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GEM-701L Screen rotation and other questions.

Hi,
I just received this little beast (firmware B003) and I have some questions:
-Using the huawei launcher i'm not able to rotate the screen to landscape, I have the automatic function activated but it only works when i'm using apps or the settings from the pad.
-The "Auto-align" and "Shake" functions are also not working, they are both selected but nothing happens when I uninstall an app (there is still am empty space) or when I shake the pad.
-According to what I read on the forums I need to unlock the bootloader in order to be able to root it, is there a way to "relock the bootloader"? I bought mine on amazon and I have a full european warranty, I would like to keep it if possible.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Best regards

Hi, where did you get your 701L ?

Yes, you can relock the bootloader, but system info keeps displaying the wrong hardware specs even after flashing the only available stock ROM download (russian but can be switched to german and other languages).
Long story short : it's absolute crap, better send it back and buy something else.

Djiban said:
Hi, where did you get your 701L ?
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I have 701L, too, I purchased it in Hungary.

Nougat known bugs thread *Updated*

Hi
I wanted a thread where we all write down the bugs we have found and report them together to get them fixed a lot faster.
I will keep updating the thread as more bugs are found or posted by other members.
Bugs so far:
Android Wear/Nougat bug - If you enable "Ignore phone when using the watch" feature in Android Wear and then click "Find Phone" on the watch, the phone won't ring. This worked on Marshmallow. It disables "android device administrator" too if you set it to ring your phone. Also worked before Nougat.
Some users report problem with Google Play Services when downloading apps.
Some people report double application icons in settings.
smart view case not working properly when on AOD feature.
Missing colors in Peoples Edge feature.
Screen mirroring doesn't work with a ue50ku6000 samsung smart tv.
Some users report different kind of Facebook bugs.
After playing clash royale I go home switch to other app and lock phone. Then I get a notification (sound enabled) and after notification sound is played Clash Royale music starts to play even with phone locked on black screen.

this:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=224209

Gallery app is not good.
For example gallery album preview optimization is really bad. Assume you have folders worth 2 scrolling pages. When you scroll back and forth, it always loads the album previews again and again and again idiotically.
Another example is that you are looking images in an album, you clicked and image, scrolled,scrolled and scrolled a lot of images. If you press back button you see last image is centered on album. But if you exit via zoom out gesture, you are doomed. Album is centered on first image.
Also scrolling between tabs on gallery is laggy. If you have a notification on gallery (the smart thing asking for if you want this collage etc) after going in the notifications exiting via back button freezes for a couple secs.

xantrk said:
Gallery app is not good.
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Not good?! ....thats not a bug dude....plz be on topic.
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ldti said:
this:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=224209
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Had the issue too. Disabled power saving mode and/or data saver made it work again (still a bug, as data saver and/or power saving mode (background data off) makes Google Play Services stop.
xantrk said:
Gallery app is not good.
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That's not a bug.

Faspaiso said:
Had the issue too. Disabled power saving mode and/or data saver made it work again (still a bug, as data saver and/or power saving mode (background data off) makes Google Play Services stop.
That's not a bug.
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Neither of these are enabled here, still experiencing this...

leisures said:
Not good?! ....thats not a bug dude....plz be on topic.
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Sorry if its not clear. The reason being not good is because it is full of little bugs. I thought anyone used can understand that.
For example gallery album preview optimization is really bad. Assume you have folders worth 2 scrolling pages. When you scroll back and forth, it always loads the album previews again and again and again idiotically.
Another example is that you are looking images in an album, you clicked and image, scrolled,scrolled and scrolled a lot of images. If you press back button you see last image is centered on album. But if you exit via zoom out gesture, you are doomed. Album is centered on first image.
Also scrolling between tabs on gallery is laggy. If you have a notification on gallery (the smart thing asking for if you want this collage etc) after going in the notifications exiting via back button freezes for a couple secs.

My notifications went silent, and when I tried to change the notification tone for sms, it said that I can't change the sound whilst I am on a call even though I hadn't been on a call in hours. Anyone else had this??

Camera filter doesn't show in camera interface (although i installed new ones).
Antutu score seems lower than MM version.

Sim Card manager text issues are still not resolved.
Inside apps I am not able to long press and copy text however this should be android native functionality not apps functionality. Used to work everywhere in MM.

after flashing BTU firmware I cant find all the themes in theme store. Majority of good themes are missing.

