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[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] fredriks:
I have been using Samsung for a long long time. Had all S models and my latest was S8 and S8+. Don't have anything against Samsung in anyway but really hated it when they put the fingerprintsensor in the back. Then i read about P20 pro, never had an Huawei before. I thought I will give it i try and I really like this phone. For me it's a big plus that fingerprintsensor is on the front but the phone perform very well overall, only time I can see lägg or stuttering is in Google photo and a little bit in Tapatalk but that has become better lately. Otherwise no lagg and no stuttering in my use, I don't play games and so on. I use it as a business phone with a lot of mail and browsing and so on.

I think it's a great phone

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[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Hi Fredriks

I quite like the fingerprint sensor on the back, more so on the S9 Plus as I can actually reach it now haha. But personally I am not worried about where it is. I was hell bent on getting the Note 9, but it will look exactly like the Note 8 and il get bored of it, bring on next year for Samsungs redesigns!!. I first found out about Huawei last year when I upgraded to my S8+, Carphone Warehouse tried to sell me P10 which wasn't bad but was not for me. Since then I have kept my eye on them, and the P20 Pro really caught my eye!! I love the notch, battery life and the camera looks superb. I think since the P20 was launched there have been quite a few updates to fix the lag that people have complained about. Also have you had any problems with touch latency, delays when scrolling etc??
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] fredriks:
Hi

Yes, at first I had problem with touch latency and some delays with scrolling but update .128 fixed that. To be honest I didn't notice it until I read about it and watched a YouTube video that showed this issue. But now it's gone and its smooth.

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[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Oh right well that's good news that the update helped with that!!

I am buying mine brand new so hopefully I should get all the updates at once right?

Also I have heard and read that there is a lot of bloat on the P20 Pro. Did you find this, also have you done anything about it? Do you use the Google apps or stock Huawei ones?
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] adeelhayat90:
There is lesser bloat on huawei than samsung
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Is there really? I thought it was EMUI that had the bloatware??
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] fredriks:
As I said, I have been using Samsung and bloat doesn't bother me. I just disable things I don't use or just give a damn that they are there [emoji16]. I think that Huawei got less bloat than Samsung.

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[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] vodovodo:
dont switch, wait for mate 20 its a couple of months away
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] adeelhayat90:
Huawei UI is closest to stock android I believe
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
I'm not really a lover of the mate series, I feel I may aswell get the Note 9 but thanks for the suggestion :)
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
I never knew that! Everytime I watch and read reviews people say EMUI is full if bloatware as a lot of Google is band in China?
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] adeelhayat90:
They don't even have their own messaging app. Imagine. Plus they update so early than samsung which takes months to update, because of its closeness to stock android
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
I would lie if I said the phone is without issues. The first P20 Pro I bought had some really weird glitches and I will give it to the service people next week. The second one I bought is near perfect. However, I was never able to get such long SOT as other members here. I had to do a freaking LOT of optimization and disabling stuff until I could reach around 5h of SOT. I'm good with 5 hours, but anything less could not get me over a high usage day. I think the issue is maybe somewhere with my google account because many others use it without any problem.

But this is the only thing that currently bothers me. I never had a Samsung, only Apple devices. Yes, the One Plus 6 is also a very interesting device, but I don't like the fingerprint on the back. I think the design and form factor of the P20 Pro are very good, I really enjoy the device. Also, the camera was much improved recently. I'm really impressed with it. Now if I could get a better battery life, just a tad more, i'd be really really happy.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Thanks for that!! I am pulled toward the P20 Pro purely because of the battery and camera and the phones design, I think it looks beautiful!! I just worry about getting the Kirin970, heard many strange things about it....
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] adeelhayat90:
The battery is pretty darn good.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] szalay16:
I have my p20 pro since last sunday and i have to say im very satisfied with it. The only lag ive seen was in PUBG, but then later i realised i had like 5-6 apps running in the background.. :D

The battery life is so far so good, at night while im sleeping it is draining like 5-7% only. The camera is just so good, i will probably ditch my dslr, because its quite enough for me right now.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Hey

Thanks for the message! See you've got one and loving it and having no problems!! Yet I still think about all the bad reviews I have read, such a tough situation! I have no idea what to do!!!
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] evie1260401:
I spent weeks doing the same as you and worrying about the reviews, but took the plunge around 3 weeks ago and haven't regretted it. Camera is amazing, as is the battery and I was really worried about emui but actually really like it.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] Dougi:
i had an s8+ with custom ROM installed etc...... went with the mate 10 pro in december of 2017, then i bought the P20 pro yesterday :cool: :D

There is a huge difference on speed, the way phones reacts after long period of time, my s8+ even with custom ROM and custom Kernels becomes SOOOOOOO slow after a short period of time. i'm sure S9 i the same.

