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[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Socialnotworking:
P20 Pro First Impressions

Got the phone this afternoon and have had an initial play.

I came from the Mate 10 Pro so know the EMUI system fairly well and many of the P20 Pro features are similar.

Saw a tip from a reviewer to use night mode for all shots and gave that a go with some amazing results, really sharp with good colours in poor light indoors.

I have listened to audio on the speakers and in landscape when it changes to stereo the sound is good, nothing like a Razer Phone but good. Sound in portrait mode through the one speaker is only average.

The Bluetooth audio seems so far to be an improvement over the Mate 10 Pro which had a horrible compressed almost 128k sound even playing 320k files through Deezer. The P20 Pro seems much closer to the quality on the iPhone 7 which is great news so far but I will report back once I have tried some FLAC files on the internal audio app.

Other than that the phone seems slightly quicker than the Mate 10 Pro, possibly due to the newer EMUI version.

Updates to follow after more time with it :good:
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] mcall_r:
Love this handset overall. Battery life is great, camera is great, screen is great, sound is great (which was a big bone of contention with me coming from LG V20!).

Please add section on real-life review for Audio Quality! Both speaker and headphones (wired and wireless!).
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Duncan1982:
Just received my P20 pro yesterday and must say I'm quite impressed. The design & build are fantastic, I would prefer the fingerprint on the rear like the Porsche design (but not a huge issue).

Emui is a decent skin as far as skins go, it's easy to get used to and has a few nice features baked in without being to intrusive.

Camera looks very impressive but need a bit more time with it, but I'm happy so far with the results.

Performance is on point and everything runs smoothly.

So far so good and my first ever Huawei device and I'm overall very content with my purchase.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] potblack2win:
Same here.

Hopefully we can get some 1080p 60fps EIS and 4K EIS in the future
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] DaveP2611:
So far so good, a few strange things like changing lock screen wallpaper and also updating widgets which I hope are simply bugs that will get fixed.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Jamestdd:
What with the leather texture design of the camera ui....I hate it.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] thayil:
It remembers the leica legacy ;)
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] dannejanne:
Agreed sound in headphones was a big concern for me before buying the phone as my previous Huawei's have not performed well in that regard and I have a V10 that I use when listening a lot to music. Though the P20 Pro surprised me it has good dynamic range and spacious sound. Not quite up to par with my V10 but good enough that it will not bother me at all really.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] AndroidMilos:
I love this phone. I love the camera. I can see the display out in the sunny day unlike the other phones I have which are hard to see outside on a sunny day. Phone feels good in the hand. I have dark mode on and it looks great. It is also really fast, no lags so far.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Sebastian_san:
This is my first Huawei or China made phones. I have to say I am impressed. EMUI is not bad really, still missing some features but overall it's a solid contender. The night mode is insane...never seen a camera phone that can do this! Overall I have no regrets buying this. :good:
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] donatinho:
Definately satisfied, especially since fw 120. Best buy for me!
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] suman_pal78:
Let me first set the context. I am currently using an iPhoneX and Galaxy S9+ (Both 256gb model). Therefore, whatever I write here about P20 pro is against the experience of the existing phones (Both are top notch). Now Here we go about P20 Pro...

Camera: I was blown away by some photographs I casually took today both night and day (Auto mode). There are plenty of of options and currently the best camera (phone) in the market that money can buy.

IR Remote : None of the flagship has it. This was another reason to choose P20 pro after lot of dilemma. It's amazing. You can control almost any devices like TV, A/C, Music System etc including your home, office and public places!!!

Screen : Nothing less than iPhone X in terms of viewing experiences. HDR10 fully supported and its awesome.

Android Auto: Perfectly working (Flawless) with my Skoda.

Battery : 4000mah capacity, yet to be tested

Software: Plenty of good and garbage. You can remove garbages what you don't want. I use Nova prime. Supe fluid.

Kirin 970 + 6GB RAM: Flagship experiences but iPhoneX and S9+ does little better here.

Music: Excellent Bluetooth audio. With an active external amplifier the Huawei P20 Pro had the perfectly clear output that befits its flagship standing. Stereo speakers with dolby digital.

Fingerprint & Face Unlock : Fastest (Fast like hell!!)

I know resell value will be hopeless for this brand but I am fully satisfied with my purchase of P20 pro.

What else you want to know... ask
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] WhiteSquirrel:
Overall reasonably impressed

I changed from a much loved S5 to the P20 Pro and so far I find it an upgrade in terms of speed and responsiveness (obviously!) but a downgrade in terms of a few other things.

Here are the things that are bothering me about it. If anyone knows how to help with any of them that would be great. Otherwise I'm likely going to return it.

I know some of the items are me being fussy but really I "upgraded" from a 4 yr old phone that has none of these issues.

