yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
Sure, but there are thousands of beta testers. Even if only one in ten of them submits a single useful bug report it's going to take time to triage, log, try and reproduce, fix, test etc etc. And clearly that won't be the case - you'd get loads of feedback. And...for a single person? No, what happened with you with OnePlus sounds exceptional. You'd want to prioritize problems and only address either crashes or something which affects a lot of people. As a user, I don't want updates held up by a single, possibly inaccurate/misleading report of a bug which no-one else has reported. Plus people here, whilst more technical than most, are also more likely to tinker with their phones. I've read a number of reports about how other launchers don't work or are buggy with Emui 9 beta. Well, it wouldn't surprise me if that was deliberate - Huawei aren't looking for bugs in launchers, but in their their OS and other Android apps. Launchers are something of a special case. I'd be surprised if you can no longer use nova launcher, for example, on Emui 9 when it's released.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
But the adaptive battery? No signs of it in the beta, even in the stable of mate 20...
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] flashish:
Missing feature after update

Before I updated, when I looked away from the screen it would begin to dim and go into standby, but when I look back towards the screen it would illuminate.

That feature seems to be missing on Pie/Emui 9.

I've no idea what it's called either - can anyone help?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Buffy_crp:
Now that you mention it I also cannot find the setting anywhere for it. That said it still works for me when I look away and turn back before the screen turns off the screen brightens.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
It's not an option that can be turned off. It still works on EMUI9 on my device.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
We are to receive the EMUI 9.0 Android Pie update tomorrow officially.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
Theoretically...
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
I have my doubts.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Sakshat Shinde:
Hope it's not 10 Nov 2019
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] manthank1:
I don't think today we got update. this is slowy but all phone honor play updated in 10 day to pie.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
Does it mean Huwaei cannot be trusted on Android Pie releasing date?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
They are not that bad. Even my Honor 6X is on September 2018 security patch
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
Information about this particular release date are pretty fuzzy, and there’s no update file sitting in the server. It’s usually there at least a week before an update starts rolling out. I’d be pretty astonished if the European Honor Play was updated today, or in the next 7 days.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Sakshat Shinde:
Though I saw the EMUI 9 update package in the Huawei firmware finder app, it's about 3 - 4 GB
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
That's the same version as the beta. So they'll either release the beta as the final, or we won't see a final soon.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Sakshat Shinde:
Oh I don't want some unstable beta labeled as stable and OTAed to everyone, that would be a dumb move
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Ahahaha but guys how Huawei/Honor can release a global stable if in many markets (Italy in my case) we are still in the beta program? Beta program will end the 30th of November, and I don't think they will release the stable the day after....
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
up, confermo :)
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
it is true?

https://newsbeezer.com/italyeng/wha...-emui-9-0-release-date-announcement-rejected/
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Yes all true.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
waiting... :rolleyes:
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
If previous huawei betas are anything to go by, these dates are arbitrary. We could receive a stable next week, or in three months. It just means that after the 30th of November they'll close the public beta program.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
You can't no more join the beta.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ryanraven:
The beta doesn't show up in my projects anymore, stable version incoming ? UK.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
Let's hope that is the case here. I know most people would highly doubt stable version is on the way.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Sakshat Shinde:
Looking at the mess this beta was, I think it's gonna take 2 weeks more for it to being fully released
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] justwondering:
I read online that the last beta did not allow 3rd party launchers! Due to potential security issues.

Thankfully I also read that beta 9.2 will allow 3rd party launchers.

The built in launcher is simply not configurable to be the one and only choice.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
This is absolutely untrue. You can change launchers, but there are graphical glitches when gestures are enabled.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] justwondering:
This is where I read the information

https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/e...es-removes-ability-use-third-party-launchers/
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
The beta is for testing the OS and software. Honor probably don't care about other testing other launchers. That can be handled later.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] justwondering:
Did you see the link I posted....?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
That link is a load of bullcrap
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
It's amusing, isn't it? An article written about a Reddit post which is based on some old story.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
I have a feeling we might not receive Android Pie this year.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] justwondering:
So you think it could be no sooner than six weeks from now?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
Asking random people when some software will be released... why? Why not make up a date yourself?

