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EMUI 9.1 beta rolls out to the Honor View 20, Honor Magic 2, Honor 7X/8X/9/10, Huawei P10, P20 Lite, Mate 20 Lite, and Nova 3/3i/2 in China
Huawei has started rolling out EMUI 9.1 beta to a large number of devices including Honor 7X/8X/9/10, Huawei P10, P20 Lite, Mate 20 Lite, others in China.
Huawei announced EMUI 9.1 based on Android 9.0 Pie last month at the Huawei P30 Pro launch. It comes with with a slew of changes over EMUI 9.0 including a simpler and more intuitive UI, GPU Turbo 3.0, nature alarm sounds, optimizations to HiVoice, improved AR functionality with HiVision, etc. While EMUI 9.1 is currently available on select devices including the P30 Pro, Mate 20 Pro, and the Mate 20 X, the company has promised the update for as many as 49 Huawei and Honor devices. Now, a beta update brings the latest EMUI to a dozen of devices in China and paves way for the global update.
OpenKirin's ROMs now support Honor 8, Honor Note 8, Huawei P9/P9 Plus, and Huawei Mate 8
Team OpenKirin has brought unofficial LineageOS 15.1 based on Android 8.1 Oreo to the Honor 8, Honor Note 8, Huawei P9, Huawei P9 Plus, and Huawei Mate 8.
LineageOS is the most popular custom ROM for Android devices. It's often used as a base for other custom ROMs such as Resurrection Remix. There are other ROMs like OmniROM that are also popular and may or may not be based on LineageOS. Thanks to the efforts of the OpenKirin project, unofficial LineageOS, Resurrection Remix, and OmniROM builds are now available on the Honor 8, Honor Note 8, Huawei P9/Huawei P9 Plus, and Huawei Mate 8.
Team OpenKirin opens website to support all EMUI 8 Huawei/Honor devices
Team OpenKirin aims to make the pure AOSP experience available for all supported Huawei and Honor devices running EMUI 8.
Huawei and their subsidiary Honor ship their smartphones and tablets with their EMUI software. It's a heavily modified version of the stock Android framework that offers a lot of features not found in AOSP. Some people prefer all of the added features while the stock Android purists would much rather have stock Android running on top of Huawei/Honor hardware. If that describes you, then you may want to check out the work done by the OpenKirin team. They recently released unofficial LineageOS, CarbonROM, and Resurrection Remix builds for all EMUI 8 devices.
How to flash a Generic System Image (GSI) on Project Treble supported devices
So your device supports Project Treble, what does that mean for you? It means you can flash a Generic System Image such as LineageOS or Resurrection Remix! Enjoy AOSP-based custom ROMs! Here's a guide on how to install these ROMs.
If you've only heard of Project Treble in passing but haven't looked into it all that much, then you may have heard that it's supposed to help major Android updates roll out more quickly. At XDA, there's another benefit that we've spoken about at length: the ability to boot an AOSP Generic System Image (GSI) on any supported device. This means that devices that were once running heavily customized Android versions like Samsung Experience on the Samsung Galaxy S9 or EMUI 8 on the Huawei Mate 10 Pro can alternatively run software closer to that of the Google Pixel 2.
Here's a list of Android devices updated with Project Treble support
Project Treble is a major re-architecture of the way Android works. The result is that Android software updates should come faster on devices that support it. Also, it opens up a whole new avenue of custom ROMs. Check out if your device supports it!
Whereas Apple is able to keep most of their devices, even many older ones, up to date with the latest software (which sometimes involve rather controversial features), Android device makers have varying degrees of success keeping their devices up to date. Some device makers like Essential and Google are pretty good at providing security patches, while others can delay updates by months at a time. That's without considering major software updates such as from Android Nougat to Android Oreo, a software release which is installed on only slightly more than 1% of all Android devices. To combat slow Android updates, Google introduced Project Treble.
Honor 8 Pro and Honor 9 receive AOSP Android Oreo ROMs thanks to Project Treble
The Honor 8 Pro and the Honor 9 have both received an AOSP Android Oreo ROM thanks to Project Treble support. Almost everything, including the stock Huawei camera app, works!
Google announced Project Treble last year in an effort to revamp the way device makers update their smartphones. Phones launched with Android Oreo are required to be compatible, but it's optional for OEMs to include Treble support with Oreo updates for older smartphones. One potential benefit of Treble support is that major software updates can arrive faster for devices that support it, as device makers can pursue updating the Android framework without waiting on a vendor to update their code. Thanks to Project Treble's requirements, though, every device that supports it must be able to boot a generic build of AOSP, which makes bringing AOSP to certain devices like the Honor 8 Pro or Honor 9 a lot easier.
A Revolution in Custom ROMs: How Project Treble makes Porting Android Oreo a 1 Day Job
An exploration into how Project Treble revolutionizes custom ROMs. It took less than 1 day to port Android Oreo to the Huawei Mate 9.
The XDA forums have been the central gathering of custom ROM development for years. It's thanks to the hard work of developers on our forums that many older Android smartphones are kept alive by custom ROMS sometimes years after devices were abandoned by the device maker. Though most manufacturers release bootloader unlocking methods these days, frequent delays in kernel source releases has stifled custom ROM development on many smartphones. That may soon change, however, thanks to something called "Project Treble" which was announced near the release of Android Oreo. Thanks to Project Treble, the time it takes to port an AOSP ROM onto a device should no longer take weeks or months—instead it should take merely days.
The Honor 9 has been Honor's biggest phone launch of 2017 with a positive response from the community. Since its launch, the community has been busy with root methods, TWRP, and several ROMs. Here are some of the most popular ROMs available for the Honor 9.
Getting the Best Photos from the Honor 9
Use the Honor 9 and some minimal photo editing to get some amazing looking photos. Watch this XDA TV video to see how it's done.
Lately Honor has been making phones with cameras that are really fun to use. The Honor 9 has an amazing camera that improves on the dual camera setup that we saw in the Honor 8.
Most Interesting New Features of the Honor 9
The Honor 9 is the newest flagship device from Honor, taking the best features from the Honor 8 and adding several improvments and upgrades.
The Honor 9 is the most exciting new phone that we have seen from Honor this year. While keeping true to the spirit of the Honor 8, by bringing back the 15 layered glass body, the Honor 9 also has many new features for us to explore.