Develop Bugs

[Q] Difference between P6 and Mate?

This forum topic is dedicated to the P6 and Mate, so obviously they have to be somehow "compatible", otherwise it wouldn't be a shared topic.
In what way are they similar (I can also read the tech specs, so that's not what I mean)? I'm actually referring to the pending 4.4.2 release for the P6, while nobody mentions the same upgrade for the Mate. Is anything like that coming? Is the release of the P6 4.4.2 a lead-in to the same release for the Mate?
I'm also a bit confused on the developer section of this forum. Again, in the Mate topic, almost everything deals with the P6.
Anyone care to explain to a Huawei Mate owner who desperately needs >= 4.3 to do some experimenting with BLE?
TIA all

Basically, all you have is the Mate Development section.
There is however some shared projects since the hardware is so alike, like Cyanogenmod.
At the moment, no 4.3 for Mate nor P6.
We wouldn't know if you guys are getting kitkat since the Chinese are a bit puzzling when it comes to dates or manuals.
But I am sure once we got official kitkat for P6, someone could port it over. I am pretty sure I'll be able to, problem is I don't have a device nor the confidence to ask someone else to test my untested work.

PulseDroid said:
Basically, all you have is the Mate Development ....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thx PulseDroid, partly answers my question.
I was referring to this thread: 4.4.2 KitKat beta for P6.
So basically, it seems P6 is getting straight into 4.4 (skipping 4.3). And hence my question was: if P6 and Mate are so alike, when and if at all, can we expect this for the Mate?
I am not necessarily in need of a custom ROM (although I have installed several ones in my Xperia Neo days), I just want the BLE integrated into the Mate to work (which it can not until 4.3).

We wouldn't know if you guys are getting Kitkat since the Chinese are a bit puzzling when it comes to dates or manuals.
We don't know. - Most likely but there is no evidence for us to be certain.
Yes the P6 is skipping 4.3. - Most devices did this, a lot of the more well known manufactures also did this.
So, we don't know when / if you will get 4.4.x for the Mate. - But even if not, Developers here on XDA might be able to port it over to the Mate.

Mate will most likely get it. I remember reading that there were a couple of phones besides P6, that was promised to get update to Emui2.0 (assuming that they bring Android 4.4 with Emui2.0, and not just emui2.0), and i remember the P2 and A199 included among it. Im not sure Mate was named but it most likely would be part of the batch to get update. Yet note that since P6 is Huawei's "flagship", the P6 gets updates sooner. And since the specs are nearly same then i guess they are first waiting to get a stable release on P6 and then move it to other phones like Mate, Honor 3, D2, that all use similar chip.

[Q] Is there no Android 5.0 development possible from the Nexus 5 preview code?

I can't think of any other way to ask the question so forgive me for that convoluted topic, but I'm honestly curious. I just got a G2 yesterday, spent hours getting it figured out, read a few hundred posts and dozens of threads, finally got CloudyG3 running great on it and now I figured I'd pose the question.
Because the Nexus 5 preview of Android 5.0 has been out for a while, and there are quite a few ROMs based on that, and because the LG G2 and the Nexus 5 share basically the same hardware across the board, I'm really wondering why there doesn't seem to be any interest whatosever (or from what I can tell) in potentially porting that over to the LG G2? Is this device really that far out of bounds at this point in time - I say that because I know the "crowds" flock to the most popular devices for ROM development by nature, and that's fine.
I'm not knocking the amazing work of each and every dev here at XDA Developers - it is after all a forum for them, not casual users like myself, so I'm happy to be able to partake of the products and ROMs they create for so many of us to actually put to use.
It just seems a bit odd to me I suppose that the G2 and the N5 are basically the same devices when you really dig into the hardware specs (with some differences, obviously, but they share far more in common than they don't). I mean, I remember when the Nexus 4 and the Optimus G came out and there was a ton of stuff you could do between them since again they were basically the same devices in different packaging much like the N5 and the G2 happen to be also.
Is there something I'm missing here, something that flat out makes porting over any version of that Nexus 5 Android 5.0 preview code to the G2 impossible? Or is it just not worth the time for whoever to do it - I'm not a dev at all, don't have nearly the talent for this kind of stuff that so many others do so, I'm a dead end myself.
This CloudyG3 port of the G3 stock ROM is damned nice, it really is, it's like a totally different device in many respects with enhanced features the G2 has always been capable of anyway (the 4K video recording, etc) and this ROM brings that out.
I'm just wondering now what LG has in mind for their initial G2 Android 5.0 release after the first of the year.
Anyway, just thought I'd toss the question out there as I can't find a single thing related to this here or at the LG G2 subforum either. If it's absolutely not possible, I can comprehend that - it's just that the hardware is so similar I have to wonder why nobody has put forth any effort at all, I guess.
Comments and discussion are always welcome...

We don't need or want to port the preview lollipop version from the nexus. The g2 is going to have have an update to lollipop 5.0 either Jan or Feb. The lg g3 will be getting 5.0 before us so a dev may port that rom before our official update. Also cm12 should be coming out this month so we will have a 5.0 lollipop very soon. Hope that answers your question
Sent from my LG-LS980 using XDA Free mobile app

It's a start I suppose, just seemed weird that the preview code has been available for quite some time and apparently nobody considered it worthy of a porting attempt.
And yes, I realize that when Lollipop drops for the G3 someone (Cloudyfa, hopefully, because of his excellent CloudyG3 for the G2) will most likely do their best to port it over fast, probably before we even see the official G2 build appear which will be pretty cool.
Fun times ahead...

