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[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] user_57439:
We can bring down part of the settings and notification panel with a swipe down on the fingerprint sensor. However, we can't fully expand the settings by swiping down again. Instead we have to swipe down on the screen itself. This isn't that big of an issue, but it doesn't feel fluid.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mr.jelly:
I'd love to see more functionality in the Smart Key, more gestures and more customisability, for example to tasker profiles and such.

Less preinstalled apps would also be great, or why not a more stock like appearance? Quit messing with Google’s design and just focus on killer features like the aforementioned Smart Key!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Nicolfa:
An option to hide the bottom navigation buttons, a good black /dark theme option for those of us who don't need the bright white all the time and a few other minor tweaks.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] biobyte:
1) connected wifi/devices in notification screen

2) widgets on lockscreen

3) better control of notifications on lockscreen

4) more control of smartcover screen,( no wallpaper setting, no notifications, )

5) more quick buttons

6) smaller dpi (shame of a big screen with a to big ui)

more will come
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] johnhux7:
I would like to see an easy way for using the SD card more.

I have a big 128 GB SD card and it says that it's being used as internal storage but I still have to move things from phone to SD.

As this phone takes a big card it would be good to make more use of it.

I'm on the UK beta N programme

Thanks

John
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] user_57439:
For EMUI 5:

Show battery when we swipe down in the notifications.

Use fingerprint swipe to completely expand notification shade.

Allow us to hide apps like with EMUI 4.

Fix app drawer ordering. Apps aren't in lexicographic order.

Set alarm settings in sound menu instead of the app itself.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ceroglu:
T-mobile USA WiFi calling.

Wifi calling is now implemented in non-T-Mobile carrier specific phones, like Google pixel, leeco lepro 3 and other new phone phones.

Please implement this feature.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ckckckckck:
Echoing comments here....

Volte

WiFi calling

Those are two essentials to get working.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Nyssa1104:
1) Notification Volume independent control not linked to Ringer

2) Mobile Data Management option to delete data, better option to edit already save Monthly cycles

3) Sync needs to be added in Notification short cuts and the possibility to have more than 9 saved short cuts.

4) Automatic Light Adjustment, needs fixing as it seem to do its own thing at present.

5) Contact's the option to swipe to call and send text and or option to press and hold on a contact to make a call.

6) Sim Card Management needs improvement.

Maybe the addition of assigned contacts to to a Sim group, so when calling a contract you be call from correct Sim card..

7) Notification LED option to edited colors and pulse rate and assign notification to apps, something like Light Manager Pro.

8) World Clock To have all Countries and cities added by default or option to add them manually.. country La Réunion and capital city Saint-Denis not listed in the European firmware .
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Devraj Gadhvi:
I Have Seen in Android N upgrade They Made Notification Drawer Different Current One Is Better then That.....
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] macbuggo:
Hey everyone, just got my phone yesterday, things I've noticed coming from a iphone 5c

1. I'd like to have the option of changing the nav buttons with one handed mode. For example I moved the back button to the right because I'm right handed, but when I'm doing one handed mode with my left, the nav buttons don't change position and is now harder to reach with my left.

2. Headset volume limit. With my headset it's loud enough at the 2nd volume step, even though there's 15 (or something like that) in total. I'd like to see a volume limit setting, similar to how iOS implements it, where the volume adjustment range is locked and you can use the full 15 steps to fine tune the volume within that range.

3. No wipe up control center? I don't have a problem with EMUI, but I can't believe Huawei didn't copy the control panel you get when swiping up on iOS. Using finger print censor to swipe down the notifications is neat, but I still have trouble reaching the top items in the list, especially if all I want to do is to skip to the next music track. iOS swipe up allowed you to do this quite easily. Yes, I know there are apps for that and I'll be trying them... but it'd be nice to have a native solution. You know what would be cool? Have the option of swiping the notification bar from bottom up. I know the nav buttons are there and they get in the way... but they don't get in the way of the finger print sensor!

4. Expand the finger print sensor swipe to other apps, like going back and forward etc in Chrome. Though I can see how that could be accident prone given how sensitive it is at the moment.

5. Maybe because I'm not used to the nav bar (though I've got an android tablet as well), swiping left and right on the nav bar should be an option to go back and forward, rather than having rigid buttons you must press. I just find it more natural to drag from edge to go back etc on a smaller iphone, but I realize it's hard to do on a bigger screen, hence the suggestion about more dynamic nav bars.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] user_57439:
Show next alarm time in lock screen.

