Not getting Android 7 - Huawei P9 Questions & Answers

Hi i an running Huawei p9 eva l09 and i am not getting the update, i asked on Huaweis Facebook and they said that i should have it.
When I go into "about phone" I see that I am running build eva-L09C900B170

If - like me - you are on EE, then you'll be waiting for them to provide the update; which I believe is pencilled in for just after hell freezing over.

simon211175 said:
If - like me - you are on EE, then you'll be waiting for them to provide the update; which I believe is pencilled in for just after hell freezing over.
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What's EE?

EE is a UK phone network

So are we not getting an update?????

liamhere said:
EE is a UK phone network
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I dont live in UK and i dont have EE

Swifttech said:
I dont live in UK and i dont have EE
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In Germany it's a provider-thing. As I got my P9 for the very first time, I had to run it with an old prepaid sim for 4 days, because my contract sim didn't fit. These 4 days I was on marshmallow without any updates. As the new sim came I got the nougat-update immediatly. Can you try an other sim?

i too have the same problem with EE and have now paid the £8.99 to unlock my phone. Will i be able to get a nougat update if i use another sim card??? or do i have to flash and do what other do and have the risk of bricking etc...
regards
cammy

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Froyo OTA for UK Users?

Guys
Anyone got OTA Froyo in the UK yet?
nothing yet, will it come to rooted phone?
nothing for me yet either.
kooli9 said:
nothing yet, will it come to rooted phone?
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Good question - not sure to be honest. Mine is stock so I'm hoping for something soon.
Nowt for me yet on stock N1 using Orange sim
Nothing here... but I'm expecting it to be a PITA for me:
Rooted N1, FRF50, build.prop fix for protected apps.
I'm wondering.. i live in Norway, and Nexus haven't been officially released here or many other countries. My thoughts is that since my phone seems to be an "imported" phone (even if i bought it trough my provider in April) if it has an IMEI that is in with all the american ones. Possibly we get the OTA together with them. Could happen i think.
Same might go for UK phones.
I'm not really holding my breath, running 5.0.8 so any time will do for me.
alvintc said:
Nothing here... but I'm expecting it to be a PITA for me:
Rooted N1, FRF50, build.prop fix for protected apps.
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PITA?? whats that
nothing here yet
pita - pain in the backside?
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kooli9 said:
PITA?? whats that
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Pain In The Ass
pita bread wrap
Nothing here yet. I'm checking this thread religiously.
Nope still waiting
Sindroid said:
I'm wondering.. i live in Norway, and Nexus haven't been officially released here or many other countries. My thoughts is that since my phone seems to be an "imported" phone (even if i bought it trough my provider in April) if it has an IMEI that is in with all the american ones. Possibly we get the OTA together with them. Could happen i think.
Same might go for UK phones.
I'm not really holding my breath, running 5.0.8 so any time will do for me.
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Chances are you'll be on 6.0 CM froyo before Google pushes out their lame duck Nexus froyo.
How are the phone selected to receive OTA? I have a stock N1 brought in Romania and using a vodafone Ro sim card. The phone is not brought from Vodafone Ro . Vodafone Ro has not yet sold any N1 as far as I know. Up to this moment I understand that no N1 from abroad of USA has received OTA. How the selection works , by network operator, by IMEI , something else ?
Wiggz said:
Guys
Anyone got OTA Froyo in the UK yet?
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Nothing yet
Paul_L said:
How are the phone selected to receive OTA? I have a stock N1 brought in Romania and using a vodafone Ro sim card. The phone is not brought from Vodafone Ro . Vodafone Ro has not yet sold any N1 as far as I know. Up to this moment I understand that no N1 from abroad of USA has received OTA. How the selection works , by network operator, by IMEI , something else ?
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The honest answer is I'm not sure myself. I've heard conflicting reports of who distributes the OTA updates.
I suppose I'll just wait around like everyone!
Apparently it's IMEI based.
Sindroid said:
I'm wondering.. i live in Norway, and Nexus haven't been officially released here or many other countries. My thoughts is that since my phone seems to be an "imported" phone (even if i bought it trough my provider in April) if it has an IMEI that is in with all the american ones. Possibly we get the OTA together with them. Could happen i think.
Same might go for UK phones.
I'm not really holding my breath, running 5.0.8 so any time will do for me.
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I have an AT&T Nexus one imported to India. I am Using it in India since beginning. I am one of the first and very few who got the FRF83 OTA update. Nexus One is not released here. So the OTA is neither country specific nor t-mobile only.