He's my cut-out-and-keep guaranteed date: December 14th 2018. Perhaps everyone can pick a date. Closest to the actual date wins a prize!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] justwondering:
Lol xxxxxx
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Zyfe3r0:
Honor India said... After Nov 20th
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] manthank1:
can anyone tell emui 9 beta benchmark score of honor play because it has gpu turbo 2.0 it would have high than previous score?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Not in the benchmark
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
There is information circulating around that some Huawei devices have received the stable Android Pie in China. I wonder how truthful that information is - nobody has come forward with any stable Android Pie on Huawei devices in China.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
I have received the update 9.0.0.115(C185E303R1P8log). Is it beta or stable?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
Beta.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
They removed beta project from MEA. Now they are sending updates. What the hell is wrong with Honor?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
Maybe they’re sending the current beta as final. It wouldn’t surprise me too much.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Oh my God, the beta as stable no!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
Got this today too - I don't know what is going on!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
Really strange - some users here in Egypt received it without signing for the Beta!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
What the hell.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
Why do you believe this isn't the first release of a stable emui 9?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
I started to believe it is the stable release as I have contacted some friends who have installed it and HiView app not showing in notification,size a bit different than older one

Same beta Chinese app included and also Widevine level downgraded to L3
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
On my unit the hi view notification went away by itself after 72 hours of the beta being installed.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
They said (both my friends) nothing appear and I believe it was to be always on/p resistant for Beta testers!

I am really can't hold any solid information - this is insane!

I believe the worst thing expected is there - beta is released as stable!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
What's wrong with the latest beta? Is there a list somewhere?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Yes I also think that Huawei is releasing the beta as a stable! No doubt, che changelog is the same of the beta.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
General graphical glitches (the OS isn't tuned for rounded corners)

Lags, especially with gesture navigation

Battery drain

3rd party launchers work unreliably

No widevine L1: no hd Netflix or Prime Video

Some general instability, random apps crashing

Super slowmo has been removed

October patches. The latest Oreo firmware has November patches.

Possibly other things
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
Which apps did you experience crashes with please ?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Buffy_crp:
New update for cor l29 c432 in firmware finder. 9.0.0.125 no update notification or DL showing as of yet.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
It is not a good news to find out that Huawei is releasing Android Pie Beta as stable - if it is really true.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
My banking app, boost for Reddit, Apple Music, and some sporadic crash with Telegram

That's the stuff right there. Stable pie in a week!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
Do you have a screen shot please? And the change log please?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
Screenshot of change log?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
This one?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
I meant for the 125 update showed in firmware finder
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
Not very descriptive
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Buffy_crp:
All it shows in firmware finder.

Edit didn't notice I got beat to posting screenie also included screenshot of the release number.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
Thanks for sharing - a friend of mine contacted the support today and they said that the official release will be on the 10th of December -hopefully not another fake date!!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
Let's extend that to 10th of January 2019 for waiting patiently for Android Pie..
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Aelsherbiny56:
Hey guys...if i found the new update for pie should i update or wait till the stable release? What is better?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
If it's the .115 update, absolutely wait.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Yes because if you get the .115 is surely the beta. The stable is .125
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] FaizanAliZia:
I didn't know it was the beta before updating. Now I'm stuck with laggy animations while using gestures and the phone can't even keep three apps and a game open at the same time.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Lol Is the beta, same issue...
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
Sometimes the app that can’t be kept opened is the phone app. Sometimes I just get a missed call notification without the phone ever ringing. It is basically unusable.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
I'm not seeing anything on the internet that suggests they're actually rolling out final/stable versions of EMUI9. Are you guys all signed up to the beta program?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] FaizanAliZia:
My phone app is fine but whenever I'm browsing 9gag while listening to songs on Spotify the app keeps on closing in the background and the music stops. Snapchat does give me notifications pretty late though and I get notifications for all the snaps I received in the last half hour all at once.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] stevedat:
C636 is still waiting for the update
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Snickro:
rollback

