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[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
No official release. Now we have open beta / stable but not official Nougat with Emui 5 for Honor 8. You can ask Huawei service for it. Even no files of firmware on their site.

You can force update by HiCare app on your phone or by using dload method it means manual flashing.

Wait for patches or official release. For me battery is also worse than on Android 6 and for me voice commands like "where are you" does not works
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Levi1vargas:
Battery seems better for me but the "Where are you feature" doesn't work for me.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] bho01:
i got my honor 8 stuck at boot trying to install superSU. It didn't let me back up, so I went for it and I think I screwed up a step. I rebooted into erecovery and installed the package and it's still stuck at boot, what do I do!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
use the rollback package to rollback to MM. See the second post of this thread.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
Apparently there is a new small update:

Changelog:

Didn't update yet as I'm with root and twrp and not sure if it will work, but for those who have no root and no TWRP, could you please check it?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] vietiplatsch:
I'm on L09. I have checked System Update app as well as HiCare, both had no updates yet.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
I don't see it also in Hicare or updater, but it is in the Firmware Finder app, was released yesterday, so it's normal that it's not available officially yet.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hoseth0711:
Have you been able to install it? My device just boots into stock recovery on installation
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
I didn't tried it because I've TWRP and root.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
I have b360, this app which you using show me b360 update which only weighs 1.38 gb (i have this update but it was about 2gb). But i dont see this update which you have on your screenshot, how to get it?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
Maybe it wasn't release for your phone version yet. Which version do you have?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
Frd-l09, i think same like you.

EDIT i have it! and i will try
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
great! let us know how it went :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
I will try again because when i download it in dload folder it says app file have 123 mb which update was about 200mb. Updater stopped with "no update" text and force me to reboot phone. I will try again and tell you.

[MENTION=309187]edit[/MENTION] i extract it manually and i see more files.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
You extracted the .zip or .app?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
Zip, it was about 300mb. Now updater says failed flashing and nothing happen. I just cant install this.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
it's normal that the zip file contains more than just the update.app file.

Can you try putting just the update.app file in the dload folder of an external sd card and start your phone with vol up + vol down + power ?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
Everything and i always see the same: software install failed
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
you have the stock recovery?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
Yes. I didnt modified this phone. Maybe this update is corrupted? Or someone other could test it too.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
yeah, strange.... well, it's not oficial yet so maybe is some corrupted update file in the huawei servers and the app gets it.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
Anyway changelog is interesting. Fixing some problems which i report. It seems like they working on next updste for Emui 5 beta. Soon we will get it i think.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
Let's all hope so :) Hope they are working on updating to 7.1.2 also!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
it can be an incremental update and they keep the same version
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mateolol:
Thanks for the answer.

I have HiCare app, and no update here yet. That's why I asked if this dload in 2 times is safe (with update.zip then update_data_full_hw_eu.zip)

I don't want to break everyhing instead of waiting one more week :eek:
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
If you are afraid of breaking stuff, don't do it. One week passes very quickly.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
Nothing, even the security patch is the same.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mateolol:
That's my plan, thanks! :D
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
No, it's the same.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
You meant this update from 06.02?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
You can write how you make it work? I meant installation of update.

Ps strange is that you have the same security patch level because in changelog they wrote that security patch is updated.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
yeah, that's quite strange....
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
In settings of update i have no new updates to download.

When i try to flash it by dload i get error then file in folder on sdcard is 0mb (before flashing is 129mb) and .app file is back in phone storage.. wtf
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] johnhux7:
Has anybody got this to work yet via the team MT app ??

I'm sort of thinking that it's worth waiting for this to come into our phones officially.

We won't see any difference, as previously mentioned it's even got the same name.

What are you guys thinking ?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
I won't update for now, there is no talking about it, no oficial info and apparently no changes.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] johnhux7:
That's my thinking exactly.

Can't see the point in just doing it coz it's there.

My phone is running so well at the MO and I have just stuck to official OTA's and no root.

Think I'm going to stick with that ( till some cool ROMs start appearing.

I'm in the UK and I changed local settings and now that OTA has gone so I'm guessing it wasn't for uk

Edit now it's back again !!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
well the update just appeared yesterday so it's too soon to see if there are actually any necessary and important changes.