[Q] Using HD7 on Vodafone UK Network

Afternoon gents,
I am trading my iPhone 4 for the HD7 but i don't get very good signal with O2, so i was thinking about buying the handset unlocked and then putting a Vodafone contract SIM in it.
But, will this affect phone updates as carriers control WP7 updates?
Thank you.
You will have to wait for O2 to push updates as it will have an O2 ROM on it (O2 splash logo, locked yahoo search etc).
The only way around this is to flash a Euro branded ROM using Goldcard (exactly what I did) or one of the other methods floating around in the dev thread.
What about buying the phone from one of the East Asia compaines?
Found a site which offers the handset for £250 - checked reviews everywhere and all have recieved their items without fault.
One would assume that these devices would not have the O2 ROM?
No problem with Asia Phone
I bought my HD7 from an Asian shop on ebay. No problems whatsoever and I am also on Vodafone. I did use the disconnect trick and am now runing the nodo update with no issues. I also got my 16GB phone a LOT cheaper.
Crack on, it's well worth it!
Edit: Of course it was completely inbranded
gloves085 said:
I bought my HD7 from an Asian shop on ebay. No problems whatsoever and I am also on Vodafone. I did use the disconnect trick and am now runing the nodo update with no issues. I also got my 16GB phone a LOT cheaper.
Crack on, it's well worth it!
Edit: Of course it was completely inbranded
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What's the disconnect trick?
Did Zune tell you that an update was available?
Casdawer said:
Afternoon gents,
I am trading my iPhone 4 for the HD7 but i don't get very good signal with O2, so i was thinking about buying the handset unlocked and then putting a Vodafone contract SIM in it.
But, will this affect phone updates as carriers control WP7 updates?
Thank you.
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You'll be fine i bought my via o2 but same reason due to poor data signal i ported over to vodafone, and it works brilliantly, update is fine, recently HTC push the NoDoUpdate via ZUNE and everything is runing smoothly.
Same here, I've been on Vodafone for years but pre-ordered a PAYG HD7 from O2 then just got it unlocked and has been great since.
Granted I did flash the latest Euro ROM using GOLDCARD so have no problems with updates or anything but all in all very much glad I sold on my iPhone 4 when I did, thankfully found someone nice to buy it and paid what I did as got a Unlocked one straight from Apple when they first came out.
If i bought a HD7 from the O2 shop, how would i go about unlocking it?
Would this also remove the O2 boot logo?
(You'll have to excuse my stupid questions, i do computers not phones )
You could either pay a unlock site to give you a unlock code or if you know a O2 Contract Customer they can fill out the unlock code request form online and request one for free. If you do it that way it may take two or three attempts as some guys email back and say no cos it's a contract phone but then somebody won't check as much and just issue the code, know loads of people done it this way, took 2 attempts to get mine.
As for the branding NO it would not get rid of it, to do that you would need to flash the phone with a different ROM like a HTC Euro ROM using such as the GOLDCARD Method. This will not make any difference to your unlock status so you know so you can't unlock it by flashing another ROM, and you can flash as often as you want and it won't relock the phone, once it's unlocked it's unlocked.
gloves085 said:
I bought my HD7 from an Asian shop on ebay. No problems whatsoever and I am also on Vodafone. I did use the disconnect trick and am now runing the nodo update with no issues. I also got my 16GB phone a LOT cheaper.
Crack on, it's well worth it!
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If you had to do the disconnect trick then it isnt de-branded.
The debranded HD7s got the update on the day of release.
I got my HD7 from O2, unlocked it through O2, and then left and went to 3.
I also did the debranded as said on here, which was nice and easy, and I got the nodo update on the day of release
loomx said:
If you had to do the disconnect trick then it isnt de-branded.
The debranded HD7s got the update on the day of release.
I got my HD7 from O2, unlocked it through O2, and then left and went to 3.
I also did the debranded as said on here, which was nice and easy, and I got the nodo update on the day of release
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I assure it is unbranded and the update was not available on the day of release as reported all over the web. I have since however rolled back the update and received the official update with HTC additions via Zune.

