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[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Apo11on:
Per the advice of senior XDA moderator I'm creating this thread for *All Things* Huawei Honor Note 8 phone. This phone does not yet have a dedicated forum, so you can discuss here anything from development topics, such as rooting, bootloader unlocking (there is a working method already), custom roms/recoveries to exchanging opinions about performance or accessories for this phone, which you like.

Honor Note 8 is currently released in mainland China only. However, Honor stated the phone will have international release soon.

Please note, this thread is *NOT* for Huawei Honor 8, which is completely different phone. Stay on topic and have fun. :good::laugh:

http://www.honor.cn/products/mobile-phones/honor-note8/

6.6 inch Super AMOLED display with 2560 x 1440 (2K) resolution

HiSilicon Kirin955 chipset with Mali-T880 MP4 GPU

4GB RAM (Premium Version)

Up to 128GB ROM (Premium Version) and up to 2TB expendable storage

4500mAh Battery

Dual SIM

Primary camera: 13 MP, f/2.0, autofocus, OIS, dual-LED (dual tone) flash,	Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama. Video recording 2160p@30fps

Front camera: 8 MP

Fingerprint

USB Type-C

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, WiFi Direct, hotspot

Bluetooth v4.2, A2DP, EDR, LE

GPS: A-GPS, GLONASS/ BDS (market dependant)

FM radio

Marshmallow 6.0.1 with EMUI 4.1
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] JohnnyF118:
First post by me

I have an old Galaxy Note 3. I'm in the USA on Verizon. I've been drooling over the Honor Note 8 since I first heard of it. It's exactly what I want. I cannot get a straight answer online on several questions.

1. Will it work now on Verizon? Most say no, some say yes.

2. Will it come to the USA soon? Again, I'm getting different answers on this.

3. Are there 'tricks' I can learn to force this phone to work well on Verizon now very well, or should I just wait?

I'd prefer to stay on Verizon, but I'd switch to AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile if I have to in order to use this phone.

I'm not a tech wiz, so I'll need some help here. If you can answer my questions and guide me, I'd sure appreciate it. Thank you very much. ;)
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] toasty32:
Proud Owner of the Huawei Honor Note 8

Hi All,

So having lived in China for a while and having owned and used Huawei phones in the past (my last Huawei Phone was the massive Mediapad X1), I can testify to the quality and advantages of huawei smartphones.

First, I've had this phone for about a week. I ordered it off of aliexpress. I'm pretty familiar with making purchases from chinese websites and getting technical support from chinese companies and sources so i was pretty confident with making this purchase (I can read/write mandarin). Phone arrived super fast and I was happy with the purchase.

Right now I'm working really hard to root my device. I have already unlocked the bootloader using the dc-unlocker method and it worked perfectly (btw, its cheaper to download the app and pay only 1 usd instead of 4 euros). I'm literally scouring the internet and all the chinese websites for news on different roms, but very little luck thus far. I have downloaded some different versions of the operating system (ver. B017 only, as B018, B019, and B020 are not yet available as far as I've seen) but these versions are not boot versions. So no luck there.

I've also spoken directly with Huawei regarding when they will release the updated factory versions of the operating system for download from the EMUI website. There is no confirmation that they will even release them however, as the answer I received was that Huawei wants to move to a system in which all updates are OTA. I was a bit upset to say the least but we'll see what happens in the future.

For now just enjoying this awesome phone. feel free to ask me any questions.

-chris
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Racerdude:
1. You can check on a site called willmyphonework.net

2. You can buy it on ebay

3. Don't know

---------- Post added at 07:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:03 AM ----------

Helllo,

I have two questions:

1. What's the audio output like through the headphone 3.5mm jack?

2. What's the camera like?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] toasty32:
To answer your questions:

1. The audio output is excellent. Crisp with perfect amount (not too much I hate that) of base. The volume goes loud enough (using the jack) to hurt my ears, and that's hard to do.

