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[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessyjoseph2044:
Do I just enter recovery and flash it there? Do I need to reset the phone and do a clean flash as well? Or can I just download the vendor.img and boot to recovery and flash it. Thanks for the info
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rchtk:
Flash it within twrp, as written in CM14.1 OP
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] Cryonics:
My 32/3 Mi Max just arrived today, not too happy with the screen. It seemed so dull, some leaks on the edge. No competition between AMOLED screen and this. But the 7' LCD of 1920x1200 mediapad X2 is still a height better than this. Heck, even redmi note 2 is better. A little disappointed, glad I didn't go all out with 128/4 version.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] ajsmsg78:
Mine isn't that bad. Download Color Changer Pro from the Play Store. You can increase the saturation and colors in it. Mine almost looks as good as an AMOLED now minus the blacks.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] spix123:
The screen protector you have reduces screen quality especially black levels. 100% the cause. Most of the full cover glass for 2.5d screens does not actually adhere to the screen reducing contrast.

The screen quality is v.good although it uses software contrast boosting to make the colors nice, which can crush some details in colors.

Take off the screen prortector and show the same photo, you will see the big difference.

Btw what case do you have?
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] Cryonics:
https://imgur.com/gallery/csM1E

I've made some comparison photo from some of my available devices on hand. It's horrible, They're definitely cutting corners on the screen. Even my $60 Alcatel phone looks better. My Mi Pad, and Redmi Note 2 have the same "washed out tinting" issues, but this is definitely worse than that.

Just for a note:

I took of the screen protector
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] spix123:
Did you read what I said about your screen protector.

The screen is IPS, there will always be changes in brightness when viewing off axis. It's called IPS glow. Depending on the screen, you will see it more from different angles. Mi Max might look better at a different angle than the other phones.

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Now you can see the contrast is increased and black levels are better.

This is why I hate phones with 2.5d screens. You can get these full cover protectors which reduce quality or normal glass protectors which don't cover the screen fully. There is also tpu screen protectors which will cover fully without reducing quality, but they feel a bit rubbery and are hard to apply.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] Cryonics:
I forgot to put the note on the bottom, I took off the screen protector.

All LCDs have that bleeds, glows or whatever you want to call it, I'm well aware of that. But, If you need to put your phone in an angle to get correct color reproduction, i think it defeats the purpose of "IPS" display in the first place.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] spix123:
IPS screens don't really have a purpose, it's just a screen type. Every type of screen has its flaw.

Amoled has image retention and must use pwm to reduce brightness. Some people notice the flicker/eye strain from it.

TN panel has inverted colors instead of ips glow. IPS still has better viewing angles and IPS glow is only noticeable at certain angles.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] Cryonics:
I have to agree that the full screen coloured screen protector is POS, just realised that it doesn't have any glue in the middle, making some gap between the screen and the protector. Gonna order some better one.

Besides the screen, it's a solid good phone I reckon. I get more than what I bargained for because it's really is an inexpensive phone.. too pampered by AMOLED I guess.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] spix123:
The battery life is amazing. I recently got the 3/32, currently 8.5 hours SOT and 40% battery left.

Hows the miui 8 rom? I've left mine on miui 7 for now as I've read some bad things about it on the miui forum.

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There is some full coverage protectors with glue in the middle, at least for other phones. Not sure if there is one for mi max but if there is, they are very rare.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] Cryonics:
It's fresh out of the box. Haven't really tried anything yet, but I'm on 8.0.1.0 apparently. I'm not sure about the battery life.. I'm more than happy to get 6.5hrs sot. My daily driver is iPhone SE, hands down its a beast of a phone, 9 hours on time give or take.

I just ordered Nillkin glass protector for my mi max, kind of expensive, but can't go wrong with that one. Please share with me if you found any good full screen glass protector.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] oatcooky:
The big draw of the Mi Max screen is the size, not the color accuracy or black levels or brightness. It's an average screen, not mediocre like a lot of cheap Chinese Android junk but not as good as an LCD on a flagship device. AMOLED is on a different planet because of the crazy saturation and inky blacks. I've had a few phones with AMOLED and although they're great for viewing photos and videos, they're not good for web surfing or working with documents because white draws more power. I didn't have any issues with burn in though.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] :
1. The photo attached in the first post doesn't actually have the mi max in it. I suggest you remove it.

