Looks like the HAM 2 won't be getting 6.0 Marshmallow.
http://newstactics.com/technology/h...ting-android-6-0-marshmallow/4051/2015/10/18/
What do you guys think about this?
I don't think we expected Android M would come to our MT2.
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I don't think we expected Android M would come to our MT2.
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+1 ... Hopefully we'll see M in custom ROMs.
Custom ROMs has 99% of M features already. This is a $200 phone we were very lucky to get L
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I can never understand why a company like this would release M on something like the heap of crap Media Pad X2 and not something like the Mate 2, especially considering the Mate 2 has far out sold the Media Pad
I haven't been following M news much, but what else can M add to our phone, besides possibly better battery life? We don't have NFC, a fingerprint scanner, and so on.
We barely got Lollipop... I've already pre-ordered the Nexus P because I've been impressed with this phone.
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We barely got Lollipop... I've already pre-ordered the Nexus P because I've been impressed with this phone.
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Congratulations! From a review I saw, that's one awesome phone. When do you expect to receive it and which color and option did you pick? What's the best place to buy the 6P at this time?
I ordered from Huawei just last week so it wouldn't surprise me if its middle of November. I grabbed the 32gb aluminum. Rest of the storage sizes are out of stock on both Huawei and Google.
From www.cmxlog.com/13
I saw some about mt2 lol
Mate2, released Jan 2014....figure a lot of companies won't release it til Jan 2016, which will make the Mate2
TWO years old. Sad as it is, that's ANCIENT for a phone. Mine works as well on 5.1 as it did on 4.3, so until
another 6", 4,000 or better battery comes out, for the same price point, I'll stick with the Mate2 til it dies.
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From www.cmxlog.com/13
I saw some about mt2 lol
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This guy is making him a build tomorrow to test out CM13 (Android M). @Moody66, dont hesitate yourself either ha.
Some CyanogenMod 13 links and info
Even though its another phone figured I would link to this as its a CM13 build
[Android 6.0] CyanogenMod 13.0 For PadFone S/X - http://forum.xda-developers.com/pad...oid-6-0-cyanogenmod-13-0-padfone-s-x-t3226757
Apparently Doze will be added, not to our phone, but will be off by default- http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/113840/
CM13 Source Tree- https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_build/tree/cm-13.0
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This guy is making him a build tomorrow to test out CM13 (Android M). @Moody66, dont hesitate yourself either ha.
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Definitely let us know how your builds work out.
Here's the official list from Huawei listing which phones are getting Android M
http://emui.huawei.com/portal.php?mod=view&aid=55
M problems for some ........ no surprise I suppose: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/most-commo...arshmallow-nexus-devices-how-fix-them-1523719
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M problems for some ........ no surprise I suppose: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/most-commo...arshmallow-nexus-devices-how-fix-them-1523719
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Eh, I expected there to be some but Google will definitely work out the bugs unlike what that article said. Low memory issues can temporarily be resolved using VM (swap). I use it on this device because some stuff I do pulls too much memory and will crash my device if I don't use it.
I'm sure CM13 has some issues as well which I will soon find out today when I cook me up a ROM and boot it from my sdcard to try out.
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Eh, I expected there to be some but Google will definitely work out the bugs unlike what that article said. Low memory issues can temporarily be resolved using VM (swap). I use it on this device because some stuff I do pulls too much memory and will crash my device if I don't use it.
I'm sure CM13 has some issues as well which I will soon find out today when I cook me up a ROM and boot it from my sdcard to try out.
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VM (swap) sounds interesting ...... you have instructions or a link you recommend on how you would do that on a HAM2?
SHM said:
This guy is making him a build tomorrow to test out CM13 (Android M). @Moody66, dont hesitate yourself either ha.
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Soon as I get a chance! Nexus is a little slower with M. Bit not had but 30 minutes to mess with it.
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VM (swap) sounds interesting ...... you have instructions or a link you recommend on how you would do that on a HAM2?
