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[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] leoni1980:
Odd as I find Huawei devices terrible for moving subjects indoors where Samsung's, Pixels, iPhones etc seem far more reliable.

I have an S10+ and a P30 Pro and I'm seriously considering returning the P30 Pro as aside from the 'zoom' being good fun I think the S10+ has a number of things in its favour when comparing directly:

Stereo speakers, that sound far more dynamic and rich

Fingerprint sensor doesn't necessitate lighting the room up whenever you use it, and you can turn off the indicator to avoid screen burn. There is no way to turn off the indicator that appears every time you move the phone on the P30 Pro. You can also use it with wet fingers, so it works better in the rain.

UI is far more attractive to my mind - things you can't hide, such as the notification area and UI popups, just look slicker and more attractive on One UI

Expandable storage that I can use an existing card with, and don't have to spend another £40.

Headphone jack (don't use it often but it's useful sometimes.

Camera is more consistent - focus, exposure, overall reliability. The P30 Pro screws up a lot of shots for me in challenging situations where other phones don't.

Video is way nicer on the S10+. Not even close. Even audio in videos is better.

Battery life is slightly better on the P30 Pro, but once you turn off power saving for essential apps - eg Google Photos - so that they work properly, there's suddenly very little difference between the two.

Wide angle on the Samsung is...wider...

You can launch the camera from anywhere without any delay on the S10+ by double pressing the power button - P30 Pro stupidly uses volume button, which means if you are listening to any music while out and about and want to snap something spontaneous then you're out of luck.
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] AntonyW999:
The S10+ for me is giving me around a 95% success rate, whereas the P30 Pro has so far (just over a week's use) hasn't missed once. I think the actual sensor area seems more forgiving on the P30 - you have to be more precise with the S10+. Compared to the horror show of the Nokia 9 they're both amazing, though I'd still rather have a separate scanner like the Pixel 3.
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] PhoneTechShop:
I'll buy it from you 500 ? :)
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] mishaxz:
from all the videos on youtube it seemed to show that the colors were weird, orange or something like that compared to other cameras - is that not a problem?
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] King Mustard:
All reviews say getting a useable photo out of the P30 camera is a bit hit or miss due to the software.

Focus and exposure consistency seem to be the most problematic.
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] Asheki:
James,

I've had Samsung's since Note 4, had the 7, had the S9+ and S10+. I think you are misinformed by a lot of this and most of it is not your fault. It's due to so much misinformation out there.

Let's hit some of these.

There are two more places to add. One is app background control (you want to set that to manual) and battery optimization is off for that just the app you want to let through.

Why is this a GOOD thing.

This gives you yet ANOTHER level for notifications. Any phone can be turned on/off for notifications, no other phone will give you one control where the user is fine with notifications coming in way later than real time. If you don't like it, you can do the settings for this.

Samsung got rid of LED notifications. You can still do the "ring" around the faceID camera tweak that you can download, but that thing will just light up when the notification comes in. It's not persistent.

To each their own, but to ME, the LED light was more distraction. With Always On Display on, you'd see all the notifications and what app. Much more useful and you're not annoyed by a flashing light.

Vibrate as a notification or haptic feedback? If latter, Google Pixel has 3 has the best haptic. No one can match it.

Physics. You'd need a crazy good/bigger lens to achieve that. Perhaps sometime in the future. But your Samsung's won't come close to the zoom quality no matter what mode.

No idea what this is, sorry.
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] james_lpool:
Hi Asheki thanks for your reply, the vibrate point was regarding notifications or if my phone is ringing send very shallow.
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] xnostra:
i just posted this on another thread but ill paste it here

Sold my s10 plus 128gb green to p30 pro blue and at the moment I think I did not regret it because from s10 plus the exynos version the camera is bad and battery life problem comparing to snapdragon but if the snapdragon was available in my country I would have never made the jump.
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] cokeman2:
a lot of the camera issues have recently been fixed by software updates have you installed them yet?(everyone can't wait,just sell the phone cause you never satisfied?) as for the UI have you tried another launcher?

I have had Samsung phs for 9 years (samsung ,note 234 , galaxy 56789 ,)this was my first Huawei ph .must say battery life on Samsungs has been pretty sad over the years ....as for p30pro it has been excellent
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] alcalina:
For me It works with double press on the Volume minus (-)
[Huawei P30 Pro Questions & Answers] leoni1980:
As I’ve said previously, suggested people ‘try another launcher’ when they say they don’t like EMUI is like telling someone to paint their front door if they don’t like their house.