On the other hand, i'm so impressed with huawei, my mate 10 pro is stock and still running very fast after 7 months of use, i'm talking about reactivity, opening apps, finger print scanner etc.. ( i don't game at all )

i love the responsiveness of huawei's phones, how fast the the finger print scanner is, it's soooo fast , it's day and night comparing to samsung.

i would go 100 % with the P20 pro, been talking some photos today, i'm very impressed.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] neflictus:
Go with oneplus if you want great photos. With Huawei it's hit or miss.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
I would not worry too much about the Kirin 970 if you are not a gamer. I really have not stumbled about a lag or stutter ever. Until May, I have still been using my iPhone 6s. I realized it was getting a bit slow, but it wasn't dramatic. Now, with the P20 Pro in comparison, I'm constantly cursing and yelling at my iPhone 6s (which I still use for testing stuff I programmed) because the P20 Pro is so freaking fast. Every app I use (from ebay to amazon to car2go and what not) is loading reaaally fast, even immediately, I'd say. And don't forget, it comes with 6 GB of RAM which is also plenty.

However, something that still puzzles me is that many people report insane battery life while mine only lasts for 4-5 hours SOT with a LOT of optimization and disabling stuff. I have no idea what I am doing wrong or if I happen to be the unluckiest girl in the world who bought 2 P20 Pro's with broken batteries (I don't think so).
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] vodovodo:
Note 9 is 90% your phone

Mate 20 will get everything In the p20 pro plus Kirin 980 which suppose to be a killer chip.

I have the p20 pro and the HTC u11 plus.

Believe it or not my main phone is actually the HTC. The smoothness and performance is just better even in battery life. P20 is a party + travel phone for it looks and camera

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Did u disable all apps from running in background from battery app launch in settings?

I honestly get like 2 hour SOT with 71% battery life left by the end of my morning with data on all the time phone calls emails WhatsApp and of course some YouTube and social when the boss is not looking
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
Yes, I set almost every app to manual (except gmail, whatsapp, threema), I disabled background data access for these apps, I disabled wifi+, disabled the option to have mobile data always enabled, I use only auto brightness, I close my apps properly, and I even turn off wifi, mobile data and bluetooth during the night. Still, today, 4 hours and over.... I have no wake excessive wakelocks during the nights and it sleeps like a baby. But during the day, the battery drains fast as f...... Without all the optimizations, I would only get 2,5-3 hours SOT. I really would like to know what the exact problem is. I suspect something with the Google Play Services thing, and disabling every sync besides gmail helped. But still, the drain is too high.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
I really think I want to try it!!!!! Just seems I'm downgrading from the Exynos!! I'm basically buying a snapdragon 835 instead of 845 if you know where I'm coming from!
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] vodovodo:
I had that issue multiple times with previous Huawei phones

With mate 10 a format actually really helped
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
So you all think I should try the P20 Pro??
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
If you buy it online, can‘t you return it if it doesn‘t match your expectations? So no money is lost.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Unfortunately not, I found one on ebay, the person im buying from works in London, I work in London so I'm meeting him and picking it up. £520 is that too much? Or have I got a deal?
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
If it's new, it's an ok price. If it's used, I'd say talk him down to 495 :D

Make sure you get a valid invoice with it! When you buy from a person, not from a business, the person needs to hand over the original invoice to you!

Unlike Apple, Huawei wants to see your invoice if you claim warranty. Sucks if you buy a used one and don't get an invoice or something. If there is no invoice, don't buy it. Huawei can refuse to repair even if the device is still in warranty, just because of the freaking invoice.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
It's brand new unlocked!

It comes with the invoice from the place he ordered from thats ok isnt it?

Im just hoping I don't regret it if I do get it!!! Just really bloody worried about the lag!
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
Invoice from seller is fine. I don't think you'll notice any lag. You can still sell it again if you don't like it! :) Or trade it against OP6 maybe :)
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] Jonathan-H:
The difference is there is some graphically intensive stuff, like Instagram, but the jump from SD835 to 845 is a non starter as the 835 optimised is faster than the 845 and conserves more battery, case in point, the Pixel 2 XL is still smoother than both the S9+ and the P20 Pro, the difference is in the speed. The Pixel 2 XL loads apps a tiny weeny bit slower, but inside the apps it's the fastest smoothest experience. Then the P20 Pro loads apps the fastest generally, and is really zippy, but the S9+ is a little smoother in graphically intensive apps. (For now as graphics boosts and updates are improving the P20 Pro all the time).

