[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] #Henkate:
Two days ago, in the evening, my father did set up a pattern as security lockscreen on his Galaxy S7 and then he called me saying that he forgot the pattern lol. He tried couple of times to remember it and unlock it, but he had to wait up to 1h during his tries since the phone was blocking itself. He's in Germany and he's working as truck driver...

Next day, in the morning, I've guided him how to enter in the stock recovery and do a factory reset. Then he had to deal with that FRP lock, but he couldn't go to the login screen to log his Google account after connecting to a random WiFi from a gas station because the phone was telling him that it couldn't connect.

He doesn't have any GPS navigation and he was using his S7, so he called me from the truck's phone (a dumbphone, not smartphone) and I had to guide him for about 30m - 1h. So I've been his GPS hahaha. He should've been more careful with the surroundings since he no longer could use the navigation. I guess it's not bad to be disconnected sometimes :P

While he was going to the destination, he decided that he'll buy a new cheap phone from a MediaMarkt on his way to the destination. He told me to search for the cheapest Samsung on their website and seen the Galaxy J3 2017 for 149 euros. Then he asked me about Nokia and there was Nokia 2 for 108 euros or so. He chose that he'll go for Samsung, because he thinks that Samsung is better lol. He is also used to the Touchwiz UI.

So, he bought the J3 2017 and then told me that if he solve the problem with his S7, he'll send me the J3 2017 next week, when his friend (truck driver at the same company) will come home. Later, I've guided him how to make an hotspot on the J3 and then he connected the S7 to J3's hotspot. He was saying that the phone was connecting, but then it was saying that it couldn't connect and on the J3 it was showing that S7 is connected lol. After few hours, he called me saying that he succeeded to connect the S7 to J3's hotspot and booted the phone after logging his Google account. I still don't understand how he managed to connect it to the hotspot or why the S7 was saying that couldn't connect.

So I'll get that J3 2017 next week (Sunday he said). It sucks though. There's no fingerprint, no notification led, no type-c usb, not fast charging and other stuff... Just compare Nova to this one haha. It also doesn't have LOS and the bootloader isn't even unlockable (as far as I've read on their forum, I'm not up to date), but at least it's rootable and has TWRP. It sucks, but after all it's a free phone so I can't complain about anything.

I was thinking about bringing up trees for LOS14 when I get it, but I'm not sure because it has Exynos and as far as I've read before, it sucks to work with it. There's some other phones with the same Exynos as J3 2017, but they don't have LOS neither as far as I've seen, so I'd need to bring up trees from scratch. So, I don't know if I'll work on it or not. I haven't used the new Touchwiz, but it's still Touchwiz so I'd probably start working on it, but i would stop and I would work on Nova any day if I'd get it again, instead that phone xD.

Now I'm using the second android phone I've had before (Galaxy S Advance, LOS11) because mom's S3 Neo suddenly stopped working about 1 week ago or so. At least, that J3 2017 is better than this :D.

What about you? What's up? How's going?

PS: I'm sorry for the so long post and that I've made you waste some time, but I just thought about telling what's new xD.