Issue with screen dimming in some apps (IE: open WhatsApp, screen brightness drops, exit WhatsApp, screen brightness goes back up in seconds)

Edit 1: I have used a rubbish workaround of enabling auto brightness to stop this. However Huawei have confirmed this will be fixed in a future release.

Email notification icons don't show (and also, if you have 2 email accounts you only know if you have emails in the other if you access it separately)

Edit 1: I think I have resolved this by going to Notifications Management >> Batch Management >> Toggling All off and on >> 3 dots >> Badges >>Badge display mode to something other than current and then set to "Unread Messages" >> Toggle all off and on

Google find my device doesn't work on it (works via the app on the phone itself - not very useful as you wouldn't have it with you if you were trying to find it!)

Edit 1: Search for "App launch" in settings >> access app launch >> set google play services, maps, find my device to manual and enable all 3 items within the sub menu (you may need to download find my device - not sure if required)

Camera 16:9 is low resolution (7MP resolution from a 40MP sensor is very poor)

Camera 16:9 photos do not appear to be true 16:9 aspect ratio (it produces black lines at the top and the bottom)

Notification light tiny (ridiculously small, can't be rectified now obviously)

Notification light blinks soooo slowly (I feel like I need to look at the phone for a few seconds to decide if it has a notifcation)

Always on display doesn't show third party notifications like WhatsApp (can't understand why this would be the case)

Infrared only works with some apps (IE: doesn't work with AnyMote)

Edit 1: In AnyMote enable "User Alternate IR Commands"; this fixed it for me! :)

Infrared requires nearly direct line of sight (older phones I have used work when pointing upwards or downwards slightly, P20 Pro needs almost direct straight line)

Limited on-screen zoom in to gallery photos taken

If screen-on notification are on the notification light won't stay lit to notify (having issues identifying when this happens as it isn't all the time)

EDITS: I'm going to try and edit these as I find a fix for them.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Superroach:
So far I love it! The camera has been amazing, to the point where I'm not feeling anxious if I see something cool and don't have my DSLR with me. The battery life feels liberating.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] suicidal.banana:
Just a quick headsup, you can change it to shoot 40mp, it just defaults to outputting 10mp (not sure how you got on 7mp?) just like other high megapixel phones never really shoot full size 'out of the box', this is to both make it feel more speedy/snappy, aswell as to simplify the task for the phone (usually things like tweaking light after taking the photo, but in this device some 'ai' is apparently also altering filters shutter-speed etc on the fly based on what you try to take pics from, so im sure that benefits from lower res<->speed tradeoff too)

(edit: #1 wow my signature still works #2 its outdated :P)
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] WhiteSquirrel:
Hello there, the 7mp refers to my comment about the max P20 Pro resolution for 16:9 aspect ratio.

16:9 could easily utilise a 40mp photo with the top and bottom removed to make it widescreen-viewing suitable. Obviously I can edit this myself but that will be tedious when you've taken 100's of photos and want to view them nicely on every modern TV and laptop without big black bars at the sides due to 4:3 aspect ratio. The S5 allowed 16mp photos at true 16:9 which were absolutely fantastic and perfect for viewing on the phone's full screen, the full TV screen and full laptop screen with no large black bars at the sides.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] walkerx:
nice phone, but won't be buying another Huawei device - software compatibility is appalling, they can't even get their own widgets working on 3rd party launchers, we are nearly 4 months behind with security updates, there's been no update on the mate 10 pro since march, so doubt if will see this phone get any regular updates - overall 5 for hardware, -5 for software and updates
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Aur3L:
Oh? I have just received the .131 version with June 18 security patch, the camera has been improved, as well as the smoothness, and the stand by battery stats. Hope you get this update on your unit soon, it's a good product.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] rowihel2012:
Yea i had lag before 131 update now my phone is ultrs smooth
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Cabooshy:
Got the phone last Saturday, and so far, i love it!

Coming from the P9, i wasn't expecting all that much in the custom ROM department as that was quite slow too (Even more so now that Huawei have closed the bootloader code page) but it does suck that V4A doesn't work as of yet.

On the topic of the notch, it actually doesn't bother me at all. i only really ever notice it if i am consciously looking for it, kinda like the OG Moto 360's Black bar.

EMUI 8.1 is nice and snappy and feels overall much more refined compared to its similarly designed nougat sibling EMUI 5.1 running on my P9 currently.

The camera system is, simply put, amazing. Night mode is awesome, and i find myself using Pro mode even more than i did on my P9, so that's good in my books.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Aur3L:
A love and hate relationship.

