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[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] piumach:
See latest post of szunyog007 here, I'm on B161 - C432. Same issues on mine.

Crappy photos, battery not so good.

When I purchased the P20 pro it had a older fw, b128 or 131 if I remember right, and the difference was very noticeable.

I simply do not like the current fw and I do not have the chance to downgrade.

So I would like to receive Pie,that according to the users who received the beta have fixed these features.

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It'already out on the mate 20 pro,what kind of strange test have they to do for the P20 pro yet?

At least,they can open the beta at all the people who like to test it.

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[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] forever_lol:
I've used beta pie 9 as well and frankly speaking i couldn't see much difference performance wise. In my opinion 161 is pretty good.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] szunyog007:
Could you confirm the camera working properly in beta pie 9? 4d predictive focus, night mode?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] piumach:
Ok. This means you do not use 4d focus point and you do not take pictures with night mode. Good for you

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[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] forever_lol:
As far as i remember it did.

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First of all i haven't referred to the camera so i am not really willing to continue this conversation.

Second of all i took pics with both fw versions and i still wouldn't call night shots taken on 161 crappy and those taken on beta 108 awesome. EoT. Small difference if You ask me.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] kabirjedi:
OFF!

161 bad photos and battery drain...
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] sniper20:
161 perfect photos and fantastic battery life. The best so far.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] piumach:
In the latest firmware versions the quality of the camera itself is less, believe it or not, along with the battery that last less than previous.

If you are happy with the 161 version, I'm happy for you.

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[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] szunyog007:
I'm totally agree with you. I can't wait for the next update. On the other forums the people compared the firmwares versions on each photos, day and night. Personally I don't like the photo mode now because of the too much HDR.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] prou67:
Hi everybody and Sorry for my english [emoji6], i buy this p20 pro in occasion, thé man Who sold me the phone had installed the pie beta, i want to know if thé official pie version come via ota or not ?

Do i downgrade the Phone to oreo to receive the New version ? Thks everybody

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Oups, i'm in this version

9.0.0.108 C432E5R1P7log

When i restart the phone to the erestore, he dont find an upgrade [emoji853]

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[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] FOXTEiN:
No need to downgrade. Just wait for the update. You will receive the OTA when it goes online just like everyone.

By the way, your English is pretty decent so no need to apologise. At least I understood your point so I could respond accordingly :)

Enjoy your new phone mate.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] curtricias:
We're all waiting for the official emui 9 to launch. But if you have already installed the emui9 beta, wat new stuff could you expect from the official release? Nothing will change, I think? Only that it's an official release. Or am I wrong?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Chris M.:
well, the beta still has some problems, such as:

1. the notification bar flickers whenever I have YouTube's background playback active

2. the last version doesn't pass the SafetyNet test

3. the recent app switcher kinda sucks, especially with 3rd party launchers, when the wallpapers gain a blue tint at times

4. the digital balance thing is kinda inconsistent, I found it would randomly disable

5. the camera used to be consistently fast, but now there is a significant shutter lag, even in 10MP mode, at least on my phone, and no, it didn't go away after a factory reset

there would be many other small things Huawei could improve on, but I'm kinda pessimistic about them and I'm seriously considering switching to one of the View 10 AOSP ROMs, at least until those problems are fixed.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] prou67:
I've thé same problem, specialy about the camera, some lag

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[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] arty_a:
Guys, anyone running beta can confirm that Smart Lock issues were resolved? In 8.1.0 this feature disappears and stops functioning if the phone was turned off/rebooted. There is a way to fix it (by disabling Smart Lock in Trusted Agents) but it's a temporary fix until next power off/reboot. It's very annoying.

Can any one check it?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] danifilth4king:
I was on Beta build 108. I've since downgraded back to 8.1.

On Emui 9 there was no Google smart lock at all. Just a different version Huawei implemented that only unlocks when connected to Bluetooth devices and I didn't find that to work all the time either. No unlock by location or on-body detection etc
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] arty_a:
That's a bummer...

