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[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
An incremental update has appeared. Only 20 meg.

Too early to say if anything has been fixed. Wonder what else is broken in this one.

UPDATE:

I can confirm that 3rd party launchers still don't work with full screen gestures enabled.

Notifications, so far are failing to push 100% of the time. Before this little update the failure rate was around 50-75%

They seem to have AMPLIFIED the app killing process. Nothing stays in memory. Once the screen goes off, everything is killed.

I'm taking mine back for a refund and I'm not budging until the store refunds me.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
Some users report receiving 156 today for global version and also one from Hungary and another one from UK - I hope it will do better
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
i live in hungary, i cant confirmed this update..i not received today...
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
i'm in the uk and just got notification for cor-l29 9.0.0.156(c432e1r1p9).

Interestingly it says it can be rolled back to 8.2.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
I was actually talking about the time not the Android Pie Beta project. I read the stable version is rolling out to some P20, P20 Pro, Mate 10 Pro, etc.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
Here is some shared screen shots
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
Nice - if you are on beta it would be good to give it a shot and let us know how it works for you
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
I'm not on beta. I have a standard, stock UK retail device that's only ever had official updates. I can do tests for stuff if you have anything in mind. Doubt i'll be rolling back to 8.2 - it warns that it'll wipe user data. Some observations (i've literally only just got the update so have little experience yet).

Update installed pretty quick. Just under 4 gigs.

Feels ok.

Nova launcher prime works without issue.

Task manager is buggy. I managed to end up with no apps turning up when I pressed the square button for a while.

I had the black theme previously. Some of the settings were unreadable (black on black). It seemed to spot this and told me the theme was not compatible and suggested I switch to the default, which I did.

Tried out my bluetooth headphones and Rocket Player (main reason I have a phone - listening to music). Works fine. But:

Pressed the volume button, got a new volume slider along the right edge of the screen - nice. Little cog wheel there. Pressed it, and got taken to the sound settings page. Slid the media slider - fine. Slid the ringtone.

HOLY F***K!! Had to yank the headphones off my head. Really loud burst of white noise. This is totally repeatable. Only the ringtone slider does this, and it does it until you leave the settings page. Usually when you slide a control you get a little noise so you can hear how loud you've just set that element to, and hear it's like there's no sample loaded and it's just playing some random crap from memory really loud. I was worried I'd damaged my hearing or the headphones. Someone else test this please . Only on bluetooth headphones it seems. A reboot didn't fix it.

In doing this I noticed that I ended up with two copies of the settings page in the task manager history.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
My phone is a UK model but as I was in the beta, I got an update to 9.0.0.115(C432E1R1P9log)

Surely I should be on this stable version: 9.0.0.156(c432e1r1p9)

I suspected that those of us on the beta would be stuck on it and not get the proper stable release.

And the bit about rolling back, that won't work. It said that before I installed the beta. One you're in it, you're stuck.

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Can you try enabling full screen gestures and then use Nova launcher?

It doesn't work properly on the beta.

Swiping up to go the home screen always brings up recent apps. It does sometimes go to the home screen, but not before briefly flashing up recent apps first.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
I have read somewhere that sound improved on EMUI 9 but this is strange as this slider is a Pie OS default

I know it may seem stupid but for every update I got I had to backup and do a factory reset (never done that for any phone I have ever touched!) but it is all we have to try and hope it helps

A quick question is Widevine level still at L3?

P. S What is your headphones model? A friend of mine tried it with a high end headphone and he said it was not performing well
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
Heh, you read my mind - I was going to post that. Yes, I was waiting for emui 9 so i could try navigation and do away with the wasted screen space at the bottom (with just the buttons) so it was the third think I tried (after rocket player/bluetooth headphones, and lichess). It works out, but will take a little getting used to. But yes, drag up and hold is recents apps, and drag up and release is home but you do *always* see the recent apps for a moment, plus sometimes you see it scrolling like you'd right dragged before it fades away. Doesn't really look very good; makes you think you might have selected and/or killed a task.

Another thing is you now need a way of getting the app drawer up, as you can't press the home button if it's hidden, so I've set swipe up for that. This now obviously only works on the home screen. And once you're on the app drawer, how do you quit and get back to the home screen, like you might previously have done by pressing home again. Back, via the dragging towards from the centre from the left or right edge, which is how you do back? Nope, doesn't work. Swipe up then? That's home now, right? Well, yes, but this now acts like you swiped up and held, as it leaves you with the recent apps, so you now have to then swipe in towards the centre from the left/right edge to quit that. Surely that's a bug? Swipe up should just be home.

