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[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] bxdever:
I am currently running stock FRD-L14C567B150 + TWRP + root + xposed. I would like to update my system to the latest EMUI but when I go to my updater it says no updates available. I tried to do a search but couldn't not find how to do this with the B150 and it seems like this phone is a lot trickier to deal with than my previous Samsung Galaxy phones so I do not want to do something wrong and mess it up. What steps do I have to take to get this upgraded to the latest EMUI 5 and also have root and magisk?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] hassanjavaid8181:
You can try manual upgrade..

Download firmware from google according to your model and build number and perform a update manually...

If any prob or question report here.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
I just don't understand battery on this phone. It is so strange.

Last few days I noticed this- So frist 40-50%of battery (from 100 to 50%) can do 2-3 hours of SOT, and then the 50% left can do only 1 hour.. is that normal or is there any problem? Can it maybe be that Android doesn't read battery percentage correctly?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] hassanjavaid8181:
May be you battery needs a calibration..
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Basith Bazi:
Guys any one of you got an update to emui 5.0.1,my friend said that (he also using honor 8) he got an update last month to emui 5.0.1.I was surprised that still not get that update. Any one know the reason for it? :(
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] domonas:
Battery meter not accurate

Hello experts. Owned the honor 8 since last black Friday. Recently my battery meter has not been accurate. It'll say I have 20% battery, then suddenly it'll say powering off bc of no battery life. I restart, it shows I have 25%, then it'll shut off again. So I plug it in, and when it charges, it'll show that I have 35% battery life and keep charging until 100%. Obviously, the numbers are examples, but overall my battery meter is no longer accurate. I have the most recent firmware (B389), but it's been happening since the firmware prior.

Thanks for your help!

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How does one calibrate the battery?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] domonas:
Here's a screenshot
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Charge it 100% then allow it to go down till 2-3%. Then charge again 100. It should mostly caliberate the battery also the .xml file which shows this meter n graph. Not able to recall the exact path for the file else you could also remove the file and reboot and OS will create a new file with fresh details.

Are you rooted or anything?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] domonas:
Not rooted. Stock everything. It won't even go down to 2%. Goes from 20% to 0%.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Try a full factory reset or use dload to overwrite everything without any wipe.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] domonas:
Yeah, my next move was to do a factory reset. I was hoping to avoid that though. Oh well.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
First of all, I want to say that I'm sorry for asking a lot of questions but this is the community I believe the most and always find the answer out here and opinions and thank you for answering me.

This is what happened. Today i spilled coffee over my honor 8. :silly: I wiped it with my shirt immediately and everything worked great. When i got home, i tested charging slot, 3.5 mm slot, flashlight, buttons, microfone and everything works like a charm.

My question is, if everything works okay, is there any chance that someting will break after some time? I've read online that corrosion can break a phone over time so I'm scared of that.

Should I worry? I say it once again, everything works without any problem.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] akshat2499:
Root ur device and install L speed or root essential and theres a option for battery calibration.. Charge your phone fully then calibrate battery ✌️
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
If possible, shutdown the phone and keep it off for 2-3 days and may be can keep under rice also so that it will drain everything. And no issue to device for safer side.

It may be possible that only coffee spilled and didn't enter anything in device internals.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
I think coffee didn't went into three ports on the bottom (3.5 mm, type c, speaker) because they are all filled with dust haha..

Unfortunately I'm away from home and I can't do that trick with rice, just hope that everything will be okay.

After few days if everythinkg works okay does that mean that nothing has been impacted?

And will it be too late if I put it in rice tomorrow when i get home?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
You can do tomorrow for safer side. Still if nothing happened till now, it mst b fine as it may have impacted immediately
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
Thank you sir
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] gabri.guido:
Hi!

I have a problem with an Honor8 backup! How can I open and browse phone contacts on pc (I don't have the phone anymore!)?

Here you can find my first post about this problem: https://xdaforums.com/general/help/...ous-backup-t3703912/post74493769#post74493769

Hope you can help me!
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] domonas:
My Honor 8 doesn't show up as a USB drive. It works fine on my wife's computer, but not mine. I use an aftermarket cable on both computers. Both run Windows 10. Any ideas?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] hassanjavaid8181:
You mean MTP??
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] domonas:
Yes.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] luis.santos:
Boa Noite.