This is all I feel with this device, I am open to new interface experience, emui is offering plethora of options, not all to my taste, but one can untick any of not useful. But there are some duplicate apps like calendar and contact, and while switching with another device I could see the synchronisation wasn't done properly, so some entries hadn't been updated, even days after it was done on the P20. The camera produces good result, but I guess I am a bit mislead by Leica branding. Yes the pixel bining is cool, but once printed, it's not so well. Then, the monochrome lens is the one who's my favorite. Pro mode is cool and all, but given that I already have a true Leica camera, I get, of course, better results with the D3 then this smartphone.

Then comes in sight the fact that Nova launcher doesn't play nice with the off screen gestures for navigation, so I had to resort back to the old three buttons layout, which is fine, but the incompatibility with Nova irritates me. The phone itself has a great battery, is it a two days lasting battery? Yes. But I cannot bet on using my device the second day as heavily as the first one, so it's more a convenience than anything else, as anyways I'll have to top it off, thanks to the fast charger. Which is available on my OnePlus device as well. So I am not so happy with it. Ip 67 is cool and all, but once I cleaned it, the charging port started acting strange. I had to let it dry for two days before it got fully functional. Otherwise it would initiate the charge, stop by itself, ring, start charging again, and then stop, for hours. Connectivity is good, but at this level of price I couldn't expect less. Memory management is weird, even if you whitelist apps, and the Bluetooth isn't doing great either. So apart for the few pros listed here, battery, monochrome lens, fast storage, I am disappointed by this phone. I don't mind emui but it could be more compatible with other launchers. Security patches come once in a while, and can't be done on data, just on wifi, which is a shame, as I have more than 200go a month to use, but no way to make it via data, no rifle to give you options. So, I wouldn't say it's a bed device at all, it's well over 9 months that I have it, and the least I can say, is that it doesn't suit me at all.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDARoni:
I really like the P20 pro after a few days of using it. One of the best aspects of this phone is the display. My least favorite thing so far is the navigation button. I tried to get used to the single button using gestures to navigate, but ended up enabling the three-key software navbar instead,
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] mxtuu222:
P20 Pro user

Compared to Pixel 3, P20 Pro took better photos, but for me the lack of customization and SW restriction has made me trade this phone.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're a power user. Can the Huawei P20 Pro keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Huawei P20 Pro. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDARoni:
If you're looking for a development-friendly phone, Huawei is not the solution for you. They have discontinued all bootloader unlock programs there is no official support for unlocking your bootloader. This results is a very small development community.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Would you say that the Huawei P20 Pro is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the Huawei P20 Pro exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Socialnotworking:
So far so good

Firstly Google maps is fine, no issues whatsoever so can only assume this was a one off but the reviewer probably had a bad day..

The speed seems a little quicker than the Mate 10 Pro in use, so face unlock and app scrolling is great and in terms of using apps, really I don't care if the iPhone X or One Plus 5 loads a game 2 seconds faster its really not important to me. If I am honest some of the reviewers seem to focus on the tiniest issue just to get a few more views or eek out their video for a minute longer and its not really objective.

If you benchmark this phone, it will not blow your socks off and if that's important to you then buy an iPhone but in everyday use so far nothing has crashed, apps have responded quickly and it performs how I would expect a flagship to.

The Mate 10 Pro I have benchmarked higher using the stock launcher than using Nova, yet Nova is widely regarded to improve performance so that probably explains how beneficial benchmarks are to 90% of the customer base..

No offence intended but I have been through this with Camera reviewers talking about performance and IQ etc when some of the best photos I see posted are taken on cameras 5 years old...;)
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Suggy62:
Would agree, Face unlock, scrolling and fingerprint sensor are very very quick.

Coming from a 3T I'm struggling to like the launcher though, so I installed Nova, was very impressed with the performance until I tried to drop a clock widget on the home screen. Nova then crashed and wont restart. I get a pop up from Smart Recovery wanting to uninstall Nova. I'm still hacking around to see what will fix it
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Socialnotworking:
Just added a accuweather widget in Nova launcher (i use the pro version) and it seems ok just had to adjust size but its there and works. Which clock widget was it you tried?
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Suggy62:
Yeah, I'm on the Prime version too. It was the default Huawei Clock & Weather widget. As I said, Nova had been fine, I'd done my first pass with setting the desktop grid, tweaking animations. etc.

I've since wiped Nova's cache and it still wont restart. I'll wipe all the Nova data next and see if it'll start up no.

I have submitted a crash dump to TeslaCoil, so I'll see if they come back with any suggestions
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Socialnotworking:
Tried the nova weather and clock and it crashed Nova completely and came up with a critical error so seems like a generic issue
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] DaveP2611:
Just tested this and yep, crashed Nova, but had no issues restarting app from Huawei launcher and then making it defaults again.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] Socialnotworking:
Benchmark

Interesting that yet again using the stock launcher the Antutu score is 2000 points higher. Also the P20 Pro is still way behind my old Mate 10 Pro on overall score despite having the same combo. I know benchmarks are generally useless but it would suggest Huawei still have some performance optimisation work to do on the P20 Pro.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] nnila:
Exact same thing. I had to . uninstall Nova fully then re-install it. Seems the clock widget is for their launcher only and once Nova has it 'saved' into memory that you want it on the desktop, every time it tries to start and load it, it will crash. Need to clear all the data so it doesn't try to keep loading it.