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Aparted apk from play store. Resize external SD just enough so that you have room to create a swap partition (second partition on external) to say 500 mb for example. When complete, open up terminal emulator then type and enter, swapon /dev/block/mmcblk1p2. Type and enter, free, and you will see swap being used. Swapon is a busybox applet.
Related
http://blog.gethuawei.com/huawei-device-usa-updates/
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Was just about to post this. Disappointed. There better be a damn good reason for this.
The Instagram page says "Stay tuned to see what the future holds."
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Look for their facebook page. Huawei devices usa or something. Mine should be the first comment.
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Those developers that got a free Mate 2 are our only hope now.
I guess that's why they gave them out. "Can you guys make ROMs for us? We're too lazy."
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Would like to ask everyone who reads this and wants kit late to post all over their Facebook and twitter pages
"We want Kit kat for the ascend mate 2.
But you chose not to.
NEVER AGAIN"
Maybe some negative pressure will make them rethink.
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Those developers that got a free Mate 2 are our only hope now.
I guess that's why they gave them out. "Can you guys make ROMs for us? We're too lazy."
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Huawei is basically saying "you're on your own" to anyone who received a device as a devloper. That's not a great position... It's a pretty solid slap in the face. My first thought as a developer is "ok, they are out, why would I bother". I'd cut more slack if the device was 18-24 months old but they are pushing this as their flagship currently and an alternative to the more expensive phablets on the market. Even Samsung provides "reasonable" support for "old" flagships better than this.
The crazy thing is the hardware should be more than able to keep up with 4.4/5.0. Unless they are jumping right to 5.0 this move makes 0 sense to me.
Modding. Mymind and xordos with my continual softbrick testing have managed to port a pretty much fully working TWRP onto my MT2-L05 device and I have uploaded a decrypted 4.4.2 rom for my Mate 2 in this forum, so why don't we collectively try and port it to your device, any help you need that are within my skillset I will happily provide....just a thought.. .... Download the rom I posted and see what you can come up with.. ..... .
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Modding. Mymind and xordos with my continual softbrick testing have managed to port a pretty much fully working TWRP onto my MT2-L05 device and I have uploaded a decrypted 4.4.2 rom for my Mate 2 in this forum, so why don't we collectively try and port it to your device, any help you need that are within my skillset I will happily provide....just a thought.. .... Download the rom I posted and see what you can come up with.. ..... .
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Does Huawei use a tool like RSD or Odin for system images or are devs stuck with manual disk images and the like via recovery?
Hmm, I was thinking about getting one of these, now I'm having doubts. If we only
get third party firmware, would I still be able to run software which will not run with root access ?
Have any of those developers who received the free phones mentioned their intentions?
dzr said:
Hmm, I was thinking about getting one of these, now I'm having doubts. If we only
get third party firmware, would I still be able to run software which will not run with root access ?
Have any of those developers who received the free phones mentioned their intentions?
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Right now I'd hold off. Buy something else. The operating system on this phone is already a year old. Support for things like Android wear etc will be questionable in 6 months.
If Huawei doesn't update it's phones you should go with something else. Just my opinion.
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I saw the blog post on my G+ feed earlier today. I'm not really shocked, but it still really feels like a kick in the teeth.
I'm not sure what kind of luck we'll have getting a custom KK/LP Rom running on this phone. Usually the manufacturer-provided ROM is used as a baseline for other modifications to be made. If we were to spin our own AOSP Rom, could we even find the drivers and kennel modules to make everything work?
Where do we go from here?
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I saw the blog post on my G+ feed earlier today. I'm not really shocked, but it still really feels like a kick in the teeth.
I'm not sure what kind of luck we'll have getting a custom KK/LP Rom running on this phone. Usually the manufacturer-provided ROM is used as a baseline for other modifications to be made. If we were to spin our own AOSP Rom, could we even find the drivers and kennel modules to make everything work?
Where do we go from here?
