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[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] kwongwt:
I have been using the Note 8 for 3 weeks.

It's a nice phone and a bit bigger than I thought. I have used the Mate7 before so I expect there won't be a lot of difference since its only .6" bigger - but it's actually closer to the X2 than the Mate7/8.

I have the 128G model and it costs me about $425 in Hong Kong. The phone looks nice but I think it's not as "premium feel" when I hold it side by side with my Samsung Note 7. It comes with Google framework pre-installed so all you need is to download Google apps from Huawei's App store.

I logged on to Huawei Club for like 10 days and I received the unlock code easiely. (You'll get the code directly from the unlock request page now - no need to wait for the email.) I'm still looking for a reliable root.

The reception of the phone is good both in Hong Kong and China with 4G+ and VoLTE (its displayed as HD now) when they are available.

There are about 10 Huawei apps and some of them you can disable in the menu. The app permission manager is actually quite good - you can disable permission requests of apps one by one.

The CPU/GPU is fast in daily use. I don't play much games besides Clash of Clans and Clash Royale so I don't know its performance with high demand games.

The camera, while not as good as the Samsung, is OK for snaps. 1080p videos are good too, but it cannot take 2/4K videos.

The speaker is loud so sharing videos with friends is OK.

The 2K mon is bright and contrast is good, but its not as readable as the Samsung under bright sunlight.

I think for price tag this phone as very very good, if you need a big screen.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Racerdude:
Honor Note 8 unloading apps too quickly?

It looks on this youtube video like the Honor Note 8 unloads apps too quickly and when they're started again they restart from scratch (slowly). Have any of you who have purchased the phone experienced this?

There's a video on Youtube showing the problem called "Huawei Honor Note 8 vs Galaxy Note 5 Speed Test - YouTube". I can't link to it :(
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hjfisch:
Hello ,

No prob like this , but I cannot establish a wifi-direct connection to my Smart-TV.

Drops before finished.

mfg , hjf:eek:
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hjfisch:
Hello ,

Finally unlocked the Bootloader.

Now I need to root , but could not find any information how to do.

There is a chinese forum , but that's not my language.

mfg . hjf
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pgruebele:
I experience this problem. Swiping an app away kills the process regardless of whether it is running services etc. In general EMUI is obnoxiously agressive about killing apps. In an app i am developing none of the callbacks are being called as would normally be the case when the activity or service is halted. By default it also pops up all kinds of annoying warnings about battery hungry apps.

I hope Huawei fixes this because it is somewhat crippling.;
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hjfisch:
Hello ,

Push the right software-button and pull the app that should not be killed a little bit down.

Then a little padlock appears wich should be closed by this action.

In the phone-manager press the battery icon and then go to protected apps.

Pull the slider of the services that shouldn't be killed.

Somewhere in the settings(don't know where now)you can disable these popups for each app.

It takes some time to configure this phone.

mfg , hjf
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jdantow:
Hey All..

I seem to be stuck on B017, and I can't seem to get myself off to any other version. I've wiped a million different ways and flashed using several different methods. Any other version results in just bootloops. Has anyone else dealt with this? I'm sure its very simple but I can't seem to figure out why. B020 and B022, tried different versions of these... cant seem to get anything other than B017 working.

Thanks!

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BTW, some button combos that I didn't see anyone mentions

1. Plug into PC, THEN hold VOL- and Power will put you into bootloader/fastboot mode anytime

2. Hold down all 3 buttons will put you into e-Recovery mode
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
I'm currently running it myself with no real issues, I clean flashed it over BO22 after wiping everything but internal storage and then doing a factory reset wipe, after that TWRP installed it without any error and it finished booting after just a few minutes. I then used the GAPPS installer I mentioned earlier, and was able to get everything working except for Google Contacts sync, which still refuses to work for some reason (still playing around with that).

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I went ahead and posted a thread here for keeping track of available ROMs, if there are any more worth adding let me know and I can download more.

I figure the more threads we can create for the Honor Note 8, the better. At some point we'll gain enough to merit a forum, but until then let's gather as much info on this device's development as we can, and make any appropriate threads to keep track of it.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jdantow:
Have you guys seen this?

http://consumer.huawei.com/cn/support/mobile-phones/honor_note_8_cn-sup.htm

I just downloaded the zip file and it looks to be the kernel for the Note 8? Can anyone confirm and try downloading the zip file there as well? There are 2 PDFs then a ZIP file.