Tentei todas as atualizações disponíveis e não obtive sucesso, descobri hoje que minha atualização e a seguinte FRD-AL00_EMUI4.1_Android6.0_B160, só que não localizo em lugar nenhum para baixar, alguém aqui do fórum tem esta versão disponível para download?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Always use English translation if you are using your native language. I jjust qouted above comment but somehow mine was also changed to his language.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] luis.santos:
Ok,

I tried all the available updates and did not succeed, I discovered today that my update and following FRD-AL00_EMUI4.1_Android6.0_B160, only that is not located anywhere to download, someone here from the forum for this version available for download?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Do you want to download the b160 version or need higher version. I can see firmware available b385 and higher
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] luis.santos:
I tried the available updates and it says that the version is incompatible, so I want to try the original version of the device, can you help me.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] akshat2499:
Are we going to get oreo??
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] hassanjavaid8181:
Honor 8 is not getting Oreo officially.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] akshat2499:
So 2 year update was a lie? And they told us to give oreo update.. Hell with honor
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Any sources confirming this or got news via trusted sources?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] hassanjavaid8181:
It wasn't from any official..but read it at two three places

Will try to find that link again and will share it here.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Nope bro..not asking for proof. Just asked if this was something official so that we dont wait for it
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] akshat2499:
And i dont think that we will get oreo ever coz Developers need stock oreo to make roms like rros aosp etc
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
They still can...5X is the live example..no stock Nougat but rom section is flooded with Nougat ROMs but that could be due to SD processor. Lets see buddy. Hope for the best
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] akshat2499:
Exactly this is. Due. To sd processor
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] auroide:
what a shame, no oreo on a good new phone, just 1 year update and stop :\ I hope they can give us a good present for this Christmas
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] PSILVA01:
Hi, this phone is dual sim standby or active?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Dont think so...if you get call on sim 1, data on sim 2 gets disconnected.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
Please,

Tell me some ROM (custom or even EMUI 4 or smth) that has decent battery life.

My honor8 is on 5.0.1 and battery life is awful.

I have literally 8 apps installed on my phone(system apps not included in that number), only use it for Whatsapp,Chrome and Music app most of the time, and i'm on freaking wifi all day, and never, NEVER managed to get home with my phone on. If it survives through the day(8AM-6PM), it's only beacuse I didn't use it on purpose cause I was afaraid my battery will die.

My best ist like 3 hours SOT. Miserable.

Can someone advice me how on the Earth can I fix that bad battery life or are there some stable and good custom roms?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Vysakh M Nair:
Same prblem here. Battery life really sucks on this version.. Iam going back to marshmallow until an update rolls out to fix this battery problem .

Can sumbody please post instructions for rollback to mm. I am currenly using frd l02 running 7.0.1 with magisk and root. Do i need to unroot and install stock recovery for installing mm.?

Please help. Itz urgent. Ty
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] MetaMs:
Finding Images

I'm not sure if this is an Honor 8 question or an Android question.

If I save an image to my phone, from the web, by long pressing the image and choosing Download Image, for the life of me I cannot find it after I download it. I used to do this on my previous Android devices with no problem. Now...phantom images! I do get the arrow signifying that the image was downloaded, but I cannot locate it on the phone using any file manager.

Thanks in advance for any help!
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
If its chrome then download folder, if xda then download-xda folder...if mega then mega folder, if share it then shareit folder...and so on..which app or browser you are referring here.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Moribus:
So guys, which custom rom are most stable, and has best photo quality?

Or should I just stay on stock?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] hassanjavaid8181:
If camera quality is your concern i suggest you to stay on stock..

In my opinion no custom rom provides camera quality as good as stock camera.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
Is it safe to disable those two Google apps in 'apps with usage access' ?

And will it affect battery life if it's turned off?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
I've read somewhere that by disabling this, Doze can stop working, which can be total opposite of battery saving.. any toughts of that?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] remi13014:
Hello, i'm trying to follow this thread to update my B380 (https://xdaforums.com/honor-8/how-to/guide-how-to-update-b380-b381-to-b389-t3625118)

Today I unrooted my phone using the unSu script + restore the stock boot.img/recovery.img uninstall busybox binaries and uninstall phh'us root apps

My system update say my to update to B389, it download/reboot and failled at around 7%

But it downloaded only 716Mo. What should I do ? Download a full OTA-MF from Firmware Finder ? Do the dload method ?

I've seen B394/B398, but it looks like B394 is more recent :confused::confused:

Thanks for help
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] MetaMs:
That does help somewhat. I was saving from the google search results and the image vanished. If I open it in Chrome before saving, it goes into the photo download folder. However, today I tried to save an image from Facebook and it also disappeared. No option to open in Chrome, so once again, I am unable to locate the image.