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The kernel is up on one of the hosted Huawei sites. A quick once over at the BABBQ indicated it's a fairly vanilla Qualcomm 3.4 kernel with some Huawei bits sprinkled in. Shouldn't be much of an issue for 4.4. getting a 3.10 kernel up for 5.0 will be trickier and is a big question mark as 5.0 isn't officially released just yet. At the BABBQ we also discovered they didn't implement all of the modem modes in the ROM. Another developer told me they might take a closer look but gave no detail for timing.
I've been tinkering with adb backups, titanium and xposed lately and I'm not liking the stock ROM much. They omitted large chunks of the adb backup stuff rendering apps like Helium useless, the SD cards don't come through to the root context properly forcing you to enable a compatibility flag in SuperSU in order to make titanium work and apktool and other standard tools choke nicely on the system apks. I had to fall back to running the smali decompiler by hand to find the right hooks in SystemUI for a simple xposed hack.
Adding to the fun their version of Settings.apk is missing a number of standard features which you can only adjust via Tasker/SecureSettings or by hand behind the scenes. They also didn't implement encrypted storage in the vold storage stuff so you're screwed in an enterprise setting.
Based on what I've seen thus far a source based build is almost necessary if you want everything android has to offer. However, vetting a ROM to ensure various new functionality is 100% will be a pain.
Huawei left out a lot and the lack of 4.4 is a serious kick in the teeth.
Horrible
I just purchased this phone from amazon on July. I wouldn't mind the no update but I want to get a google watch in the next few months so I'm not very happy about this announcement. For some odd reason, Amazon is still letting me return this phone so I'm thinking of returning the phone. What is another phone that I can get at this price range?
kemonine96 said:
Does Huawei use a tool like RSD or Odin for system images or are devs stuck with manual disk images and the like via recovery?
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You can use Huawei's Hi-Suite software to flash roms to phone from pc. You can also pack roms up into Huawei's update format and flash them in quick update mode from your phone's external sd card, or you can install via recovery.
I bought mine on September 29 (didn't get it until early October) through the gethuawei site. I wonder if I can return it... I'll find out when there livechat is live today, the 29th of October.
After just one minor OTA update they officially announce no additional updates for their only US device... That's a deal breaker for me.
Damn, I was just about to buy this phone. Does anyone know of any good alternatives in Canada?
drvenom123 said:
I just purchased this phone from amazon on July. I wouldn't mind the no update but I want to get a google watch in the next few months so I'm not very happy about this announcement. For some odd reason, Amazon is still letting me return this phone so I'm thinking of returning the phone. What is another phone that I can get at this price range?
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Damn, I was just about to buy this phone. Does anyone know of any good alternatives in Canada?
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Nexus 5? Used flagships?
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Go spam them on g+! + my comment! (Seth Hin)
https://plus.google.com/116259104144339004134/posts/MwgooqkQpwK
Not surprised , saw this coming from the early start . Thing is , there is no alternative with these features / size at the 299$ price tag . There are phones like the ZTE nubia / moto g / Blu products / etc but they don't hold a candle to this phablet . On another note , I've customized my phone to the max and i don't need a major OS update . Just me , this phone runs perfectly for my use . Fine if they just push minor OS fixes via OTA . Developers can be our saviours ! Let's not forget this isn't really a flagship ! You're paying for the experience as created/intended at the time . Let's wait and see :thumbup:
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Damn, I was just about to buy this phone. Does anyone know of any good alternatives in Canada?
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Probably the Samsung Galaxy Mega.
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In order to support the ZTE Axon 7 on XDA with the LIGHT PATCH we need to have a Thread/Device Maintainer before! If You would like to know more take a look right here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g5/development/light-patch-t3609676
Thanks in advance!
This link is broken.
OrdenKrieger said:
This link is broken.
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Should be fixed now! Sry for the trouble!
I've gotta admit that I'm curious about this.
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I've gotta admit that I'm curious about this.
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Well, basically i do just need someone who Maintains a Thread with Me and My Team Mate here. I want to have someone who owns the Device to get advanced Reports and to have someone who Quotes Me on the Thread if Problems appear (Can be Device Specific).