Thanks!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
I can't download it right now, but great find!!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
Translation says kernel. So I'm sure it is the kernel.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jdantow:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B90Yol0GZ4h3SXlwME52VFYxTEU

Here is the link. I threw it up on Google Drive :)

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Hey All,

So I have gotten really really good at recovering from the edge of hard brick. As mentioned earlier, it seems that this phone is really hard to brick. No matter what situation you find yourself in, you can follow the below steps to recover:

1. Turn phone off

2. Hold down VOL DOWN and POWER, plug phone into PC, phone will go into fast boot

From here, you can either:

3. Find the B017 on this thread and run the FLASH ALL.bat file to revert to B017 version

or

4. enter: fastboot flash recovery ______.img (the filename of your TWRP in the same folder as ADB/Fastboot)

5. enter: fastboot reboot (before you hit enter on this command, already begin holding down VOL UP and VOL DOWN at the same time, and the phone will automatically go into TWRP recovery.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] xIf22raptorIx:
Hi from france

I actually have really nice speed there. Even though there is no 800MHz used in france but it actually grab the network really fast and don't lose it.

ps : The download speed is lower than usual there because there are alot of people around me connected at the same time and it reduce my bandwidth :D.

[IMG="speedtest in france (lyon)"]http://xdaforums.com/picture.php?albumid=13712&pictureid=54468[/IMG]
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Apo11on:
Don't really understand the point or purpose of your post, or what "there" in your first sentence means...We were talking about speeds specifically in San Diego, CA USA and on T-Mobile USA network, where HHN8 doesn't support any available LTE bands and therefore can only do HSPA+. What does your speed in France, on a French carrier have to do with anything?...No one is questioning HHN8's general abilities - Kirin 955 SoC does have an excellent CAT6 LTE-A 350Mbps/50Mbps modem.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jdantow:
Change to English UI in TWRP - Just in case anyone didn't know how to do that and was frustrated with the Chinese UI

TWRP has two columns of 4 buttons, 8 buttons total. I have labeled the buttons as per their position as below:

1 2

3 4

5 6

7 8

Click button 6 to go to the Settings, then click on the "Globe" icon on the top right, then switch to english and click the button in the bottom right corner to confirm change.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mmjs14:
@ xIf22raptorIx, I purchased the international version i am selling my unit its still brand new i am not really too happy with it its rooted and TWRP added price is $400.00 if anyone is interested send me a message
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] turnjet:
Is it possible to upgrade from EMUI 4.1 to 8?

Also how long is it taking you guys to quick charge your phone from near empty?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
There's only one version, EDI-AL10, the chinese version.

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8? There is no EMUI 8 or Android 8 yet either. 8 what? The phone has the updates in Settings -> Updater. They're in chinese tho. :)

I haven't paid attention to how long it takes to charge. I want to say 1.5 hours but since it has such a good battery, I've always just plugged it in before bed each night & even then, it's usually still at least 50% of a charge still left on it.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mmjs14:
Exactly the one I have. EDI-AL10. I am in the united States I would consider this phone an international version ?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
It's not... it's chinese. :-p
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
Where did you find the international version? I wasn't aware that it had been released yet.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
Seriously? Read the next post or 2. LOL
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
Ha figures the thread hadn't loaded past that...
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
ROFL! Sure...
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
My WiFi is currently out as AT&T is working on it for my building, and my apartment has spotty cell service, so my phone didn't load the remainder of the thread for some reason. My apologies if my question to him upset you due to you already calling him out on it...
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
It's not the end of the world.. it'll be ok. :)

Was funny tho!

Now go build a rom for us! :silly:
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
Ha after you bud, I don't have much dev experience with ROM creation...
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
& I have non... we're DOOOOMED!!!! :(
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
Once we gain some traction and compile enough active development for this device, I'm hoping we can persuade the "powers that be" to create a dedicated forum for the Honor Note 8. Once that happens, we should hopefully see some developers become interested enough to start contributing ROMs.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
I did make a guide on how to root & unlock the bootloader. I figure that was a start. I've been asked by a number of people other places about it so now at least I can just link it.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
Yeah I figure the more we can contribute resources like that the better, at some point we'll have enough collectively to create a full forum with.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] turnjet:
My bad, was confusing EMUI with MIUI from Xiaomi. :eek:

Is it okay to use the Samsung Note 8 QC charger? The one I got with the Note 8 has different plugs and not a fan of using adapters.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
You're time traveling again... Samsung Note 8 comes out next year. I'm sure most all usb chargers should work just fine but I'm pretty sure only the Huawei one will do the quick charge for some reason. The others just do a normal charge.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] turnjet:
Thanks again! I'll get a travel adapter tomorrow and report back my findings.

