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I'm used to having my Android phones use apps like KinScreen or Gravity Screen to keep my screen on by motion. On my new Mate 10 (ALP-L29 8.0.0.119 (C636) I'm finding that no matter what I do, the phone's setting for display on time always control, even though I've excepted out both apps from battery optimization and from automatic control of their launch (manually set to run in the background). Anyone experience the same issue or have any thoughts? I don't know if this is an Oreo problem or a Miui one. Thx.
I am having the same issues, no matter what, with persistent notification active, the screen does not stay awake with kinscreen. Installed Wakey, seems to be working at least sometimes... Should be based on your eyes watching the screen...
According to TecTiq, the maker of KinScreen, it's a Miui problem. I'm not the only one to report it. Oh well....
One other possibility is to set your default screen timeout to something long, and then install Proximity Service, which seems to work well on the Mate 10 and turns on and off your screen by covering the proximity sensor. Creates a permanent notification, but installing AutoNotification cures that (as well as the other running notifications, like background Android processes, that you don't want).
EDIT: Nope, belay that! Once the phone sleeps, Proximity Service is still killed (even if excepted from Launch and Battery Optimization). Back to the drawing board....
Hey guys,
Just got my Mate 10 pro (BLA-29) Dual sim a few days ago and I am loving it!
Have updated it to the latest Android 8.0 and EMUI 8.0.
However instantly within the first hour of using the phone I noticed a strange issue or bug? Where you can be on the homescreen and the screen will be nice and bright, jump into any app it can be Chrome, whats app, Firefox even Youtube or Google Maps and instantly within 2 seconds or so the screen will dim a little, go back to homescreen or switch between apps and the screen will brighten, but then dim again after 2 or so seconds.
Have looked all over for any adaptive brightness, turned off auto brightness and any battery saver and nada, still dims.
The only difference is it doesn't happen if you whack the brightness up full, then the brightness level doesn't dim. So what gives??
Also while I have your attention, will Huawei ever allow us to Lock the phone to 4G/LTE only mode? Or do we need root for this?
Thanks for reading, I hope someone has an answer for me as I love this phone!
Crombi said:
Hey guys,
Just got my Mate 10 pro (BLA-29) Dual sim a few days ago and I am loving it!
Have updated it to the latest Android 8.0 and EMUI 8.0.
However instantly within the first hour of using the phone I noticed a strange issue or bug? Where you can be on the homescreen and the screen will be nice and bright, jump into any app it can be Chrome, whats app, Firefox even Youtube or Google Maps and instantly within 2 seconds or so the screen will dim a little, go back to homescreen or switch between apps and the screen will brighten, but then dim again after 2 or so seconds.
Have looked all over for any adaptive brightness, turned off auto brightness and any battery saver and nada, still dims.
The only difference is it doesn't happen if you whack the brightness up full, then the brightness level doesn't dim. So what gives??
Also while I have your attention, will Huawei ever allow us to Lock the phone to 4G/LTE only mode? Or do we need root for this?
Thanks for reading, I hope someone has an answer for me as I love this phone!
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Known issue with brightness auto.
It's an IA thing which change brightness depending on your environment
I agree... I posted a topic about this a while ago... dims slightly with chrome, facebook etc.. isn't much that can be done about it.
I'm guessing it's to prolong the screen life (?), because these apps use predominantly white backgrounds ... but don't really know for sure...
Huawei claims this is a bug affecting every device running EMUI 5.1 and above. The standard Mate 10 also does this and so does the Honor View 10. Highly annoying. I actually sold my Mate 10 after three days largely due to this issue.
I was really excited for the Honor View 10 until I saw it also suffers from it. A fix should be simple but clearly isn't a priority.
Looks like i'll be switching to the Galaxy S9+ because of this - it's super annoying especially in sunlight - very noticeable then.
My screen does not change brightness level when using Chrome...I do not use Facebook. Non-pro version here with LCD.
mine also doing this as well for me its fine but some games it also does this not only my screen dim a little fps also drops!! and its very annoying
I confirm this behaviour on my Mate 10 Pro. Very annoying.
I have a P20 Pro and it does the same (all Huawei with Amoled does this I belive). If I enable auto brightness it seems to stop doing it. Only at manual brightness it keept doing it in certain apps.