Hello,
My problem is that in de menu settings, i have two times applications menu and also two times wifi menu. Is that a bug or wrong flashing.
I have flash official rom uk, over the official rom mm , with odin. I have only flash the ap file.
Do i need to flash also the other files?
Thanks

It happend me the same thing!
carlospaco said:
Hello,
My problem is that in de menu settings, i have two times applications menu and also two times wifi menu. Is that a bug or wrong flashing.
I have flash official rom uk, over the official rom mm , with odin. I have only flash the ap file.
Do i need to flash also the other files?
Thanks
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It happend the same thing, i flashed the uk version from sammobile trough odin and i ended up with this: 2 application icons on the setting menu, 2 device manager icons and the connections menu already displayed. (Ill try to post a screenshot but i dont know how)

Fabribarbato said:
It happend the same thing, i flashed the uk version from sammobile trough odin and i ended up with this: 2 application icons on the setting menu, 2 device manager icons and the connections menu already displayed. (Ill try to post a screenshot but i dont know how)
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Did you know why?
And did you find the solution for it.
Thanks for the respons

carlospaco said:
Did you know why?
And did you find the solution for it.
Thanks for the respons
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No i dont know why that happend. Ill try to re-flash the update, but its kinda annoying to have that. Ill let you know if it work!

Fabribarbato said:
No i dont know why that happend. Ill try to re-flash the update, but its kinda annoying to have that. Ill let you know if it work!
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I try also to reflash and reset the hole phone, but still same.
Think we are the only one who has got this problem.
Did you select the re-partition in odin?
I did not.

smart view case not work properly when on AOD feature....

carlospaco said:
I try also to reflash and reset the hole phone, but still same.
Think we are the only one who has got this problem.
Did you select the re-partition in odin?
I did not.
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I think morw people must have this problem, its just a matter of time for it to show up.
No i did not click re-partition as it says in sammobile web to not click it, ive done some updates in my other galaxy phone and not a problem with that, lets wait and see if anyone has a solution, or wait for another update

I don't know if is a bug, but AOD looks a step backwards from beta1, this one doesn't change its own brightness, and since yesterday I didn't see changing position neither, anyone noticed the same?
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The keep screen off option under display dont work.

Update Germany CLT-L29 8.1.0.120(C432)

Hi guys,
Just received via OTA last night.
Anyone now more about this update?
The first thing i recognized is the new animation, if you leave an app and go back to home screen...
Just testing if updating of widgets is still an issue.
Some camera fixes I think.
so far...
Benny

my phone received the update few minutes ago

Received this update today as well. T-Mobile in the US.
https://imgur.com/a/Yr0zOSi

Slow-mow in 8x and 32x got rid of these snowflake-ish pixels. At least on mine with that firmware-update. Hussa! :good:

I also just received this in Ireland, noticed the new app closing animation but still haven't brought back the ability to interact with notifications on the lock screen. I'm running. 120(C432) also.
I did notice my handset was randomly rebooting on .107 so hopefully this is fixed as well.
Will update if I notice any other changes since the update.

I've just spotted this new eye icon in the top left hand corner of the camera app that seems to launch a new bar code/item/QR scanner feature powered by Amazon Assistant. Almost like Google Lens but nowhere near as good from what I can tell.
It appears to be the same thing that you can launch from swiping down from the middle of the home screen to launch the "app search" feature and the eye icon is up in the right hand corner of the screen. Really not sure how much if ever I'll use this to be honest!

Same here. Poland

Just got 120 yesterday. I notice a new option under smart assistance, HiTouch?
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knowingplague said:
Just got 120 yesterday. I notice a new option under smart assistance, HiTouch?View attachment 4505008
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A review of the Huawei Honor 10 on androipit.com mentions a view updates in Emui 8.1, apparently "HiTouch":
"(...) can be visually adapted in many ways and offers some exciting additional functions. On of them is called HiTouch and it’s an intelligent aid to identify products with the camera and to buy them directly. To use HiTouch, you have to activate the corresponding option in the settings in the Smart assistance area. The first time you use it, you’ll need to install the Amazon Assistant app."

cologne83 said:
Hi guys,
Just received via OTA last night.
Anyone now more about this update?
The first thing i recognized is the new animation, if you leave an app and go back to home screen...
Just testing if updating of widgets is still an issue.
Some camera fixes I think.
so far...
Benny
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Try the 5x Zoom, results gives much more detail now, was quite surprised when trying it myself.

max.barrett said:
A review of the Huawei Honor 10 on androipit.com mentions a view updates in Emui 8.1, apparently "HiTouch":
"(...) can be visually adapted in many ways and offers some exciting additional functions. On of them is called HiTouch and it’s an intelligent aid to identify products with the camera and to buy them directly. To use HiTouch, you have to activate the corresponding option in the settings in the Smart assistance area. The first time you use it, you’ll need to install the Amazon Assistant app."
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Thanks, I'll have a look.
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otonieru said:
Try the 5x Zoom, results gives much more detail now, was quite surprised when trying it myself.
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Yes, i am seeing the same improvement.
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Received it today in Romania. I too noticed the new close app animation. I also monitored the widget freeze issue and it seems fixed, woohoo! ?