2. Second, the comparison album you made on imgur has software buttons and doesn't actually show that it's a Mi Max, while the separately attached photo in that same post has the xiaomi rom running. The separately attached photo clearly shows its the Mi Max and the display looks great to me with no issues.

My personal experience is also that the screen is great and I'm not sure where you're coming from...
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] spix123:
In the first post, Mi Max is the middle phone. The user has installed a full coverage black glass screen protector which reduces the contrast as there is an airgap between it and the display.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] MikusP:
I thought long and hard about wading into this thread, but after using the phone for a week I figured why the chuff not.

So, yeah, after 7 days use I've got to say I think the screen is pretty great! I haven't seen any hint blue tint I've read about in a few reviews, although, my device is much newer than the first batches and preproduction models, so that could explain it.

It's not as punchy as an AMOLED, but AMOLED colours are often way inaccurate. Which brings me to my next point, I find the screen pretty spot on in terms of colour accuracy (visually speaking at least, I've got no idea as to the reproduction of the panel on a spec level). It's definitely an improvement over my Meizu M1 Metal.

For the money, it's hard to fault this device. It's by no means perfect, but it's 1/5 the cost of a Samsung Galaxy Whatever.
[Xiaomi Mi Max Guides, News, & Discussion] Zola III:
It is a bit on the blue side but just a bit & you correct it with enabling reading mode & moving slider to the beginning position.

Did my own view test today by using MX player & putting it in to the 32 bit RGB display colour format and then I played a 10 bit Hevc movie. Well the display is quite good but nothing mind blowing. Luminance is an a down side required for something like HDR but it can pass presumably if you use it in controlled darker environment. Actually with brightness set to 11 out of 15 possible (which translate into 73.3%) its good enough but if you go over that contrast and with it quality begins to go down drastically, 12 (80%) is top & even that I would call a compromise. Don't be missed by this for a mobile phone LED display this one is perfectly fine, not a stellar one nor the best one out there but perfectly fine. The little more brighter displays won't make much of the difference between 450 & 550 nits their is little to non difference you will be able to see in this particular case regarding LCD's, next category should be a 700~1000 nits but mobile phones & only couple of them are stepping in lower margins of that category.

At the end I just can't not to wonder if the guy who did a calibration of the display had a little problem with its eye sight because you see as much a display is on a cold (blue) side & that is minimal a tad or two the photos (with main camera) are proportionally on the opposite warm (yellow) side.

Best regards.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roscored1000:
I have several i9505's great phones, one I have bought as a repair and put in a new screen. All works fine but it has a little fault, there is a strange popping sound almost a crackle when things are done. It doesnt matter what I am doing, either opening the phone, waking the screen, swiping or closing the screen or app it will make a little pop.

I have changed the speaker and that doesnt make a difference, it doesnt matter which ROM I use, it still crackles and pops. A Samsung tech said it might be some hardware issue when the screen is used. Even though it is a new screen it was making the sound with the old one too. Any one come up against this noise and maybe a fix? Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
So the noise is produced by the actual speaker?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roscored1000:
I dont know as i have replaced the speaker and it remains? I assume that it is coming through the speaker but I dont know where it originates.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Could be a short circuit somewhere on the motherboard. Maybe something is not isolated correctly.

Could also be something with the CPU and GPU, as those are ramped up whenever you do something.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roscored1000:
Probably so thanks for the response. I will leave well enough alone and use it for testing purposes
[Samsung Gear S3] awilson181:
Any ideas what it's searching for? TMo network?
[Samsung Gear S3] Outbreak444:
I think so, mine doesn't show the network signal unless it's actually connected to it, and shows LTE with the network signal bars. Try turning Mobile networks to auto on/off.
[Samsung Gear S3] Jerlloyd:
Mine does the same thing while connected to my phone via bluetooth and the auto on feature turned on. Wiped my battery dry in 3 hours because I do not have T Mobile service inside my work offices. I have Verizon for my cell phone provider which gets coverage at work just fine. I thought I could simply connect my watch to my phone via bluetooth and be fine buts that doesn't seem too be the case.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellhacker119:
i've been trying to enter the engineering/service mode of the oneplus one in my 7.0 ROM but it's not opening.

i have some network speed issues and wanted to change my lte band to band 40 for max speed (usually it changes automatically) but i want to lock it and use it my way.

is there any way to enter the engineering of opo and locking lte bands?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Check this out-

http://xdaforums.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-unlock-aditional-bands-qualcomm-t2877031
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
I have simplified the downgrade method to B109SP01 very greatly. I hope that some of you who wish to downgrade can test this method. I will keep this method available temporarily until I have confirmed whether it works. Please see post 2 for instructions.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Refoxo:
Hi,duraaraa, I've translated this instruction into Chinese and posted on Chinese forum.