I suspect there are many, many images somewhere that are eating storage space but I cannot find them after downloading. :(
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] honor8lovers:
Is my phone going to receive Android O update ? Honor 8
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
As of now it seems we won't recieve Oreo. I was told this by a support rep but she also mentioned that this isn't 100% official. She did guarantee that we would continue to recieve security patches in the future though.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
Just one question, can custom ROM be equally good in camera performance as official emui?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] gopinaidu77:
No. Because most parts of the camera are closed source by Huawei.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
Hopefully we'll be able to get fully functioning oreo ROMs...... :)
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] PalakMi:
Treble can only come to honor 8 through an Oreo update if Honor wants. Without it, it will be hard to bring Oreo custom ROMs
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] rickxx2000:
greetings. looking for some "how to" help with getting my rooted L14 (TWRP recovery with magisk on stock rom) back to a spot where i can get an ota update. got the phone last month and it came with b360 and emui 4.1, waited for b389 and emui 5.0 to come over via ota then i rooted. i read somewhere i need to flash stock recovery and stock boot img.....should i look for b389 recovery and boot or the b360 ones? where do i find these images (if that's what i need)? if someone can direct me to the images needed and a "how to" on this process, i would appreciate it. thanks.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ughman66:
Was wondering how to legitly edit and rebuild any app to gain premium/pro versions.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] gopinaidu77:
Be careful with that. XDA doesn't support piracy and hacking.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
Oh really? I thought treble was like an Oreo thing wherein it could work with any phone running even on Nougat. I've read on articles on XDA that a person booted Oreo on his Honor 8 Pro as well and afaik Honor 8 Pro doesn't have Oreo yet...... I might be wrong about this though.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] PalakMi:
Treble is a must when shipping a device with Oreo out of the box (i.e HTC U11+, Mate 10 Pro), but not with devices to be updated to Oreo (i.e Galaxy S8, Oneplus 5) it's up to OEM in this case.

Sony updated Xperia XZ and XZs to Oreo, but with no treble support, the same thing OnePlus will (it revealed that all the devices that are going to be updated to Oreo will not support Treble.

Don't worry, if Honor is going to update Honor 8 to Oreo, Treble will come to it (like Honor 9 and 8 pro)
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
Is it normal that phone looses 30% of battery in 5 minites drutin cold weather? (Actually is not that cold out here in Croatia, around 5 degrees(Celsius) now) because whenever I go out my phone just rapidly drain battery?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] hassanjavaid8181:
Some other people also reported the same issues couple of posts back..

Some one suggested that to warm up battery before going out by plaing games or going some heavy stuff..try that one.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
This battery is a joke... I never ever had any major prboems with battery during winter. And now with this shi* i'm losing 80% in 20 mins while it's only +2 Celsius degrees outside.. i can't believe that it's so low quality battery..
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
This screenshot explain all

Edit: When I got home i put it on charger and wierd thing, it charged very very slowly, and that it hit 61% and stayed at 61 for one hour and than all of a sudden it hit 100%.

Little cold and phone is fuc*ed up a lot. Excellent.. I would understand that temperature outside is like minus 5 or smth but it is above zero, way above..

Can this kind of app help? Or is it dangerous? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=warmer.fmg.de.handwarmer
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] chongns:
Did the lower resolution to save battery actually working on Honor 8
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] chongns:
Hmm. .. I think this not working, I check with adb shell during in game. The resolution still the same.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
Is Honor 7x a better thing than our Honor 8? I'm just aking myself should I sell my H8 and replace it with 7x? As I can tell in my country I can get 250 usd for H8 which is enough to buy brand new 7x (https://www.geekbuying.com/item/HUA...mLcuC2kMmyOnt9MAhQ9FUfEiF_l4uwPkaAkoMEALw_wcB)

What do you guys think?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] PalakMi:
It depend on what you want, I personally would stick to Honor 8 if I don't want the 18:9 display, that's the only reason I will switch to it
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Honor 8 still has better camera, i think, dual 12 MP+12 MP rear cam vs 16 MP + additional only 2 MP rear on 7X.

Also, you will get oreo on 7X for sure and is only expected for honor 8 and 7X may get Android P but h8 may not, most probably.

KIRIN 9XX VS KIRIN 6XX.

screen size difference (personal preference)
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
Thank you for your answer, camera is okay and i guess still better

Oreo is actually my main problem with this phone, or actually absence of it, and no official info from Honor..

Screen nor so important, acutally i like smaller phones better.

But since you mentioned cpu, is it possible that mid-range 659 in 7x is better that 950 in H8 beacuse 950 is kinda old, if I remeber correctly 950 was intruduced when snapdragon 808/810 were introduced. So miles back in past.. can old cpu be main reason why our phone can't get oreo?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] PalakMi:
Kirin 950 is better than 659
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
It ia capable of handling anything you throw at 950 so processor is not an issue, its just if Honor really wants to upgrade this phone or not. Most probably, AFAIK, it will get Oreo but I can't prove this;)

H8 was launched in October 16 in India so not much old actually ( I attended the launch and they promised 24 months of update and atleast 2 major upgrade)

Lets see
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
https://www.xda-developers.com/honor-8-android-oreo-honor-7x-nougat/

wohooo
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
I knew it..i had a word with Huawei officials as well today..
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] zrobinson340:
Honor 8 Camera