Now there is a 10x zoom... Didn't recognize it before, is it new with this update?

cologne83 said:
Now there is a 10x zoom... Didn't recognize it before, is it new with this update?
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I recalled 10x is there before. Just no dedicated button, have zoom in with two fingers.
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Widget updating problem seems to be gone with this update [emoji3]
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Hi there
After updating to the 120 firmware, I noticed that Huawei finally dropped its own Emui smart unlock feature (unlock only if connected to a Bluetooth device) in favor of Googles native solution (unlock with Bluetooth, secure place, wearing detection). But after a short while, the smart unlock menu cannot be opened. If I chose it in settings, the phone asks for my pin, after entering I get a blank screen. Clearing dalvik cache, reboot etc didn't help. Restore to factory settings solved the problem for 1 day, but after that I suddenly got the same blank screen. Anyone any idea?
Edit: found a solution to the problem. Just disable secure unlock as a trusted agent under security settings, then clear app cache, enable it again as trusted agent and reboot. Working fine after that.

Anyone found a way to disable/change the new app-close animation in the settings?

FurionBG said:
Anyone found a way to disable/change the new app-close animation in the settings?
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You can disable all animations in developer options if that helps.

reppi said:
You can disable all animations in developer options if that helps.
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Actually, yes. Feels much better at 0.5x scale. Thank you very much!

When will the single sim version get the update?
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Problems in EMUI 9 Pie Update

Hi everyone,
I just updated my phone to EMUI 9.0 (Indian Variant) and i have a few concerns which i'm listing below.
Wifi and Mobile Network icons have been moved to left side. Is there a way to switch it back to right side?
The recent apps animation and placement(side by side like the iphone) is quite weird. Is there a way to make it stack like in EMUI 8?
When you open recent apps the screen sometimes turns blue. Is anyone else facing such issue?
The tips in new EMUI 9 is quite irritating already. Is there a way to disbale it?
How to access the subscription menu for magazine unlock in EMUI 9? Earlier there was a way to swipe up from the lock screen that opened it directly but now that option opens photos added by me instead of auto downloaded subscriptions.
When you use splitscreen Emui stop showing the recent apps list. I get empty screen with wallpaper. It seems the windows are there, because when I click in the empty space the apps switch, but they are invisible. (Credits Medard22)
Huawei and Honor have officially disabled support for Google camera in their latest EMUI 9. All who got the EMUI 9 will not get the taste of Google camera anymore until they will enable it again. (Credits Zenkilla, Irshad Wani)
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

1. The icons are moved to the left on the Android Pie, you can't move it back.
2. This is also normal on Pie and EMUI 9, and also can't revert. The 'blue screen' never happened to me, I don't know why is that happening to you.
3. The tips will stop appearing after some time. At least they did on my phone.
4. From the lock screen: swipe up, tap the settings button in the right bottom corner (the gear icon) and unlock the phone. It will open the Magazine subscriptions.
I hope I helped.

1. Wifi and Mobile Network icons have been moved to left side. Is there a way to switch it back to right side?
This is because most of the phone launching with notch and Honor has started moving that icon to left. No way to move back untill a working xposed module.
2. The recent apps animation and placement(side by side like the iphone) is quite weird. Is there a way to make it stack like in EMUI 8?
Not possible anymore unless on emui 8 or custom ROM.
3. When you open recent apps the screen sometimes turns blue. Is anyone else facing such issue?
Nope. May a theme you are using is causing this.
4. The tips in new EMUI 9 is quite irritating already. Is there a way to disbale it?
It was there for 2-3 days then stopped.
5. How to access the subscription menu for magazine unlock in EMUI 9? Earlier there was a way to swipe up from the lock screen that opened it directly but now that option opens photos added by me instead of auto downloaded subscriptions.
As mentioned in above comment but in my case, when i opened i found it opening gallery and that's blank.

