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[Q] Updating to Lollipop

Hey guys
My friend just bought a new Huawei Mate 7 Gold yesterday and I checked the Android version and it says 4.4.2 Kit-Kat. He'd like to update it to Lollipop and since I have been doing such things for years on Samsung and HTC devices I thought I should help him out by checking the forum first. I found a helpful article about updating it to Lollipop OTA, however it is in German and the translation is terrible, so can anyone point me in the right direction?
As I said, the device is brand new and still has 4.4.2 unmodified Kit-Kat on it.
This is the article I am talking about: http://www.huaweiblog.de/huawei/huawei-mate-7-lollipop-update-download/
Thanks guys!

There's a thread dedicated to this in the general section

Thanks for you reply and for pointing me out to the right thread. From what I've read, it seems as though the Lollipop update is quite unstable nowadays and I should hold off till it's official, correct? I don't want my friend to go through a hassle because of it since he is not very tech-savvy.

TarekElsakka said:
Thanks for you reply and for pointing me out to the right thread. From what I've read, it seems as though the Lollipop update is quite unstable nowadays and I should hold off till it's official, correct? I don't want my friend to go through a hassle because of it since he is not very tech-savvy.
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I have installed lollipop 5.1.1 beta and its quite good but there's still many bugs. Maybe it is better to wait the official release.

I agree. If your friend is not tech savvy, hold first and wait for official release

It's usable as a daily driver, but no, not as stable as 4.4.2.
Generic overview:
-random reboots, not extremely frequent but they happen.
-some memory issues compared to 4.4.2
-a bit less battery
-some options not present

Hi, someone knows when will be release the official version of lollipop? No betas

janrck said:
Hi, someone knows when will be release the official version of lollipop? No betas
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Nope, and tbh i'm not extremely eager to run lollipop on most phones right now... Google screwed up pretty bad on this major version.

papped said:
Nope, and tbh i'm not extremely eager to run lollipop on most phones right now... Google screwed up pretty bad on this major version.
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I second that. While material design is nice to look at, the memory leak and battery drain are causing issues in some lollipop phones

hi,I tried alot roms but can not install them,device is mate 7 2gb ,MT7-L09 and rom is B137SP11,I think this rom is developed from any rom,by the way official huawei site in which rom avaible this one did not install too.I have another problem when I use ussd codes not change tr expression in area codes,may be it will occur from tr expression,I buy it from TURKEY I think it will not give permission to set new rom on it?thanks
Sent from my HUAWEI MT7-L09 using Tapatalk

VPN for update?

Hey guys, so a friend of mine has a One Plus 3 but he didn't recived the update yet. So he utilized a vpn to connect to servers from Canada and UK and he got the update.
Has some one claimed that he got the update from sweden, if there are any possibility to connect to another area to look for that update. Specially in sweden

atrix_noob said:
Hey guys, so a friend of mine has a One Plus 3 but he didn't recived the update yet. So he utilized a vpn to connect to servers from Canada and UK and he got the update.
Has some one claimed that he got the update from sweden, if there are any possibility to connect to another area to look for that update. Specially in sweden
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Sadly that won't work unless you have a device from that region or you're running the previous firmware from that region. The OP3 isn't region specific, so he can get the update from any region. The Honor 8 though has various models for each region of the world. (L04/L14 US, L09 EU, etc)

Saythis said:
Sadly that won't work unless you have a device from that region or you're running the previous firmware from that region. The OP3 isn't region specific, so he can get the update from any region. The Honor 8 though has various models for each region of the world. (L04/L14 US, L09 EU, etc)
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Ohh I see, thanks for responding. That is sad tho :/

You shouldn't need to connect to the device OEM's server via a VPN in order to get updates for your device. As OTA OS updates are sent to each device dependent on their model number and the regional OS settings.

if you know the update version just download it online and manually install it?

atrix_noob said:
Ohh I see, thanks for responding. That is sad tho :/
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There's the Charles app method

CronaMell said:
There's the Charles app method
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Mmmmmmmm let me search for it, never heard of it lol