It's crazy but after only an evening with the Honor Note 8, I'd pay double the price for it. For me, the phone is much better than the Samsung Note 7 (I still haven't given it back yet, wanted to compare the two). The stylus and camera is missed but IP68 and iris scanner are the only other things I can think of that the Note 7 has. The Honor, on the other hand has a bigger screen, battery and much more responsive software in the EMUI compared to Touchwiz. :good:
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
The Note 7 did have some better things like camera, wireless charging, NFC & LTE. The camera is the only one I don't like to give up but the Note 8 is faster, smoother, bigger screen, better speakers, metal body instead of freak'n glass... The list goes on! All that for less than 1/2 the price! I'm very happy with mine. I actually like the EMUI surprisingly enough. Not as the launcher but all the other things it ads is rather nice looking. Hated TouchWiz with a passion!!

My only worry is the Xiaomi Mi MIX that just came out is going to take up this market for a screen this size & the device's development before it even gets started.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] turnjet:
Completely agree. The dealbreaker for me is the MIX has IPS. As soon as they revealed that I went straight out to get the Honor! The S821 will be a nice bump over the Kirin 955 though. Not sure if I'll like the bezel-less design but again more than happy for the Honor to keep me going until well into next year. Don't think I could drop below 6" now. :D
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
IPS... meh.

I don't know.. I've read both. That Kirin is faster & that Snapdragon is faster. I ran the same things side by side with the Note 7 & Note 8 & the 8 did a lot better! So I'm inclined to believe it's the faster one. BUT... my Note 7 had a ton of T-Mobile & Samsung apps on it & that could be what made it feel that way. Knox can't be helping it speed up either. So I really don't know & don't think it's a big enough difference to matter.

They hype building up on the Xiaomi Mi Mix tho, is hard to ignore recently. I like the bezel less design. Always thought that's how it should be for phones. They don't need it like a tablet, where you grasp the edges a lot. We'll see when they start coming out what happens. It might completely over shadow our Note 8. :(
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] turnjet:
AMOLED>IPS all day for me.

At least we'll have an extra .2 inches. e-peen!

One question, could you get Google Contacts Sync to work? I installed it, gave permissions but it didn't work.

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-contacts-sync/

All the other Google apps like Play Store and Calendar work. In the end, I just imported my contacts from my Note 7.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mmjs14:
Posting this again if anyone is interested I have the 128gb version of edi-al10 price is $400.00. let me know
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ajwillingham:
Try this. Make sure the permissions are set correctly.

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...6-0-2280749-android-6-0-android-apk-download/
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
I had a hard time with those too & ended up just transferring them over bluetooth. Don't know what was causing it. Both phones I got had to do it that way tho.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
I finally got my Google Contacts to correctly sync but I'm not sure just exactly what did it, so here's everything I did:

- I first used Titanium Backup to convert Contacts Sync into a System app

- I tried re-allowing all permissions for the app and anything Google-account-related I could see (I was desperate)

- I used Root Explorer to rename the Contacts Sync APK (now in system/app/) to GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk

- I fully rebooted. Still nothing.

- I then copied that APK into /system/priv-app/ as well, still named GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk

- I went back into permissions and went crazy trusting everything Google-related again.

- I rebooted again.

- I didn't see a "Contacts" option under any of my Google accounts yet, getting fairly annoyed

- I say "screw it" and do something else on my phone

- A bit later I get a text message and realize I can see the person's name...

- I check back into Google account settings, and Contacts are now showing as a selected option

- I look into my Contacts app, and VOILA! I have contacts again.

Hopefully this can help you too.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] turnjet:
Cheers fellas, I finally got it working by installing Google Accounts Manager 7.0 with the Google Contacts Sync Aj linked above. I then gave everything permission and restarted. Voila!

Next issue, how to disable it asking for your password on restart instead of going directly to fingerprint? Can't find the setting.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
It'll always do a pin or password on reboot. Can't change it. If that's what you're talking about.

Google accounts manager huh... interesting! Never ever would have thought to install that.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] turnjet:
What may or may not be strange is that the Google Account Manager has no data or cache.

Can anyone confirm this is true for them?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jetherson:
I can confirm that xposed FingerprintEnabler does NOT work for our phone :(
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] juwel1998:
Hello ajwillingham,

where do I set the permissions? - Just in case it doesn't work.

