory reset those results are back with nougat rom

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[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dawhell:
Same here

Everything stock

I made factory reset before upgrade to B332 and after in the stock recovery

SOT about 7/8 hours. Data, GPS and 4G-LTE always on
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] billu:
Ok so after getting fed up with the idle battery drain I bit the bullet.

Another issue was that I had blocked phone manager (in EMUI 4.1 via debloater to get the notifications working properly) and wasn't getting the battery management options of the phone even after the update to EMUI 5.0 which was annoying me.

So I:

1) Removed the SD card from the phone (made a copy of all photos/documents/multimedia stuff) and formatted (exFat) via the PC

2) Used HiSuite app on the PC to perform a full back up.

3) Used HiSuite to revert back to B029, EMUI 4.1 (yes you can downgrade via this phone management utility). It was a full standalone package (around 1.7GB) This gave me back all the original Huawei components i.e. phone manager etc.

4) Hard reset/cache wipe [by the way, on boot up, the first thing it asked was to select the language (sensible thing to do) so no messing around with trying to find the option in Chinese.]

5) Used the OTA option from the phone to go back to B332 EMUI 5.0 [over 2GB] followed by a hard reset/cache wipe

6) Restored all apps/data from the earlier backup. (Now there was a risk of the problem returning due to this but I thought I'll try it this way first anyway)

7) Placed the SD card in the phone and formatted it again. Then took it out and copied the photos etc back via PC and placed it back in the phone.

Overnight the battery went down just 1-2% (with airplane mode enabled) in 5 hours! (It was a short night as you can imagine having done all the above beforehand)

On the negative side, I am also getting the Huawei launcher kicking in each time I connect to a device over Bluetooth. I am using Go launcher.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ch.esperado:
I too had an issue, after having my note 8 updated to EMUI 5.0 & Android 7.0.. My phone was rebooting with no reason 5-7 times a day. After an hard reset and re-install of my apps, everything was working again. During this work, I was wondering if the developers made the language setting so well hidden on purpose or if they are just stupids !!!

This entry, which should be first and in several original languages (at least Chinese and English), because you cannot do anything if you cannot read the parameters menus, they not only hid it in the middle of an unlikely menu, but they removed the known icons that allowed to "Locate-it" in the middle of all these Martian characters.

To make a long story short, I was obliged to ask for help several Chinese people in my city, and even for them it was impossible to find the menu until I met one, having a Huawei for himself.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] billu:
Yes that's no good, I wonder why I was given the choice of language first up for both ROMs yesterday (B029 and B332), maybe it was an international version as there was a list of other languages to chose from as well apart from Chinese and English.

I had a contingency plan had I came across the same problem as you did, which was to take a photo of the menus from a different phone and use the google translate app which can scan text from a photo and translate.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] billu:
Now I have got the dreaded no notification problem again, this time on EMUI 5.0.

Notifications only work if the app is running in the background.

How is everyone getting their notifications working? There are so many settings to potentially change, having tried most I could think off but no luck.

On EMUI 4.1, only way that worked for me was disabling phone manager via debloater tool. The tool doesn't recognise any apps on this build,
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ivanox1972:
Any app you move from data/app to system/app will work without exception [MENTION=1255102]letschky[/MENTION] give me that hint
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] billu:
Can you please elaborate on how you do this?

Do you need root access? My device isn't rooted.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ecoach:
Question: I am on Nougat now by automatic update.

What is the proper way to root this phone?

And is rooting the solution to keep my Nova Launcher?

If yes, how can i accomplish that?

Thanks!

Ray
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ch.esperado:
Here the solution i found to use EMUi launcher very close To NOVA.

With "ICON changer free", you can create several icons of the same Apps. then order them in folders that I class by usage.

From this screen, I can launch all my apps:
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ivanox1972:
Install viber WhatsApp... normally. Then use some file manager to move complete folder from data apps to system apps. Root Explorer is best, it keeps permissions as was. You mast haver rooted phone of course
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ivanox1972:
I tried kangvip for note8. It has similar problems as stock, not localized for out of China, but it is better the stock.. With some additional work.

Btw. I got perfect mount of data partition every time, jus on any other samsung phone for example where it works perfectly. Installed 3.1 twrp, and it not mount data. Then again 3.02, same as I have. And by miracle it works perfectly.

One question, where can I pick normal huawei keyboard to replace this Chinese. It is good keyboard but not possible to delete Chinese influence in it
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ch.esperado:
Oh !!!!

BTW, Have-you noticed how good is the sound out of this phone ?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] CptAwesomeTT:
Anybody else notice there's a new firmware available in ff?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] edit:
I'm on B332 and if i search for a new firmware it says : no update
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] CptAwesomeTT:
Of course it is unauthorised but b350's presence on ff means that it should be just a few days before we get it via ota.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jetherson:
I'm using "xposed-v86-sdk23-arm64.zip" and I don't have any boot problems.

Could it be that your problem is in one of your modules?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hjfisch:
I'd use the same and sometimes , when I reboot , the modem did not start.

This also happens to some other guys using Huwei phones with EMUI.