DarkGuyver said:
You shouldn't need to connect to the device OEM's server via a VPN in order to get updates for your device. As OTA OS updates are sent to each device dependent on their model number and the regional OS settings.
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Yeah, I need to read a little more. Lol

atrix_noob said:
Mmmmmmmm let me search for it, never heard of it lol
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Haha, there's a thread in the guide section "sympathetic way to update to nougat" you'll find all the details there

CronaMell said:
Haha, there's a thread in the guide section "sympathetic way to update to nougat" you'll find all the details there
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Thanks, today I buyed a 8gb Sd card just to update to nougat lol

CronaMell said:
Haha, there's a thread in the guide section "sympathetic way to update to nougat" you'll find all the details there
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I read the thread but I'm out of luck cuz I don't have wifi no router near me. To complicated to do that.
:/

I don't know why everybody is in such a hurry to upgrade their OS from Marshmallow to Nougat. When Nougat is only available for a handful of devices at the moment. The majority of the other Nougat release are still in the Beta cycle and have numerous bugs that have yet to be addressed yet.

DarkGuyver said:
I don't know why everybody is in such a hurry to upgrade their OS from Marshmallow to Nougat. When Nougat is only available for a handful of devices at the moment. The majority of the other Nougat release are still in the Beta cycle and have numerous bugs that have yet to be addressed yet.
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Yeah, I just installed beta lol
Performance wise isssssss great!

atrix_noob said:
I read the thread but I'm out of luck cuz I don't have wifi no router near me. To complicated to do that.
:/
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Cheer up, the official nougat update is less than a month away

atrix_noob said:
Yeah, I just installed beta lol
Performance wise isssssss great!
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Just wait till you notice that allot of features that were in Marshmallow are missing in the Nougat Beta. While the performance maybe slightly better than Marshmallow. Nougat still isn't ready for retail use on the Honor 8 yet.

DarkGuyver said:
Just wait till you notice that allot of features that were in Marshmallow are missing in the Nougat Beta. While the performance maybe slightly better than Marshmallow. Nougat still isn't ready for retail use on the Honor 8 yet.
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All essential features are here. Getting 5 to 6 sot.
I haven't faced a single issue. Plus I'm not a guy for complaining about features. I buyer the Honor 8 because of speed. And that's what I'm getting.

DarkGuyver said:
Just wait till you notice that allot of features that were in Marshmallow are missing in the Nougat Beta. While the performance maybe slightly better than Marshmallow. Nougat still isn't ready for retail use on the Honor 8 yet.
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It's because the Nougat on this phone means EMUI 5 and it's 10x better than EMUI 4.1 .. trust me
it's a much better phone on Nougat EMUI5 ( Even Beta) BTW I think the current B360 for the L04 is the final Beta.
It will go live in the next 4 or 5 weeks. (Huawei is really slow)

DarkGuyver said:
Just wait till you notice that allot of features that were in Marshmallow are missing in the Nougat Beta. While the performance maybe slightly better than Marshmallow. Nougat still isn't ready for retail use on the Honor 8 yet.
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B360 is definitely a fully functional build. I have yet to find anything broken and it even includes Vulkan api. As said above, EMUI 5.0 is miles ahead of EMUI 4.1. It's a much better and cleaner looking UI.

clsA said:
It's because the Nougat on this phone means EMUI 5 and it's 10x better than EMUI 4.1 .. trust me
it's a much better phone on Nougat EMUI5 ( Even Beta) BTW I think the current B360 for the L04 is the final Beta.
It will go live in the next 4 or 5 weeks. (Huawei is really slow)
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AH! I forgot that the new version of EMUI is better than the current version. It's the same with most android device OEMs.

atrix_noob said:
Hey guys, so a friend of mine has a One Plus 3 but he didn't recived the update yet. So he utilized a vpn to connect to servers from Canada and UK and he got the update.
Has some one claimed that he got the update from sweden, if there are any possibility to connect to another area to look for that update. Specially in sweden
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Try af+ wall

New firmware B387 for FRD-L09

In Firmware Finder is new ROM with build number 387.

Unfortunately, no flashable

Most likely it updates only the security patch to the one from May

Hello
Perhaps tomorrow we will have new updates?

