WTF is happening with Huawei devices right now? - Huawei P40 Pro Questions & Answers

My Huawei devices have started refreshing the screen every few second. It started this evening, and is happening with ALL apps and browsers, and when turned off, the login screens keep coming back on on their own. It is impossible to do anything with them. This is happening to my P40 Pro, P20 Pro and Mediapad M5 10.8. Its an absolute nightmare. A friend with a P30 says his is doing the same thing. Is anyone else experiencing this with a Huawei device?

It sounds unbelievable, have you found the problem and solved it?

Your phone is possessed. Time for an exorcist. Obvious is obvious.

maybe check developer settings ....

No problems on my wife's P40 Pro.

My guess is that there's an app that's installed on yours and your friend's phone that's causing this issue.
Since no one else got this issue

Never heard of this problem. So yeah...must be something you and your friend have in common.

mickrick said:
My Huawei devices have started refreshing the screen every few second. It started this evening, and is happening with ALL apps and browsers, and when turned off, the login screens keep coming back on on their own. It is impossible to do anything with them. This is happening to my P40 Pro, P20 Pro and Mediapad M5 10.8. Its an absolute nightmare. A friend with a P30 says his is doing the same thing. Is anyone else experiencing this with a Huawei device?
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Someone else said, you must have something installed that's causing this I have both the p40 pro and the matepad and I have zero issues & my wife has a p30 pro (my old device) and she has zero issues.... how long has it been going on? I would compare the apps that you both have with your friend and see if you can pick out what maybe causing it?

Potentially have a look into your App Permissions. There is an option under "Advanced" for "Draw over other apps" which potentially could be the issue (Facebook bobble heads prime example)
My P30 and P40 Pro both working fine here!

Seriously, it was impossible to use my phone or tablet on Saturday night with this happening. Everything seems to have calmed down now so unless a load of app updates were installing and that was the issue, I can't think what else it could've been.

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I just purchased new Honor 6x from Amazon in India. I tried watching VR videos today with Aura VR headset. The video was constantly shaking. I did not see such issue with my earlier Honor 6 (no x..). I tried to calibrate the gyroscope using a few apps I could find in the playstore but nothing helped. This is a great phone but gyroscope is really messed up. I tried using Bubble Level and the reading continously fluctuates on a flat surface from 0.2 to 0.6 on both axis.
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Ok. Received the replacement phone and it has the same issue.
After talking to Huawei Tech Support, I did, firmware upgrade (though I had the upgraded version already) and factory reset. Nothing seems to be working and my phone still feels earthquake on a flat stable surface.
Is there any non-rooting way to fix this issue? I am being asked by Huawei to take my one-day-old phone to service center...
Went to Service center. They did software reset but no help. They wanted to keep the phone to do hardware testing and I denied - didn't want to have a one-day-old phone opened and played with. I returned the handset. Issue still exists.
Ur phone is not defective
It is rhe problem with all honor 6x devices and not just urs maybe it will be fixed in updates.. Just to let u know Ur device is not defective sadly gyroscope is like that in all 6x
All the Honor 6x's have the same problem because huawei decided to cheap out and use the accelerometers as a virtual gyro. It sucks but i dont use gyro that much, no big deal for me.

Does Huawei P20 have enough Ram ?

