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Community development strength - Honor 8 Real Life Review

You're a power user. Can the Honor 8 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Honor 8. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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No development yet but hopefully soon. We're working with Honor on this!

XDA_RealLifeReview said:
You're a power user. Can the Honor 8 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Honor 8. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
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Yes, I do have something to add, it's as healthy as a company that:
Coments their code in chinese:
Code:
/*****************************************************************************
2 宏定义
*****************************************************************************/
/* 定义源CPU 往 目标CPU的邮箱通道, 每通道对应独立的邮箱缓存 */
/* 按规则生成枚举项的宏定义 */
#define MAILBOX_CHANNEL_BEGIN(src, dst) \
Doesn't understand how C preprocessor macros work:
Code:
/* 邮箱头占用空间总长度定义*/
#define MAILBOX_HEAD_LEN (sizeof(struct mb_head))
Returns integers inside void functions (a little long):
Code:
STATIC void hi6521_dpm_check_work(struct work_struct *work)
{
int current_ma;
unsigned char chg_en_status = 0;
struct hi6521_device_info *di = container_of(work,
struct hi6521_device_info, hi6521_dpm_check_work.work);
current_ma = hisi_battery_current();
if ((current_ma > dpm_check_current_threshold_ma) || (dpm_switch_enable)){
unsigned char reg;
hwlog_info("hi6521_dpm_check_work cur=%dmA do dpm switch\n", current_ma);
if (dpm_switch_with_charge_stop){
if (down_interruptible(&di->charger_data_busy_lock)) {
hwlog_err("hi6521_dpm_check_work sema fail! \n");
return -EINTR;
}
But hey they are willing to cooperate!!!1111

I hope it begins soon

Just love the phone.

For me its good as it is, flashed so much in the past that now i just leave it stock, but i can also understand people who still like to tinker

I have owned several android phones, none of them went without tinkering on the first day, except xperia x8 which was my first android device (back then I didn't know anything about stuff like this)

Honor Love
BigD18t said:
Just love the phone.
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We're thrilled to hear you love your Honor 8 device. Be sure to check us out on our social media channels: @usaHonor on Facebook and @honor_USA on Twitter. (NS)

HonorUSA_Noah said:
We're thrilled to hear you love your Honor 8 device. Be sure to check us out on our social media channels: @usaHonor on Facebook and @honor_USA on Twitter. (NS)
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Cheers Noah.
I'm already following HonorUK as thats where I'm based and the US twitter accounts, the interaction you get is fantastic, unlike other big names, and I'm always happy to recommend Honor phones to others.
Sent from my FRD-L09 using Tapatalk

XDA_RealLifeReview said:
You're a power user. Can the Honor 8 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Honor 8. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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Still no working TWRP for root on the FRD-L07 (32GB US) how long after launch now? It's pretty bad.

evilpaul13 said:
Still no working TWRP for root on the FRD-L07 (32GB US) how long after launch now? It's pretty bad.
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Do you mean FRD-L04? A google search for FRD-L07 doesn't give me many relevant results
This user managed to do it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69246938&postcount=77
Check the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/how-to/guide-unlock-bootloader-tested-root-t3443946

id love to see an aosp style rom. but for now the device is good as is. shocked there isnt more devs with one.

tbh im becoming bored. the moto g4 plus is looking enticing now that they have roms and a 7.0 soak test ota..

fix-this! said:
tbh im becoming bored. the moto g4 plus is looking enticing now that they have roms and a 7.0 soak test ota..
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Huawei not releasing stuff really holds development back.

adriansticoid said:
Huawei not releasing stuff really holds development back.
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so what exactly are they not releasing? what about the partnership with xda? has anyone reached out to the to ask when they will release what is needed?
i love the phone but the lack of ambient display, double tap to wake, lift to wake and even heads up notifications is really disappointing to me.