KoumiCZ said:
In Firmware Finder is new ROM with build number 387.
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Lately I look every day if it is something new out or not
And looky look.. one day I dont look at FF and you report something new..
Thanks for that one...
I have read online that we shoud get till end of May the 7.1.1
But we will see...

Any idea what these updates are for? It's not like they work anyway, so why put them on company servers etc?

sysak said:
Any idea what these updates are for? It's not like they work anyway, so why put them on company servers etc?
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I think that we will get some update soon .. first of all it was months ago announced that
we should get till end of May the noughat 7.1.x update..
Then again the chineese version of honor got an update ( B387 ) where the camera is updated
( to use the monochrome camera and some new modes )
and they got also a battery optimisation fix ..
So I think this all is just some things happening before we get some updates...
So it is good that something about our updates is happening...

brljak83 said:
I have read online that we shoud get till end of May the 7.1.1
But we will see...
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Where did you read it?

nico97470 said:
Hello
Perhaps tomorrow we will have new updates?
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Hi. I don't think so. My international unlocked FRD- L09 never received official OTA. Manually flashed all versions till now- B360, B380, B381... Waiting for OTA is a time waste. Huawei's own software update distribution are total nonsense.
I also doubt we will receive 7.1 soon...

dedovec said:
Hi. I don't think so. My international unlocked FRD- L09 never received official OTA. Manually flashed all versions till now- B360, B380, B381... Waiting for OTA is a time waste. Huawei's own software update distribution are total nonsense.
I also doubt we will receive 7.1 soon...
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Hi.
I mean via FF only!

KoumiCZ said:
Where did you read it?
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Over here
But some other sites reported the same
https://www.gizmotimes.com/smartphones/os-updates/huawei-emui-5-1-update-nougat/21472

brljak83 said:
Over here
But some other sites reported the same
https://www.gizmotimes.com/smartphones/os-updates/huawei-emui-5-1-update-nougat/21472
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Emui 5.1 does not mean Android 7.1.
Huawei P10 is running Emui 5.1 on Android 7.0.
If we get it, I'm sure it will be the same thing for us and also not in May.

I have FRD-L14, and got the B385 update OTA yesterday

Procrustinator said:
I have FRD-L14, and got the B385 update OTA yesterday
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Thanks for the info
Something is definatly happening
Couse one contact person from Huawei reported to xda user svetius regarding source code and the partnership that we should expect something happen end May or early June
And since yesterday in FF there is also new firmware B387
And some of users got yesterday updated
So I would say something is going on
Lets wait few more weeks and see if Huawei is doing what promised

Yeah in FF new FW is shown, but half of users still haven't received update to Android 7.
I don't expect any "revolution" in updating our devices.

brljak83 said:
Lately I look every day if it is something new out or not
And looky look.. one day I dont look at FF and you report something new..
Thanks for that one...
I have read online that we shoud get till end of May the 7.1.1
But we will see...
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Lies

sysak said:
Emui 5.1 does not mean Android 7.1.
Huawei P10 is running Emui 5.1 on Android 7.0.
If we get it, I'm sure it will be the same thing for us and also not in May.
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Yes in the year 2018

Always more : today there is a 388 in FF

Any thoughts on Nougat for BLN-L21?

Just bought this (awesome)phone today, the version with NFC and gyroscope and I had read somewhere that the Honor 6X already had Nougat. When is it coming via OTA? (I don't want to use firmware finder)

i got it today and struggling with it now. now jio4gvoice is not connecting . so i wan to roll back to MM

Tell me your model

PalakMi said:
Tell me your model
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What? Its on the title... "BLN-L21"... If you still don't know, its the one with NFC and gyroscope...
Next time read the title

DarkAlpha.Sete said:
What? Its on the title... "BLN-L21"... If you still don't know, its the one with NFC and gyroscope...
Next time read the title
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I only read nougat then stopped, haha :silly:
It's rolling out in phases, you'll get it soon

DarkAlpha.Sete said:
Just bought this (awesome)phone today, the version with NFC and gyroscope and I had read somewhere that the Honor 6X already had Nougat. When is it coming via OTA? (I don't want to use firmware finder)
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It should be rolling out to everyone anyways, keep checking everyday for updates.