2. The cameras on Huawei phones are usually very good to excellent. This particular phone does not sport Huawei's top camera (I think that might be the Huawei P9 plus or the Mate 8. But again, those phones are much smaller and focus on high quality cameras. This phone's advantages are its size, screen quality, CPU and memory. The camera is very good but definitely not top top quality. It doesn't focus instantaneously for example like some galaxy cameras, but I think it's good enough. I'm not THAT into photography.

3. ALSO**** just so everyone knows, I bought this phone because I wanted to use the latest CAT6 4G LTE speeds in Brazil (where I currently reside) and in China. I'm American though btw. The version I bought in its current form from China does NOT support the LTE bands commonly used by AT&T. Its bands are (1,3,7,38,39,40,and 41). Thus, 3G is the fastest speeds you would get in the US with AT&T. But it will be 4G in Europe, South America and China. If the phone is sold in the US market, Huawei changes the LTE bands to suit the target country's market, so I'm sure the bands for any US or International version of the phone will have different bands.

-chris
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Apo11on:
Some corrections/clarifications to what Racerdude and toasty32 said. First, no one will be able to answer questions about Verizon, because Honor did not announce this phone for US market yet, and it also did not pass through FCC certification. Having said that - most likely the answer is No, it will not work on Verizon. Typically, what Huawei, ZTE and other Chinese manufacturers do when they bring phones to North American market - they don't strike a deal with carriers and they don't release carrier branded phones, like Samsung, Apple, LG and others do. If you want to take past behavior of Chinese manufacturers as an indication what Honor will do - they will just release GSM only (no CDMA, hence no Verizon or Sprint) US version of Note 8, with all North American LTE bands enabled, and let people decide whichever GSM carrier they want to use it with. Honor just did this exact thing with Honor 8 phone in US a couple of weeks ago.

What toasty32 said about this Chinese version working in Europe and South America is not completely true - this Chinese EDI-AL10 version has only one overlapping TDD-LTE band 38 with some of South American carriers (most don't use it), and some European countries support LTE bands 3,38,40 so in some Euro regions 4G will be spotty at best, and in many places won't work at all. Here is the list of operating LTE frequencies by country and carrier

US T-Mobile requires LTE bands 2,4,12 (and optional band 17 used by AT&T because FCC requires them to support roaming)

US AT&T requires LTE bands 2,4,5,17 (and optional band 12 used by T-Mobile because FCC requires them to support roaming)
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Apo11on:
bootloader unlock

I've used dc-unlocker before and had to pay 4 euros to read bootloader code. Do you mind explaining what you meant by this, what app are you talking about and how to pay only $1 USD instead, to unlock bootloader?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mottyengel:
i've done some research into this and followed up with some other threads with people who bought the phone. Forget the different phone frequency websites, this phone will not get you what you want in the US. No LTE. Some carriers like tmo will get you 3g/3.5g hspa+ but that's the best you'll get and not a smart move. I'm also desperately waiting some any big phone to come with US compatible bands but as it seems now, we're still waiting..
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrcpa:
Hi everyone, i write from Italy.

I always loved big smartphones and this would be one of the best right now.

Unfortunately, i think that Honor won't bring in Europe.

I talked to their FB page, and they wrote me :

"Hi Marco, we don't have official news to launch the honor note 8 in Europe. If we have any plans, we will announce at once on our page, thank you - If you buy it from China, Well.. Then the warranty and post-sale service would not apply elsewhere but China" .

I'm a bit disappointed actually, i really don't understand why this amazing phon is sold just in China and they said " We don't know either" ... GOOD :D
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrcpa:
Guys, on the web i saw that the camera sensor is the Sony Imx 278. (Same of P8/Mate S/G8) ...i'm a bit disappointed because i didn't love this camera sensor in the past...what do you think ?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cashif:
Can you guys update from which seller in Aliexpress you bought from?