Nevertheless, I don't do it because I'm with TWRP and root and it can cause issues with that if I try to update.

If I had my phone stock i would do it just to check :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
I will also waiting for update from official channel.

"Decreases power consumption for longer usage time." < the most for this

If we cant even force update by HiCare it means they working on it and its not fully done.

new version of nougat is a matter of time.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] johnhux7:
I'm sure we won't have to wait to long
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] chvishnu2001:
I did a full reset of the phone after upgrading to 7.0 to have a better battery life. I didn't think it made any difference. With 35 mins SOT (no gaming) and 40 min phone call , battery is down to 75℅ already.

What else can I do to make it better.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] chvishnu2001:
How is I fix this. The icon notification don't show up on the lock screen but they show after the phone is unlocked and is in home page. Please look at the below pic and you will see the difference.

Please help.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Gus194:
That's how it is in EMUI. You can't do anything until Hauwei does something to change it
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] chvishnu2001:
Yikes. Is this a EMUI 5.0 thing? I don't rmr having this issue on 4.1.

I also wish all the notification came to lock screen by default.

Thanks for the information btw.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
One solution: patience :)

I dont like it too. Battery life sucks but in next releases of EMUI will be better as i seen in changelog. Android 7 on our Honor is beta version, stable but still beta. They will fix notifications displaying, battery life etc
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] chvishnu2001:
Haha Thanks.

I wish there was a stable 7.0 CM ROM out there. I'd be happy to jump until Huawei fixes this.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
If you go to settings > notifications and status bar > notifications manager and press the wheel in the top right corner you can choose to have notifications on the lock screen.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
This is not a beta version! This is the final version, which doesn't mean that doesn't need some fixes in the future.

And for me battery life is great! Better than MM. You have to investigate if you don't have some app draining battery.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saythis:
Technically there hasn't been an official statement saying it's the final version. The low resolution mode in battery options doesn't work. The OTA has the same md5 as the beta last I checked also.

Edit:

So yes, for all intents and purposes, it is the beta lol.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
Is not final. Its open beta. Because:

1. This says all huawei service workers

2. No firmwares to download from official site

3. No update by official update-app built in settings, only by force in HiCare

4. They gives tips how to back to Android 6 so they know its not fully bug free as all beta.

I turned off many apps and make everything i can to better battery life but still sucks.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
The alternative methods people are using (hicare, Charles, firmware finder) get the update packages from official sources.

The nougat was officially released on other regions.

The rollback package was released for beta testers yes, but that doesn't mean it will only work for beta versions.

The methods mentioned above never worked before for beta releases, for this device or any other honor/Huawei device.

And I get average 4H SOC with 4G almost the whole day on and WiFi when at home. I never had this with MM.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] masterhugo:
What's the wallpaper used on the phone here?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saythis:
The only official downloads that Huawei has listed on their update server are the betas.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] faizalotai:
Its still in beta stage, thats why huawei provide 2 types of upgrades packages.

1 for global, and data full.zip for variants, to keep tracks of bug within variant.

Once they sort out of those bugs, they will push 1 full package just like b162(l04 variant)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
If you analyze the Charles method requests, the download source is the same Huawei provides their official releases on their website.

And Nougat was already officially released in Japan and started rolling out to other regions.

There is no official announcement (for western europe at least) but there is no official source announcing open beta's or saying this is not the final release (of course service people will not say it's final if there is no official announcment).

But, who cares, for me it cares that is out and working great.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
Of course is that beta is from official sources but it does not mean that is final release. Ask any worker of huawei, for example on chat or email and they will tell you that is no official release of Android 7 for Honor. Yes its close to final but not yet now. Its my opinion - basing on facts.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saythis:
Also, just to add... The Chinese models appear to be running B368 for the official.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
That's not for the Mate 8?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
Can you show your battery stats?

My

Is it ok?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
That's not ok, you have very poor signal reception! Your signal graph should be green and not yellow/red.

That's why your battery drains so fast! Think about changing your sim card, is it new or you cut it?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] johnhux7:
Yes mate it looks like they are sorting the issues that we have complained about.

Will be good to get the battery issue's sorted
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
I will have new sim card and mobile operator.

Here is very bad network signal it uses more battery because phone searching for signal more times?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
Of course! A lot more!!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] supersakis:
Hello,

As ViCioPT mentioned, (lack of) mobile signal greatly influences battery life.

