Does anyone actually prefer using stock EMUI over custom ROM? - Honor 5X Questions & Answers

I'm just curious if anyone out there actually prefers EMUI. What are your reasons for using it over our custom CM13 or AOSP based ROMs.

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Yes and no. I actually love Chinese based roms like EMUI and MIUI. Ever since ICS seems like MIUI is getting harder and harder to port and where is in the past it was a given that MIUI would be ported to Nexus, Samsung and HTC devices, now its likely they wont. If they do get ported over then they are plagued with intolerable bugs. I bought this phone for a MIUI like experience. Although I love the UI I am finding that ram management is piss poor. Really thinking about sending this phone back. I already have a Nexus 6p for a stock Google experience

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Nope. EMUI is not preferred till the RAM management is boosted to have more apps than the current.
May be after EMUI 5, we might prefer EMUI.
You can see the EMUI 5 preview on P9 here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBZyCqbSFzo

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vsriram92 said:
Nope. EMUI is not preferred till the RAM management is boosted to have more apps than the current.
May be after EMUI 5, we might prefer EMUI.
You can see the EMUI 5 preview on P9 here -
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBZyCqbSFzo
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Question is will we get emui 5 either official or unofficial?

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AsuraDas said:
Question is will we get emui 5 either official or unofficial?
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surely we will get EMUI 5 officially as per Honor commitment.

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AsuraDas said:
Yes and no. I actually love Chinese based roms like EMUI and MIUI. Ever since ICS seems like MIUI is getting harder and harder to port and where is in the past it was a given that MIUI would be ported to Nexus, Samsung and HTC devices, now its likely they wont. If they do get ported over then they are plagued with intolerable bugs. I bought this phone for a MIUI like experience. Although I love the UI I am finding that ram management is piss poor. Really thinking about sending this phone back. I already have a Nexus 6p for a stock Google experience
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same here, emui has some nice additions over stock android but the ram management sucks, its like even 3 small apps can ratain in the memmory.
maybe they improve it in emui 5 as leaked on huawei p9 and mate 8.
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AsuraDas said:
Question is will we get emui 5 either official or unofficial?
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most probably it will get as honor promised 2years of software commitment towards honor 5x and honor 8

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I know in the past some OEM's like Samsung would update Android version but their skin (TouchWiz) would stay the same

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vsriram92 said:
surely we will get EMUI 5 officially as per Honor commitment.
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venom007 said:
most probably it will get as honor promised 2years of software commitment towards honor 5x and honor 8
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Possibly for the Indian variant. There's been a couple threads here saying Honor USA reps are now backtracking a tad. It's unclear what type of support the L24 is getting. What is known: No Android 7 but still some sort of update. Will that update just be security and minor bug fixes? Possibly. Will it include EMUI 5.0? Unknown.

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After freezing the phone manager app as well as a few other Huawei apps this phone is running buttery smooth. That phone manager app may as well he a rouge app, and what Huawei thought it a good idea to include it and make impossible to freeze is beyond me.

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JT-on said:
Possibly for the Indian variant. There's been a couple threads here saying Honor USA reps are now backtracking a tad. It's unclear what type of support the L24 is getting. What is known: No Android 7 but still some sort of update. Will that update just be security and minor bug fixes? Possibly. Will it include EMUI 5.0? Unknown.
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if they release emui 5 for indian variant then i think they would do the same with l24,
if they didnt then it would be my last honor device.
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AsuraDas said:
After freezing the phone manager app as well as a few other Huawei apps this phone is running buttery smooth. That phone manager app may as well he a rouge app, and what Huawei thought it a good idea to include it and make impossible to freeze is beyond me.
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same for me.
phone manager app wakes up the system frequently causing much battery drain.

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JT-on said:
Possibly for the Indian variant. There's been a couple threads here saying Honor USA reps are now backtracking a tad. It's unclear what type of support the L24 is getting. What is known: No Android 7 but still some sort of update. Will that update just be security and minor bug fixes? Possibly. Will it include EMUI 5.0? Unknown.
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It will be EMUI 5. I think Honor won't break its commitment for the mentioned devices in its official post.
For details regarding Honor 2 years commitmenr, visit here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/how-to/worried-software-update-honor-8-2-years-t3478432

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Yeah, forced to use EMUI because of VoLTE support in L22 version. The custom ROMS don't support this at the moment.

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vishal.ekka said:
Yeah, forced to use EMUI because of VoLTE support in L22 version. The custom ROMS don't support this at the moment.
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yeah, flashing roms on b360 is causing bootlops.
hope cm developers are aware of this

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venom007 said:
yeah, flashing roms on b360 is causing bootlops.
hope cm developers are aware of this
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Yes, just hope it supports Volte soon. I had rolled back to B340 and flashed custom ROMS and used the phone for almost 2 weeks before switching to stock EMUI. The jio voice app drains battery faster than u can blink your eye. Its much better in B360 due to the Volte support.

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vishal.ekka said:
Yes, just hope it supports Volte soon. I had rolled back to B340 and flashed custom ROMS and used the phone for almost 2 weeks before switching to stock EMUI. The jio voice app drains battery faster than u can blink your eye. Its much better in B360 due to the Volte support.
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yeah, volte calls are better compared to using jio voice app, also enjoying free 4g data(speed is getting decreased day by day)

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venom007 said:
yeah, volte calls are better compared to using jio voice app, also enjoying free 4g data(speed is getting decreased day by day)
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Exactly my point.

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Been using 5X for some time, both with custom roms and emui. Ive used CM, Resurrection, AICP and SlimROM.
My findings so far:
EMUI is the best of all these, as a daily driver. Snappy, with less battery drain, and less tension of it crashing at any given moment. Superb call quality, no lags (that's saying something since i use a number of apps), good battery life, and the best camera result of all the roms ive tested.
AICP is next in list, with features being a priority rather than stability. Frequent crashes on facebook, whatsapp and snapchat. Often times, camera doesnt load. But very snappy, and better RAM management. would prefer it if there was no emui.
CM is good too, less crashes, but lesser features than AICP. Good RAM and battery management.
Resurrection and Slim are no go, nonsense roms. Many will disagree, but they never worked for me. Ive tried Resurrection on HTC One m7, s4, s5, s6 and even s7edge. It just isnt good enough for me. Frequent crashes, wifi and bluetooth are no go areas, camera result isnt very worthy of showing.
TL;DR EMUI is the best daily, period.

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I don't know why but I love emui and buy honor devices for their hardware as well as software. For me, I don't want to keep apps in RAM, they should run when I need them and completely shut down when I quit.
Emui is the best. I even uninstalled all google apps just for these reasons.
Sent from my PLK-L01 using XDA Labs

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honor and emui does well in many aspects, especially the added feautures are a huge welcome compared to stock android, but they had to make it look like stock android than ios

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vishal.ekka said:
Yeah, forced to use EMUI because of VoLTE support in L22 version. The custom ROMS don't support this at the moment.
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It's hard to put VolTE in a custom ROM