The one thing that does frustrate is the speed of updates....

Personally unless you are interested in the camera, I would wait.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
I have C432 version, so far, about one update every month! I bought the device with .107, then got .120, then .128, then .131 and there is already the next version in preparation (.150, .152 or .153). I can not complain!
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] ~Sky:
For me I would suggest to you to wait for mate 20 pro 👌
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
I bet Mate 20 will get the same camera. But I think the design of the mate series is a bit too conservative/boring. I like the blue and the twilight version of the P20 Pro very much. They are just beautiful.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Guys I am taking the plunge! I am getting my Huawei P20 Pro on Tuesday!!!!!
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] adeelhayat90:
Best of luck with your upcoming daily driver [emoji106]
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
Have fun with it!
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] viper98:
I know it's too late to give an opinion... but I have the S9+ and P20 Pro and the S9 Plus is easily the better phone

Better screen

better performance

better sound(headphones and speakers)

better camera(don't let the reviews fool you. So much marketing BS from Huawei regarding the camera. The 3x optical zoom that I kept reading about was the worst lie)
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] ipred:
Please do not mislead other users! They are giving their money and want honest and serious opinions! P20 Pro has definitely better camera than the S9+. Far better in dynamic range, far better in zoom, far better with handling exposure and far better in noise reduction. Also the P20 Pro has far better battery life. For the screen, the performance and the sound i agree. For the camera you are 100% wrong. I don't know if you are doing this because you are a Samsung fanboy or because you just don't know anything about photography or you saw photos from a fake P20 Pro.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] viper98:
This is factually incorrect. ESPECIALLY if you leave it on the auto modes(Auto 10mp = atrocious image quality)

The S9 Plus delivered a much cleaner, clearer image. The p20 pro is shockingly bad if you don't turn off everything and set the camera to 40mp.

The S9+ also has 2x optical zoom vs 0x optical zoom on the P20 pro, so I don't know how you can think the zoom is better. The P20 pro has BS "zoom" which is actually just using a crop from the 40mp sensor. This is why there is no zoom available if you enabled 40mp mode. You would get the SAME results using 40mp and just manually cropping yourself.

The only thing the p20 pro does better is the night mode. Every other aspect of the camera is pretty mediocre.

I have both phones on my desk right now.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
The P20 Pro has a dedicated zoom lens which it will use when the conditions are right. When it‘s too dark or too close, it will use a digital crop, that‘s right. The image quality has been much improved with the recent firmware updates. I‘m at 131 and it‘s really very useable. Still a tad oversharpened and colorful on Auto with the AI, but much better.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] deraiz12:
I have test both too (S9 and P20 pro) to be honest for the camera it depend condition (light, Movement, object, color) no one are best than other and in the other hand I realy prefer the P20 pro camera and the "zoom" it perform very, very well very well (w/o any noise and same sharpness as no zoom for the X3).

For the performance, and the Huawei give a good optimization job, in day to day usage the P20 pro is faster and no lag/stuttering (since B131 update, before it's s also good) except maybe for charging time of heavy game (like Pubg) but in game is the same.

I change my Samsung phone (I have S8 BEFORE S9) because it's a frustrating ? phone if you want best performance and battery life you need to turn of 80% of stuff (like smart stay, smart alert,..., 4K(2K?)...?) so why by this expensive phone for turn of 80% of why I by it so.... Frustrating!

With P20 Pro I have all need no more and all can stay activate without impact on performance and battery life.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] viper98:
Is there a 131 update for canadian variants yet?
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
I don’t know. What is your CUST? It‘s available on C432.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Guys with your P20 Pro's have any of you had any problems with carrier graffiti, the one I am going to buy is unlocked and the last thing I want is to have loads of vodafone branding all over my phone, I only say this as someone on here bought one sim free unlocked from Carphone Warehouse, he put his 3 carrier sim card in the phone and it kept booting up woth 3 branding and put bloat all offer his home screen?
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
I'm just bored of my S9 Plus now, I love Samsung I just want to see there new designs next year!! The camera on the P20 Pro is phenomenal!! And the screen is beautiful!!
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
When you first insert your simcard, you will be offered a software update from your service provider. If you install it, then yes, it may put some branding on your device. I'm with o2 in Germany and it didn't install any bloatware or branding. No idea about vodafone, though.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Oh god will have to help me as I don't want that crap on there lol!! Will let you know what come a up etc
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
If it puts any apps on your device, I'm pretty sure you can uninstall it easily. If it won't let you uninstall it, try uninstalling with adb, you don't need to be rooted and it's easy. I uninstalled all the Facebook apps and services crap :)
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] freddyttt:
sorry but in my experience the camera is its biggest let down and the reason i've decided to take the pocket his(around 200.00) and dump this phone now! sure some picture come out great but at times the most basic shot outdoors suck. and this happens more times then not.