This will take some getting used to!

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I checked with "drm info" as i couldn't find it in the settings (this setting means nothing to me - i never watch movies on my phone - i use a tablet or chromecast on my tv for that).

Yes, L3.

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The headphones are I guess sort of midrange. The Sony wh-ch700n, which were on offer in the UK recently. I really like them. They and the phone support aptx-hd and when i accidentally went with the "prefer stability" instead of "prefer sound quality" i noticed the difference. Sometimes (when I'm outside, especially in busy parts of london) I need to keep the phone in a pocket near the headphones to avoid pops. I noticed the odd pop when i was using wifi on my phone to transfer music so I switched the phone to using 5ghz which fixed it.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Thanks for testing Nova. I reported it as a bug in the beta but Huawei never bothered to read it

I also reported it to the Nova Devs and they were aware of it and they even contacted Huawei and told them how to fix it (apparently ridiculously easy fix) but Huawei weren't interested. They'll never fix it. They don't want anyone to use other launchers.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
wow...

huawei approving update by imei number ...

my hplay not find this update,my imei a

not approved yet... then maybe 2-3days ago
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
So...with the new gesture navigation, how do you get the app's left drag to work (ie what you get when you click on the three line icon at the the left of, say Google Photos) to bring up the options for that app when it's being hijacked for back? I've tried a number of times and although sometimes I get it, usually I get back, and I'm not sure what i'm doing differently. I've tried different parts of the screen, speeds, holding etc. Any clues? Really, it would be great if I could disable "swipe from the left to go back" and have that be the usual app options thing, and just have swipe from the right be back.

Also, regarding the option to minimize the screen for one handed mode, which was a left/right swipe across the navigation buttons on emui 8 but is apparently a diagonal swipe towards the centre from the bottom left or right of the screen...well, i can do this repeatably from the bottom right of the screen but i'm struggling to do it from the bottom left - i just get back or task switcher.

And no, I don't see the option to uninstall this update (not that I want to, but I was told I could) and I have roughly the same amount of free space as I had before I downloaded and installed this ~4gig update so I'm not sure where 8.2 would be!

I hardly ever used recent apps as it just isn't very practical or fast to scroll through the list looking for an app you've not used for a while, vs pressing home and just selecting it from the app drawer, and it's even harder/slower now. I'd rather drag up was the app drawer instead! Of course, we wouldn't have this problem if apps adopted Netflix's sensible approach of putting the menu button at the bottom right where my thumb is, not the top left which is the worst possible spot for it, as it's the furthest part of the phone from my right thumb. Or am I holding it wrong?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] banaban:
It say here that emui 9.0 is available :

https://www.xda-developers.com/emui...se-for-honor-10-honor-play-and-honor-view-10/

I have the cor-L29 c636GT with 8.2.0.133 and I don't understand why I can't have it

Edit : nevermind I didn't see that it is only available for pacifique asia
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
I've uninstalled novalauncher and I no longer have the problem where i'm stuck on the app drawer/end up with nothing in the task switcher etc.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] qrto:
I have Honor Play COR-L29, compilation 8.2.0.132(C432GT), in october i've received update to .132, and with this update i've received full screen gestures. And those gestures work flawlessly with Nova Launcher Prime (i'm using beta though). Haven't checked other launchers.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Lol so you have the beta or the 8.2?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Beta users, this may help you:

Ever since the beta, I've been unable to connect the phone to Hi-suite on the PC. A couple of days ago, Hi-suite updated and it finally managed to detect my phone.

Some beta users had no problems connecting so I don't know how isolated this issue was.

Today, I connected to Hi-suite and pressed the System update button and to my surprise, COR-L29 9.0.0.0.156(C432E1R1PG) was available.

I tried to force an OTA via the phone prior to connecting to Hi-suite, but there was no update found, so it looks like they might only be deploying it via Hi-suite on the PC for beta users?

So, if you're stuck on the beta and want to go to stable, try connecting your phone up to your PC via Hi-suite.

I don't expect the stable will fix any of the beta bugs, but at least future updates will/might come through via OTA now that the software version doesn't have (LOG) at the end like it did if you were on the beta.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
Is there a definitive list of all the bugs people have experienced on various versions of the beta? I can try and check some of them out and see if it's in the final I got yesterday.