fix-this! said:
so what exactly are they not releasing? what about the partnership with xda? has anyone reached out to the to ask when they will release what is needed?
i love the phone but the lack of ambient display, double tap to wake, lift to wake and even heads up notifications is really disappointing to me.
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Of course. But Huawei is still not fully complying with us.
Sent from my honor 5X using XDA Labs

sadly i just returned mine for a moto g4 plus. i wanted to love it but it lacks too many essiential features. good luck folks.

fix-this! said:
sadly i just returned mine for a moto g4 plus. i wanted to love it but it lacks too many essiential features. good luck folks.
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Goodluck man.
Sent from my Galaxy Tab 3 using XDA Labs

Even my 5 years old Galaxy S2 has more active forums that the Honor 8

takichiman said:
Even my 5 years old Galaxy S2 has more active forums that the Honor 8
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That's the saddest part for us ROMs enthusiast. But who knows maybe the development of this phone will go boom within the next year or so.
Sent from my Galaxy Tab 3 using XDA Labs

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You're a power user. Can the OnePlus 3T keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the OnePlus 3T. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Its top!
You have an really truly unbrickable phone (msm download tool is available), sources released by OnePlus, MultiRom, and some amount of custom kernels/roms.
Also you can probably change your bootloader splash screen.

The dev szene is just starting, but more and more roms are coming. Dev support seems to get really great, unified roms with oneplus 3.

Seeing as it's now easy to develop for both the 3 and 3T at the same time... I'd say it's going to expand pretty rapidly

So coustom ROMs for both OnePlus 3 and 3t gets unified?? That's great news

sharath_babu said:
So coustom ROMs for both OnePlus 3 and 3t gets unified?? That's great news
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Why wouldn't they be unified? There's very little difference between the two. This is the exact reason unified rom development is even a thing.

HampTheToker said:
Why wouldn't they be unified? There's very little difference between the two. This is the exact reason unified rom development is even a thing.
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this has been mentioned before multiple times by the mods. There are still differences. I see two seperate forums as a benefit for both devices.

I'm currently waiting for my OP3T , coming from a long line of android devices, then i briefly recently hopped over to iphone 6s+, and contemplated ending my life by beating the phone over and over on my skull over 6 months before i reactivated my nexus 6p . I'm excited about 6gb of RAM and SD821!

its nice to see this android device.

I think now that AOSPA is out for the 3 and 3t, it cannot be beat.

No words for this part though, the community is great and is working on keeping the phone well in the update loop.

The development scene is rocking now!! Almost all ROMs support this device along with many kernels, boot animations and other customizations. I even used Ubuntu Touch on it for a while. Solid phone and still a great daily driver.

New to Honor/Huawei - what's the Dev scene like? Do Huawei bother?

So I was all up and ready to buy a Moto G5 plus and then saw the Honor 8 Pro will be out soon. Everything about it looks great - The display (isn't amoled - thankfully!) and the size, the Kirin 960 looks like it competes with the Snapdragon 835 in many ways. And the price of course is very reasonable.
I'll be coming from the Nexus 5 so I've been in and around XDA a long time, flashing ROMs etc. I don't expect the Honor 8 Pro to be anywhere near as Dev friendly as the Nexus 5. But I was wondering if anyone can tell me what it's actually like for Devs with Huawei phones and getting hold of the sources needed to make custom ROMs or even get LineageOS and all the hardware working? I get the sense (but I'm not sure) that at the moment it's a *real* challenge because Huawei, like most manufacturers don't really believe that engaging with the Dev community can provide a great boost to brand visibility and "geek cred" which will then filter out into recommendations to friends and family etc: It can be a very strong marketing tool essentially. But companies rarely understand that it would actually benefit them in a business sense. So...
Do Huawei provide all the "sources" and resources needed for developing custom ROMs *eventually* or do they just not bother at all in some cases or make it very hard in others? I saw on a Honor 8 (not pro) thread that there are "ambassadors" around. Can these guys interact with Huawei/Honor to encourage them to help out with the necessary technical stuff to make building ROMs a viable possibility, and is that likely to get a good response or is it already in process?
I mean if I get the Honor 8 Pro, I'll use it "as is". EMUI is not bad but still quite amateurish/90s in many ways and I'm thinking I can go along way to fixing it by using a custom launcher. But if there's a good chance Honor/Huawei will suddenly become much more helpful with Dev stuff it would make it a dream phone for sure. Any info?