Before trying anything more drastic, try to disable 4G:

Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile network -> Preferred network type: 3G/2G

and to disable Carrier aggregation.

(Instructions are based on EMUI 4.1, I see that you have EMUI 5.0, someone else can confirm if the instructions are correct)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
ok guys i will look to network settings and i'll see if help, anyway i will have new sim card from other mobile carrier (by moving number).

i hope battery life will be better.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] AllieKitty:
Not exactly. Poor signal requires more radio power to maintain communication. For two reasons - one, lower modulation and coding rates increasing radio on time required for a given amount of data; two, higher broadcast power needed to be heard by the base station. Unless you have no signal, searching isn't what's taking the power.

Second, SIM card doesn't have any effect. Cutting a SIM is irrelevant, purely urban legend. The SIM is just a key. If it works, it works. The only time it might affect battery is if he provisioning is different. E.g. you go from a SIM that is only provisioned for 3G to one provisioned for 4G. Yes, some networks charge extra for 4G so this is a real thing... :( A "bad SIM" does not give you weaker signal. It either works or it doesn't. Cutting a SIM card to fit doesn't hurt it at all, you're not cutting into the electronics.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
If the signal is weak, specially if iit's the 4G signal, the phone will be constantly switching between 3G and 4G and that uses A LOT of battery!

Yes, it's not the fact that the SIM card is cutted or not that influences the battery, but if it's an older card (which normally it's not pre-cutted in the micro SIM format) specially if not 4G compatible.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Brooky_AGB:
Nougat update failed

Hi Guys,

I forced an update with Charlie which seemed to work. It downloaded and the setup process started. It got to about 14% on install then it rebooted. It's still on EMUI 4.1 and now I see a crappy "custom current version".

See image:
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
try to select: download last package
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Brooky_AGB:
It just says no updates and nothing changes. :(
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
Check this thread it's an app that does the same as Charlies but without the need of a PC.

Check latest posts, there is some help over there.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Brooky_AGB:
Thanks.. it's downloading. :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
Did it work?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dedovec:
I bought an FRD- L09 Honor 8 today to replace my dead P9 and immediately received b360 through Hicare app. Works nice and smooth.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] --anx--:
But with FRD-L09C432 it will only find firmware 131 full...the other ones are 1,5Gb, or 560Mb OTA...why I can't see B360 full package?

I'm on EMUI 4.1, firmware 131...
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
It's not available yet.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] --anx--:
Well, but almost all other friends and people in Italy got the update with HiCare app...while I'm getting no updates...so the B360 version exists and many others are using it... :(
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
In the app I mentioned is the 1.5Gb update, did you saw the pictures on the thread I mentioned?!

Check it and read the thread because there are a lot of remarks that can be important to you before you try to update!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Brooky_AGB:
It found the firmware and downloaded and md5 check worked. I then unpack it and then I've got no idea what to do. The unpack never seems to finish.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] --anx--:
Yes, that's why I've asked...because the 1.5Gb update should leave me without apps...because the FULL package is 2.3Gb or more...so if I flash that one I could experience some problems...in fact, the app says that this is OTA firmware...

FULL firmware with Nougat isn't there, the only FULL I find is the one with EMUI 4.1, 131 firmware.... :(
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
Read the thread!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] --anx--:
I'm just keep reading and reading, and I've understand that I have to activate "DOWNLOAD FULL PACKAGE" in system updater...but this option isn't there on EMUI 4.1...apart of that, I've selected, "show latest firmware" and find the OTA B360 1,5Gb (not the FULL 2Gb fw)...while if I choose to see OTA and not only latest firmware the app shows many fw, where the FULL one is the fw 131 which I have already on phone stock...

What I've lost? I've read the 7 pages at least two times...:confused:
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
Yes it it, on the updater, just press the 3 horizontal bar button.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] --anx--:
Believe me, I only had two options before, but maybe I had to check IMMEDIATELY WHEN entered into updater after firmware finder app pushed the update, so the option should have been there.

Anyway...I've tried another time now, OTA 1.5Gb B360...went into updater and...it showed me the FULL PACKAGE 2,35Gb without pressing anything (no download full option), and with the changelog in Italian...while before changelogs was in English...