Also, is there a best channel for communicating bugs back to Honor/Huawei? I'd quite like to not go deaf just yet if possible.

Edit: A factory reset didn't solve the white noise problem.

And I decided that given the choice between:

1) nova launcher and screen space used for navigation buttons, but no split-screen because you end up with the recent list empty until you reboot

and

2) stock launcher, full screen usage but next-to-impossible left dragging in the options because it keeps going back because it's the same action, but split screen works

was an easy one - nova launcher all the way!

Plus you have to pm uninstall that stupid huawei search otherwise you trigger it 14 times an hour whenever you slightly swipe the screen.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
There's no point reporting bugs to Huawei. If they didn't bother to read the bug reports that the beta users reported to them (on a scheme specifically designed to do so) then its quite clear they don't care.

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The stable has actually fixed the rounded corners glitch when you hide the notch.

It is now the same as it was on EMUI 8

On the beta, it tried to ignore the curves by drawing a flat line on top of them but it wasn't lined up correctly and looked awful.

Nova launcher still doesn't work with full gestures enabled (I knew they wouldn't fix this. It's been done on purpose because they don't want you to use a different launcher)

Widevine is L3

I don't use my phone to view Amazon /Netflix but this is a MAJOR issue. When I bought this phone 2 months ago, it COULD play them in HD and now it's been downgraded.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
I connected my play to hisuite yesterday but no traces of the stable. I will try again later.

Edit. No traces of the stable via hisuite, maybe you have found the update because you downloaded the 20 mb update.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Yeah, it's possible that the 20 meg update I had via OTA yesterday laid the groundwork for the stable.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Man will you try to get this stable with hisuite or not?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Buffy_crp:
Seems so I haven't had an update yet and hisuite says I'm on latest (the beta build) so I guess like you say the 20mb patch is somesort of groundwork patch for the stable release.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
Yes. And it blows my mind that emui 9 final still has widevine l3. I think I’ll sell this phone and buy whatever Nokia’s higher mid ranger is.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
I'm pretty certain that Widevine will never restore back to L1 in the stable build.

This will be my last ever Huawei device. I've had a lot over the years and even got friends & family members to buy them too. Huawei will be losing more than just me when I move on.

The only problem is who to move to? HMD/Nokia will probably be my choice too.

I've had problems with almost everyone else in the past.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
On a screen the size of the Honor Play do you notice the difference between videos in SD and HD?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Of course!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Yes, you can definitely tell a difference. I don't actually watch videos on my device, but that's really not the point

Huawei should be called out for this and they shouldn't get a free pass. No company should.

Complacency amongst users when companies screw over their customers just breeds more complacency.

Where will it end?

Degraded performance, worse camera, or just baked in adverts all over the OS like Xiaomi does. If customers don't let them know it isn't acceptable, they'll keep taking things away.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] m4tt94:
Yes. You’re telling me you can’t tell the difference between 1080p and 540p on a 5.4” display (the 16:9 area of the Play’s display)?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Buffy_crp:
Got beta in projects on beta app in uk.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ryanraven:
Beta now available UK.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
Are you participating in the Beta Project?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ryanraven:
I've signed up still no reply yet.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
Okay. Please, keep us posted when you received the reply.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Same. Signed up. Awaiting acceptance.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
idem :) project Android Pie beta The Inscription executed, pending acceptance ;)
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
Which exact model you have please ? Just to know which model is being targeted now
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ryanraven:
COR-L29 UK
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
Do you think it takes a long time for approval? I can not wait to update it to Pie Eheh, let me know if you have news about the Times :)
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
No idea. I'm still waiting to be approved.

There appears to be 200 spaces available and so far, only 11 have applied.

I hope we don't have to wait for all 200 places to be filled and then have a lottery system where only a select few actually go through to the acceptance.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
In my project of my country we arrived at 25 subscribers, I ope your theory is wrong eheheh, I hate lotteries and I hope we do not have to get to 200 subscribers before receiving membership and update! By the way, the beta update we will always have in OTA right?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
I have no idea. I hope we get accepted soon :)
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
Who first updates to Pie alerts by quoting here :p
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Psierra117:
You guys know how to use the Beta App, when it always says Login failed?

I'm on 8.2.0.130 C432patch01 in Germany :/
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Psierra117:
Here the Screenshots to my Question above.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] r8dooo:
18 now joined from 200 anybody had any luck still waiting confirmation
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lollo.21:
perfect, idem, im waiting confirmation,Who receives confirmation alerts here
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Manan44:
Same here. Using play in Canada. Version - COR-TL10
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
Have you already Huawei account?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
I can't find the GPU Turbo mode thingy in the stable Android Pie.

