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[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] joelsonoda:
Another former nexus 5x user here

I too came from the Nexus 5x to the honor 8. Love both phones (I came from Nexus S -> Nexus 5 -> Xperia Z3 -> Nexus 5x).

The cameras both have strengths and weaknesses...it depends on your subject which will perform better. I have very mobile and active subjects, and I think that the Nexus 5x focused better than the Honor 8 in less-than-optimal lighting situations.

For my usage, I find the Honor 8 battery life to be much, much better than the Nexus 5x. I was having to charge the Nexus 5x during the day, but the Honor 8 typically has about 30% battery left at the end of the day.

For me, the Honor 8 is a better phone (but priced ~30% higher). The extra ram (4GB vs 2GB) makes all the difference. Everyday use is much more enjoyable when you don't have to wait so long for applications to load. I don't mind emui 4.1 either (using the Google Now Launcher since I've had it on all my phones of late).

Honor 8 is the best phone I've had.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] will2live:
I own both phones as well. Hardware wise the honor 8 is bar none WAY better then N5x. It is very slick in hand tho being glass front & back. And I'm no fan of cases as i always roll with my devices naked, so that has taken some getting use to. The battery life on the Honor 8 is crazy good, it destroys the N5x. As for pics I'd have to say the Honor 8 does a better job when comparing the pic to what you see with your eyes. that said I'm not a big picture fan and could care less if a device has a camera even so someone else may be able to give better feedback
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] FcukBloat:
Thanks for the answers guys!

I do make some pictures of landscapes with lot of light when traveling (and these shouldn't be a problem with most of the phones), but also nowadays many pictures in the evening at home (inside=low light) of my baby (who keeps moving :p ) so maybe the nexus 5x would be better for me from this pov..

I'm a low usage user, so probably could achieve full day with the nexus and 2gb ram would be enough for me but yeah, for sure honour 8 would be better about both these.. Mhm will see, for sure I can't stand huawei fw..so for this also nexus is better..

Really look for good battery in a phone, but also good development.. I'm really struggled with this decision.. :( :p

Bye!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] phiquach:
Battery life is worst on the 5x for sure. And it get really hot when charging. I got around 2-3 hours of sot. I charged the phone 2-3 times a day. I always had a battery pack on me. Honor 8 battery life is much better for sure.

Pictures though I think are way better on the 5x. I believe it has to do with the HDR+ option which I always had on. The downside is its really slow and you can't take a bunch of pictures at the same time.

The processor is also alot slower. I used the 5x for about 7 months and it lagged alot. I don't do gaming or anything. I used it mainly for Google maps, pictures, and browsing. haven't had any issues so for with the honor 8(about over one month of daily use)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dispata:
I came from 6P, so I can vouch on the camera department. 6P takes better quality photos due to hdr+, but 8's equivalent of lens blur is a joy to use and instant unlike on 6P which I have to wait at least 10s. Other than that I enjoy using the 8 much much more. You should go play with it at a store. Battery life is better than 6P so I'm sure it destroys 5X. The fingerprint scanner is much faster and acts as a button for to launch 3 different shortcuts/apps. It unlocks the phone from sleep and launches a shortcut in a single press. That feature alone is worth more than the entire 5X imo. The phone is much snappier and quicker than 6P. All they need to fix is the notification panel which is coming with EMUI 5. I've always heard 5X is a lagfest.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshute:
Any date on when the Beta starts for US and people will know if they are part of it?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] fix-this!:
I'd like to know as well.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] LuneTech:
Do Huawei P9 Roms Work on The Honor 8?

Do Huawei P9 Roms Work on The Honor 8?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] vsriram92:
It might have started...

For FRD-L04, the latest firmware (EMUI 5) is available here - http://update.hicloud.com:8180/TDS/data/files/p3/s15/G1278/g104/v66156/f1/full/update.zip

Note: This is applicable only for FRD-L04C567...

Especially it is said that App drawer is available. Which is great to hear.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] anks329:
How do I install this update?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] adriansticoid:
Dload method.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dhakkon:
Has anyone test it?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] runsoverfrogs:
I've tried doing that via dload method. Everytime i do it says cannot find it when the update starts. i unzipped everything into dload root folder. Has anybody been able to install the beta?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshute:
You extracted the update.app from the zip file and placed it in the external card root/dload folder. Then rebooting into recovery and tried to apply?