Here is the link: http://club.huawei.com/thread-11341553-1-1.html
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] yghrv:
Anyone use this method to downgrade a 4+64 device?

Someone posted that there's a problem.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
I can only report success with a 128G/6G MHA-AL00 model. That's the only model I have. It's worth trying with any model, but I have your report and one other report of issues with the 64GB model. Since I don't have that model, I can't tell you exactly what to do. But I hope that you can continue trying and figure out a way.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] raimondomartire:
Guys this procedure work! I've pleasure to work with [MENTION=4572798]duraaraa[/MENTION] this days on hangout and I can assure you that this guy sleep only 1/2 hours for night to achieve this result. My pleasure to have match a so great guy that work together without blind is knowledge

Some suggestions now.

Please read all steps and remove all your ID on phone. For example fingerprints. I suggest also to use normal recovery (from phone off push only volume up until usb cable in your pc) and make all wipe (factory reset+cache. Second and third button)

We are here for help us. I'm working on twrp as soon as Huawei give us unlock key for bootloader we'll have working twrp
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] dirwdirw:
thank you for your GREAT work!
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fatwi:
Hi, did anyone try to downgraded from125? someone from china feedback they can not.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
I have two successful confirmed downgrades. One from 125, one from 115. Both are 6G 128G devices. I have also two unsuccessful people with 4G 64G devices. I'm working with them to try again, and hopefully we will have more results soon.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fatwi:
Thanks！At least it has beem proved it can downgraded from 125。
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
Yes. I downgraded from 125 myself. It's possible to downgrade from any version. The problem is, in some cases, after downgrading there is a boot loop. I believe the reason is that the old data (fingerprints, hicloud account) were not correctly wiped, and it's a security measure. But I can't be sure because I don't have anything but the 128G/6G version.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] yghrv:
Any idea if the model 4+64 and 6+128 share the same firmware?
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
They definitely do share the same firmware.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fatwi:
hello Duraaraa, just one question, when we connect wifi with your dns,it showed there is a version update with 1.66 gb included gms core. Is that file is b109?
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
Please don't use any OTA updates. When you use the eRecovery, it will show you the version number. Any OTA updates is just a side-effect of hijacking huawei server.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] nhattanla:
Thank you

I'm done. Thank you so much !
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
Was it successful???

Can you please share what phone you have? 128G version, 64G version, etc?
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
We have another confirmed success with 64GB. This time, the person did a wipe after installing B106 and before installing B109SP01. So if you have trouble, please try it.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] yghrv:
wipe cache or factory reset or both?
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
Both. Always do both!
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] yghrv:
Thanks, I will try it. Will update my status.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
At the very least, we now know it's possible. This person had to try three times to finally be successful.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Shavor:
Hi Duraaraa, it seems something wrong with the steps you gave. On my phone, the version number for downloading is B106SP1, not the B106 as you said... Also a bad news is that the package could not be downloaded from China. :(
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] felixq:
hi duraaraa,

I see the total package is 2452M, which may take days for some people in china to download.

I would like to setup a mirror server to provide local access.

Could you share you server configurations and ROM data? Thanks.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
Rom data is downloaded directly from Huawei's servers. I don't host rom data. The data is all taken from update.hicloud.com which resolves to update08-881460359.us-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com

Can you please lookup update.hicloud.com from China to find the fastest Chinese mirror, so I can use it?

I would really like a Chinese mirror, though! If you have a linux server, please get in touch with me, tell me ssh access details, and I will set up Chinese mirror!
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] heyzoon:
hi, duraaraa

thank you for your efforts.

but, I do not understand how to configure the DNS server in step 1.

I'm sorry, but I would appreciate your explanation in detail.