I've been looking in to this too. It seems you can unlock the bootloader on EMUI devices in an official way so that's a good start.
Have you had a look around the other Huawei and Honor forums? There do seem to be ROMs and unofficial Lineage OS builds, but I haven't found much info on sources, etc.
I have actually pre-ordered an Honor 8 Pro, it looks awesome and at £474 I couldn't resist. I think the major manufacturers have lost the plot in terms of flagship pricing.

alsheron said:
So I was all up and ready to buy a Moto G5 plus and then saw the Honor 8 Pro will be out soon. Everything about it looks great - The display (isn't amoled - thankfully!) and the size, the Kirin 960 looks like it competes with the Snapdragon 835 in many ways. And the price of course is very reasonable.
I'll be coming from the Nexus 5 so I've been in and around XDA a long time, flashing ROMs etc. I don't expect the Honor 8 Pro to be anywhere near as Dev friendly as the Nexus 5. But I was wondering if anyone can tell me what it's actually like for Devs with Huawei phones and getting hold of the sources needed to make custom ROMs or even get LineageOS and all the hardware working? I get the sense (but I'm not sure) that at the moment it's a *real* challenge because Huawei, like most manufacturers don't really believe that engaging with the Dev community can provide a great boost to brand visibility and "geek cred" which will then filter out into recommendations to friends and family etc: It can be a very strong marketing tool essentially. But companies rarely understand that it would actually benefit them in a business sense. So...
Do Huawei provide all the "sources" and resources needed for developing custom ROMs *eventually* or do they just not bother at all in some cases or make it very hard in others? I saw on a Honor 8 (not pro) thread that there are "ambassadors" around. Can these guys interact with Huawei/Honor to encourage them to help out with the necessary technical stuff to make building ROMs a viable possibility, and is that likely to get a good response or is it already in process?
I mean if I get the Honor 8 Pro, I'll use it "as is". EMUI is not bad but still quite amateurish/90s in many ways and I'm thinking I can go along way to fixing it by using a custom launcher. But if there's a good chance Honor/Huawei will suddenly become much more helpful with Dev stuff it would make it a dream phone for sure. Any info?
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I'm in the same boat. I love the H8Pro but all I see outside of stock based roms, is one unofficial Lineage build for the Honor 8. The camera is currently listed as not working still. It's like that on a lot of phones that aren't too well known. My Le Pro 3 for example didn't have working camera on the marshmallow roms for a while and then when they got it working the 7 roms didn't have it until very recently. So it's a maybe it will at all. The problem is that while a lot of these companies allow bootloader unlocking, no they don't release sources. That's a big problem. That means devs have to build things like camera drivers from scratch, and without them being that popular devs working on it aren't usually too plentiful. Also not too much kernel support for that Kirin chipset either.

Well let me ask you guys. How much custom ROMs do you use these days ? I myself found that after changing to custom ROM I found back to stock ROM. These days stock roms has become so good that they actually brings the true character of a phone

Apparently I'm not the only one facing this decision. I've owned the Moto 2nd gen, G3, and G4 and frankly every time I've moved up a model, I like them a little less. For that reason alone, I'm trying to look past the Moto G5. Now that the Honor 9 is coming out, I'm taking a look at the Honor 8, hoping the cost will come down. I've always carried my phone in my front pocket so the size difference over the G4 I have now has me a little worried, but the weight really doesn't matter. I'm really looking very hard at the Honor 8 Pro though since price wise, it looks pretty close to the best bang for the buck.

ehh ..