Changing DPI in EMUI 5.0 doesn't change the font in the default clock app. However, it does change the separator so it cuts out part of the text.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] krispy321:
Auto brightness needs proper adjustment
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] desertflyer:
Auto brightness still needs some work, but the biggest feature I notice the Honor 8 lacking is T-mobile Wifi Calling.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] vkfloyd:
Ive already got 7... Thanks for that...

Would love to be able to change the screen dpi... Icons are too big... Ability to change scren dpi will make this phone perfect...
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] krispy321:
You could roor the device and change the dpi by editing build.prop
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Nyssa1104:
Speed Dial / Dialler and IR remote Control

Huawei Honor you need to introduce contact details assigned to speed dial settings.

Ie. Once you have saved a contact to a speed dial location their Caller ID image if saved should be shown from the dialler as standard with contact name. ( Yes it's there if you go into settings Speed dial) but that to long. Default once set should automatically show up on dialler once you press the dialler key..

IR remote control

It needs devices like Hi-Fi, Amplifiers, DSLR Camera remote, audio players, BluRay and maybe computer added

Update. Out of 20 IR device's this IR control only work on 1 device.. And the was an old TV.. So a better all round support is needed All round.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hachamacha:
1) 7.1.x (7.1.1 or 7.1.2 if they've fixed inability for cpu analysis apps to see the .. apps that're using it)

2) power profiles

3) A soft lockscreen button, as well as a way to awaken from lock from the front while resting on a desk or pillow without hitting the back key.

I also like "speed dial" but as long as I can switch to Google Dialer , I'm good. (have to root though as far as I can see).

Possibly also the ability to allow all the required permissions without going into settings per each app. If the encryption is working, I'm not very worried about permission required by apps to just do their job. Setup is kind of a nightmare for example, for a toggle that just controls brightness (for example). If I just need a shortcut to the settings screen, I can make my own.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] skeeterfood:
This! I couldn't figure out what it was that was annoying me so much with the phone until I read this.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] evilpaul13:
http://xdaforums.com/honor-8/how-to/how-to-change-dpi-honor-8-root-using-adb-t3462968
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] zimmen:
I need an integration between the Camera and Android Wear.

So I can take pictures from my clock
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] SSyar:
An option/filter to show contacts with phone numbers only - this option was available in Xperia

Reason: i sync my LinkedIn contacts also so many users dont add Phone number in their LinkedIn profile
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] kirkla79:
The ability to either disable Magic Tag or allow another to be default app.

The default app is useless, and even though I can use another app, I am forced to choose between apps every time I use a tag. Which sort of defeats the purpose of using tags.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] paul1508:
Make it possible to capture pictures through the b/w camera (like the p9)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Google Assistant (Even though we probably wont get it due to it being exclusive to Pixel)

Options to make it be more like stock ;)

Better RAM Management!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ajaisreekumar:
I need better audio output from headphone jack.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] yalokiy:
1. Make encryption work properly: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=69689317&postcount=45

2. Double tap status bar to sleep.

3. Dialer in call settings: vibrate on answer.

4. Add ability to set eye protection by timezone and activate automatically at sunset and deactivate at sunrise.

5. Create a good quality theme that would resemble stock android. (Should come preinstalled from factory, but not set as default)

6. Latest android security patch updates (from google) every month.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Oh and also we need better Battery management, the one we have now is quite bad (Notifications not coming through)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kureb:
We need better SMS management. As explained in that thread, we can't use an application which allows us to send SMS through our computer. The SMS are sent, yes, but they don't appear in the sms application on the phone, regardless which one you use. Like there is no SMS Synchronisation.

Apparently , same thing via Pebble, message are sent but no log nowhere.

Same thing happens with others Huawei devices

Edit : Apparently it is happening since EMUI 3.1... So it has been a year it is known. Somebody had contact at that moment with a guy from Honor who said "Yes we know, we'll provide a fix", still waiting..

That means that applications are able to send sms WITHOUT any trace on phone. That's the main problem !!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kuhan_Vinček:
Hi all!

I would like to see them fix / add the following things:

1.) Add an equlizer to the stock music app for listening through headphones. This DTS function is better than nothing, but it is far prom enough. I want more adjustments for different music, like rock, pop etc. Bass and reverb regulator etc.

2.) Fix camera app so that we can take panoramas from the RIGHT side too. Now it is limited to shooting from the left, which is a problem if there is a strong light source (sun) in the right side, since the panorama gets overexposed. Also make panoramas 360 degrees and not only 160 that they are now.

3.) Add global VoLTE.

4.) Add widgets to lockscreen.

5.) Add app support for daydream. For example i would like to have Dashclock app to show up while charging, but now only pictures can be shown in daydream. That sucks...