New to Huawei but I have been rooting and ROMing for years and from what I have read that is one method of applying a stock firmware/ROM package without TWRP installed.

Kinda waiting around for the official method/beta before going off the reservation with a bright new shiny phone ;)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] runsoverfrogs:
yepp, i did that. It isn't exactly going to recovery per se, there's a hold volume up and volume down while powering that it goes into an update mode. which supposed to look in the dload folder.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshute:
:( Thanks for the clarification. If I get brave, I will give it a try as well.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lolstebbo:
Well, just remember:

May as well try it now!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshute:
Extract to external card and boot to flash mode method and it reports in compatible hardware. Looks like we continue to wait.....
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] vsriram92:
Are you trying this for L-09?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hemanth.k:
how did you lower the resolution to 720??
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] denism81:
Go to settings / advanced settings / battery manager / enable Rog power savings
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] crzdmniac:
I got the same error in L04.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshute:
L-04 ie US version
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] will2live:
fyi folks from a friend who was messing with the posted link earlier in this thread. The file linked is NOT the file for use on the US version of the Honor 8 its for the India version of the device.

Also for ref he just shot me a line 5 mins ago saying he got an email just now with the invite to do beta testing on N & EMUI 5 for the Honor 8. So hopefully soon some others of us will get the email with details on doing beta.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
Yep, I also got the email. :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] will2live:
Guess I'll cross my fingers I get lucky enough to get the email. No dice as of yet :( Kicker is i registered before my buddy did who got his email....like WTH is up with that noise.....lol.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] anks329:
hope i get the email also; looking forward to the upgrade to N!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] PalakMi:
Not yet for me :(
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] adriansticoid:
Your phone is really new maybe that's why.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lolstebbo:
No email here, either. It'd be nice to know what criteria, if any, they had for the beta.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XeRoFuN:
I think it's just a random selection. I got the email this morning. I probably signed up within an hour or two of the post about the beta sign up, but I'm sure there were already dozens of people signed up.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaymlibby:
I also received the email this morning. Looking forward to it! :D:D
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XjokiX7:
Proud to say I got the email as well :) excited to already post my review for it and it's not even out!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] timwelter:
Wait when was I supposed to sign up for this?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XeRoFuN:
Check the very first post on this thread. It was originally posted on November 7th.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] will2live:
Agreed seeing as i knew about the link prior to this thread even and registered and still no email. Its gotta just be a random pull who gets in or not. Just talked to another buddy who registered over the wkend and he even got an email this morning to join the testing....UGH life is not fair sometimes....lol
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] vsriram92:
Its actually not for Honor India. It is for different Cust version it seems.

The update link, which I have mentioned is for FRD-L04C567.... So other people cant update.

Hope so you guys have a different Cust version.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] crzdmniac:
My version is FRD-L04C567xxxx so I'm not sure what this is. I did get an email that I'll be in the beta, so I'll just wait for word from Huawei.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshute:
Mine is as well and the file would not install. And no beta email :(
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] thilak devraj:
anyone managed to get a system dump??
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XjokiX7:
Not yet. The email states "The software will be delivered to you within a few weeks via OTA update once we get your IMEI" so it's not out yet on our part to get a dump.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] MC FLMJ1G:
There's an option under advanced settings > battery > enable rog.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
Are you running the beta?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lolstebbo:
It's in EMUI 4.1, not a beta feature.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] PalakMi:
Nothing yet :(
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
Can you link me to the theme you're using though, the nav bar looks cool
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] timwelter:
Just received B131 in the netherlands via OTA. Hope N will follow quickly.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] anks329:
woot, just got the email to be part of the beta. Excited to test it out :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] adriansticoid:
Tell us your impressions man. :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] will2live:
by the looks of it I think that is the Black Pyramid theme fyi.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshute:
Looks like another round of invite emails went out, one showed up in my email this morning. Looking forward to taking a look at the new version of EMUI. Normally a stock Android person, but I have been impressed with EMUI so far. The skin is much more refined than ZTE's skin and it has been awhile since I used HTC Sense.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
I don't think it is. They look a lot different
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] will2live:
then another theme is using an identical battery icon i guess as i was going by that seeing as I have my nav bar setup different.....my bad
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ultrahannoi1896:
Bluetooth

Does anyone else has problems with activating bluetooth after updating to "NRDM90M test-keys"? :confused:
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lolstebbo:
Got a beta email this morning, huzzah! Pretty stoked, although the "in a few weeks part" is kinda.... *sigh*.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] tntoak:
Just got my email this morning. I'm hoping that the beta doesn't break too many apps. I've seen that happen a lot in iOS betas, so I'm kinda leery about that happening with this phone also.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshute:
When is was running Nugget on a 5X there were very few issues with applications and it was still in Beta. Now that it is fully released, I think any issues will be related to Honors version/skin.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] vsriram92:
Then you must wait. It might happen. And that's why they didn't release it as a public update.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshute:
Agree, if you are not willing to loose everything in internal memory you might wait.