I also think it is due to it being just a preview. No developers feel it is solid enough to work with.
I also agree that it is strange that the g2 and nexus 5 are almost completely alike except camera of course. But no real change of Roms.
Look into the non sprint development. And you will find many support the ls980. You just have to look hard. Being that every carrier and international worldwide have this phone.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

[Discussion] Is the LTE version (deb) abandonware?

As the owner of a Nexus 7 2013 LTE (deb), I can't help but feel as if nobody - especially not El Goog, actually give a frak about this device:
No Lollipop OTA yet
No Lollipop Factory Images
Hardly any roms
And not a single word from Google about the first two. Nada.
Now I've been using the one of two Lollipop roms actually available for the device, and I'm liking it, but I would have liked CM or Slimrom or any other custom variation (GROGG88's version is excellent, but I like to have variation to choose form - and now that we don't have xposed it's more important than ever).
I'd like to hear from you users and developers: Until Google step up their game (and even when they do), what do you think we can do to improve deb compatibility and rom variation?
Developers, is there any specific reason you develop for flo exclusively? (other than - I'm assuming - that it's the only device you've got?)
Bare in mind that this is an open discussion thread, I'm not blaming or requesting anything from anyone. Let's just talk about it.

I own a deb device. And agree that support is limited. I have grogg88's rom installed and must say it's one of the best available. I do also have cm installed. But wish there was more available. Hopefully Google will release the update soon

Of course it's not abandonware. Stupid question. Lollipop only came out 1 month ago and still has major problems on the devices running it.

CrashTestDroid said:
Of course it's not abandonware. Stupid question. Lollipop only came out 1 month ago and still has major problems on the devices running it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This. With all the issues being reported on this forum alone, I have no desire to update to 5.0 or 5.0.1. I want all the new bells, whistles, and pretty colors, but 4.4.4 does everything I need and want.
I'm really hoping the GravityBox devs will find a way to get it to work with ART soonish.

first time Android car Unit!!!?

Hey guys I'm sure there is someone how can help me with my device
First at all I have a knowledge in Root my Android phones any kind of labels and I played with many Roms....
And now I have in my car a Android Head Unit ...and actually reading this threads here about MCU und Firmware,there are some points I have to know....eeeehhhhh I m not understand!
Take a look and help me what do I need for a new ROM....the original have only bugs and pumpkin audio will not give me an update because it was an old unit...they say
model number:rk3188
current Android:4.4.4
kernel version:3.0.36+ red [email protected]#87
build number:
Alex:5701-20160404-125900-v3(4752)
TFT:5703-20151213-173908-V01
MCU:5703-20160428-113328-V01
please for a short lesson like Ian newby

Benefits to move from Android 10 to Android 11 on Dasaita MAX6 ?

Hello,
from what i know and please correct me if i'm wrong the differences from Android 9 to 10 have been negligible, but still i'm with Android 10 as its just newer.
Ofc new version new bugs and 'if it works dont touch it' as many say tho with A10 i've never had problems so far.
But since there's the Android 11 HA rom available now what would be the benefits of upgrading my Dasaita MAX6 from the current Android 10 or are there any negatives?
Thank you

None except for bigger number

marchnz i'm like almost sorry i asked.
Any more ideas as to why they may have went for the struggle to release 11?
THANKS

untill there is a version that trully fully works on your headunit with out bugs or at least more than you have now i would suggest to stay on the one you have and is working.

My unit came out with 7.1, and by your answer means that i should have stayed at 7.1 and never ever moved to 8, then 10.
- a version that trully fully works as you say is something quite broad, i'm not sure what it actually even means here for these HUs...
- you say without bugs, but every release has bugs. Yet, 8, 9 and 10 /and now 11/ are released and people have and are moving to them. +there are OTAs + there's Hal9k and Malaysk mods to iron them out further.
- there IS a version 11 exactly for my unit released by Dasaita.
So lets cut it.
The question of the topic is extremely simple and so far the answers dont match it. I decided to start topic about 10 to 11 because I saw there is exactly the same one by another guy about Android 9 to 10. The other one has much sensible answers tho.
With all respect now can we keep the bs trying-to-be-interesting out and like men stick to the point of the question?
Thanks and sry to be blunt.

There are more negatives than positives.
Unless upgrading the version of Android solves a SPECIFIC problem that you are experiencing with your head unit then you should stay on whatever version you currently have. So "fully working" in my opinion means fully working (even that is subjective) with the hardware you have. You can be assured that some key feature will "no longer be supported" with your version of the hardware at some point when updating firmware. In other words, something winds up completely broken if you go to the next version of Android.
These Chinese head unit manufacturers will use certain components which they provide support (albeit limited) for in the provided Android version on your head unit but suddenly not supported in the next Android version. For example, there have been reports here on XDA of bluetooth completely stop working on Dasaita units when going from Android 10 to Android 11.
They remove some key support from the next version of Android to try to make people buy the newest head units. In other words to get the latest version of Android you have to buy the latest head units or stick with what you have.

opexo said:
marchnz i'm like almost sorry i asked.
Any more ideas as to why they may have went for the struggle to release 11?
THANKS
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Welcome, be sure to click like.
Like I said, there are no advantages except for a bigger number.
But Update and tell xda your experience. Xda works when members share experience.
This question is already answered and answered and answered...