If anyone is interested enough i will start a Thread which the Maintainer gets invited to. So let's Go! :highfive:
This definitely looks interesting, I'd love to see it take off!
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In order to support the ZTE Axon 7 on XDA with the LIGHT PATCH we need to have a Thread/Device Maintainer before! If You would like to know more take a look right here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g5/development/light-patch-t3609676
Thanks in advance!
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Nice to see you here bro!
Loved your patches on g5
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This definitely looks interesting, I'd love to see it take off!
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Nice to hear that. The first Version of My new Patch is out now. Hope i'll find a Maintainer for the Axon 7 after some People have flashed it :fingers-crossed:
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Nice to see you here bro!
Loved your patches on g5
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Also nice to see You here! You're rockin the Axon 7 now huh!? Lucky One... :laugh:
Downloading now. Will report back on how it goes. Want to say thanks in advance for the work though.
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Nice to hear that. The first Version of My new Patch is out now. Hope i'll find a Maintainer for the Axon 7 after some People have flashed it :fingers-crossed:
Also nice to see You here! You're rockin the Axon 7 now huh!? Lucky One... :laugh:
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Yes, I got a complete refund from o2 for my g5 after it's second repair (GPS u know..) and decided to go for the axon. I truely love this device!
So could the Patch be applied on the B04 Stock? Would be very nice, because we have a lack of custom Stock based Roms here
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Downloading now. Will report back on how it goes. Want to say thanks in advance for the work though.
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Your'e Welcome, thanks for testing! Do You test on AOSP based ROMs?
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Yes, I got a complete refund from o2 for my g5 after it's second repair (GPS u know..) and decided to go for the axon. I truely love this device!
So could the Patch be applied on the B04 Stock? Would be very nice, because we have a lack of custom Stock based Roms here
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That was Luck I would love to have the Axon 7 too. That stereo Speakers and the Display... Mhhh....
But Yes, it should work on Stock. BUT YOu need to add Init.d Support if YOu want to use the given Scripts like Battery Calibration and Play Services battery drain Fix.
Another thing are the GApps. The LIGHT PATCH comes with Optimized GApps for 7.1. If You are on 7.1 YOu're good to go. If not, You should pre download a GApp Pack for Your Android Version to install it after the Patch. That should be all. And like always, do clean flashs! lol
BR
PS: Hope You like the Black Theme of AROMA. It's My first Theme so let Me know It Should be really AMOLED friendly...
Tested out on RR, and so far so good. I'm still playing around with it, but everything seems nice and smooth.
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Tested out on RR, and so far so good. I'm still playing around with it, but everything seems nice and smooth.
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Appreciate your testing. Can you comment on features, benefits, battery, sound, etc?
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Appreciate your testing. Can you comment on features, benefits, battery, sound, etc?
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I'm still playing around with some things. Ended up doing a complete clean flash of RR, Magisk 13, and this again this morning, so I haven't had too much time to just dive into everything just yet. Just tested sound over speakers though, and it sounds great. Still gotta see how battery fares.
If you opt to let the patch install Gapps, they're very minimal, and you'll end up installing most of them from the Play Store, but that gives you the option to keep whichever ones you want. There are also a ton of lib files, and some add-ons from Sony and HTC that are worth checking out. Will give a more detailed post after I've had more time to mess around.
I'm interested too.
A list with some information of the benefits would still be good.
There isn't any explanation of what this is. b.s.
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There isn't any explanation of what this is. b.s.
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I think the intention is for it to be a bit of a surprise for now. I'm still trying to figure it all out, but if you check the changelogs at the website, you can put a good bit of it together.
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Tested out on RR, and so far so good. I'm still playing around with it, but everything seems nice and smooth.
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Glad to hear it runs! Well, there are hundreds of Features and goodies in this Baby. I'm working on Android since almost 7 Years and the Patch is the Product of enhancing custom ROMs to something more than that. Calling it a Mod is like calling a Operation on a Brain slaughtering lol
I will try to explain it a bit.