Changing the launcher doesn’t change the smaller OS peculiarities (such as power management), the lock screen, the notification area, the look of notifications themselves, the settings and menu pages, the share sheet, the multitasking area. I could go on. Saying ‘change the launcher’ (with the greatest of respect) feels like a bit of an ignorant response to me. In fact the launcher is pretty much the least important thing about EMUI, since it supports a lot of themes, can be made to look pretty similar to any Nova setup and has most basic features.
[Treble-Enabled Device Questions and Answers] teeterteeter:
I have an Umidigi F1 that has been working very well with multiple GSI roms, but I have never been able to get VoLTE or VoWiFi working on any of them. Everything else seems to be working great right off the bat, with the exception of obvious things like WiFi tethering. I’m currently on Bliss Rom GSI, as it has VoLte and WiFi calling baked in, but placing or receiving a call results in falling back to H or H+ and attempting a WiFi call while in airplane mode results in a failure.

I’m on T-Mobile in the USA and VoLTE and WiFi calling both work on other phones, as well as on the F1 with the stock OS out of the box. I’m in a bit over my head and don’t have a ton of knowledge in the area, but here is what I have tried so far:

1. Installed the ims.apk that is floating around, having no effect when installed as a user app or a system app. I’m assuming there is a chance that the Mediatek chip is the hangup here.

2. Extracted ImsService.apk and WfoService.apk from the stock rom and copied to system (trying both /system/app and /system/priv-app separately) and set permissions accordingly. /app folder has no effect, /priv-app folder results in complete loss of cellular signal.

3. Copied entire folders for ImsService and WfoService which include the apk files in addition to odex and vdex files and set permissions accordingly.

4. Installed the (now defunct) VoEnabler Magisk module, which I believe simply edits the build.prop

5. Attempted to install the two apk files as user apps which results in a failure.

Again, I’m not tremendously knowledgeable in this area, so not sure where to turn next. From all the reading I’ve done, I’m thinking the issue may have something to do with either the build.prop or the vendor img, but I wouldn’t know where to begin with either of those. I could do without the WiFi calling, but VoLTE is fairly important in my area, as 3G & 2G fallback is pretty weak where I am and results in a lot of dropped calls.

Sorry for the length. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
[Treble-Enabled Device Questions and Answers] Robbo.5000:
I'm guessing it's a MediaTek SoC, I don't remember seeing Umidigi putting Qualcomm in any of their phones.

voLTE does not work on any GSI ROMs when installed on any MediaTek device. I've not seen anything about voWiFi with MediaTek phones, so that could be specific to the Umidigi
[Treble-Enabled Device Questions and Answers] teeterteeter:
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I'm starting to think you're right about VoLTE and Mediatek. I was hopeful that I would be able to push a few APKs, edit the build prop, or create some kind of overlay in an attempt to get it working. The latter is clearly way beyond my capabilities, but after using the SP Flash Tool for the first time, I'm now pretty willing to repeatedly brick the device in an attempt to make something work!

It's fairly frustrating as these features work well in the buggy stock rom. Unfortunately all of my digging and reading has turned up a lot of dead ends. I'm not too hopeful, but if anyone has any other ideas, I'd love to hear em.

Thanks
[Treble-Enabled Device Questions and Answers] Veiran:
I would actually guess that it relates to some changes that the GSI makes compared to the stock image. If I'm right, t-mobile likely grants access to base features on its network to any device, yet reserves more advanced features to authorized devices.

I'm like you, however, in that I'm not knowledgeable enough to know for sure. I say this because I'm experiencing a similar issue (same device, the Umidigi F1) with my carrier, Verizon Wireless. Everything is fine on stock ROM but no data or advanced features on AOSP roms (derived by phhusson's work so far). Verizon seems to be stricter with devices on their network, yet I believe our issues have a similar root cause.
[Treble-Enabled Device Questions and Answers] teeterteeter:
Makes sense... I've never used Verizon, but I know it's a bit stickier than T-Mobile and some of the other GSM carriers with regard to unauthorized devices.

I just haven't been able to find a ton of information about these specific issues while using a Mediatek phone. I've randomly moved files from the stock rom over to GSI roms with no luck. Again, in over my head, but I've grabbed anything related to volte or ims from /bin /app /priv-app /framework, etc... and had no luck.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] fanfan7110:
NOTE : THIS TUTORIAL IS FOR GLOBAL VERSION AND LINK IS FOR GLOBAL ONLY.

IF YOU HAVE CHINESEA VERSION, PLEASE FOUND FULL CHINESE ROM BEFORE TO DO ANYTHING.