S3 i9305 LTE unlocking advice please

Hi guys just bought a new samsung S3 i9305 LTE but its on orange (uk) and i want to use it on t-mobile (uk), can any give me some instructions on what software to use where to get the software and how to use the software please?
also is it different software to unlock the S3 LTE and If root my S3 LTE will it affect the fuctionality of the 4G when it launch?
thanks for any help
sealover1 said:
Hi guys just bought a new samsung S3 i9305 LTE but its on orange (uk) and i want to use it on t-mobile (uk), can any give me some instructions on what software to use where to get the software and how to use the software please?
also is it different software to unlock the S3 LTE and If root my S3 LTE will it affect the fuctionality of the 4G when it launch?
thanks for any help
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Orange and T-Mobile phones don't need unlocking if used on each others network
Yeah, very technically, Orange and T-Mobile don't exist anymore. My GF's S3 says "EE" on it now.
yeh they do seem to work with t-mobile in and my mrs put her o2 sim in and that works as well ... was told they were locked but seems to be working fine on orange , o2 and t-mobile which is lucky as no body seems to know how to unlock the LTE 4g models yet...
sealover1 said:
yeh they do seem to work with t-mobile in and my mrs put her o2 sim in and that works as well ... was told they were locked but seems to be working fine on orange , o2 and t-mobile which is lucky as no body seems to know how to unlock the LTE 4g models yet...
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Hi mate, did you buy your S3 LTE from Orange Pay as you go and managed to use a o2 Sim card without unlocking?
As I'm planning on getting the same phone but using my o2 sim card, if you can confirm this that would be great
Also is there an Orange splash screen on start up of the phone, how much Orange branding is there?
Cheers
lainuxuk said:
Hi mate, did you buy your S3 LTE from Orange Pay as you go and managed to use a o2 Sim card without unlocking?
As I'm planning on getting the same phone but using my o2 sim card, if you can confirm this that would be great
Also is there an Orange splash screen on start up of the phone, how much Orange branding is there?
Cheers
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yes m8 I bought 2 of them both on orange and they both work with orange, t-mobile, and o2... been few days now and rebooted and all seems fine still
sorry.. theres no orange branding on either of our phones why should there be?
sealover1 said:
yes m8 I bought 2 of them both on orange and they both work with orange, t-mobile, and o2... been few days now and rebooted and all seems fine still
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Cool nice one Is there an Orange branded splash screen when you start up the phone
Thanks for the quick reply!
lainuxuk said:
Cool nice one Is there an Orange branded splash screen when you start up the phone
Thanks for the quick reply!
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theres no orange branding on either of our phones why should there be?
sealover1 said:
theres no orange branding on either of our phones why should there be?
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Good to hear!
I thought Orange would put their own ROM/branded software onto the phone as the S3 LTE appears to be exclusive to orange at the moment.
Thanks for your info, think I'm going to order my S3 LTE titanium tonight from Orange
lainuxuk said:
Good to hear!