6.) Add a better stock keyboard for messenging. Something like Google keyboard should be fine.

7.) Allow more than 1 picture to be sent in 1 MMS. Seriously, why is the limit there?

People pls support my suggestions if you find them cool. That way they will notice this and maybe implement some changes. :)

Otherwise Honor 8 is a superb device. I really love it, but if this things would be fixed, it would be perfect.

Regards,

Jure
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kureb:
I didn't really like Huawei default keyboard either, but you have the option to use Gboard, the last keyboard from Google, instead, it is already installed (at least, it was for me :confused:). Give it a try ! :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Gboard is in fact the default keyboard in the B320 Nougat beta

I like the Huawei swipe better myself
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ajaisreekumar:
Please work on Better audio quality. Output from the jack seem too flat. I miss bass from my playlist. I think i could be fixed with an updated dts dsp, with much more control over the dsp like bass, treble, reverb etc like dolby atmos. Thanks. :angel:
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] multijoy:
Unusually for me, I've stuck Nova Launcher on and have barely needed to touch anything! However, what I really would like to see are more wallpaper options - come on Huawei, you can afford a couple of photographers/artists for a couple of months to go a bit mental!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kuhan_Vinček:
Is anyone from official Honor team actually watching this and taking notes??

No responses so far...
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ExTREmE99:
How about a stock android lock screen so apps such as beautiful widget can update like it's suppose to..
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkGuyver:
I'm looking forward to seeing Huawei finally allowing people to use the App Drawer in EMUI and a more stock android GUI.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] krispy321:
I dont think so, no response from any executive

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Am really happy with the app drawer in emui5.

Hope they make it close to stock in the future updates
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ExTREmE99:
Hey guys, I spoke to a few members from the honor/ Huawei company at ces and got a business card and was told email the rep about these issues that affect our device to help improve.. So once I get back from vacation, I'll try to contact him and see if it gets us anywhere.. I also mentioned the lack of the full kernel for further software development and he seemed to understand our hardships..
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] AlrightSir:
- Double tap to wake the screen up

- RAW capture in stock app
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] matthias_n:
- Monochrome mode would be nice as well
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] paul1508:
It would be nice if Huawei would use the ring-time mechanism Google uses it its calendar, alarm and so on instead of the outdated time set mechanism. Huawei could just as well ditch their own calendar and clock app and use the native Android/Google ones.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] CronaMell:
RAW in stock camera is available in nougat according to the OP on another thread
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shafqatrehman1989:
I am on EMUI 5

Hi guys i ahve just updated my honor 8 to EMUI 5 and trust me its awesome

i first unlocked the bootloader and then updated:D
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kuhan_Vinček:
Nice! Great news. We must do our best to inform them about our issues while the device is still relatively new. Because later on they will have much lest interest to fix these things.

Let us know what they will say. :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hachamacha:
Does Honor have a bug-tracking site that we could get access to? I feel like there's absolutely no way (short of the last reply) of ever communicating a damned thing to them. We need more than the full kernel to develop ROMs for their stuff. Having git access to their big "base-ROM" repos (as reference and to hack out) would be a good start. I realize I'm probably talking about TWO companies now, but just throwing this out there.

I've asked this on their site about 5 times now, but I think they don't read their own site either.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
The bug tracker we use in the FUT can be downloaded here >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uuftools.bugreport&hl=en

They have My IMEI so I don't know if you can report bugs or not .. but I think you should be able to view the ones reported already
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hachamacha:
Thanks. I'll try that app. Just being able to view them would be nice.

Edit: Apparently, it'll only allow access (view or report) for beta testers (real ones by their definition).
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
OK I wasn't sure
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kuhan_Vinček:
Also what would be nice to have is:

a) Option for recording a call.

b) Option for creating vibrate patterns for SMS and calls

PS: Any news if this info is getting through to Huawei?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] vsriram92:
Call recording was available on EMUi 4.

EMUi 5 removed it?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hachamacha:
Developer support, complete source release on github. (well, any repository is fine). Much like was implied at the start of the XDA/Honor alliance.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] route9:
I wish:

1) "Double Tap to Wake" as we already had it in Honor 6+ and other devices

2) please change basic reminder-time for whole-day-appointments from 9am back to midnight like it is usual in all other Google-calenders and on every device and firmware I´ve ever known before.

3) allow to pull down the notification-bar in lockscreen or make it possible to confirm notifications which are shown on lockscreen without using fingerprint-sensor, pin-code or password.

4) change the recycler icon in the notification-bar into a flag-icon, because notifications are not really delated, when pressing it, only hidden (it´s a bit confusing)

5) I miss the following dualsim-funktion in all android versions till now: please add a button for easy changing ringtones to silent, especially separate for each sim-card.