The Light Patch is the 3rd Version of My Patch System. The Multi Device Support is caused by excluding the Device specific Firmware from the customization which i usually would do with a ROM. The advantages of that are independent OS updates, Multi Device Support, Features which You can't get with AOSP, and it is better to develop than usual Mods or ROMs.
We have planned to create a own AOSP OS and some Apps in the Future which will include the advanced research behind the Patch and everything what i do. It is really hard for Me to describe all that. But i'm going to enhance My Project together with a new Partner and the Light Patch is the first Step on that Way. There will come for sure more Infos, Videos and all possible Things over the Time. And don't run away cause of my English! My Partner speaks a lot better English than Me, so the overall Quality will come over the Time. I'll let him do all the Social stuff here so i can focus on the development (finally). The Main Team is growing and our Maintainers will also get a place in our Org. We will soon have a own Domain with G Suite Service and everything looks bright for our Project.
I hope that wasn't to much bad English for One Post :laugh: Just take a look on My very long Changelog and try the Patch. You will not regret it, it is 100% stable if You follow the given Instructions
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I think the intention is for it to be a bit of a surprise for now. I'm still trying to figure it all out, but if you check the changelogs at the website, you can put a good bit of it together.
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With all of the duplicitous and snake oil mods on here I'm not listening to 13 year olds trying to market themselves as A.R.I.S.E.v6TurboCharger computer geniuses. People need specifics- not hype.
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With all of the duplicitous and snake oil mods on here I'm not listening to 13 year olds trying to market themselves as A.R.I.S.E.v6TurboCharger computer geniuses. People need specifics- not hype.
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I decided to try it out of curiosity, pretty much because I flash a lot, and try to stay open to new things. I'm a tinkerer, and I guess that's just part of my fidgety nature. Lol. But, as there's no official maintainer or posts in the development section for our device yet, and English isn't the developers first language, it seems that either flashing or waiting for response from people that have are the best way to get information for now. But if you download the zip and browse through it, there are a lot of things there that should theoretically add to the user experience.
Oreo has been loaded on the US version of the Axon 7 and is going through the first round of testing now, per sshasan of Z-Community.
Looks like stock Android or very close to stock as was rumored, with a choice (hopefully) for on screen navigation buttons.
https://community.zteusa.com/discussion/comment/234503#Comment_234503
A poll has been added to this thread to see whether users would like a stock Android build or ZTE's MiFavor UI. So go and vote!!
That's cool. If is like the beta leak they should be good to go soon.
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Oh my, looks pretty good so far. Hope they ramp it up to Android 8.1 and keep the Dolby application.
then maybe itll be released sooner than april i suppose ? but that menu looks promising for being stock
i hate the look of stock android.RIP
Predatorhaze said:
i hate the look of stock android.RIP
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You may be one of the few tbh.
nfsmw_gr said:
You may be one of the few tbh.
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No there are plenty of us. Most people do not prefer Vanilla. Google would sell a lot more phones if people wanted Vanilla. Vanilla is boring like a hospital environment.
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No there are plenty of us. Most people do not prefer Vanilla. Google would sell a lot more phones if people wanted Vanilla. Vanilla is boring like a hospital environment.
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I don't think so. If there would be a democratic poll I think the stock look of Android would win by far. I mean you can even change the look wihout root on Substratum now, so I think thats the best way to go for everyone.
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I don't think so. If there would be a democratic poll I think the stock look of Android would win by far. I mean you can even change the look wihout root on Substratum now, so I think thats the best way to go for everyone.
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For people on XDA perhaps. We are a tiny tiny group compared to regular customers. Vanilla has a small cult following that has a loud voice.
Should the OP put a poll just for the fun? @TEXASMADE1978
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No there are plenty of us. Most people do not prefer Vanilla. Google would sell a lot more phones if people wanted Vanilla. Vanilla is boring like a hospital environment.
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If Google devices were offered for sale in every country, they would be sold more. there is no relevance to the interface
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If Google devices were offered for sale in every country, they would be sold more. there is no relevance to the interface
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thats absolutly true...