I thought Orange would put their own ROM/branded software onto the phone as the S3 LTE appears to be exclusive to orange at the moment.
Thanks for your info, think I'm going to order my S3 LTE titanium tonight from Orange tonight
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no there not exclusive to orange youcan buy them on ebay from most now, mine is orange but it was bought from a t-mobile shop as they were only £449 each two days before they were £360 i was gutted lol
sealover1 said:
no there not exclusive to orange youcan buy them on ebay from most now, mine is orange but it was bought from a t-mobile shop as they were only £449 each two days before they were £360 i was gutted lol
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Out of curiousity have you tried another Network sim apart from Orange/T-Mobile/O2 and does it work
lainuxuk said:
Out of curiousity have you tried another Network sim apart from Orange/T-Mobile/O2 and does it work
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no that was the only sims we had to hand but as sims are free now if someone wants to send me a diff one to try for them i could do for them if they liked
Ordered my phone from the Orange website tonight, should be with me on Monday, fingers crossed my ones works with o2 too
lainuxuk said:
Ordered my phone from the Orange website tonight, should be with me on Monday, fingers crossed my ones works with o2 too
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Fingers crossed mate let me know how you get on
lainuxuk said:
Ordered my phone from the Orange website tonight, should be with me on Monday, fingers crossed my ones works with o2 too
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Fingers crossed mate let me know how you get on
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Fingers crossed mate let me know how you get on
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My T-Mobile handset will not work with my GiffGaff SIM. Has anyone else tried this combination?
lainuxuk said:
Ordered my phone from the Orange website tonight, should be with me on Monday, fingers crossed my ones works with o2 too
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Mate I ordered my i9305 from orange on pay as you natter on 9 October - still haven't got it yet. Not sure if I'm particularly unlucky of if the titanium version is just out of stock but I've chased them twice and checking online it just says order is being readied for dispatch. When i made the order it said on the receipt it would be sent out within 2 days but that was clearly a lie!
Would be interested to know how quickly yours arrives. Also how are people getting hold of the t-mob payg version? I thought it was only available from orange online on payg...
Aeroadster said:
My T-Mobile handset will not work with my GiffGaff SIM. Has anyone else tried this combination?
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I have a spare GiffGaff sim, shall give it a try when my handset arrives, my e-mail said it would arrive with me on Monday, though not received a dispatch e-mail yet.
i bought mine in a t-mobile shop for £449 the gun metal gry as well. never wanted to wait for the post lol
Yesterday I bought titanium i9305 from ee store and cancelled my order from orange online, should have done it weeks ago.
Bought an unlock code from mobileunlocked, cost 15 quid and phone was unlocked and using giffgaff SIM in less than 20 mins.
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Will I be able to get Pie on my P20 Pro?