Thank you for the replay.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] ch1lko:
Smart lock and all the functions are in EMUI 9. Huawei added them in EMUI 8.1 at some pont (maybe in the summer).
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] danifilth4king:
Oh cool! I couldn't find them in my phone when I was on 9 Beta... Weird. I'm sticking with 8.1 for now anyway to keep root etc :)
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Theandroidfan:
Happy new year
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] all the pugs:
So, I'm curious... did everybody from the Beta Tester's Group receive their final Pie Update yet? Because I haven't received any updates besides the initial beta release (which was .108 in my case), not even the final release. I have no clue what this Friendly User Testing is about when you don't receive any answer to your bug reports and don't get any updated version to verify any changes. Just dumb.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Firething:
Regarding the funkyhuawei method, im not sure you can roll back from the beta if you want to .... theme store is empty, prlly due to the new emui version and such... just a word of caution ... so far i havent found a way to roll back atleast .... .
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] KennyDumah:
Just flash the next version with firmware finder or funkyhuawei.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] stivy73:
I just flashed emui 9 beta using funkyhuawei method. What about the future betas? They'll appear as normal OTAs, or I'll have to use again FunkyHuawei?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Nerijux:
Has anyone on CLT-L09 C782 had any luck with official beta or funky Huawei?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Shipmate:
Is ctl-L09C782 even listed with Android 9 beta? Or funky Huawei?

I tried to get beta 9 but no avail.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Firething:
well yes, but that would be beta updates right? ... cause with funky huawei, and selecting the newest official, it fails ... ... so far my only problems with the beta are no themes and some minor issues when the phone switches beween wifi and mobile data ...
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] forever_lol:
Do you mean you cannot downgrade to android 8.1 (152 or 156) usung funky huawei?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Firething:
yup.. for me it doesnt work atleast.... it downloads, but fails during install of 8.1 ---- might just be my phone, but just saying it MIGHT be an issue... if anyone tries succesfully please let me know
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Maher.k22:
I also tried that. I set up a new account using my daughter's gmail account, and I didn't associate them, but still I got the same "login failed" message :/

If anyone can please provide a step by step instructions.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] forever_lol:
Oh cra.. haven't thought of it. Sounds like fun. There's at least theoretically another possibility - you can try to downgrade using hw official server. Btw Is your model CLT-L29 C432 ?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Firething:
Yup ... that exact model .... ^^ and so far, not playing nice with the hw servers .... ...
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
It would require a special downgrade version in order to downgrade successfully. We haven't added these versions yet but way may soon.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] josdehaes:
So you can now set the SMS sound separate from the default notification sound?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] forever_lol:
Exactly! This option appears in messaging app now.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] josdehaes:
how cool is that? finally. Just might go back to EMUI then ;). How about notifications from google photos, hangouts, facebook, etc, do they come? On 8.1 I had issues with not receiving notifications at all....
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] djlukas1983:
Is it possible to flash EMUI 9 using funky Huawei with locked bootloader?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
Yes, the eRecovery method works to flash any available version on FunkyHuawei, regardless of whether the bootloader is locked or unlocked.

In other words, you can indeed flash EMUI 9 with a locked bootloader.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
What theme store? The Huawei theme app? Mine is working fine. I see themes there and can choose the new theme too. On EMUI 9 via funky.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] psycho.b94:
Any beta for CLT-L29 C185? Also, for those of you that updated and play games, any benefit with GPU Turbo 2.0?

Edit: Nvm, I found out. For the Ota app to recognize availability of projects, should I be unrooted?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] JadranB:
What about a root with Magisk? You loose root while flashing with FunkyHuawei e-recovery method i presume, so can you get it back?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] HunterXXL:
Same here. Neither an answer on my bug reports nor an update yet :(
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr-Burns:
Good I'm not the only one.

Somebody have a solution for triggering the update manually? Firmware Finder is not working with emui 9.0 is it?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Albe95:
I was also on Beta and tried everything but nothing had worked. I have to downgrade with HiSuite and then it notify me for the latest update.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Oscarus:
P30 lite

Works for me this method, connected instantely, befor it was log in failed, thanks
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Firething:
thats awesome :) mine did at first too... ... but i made the mistake of resetting my phone ( cause i have been used to doing that in the past to make sure all new is running as it should... after that theme store is blank except from stock ^^

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thank you so much for clearing that up ^^
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Petit_Lu:
Can u test Google photo? Is the bug/lag still present?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
Still laggy
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Theandroidfan:
Google photos sucks on all Android phones. Google doesn't seem to care as much as Apple when it comes to making apps smooth.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Bwyan Benton:
False

Google photos was amazing on my 1st gen pixel, pixel 2xl and galaxy s8+.

Also great on my OnePlus 5.

Only been laggy on my P20 Pro.

I should also note, I have over 20,000 photos on there as well for it to sync up.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Johnny Eng:
Root Emui 9 on P20 Pro possible?