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Alright, looking forward to this! And seeing how Xposed already has a beta for Oreo I don't have to hold out when the update is released. And hopefully this version fixes the metadata problem with some car radios, like mine. (I've heard it is a 7.1 issue.)
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Should the OP put a poll just for the fun? @TEXASMADE1978
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A poll has now been added... We will see what the votes are even though I have an idea what it will be.
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Oh my, looks pretty good so far. Hope they ramp it up to Android 8.1 and keep the Dolby application.
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From the rumors I've heard, it will be a stock Android build with some ZTE customizations such as Dolby Atmos among others and will be released around April, possibly a little before depending on how the testing goes. The build was being referred to as Stock UI+, so if they stick to the stock build and then just add a few of their modifications such as Dolby etc, I think we will have a nice rom to enjoy. I'm hoping what I've heard comes to fruition, and so far it seems to be. I agree that it would be nice if ZTE did ramp it up to 8.1 so the build would be as current as possible, and would also like for it to have the newest security patch when released and not something a month old.
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For people on XDA perhaps. We are a tiny tiny group compared to regular customers. Vanilla has a small cult following that has a loud voice.
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So there is a tiny group that likes locked in more than open you say?
hint: try nova launcher and never lookback.
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From the rumors I've heard, it will be a stock Android build with some ZTE customizations such as Dolby Atmos among others and will be released around April, possibly a little before depending on how the testing goes. The build was being referred to as Stock UI+, so if they stick to the stock build and then just add a few of their modifications such as Dolby etc, I think we will have a nice rom to enjoy. I'm hoping what I've heard comes to fruition, and so far it seems to be. I agree that it would be nice if ZTE did ramp it up to 8.1 so it would be as of a build as possible.
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FULL ACK
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For people on XDA perhaps. We are a tiny tiny group compared to regular customers. Vanilla has a small cult following that has a loud voice.
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Regular customers probably don't care either ways. People who care about it and actually want skinned Android are a much smaller minority than those who want vanilla Android.
What's the deal with that on-screen nav bar?
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What's the deal with that on-screen nav bar?
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Testing most likely.
I wrote an email to the chief technical officer of ZTE and asked if development for the Axon 7 is still ongoing. Here is a screenshot of the answer.
Can you link exactly who you wrote to? I would like to confirm this.
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Can you link exactly who you wrote to? I would like to confirm this.
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Pm for now to avoid possible email spamming.
As for all the others who read this, here is a little more explanation:
He is the technical chief officer of zte and stands in direct contact with the dev team. He is also the reason we got the zip for disabling system write protection in the first place. Without him i wouldn't have gotten the update.zip (with disabled system write protection) and @raystef66 couldn't have made a flashable zip for us.
Great contact! Thanks.
Anyway to get the PIE IMS so we can get wifi calling working on Oreo or Pie?
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Great contact! Thanks.
Anyway to get the PIE IMS so we can get wifi calling working on Oreo or Pie?
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Volte works on Oreo china
amphi66 said:
Great contact! Thanks.
Anyway to get the PIE IMS so we can get wifi calling working on Oreo or Pie?
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VoLTE should work on any of the big Oreo ROMs. WFC is hit or miss (even on stock ROM). I'm assuming Oreo is gonna be the last android version we can install and still have these things work (unless some dev out there finds a way to get past this roadblock in the future). Either way, I kinda doubt ZTE would provide any further updates for us beyond Oreo. I'm assuming that the response given in the OP meant that they would fix everything that's still broken and missing on 8.0; not begin development for Pie (especially since the Axon 10 is just around the corner, pulling resources into a 3-year-old phone just isn't a sound decision from a business standpoint).
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pulling resources into a 3-year-old phone just isn't a sound decision from a business standpoint).
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It is if ZTE expect some form of customer loyalty on future purchase decisions. Would you buy the Axon 10/11/12 etc. based on your Axon 7 experience? Yes they had disruptions from trade sanctions etc. but that's not the consumers fault and imo ZTE should be doing everything they can to restore faith in their brand.