I know they renamed it on the beta and I think I accidentally uninstalled the app.

It's odd that it's still not here in the stable release. I would have thought a system app like that would have been reinstalled during the update.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
I have no idea - never checked. I never watch videos on my phone so how would I know. I watch videos on my hd 10 2017, dunno if i'm watching 720 or 1080 etc though. Too lazy to check.

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Is it settings/battery/performance mode?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] irshad wani:
Hii..

Is dark interface colours option available in emui 9.

You can check it in display option. If any one got the emui 9 then please let me know..

Thanks..
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
gpu turbo mode automatic enabling in supported games, no need user interactive switch
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Nope and the few 3rd party dark themes I found don't work with Emui 9. The dialler and a few other stock apps are not compatible. (They have white text on white backgrounds)
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] _a!:
No that's not true. Honor got threatened with being kicked off being able to quote the benchmark rating for this phone because they cheated by detecting the benchmarks being run and activating turbo mode, and their response was "is it ok if we let the user turn on turbo mode whenever they want?" and apparently the answer was yes so they didn't get banned.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
The mate 20 has this performance mode, idk if the stables will get it.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Buffy_crp:
The only dark theme I found that (mostly) works on emui 9 is linked here.

https://xdaforums.com/mate-20-pro/themes/deep-black-emui-9-theme-t3877195

It's still alittle rough here and there (one or two cases of white notifications) but maker is actively tweaking it. Also requires a restart after install.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Thanks. The theme seems to be fine so far. Not noticed any issues in the obvious places.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] pja1985430:
Perhaps you didn't check the customise area of the stock themes. The fonts go dark with the theme.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] phorenzik:
Yeah, found a few other system pop ups that are white text on white bg too.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Supermatrix99:
Outboxing idea maybe i tried it with successful response i contact the huwaei support from hicare app and get them send a reports of bugs to tech support and accept them by Gmail and apply to get me an rollback with ota without losing my data i received the ota and downloading it now

Sorry for my bad English :)
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Sakshat Shinde:
Only if you compare them side by side.

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Widevine issue is getting out of hand. Do we need a change.org petition or something?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] calinorg:
Guys, chill, videwine thingy will be fixed in the next update if it doesn't happen now...
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] maxo3000:
Guys after updating to new 156 what about performance and crashes now please? I mean comparing to Beta

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So you rolled back to Oreo from Pie via a requested OTA downgrade? That would be awesome!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Sakshat Shinde:
The Indian and the Chinese version of the phone doesn't have L1 even on oreo
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Snickro:
I tried it 1 month ago and they said we will be investigating, nothing happened and they didn't even reply after that.

mafiesh fayda :/
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] The_0N3:
Indian version also has Widevine L1 , it's software level bug that they can't fix in last 4 months. And yeah we need to do something. From livechat, email, call and service centre they confirmed our device should have L1. From service centre they told me drop a mail on a given mail ID , no reply from them since then (almost 7days).

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They didn't fixed that bug on Indian variant and that's since launch.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Manan44:
You should check you Widevine level by an app, DRM Info? "Security Level" is what you should be looking for under Widevine CDM
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] The_0N3:
They are saying same everywhere (check ss). For Netflix it's okay , I think it's around 480p or 580p but in Amazon prime video it's showing videos in 180p bcoz of this. Will visit service centre tomorrow let's see what happens. I have fast charging issue too with my phone
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Manan44:
Even if it's 580p on Netflix, its definitely not L1. It's probably not a software bug. Instead I believe they intentionally left it to L3 considering your AL-00 and my TL-10 both have L3
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] spityu85hun:
cor-l29 also only widevine l1 support
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Sakshat Shinde:
Strange, if this is a software level bug it should've been fixed by now. Are they gonna fix it in the 9.0 update?

Let us know what they reply when you visit the service center
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] Ratheesh6:
My device DRM info.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] ryanraven:
Just had this, UK.
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] lellolellolello:
Just received in Italy!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] DrazYs:
Just received in France!
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] zeeshanbage:
anyone recieved in India?
[Honor Play Guides, News, & Discussion] irshad wani:
No, only for these users till now

Cornell-L29COR-L29 8.2.0.133(C636GT)

COR-L29 8.2.0.131(C636CUSTC636D1)