Hi all
I need your help, I've currently the Oneplus 5 (8GB/128GB) and im thinking of buying the Huawei P20. I like the design and the small size on hand (compare to my OP5)
But I've only 1 doubt, and it's on the Ram. 4GB is enough for a Huawei phone? Is the phone enough optimized? No lags?
I dont play game but I'm using a lot of apps in same time, so I don't want to face some regressions on the rapidness of the phone compare to my current OP5.
Thanks a lot for your help
Regards
I've owned (still do) a P10 and before that an LG G5 that also had 4GB ram. I can say the difference was night and day between the two, the P10 handled everything much better.
I've just got my P20 1 day ago and I see no bad changes so I'm happy with my 4GB.
Disclaimer: I'm not playing so many games
Got the P20 yesterday and I find there's no lag and all is fine here
Update: Had P20 for almost 2 months, still working great, no lag. Awesome phone.
Got P20 a couple of days ago. No lags so far, everything smooth as butter. No hiccups in multitasking and gaming.
Ephixi4 said:
Got P20 a couple of days ago. No lags so far, everything smooth as butter. No hiccups in multitasking and gaming.
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Can you check loading google maps, and then entering a destination and then starting a destination navigation. My p20 from entering destination, finding it, and then doing a navigation is very slow. Slower than a galaxy s7. Loading is no problem.
Pavly28 said:
Can you check loading google maps, and then entering a destination and then starting a destination navigation. My p20 from entering destination, finding it, and then doing a navigation is very slow. Slower than a galaxy s7. Loading is no problem.
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So it was first time I did this on this phone, first couple of tries were really long.
Loading is fine, searching places as well, but it got stuck on 'finding best route' or something similar after starting navigation.
2/3 times it got stuck. I went into privacy settings to check GPS etc but didn't change anything. Closed GMaps opened again and it's working perfectly now. Even like destinations that are thousands of kms away.
Maybe it has a problem with getting your location? It looked like it had to get the location for the first time or smth.
Edit: alright it seems kinda inconsistent. Once its stuck, I close the app, open it again, enter same destination and it works immediately. No idea what is causing this.
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Ephixi4 said:
So it was first time I did this on this phone, first couple of tries were really long.
Loading is fine, searching places as well, but it got stuck on 'finding best route' or something similar after starting navigation.
2/3 times it got stuck. I went into privacy settings to check GPS etc but didn't change anything. Closed GMaps opened again and it's working perfectly now. Even like destinations that are thousands of kms away.
Maybe it has a problem with getting your location? It looked like it had to get the location for the first time or smth.
Edit: alright it seems kinda inconsistent. Once its stuck, I close the app, open it again, enter same destination and it works immediately. No idea what is causing this.
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I found this keeps happening, I tried restarting the phone, clearing temp data etc. even uninstalled updates to bring it back to original, still the same. other apps like youtube and chrome etc work fine, the phone is otherwise fluid as water. hopefully theres a fix for this.
is there anyway to report this to Huawei?
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I've got the s9+ and the p20. did some tests and was surprised at how faster the p20 was in 90% of loading and multi tasking than the s9+. both with same app quantity installed, killed all non required processes/data, so tried to make it even. very light as well.
Pavly28 said:
Can you check loading google maps, and then entering a destination and then starting a destination navigation. My p20 from entering destination, finding it, and then doing a navigation is very slow. Slower than a galaxy s7. Loading is no problem.
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I have the exact same problem with google maps. I've seen it mentioned in P20 Pro forum also. Couldn't find a fix for it yet
It seems a software bug so it probably has nothing to do with memory and so on. I'll check logcat in 10minutes to see if it complains about anything.
paul678 said:
I have the exact same problem with google maps. I've seen it mentioned in P20 Pro forum also. Couldn't find a fix for it yet
It seems a software bug so it probably has nothing to do with memory and so on. I'll check logcat in 10minutes to see if it complains about anything.
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Although I think this seems to be a different problem than on P20 Pro. Afaik Pro has some issues with scrolling through the map or something? But yeah definitely seems like a software bug. Unless there is something wrong with the GPS here.
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I have the dual SIM, L29 model. I'm not experiencing the Maps lags, but overall the P20 feels choppy. For me Google Photos is really clunky when scrolling between pictures, and overall scrolling within apps, switching between apps is not super smooth. I'm coming from a 2 year old OnePlus 3, which feels smoother than this new P20
Had my P20 a couple of days.
Have to say, it's been excellent. Just as good as my previous phone (Pixel 2 XL).
no problem with 4gb of ram. phone is fast and responsive
You can always get the china version, they have them with 6GB ram 64GB/128GB in built memory.