They're basically starting again.
They need an affordable flagship like the Axon 7 was. If they don't, it will be hard to gather enough sales to start a customer pool and try for return purchase later on.
Current customers are wary, sceptical and untrusting after that whole fiasco and rightly so.
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Great contact! Thanks.
Anyway to get the PIE IMS so we can get wifi calling working on Oreo or Pie?
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VoLTE nd Wifi calling wok fine for me on ZTE's Oreo B20.
RobboW said:
They're basically starting again.
They need an affordable flagship like the Axon 7 was. If they don't, it will be hard to gather enough sales to start a customer pool and try for return purchase later on.
Current customers are wary, sceptical and untrusting after that whole fiasco and rightly so.
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They just need to copy and paste the Axon 7 with newer specs.
Maybe bumping it to 6" in order to have more internal space would do the trick.
I still can't understand how did they think that the Axon 9 Pro was a good idea. They litterally took all that was great about the A7 and...deleted it.
Now...a bit of an on topic question. Instead of releasing 8.0, could they not enter the Android One program with it...especially since they were aiming for stock experience?
Maybe it's been asked before, but what are the implications of entering the AO program,because IIRC, I may have read some time ago something about a partition not existing on the device and ZTE not gambling with a large release, but I can't remember specifically?
TorqueSsS said:
They just need to copy and paste the Axon 7 with newer specs.
Maybe bumping it to 6" in order to have more internal space would do the trick.
I still can't understand how did they think that the Axon 9 Pro was a good idea. They litterally took all that was great about the A7 and...deleted it.
Now...a bit of an on topic question. Instead of releasing 8.0, could they not enter the Android One program with it...especially since they were aiming for stock experience?
Maybe it's been asked before, but what are the implications of entering the AO program,because IIRC, I may have read some time ago something about a partition not existing on the device and ZTE not gambling with a large release, but I can't remember specifically?
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The vendor partition stuff is something else entirely. Some people believed that ZTE would bring Treble support to the Axon while that made very little sense (Treble is a requirement for phones that SHIP with Oreo and above, but it's optional for Oreo, and its main advantage is it makes it easier for OEMs to update major Android versions). It was developed by djkuz and NFound eventually anyways, but only because of the generic ROM benefits
I don't think you can simply slap Android One certification on the middle of a product's life, but even if they could, it would make absolutely zero sense for them... Why be commited to security updates and newer Android versions on a phone that has surely stopped giving any revenue since long ago? Plus I'm not even sure if people prefer stock Android to stuff like One UI where you have a bunch of options
Do not expect to much from ZTE for the Axon 7. Until now they did not release a stable OS and it will not change for the next update.
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Do not expect to much from ZTE for the Axon 7. Until now they did not release a stable OS and it will not change for the next update.
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Marshmallow and Nougat were perfectly stable, if not the chinese versions. i'd say that counts.
The important thing is them fixing Daydream because it doesn't only entail adding daydream back, to run it properly you need to have thermals and the kernel properly tuned. Daydream should put the phone at ~1.3 GHz but I believe they'll have to mess around to make it work as intended anyways
plus all this is useful for LOS
Marshmallow and Nougat had a very bad design and UI because of mifavor. Oreo is nice but extremly unstable.
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Do not expect to much from ZTE for the Axon 7. Until now they did not release a stable OS and it will not change for the next update.
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What next update?
I thought this device was EOL as far as zte was concerned. There hasn't been an official update since august of last year and that had a security update of july '18. That's 6+ months ago. I think we're on our own now....
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What next update?
I thought this device was EOL as far as zte was concerned. There hasn't been an official update since august of last year and that had a security update of july '18. That's 6+ months ago. I think we're on our own now....
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how can you ignore the OP this much??
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seriously, read the OP first
Also, the chinese version still gets updates, the last one was abt 2 weeks ago?
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how can you ignore the OP this much??
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seriously, read the OP first
Also, the chinese version still gets updates, the last one was abt 2 weeks ago?