Hello, after updating to Android 7.0, on Honor 8 FRD-L04 (no root, bootloader unlocked) the default camera app stops functioning. Whenever I try to open it, the display flashes black for a second then goes back to the home screen, no error popup. I have tried rolling back to 6.0, which fixed the camera, then when I updated again to 7.0 it stopped working. I have also tried the method of clearing the data and cache of the camera app. Also, even when the main camera worked, I couldn't get the front-facing camera to work. Can anybody help me?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] hassanjavaid8181:
You update to nougat via OTA update??
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] shashank1320:
Tried factory reset post Nougat update? Please try once and see
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] zrobinson340:
yes I updated to nougat through OTA

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Okay I will try that in a couple minutes, I need to back up.

UPDATE: Thank you all, I've decided it is the newest OTA udate, B**89 i am going to just stay on 85 until probably oreo comes out.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ivanlaki:
Hello, does anyone have problem where fingerprint button becomes loose? When i press it it makes that platicky sound like air is underneath it or smth.. don't really know how to explain,but does anyone has solution? Can i maybe open the back glass and clean it somehow?

Thank you for answers
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] beefybeavecoon:
FRD-L14

My device is the FRD-L14 model. Is there anything out there so that I may root it? Everything I see is for a different version of the Honor 8.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Mofo50:
Yo guys I have a question so I have unlocked my phone and flashed twrp and it is rooted now if I want to update it from the system update tab in settings will I lose all my data or what and what will I lose like recovery root etc.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] xsacter:
I'm not sure if I'm the only one that gets it but the Honor 8 makes an annoying sound when the camera is focusing, it's also really noticable when you're recording video and it's annoying as it's quite loud. Anyway to disable that sound when it's focusing?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
My phone doesn't make any noise when focusing. Can you explain this further? Like does this happen in camera mode as well when u focus on an object?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] xsacter:
No it does it when it's focusing in general. Like the sound is really small and quick when focusing but annoying at the same time. It's hard to explain as it's a noise I can't really compare it to
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Mofo50:
Alright thanks and another thing will the update delete everything?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] :
When Will There Be Custom Kernels For The Honor 8?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] anoukaimee:
bought an Honor 8, sick of bloat/quirks; should I root or return?

I came from a Nexus 6 vanilla Android experience to the Honor 8 (FRD-L14, 64GB) (a steal at $250/64GB). While there's a lot that's great about this phone: zippy, attractive, good camera, etc.--I'm sick of the bloat (count no less than 40 either proprietary/redundant apps that I can't remove) and daily irritants (the smart lock that ties into your bluetooth device instead of wifi, the need to activate said smart lock to even use fingerprint sensor, the regular resetting of battery preferences to get notifications from apps, etc...).. Huawei just seems to want to control every aspect of how I use this phone; I feel like I bought a nanny or something.

I'd be happy to root, but all I read here and elsewhere is about bricked phones or, after a successful root, errors or random weirdnesses popping up. It's a little off-putting. Rooting the N6 was a pretty simple affair, and this sounds like hell, and a dangerous hell at that.

So I have until 2/1 to return the phone to Amazon if I want to, but there's really nothing, performance- and spec- wise, that compares to the deal I got (other than perhaps Xiaomi, but that sounds like a different kind of nightmare, potentially). So I'd optimally like to root, install Titanium Backup, Tasker, and Greenify, and either remove or fully disable some of these apps.

As owners of the H8, would you advise rooting? I'll deal with EMUI if I have to, if I can disable the smart lock and remove some of the bloat--I don't need to necessarily take the extra step of installing a custom ROM. Is it that difficult? And what about, for instance, the first post in this thread that says to go to another website, get a code, etc.? I haven't looked deeply into what is required to unlock the bootlocker and root, but really???

If anyone can help out here, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
Haha I'm here from reddit;)

U can use the fingerprint sensor without enabling smart lock.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] dimbbaa:
Is there a way to hide developer options without disabling them?

I have a banking app which does not work with when dev options are enabled, but I nees them for magisk to pass safetynet. App also requires safetynet pass.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] anoukaimee:
haha

you again!! lmao small world :)

HOW?? Seriously I would love to know... as soon as I enabled fingerprint, it prompted me to set up a lock screen. And the longest unlock is 30 minutes. What did I do wrong?

Hilarious--I should keep you on retainer for helping me with this phone :)
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] xfim:
Hi everyone. I recently got my Honor 8 and I love it. fantastic phone. Stock rom is suprisingly fast and smooth but I'm also interested in custom roms.

How is the camera on custom roms compared to stock? Is there a difference in quality? I can give up on some features but I'd like to keep the goodies of two back cameras and bokeh effect. Are there any stock-based custom roms but debloated that could be a good alternative to the stock rom?

Thanks!