Allway thanks!
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
The way to configure DNS server depends on your wifi router. So the menus are different for every brand of router.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
I think that you have quit the download half-way and tried to start again. This will cause the problem. Please make sure not to quit download half-way. if you do quit download half-way, you need to wipe system and wipe cache from recovery.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Shavor:
So the version number should be exactly B106 not B106SP1, right? Also the AWS server seems unaccessible from my side.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] heyzoon:
http://imgur.com/mEEfj1p

where is configure?
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
기본 DNS and 보조 DNS server, both, set to 133.130.88.119
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] yghrv:
[MENTION=4572798]duraaraa[/MENTION] It worked for my device 4+64 with build 125.

But I did something different.

In step 4, did both wipe before into next step.

In step 5, I can not download 109sp1, every time it failed at 84%. There's another version 106SP1, I installed it and it worked.

Then boot into the system and upgrade to 109SP1.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
So you are now on 109sp01 and it's working? Congratulations.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Shavor:
Thanks for duraaraa's great tutorial. Now I have the B109SP1 installed! Voodoo!!!t
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] yghrv:
yes, it worked well!
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Shavor:
BTW, I did the factory reset and wipe cache right after the step 2. Then everything goes as duraaraa described.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] heyzoon:
Thanks so much

I will try it tomorrow.:)
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] hongsk:
I try exactly the procedure yet end in a forever loop. Anyone can help? I am using the 6gb/128gb chinese version
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
This happened to many people. I think the reason is not wiping correctly.

Please set your DNS back to normal, restore to B125, and then wipe from recovery. B125 will boot up.

After doing that, please...

Wipe from settings, load DNS, load recovery, wipe system, wipe cache.

Load eRecovery, load B106, go back to recovery, wipe system, wipe cache.

Load eRecovery, load B109SP01, go back to recovery, wipe system, wipe cache, boot.

See if that helps. All I can say is, please keep trying. For many people it took 3, 4, 5 tries.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dr Qurat:
Yes I have done it and there's no problem. It works perfectly fine. Go ahead

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Yes I have done and mine is 4/64gb

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Thanks a lot. This works fine on my device, 4/64gb. And I have done this in China. So those who are questioning, I want to inform them it works perfectly fine even with 4/64gb
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] nhattanla:
I use 32gb - 4gb ram - white version :) i buy from China
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maxime93:
Hi I'm a newbie for this

Can someone help me ?

I try to change the setting of my router but it doesn't work

It says 404 error

My wife buy me the phone in China but we live in France so without Google service the phone is not easy to use

So thank you if someone can tell me the process
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] NIghtshade2k16:
I have tried the method , and unfortunately the only my phone keeps doing is going back to ask me to re download the same file again. It never boots back up to EMUI 5.0 . Can someone please help me ?

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I have tried method , but now my phone just keeps going back to ask me to download the same firmware in erecovery over, and over . Can you please help me fix this ?
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
My server will change the version it offers you each time. So if you ask for firmware, it will give you B106, B109SP01, B106, B109SP01, B106... like that.

If the version if offers you is the same again and again, what version is it?
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] NIghtshade2k16:
It's keeps rebooting asking me to download MHA-AL00C00B106 Everytime..
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
I can't reproduce your problem, unfortunately! The only way this would happen is if your IP address is different every time you try to upgrade.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
I'd like to say a quick thank you to those of you who sent me donations. I got a couple donations much bigger than I had thought I'd get for this, and I really appreciate it! I'm still feeling around in the dark trying to unlock more of the Mate 9's secrets, and the fact that people were grateful enough to actually donate money has made me feel even more motivated.

So a big thanks!
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ssTiger1230:
it must change wifi router's DNS.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
I have checked, and the DNS server is still working, so if you're having trouble, it must have to do with your settings.
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] NIghtshade2k16:
OK still! Thank you for all your help in this matter .
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] monsoon12:
I use this method to downgrade to B109SP01.

But I can't buy apps or download any apps wich I haven't installed before in Google Play. The Google Play tells me "Authentication is required. You need to sign into your Google Account".

And also I can't see my Mate 9 in my Android Device Manager.

I try to clear my Google Service and Google Play data, remove Google Account and re-add my Google Account several times, but none of them work.

Hasn't anyone faced this problem too or have any idea to solve this problems?

Thanks in advance!
[Huawei Mate 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
I have not had this problem. Only thing I can suggest is doing a full wipe from the settings and trying again. If this doesn't work, see if it works with a different google account.