[Huawei Mate 10  Guides, News, & Discussion] culiacanazo:
Anyways! Back to a good old OT!

First things first, if you're using Google translate might as well try driving blindfolded, you have a better chance.

If you're fluent, then heed my punctuation and whatnot, as i usually try to do a good job at that.

(The reason i tell you that is because at times Mr. Nmayo20 leaves me wondering if I am achieving my goal of communicating effectively, so....)

GUYS, let me try and make up my previous rampage over certain international policies a carrot has been mishandling lol, two things:

Been wanting to do this since way back when we got pie, but i finally admitted I'm never gonna get around to doing it properly, so I'll just share here. Feel free to take it down, put it in a thread of its own, or just ignore it.

Second, I'm not a Dev, nothing here i created, i just put two and hidden two together and I'm sharing the findings, since we, the American Weis,(play on words for those who might be like, hhmmm!!) have been less privileged, for, as you will see, absolutely no reason, other than perhaps punishing us for having committed the sole crime of being the subjects of the Chester Cheeto.

I, believe it or not, will (try) to not enter into much detail so as to not take the fun away from your curious, daring selves.

However, shall you get stuck, PM me so as to not derail, although this thread saw the last of it's intended topic, by the looks of it. However, If Mr Simon finds it in his heart, we can tackle it here, so others can benefit if needed.

Ok, enough chit chat; inside your rom, scattered throughout, are many goodies that I just know you'll like. Others, may have been found on vmall (by me, of course, and by that i mean to emphasize NO unknown middle man); at this point i may wrongly say "this app" was in the rom and "that" on the net, when it could very well the opposite be true... (I'm getting old)! Heed no care to mere details, totally irrelevant.

You need to download the terminal systemizer from Magisk repo, as most apps will work best, and in some cases, "work, PERIOD!", systemized... the couple of exceptions will be noted as such.

And then, search for your goodies, or I'll be uploading mine later if you want. Btw, it'll be a good idea to, after having the apps in system, install the same apk right on top of it as if it were an update; if this advice throws a question mark over your head, just trust me, or ask around: if we EVER get a system update again, it'll (sort of) keep them installed, making it easier setting things back up...)

See attached screenshot, then read description below.

(If you think my phone looks odd it's because i use (interchangeably) my mate and my sixty (6T...)...

Also, give a thought to this fact: you may very well already be getting this functionality, but THESE RIGHT here are stock apps; nothing like those for saving a little RAM, MB (in storage terms AS WELL AS DATA!), and juice, not to mention the interoperability, and as a BONUS, privacy (well, relatively, more than a third party app...)...

And for Yisus' sake, don't go to the play store, it'll make you believe most of these apps don't exist, and if you manage and let it know how you already know the truth, and demand that it stop acting dumb, it will admit to their existence but it will lie again, telling you that they're not compatible/available for your region! Thought you knew.

***Description***

•HWID, otherwise known as Huawei Mobile Services, it's the star of the show, need it. GET IT! Fret not, NOWHERE NEAR as resource hog as Google Mobile Services, a.k.a. Google play services. See for yourself. This one actually is good for something other than spying on you.

Once installed you'll be able to access it, a myriad of ways, really, but you want the access on the top of the settings, which, in order to appear, app needs to be on /system, although it can live just fine as a user app, but you'll need to access it another way most times. This is a stock app, mate, no app added to the drawer.

•Files, oh yes you wanna go thru the hassle of removing your current stock file manager, even if you already have a root one from the store, and installing this, also stock, but reserved for the loved offspring, not us, the ugly ducklings... Why, i hear ya asking? Well, because a very nice and handy and totally effortless back up to the cloud thingie, which otherwise won't be accessible. Stock app, but obviously there will be an app in your drawer.

(For reference, I'm keeping it short, but if you really indulge in exploring away, you'll notice a LOT of "duplicate" apps, one having the not so honored distinction of suffixing "local"; example com.huawei.mediacenter and com.huawei.mediacenter_local, or something of that sort. Those are the ones we have, but those are the ones we need to get rid of! Although i won't dip my toes in that water today...)

•Hivision, one of my favorites! (This can go as a user app).

Adds point and id/search shooter (that one feature might need hisearch properly installed and working, which i have installed, but apparently not working much, and/or other things, or who knows, but I was only able to identify a Pathfinder the 5 minutes i played with it.

However, the other features are well worth it. Shopping shooter (needs a separate, Amazon add-on, provided if you so desire), a QR scanner, and the one that i use almost daily... Surprise... Look for it. (It ISN'T hidden)... Just don't shake your hand much! Or it won't come out to play! ;) To access it, go to your desktop, and pull down without pulling the status bar down (you need stock launcher). If you have other launchers, you can still access it thru an activity or shortcut. This is a stock app, mate, no app added to the drawer.