I paid for the phone last week and it has been 7 days but no update from the seller. Today I cancelled the order but Aliexpress have rejected it stating Seller has the phone in stock and order cannot be cancelled. The sad thing is Seller is not responding has 40 days (33 now) to ship the order (I did not see this while ordering). I ordered because seller was the Highest/most reputed seller while sorting and had DHL shipping. Any ways to resolve?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ori...2722895630.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.56.UCIAcX

Edit: Avoid this seller at all costs!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Apo11on:
I'd tell Aliexpress to F*** OFF and do a chargeback with your credit card company. People should be allowed to cancel orders, for items which havent shipped, at any time. I'd also recommend to never buy from that marketplace again. Use places like Amazon, or at least eBay, where things are controlled more tightly and these US headquartered businesses will not screw you over without explanation.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] toasty32:
My experience with AliExpress and UPDATE on ROOTING

Hi All,

So to answer the question regarding Aliexpress....I purchased from this store/seller here:

.aliexpress.com/store/1802347?spm=2114.13010608.0.126.x0uHsw

and in particular, this product:

.aliexpress.com/item/Original-Huawei-Honor-Note-8-4G-LTE-Mobile-Phone-Kirin-955-Octa-Core-6-6-2K/32714180113.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.129.x0uHsw

I used singapore expedited shipping (super cheap) as it was one of the few options I could use to get expedited shipping to the US considering there was a lithium ion battery being shipped internationally.

I cannot stress how pleased I was with both the seller and the service. I understand that Aliexpress may have a bad reputation because it is a foreign/chinese website and doing business internationally is almost always more difficult that doing business domestically, but that being said, I do want to be fair, and when I do have a good experience, I'll promote it. Like any mass seller website ebay or otherwise there are going to be good merchants and bad ones. Luckily I found a good one.

cheers,

chris

UPDATE:

I was able to finally root this phone with the help of some Chinese programmers (from bbs.xxroot.com <--- the Chinese equivalent of xda developers haha). More details to come.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Apo11on:
Just wanted to point out that Aliexpress has bad reputation not because it is a foreign/chinese website, but because that reputation is well deserved. I personally got scammed for over $300 by that site years ago, and I personally know several people, who got screwed as well. Also, if you do a bit of internet research then like you said - you will discover that marketplace has a bad reputation, and for a good reason - there are plenty of people's testimonies of fraud. Aliexpress is nothing like eBay - scam/fraud rate is orders of magnitude higher.

If you want to take the time and post the root guide for the rooting method you used - I'm sure it'd be much appreciated by a lot of people here, who have or plan to buy this phone. Also, you didn't answer my question from earlier post about how to avoid paying 4 euros to dc-unlocker for unlocking the bootloader.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrcpa:
How can Honor put the same camera of Huawei P8 (Just sufficient) in a phablet with 4gb of Ram DDR4, Kirin 955, QHD Screen....c'mon..
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cashif:
Damn. That was my preferred seller. While ordering, it showed processing time of 5 days, so decided to skip it and went with the Highest rated seller (Who has/d not mentioned processing time in the listing) and whose feedback was filled with positive reviews about quick shipping.

Have purchased more than 75 times from AliExpress (atleast 20 expensive items) and this has been my WORST experience for me. Everytime, Orders were shipped either next day or 2 days after and I generally order expensive items thru DHL/Fedex and have had it with me within 10 days. On the contrary, had very bad experience with ebay- both as seller & buyer- and have completely stopped using it (Lost close to $1200 while selling).

Order Update: Seller has mailed me apologising for delay and stating he will ship ' asap' but Still no commitment- (He replied after I bombarded him with messages)

[MENTION=2200247]chris-[/MENTION] Do update with the root method. Am so happy that it has been rooted as one of the reasons I tried cancelling the phone (other than obvious delay) was that you mentioning no root and someone mentioning about it not being launched in Europe
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Apo11on:
This sounds a lot like Aliexpress advertisement. I bet it's because you sell there yourself, and want people to use it. I'm glad it allegedly works fine for you, but I myself and a lot of people I know would never go near it. Regardless, this is kind of off topic stuff, not related to Honor Note 8, so I suggest we move on.