did anyone successfully rolledback to emui 8 ?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
If you are in the beta program you can't rollback.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Snickro:
I was in the beta program but suddenly the project disappeared and then I got the update after it was published on firmware finder two days later.. so can't I even rollback by flashing emui 8.2 firmware? and do I need unlocked bootloader to do so?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
There's actually no way of flashing a firmware, at this point in time. You're stuck until they publish the stable version.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
Maybe get back to them and say "well...it's after Nov 20th, so where is it?"
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Has anyone on the beta tried Hisuite?

I cannot get it to detect the phone any more. It worked fine before the beta.

I've been on Live chat and was told that you can rollback to EMUI 8 via Hisuite, except, I can't, because it won't detect the phone any more.

I'm pretty sure this is yet another bug with the beta.

It would be great to know if anyone who is on the beta can actually connect to Hisuite successfully.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] mamadoo24:
I can so I think you can do it too. You just have to activate usb debugging in developers options.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Tried that. No joy. Just gets stuck in a loop saying 'Connecting to phone' but it never does.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
What to do next to roll back to 8.2?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
What program did you use on your PC to try to roll back? Just to know
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
HiSuit.

The previous post wanted to know if anyone one beta can connect to hi suit. So I posted this one. I'll ask him what to do next once he responds to my post.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
thanks :) If I try it I'll let you know, I have emui 9 Beta
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
Okay. Waiting.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
It works fine on my virtual machine. But there's no option to rollback, as Huawei hasn't released any rollback firmware package. There's no way of going from EMUI9 to 8.2, or earlier.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] eisele.f:
There is no option on your hisuit now. On this screen must be the option

Gesendet von meinem COR-L29 mit Tapatalk
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
What if we have to use system recovery option? ??
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] eisele.f:
Mhh in recovery is an option where you can load the full firmware with wifi, mabye it works then with the Rollback

Gesendet von meinem COR-L29 mit Tapatalk
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
What?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] eisele.f:
Hhh that looks like it does not work like on honor 8, there comes an option when you press + with power when the phone is off where you can download the firmware again.

Gesendet von meinem COR-L29 mit Tapatalk
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
I am talking about recovery option in HiSuit?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
eRecovery just plain doesn’t work on our phone, the recovery option of HiSuite works with only a handful of devices, and the Honor Play is not one of them. There’s currently no way of rolling back.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
New firmware on firmware finder. This seems like the real final
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Buffy_crp:
Seems so hopefully not too long now, nice find.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
You cannot use Finder to install the firmware, right?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] banaban:
What about downloading the package and then use the phone installer ?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
Exactly, you know if you can use Finder to update, I currently have the EMUI 9 Beta, no unlock bootloader, no root
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
Nope, installing packages from SD is basically disabled (it won’t let you install even technically approved firmwares), and the DNS/Proxy trick hasn’t worked for a long time.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
So for those who do not spend 55 dollar to DC for the key of the unlock bootloader it means that will have the virgin smartphone ^^
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
new fw version on Firware Finder for cor-l29
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
For COR-L29 .
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
8.2.0.132 on my cor-l29 c432
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
I read somewhere online that Huawei Pro has already been updated to stable Android Pie in China.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Ratheesh6:
COR-AL00 is upgraded to 8.2.0.141 ( C675GT ) which contains nothing but November security updates. Running good.

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2018/11/

Edit: even though there is nothing in the changelog i can see full screen navigation as an option, enabled it and it's good so far.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] tsameer14:
full screen gestures were introduced in .140.

---------- Post added at 10:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:32 AM ----------

What's the news about the stable pie update? P20/pro and Mate 10/10 pro were recently updated to emui 9 in china only.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Yes but they aren't the same, with pie you have full screen gesture.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] tsameer14:
No!