Masinac85 said:
4. From the lock screen: swipe up, tap the settings button in the right bottom corner (the gear icon) and unlock the phone. It will open the Magazine subscriptions.
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Can you send me screen shot of the same?
Mine only shows added by me

shashank1320 said:
5. How to access the subscription menu for magazine unlock in EMUI 9? Earlier there was a way to swipe up from the lock screen that opened it directly but now that option opens photos added by me instead of auto downloaded subscriptions.
As mentioned in above comment but in my case, when i opened i found it opening gallery and that's blank.
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Same with mine....clicking the gear takes you to "images added by me" tab and not the original subscription tab

sbetatester said:
Can you send me screen shot of the same?
Mine only shows added by me
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Here it is

You can also try this way to get to the Magazine Subscriptions: go to Settings >> Home Screen & Wallpapers >> Magazine Unlock >> Subscriptions

Masinac85 said:
You can also try this way to get to the Magazine Subscriptions: go to Settings >> Home Screen & Wallpapers >> Magazine Unlock >> Subscriptions
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Tried this, see my screenshot. Very strange
Masinac85 said:
Here it is
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Also tried this method. See the gif

sbetatester said:
Tried this, see my screenshot. Very strange
Also tried this method. See the gif
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Looks like you don't have Magazine Unlock option at all. Here's how the Home Screen settings look on my phone. It is very strange...

Masinac85 said:
Looks like you don't have Magazine Unlock option at all. Here's how the Home Screen settings look on my phone. It is very strange...
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It looks like something is wrong with my v10. It shows magazine unlock in themes->Customize->Lock screen

My problem is I don't have the update yet

ozzfan1989 said:
My problem is I don't have the update yet
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Its being rolled out in batches. You'll get it soon.

Well my problem with he update is that function, where you could make the alarm ringtone grow louder over time is now gone. I always use very low alarm volume so that I would not get heart attack every morning. Got the update yesterday and the alarm was so quiet that I overslept. After years Google finally bundle it to the stock app and now huawei removes it. Now that´s a progress. Also having Honor View 10 I must say i don´t like the stock camera app. In EMUI 8 there were a handy swiping gestures bringing mode selection and settings, well they are gone now it´s now a bit more ... clunky.

How's your ram usage? I noticed before upgrade I usually have near 1.5~1.8gb free ram I think can't be sure I didn't screenshot it. Now I have 800+mb. Only diference between old android and new android is I add weather widget which didn't eat as much ram. Restart I get 3gb free.

I found a way to revert to the EMUI 8 vertically stacked recent apps, but it requires root. If you use Titanium Backup or something similar to freeze the Huawei Home app and switch to a different launcher, it will revert to the Android 8 style recent apps.
This is weird, because it's as if the Android 9 style horizontal recents is not part of the OS, but a component of the Huawei Home app.
I'm sticking with vertical for now because I was getting the same blue tint that you described on the horizontal recents.

Zenkilla said:
How's your ram usage? I noticed before upgrade I usually have near 1.5~1.8gb free ram I think can't be sure I didn't screenshot it. Now I have 800+mb. Only diference between old android and new android is I add weather widget which didn't eat as much ram. Restart I get 3gb free.
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That's quite strange, as mine is always 2gb free. See screen shot attached

Medard22 said:
Also having Honor View 10 I must say i don´t like the stock camera app. In EMUI 8 there were a handy swiping gestures bringing mode selection and settings, well they are gone now it´s now a bit more ... clunky.
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Even i feel the same way now, but give it time to get used to and you'll surely like it.
Also as you said huawei removed what google made default, i have experienced similar thing in the smart unlock tab. Google provides a lot of options to unlock by location, bluetooth etc but huawei trims it as per outs own liking.

Boo_urns said:
I found a way to revert to the EMUI 8 vertically stacked recent apps, but it requires root. If you use Titanium Backup or something similar to freeze the Huawei Home app and switch to a different launcher, it will revert to the Android 8 style recent apps.
This is weird, because it's as if the Android 9 style horizontal recents is not part of the OS, but a component of the Huawei Home app.
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Even i thought that's the part of OS update, never expected it to be launched related. Although, i'm not rooted but i use a different launcher, so maybe i think i'll just root.
Boo_urns said:
I'm sticking with vertical for now because I was getting the same blue tint that you described on the horizontal recents.
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This is issue faced by only some users, so i believe we should make a factory reset as i'm about to do in the coming days.
Since you are having issue similar to mine, can you also confirm if you have the magazine unlock tab in the home screen and wallpaper in settings?