Root Emui 9 on P20 Pro possible?

Is it possible if i upgrade to Emui 9 using funky huawei e-recovery tools?

Thank you
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] duraaraa:
Theoretically it's possible, but note that current versions of Magisk cause a bootloop, based on feedback I've heard. So best not to try at present.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Theandroidfan:
The pinch to zoom on Google photos is terrible. Samsung's built in gallery app is the smoothest and most responsive. There's a clear delay on Google photos between you pinching on the screen and the phone responding and zooming in on the photo.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] djlukas1983:
It's strange but I don't have any lag in Google photos on my P20 Pro running 152 firmware.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] JamieD81:
Open a picture then swipe through pictures. You will see some serious lag. If you don't see lag you lie.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] pablo_max:
I still cannot understand how Huawei has not shut funckyhuawei down. They are charging you money for Hueawei's FW. And not just a little bit of money either.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Bwyan Benton:
Lol
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] djlukas1983:
I did like you said and I saw some little lags but nothing serious.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] danifilth4king:
I'm on EMUI 9 Beta (thanks Funky!) Both official and unofficial TWRP can't decrypt data - even with no device security set - so I don't think there's a way to install magisk yet until we can extract the ramdisk.img from the beta firmware?

Tried sideloading the .zip too but that didn't work either :(
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] JadranB:
Which TWRP version did you installed on EMUI 9 Beta? You have pushed it with ADB? I'm also on EMUI 9, and would like to be certain not to mess it while pushing TWRP
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] gm007:
Google photos lag because of slow gpu in our phones, Huawei is cheating https://www.anandtech.com/show/13318/huawei-benchmark-cheating-headache

And it's on of the reasons why we don't have a stabilized 4k video.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] forever_lol:
Mali-G72 MP12 is more than capable to handle picture viewer app. Cmon. Optimization sucks.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] sniper20:
Yeahhhhh it's a well known fact that in order to run a gallery app you need at least an Intel i7 cpu and 16gb of ram.......... OF COURSE its optimisation issues.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Theandroidfan:
Google sucks at optimization. They should look at how smooth the built in gallery apps are on Samsung, LG and Sony phones.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Giraff3:
Looks like there are a new type of gestures included but it's only testing on the Mate 10 series I think right now.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Bwyan Benton:
Then stop your whining and go get a Samsung or LG phone for the love of god. This is the first phone in a long time that over had any google photos issues on. And it's only slight lag here and there. Want optimization in google photos? Go get a pixel 2/xl. Don't like google products? Switch to Apple.

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I honestly don't know why anybody would wanna use something other than the physical home button gestures. Keeps everything off the screen, gestures and all. Guess that's just me.

Swipe left/right - recent apps

Tap - go back

Long Press - home

How much easier can it get lol
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Theandroidfan:
Chill man. I'm just saying that there's no excuse for it. How hard can it be to optimize a gallery app?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] JamieD81:
Don't mind the Ontario guy, they are our New York folk in Canada. Always angry about something.. LOL

But I agree, at a $1000+ price point optimization should be there and if it's been a known issue for many updates they should have addressed it by now.

I've had my P20 Pro since June and came with .108 or something and it's lagged since that update all the way up to .152 where it still lags the same, hasn't gotten any better.

And to Mr. Patchy Patch, bringing up issues is what gets them fixed, the more people that talk about it the more likely Huawei will hear about it and fix it. Telling someone to go get a new phone instead of wanting a simple issue fixed is the stupidest thing someone could suggest, especially on a developer forum. You are in a Beta thread where Huawei WANTS feedback on what doesn't work.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Bwyan Benton:
Lol wow, look at you go.

Ok, this is a beta thread for pie....the issue he's referring too doesn't have to do with pie. I'm sure they're well aware of the issue. It's been an issue since Oreo. You can blame google or you can blame Huawei, but if you use Google photos in the browser on the phone it works great. Leads me to believe it's the app, not the phone.

As for your Ontario guy comment, well, that's just dumb and I'll leave it at that. Grow up a little if you want to have a conversation.