I lurked around different sites about this problem and found this to work for me on my Mate 10 Pro. You can test it out yourself and see if it helps
1. Turn-off Power Saving Mode
2. Go to System > Developer Options > Increase Readability Under Sunlight> Toggle Off
3. Then make sure to restart your phone and open your apps (like Chrome) to see if it's still auto-dimming
Hi,
I returned my mate 10 pro because of the dimming issues as was very annoying.
I am planning to get p20 pro instead. Does p20 pro have the exact same issue despite EMUI 8.1?
Fara2018 said:
Hi,
I returned my mate 10 pro because of the dimming issues as was very annoying.
I am planning to get p20 pro instead. Does p20 pro have the exact same issue despite EMUI 8.1?
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I have heard of it on youtube.
this is no bug though. this "feature" has been around for years and huawei does not admit it. they alwas say its a bug and they gonna fix it but the p9 had this issure already.
Some argue that this is some sneaky way to cheat better battery life and less heating. We all know that the Kirin processor lags behind the others, it can only provide high performance for a short period after 5 min it overheats and gets thermothrottled
Fara2018 said:
Hi,
I returned my mate 10 pro because of the dimming issues as was very annoying.
I am planning to get p20 pro instead. Does p20 pro have the exact same issue despite EMUI 8.1?
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Yes it has the issue.
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dannejanne said:
I have a P20 Pro and it does the same (all Huawei with Amoled does this I belive). If I enable auto brightness it seems to stop doing it. Only at manual brightness it keept doing it in certain apps.
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Can confirm my Huawei Mate 10 Pro, with BLA-L29 8.0.0.145 (C432) also dims the display when using different apps, among them the SMS/MMS app, WhatsApp, Chrome Browser and the built in Notepad app.
As well as dimming the display when »Auto Brightness« is disabled, »Auto Brightness« is automaticly enabled every time the phone is turned on and off, so not possible to permanently disable »Auto Brightness«.
Sent my phone to be repaired or fixed, and was told that the automatic enabling of »Auto Brightness« is a battery saving feature ...
Regarding the problem with dimming in certain apps, it's supposed to be fixed in a later update ... Just wonder when will that actually be ...
/ Alex / Norway /
Previous owner of P9 with this screen-dimming feature. I own Mate 10 right now (C636 134noxloader build) and Mate 10 doesn't have this screen dimming at all, I tried chrome, youtube, and all my other apps, it never dims.
KiwiAKT said:
Can confirm my Huawei Mate 10 Pro, with BLA-L29 8.0.0.145 (C432) also dims the display when using different apps, among them the SMS/MMS app, WhatsApp, Chrome Browser and the built in Notepad app.
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Just an update.
Wrote to Huawei Norway, and yesterday got an email telling me that Huawai is aware of the issue and it's on their list, and is to be fixed, as far as they know, in late July or August.
/ Alex / Norway /
No, its november and nothing changed, now a huawei mate 20 pro have that bug too.
This is common amongst all EMUI devices (I think) and it is fixed by freezing or otherwise disabling the Power Genius app. If rooted, you can use Titanium Backup or Service Disabler to do this. If you're not rooted, you might or might not be able to do it via adb.
This is a battery optimization feature, and not an auto brightness bug.
nmack58
rvhuynh01 said:
I lurked around different sites about this problem and found this to work for me on my Mate 10 Pro. You can test it out yourself and see if it helps
1. Turn-off Power Saving Mode
2. Go to System > Developer Options > Increase Readability Under Sunlight> Toggle Off
3. Then make sure to restart your phone and open your apps (like Chrome) to see if it's still auto-dimming
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Thanks for the info solved my p20 dimming problem.
I got a mate 20 pro
rvhuynh01 said:
I lurked around different sites about this problem and found this to work for me on my Mate 10 Pro. You can test it out yourself and see if it helps
1. Turn-off Power Saving Mode
2. Go to System > Developer Options > Increase Readability Under Sunlight> Toggle Off
3. Then make sure to restart your phone and open your apps (like Chrome) to see if it's still auto-dimming
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got the mate 20 pro and also noticed screen dimming issues, but after trying your fix, it seemed to magically fixed itseld.. still testing it but even i toggle on the Increase Readability under sunlight, it just went away
I have a mate 10 pro rebranded to C721 (Porsche Design). I use the stock email app though I changed to notification sound to one that I use across several different phones. With some frequency, the notification tones on the stock email app will revert back to the Huawei default notification tone (in my case Porsche Design Electric). It seems like it may be related to when my phone makes a Bluetooth connection but I can't be sure and it doesn't seem to be consistent.