If anyone can post a root method, or free/chip bootloader unlock method - that'd be very much appreciated. And if someone car figure out a way to mod NVRAM and unlock additional LTE bands in this Kirin955 chipset - that'd be a home-run! :D
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cashif:
Just to clarify I used to sell in Ebay not AliExpress and I have no relation/business whatsoever with AliExpress !!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] toasty32:
So it sounds like it's been a while since you've actually used AliExpress. If that's true, than I have to say that it has changed and improved a LOT from 5 or even two years ago (not perfect of course). I hate to sound like an advertisement as well though but I do want to be fair. I think you should probably try it again to see for yourself because you're missing out on a lot. But your decision.

In regards to unlocking the bootloader: A little while ago DC-unlocker had a promotion on their website because they had just released their android app on the play store (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dc.huaweibootloadercodes) and I remember seeing that there was a discount in prices for people who used the app. I took the bait, clicked the link and downloaded the app. Opening up the app on my phone I saw that there was the option to purchase a DC-unlocker account directly for $0.99. This as opposed to buying credits directly from their site. I purchased it and it worked. You guys should definitely try it.

Finally, it cost me a bit to finalize the rooting of my phone (50-100 RMB) especially because I downloaded some software tools from bbs.xxroot.com that they developed to unroot it. Also, it took a LOT of conversations (in mandarin haha) and several painful mistakes to figure out how the hell to root my phone. I am going to describe in a future post exactly what I did in detail but I'm not sure how much it will help people. I'll keep everyone posted.

cheers,

chris

P.S. please click thanks if you guys find my posts helpful! thanks.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] toasty32:
So I'm pretty sure I'm hated at bbs.xxroot.com right now. But I succeeded....

check it out --> drive.google.com/file/d/0By2RD6aSQhsNb1NqRnFEd2VMcDA/view?usp=sharing

gonna work on trying to unlock additional LTE bands (if possible).

cheers,

chris
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cms062407:
hey, why does it say your screen is a 1080p screen? I thought they were 2k screens? Does the 32GB only have a 1080 and 64GB and 128GB have 2k??

thanks!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jetherson:
"ROG power saving"
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cms062407:
Ahhh okay, that's good to know. I get my Note 8 on Friday. Pretty excited.

Just gotta read through this thread again to see if anyone mentioned a way to root and install twrp :)
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jetherson:
You might notice i'm running FSBI. So, yes, rooted and has xposed and TWRP. :)
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] generic2:
Anyone have any ideas about this?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jetherson:
I'll try to install gof2 later tonight. I don't use greenify because system's power-saving feature is already great (albeit aggresive). Too bad I bought Greenify ages ago, lol. I'm using Lightning launcher and I dont have permission issues.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] generic2:
Ok may dump greenify for the time being. try to install anything big over say 70-80mb. would appreciate your feedback and anyone elses. Cheers. Useless if I can't install anything.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jetherson:
FYI:

Currently, I have these installed, consuming listed app+data:

JW Library @ 594MB

Facebook @ 434MB

Messenger @ 343MB

etc..
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] generic2:
Ooops My mistake not 70-80mb 700-800mb cheers
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] generic2:
Ok I think Iv'e suss'd it!!! you have to let google play do what the hell it wants in the permissions list. Basically allow it full access. Then it downloads and installs apps as it should. Just thought I would post solution in-case anyone else is having the same problem. I do not like this EMUI
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jetherson:
Yes. I think it has something to do with EMUI's awesomely annoying ultra-aggressive power-saving feature.

I have already reached 700mb+ on the installation part.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jetherson:
After I saw the added "b.t.w. you should do a full wipe before you start.", I decided to stay on "hit-or-miss-reboot" B020 for now.