i'm on software 130.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] neflictus:
I'm sorry, but I also beg to differ. I, just like the other user have both phones, and the Huawei P20 Pro is really far behind the S9 in what concerns the quality of the photos.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] bobsie41:
Inserting a Vodafone sim card will put a few Vodafone apps on your phone which are actually quite useful (to me anyway). None of these are system apps so can all be deleted.

It's only the 3 network who automatically install their own boot animation I believe.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
Didn't you sell the P20 Pro pretty early on? Did you get a new one? I don't own the S9 for comparison, but I think Huawei improved the camera a lot with software updates. When I first got mine at .107/.120, I hated it. Really. I was so disappointed, mainly in the poor tonal range (no auto HDR), poor HDR mode (poor highlight recovery) and general compression, oversharpening and noise reduction. Now, with the 131, I'm pretty happy. Yep, still a tad oversharpened or oversaturated, but the auto HDR is great and I see less watercolor effects. Pretty usable for me. If you got a new P20 Pro, feel free to differ, but if you only experienced the .107 or .120 firmware, you don't know how much it changed.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Ahh brilliant! I will remember that, I don't use Facebook, I'm a Twitter person so that will be going. I just don't want bloody carrier logos on the boot screen. Devalues your phone and clogs it up woth bloat
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Oh that's brilliant news!! Thank you!
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] MobFreak2799:
Is there a service mode in p20 where we can change lte bands and some other stuff like it is on galaxy phones?
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] xn3m:
What about the battery life of S9+ ?
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Battery life was amazing after first two months, but aftet that ****!!!
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] nabbed:
You do realize that saying "Battery life was amazing after first two months"...

but then saying " but aftet that ****!!!"" is moronic?

Batteries don't degrade after 2 months by more than 2 percent. You installed something that drained battery and you suffered the consequences.

How can people be this careless w/o realizing it?
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Your moronic. My battery degraded after two months. Period. Don't give to arses about your factoid there. And don't tell me what I installed on my phone you don't know ****. I have barely any apps on my phone at all. My Note 8 had same usage same apps and had a better battery than my S9+ and the Note had a smaller battery. Your in a forum when you discuss stuff. You dont tell people how they use their own phones.
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Hello again all

I now have my P20 pro!! It is amazing. Tiny tiny bit of lag but probably should be expected especially coming from the S9 plus. Would like to know if there is anything I should do to totally optimise the phone so it's 100%. Like kill system apps to stop lag and background running etc??
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
Congrats! Already thought of you this morning, wondering if you got it ;)

You can remove or disable the apps and services you‘re not planning to use. I removed everything facebook related and disabled all the google apps I don‘t need like music, video etc...

The battery needs a few cycles to get to the full capacity.

Have fun with your new P20 pro :)
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] BBCLukeBetts:
Thanks mate!! I'm very happy, ahh how do you disable/delete stuff? Obviously very new to EMUI so trying to learn lol! Ok so the battery will be at its best after a few charges? The lag will improve right? Also the photo optimization app... Never fully optimizes to 100 anything on that?

I just love this phone. Low light on the camera is unbelievable!! And normal photos are amazing! I love the notch! Fingerprint scanner! And the screen is beautiful !

Very happy I listened to you :)
[Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers] all the pugs:
If you go to settings-->apps, you'll find a list of everything that is installed on the phone. You can tap on an app's name and can disable or uninstall it in the upcoming screen. Some stuff can not be uninstalled, but disabled (like any google app it comes with). You do not HAVE to do this, but if you know you will never ever use facebook (because it's a spying annoyance), you can uninstall it and disable all of it's services. I disabled and deinstalled just the stuff I know I will never be using.

Yes, the battery will be best after a few days using the phone. Not sure where you experience lags, but the first 1-2 days, the phone is quite a bit busy in the background, especially if you imported a lot of photos or music. After it's done with that, it will be less active when you're not using it. I, however, didn't experience any lags or delays. But that said, I had an iphone 6s before, which is soooo slow, I'm just a patient fella I guess :D

What do you mean with the photo optimization app?