Ghost Touches

Has anyone experienced ghost touches and gestures? I know the oneplus launcher has a sensitive edge so if your palm was touching the edge it would bring up the notification bar, had to disable that feature, but has anyone else experienced random ghost touches or is it just me and I should return the device?
I'm experiencing it also, and I'm using Nova so I think it's the phone a d not the launcher.
Fatmonk8 said:
I'm experiencing it also, and I'm using Nova so I think it's the phone a d not the launcher.
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I've noticed it randomly when the phone is not even being touched, I'm not sure if it has something to do with gestures, I've see reviews on TMobile that someone had the same issue that was much worse than I described and returned the phone.
I have to have a case on our I got the screen. Artifact of the curved glass
Yeah I've noticed on some cases it can cause issues, but this is something a firmware update can fix.
I've had this issue also and it seems to be app dependent. Cpu-z triggers it. Check this out: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-8-O6UchZGLGUA95yJLjQSaqKhbYjljo/view?usp=drivesdk
Using Nova Pro and no never had this issue yet.
Yeah I've had random apps trigger it but then it won't do it at all, not sure how I can even replicate it.
Happens to me too. Interesting sidenote: Switching to 60hz fixes the problem for me.
Yep. Also seeing this issue. Have had it happen twice now, once yesterday and once today. No idea how to replicate. Seems random.
You think it's a hardware issue? Or software?
No such issue, maybe faulty phone. I'd return immediately
haven't had this issue either.
Could you try the CPU-Z app with 90hz enabled? Just keeping this app open makes my 1+ go crazy.
Try taking off the screen protector
I too am having the issue. At first I thought it was the screen protector as well, but taking it off didn't fix anything and I immediately regretted it. The issue is pretty sporadic and going to 60hz does help. I mostly noticed the issue inside the Google Messages app (my primary texting app). And also the CPU-Z trick worked too, my screen went ape sh*t. I'm gonna give OP a week to fix this through software or I'm gonna have to do an exchange.
No issues here. Using Google messaging app n Nova pro.
I've got this issue on mine as well. Started an RMA. If it's not fixed within 2 weeks, I'm sending it back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT1U8ilxy4k
Short clip showing the fault:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-7GnF7AUpQ
I actually had an issue today where I was watching YouTube and my phone started freaking out like I keep touching the screen, something is definitely wrong, but I don't want to go thru T-Mobile to replace it.
NukeBomB3000 said:
Happens to me too. Interesting sidenote: Switching to 60hz fixes the problem for me.
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Can confirm switching to 60Hz fixes it.
If you enable "Show taps" and "Pointer location" in Developer options it's quite easy to see when it happens. No idea what triggers it, but CPU-Z is definitely the worst one.

Got a random phone that looked like a P40 Pro off Ebay...what should I do before I return it?

Hi all,
I wish my first post on this forum could've been under better circumstances butttt I figure better safe than sorry:
So ultimately I should've looked a little closer into this phone, but I jumped the gun wayyy to quickly on a purchase from eBay. I wasn't super concerned about condition and details because I just wanted to use the Huawei p40 camera...and I figured if this had been a knock-off with the same camera then I could make it work.
I saw it, it initially looked like a P40 Pro+, the model said P40 Plus...but I should've looked much closer at the visual details.
I get it and basically it has a random generic OS on it, slow mo doesn't work, many other things don't work.
I was originally trying to get the Huawei camera app on in and tried to connect a USB drive...that didn't work. So I connected it briefly to my linux desktop. It kept unmounting as a regular device...kept unmounting as a camera...(when it was mounted, it would say "the name is not activatable" when I tried to click on it), it also had a "virtualCDROM" option which had a PDF file in it...I was not about to open that though.
The only other thing I did, was try to download the camera app over the internet, but I used my phone's hotspot because I wasn't about to hook this thing up to my Wifi. I only connected it briefly though and changed the hotspot password before and after I connected the phone.
Ultimately if it had the right camera hardware I wouldn't complain because I literally just wanna be able to shoot the super slow mo that the p40 pro can do....but it looks like it's camera is just some cheap thing as well. It claims to have a 32MP mode and 16MP mode but the "32MP" image was 2560x1920 and the "16MP" image is 1536x2048
So now that I plan to return it, I had some questions here:
1. Since I connected it to my computer, are there any processes/apps or anything that it could have tried to auto-install? I've been eyeing up my process monitor ever since and it doesn't look like anything's changed. (running Pop!OS 22.04)
2. Should I do anything to the device before I try to return it? I'll likely factory reset it but I'm wondering if it could've somehow pulled information that I'm not aware of. I 100% didn't log into any accounts or anything like that on the phone.
For the future reference of others, my phone seems to almost exactly be the phone discussed in this topic: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/help-thread-ask-any-question-noob-friendly.2257421/
Thanks in advance for any help!

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