Nevertheless, honor8 is almost perfect!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kuhan_Vinček:
Hiya all!

I just received a request for a feedback survey on my Honor 8 today.

It has 3 parts. First is the question how pleased I am with my device, second is how I would recommend my device to a friend and the third what suggestions do I have for improovement.

Did you all get this? I pointed to them the exitance of this threat to them in the last question. Hopefully they will find it now.

We must let them know what can still be improoved. The sooner the better.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] t2jbird:
Smart Lock - the way Google implemented it.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] johnhux7:
Where r u based buddy ?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kuhan_Vinček:
I'm from Slovenia. Mobile carrier Telemach. :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] legas:
Better color calibration

Option to choose own set of emoji...
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] digitalbreak:
WiFi calling

Creating custom letters for knuckle gestures

App action shortcuts in EMUI launcher

Tap to wake
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Christopher876:
Double Tap the status bar to sleep is what I want and also WI-FI Calling.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] johnhux7:
SD card back as internal storage.

I'm sure it was taken out of the final N release for a reason but please give us the option back as long as our SD cards are fast enough

John
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saythis:
If you have root you can use Root Essentials on the Play Store to enable Adoptable Storage.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] johnhux7:
I don't have root on this phone buddy. I'm gonna keep it without ROOT till i think I really need it.

I have other phones that are rooted but can't see the point in doing this one as yet

Thanks for the answer though

John
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saythis:
Fair enough ?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] AnDrOiiiD_YT:
On my phone it's working...
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] birchyard:
Agree. Also available on other huawei devices. How hard van it be?

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Automatic eye comfort (blue light filter) function based on time of day. Switching on around Sunset time and switching off at around sunrise.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] birchyard:
A sip client for voip/sip calls
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] vyper4:
That's on nougat.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] xontec:
Source Codes..
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] sTefIx420:
Hide apps in drawer
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] i2000s:
I am in US, and it would be nice to have the following two (could be very easy for Huawei to commit):

1. Wifi Calling feature enabled on the phone (T-mobile said I should blame Huawei for not enabling this function on the EMUI interface);

2. On the Voice control and Type Input Method, please enable Chinese (Simplified) as an available language on your list. As a China-based company, could you help me practise my Chinese skills a little bit?

Thanks.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] morpheus302:
Source code please Huawei. Why did you let your xda community down?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kuhan_Vinček:
Does anyone know when we will get the next update for Honor 8? And if its in the works, what features will it bring?

Also does anyone have Galileo navygational system fix on Honor 8? Mine is up to date and i cant connect to galileo, but our GPS receiver should be capable of getting Galileo signal and I've found out that some users in Spain can connect to Galileo sattelites with Honor 8.

Source 1 (GPS chip in honor 8):

https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/gnss-gps-socs/bcm4774

http://www.myfixguide.com/manual/huawei-honor-8-teardown/

Use ctrl+f to find the broadcom chip in above teardown.

Source 2 (user in Spain connected to Galileo with Honor 8):

https://community.hihonor.com/thread/1635

Also, did anyone else notice a few bugs with Nougat?

My fingerprint sensor gesture for pulling notification bar down stopps working after a while and works fine after I restart the phone. Also the fingerprint sensor gesture for swipping through pictures in gallery stopps working after a while and has the same fix to it.

The music app wont remmember my songs and I have to scan manually every time I want to listen to music (probably some issue with filtering system).

My phone wont respond to voice command for answering call.

Anyone else with these problems?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] supersakis:
Feature request: Pre-install Greenify as a system app.

I fully appreciate that you have some semi-decent phone manager app that allows to terminate battery-abusive apps, but it's not as powerful as greenify can be if it is installed as a system app.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] supersakis:
Feature request: Expose functionality to Tasker. Allow us to use existing tools that have tasker integration to fully automate and in that way build features for EMUI that it doesn't have. Allowing for example to enable Eye comfort, turn on/off the indicator light, motion control, do not disturb, power plan, run optimise, close power consuming apps etc would be super powerful without sacrifising user security.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Nanda2017:
Honor 4x eumi 5 and Android N. Volte Supported
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] euforia:
1. Progressive night mode.

iPhone has this and it is a really nice feature.

As daylight fades the screen gets less blue.

You already have the "eye saver mode" but this turns on in an instant. The progressive night mode will happen over hours and you will not really think about it unless you try toggle it off right before bedtime. For windows we have f.lux and there is an app for android as well but this requires root.

2. Darker brightness for the lowest setting. The lowest setting is not low enough (again, bedtime usage)