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Not ignoring OP at all... Simply going by zte's past actions. I've seen these sort of promises with other devices (moto x pure comes to mind) in the past. I'll believe it when I see it.
Got a link to this update from 2 weeks ago? What was the actual update?
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Not ignoring OP at all... Simply going by zte's past actions. I've seen these sort of promises with other devices (moto x pure comes to mind) in the past. I'll believe it when I see it.
Got a link to this update from 2 weeks ago? What was the actual update?
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All I'm saying is, @GodOfPsychos contacted this ZTE guy, he said that an update was going to be released, and then XDA'S EDITOR IN CHIEF contacted that guy and got the same response (with which an article was made). They can bail at any time, but it's not like they are promising Pie anyways
I'm guessing you can't see the attached screenie in the OP? I can see it just fine from XDA Labs
We won't get official Android Pie for Axon 7.
The most I read into that is update to include cut out features like Daydream, probably a security update too. Just a finish of what Oreo 8.0 was supposed to be. I don't think we will even see official Oreo 8.1
If they had just kept with the whole "best sounding phone" idea I'd probably already have bought another ZTE. It was the thing that distinguished them in the crowded market of samey-same phones. At this point I'm clinging to my Axon 7 with my tight little hands, and any update to its stability will be appreciated. [Full disclosure, I'm running the GSI Liquid Remix unofficial build of Pie, but if they do update the official Oreo and get it rock solid, I could see downgrading just to be on an official ROM.]
So it's been almost two months since Android 10 release and still almost no sign of a ROM for the Mi 8 Lite. Does anyone have an idea what's so hard about building it? Or is it because of the small community of this phone?
Thanks for the answers
why anyone so cares about new version. what do you think that you will get with A10? new wallpapers, tones and new looking icons.
f you think that is so easy to create a build , than do it yourself
nigxxx said:
why anyone so cares about new version. what do you think that you will get with A10? new wallpapers, tones and new looking icons.
f you think that is so easy to create a build , than do it yourself
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You didn't get my message. I don't think it's easy - I'm just asking if there is something that we, the users can help with in order to get the new version earlier
MartonDev said:
You didn't get my message. I don't think it's easy - I'm just asking if there is something that we, the users can help with in order to get the new version earlier
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To be honest "Does anyone have an idea what's so hard about building it?" doesn't sound like "I'm just asking if there is something that we, the users can help with in order to get the new version earlier"...
cango123 said:
To be honest "Does anyone have an idea what's so hard about building it?" doesn't sound like "I'm just asking if there is something that we, the users can help with in order to get the new version earlier"...
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I'm sorry that you missunderstood it
Latest intel the gsi builds work except for one simple but important thing, the camera. No one has been able to make the camera work, they suspect the camera is on a module of his own and hasn't been easy to make it work on 10
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Latest intel the gsi builds work except for one simple but important thing, the camera. No one has been able to make the camera work, they suspect the camera is on a module of his own and hasn't been easy to make it work on 10
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Thank you very much
MartonDev said:
Thank you very much
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Android 10 roms are close to release and i'm not talking about GSI, since our devs have been working hard since the release of android 10, Platina is not that easy to work.
LuanHalaiko said:
Android 10 roms are close to release, since our devs have been working hard since the release of android 10, Platina is not that easy to work.
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Thank you very much, I understand now. Never ment to complain, i know that it's a hard work and you're even doing it for free
Yesterday evolution x 3.1 booted with android 10 all working but full of bugs yet, we are almost there
Tugatrix said:
Yesterday evolution x 3.1 booted with android 10 all working but full of bugs yet, we are almost there
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That's so cool
MartonDev said:
So it's been almost two months since Android 10 release and still almost no sign of a ROM for the Mi 8 Lite. Does anyone have an idea what's so hard about building it? Or is it because of the small community of this phone?
Thanks for the answers
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Probably only on middle/end of 2020...
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persona78 said:
Probably only on middle/end of 2020...
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Custom roms will arrive before Xiaomi launches the official Android 10 update. I'm convinced.