Not sure if the beta will wipe the phone this time. But in the past when upgrading a whole Android versions, a complete wipe was the best course of action. It eliminates many issues as the upgrade process is not 100% accurate with user data/config from my experience.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] vsriram92:
I mean to say about waiting for the update with reduced (or) no bugs.

Complete Wipe for every big update will be good to have a clean new UI with a new feel.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] wildlime:
Just got my update in the UK today. Enjoying it so far
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
What's the difference between the current and the new version?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshute:
Got this today as well, it looks like the normal security patches and minor bug fixes. It isn't the new EMUI 5.0 BETA.

Edit: Added update change log screen.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] nitrowarez:
I got the same update here and right now, it's a regular Google patch update

---------- Post added at 09:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:17 PM ----------

I got an email ? from XDA member called Roni Webbs telling me that I had been chosen for beta testing but it should roll out within upcoming weeks and asked for my IMEI.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XjokiX7:
Any major bugs you've noticed? Anything minor is expected but are there any deal breaker ones?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] PalakMi:
That's wonderful.

Can you tell me if notifications are displayed on the lockscreen just like AOSP (Nexus)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mikev190:
How did you manage to download it? I'm in the beta group, UK etc. Not got an ota update yet though! I keep refreshing like a mad man lol
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dispata:
You can already do that. It's just disabled by default. You have to turn it on for each individual app under Notification center.

Lockscreen notification disappears after you unlock the phone even if you don't tap it though.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
So Bluetooth and NFC do work. ?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] vsriram92:
Bro. Is it not working for you?

Hope so you also got updated.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
No, I didn't got update, I flashed it before via TWRP, so a couple things were not there, or maybe they were there but TWRP messed up. :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] PalakMi:
I'm just asking if notification on the lockscreen appear just like AOSP nougat (like in the notification drawer in EMUI 5)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] tntoak:
Why would I wait? Beta testing new OSes (regardless of platform) basically relies in part on the notion that not all apps will work at first. Furthermore, unless you test those apps on the new OS, developers may not be aware of issues until well after the fact, and that can hurt their reputations and revenue streams.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] adriansticoid:
Because OEMs don't work that way.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] nitrowarez:
No, did you get it and what's it about
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
Probably for the beta
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
Nop, I also didn't got it. Yes its Android N aka EMUI 5.0 beta
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dispata:
I just received the update before bed time and now I can't sleep lol.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] chikess:
Seems that germany is also ready - the german beta app can be downlaoded form the website, datet as 2016-11-20, until now there are 11/200 members at the project.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shashank1320:
Good luck... Update and let us know feedback to increase the curiosity:silly:
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Stephen_Provenzano:
Got the update too! Downloading now! Woohoo!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XjokiX7:
Will say this. It feels like a completely new device. So far the only bug I've noticed is with the chrome browser. Whenever I open up chrome it is not fit to screen and will go back and forth trying to do so. Other than that.. Pretty sick update so far!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] evilpaul13:
Downloading too! The FRD-L04 gods have smiled upon me this morning.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shashank1320:
try clearing chrome data and see if it makes any difference..
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
I still didn't got it. :(

You provided IMEI to Roni?

Do I need to be on a USA network? :/
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] evilpaul13:
It's the beta being conducted on the L04. I'm not sure if you can get the OTA for it from other countries or not.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
You are on which build, I'm on B162
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaymlibby:
Yip, downloading my update now! Excited!!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
You were on which Build??
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
Hey man, I was on the same build as you and I just got the beta right now:)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XjokiX7:
It was a one time thing. It went away. :) It is also a very smooth build for a beta. No problems with phone calls or texting so far. Haven't had any apps crash on me. I'd say overall is running great. But when you open certain apps you can see a small lag. Aside from that really.. I'm enjoy the update so far. I'm sure the more I use it the more bugs I'll notice.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
You got B162 as OTA, or did you flashed the full UPDATE.APP of B162?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
It's this version
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
No, I'm asking about the previous version, the B162 of MM, how did you got B162?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] fattaru82:
Anyone know if Sweden is gonna get the beta program [emoji120]