Thanks anyway.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] generic2:
Funny 'cause I tried to download Kodi and it would get to no more than 23.59mb. Then Google Play would shut down every single time. This is what prompted me to look into permissions on Google Play. Must remember this in the future if an app behaves weird.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jetherson:
I got dizzy playing gof2 :eek:
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] generic2:
Ive yet to play it. Downloaded a few now. Can't believe it was just me having that problem lol.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EduMonzter:
You have to grand permission to storage to play store app

Enviado desde mi EDI-AL10 mediante Tapatalk
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] moviehunter2009:
Hello everybody.... i bought it from eglobalcentral and after 2 weeks... they sent me the silver one although i ordered the gold version.. they re so stupid and totally unprofessional..

Well i read this forum here about rooting the phone

but although i have many Huawei phones now i have pro with unlocking the bootloader... the site (for unlocking the bootloader) tells me that i have 14 days to login to my account but that's not true.. i have 2 more phones connected to this account and i log in from them to upload photos and back up regularly.. anyone have a solution for this?

I cant login from this phone because i have to use " fake gps" program which needs root to work.. so im stuck in the... begging of the rooting progress.. the "unlocking the bootloader"

Also...can someone put on the first post the files for the root ...i am on B022 after an update..will the recovery work with this version?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] alecmim:
:svetius: modified InCallUI with bigger contact picture.

Just update ur existing one and replace with the amended one with proper permissions.

Enjoy... :D

Don't forget to hit thanks
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Apo11on:
You can get bootloader unlocked for a buck using this. Get the email with bootloader code, then reboot to bootloader and type this in ADB: fastboot oem unlock <code>
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] moviehunter2009:
Thanks..ill try it.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] letschky:
vivo X21 UD Battery too weak and Micro Usb,no USB Typ C,no Lte Band 20 (800Mhz) for Europe,550€ price too high

Oppo R15 with Helio Cpu few updates,Battery too weak and Micro Usb,no USB Typ C,no Lte Band 20 (800Mhz) for Europe,460 € price too high

Ulefone T2 Pro,no Amoled Screen,supposedly comes only in August, there are too many problems at the moment.

Unfortunately, there is nothing big good at the moment.

I'm still on the Honor Note 8 and I'm waiting for Android 8
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ivanox1972:
Yes, boss. And treble project with it...
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] letschky:
I bought a Maze Alpha x to test it.

For 200€ a good phone for this Price,6GB Ram,helio P25,Good Battery 3900maH,with Lg Screen LCD but very good.Stock Android and Micro SD Slot or Dual sim.

But all new Devices with the same 18:9 Format and 6 Inch,this is very small for me
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ivanox1972:
It should be 7 in, if wide format. Definitely
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] letschky:
Yes same here
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] edit:
How it's the new battery? I want to order one from the same guy but only if it's good ...as close in qualify as the original one.
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] letschky:
The battery is good whether original or not I can not say.

Looks like original and the performance is good.

Fast Charge works as before.

After 43 Hours use i come up 8 Hours 30 Minutes SOT,with Android 6 certainly better but I have not tried it.

I'm totally satisfied!
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WhySoSeriousJoKer:
Yeah and don't forget the ugly notch, i realy hate it. I want a big screen without cuts. I have the Oppo R11s Plus also, but ColorOS sucks (ColorOS 5.0 is a little better). LineageOS on it would be nice :)

https://xdaforums.com/t/oppo-r11s-plus
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] facet_:
Hi, I have a huge request, I dumped too quickly from the rom package responsible for changing the ringing tone and SMS and I can not change it, can someone give me the name of the application or package that I support?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] letschky:
Did you delete it?

Did you restart and tried again to set it?

With me that was already but with a reboot of the cell phone, it worked
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] facet_:
I uninstalled but I do not know what, the restart will not help much
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] notsure7:
Please, tell me can i install "LRS v2.5.0 Honor Note 8 B356" on EDI-AL10C233B358 software version ? No one responds in ROM thread anymore :/
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] letschky:
Yes you can
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ivanox1972:
Honor 10 appears this week and unknown honor on May 15.

Maybe some note, max... Finally?
[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] facet_:
I ordered VIVO x21 thighs I will pass the relationship