Has anybody else had the same problem? If so, do you know how to fix it so the stock email app retains your custom notification sound choice?
I am not rooted (as I use google pay)
Hello guys, Mate 9 user since it launched but just got a M10P last week. Unrooted BLA-L29 8.0.0.141(C636patch01)
I have a few issues and I think it'll be better to put them together here.
1. I feel power saving is more aggressive. Sometimes my WhatsApp only update messages when I open the app. I've set it to manual allowed autostart, also run in background still it does that. Also in network under mobile I've ensured everything is ok.
The above problem also applies to Twitter, yahoo and others.
2. The Mate 9 has an average sound and unfortunately the 10 pro is worse. So I got two apps; volume booster GOODEV (which improved sound level) & Trumedia (which improved sound quality; bass and treble). Unfortunately, they keep going off and I'll have to reopen them. Also at reboots or if I close all open apps.
Is there a way to get them stick and work permanently?
Or is there a very good volume app that doesn't require root?.
3. I use navbar app an also roundscreen corners. Unfortunately, the roundscreen corners app overrides the overlay of navbar app. Is there a way to get them work together?
Thanks guys.
For Notification & Sync of whatsapp & other application do check ignore Battery optimizations & Launch in battery Settings.It will work for sure.
zayidhs said:
Hello guys, Mate 9 user since it launched but just got a M10P last week. Unrooted BLA-L29 8.0.0.141(C636patch01)
I have a few issues and I think it'll be better to put them together here.
1. I feel power saving is more aggressive. Sometimes my WhatsApp only update messages when I open the app. I've set it to manual allowed autostart, also run in background still it does that. Also in network under mobile I've ensured everything is ok.
The above problem also applies to Twitter, yahoo and others.
2. The Mate 9 has an average sound and unfortunately the 10 pro is worse. So I got two apps; volume booster GOODEV (which improved sound level) & Trumedia (which improved sound quality; bass and treble). Unfortunately, they keep going off and I'll have to reopen them. Also at reboots or if I close all open apps.
Is there a way to get them stick and work permanently?
Or is there a very good volume app that doesn't require root?.
3. I use navbar app an also roundscreen corners. Unfortunately, the roundscreen corners app overrides the overlay of navbar app. Is there a way to get them work together?
Thanks guys.
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I have heard of this issue but never experienced it. I recommend leaving whatsapp on Auto in battery settings
I think the Mate 10 has great Sound. Note, that on the highest Volume Level there is a boost. It becomes notably louder but bass is goin away... for best experience use the second loudest. I dont thin you can have those apps running all the time... my mate 10 pro sometimes even kills google maps navigation while driving. I really wonder why they put 6gb ram in this phone lol
I only use the XDA navbar and it keeps working... I dont really think you can have both. Personally, proper corners are one reason why i bought the mate...hated rounded corners on my s8+
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For Notification & Sync of whatsapp & other application do check ignore Battery optimizations & Launch in battery Settings.It will work for sure.
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Ok, I did that in "special access" settings and it seems to be working though taking it back to auto seems to work also.
Thanks
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I have heard of this issue but never experienced it. I recommend leaving whatsapp on Auto in battery settings
I think the Mate 10 has great Sound. Note, that on the highest Volume Level there is a boost. It becomes notably louder but bass is goin away... for best experience use the second loudest. I dont thin you can have those apps running all the time... my mate 10 pro sometimes even kills google maps navigation while driving. I really wonder why they put 6gb ram in this phone lol
I only use the XDA navbar and it keeps working... I dont really think you can have both. Personally, proper corners are one reason why i bought the mate...hated rounded corners on my s8+
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Thanks a lot, I'll try it. Once saw it, like an iPhone x navigation I think.
You should try adding your Google maps to excepted apps for battery optimization in "special access" settings.
If you're looking to increase volume or have presets then I would recommend equalizer pro. No root required and I'm using perfectly with Spotify.
Other than that I understand you can install the audio fx APK package from lineage but it doesn't work in basic speaker mode.