Skickat från min FRD-L09 via Tapatalk
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
Oh! I just got the update randomly and the changes were just fixes and stuff.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] adriansticoid:
Not likely. But you'll get the stable build for sure. :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] evilpaul13:
I was on B162.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
Hope, I'll get mine soon. :/ :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] will2live:
Me either which kinda blows but is what it is i guess. I'm sure someone will post a link to it tho at some point soon
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] will2live:
I'm on B162 as well that came via OTA about a wk ago. Anywhoo odd part is a friend of mine just got the Beta OTA and grabbed the file & shot me over a copy. I tried installing just not but it fails. Says " Incompatibility with current version please download the correct update package "
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] nintendolinky:
So guys... how do we root this?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
Your friend was also on B162?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] evilpaul13:
You can install the OTAs using TWRP. The dload method doesn't work. And there's a firmware finder for Huawei phones on the Play store that you can use to get the latest OTA.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XjokiX7:
Anyone a fan of the charging animation on the lockscreen when you put it to fast charge? Just thought it was a nice little touch. :p
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
I'll wait for sometime, as some other people also didn't got OTA too. :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
It's pretty cool
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaymlibby:
I don't quite remember...

I did get a smaller update a couple days ago though. I figured it was Google's security update.aybe it was to prep for 7.0?

Nougat was a 2gb download, didn't lose anything, installed very quick and the phone is blazingggg (the good way, not the Samsung way)?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] lolstebbo:
Yeah, the beta is really surprisingly smooth and stable. I was running into sluggishness and random reboots on the most recent build for Marshmallow/EMUI4.1, but neither of those have happened so far today on N.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Droiderr:
Hows the cam and the battery life on beta? I too wanted to sign up but didn't.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
Got BETA update?? I didn't :(
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
The camera is the same essentially, a couple of UI tweaks. Battery life has been pretty good too. Performance is better, except the occasional stutters but I'm pretty sure it'll get fixed. A couple visual bugs but, it'll be for surely fixed.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Droiderr:
so shall I go for it then? I will have to sign up
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
Not sure if you can still sign up, but you can try
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Droiderr:
yeah, it allowed me to. But lets see if I actually get the update.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] evilpaul13:
Battery Life:

I was messing around with it at work most of the day seeing what's new. The last part was running Geekbench, PCMark, 3DMark, and then watching 1080p60 Youtube video over WiFi.

Are the Smart and Performance modes still available somewhere in the Phone Manager or the Settings?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Droiderr:
can u post a screen shot of settings --> battery ?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Martinimans:
Any news about the global release date?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] adriansticoid:
We have to wait. :) It will be known immediately after it is released.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] will2live:
that would be correct
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shashank1320:
Check in advance setting and then battery manager..its there on marshmallow, assuming it would be same on emui 5.0 also. Try and confirm

Edit- just noticed you posted ss of battery stats..may be its there under the same hood up or down
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] nitrowarez:
Is it the US. Version that you have Aka FRD-L04?

---------- Post added at 03:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:02 PM ----------

No, not yet for me despite I got an email from Roni today asking me if I got the OTA and I said no.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dispata:
Yes it is. L04C567B162 to B317.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] evilpaul13:
Here ya go:
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DigiGoon:
I didn't got any email from him. :(
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dispata:
I haven't played around much. So far I've only encountered one bug which is to do with fingerprint gesture to open the notification panel. It has stopped working randomly but it never lasted more than a minute before magically came back. Everything else works the way it should.

Functionally, it's much closer to stock now. Fast switching, lock screen notification. Stock like notification panel is awesome. They round up all notifications in status bar as a number now but I prefer the old one. Can't believe I got this phone for $329.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
Do you get some jittery scrolling too? Like when you're scrolling through things like notifications or recent apps and it scroll, it looks really jittery
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dispata:
I find the performance to be slightly better than MM. I don't have jittery problem unless it's loading/rendering webpages, but once it's done it's smooth again. I've only installed less than 20 apps so far though, so I don't know how it would be down the road. Scrolling overall is super smooth for me. Navigating around is a breeze.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HayateYuki:
I'm probably just really looking into it real closely