[Honor View 10 Questions & Answers] Linuxslate:
I recently upgraded from an Honor 8. The Honor 8 was excellent. It is going to be handed down in my family as we all shift up one step in phones.

I am happy overall with my purchase of the Honor V10, but it does have some issues, so this post is sort of a review/gripe/questions all in one.

Details: Official US version (BKL-L04) Emui 8.0.0 Android 8.1.0 I have not received an OTA since purchase. It was purchased the day of, or the day after it became available on the HHonor USA site.

When I purchased it, It said that the free wired, metal earbud headset was "out of stock", but it was in the box when it arrived. I also got 2 cases, the promised one with the ugly cartoon dude on the back (Like I am going to go to work with that on my phone), and a clear one. I usually do not use cases, but I have the clear one on for now.

-- See discussion here about the included screen protector showing finger prints:

https://xdaforums.com/honor-view-10/help/screen-protector-phone-box-remove-t3746590

-- Over all the screen is excellent, but I noticed 2 issues:

While the screen is larger, and 18:9, it really just means I got ~200 rows more of pixels for an extra $300 (over the cost of the Honor 8). The DPI is actually lower than my Honor 8.

It looks like they "subdued" the blue color of the little Icons in the short-cut pull-down as compared with the Honor 8 . I think this is an Emui change, not just the screen, but it made me think the entire screen has less color, but this is probably not really the case.

-- Camera: The camera app on mine seems to be different than described for other versions of this phone. Camera mode is across the bottom, and this changes by swiping left/right. There is no settings panel that swipes in from the left. There is a settings icon at the top.

There are only 4 resolution settings (in Photo Mode) -- All very high, and IMHO, "Non-standard". There is no 16:9 resolution option. It would be nice if there were some standard lower resolution settings for general shots.

My daughter attempted to take some pictures of my R/C airplane yesterday in bright sunlight. The pictures were dark, overly contrasty, and the pavement (our "runway") looked like some sort of pattern from an extremely highly compressed JPEG. Despite this, the file sizes were huge (see note above about resolution options.) I am assuming she inadvertently got it in the wrong mode.

-- Worst problem -- notifications. My Huawei Watch (original) is not receiving any call notification at all. This was working on the Honor 8 with the same watch, and the same F/W on the watch. Previously, I had it so that both the phone and watch vibrated on calls. The Honor V10 vibrates on calls, but the case largely absorbs this. The watch does nothing. I have checked all settings. "Vibrate in Silent mode" is on, and "SIM 1 vibrates while ringing is on" (I have only 1 SIM). (Note that these settings seem largely redundant to me.) On the watch "Also vibrate for calls" is on. I have factory reset the watch at least 3 times, Cleared the Data for Wear OS, unistalled and reinstalled Wear OS, etc. The watch still does absolutely nothing when I receive a call. Watch notifications (including vibrate) work for other things (email, etc.) It also has a notification for missed call after the fact :-/

On the phone, in Settings --> Apps and notifications --> Notifications, it says 1 app blocked from sending, but in this menu, none are. I selected "Batch management" --> "All" on, but it still says "1 app blocked from sending" on the Apps and notifications screen.

I have also tried to search in Permissions to see what app is blocked, but I have not found it yet.

My only remaining option is to factory reset the phone.

EDIT: SOLVED -- I went to Settings --> Apps and & notifications --> Apps --> Wear OS by Google --> Permissions --> Phone --> [enable switch] and now I am getting on screen notification, rings, and vibration on the watch.

-- Related: It is constantly telling me "Power intensive app found. Wear OS is consuming power in the background."

At this point, Android Wear (or Wear OS, or whatever they are calling it this hour) is pretty much less useless.