Is there any official feedback thread? I found some more bugs. Some webpages have problem rendering their mobile versions on Pie. Also the 3D panorama in gallery doesn't work. After you click on the 3d button it constructs the mesh then freezes Right now I'm not very excited about the update unfortunately.

So I'm the only one that wants to use gestures but can't because my case cover the Sides?

Android 12

It's here people

dan0zone said:
It's here people
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I am from the Philippines using an unlocked T Mobile V60. After reading this post, I checked the update in settings and saw this too. I am not sure I want to press the button though. I'll wait for braver souls to try it first I guess.

I like it so far. Even snappier. Mic and camera controls are nice.

One bug already: screenshot share and edit buttons do not do anything.

stardomains said:
One bug already: screenshot share and edit buttons do not do anything.
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Have you made a factory reset? It's always recommend after a major software update

stardomains said:
One bug already: screenshot share and edit buttons do not do anything.
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So I took the plunge and updated to 12. Screenshot edit and share works with no problems. I didn't do a factory reset.

siakgayyem said:
So I took the plunge and updated to 12. Screenshot edit and share works with no problems. I didn't do a factory reset.
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I just found the problem: I had all animations to 0 in developer options. They need to be on at least .5 for share and edit of screenshots.

I was unable to type using any keyboard when using Naver Whale browser. Other browsers worked fine though. I had to manually update Naver Whale browser to enable typing again. This only happened after upgrading to 12.

Hi,
i have a t-mobile v60. i checked the system update page and i can see it but the download will not work. can anyone please send me the link to download the update so i can manually flash my phone?

I just got bought a used v60 TMobile variant and I'm trying to get it unlocked for my carrier here in Canada....I tried one site and they were unable to provide an unlock code (possibly the original owner didn't pay their bill). The IMEI comes up clean here when I ran it but I may be forced to have a remote unlock from what appears to be a reputable company online. They want to flash the v600vm kdz to unlock it.
It has android 12 update ready to download but I held off because
1. I don't know if it will affect being able to get it unlocked or flash the other variant firmware
2. I wanted to wait to see if there are issues with android 12 on it.
But I'm wondering if it's at all possible the android 12 firmware is no longer locked?
Any suggestions for my particular situation?

Has anyone else had camera problems since the android 12 update. The camera settings menu has dissapeared.

Anyone get display not registering movements/taps?
I thought that this was an issue with the drawing over other apps functionality that A12 has been cracking down on (Tasker, Pixel Filter, etc.), but even disabling/removing the aforementioned apps, this still happens intermittently, which renders that phone useless randomly. No matter how many times I lock/try to unlock the phone (via fingerprint), the screen just does not register taps/swipes...
And yes, this happened from A11-A12 upgrade, and is still present after doing a factory reset on A12.

I did a FDR and I still have several bugs.

pflatlyne said:
Has anyone else had camera problems since the android 12 update. The camera settings menu has dissapeared.
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Can you be more specific? Are you in the photo or video mode for example? Have you tried deleting the cache (and/or data) of the camera app, and trying again?
EDIT: Are you using battery saver mode perhaps? I know when you are using extreme battery saver (or whatever it's called), camera app becomes real basic, and there is no settings menu.

BlackKnight23 said:
I did a FDR and I still have several bugs.
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Like what?

nostrings said:
Like what?
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Smart Lock notification was stuck in the settings menu, Bluetooth initial connection bug, when a folder is created to group apps and you click the plus to add + select the apps you want and click done, they are not added. These are the initial ones I've noticed. I've had a few times where I went to go back to a certain screen and it studders. Google Map when it's small cause you have to take a call or go to something else and try to click the square box won't maximize, you have to go to the app icon and select it. I do run Google bets apps. These apps didn't give me issues prior to update though.

AbbasIsmail said:
Hi,
i have a t-mobile v60. i checked the system update page and i can see it but the download will not work. can anyone please send me the link to download the update so i can manually flash my phone?
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The update now available in the United States or maybe all of North America not sure... But there is a solution... try to change your location "VPN USA" and you will get the update

Can I update lg v60 demo unit to android 12?

ShaniquaLTE said:
Can I update lg v60 demo unit to android 12?
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Yes I did it, with lg up following this metod, https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/v60-demo-unit-questions.4325951/page-5 first update to android 11 and then jump to 12. be carefull with the steps.