So here are the issues I've found since last week that I've had the phone:
-Autobrightness even if autobrightness is off: The screen dims when opening certain apps. I remember this happening to my old Mate 10, and it hasn't been fixed yet, because Huawei considers this a feature, while it's something so annoying.
-Bluetooth audio not sync: The normal behaviour in any other phone is to control the volume of media with the Bluetooth headphones, but with the Mate 20 Pro it's independent, so you have to adjust 2 volumes.
-Unwanted notifications: You can't get rid of the "displaying over other apps" unless you have a third-party app running in the background, and probably causing you some other issues.
-Unwanted status bar icons: now, with the notch, there's so little space for app's icons, so it would be great if we could remove useless icons (they'll be useful or useless depending on which person) like the alarm clock icon, the silent mode icon... to give more space to other apps that can be more useful.
-No IA Video, no portrait lightning: some phones come with the 108 update, an OTA needs to come (it came yesterday for some phones), to enable all the functionality.
100%. Love the thread...good idea!
To those posting here...it'd be a GREAT help to other M20P users or prospective buyers if your CONFIRMED software issue has been patched or resolved after a manual reboot or software update.
As for anyone else who reads this and agrees. GO ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER + OTHER FORUMS FORUMS AND THEIR WEBSITE and demand they be fixed for the excessively priced premium flagship!
RoOSTA
I liked to add if you use YouTube Premium with gesture more enabled, you no longer have picture in picture.
Just background audio playing.
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Want to add my two cents:
The Mate 20 phones introduces a new swiping navigation system that is very very similar to Xiaomis implementation.
After using iPhone X I do find traditional Android buttons outdated and waste of screen space so I like huaweis swiping alot.
BUT while swiping works great on stock emui, it doesn't work well with Nova launcher. Whenever I have Nova installed the swipe up to go home animation becomes jerky and unpleasant. So basically my dilemma has been to choose between huaweis awesome swipe gestures but put up with emui's tacky icons and outdated app tray and stupid iOS ripoff system wide search menu whenever I swipe down, or use Nova and be forced to go back to on screen buttons.
radioraheem2 said:
Want to add my two cents:
The Mate 20 phones introduces a new swiping navigation system that is very very similar to Xiaomis implementation.
After using iPhone X I do find traditional Android buttons outdated and waste of screen space so I like huaweis swiping alot.
BUT while swiping works great on stock emui, it doesn't work well with Nova launcher. Whenever I have Nova installed the swipe up to go home animation becomes jerky and unpleasant. So basically my dilemma has been to choose between huaweis awesome swipe gestures but put up with emui's tacky icons and outdated app tray and stupid iOS ripoff system wide search menu whenever I swipe down, or use Nova and be forced to go back to on screen buttons.
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I've had the phone for 1hr, and I'm really disappointed. Not a fan of the vibration motor in this phone.
I agree, EMUI feels like IOS in some areas. I'm really not a fan of some aspects, like the notification area.
Also had the phone for just over an hour. Not impressed at all. Huawei phone clone didn't work, taking at least 5 minutes to update each app and still going, setting a picture as screen saver from Google photos can put it blurry. Coming from an HTC u12 I'm very disappointed so far. Haven't even got around to diving into anything else yet but the set up is a chore
Interesting, this process is really easy on the P20 Pro
I have problem with video camera function.
It seem the stand 1x zoom is very big. And if i zoom out to 0.6x the video image is very blurry.
Can someone check wheter they have the same problem.
I got mine today and I found a couple of issues.
First of all, there is no sound equaliser at all. This means having to download a third party one, which lowers the overall volume. By default, a flat EQ on this device rounds very tinny with muddy lows.
I got around this by downloading Equalizer Pro and playing with it for like an hour.
The other issue is much worse for me. If you set the display scaling in Developer options to anything higher than its default (423 I believe), the general device scaling is great (For example, I set it to 550 and the settings app looks lovely) however the notifications and screen popups become HUGE. To the point where they are physically overlapping off of the screen. Then when restarting the phone it resets again to 423. This also forces widgets in other launchers (such as Nova) to completely disappear, meaning you have to remove and re-add them.
I'm not very happy at the moment. Any ideas would be great. Unfortunately I don't want to root anything otherwise Ill end up losing my mobile banking apps etc (and the previous experience I've had with Magisk has been grotesque)...