RelicUser said:
It should be rolling out to everyone anyways, keep checking everyday for updates.
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Sometimes, ithe OTA arrives after weeks it got released, like me and a friend when he received B360 (first nougat update) and I got it 3 weeks later

Pretty late answer, but just want to say that I finally got Nougat (EMUI 5). Now I'm waiting for EMUI 5.1 hehe
I actually got it 3 days ago, but only remember this thread today...

DarkAlpha.Sete said:
Pretty late answer, but just want to say that I finally got Nougat (EMUI 5). Now I'm waiting for EMUI 5.1 hehe
I actually got it 3 days ago, but only remember this thread today...
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That's good, but no words on EMUI5.1 yet

EMUI 9.1 for MediaPad M5 10.1 (lite)

Good news from Huawei to us users
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gi...evices-that-will-get-the-emui-9-1-update/amp/

Looking forward to it

StonyD said:
Good news from Huawei to us users
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gi...evices-that-will-get-the-emui-9-1-update/amp/
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Awesome news!

Yaaay but still we need custom roms or at least a proper root for the device

I wonder if desktop mode will be available as in media pad m5

You think we will still get Pie due to ban?

Jarod71 said:
You think we will still get Pie due to ban?
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That's a good question... I think the time will answer, but I hope for it!

StonyD said:
Good news from Huawei to us users
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gi...evices-that-will-get-the-emui-9-1-update/amp/
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Is it for the "normal" M5, or the M5 lite?
My mandarin is not that good...

Both
Minicuxn said:
Is it for the "normal" M5, or the M5 lite?
My mandarin is not that good...
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The update is for both M5 10.8" and M5 Lite 10.1"

Has anyone received the update?
Has anyone received this update ?
Spoke to Swedish support and they said that M5 lite was not scheduled to be updated to emui9.1
/Jakob

I didn't received Pie till this moment (Germany) Latest update was only a security patch for Orego.
Last hope, that an update jump direct to 9.1

jakpou23 said:
Has anyone received this update ?
Spoke to Swedish support and they said that M5 lite was not scheduled to be updated to emui9.1
/Jakob
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Spoke to Norwegian support, they said Android 9 would come, but they did not have a date yet.

According to the UK support the Mediapad M5 Lite is not scheduled to receive Android 9 upgrade, only confirmed for M5 and M5 Pro.

I will never buy a Huawei device again. Only a single Android version, what a shame...

Hi guys
I'm going to buy it, could you check if 9.0.1 update is available now?
I found the guide on romprovider.com (google romprovider.com huawei mediapad m5 lite jordan2), I cannot send the URL due to guest restrictions.
Thx

foloap said:
Hi guys
I'm going to buy it, could you check if 9.0.1 update is available now?
I found the guide on romprovider.com (google romprovider.com huawei mediapad m5 lite jordan2), I cannot send the URL due to guest restrictions.
Thx
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As far as I know there is no 9.0.1 update.
Still a good tablet that I would consider if going for a new one.
/Jakob

Thx for the advise Joakob, I'm going to pay 180€ for it.
I also found a German guide to install custom ROMs. Just google "android-hilfe.de Custom Roms MediaPad M5 Lite".
I will be wonder if someone already tried to do this

Yes, thats my Guide.. But there are two different Tabs. One is main, it`s an BAH2-W19C432 and the new one is BAH2-W19C431. The guide in android-hilfe.de is only for BAH2-W19C432 cause maybe you need to revert your Firmware to an older one.

mcc2005 said:
Yes, thats my Guide.. But there are two different Tabs. One is main, it`s an BAH2-W19C432 and the new one is BAH2-W19C431. The guide in android-hilfe.de is only for BAH2-W19C432 cause maybe you need to revert your Firmware to an older one.
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good to know mcc, thx for your guide, if I'll try it I'd like to add a specific topic on xda

Just to add a comment about tab versions and its latest firmware: I bought mine from Amazon.de for about 200 euros a couple weeks ago, and indeed it's the newer C431, running v215 firmware (still emui 8.0).
Pretty dumb, because it's my understanding that CUST 431 is for potentially-branded phones (not this) and 432 is the open, "unlocked" European version (should be this case). I heard C432 devices tend to get faster updates, so if anyone has information about switching my C431 to C432, I'm all ears.