They are the same. In both you can swipe from left/right edge to go back, swipe up and hold to open recents and swipe up to go home. Same as pie.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] FaizanAliZia:
i got the beta update as a normal OTA 12 days after it popped up on firmware finder. And now it shows the stable .156 update there too for 28th of november. So i'm guessing it's gonna take another week or so for the stable update for the play to start rolling out.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] BLiapis:
Nothing new for cor l29 either (Europe)
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] TheVerraton:
Im having battery issues with that 8.2.0.132 update.

Does anyone else having same issues?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Sorry I have the beta .
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pandza88:
I don't have any problems. 2 days no charging over 8h screen on time with 1 charge.

8.2.0.132 (C432GT)

Poslato sa COR-L29 uz pomoć Tapatoka
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] calinorg:
same here, without playing games although. Normal usage gets me two days straight. Check in battery section or use some app like Accubattery which of the apps drain your battery.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
Perform a settings reset. It'll help.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] TheVerraton:
I did it 2 times, nothing happened. :(
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ayushrockzzz:
Yes this update has battery issue and also fast charging issue as confirmed by honor club moderator
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] AsimRauf_44:
I don't know why, but this helped me.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] banaban:
Do we have any news about the pie update ?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] tsameer14:
Honor saying by 1st week of February 2019.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
evidence?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] tsameer14:
Emui 9

https://club.hihonor.com/in/thread.310325
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
this valid only india region, not in global!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] tsameer14:
No

Actually there is a template present in which it was writeen for all

Can't remember where though.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
no no... FF show for cor-l29 emui9 update and not show for cor-al10.... linked blog valid only in india, that blog not global honor blog...

example ... i change india(en) to UK(en), and not find this post... your linked post valid only in india!!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] dctj:
A few websites are saying 4th January
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
yes... rolled out in china on nov.2018... in eu jan.2019 first week, in mea slip to febr.2019
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
https://imgur.com/a/YUrFXAD (tried to embed the image but it's not working).

I've just been on live chat to moan about not being able to rollback to the stable EMUI

I absolutely HATE being stuck on this broken beta. I'm having LOADS of problems with it. My phone is virtually useless sometimes. I seem to get different issues every day.

I was assured that they will speak to an expert and all of my problems (I listed every bug & fault I have so far encountered) will be fixed.

Yeah, right. The UK Honor Play site is littered with dead German links, so I really TRUST them to fix my issues.

www.hihonor.com/uk/support/phones/honorplay

I'm done with Huawei & Honor.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] thinkharder:
Don't use beta releases and moan about bugs, that's kind of the point of them. Next time stick to the current stable release!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
Normally you can opt out of a beta. Normally bug reports get read. Normally you get beta updates. What Huawei’s doing is a joke.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Manan44:
I think both of you are absolutely right. Period.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
I totally accept that betas have bugs but I'm moaning about the fact that the beta LIED. You should be able to opt out and the sign-up process said you could.

I'm moaning about the fact that I spent valuable time doing unpaid testing to help Huawei with regards to bugs, but they didn't bother to read my reports.

I'm moaning about having an unuseable device, that's been considerably downgraded from the device it was before the beta.

I'm moaning about Huawei fobbing me off and refusing to get back to me despite their promises.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
I finally gave up. I spend 16 freaking euros to downgrade with funkyhuawei. Rip my money, but at least I have a phone that’s working perfectly fine.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
We both know that 'IF' the stable arrives in January, it'll just be a rebadged, broken beta.

I don't even think beta users will ever get an OTA to stable.

I fully expect Huawei will bodge the deployment and it won't be capable of identifying the beta version number, making it impossible for the OTA to be applied.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the OTA is coded to ONLY deploy to EMUI 8 devices.

After your downgrade, has Widevine level 1 been restored?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
Isn't it wrong to conclude early on such premise?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Not as wrong as the beta shambles.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
In Italy some mate 10 pro users are receiving the stable today.