I don't know if Chinese rom have same results. Do it at your own risk.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Miiick3y:
Works perfectly !
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SmallTarzan:
The Magisk link is broken.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Serbinhio:
<3 Nice to see that you mention me :D
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] fanfan7110:
It's normal ! You are the main inventor. I just put it more clean and add the update :o
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] fanfan7110:
Fixed !
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SmallTarzan:
Don’t shorten links, please.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] fanfan7110:
If i write full URL, the XDA's server don"t accept it. Have you a solution ?
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SmallTarzan:
Don’t link it directly, then.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] fanfan7110:
Fixed ! :D
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Manu270891:
I will be able to unlock the bootloader tonight. Do we have to use the beta channel as you tell in your post or is the stable channel enough? Thanks!
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] fanfan7110:
NO, put on beta channel.. It's more sure.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Manu270891:
This method works perfectly, but there is one little issue, offline charging stops working. Plugging the wall adapter makes the screen turn on, but it gets stuck at the "Mi" logo. It's not a huge issue, but it's a little annoying.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mslezak:
So I am a little unclear - this method keeps the device encrypted and allows custom ROMs? Or just stock? As the beta TWRP removes encryption. Thanks.
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] tramix32:
Can someone upload boot.img from 10.2.17.0? My internet is so sloow :(
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] fanfan7110:
This is for Stock rom

I have not this issue.. Strange. .

This is the link : Link 10.2.17.0
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Manu270891:
Are you using global or EEA ROM? I'm using the 10.2.22.0 EEA .
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] fanfan7110:
Global ROM

Edit : Now in EEA ROM :)
[Xiaomi Mi 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] tramix32:
It doent work for me either, and yeah it stuck on mi logo. Im using 10.2.17.0 EEA.

I noticed a strange thing, in dev options my phone thinks it is locked 0.o but everything is fine.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Hey guys,

when I got the P3XL I unlocked the bootloadeer immediately. Widevine level was still on L1 even though I've installed a custom rom. Then I had to try something, flashed another rom and also flashed the latest factory image and it was changed to L3.

Now even after flashing the factory image and completely locked the bootloader, it still says L3...So in amazon prime and netflix only HDR/UHD works... but not HD for shows and movies which are not netflix/amazon originals.

Did someone had the same issue? If yes is there a fix to it or maybe Google is aware of it already? Some people reported that after a while their Widevine level changed to L3 with custom rom/custom kernel, but it should be back to L1 with completely locked bootloader and full stock rom. It does that way for all other phones (htc U12+, essential PH-1 and many many others)

Is there something in the Pixel which is similar to Samsung's Knox? ... I'm just so disappointed and angry...
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
I also catched a log, where it says cannot open file /vendor/firmware_mnt/imagine/widevine.mdt. this file is missing in that folder and the Essential PH-1 even with unlocked bootloader, rooted/custom rom has it still there and the phone is also in L1... so google did something, what deleted that file....
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] SacredDeviL666:
No there is no security measure which trips Pixel 3 as far i am aware of nor is mine tripped.

flashed a lot of custom roms flashed march & april factory images with -w and without -w and i am on custom rom now, bootloader still unlocked, rooted, custom kernel and it's still widevine security is L1.

While doing a search I see that you already posted the issue with Google support lets see if they can say else that unlocking bootloader is the reason.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Yes that is the strange thing, L1 worked fine when I was on aquarios first.

Then tried DU and had to reflash factory image and L1 wasn't working anymore.

I was told by google supported to also issue that to widevine, sent them some logs too. Let's see who can help.

There must be something wrong, because [MENTION=3428502]Freak07[/MENTION] also tried the widevine.mdt file from another pixel 3, but it didn't worked either. The same error 13 was there.

I gonna try the full ota image tomorrow or so. Gonna see if that might help with a locked bootloader. I hope it can be sorted, because it's stupid if a phone like the pixel has such issues

Can you also please check in logcat what it shows for you when you search for widevine and drm?

Also is that file I mentioned above also available in that specific folder? And other widevine files in that folder?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] SacredDeviL666:
Then tried DU and had to reflash factory image and L1 wasn't working anymore. ( have you flashed any vendor.img other than the one's you have extracted from google's full factory.img file )

had to reflash factory image and L1 wasn't working anymore. ( i've flashed factory image with a full wipe and without wipe multiple times including last week while trying to do a clean install with april image along with -w )

Can you also please check in logcat what it shows for you when you search for widevine and drm? (didn't get this question sorry :( )

Also is that file I mentioned above also available in that specific folder? ( i have vendor/firmware_mnt/image folder but there is no widevine.mdt )

And other widevine files in that folder? (no widevine files in that folder)
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
For the logcat I mean when you use an app like matlog, you can directly use the search function to search for specific words, in that case widevine and drm. Can you attach the screenshot/logs of both ?

Also very strange that there is no such file in the imagine folder and yet L1 works fine for you....

Did you try different ROMs, or only bootleggers? Was it always on L1?

Actually I haven't flashed vendor.img manually, I let the flash script do the job. Do you think this might be the issue?