I don't have the phone yet. I had ordered it last Monday - 10/24/16.

I ordered it from Wondamobile and they claim they install everything in a way that - in case updates come along,

1st I get them and all Google apps will still work including syncing of Google calendar, contacts and gmail.

Let's see what will happen.

Greets,

Julia
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ajwillingham:
Settings ---> Permission Manager ---> Click Trust This Applications or individually check the permissions that you want to allow
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Damisa-Sarki:
Are there any backups or any prerequisites I must or should do before unlocking my bootloader and rooting?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
I did not backup anything. But see next post. :)

(duplicate post I posted in my root/unlock thread)
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
Unlocking your bootloader will wipe the device; factory reset for sure, and I believe it also erases your internal storage (don't quote me on that though, not sure for this phone), but your OS will remain whatever stock version you had installed until you flash something else.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
Forgot that did that. Oops! I'm so used to titanium back up having to have root that I never backup anything before rooting a device.

Changed my posts incase someone doesn't read the next ones. :)
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
Ha no worries, I almost forgot too when I unlocked mine as the last few phones I've had were already rooted (thanks to Swappa sellers). Thankfully I didn't bother doing anything with the phone until I'd unlocked it, so I honestly have no idea if it wiped the internal storage when the bootloader unlocked.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
Yeah I can't remember since it was a month ago when I did it. I do remember not backing anything up at all tho cuz I rely one root for backups. I have yet to find a decent backup that doesn't use root.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] benmeroff:
Yeah same, I've been using Titanium Backup Pro for years now, I have it scheduled to automatically backup every night to Google Drive so I don't even have to think about it anymore; whenever I get a new phone I'm nervous doing anything with any apps until I can get Titanium Backup working again lol...
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] clownmodes:
Superback up and helium are pretty good for nonrooted devices
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riffy504:
I've tried both & they both are horrible compared to Titanium.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] clownmodes:
They are not replacrments.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] gubbilo144:
I'd be interested, do you have it on swappa.com with pics.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Damisa-Sarki:
Does anyone know if there is going to be an 7.0 update for this phone?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] gn0s1s:
Shouldn't be any reason it won't, since p9 is going to 7, same Kirin processor, should come out for the note 8. When exactly is the more pertinent question... Hopefully in January or February... Before the p10 is released. I think mate 9 is 7.0 at launch. We'll find out Nov 3.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ajwillingham:
Honor said that they are going to give the Honor 8 updates for 2 years. Hopefully it is the same for this phone.

At the very least, I'm hoping that development picks up and we can get a port from the P9 or Mate 9 when it comes out.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Damisa-Sarki:
OK, thanks for the info I've been Googling it and I see post saying that it's already out and to download it but no one here was talking about it in the 44 pages so it threw me off.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EduMonzter:
emui 5 is coming

https://mobile.twitter.com/HuaweiEMUI/status/792984524888084480

Enviado desde mi EDI-AL10 mediante Tapatalk
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mmjs14:
I have been thinking about it for the last couple of days. I revoke my claim to selling the device sorry.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Damisa-Sarki:
Help, everytime I reboot into fastboot mode and try to unlock the bootloader its stuck at "waiting on device"
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cashif:
Dont boot to fastboot mode using fastboot command. Connect USB cable while holding Volume Down+Power key and you will boot to fastboot and PC will recognise the device as I faced the same issue with P8max.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Damisa-Sarki:
Ok, I got it..now my last uestion. When I try to install the twrp recovery.img it doesnt work..in stuck right after the bootloader gets unlocked..the instructions I found dont didnt plan for this screw up.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] snakelordx:
I have a 128gb gold model with B022. I have done the unlocked process with DC Unlocker. It says unlocked. When I use the "adb reboot bootloader", it shows white screen - Fastboot&Rescue Mode with green "Phone Locked" text. The same goes when I used the Volume - + Power Button + Plug USB cable. What can I do? Thanks.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mmjs14:
Question I do have does anyone know about a possible camera hack for this device that would be fantastic
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] snakelordx:
Solved it. Had to get the bootloader code from DC Unlocker and "fastboot oem unlock xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Damisa-Sarki:
How would you even install this zip?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] moxiot:
this device deserves its own section already
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ajwillingham:
I opened a thread for Apps and Themes for the phone.

http://xdaforums.com/general/general/honor-note-8-themes-apps-mods-t3494008
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Damisa-Sarki:
Thankyou for this I really appreciate it. This phone seems to be on mute when it comes to XDA.. Hell when it comes to life in general.. There's nothing on it.