Shame as it's a nice looking widget.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] vodovodo:
guys, nova wont work with huawei weather widget, it never did since i started using huawei with the p9 2 years ago, always crashes and there is no fix
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] version467:
Okay, so I actually started to think that something was wrong with my phone, since basically no one reports performance issues in daily usage.

So I reset my phone which already helped a bit (so maybe something actually went wrong the first time) and then went on to remove all bloat that came with the phone via ADB. Every third party app and also most system apps that came from Huawei (there really wasn't much left after that). This really changed things, the phone felt a lot snappier after that.

And last but not least I installed Nova prime which again, made a big difference (which is surprising to me that the launcher made such a big difference even in other apps).

Now I basically can't distinguish the performance from other stock android / pixel-like devices.

So if you're reading this and are one of the few people with performance problems, then try those things first, before returning your new device.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] DaveP2611:
Don't suppose you have a list of removed apps?

I was considering going to something like Lineage once it releases, but I also love the idea of the Easy Projection which will be gone, so looks like i'm sticking to EMUI for the time being.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] version467:
Sorry, didn't think to write it down :/

However I followed this guide: https://xdaforums.com/honor-6x/how-to/guide-list-bloat-software-emui-safe-to-t3700814

And after that I installed Application Inspector and picked out every package that still bothered me.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] 5nak3:
Hey Dave,

I've been working through the list on my end so I thought maybe I could share what I've removed so far.

As with most system changes while I can say I haven't see any negative side effects yet, it doesn't mean there won't be any going forward :rolleyes:

com.hisi.mapcon
com.google.android.apps.tachyon
com.facebook.appmanager
com.facebook.system
com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
com.android.calculator2
com.android.dreams.basic
com.android.dreams.phototable
com.android.providers.partnerbookmarks
com.google.android.youtube
com.google.android.videos
com.huawei.phoneservice
com.swiftkey.swiftkeyconfigurator
com.touchtype.swiftkey
com.google.android.music
com.google.android.tts
com.huawei.vassistant
com.android.deskclock
com.android.calendar
com.android.email
com.android.chrome
com.example.android.notepad

I've used the list that [MENTION=8246943]version467[/MENTION] had linked to as well as app inspector to determine what I wanted to remove.

Couple words of warning, for some of the above, calendar, chrome, swiftkey etc... Make sure you first install an equivalent app from the app store before deleting. What I actually did was install all my apps first, then went back and uninstalled and removed excess apps from the phone.

Also, it seems that once removed the only way to restore the app if it's causing you problems is a factory reset :(
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] TonyWoo:
Face Unlock is phenomenally quick as is most everything else. I have a problem with the Google feed page showing blank every so often and today the Fastmail app had slowed to a crawl (irony) but other than that no complaints at all. First thing I tried was Google Maps which works as well as any other phone.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] KennyDumah:
You could just disable the apps instead of removing them. As soon as my P20 arrives, I gonna check all that stuff about smoothness.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] 5nak3:
Your right, unfortunately a lot of the apps mentioned do not have a disable option which means that either we're stuck with them on the phone in a folder or homescreen.

Alternatively, you can uninstall them for your user and not have to worry about them. Personally this was a better option for me.

Truth is, I did it mainly to have a cleaner app draw rather than smoothness. I'll never use the default mail client for instance so it made sense to get rid of it.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] KennyDumah:
Hm I see. Well in that case you could try to simply move the app folders you like to uninstall from system/apps to a folder on your internal space like /downloads or whatever. Of course you need to be rooted for that. Anyways as soon as I get hands on my P20 I gonna uninstall all Huawei apps anyways and gonna try some build.prop tweaks for touch responsiveness.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] g_oral:
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[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] carda21:
Z Camera

Hey Guys,

trying to remove a stock app from the Australian version called Z Camera (com.jb.zcamera). Can't seem to make it happen via ADB.....any ideas? Removing it only seems to reset the app to default.....

---------- Post added at 10:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:04 PM ----------

Answered my own question. After doing the adb delete, it reset the app to default and then I was able to uninstall it like a normal app......I am sure I didn't get that option before doing the adb delete......go figure!
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDARoni:
This phone is super fast. The Kirin 970 chipset keeps the P20 Pro running as fast as any other flagship from that time.
[Huawei P20 Pro Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
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