•recorder. No need of magisk modules burdening your system. Can install right as a user app.

You'll find the settings... Where else?! This is a stock app, mate, no app added to the drawer.

•The elusive, read-about but never-found contact card helper for your contacts. You know the drill. Systemize it FROM INSTALL. You won't be able to install it as user and then simply just "move" it to/system, unlike HWID for example... This is a kinda stock app, mate, and as such no app will be added to the drawer. Access it through contacts. It's not made by Huawei but it's a trusted partner, and it does integrate nicely as you will attest, and it is INCLUDED from factory in your phone, just hidden for us, what do you know! (for reference, this is a common practice, just nobody talks about it, it took occurrence, for example, in the AR capabilities of the Mate 9, and currently, if you wanna see for yourself, takes place in our very own mate 10: just open your stock Huawei camera and shoot in 3D Panorama, you'll see! ;) )

Hhmmm by the way, have you tried activating (the also included) AR plugins? There's a module which does exactly that, and much faster (this one i DO mention the module so as to mantain safety net). Fun if you got kiddos ;)

•Also, another kinda stock (as per what's explained above), nothing out of this world, just it's there if you want it, the Stock Huawei Keyboard, made by Baidu. (Surely, you didn't think Huawei gets manufactured with Chrome, Gboard, etc from the get-go, did you? That IS region dependant). Also the stock browser (i like keeping 2 or 3 different browsers, don't ask me why), and Chrome IT SURE AS HELL ISN'T ONE OF THEM. This one IS a Huawei-made app (aosp, anyone?)

•To wrap it up for today's class, kids, you have a reader, the official Huawei app store (to help you with those apps Google won't update) the health, video, and themes app, which, as far as i can remember, don't need any special installation, if they do, well, you know what to do. In fact, i would uninstall the SYSTEM Theme app (you DON'T HAVE TO, but it's better so you can apply some settings to it which aren't available to system apps), and then just install FROM WHEREVER YOUR HEART PLEASES BUT the Google Play store.. why? Because it'll give you a crippled themes app. We've been thru this one before! The health app will actually function (at least as a pedometer, if you don't have the bands) and it'll even show you it on your lock screen.

Lastly, there are two "video" apps, guess what? The one we DON'T have, but which we can, by the way, install right next to the other one, acts as some sort of YouTube, or something, i didn't play more than a couple of minutes with it, as i get my content another way, but it does have more than just Chinese content.

There are at least twice as i have mentioned more out there, but theses i consider will pique your interest in exploring through those folders enough, if not, neither will the others. This post is already long as it is.

Additional things i wanna add, if you don't know what I'm talking about then disregard.

•Wine KINDA works thru the Desktop. Kinda because i only got it successfully running, didn't play with it.

•TWRP will work if you aren't encrypted. Decrypting in pre-pies is accomplished successfully. Your root can go in the "R_R" part, and your cust rec in the "eRec"! ;)

•Running ANY video as your bootanim doesn't get easier than navigating to /product/etc/media, clicking a few times, and reading a couple of paragraphs.

Wish i could just post a video here of my baby rebooting... ;)

•If you wanna kick out some of those pesky "system" apps, such as Google x Word or whatchamacallit, hint, they're not in system. I don't remember if it's /cust, data/hw_init, /product, /oem, /system/"other than/app or /priv_app", thinking something like/dela or /emui, /vendor, or /version, OR /system_root THEN the above. Even if you want some of those apps, it'd be smart to uproot them (pun intended) and just reinstall from the store, just so they aren't as privileged (READ: RESOURCE-HOGGING)...

•If you're ever stuck in twrp because, say, you were playing with xposed, but you can't uninstall because your partition is encrypted, and you're nowhere near an OTG'ed stick with the needed files, just go to (twrp advanced, terminal, cd to /cache, and type

touch .disable_magisk

and reboot your way into relief (thanks to Mr. [MENTION=4667597]Didgeridoohan[/MENTION] for that one! I slap myself for there being such an easy fix, and me not knowing about it all this time! Hence my decision to share this, seemingly unrelated tip!)

Likewise, share any tip you may have, yeah?

Peace! :cool:

------ Unrelated -------

You really continue to host 2+ Oreo firmwares, as opposed to, say, the last Oreo and the latest Pie, for example?

The reason I ask you is because, since we may not be getting any more updates, I'm looking to get rid of the firmware I told you I would be hosting until next update came.

Now, in light of unfolding world events, that time might turn into quite a long one... I will not delete it, until someone wants it and takes over it, because that IS an important firmware to keep around,but somewhere more permanent...