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I am chill, believe me. You're the one who's last 2 post were complaining about how much google sucks and how great Samsung is. I'm just offering advice. Optimizing a galley app for the amount of Android phones out in the wild and having it work perfectly across the board isn't an easy job. It's not just a gallery app. There's also lots of other "gallery apps" you can use instead...like piktures...simple photos...focus etc. Find one that's better optimized to your liking.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
I believe the app isn't optimised for Kirin. It is just my theory. And as Huawei likely want owners to use their own gallery and photo upload service, it's unlikely they will push Google FOR us to optimise their app for Kirin devices. It's likely just code. We need to request Google deal with this. They know their software needs to work on a myriad of hardware configurations. And Huawei is world's 2nd largest manufacture of phones. Let's get Google to take notice.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] danifilth4king:
I tried official TWRP and unofficial version both from here on XDA. Both install and boot but data appears encrypted so can't flash a .zip from internal storage. Tried to ADB sideload magisk 17.1 but flash failed ?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Mixy:
So this is locked or full for most regions, and no way around it without either root or paying for FunkyHuawei?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] ketman5001:
What about the launcher, is it better, does it support swiping gestures to trigger quick settings or to trigger app tray
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] forever_lol:
Exactly, to suggest someone replacing the (extremely expensive) device based on... how one small app performs is really "brilliant" idea lol.

Personally I am not a big fan of photo app. I allways uninstall it right away (especially now using beta when when stock gallery app has imo been improved). However as far as I remeber xda is

discussion board

and we're supposed to share our experience, discuss various issues openly and in civil manner.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] gm007:
I remember that on each big Huawei phone launch a Google spoke man come and tell us how google and Huawei are working together to bring better software experience,so how can you say it's not optimized for kirin? Do people forget easily?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] forever_lol:
Well, the one doesn't necessarily contradict another. Just because a guy from google said they cooperate with vendor x or y doesn't mean optimization process is done and there's no room to improve.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] KennyDumah:
Is it just me or does the battery life feel a bit worse? According to the stats, it looks like the launcher is eating more juice now. But could be just placebo

Edit: I'm using nova
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Theandroidfan:
It is a beta afterall
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] FreddieGH:
No Beta for P20 pro in ITALY----checked so many times
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Jake.S:
for those in sweden, i have spoken with Huawei and they said that Beta is coming but they have no ETA on when Beta will be available for us users in sweden. I also asked about the 100 people limit for beta and guy from huawei said that he has no information about limitation or so yet either about the beta. All he could say was Beta is on it's way.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] JamieD81:
I guess sense of humor is lost out east too...

Yes the problem was in oreo but we didn't have a beta asking our feedback on what works or not and since it's still broken in pie it's the best chance to get it fixed right? Right.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] anasmhds:
No Beta available for me in UAE
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] KennyDumah:
This is not a real answer to my question. I know myself that this is a beta. How is this an answer?

Somebody else here with an answer to my question
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] Theandroidfan:
What is it with people on this site? CHILL OUT
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] sniper20:
Why you demand a question in such controversial topic as battery, especially in a first beta version?? At least is a useless question. Be patient, use as much as you can, make your observations, install 3-4 upcoming beta editions and then start to question what is going wrong if something is going wrong......
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] KennyDumah:
Sorry for asking a question. Seems like the p20 pro community is full of dickheads.

Instead of answering a question you're whining. what a wonderful technical forum.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] sniper20:
You still continue asking for a technical answer in an android version which was released three days ago in a beta state for our phone...... Good luck with this.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
It does neither of those things on EMUI 9.

Well the phone says Leica on the back and Dolby inside, and other phones are going with Zeiss photography and Apple with Dr Dre. It's how marketing works. I don't doubt that Google and Huawei communicate with one another when making their phones, as does likely every other manufacturer but this doesn't guarantee optimisation for every app for all hardware configurations. If anything, your statement is even more reason to be unhappy that there are one or two apps that are poorly optimised. Remember, I said that it is merely a theory and perfectly provable wrong. And I would be happy to have the idea eliminated if it helps us narrow down as to what is causing this sluggishness in the Photos app. In other words, I don't need to be right.

But think for a moment, a much inferior Mali chip is delivering the same FPS as more superior Adreno GPUs on other flagships in say one game...PUBG. This shows that there was an effort on both parties PUBG and Huawei to make said app perform smoothly for the P20 Pro. But a gallery swiping action is struggling and dropping frames?
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] KennyDumah:
I'm asking you to go to your settings / battery / usage and tell me if there are any higher values then usual. Isn't to hard I think.
[Huawei P20 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
It feels as good as usual for me. I also use Nova. It appears to be higher up the list than what I can remember in the past but it doesn't feel like it has made an impact noticeable to me.