Also I don't remember if I flashed the April vendor from DU homepage ....
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] SacredDeviL666:
For the logcat I mean when you use an app like matlog, you can directly use the search function to search for specific words, in that case widevine and drm. Can you attach the screenshot/logs of both ? (does the attached screenshot of matlog highlighting the result what i got when searched for widevine.dmt helps? and the error the log states is same as what you said in your initial post )

Also very strange that there is no such file in the imagine folder and yet L1 works fine for you.... ( :p )

Did you try different ROMs, or only bootleggers? Was it always on L1? ( it was always on L1/AOSIP/Bootleggers/Scorpion these are the roms which i keep shuffling in between/Kernel ElementalX/Kirisakura )

Actually I haven't flashed vendor.img manually, I let the flash script do the job. Do you think this might be the issue? ( no harm in giving a try as flashing vendor image won't mess up your rom setup or installations )
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Thanks.

Yeah gonna definitely flash full ota img first tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. And maybe unlocking again at the weekend and flash vendor.img on both slots manually
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] Dark_Eyes_:
Let me know if you get that sorted because I too have L3 and I've flashed stock April image with full wipe and relocked the bootloader. Unclear what the issue is...
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
According to freak07 it might be related to the trustzone, that it doesn't allow to use Level 1...

Gonna try different things this week and also wait for widevine support for an answer ...
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] driss.sadok:
My phone is unlocked since day one, I am on Q Beta 2 and before i used to flash 3 different Custom ROMS and back to factory image abt 4 times. i always have L1 on the security level.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Yeah there must be some sort of trigger or so, which seems to break Widevine. I probably gonna flash later today the full ota image and then see if it might be working again
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] Flyer66:
Keep us updated on this. I'm curious too since mine is showing L3 as well and I'm rooted on stock with the latest Kirisakura kernel.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
okay, so I've flashed the latest full ota image... and guess what?

IT DIDN'T FIXED IT... man I'm so annoyed and tired by this...

really...on every other device which came with L1 out-of-the-box too, will always revert back to L1 when back to full stock/relocked/locked bootloader...only the pixel now has some issue like that ... and somehow I can't find any otherpost about it... is there really no one else who cares about that? paying so much money for a phone and then things like that don't work properly... it's somehow sad...
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] driss.sadok:
Bro try this post, i didn't read all and it's old, but it may help somehow.

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-netflix-hd-widevine-drm-l1-devices-t3307241
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
This only works if the device has L1 but is not whitelisted by Netflix (like the HTC u12+, it's L1 but server side not whitelisted, same as Amazon)

I'm still waiting for an answer from the Widevine team... Hopefully they will come back to me soon
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] driss.sadok:
Did you contact google support or checked google forums? I think it has something only with google devices
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Yes posted on google forum/community and also contacted the support. They advised me to contact widevine. Even though it should be an issue by them, not widevine directly...
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] wangdaning:
Very strange. I have Pixel 3 and my level is L1. This even though it is rooted, bootloader unlocked, and running DU rom.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Yeah there must be some sort of trigger or so, where it can end up with L3 all the time.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] SacredDeviL666:
what could be the trigger as what you have done is done by few others including me with an opposite result which is odd :eek:

Lets see what response you do get from widevine.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Don't know, maybe it's random... Maybe not... Maybe by formatting data in TWRP or whatever...

It has to be an issue with trustzone, it can't execute/get data for widevine L1 key, so either it's f"cked up, or I don't know.

Log is attached. I really don't know what to do, because if trustzone is corrupted or whatever, we can't do anything on our own....
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] SacredDeviL666:
Yes or mostly it has got to do with trust zone but how is it broken with you/few more when not us while we did the same? the above screenshot of yours is the same as mine when i do a search on that app.

Formatting data i have done it multiple times separately and the same thing is done when you flash a factory image flash with -w enabled.

Are you encrypted or decrypted?
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Like I said, I don't know what could trigger it... Maybe faulty software? Which tampers the trustzone in a non explainable way?

I'm on full stock and locked again
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] EMJI79:
Just return it and try with some new one.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
I haven't bought it directly from google or another shop. It was second hand

So either Google's gonna fix it (because they can and should be able to) or I have to sell it and get another one. But this is annoying, so I will keep it and wait.
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
In the attachment you can see another log. It just came in my mind, that when I talked with freak07, he said it might be relates to the trustzone.

So now I thought, open drminfo or any app which uses drm, open a logcat, I used matlog, then search for crypto.

That's what you find then.

Can anyone with a rooted phone and Level 1 please check out, if you can see that factory/ folder and even that file? Seems like some sort of wipe erased that on my and probably on other phones too and doesn't get restored at bootloader lock (maybe google was stupid again and did something wrong, so on some devices it might fail to restore the key).

If this file exists for you, can you please upload it? If not I really have to find a way to contact some proper google employees... Neither on Twitter I can get some answers, nor widevine support helps/answers... And google support is stupid too...

Damn it's so annoying and I really wanna fox it...
[Google Pixel 3 XL Questions & Answers] DeeZZ_NuuZZ:
Sorry, forgot to paste in previous post