Maybe I've received the "original" update? :eek::confused:
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ccheung:
I got my honor 8 FRD-L04 for a week. I still didn't get any update. Build version still B162. Is it normal? By the way I only see updater, no hicare app.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Telperion:
I have no lock screen notifications anymore. I'm using Magazine Unlock, VUI isn't available yet. Anybody else?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
The procedure is:

go to app firmware finder > settings > installation via system update and install addon

select the update you want (dated 18/01/2017) and select send firmware to updater

then change proxy setting as described in the app

then go to the updated (phone settings > updater)

the update should appear, then select transfer latest package (or something similar)the update should have 2.38Gb

click install, the download should start but stop at 0%, put it on pause

go again to wifi setting and turn off proxy

go back to updated and resume download.

After that it should finish and in the end just install it.

If everything goes well, you can do the exact same procedure for the latest update (06/02/2017 - 494Mb)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mariocroatia:
Can anybody post screenshoot from memory and storage ,i use sd card as my primary location in MM.... can i do that on nougat?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] chris181rt:
I've been doing it correctly a few times. Mine won't update. something strange happens in the stock "updater" APP ... It downloads to 72% then kicks back 1 screen and when I finally get it back to the progress screen ... it's back to 58% downloaded. If I keep messing with it and it reaches 100% & I hit install . . it said it won't update because its the wrong package... has anybody had this ??
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] SSyar:
A tweet from Honor USA

EMUI 5.0 is coming to Honor 8 from Feb 11th! Check out the new App Drawer on EMUI 5! Excited?
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
It can take some time, bet everybody will receive Nougat, just be patient :)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] supersakis:
I got the update today via the hicare app.

Apparently there is a quota of 300000 people that will get it. See attachment.

It is one update of 2.38GB and there is no further update, like the ones you get on the firmware finder. This might actually be the official update.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] johnhux7:
I have seen it advertised this morning that the Honor 8 is getting it's N update on the 10/2/17 !!

As you all know many of us have had this update a while back.

Are they so out of touch that they don't know that they had been pushing this update it for the last month.

Does this mean that this extra 250mb 360 update that we have seen in team MT is what we will get from today.

I don't know what they are playing at
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] WYPIERDAALAAC:
Probably b360 update + 6.02 update and some addon in one.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
IMO or they will make a full update (not OTA) that might include already the fixes in the latest OTA or they will release a new version (some people belive that the b360 we are using it's still a beta version).
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] untrust_us:
I hope it isn't just the stock B360 ROM without the fixes because that one has terrible battery life, I actually downgraded back to B162/MM just because of that reason.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] BigD18t:
Were you on the Beta ? I'm told that those who were get it earlier, I signed out from it so haven't had it yet.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Meemo23:
Yes, I enrolled and was using the beta till this update. I have never rooted or anything else. I just signed up was excepted then just used the beta all this time. Then just now I saw this post and picked up the phone and it said B360 Update available. I have not tested anything yet, but it seems the same to me.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
That's not true. I think that's even the other way around. Please in beta program are having difficulties updating to the official release.

Enviado do meu FRD-L09 através de Tapatalk
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Meemo23:
[IMG="B360 UK"]http://oi65.tinypic.com/13z0u4h.jpg[/IMG]

:)
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] digitalbreak:
Tried countries in Europe, Asia Pacific and Middle East. Still no sign of the update. My model is FRD-L14 US. Is the update rolled out based on the model? If so, wont that be specific to regions? Thanks!
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] BigD18t:
So what you are saying is what I've been told by a Honor UK representative is incorrect information !!

---------- Post added at 06:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:12 PM ----------

Thanks for the reply, seems it was correct what I was told.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wesley32:
no update here. using FRD-L04 on MetroPCS in the US. I'll wait it out and see if I have an update by Monday.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] komakino76:
Update available in Croatia, Europe for FRD-L09. smooth and fast.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ViCioPT:
Indeed, very happy with the overall look and performance.

For now it's impossible to give an opinion about the battery life, but next few days we should get an idea if that has changed or not.
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] krytak:
Anyone 7.0 for FRD-L19 version? :(
[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fikul:
I had about 4,5h SOT with pretty heavy usage. This result for me is better than latest beta, and the same as marshmallow!