Hello everyone,
I really want a P20 Pro. I'm in the U.S. and would be using the factory unlocked Canadian ( CLT-L04 ) version of the phone via AT&T. It's soo much trouble getting this phone in the States. One of the things I'm most concerned about is getting the Android Pie update. It's supposed to start rolling out on the 10th, and I cannot find a concrete answer if I will be able to get it on my device. Contacted Huawei via facebook and asked and this was their response...
" Regarding your concern about updates; please bear in mind that, all of our updates are rolled out in batches according to the IMEI number and geographical region. If you own an unlock device, it will take a little more time to get updates. When the update are released, the carriers are in charge to send the update OTA."
When the update are released, the carriers are in charge to send the update OTA - That part has me concerned. Since I'll be on AT&T and it's not an officially supported device by AT&T, it sounds to me that I won't be able to get the update.
Anybody else in the U.S. that could help provide some insight on this?
Thanks in advance,
Rob
worst case is that you have to update it manually but that is pretty easy but i have no doubt that they will update every p20 pro to pie BUt it also depends on the carrier so getting a unlocked/unbranded device is a big plus for updates.
RiTCHiE007 said:
worst case is that you have to update it manually but that is pretty easy but i have no doubt that they will update every p20 pro to pie BUt it also depends on the carrier so getting a unlocked/unbranded device is a big plus for updates.
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Thanks so much for the info! So the listing says this... "Only International items are Factory Unlocked without carrier logo and/or region lock." Without carrier logo I'm assuming means unbranded ( excuse my ignorance, I've never purchased a phone I couldn't just pick up in the store ) . So I should be able to get the Pie update without issue?
LonestarROB said:
Thanks so much for the info! So the listing says this... "Only International items are Factory Unlocked without carrier logo and/or region lock." Without carrier logo I'm assuming means unbranded ( excuse my ignorance, I've never purchased a phone I couldn't just pick up in the store ) . So I should be able to get the Pie update without issue?
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Yea seems like it and you can always flash some unbranded firmware tho if needed
Thanks! Sure hope you're right. Just purchased the last one the seller had.
Units sold by carriers in Canada are unlocked and unbranded. Mine is from Koodo/Telus and it's unlocked straight out of the box (it's the law in Canada) and doesn't have any carrier branding or carrier apps.
I think that as long as you are connected to the internet (mobile data or WiFi), you will get the update when a carrier releases it.
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TadMorose said:
Units sold by carriers in Canada are unlocked and unbranded. Mine is from Koodo/Telus and it's unlocked straight out of the box (it's the law in Canada) and doesn't have any carrier branding or carrier apps.
I think that as long as you are connected to the internet (mobile data or WiFi), you will get the update when a carrier releases it.
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That's the concern I have though. I'm not on a carrier ( At&t ) that carries this phone.
Now that I've ordered the phone, I'm having a hard time finding screen protectors and cases for it. Ones I like that is.
I have the same concern. I bought my P20 Pro by an importer, since here in Brazil it is not officially sold. I know the model is from Latin America because it is a CLT-L29 C605. But since I bought it, it just made an update and I'm still with the July update (8.1.0.152) since then.
So I'm in doubt if I'm actually getting the Pie right now on the 10th.
It's unlocked.
I'm loving the device, but it's sad to know that I have a smartphone released this year, last generation and I don't have updates support for it.
rafaelpc80 said:
I have the same concern. I bought my P20 Pro by an importer, since here in Brazil it is not officially sold. I know the model is from Latin America because it is a CLT-L29 C605. But since I bought it, it just made an update and I'm still with the July update (8.1.0.152) since then.
So I'm in doubt if I'm actually getting the Pie right now on the 10th.
It's unlocked.
I'm loving the device, but it's sad to know that I have a smartphone released this year, last generation and I don't have updates support for it.
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Well here's to the best of luck to both of us . Mines supposed to arrive tomorrow.
RiTCHiE007 said:
worst case is that you have to update it manually but that is pretty easy but i have no doubt that they will update every p20 pro to pie BUt it also depends on the carrier so getting a unlocked/unbranded device is a big plus for updates.
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Ignorance again as I've never ventured into this territory. Would you mind explaining how, if I don't get the update, to update it manually?
LonestarROB said:
Ignorance again as I've never ventured into this territory. Would you mind explaining how, if I don't get the update, to update it manually?
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Its not that hard so just read this article https://www.androidpit.com/firmware-updates-huawei-honor and i think there is a guide posted in the p20 pro section on this forum also
Thanks man!
LonestarROB said:
That's the concern I have though. I'm not on a carrier ( At&t ) that carries this phone.
Now that I've ordered the phone, I'm having a hard time finding screen protectors and cases for it. Ones I like that is.
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I'm almost 100% sure that once Canadian carriers push the update you'll get it to. Has nothing to do with the carrier your on, updates are IMEI and model related. So if it's say a Telus/Koodo phone, you'll get the update when they push it.
That's been my experience anyways.
Ps. I'm using the same phone on Koodo now.
You should be on firmware .120 correct?
Mr Patchy Patch said:
I'm almost 100% sure that once Canadian carriers push the update you'll get it to. Has nothing to do with the carrier your on, updates are IMEI and model related. So if it's say a Telus/Koodo phone, you'll get the update when they push it.
That's been my experience anyways.
Ps. I'm using the same phone on Koodo now.
You should be on firmware .120 correct?
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I'm not sure. Phone should be delivered today.
LonestarROB said:
I'm not sure. Phone should be delivered today.
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Check it when you get it.
But you'll be fine for updates.
So receiving the updates to the phone varies by the carrier? The carrier is the one that has to push the updates, like T-Mobile...?
ZeusftW97 said:
So receiving the updates to the phone varies by the carrier? The carrier is the one that has to push the updates, like T-Mobile...?
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Carriers push the updates yes. But say I buy a phone outright from Rogers and I use it on Telus...Rogers will push the updates to the phone, not the carrier I use it on. And I think it happens because the IMEI would originally be in the Rogers database.
This has happened to me several times now.
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Carriers push the updates yes. But say I buy a phone outright from Rogers and I use it on Telus...Rogers will push the updates to the phone, not the carrier I use it on. And I think it happens because the IMEI would originally be in the Rogers database.
This has happened to me several times now.
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My phone isnt branded, so I dont know what carrier it is... because I bought it off a tech-store.
And for network, I am from Macedonia and I use VIP-MK sim card, which, as you said VIP wouldnt push the updates because the phone isnt from there, I don't know from where they're getting the phones to their warehouses, haha.
I just got a new update tho, b159, hopefully I will get the newest update after I install this one. ^^
ZeusftW97 said:
My phone isnt branded, so I dont know what carrier it is... because I bought it off a tech-store.
And for network, I am from Macedonia and I use VIP-MK sim card, which, as you said VIP wouldnt push the updates because the phone isnt from there, I don't know from where they're getting the phones to their warehouses, haha.
I just got a new update tho, b159, hopefully I will get the newest update after I install this one. ^^
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Possible that if it's unbranded and belongs to no carrier that you'd receive the updates from Huawei servers?
Mr Patchy Patch said:
Possible that if it's unbranded and belongs to no carrier that you'd receive the updates from Huawei servers?
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I dont think so.
Because there are a lot of updates for my phone to firmware finder, which I think they're from Huawei's servers, right?
And since I boight my phone like a month ago, this is my first update. I was kinda stuck at 152 with July's security patches, and a while ago I received 159 with October's security patches. All I want to say by this is that if I'd receive the updates from Huawei, I'd have now the newest security patches, which is 161 version I think.
Who knows...that's just my opinion.

Pixel ee uk sim unlock?

Considering getting a pixel 5 but it's locked to ee UK network. I know in the past pixels from EE were impossible to sim unlock, privately away from EE. Is that still the case as I am hoping to sim unlock abs use my 02 sim card. Also if I was to unlock it from EE to 02, will I be able to use the esim feature?
marvi0 said:
Considering getting a pixel 5 but it's locked to ee UK network. I know in the past pixels from EE were impossible to sim unlock, privately away from EE. Is that still the case as I am hoping to sim unlock abs use my 02 sim card. Also if I was to unlock it from EE to 02, will I be able to use the esim feature?
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Ee still locked ,but gov have put a law through saying next year all phones have to be sold unlocked so that's good but don't know when
jaythenut said:
Ee still locked ,but gov have put a law through saying next year all phones have to be sold unlocked so that's good but don't know when
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Thanks, can the ee ones be unlocked?
marvi0 said:
Thanks, can the ee ones be unlocked?
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Only through the network provider still currently. Automatically unlocks after 721 days :-|
Or £8.99 for second hand devices.
spikeydoo2006 said:
Only through the network provider still currently. Automatically unlocks after 721 days :-|
Or £8.99 for second hand devices.
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Thanks buddy, just as I suspected, many thanks.

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