Jack
I cannot connect to 5Ghz wifi networks.
jackdowsonuk said:
I got mine today and I found a couple of issues.
First of all, there is no sound equaliser at all. This means having to download a third party one, which lowers the overall volume. By default, a flat EQ on this device rounds very tinny with muddy lows.
I got around this by downloading Equalizer Pro and playing with it for like an hour.
The other issue is much worse for me. If you set the display scaling in Developer options to anything higher than its default (423 I believe), the general device scaling is great (For example, I set it to 550 and the settings app looks lovely) however the notifications and screen popups become HUGE. To the point where they are physically overlapping off of the screen. Then when restarting the phone it resets again to 423. This also forces widgets in other launchers (such as Nova) to completely disappear, meaning you have to remove and re-add them.
I'm not very happy at the moment. Any ideas would be great. Unfortunately I don't want to root anything otherwise Ill end up losing my mobile banking apps etc (and the previous experience I've had with Magisk has been grotesque)...
Jack
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Hi. I found a sound equaliser under settings - sound - Dolby Atmos
Nestacres said:
Hi. I found a sound equaliser under settings - sound - Dolby Atmos
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Hey thanks for the reply.
The Dolby Atmos EQ is only available for built-in speaker and is disabled for Bluetooth devices.
-Jack
got mine today from O2. On build 108 and I have th elack of AI video options.
No problems migrating from my other phone, just chose to restore from cloud backup via google account, didn't mess around wth Phone Clone.
Connects to a 5ghz wifi network (TalkTalk new style router which I think may be a Huawei as well) without any issues, getting around 43mb throughput on the downstream which given I only max at around 53 on a wired connection to my laptop is more than acceptable.
Havent bothered messing around with launchers, just chose a nicer theme which also skinned (most of) the icons.
Swipe gesture are put of Android Pie I believe rather than being EMUI specific (although there are some extra ones)
panman1964 said:
got mine today from O2. On build 108 and I have th elack of AI video options.
No problems migrating from my other phone, just chose to restore from cloud backup via google account, didn't mess around wth Phone Clone.
Connects to a 5ghz wifi network (TalkTalk new style router which I think may be a Huawei as well) without any issues, getting around 43mb throughput on the downstream which given I only max at around 53 on a wired connection to my laptop is more than acceptable.
Havent bothered messing around with launchers, just chose a nicer theme which also skinned (most of) the icons.
Swipe gesture are put of Android Pie I believe rather than being EMUI specific (although there are some extra ones)
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Is your phone single sim and did it come with a case? Getting mine from O2 tomorrow
Frontfiringspeakers said:
Is your phone single sim and did it come with a case? Getting mine from O2 tomorrow
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Single SIM, No Case.
TBH I don't know why Huawei (or other manufacturers bother with a Dual & Single SIM version of the same device.
Cant be that much difference in the cost price of the hardware and especially when like the Mate 20 Pro the SIM tray is either Single SIM + NM or Dual Sim with the option of using a NM card instead of a SIM in slot 2
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Actually not so much of an issue but an observation (and it may be common to other devices with curved edges) and it may simply be that it's something new for me.
When using the keyboard its mildly annoying when some of the characters at the extreme edges disappear over the curve.
Again it may be just because I'm not used to it yet
You'll want to try and get .122 firmware on that as soon as possible. 108 was stable for me but was missing some functions (AI video, Google Pay, and a few other bits) that 122 (rumoured to be final fw) has. Enjoy!
My main problem is most 3rd party launchers don't work and there's still some bloat you can't uninstall/disable.
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Wiggz said:
You'll want to try and get .122 firmware on that as soon as possible. 108 was stable for me but was missing some functions (AI video, Google Pay, and a few other bits) that 122 (rumoured to be final fw) has. Enjoy!
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Got mine from Vodafone UK today. Still on 108
Wiggz said:
You'll want to try and get .122 firmware on that as soon as possible. 108 was stable for me but was missing some functions (AI video, Google Pay, and a few other bits) that 122 (rumoured to be final fw) has. Enjoy!
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Would love too go and get it... If I could ;O)
There are firmwares "around" you can download, stick on a nano or USB via OTG and boot from to flash.
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There are firmwares "around" you can download, stick on a nano or USB via OTG and boot from to flash.
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Sounds like I may have to go looking then .... now wheres the best starting place I wonder