alsheron said:
So I was all up and ready to buy a Moto G5 plus and then saw the Honor 8 Pro will be out soon. Everything about it looks great - The display (isn't amoled - thankfully!) and the size, the Kirin 960 looks like it competes with the Snapdragon 835 in many ways. And the price of course is very reasonable.
I'll be coming from the Nexus 5 so I've been in and around XDA a long time, flashing ROMs etc. I don't expect the Honor 8 Pro to be anywhere near as Dev friendly as the Nexus 5. But I was wondering if anyone can tell me what it's actually like for Devs with Huawei phones and getting hold of the sources needed to make custom ROMs or even get LineageOS and all the hardware working? I get the sense (but I'm not sure) that at the moment it's a *real* challenge because Huawei, like most manufacturers don't really believe that engaging with the Dev community can provide a great boost to brand visibility and "geek cred" which will then filter out into recommendations to friends and family etc: It can be a very strong marketing tool essentially. But companies rarely understand that it would actually benefit them in a business sense. So...
Do Huawei provide all the "sources" and resources needed for developing custom ROMs *eventually* or do they just not bother at all in some cases or make it very hard in others? I saw on a Honor 8 (not pro) thread that there are "ambassadors" around. Can these guys interact with Huawei/Honor to encourage them to help out with the necessary technical stuff to make building ROMs a viable possibility, and is that likely to get a good response or is it already in process?
I mean if I get the Honor 8 Pro, I'll use it "as is". EMUI is not bad but still quite amateurish/90s in many ways and I'm thinking I can go along way to fixing it by using a custom launcher. But if there's a good chance Honor/Huawei will suddenly become much more helpful with Dev stuff it would make it a dream phone for sure. Any info?
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personally, i am a fan of their emui5, amazing ui tho,
and their harware is solid,
camera is good too,
battery lives are excellent (thanks to emui optimisations)
but my only regret is that i dont have much of a custom roms to play with, given that their kirin chip is not open sourced
offcourse, their is open kirin team unofficially, but they are not working on every device, so only complaint will be kernel sources,
many honor devices has no development at all,

thilak devraj said:
personally, i am a fan of their emui5, amazing ui tho,
and their harware is solid,
camera is good too,
battery lives are excellent (thanks to emui optimisations)
but my only regret is that i dont have much of a custom roms to play with, given that their kirin chip is not open sourced
offcourse, their is open kirin team unofficially, but they are not working on every device, so only complaint will be kernel sources,
many honor devices has no development at all,
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1. kernel source from p10 plus works on duk
2. resurrection remix will follow soon .. it is booting already, but still has some major bugs we have to fix first
EDIT: I just saw you are talking about kirin devices in general, sorry

OldDroid said:
1. kernel source from p10 plus works on duk
2. resurrection remix will follow soon .. it is booting already, but still has some major bugs we have to fix first
EDIT: I just saw you are talking about kirin devices in general, sorry
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don't worry, we are always greatfull for open Kirin and the hard work of devs like you

Source code is just released! Check HERE. Since the phone is new, source is released early. OpenKirin Team can now develop for this device.

adriansticoid said:
Source code is just released! Check HERE. Since the phone is new, source is released early. OpenKirin Team can now develop for this device.
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wooow... source released ?? :cyclops:

thilak devraj said:
wooow... source released ?? :cyclops:
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Yeah. That's what I just said.

adriansticoid said:
Yeah. That's what I just said.
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wasnt expecting huawei to do this

thilak devraj said:
wasnt expecting huawei to do this
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Rox_Honor said it will be released mid-June. A bit delayed but it's good.

adriansticoid said:
Rox_Honor said it will be released mid-June. A bit delayed but it's good.
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finally, i could play with custom roms , hope it woud happen for the 6x too

thilak devraj said:
finally, i could play with custom roms , hope it woud happen for the 6x too
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Yeah. Everybody's hoping for that.

adriansticoid said:
Yeah. Everybody's hoping for that.
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imagin , if huawei bedev friendly, and their phones will be like snapdragons, no one would stop em

thilak devraj said:
imagin , if huawei bedev friendly, and their phones will be like snapdragons, no one would stop em
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They'll see this in the future. Yeah that future again.

adriansticoid said:
They'll see this in the future. Yeah that future again.
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if that happens, huawei's gonna beat sam

thilak devraj said:
if that happens, huawei's gonna beat sam
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Of course. So it's important that they decide for this.