Huawei mate 10

hardkore · 11 Jan 2018 at 18:12

Nice one and welcome to the club bud.

Mylestheone · 12 Jan 2018 at 14:15

DrToffnar said:
Well, I did it.

Sent the Note 8 out for return and ordered in a Pro. I just couldn't justify keeping the Note 8 without being able to get a full days charge from it.

I think you'll enjoy the experience. EMUI does look a bit like a iOS copy but it subsides after a few hours. Hopefully you'll be on the newer update which fixes most of the issues I had. Either way battery life is a joy

DrToffnar · 12 Jan 2018 at 14:24

Mylestheone said:
I think you'll enjoy the experience. EMUI does look a bit like a iOS copy but it subsides after a few hours. Hopefully you'll be on the newer update which fixes most of the issues I had. Either way battery life is a joy

Tbf, anything that's not stock android has only lasted about a week before it's changed for Nova Launcher. I'm just looking forward to not having to turn cool features of for fear of battery drain...

Mylestheone · 12 Jan 2018 at 14:28

DrToffnar said:
Tbf, anything that's not stock android has only lasted about a week before it's changed for Nova Launcher. I'm just looking forward to not having to turn cool features of for fear of battery drain...

Oh yeah I meant the notification bar, settings icons etc. Nova is a must on all my phones.

The stock launcher is GHASTLY. Had this horrible golden theme that wouldn't look out of place on a Goldust fan's phone lol

DagsJT · 12 Jan 2018 at 18:17

I read there's issues with Nova on the Mate 10 so I tried Evie. Works well, minimal and does the job for me.

DrToffnar · 12 Jan 2018 at 20:07

Well got home, excitedly unboxed the phone and... Zero charge...

Thought perhaps I'd been sent a faulty model. Plugged it in and after 10 minutes of nothing but a flashing red led indicator I've now got a solid red one...

Gonna leave it for half an hour and see what's happening then. First time I've ever received a device with zero charge out the box :/

hardkore · 12 Jan 2018 at 20:39

Mine was the same and read similar stories online. Don't worry it's not just you.

Mylestheone · 12 Jan 2018 at 20:45

DrToffnar said:
Well got home, excitedly unboxed the phone and... Zero charge...

Thought perhaps I'd been sent a faulty model. Plugged it in and after 10 minutes of nothing but a flashing red led indicator I've now got a solid red one...

Gonna leave it for half an hour and see what's happening then. First time I've ever received a device with zero charge out the box :/

Same. Mine was also FREEZING it was so so cold. Felt like the phone had been stored in a freezer. It did come on after leaving it to charge for a bit

DrToffnar · 12 Jan 2018 at 23:23

All sorted guys! Thanks for the feedback

First impressions are I'm not a fan of that proprietary UI at all. Usually a week or two before I resort to Nova Launcher but went straight to the playstore this time round.

The bloatware is aplenty too! You guys rocking a disabler to clear out some of the hidden stuff?

Overall, love the rest of the setup so far. Images aren't quite as poppy as they are on the Note 8 but that's to be expected. Nice and snappy, relatively clean settings menu, if not a little IOS inspired, as you guys mentioned.

hardkore · 13 Jan 2018 at 01:27

I've just hidden most of the pre installed apps via nova launcher. Luckily they aren't that intrusive or performance sapping so I just left them hidden.

By images do you mean the general screen contrast? You can bump the display colours to vivid under display settings

Mylestheone · 13 Jan 2018 at 07:09

I didn't bother with any disablers, that's more of a Samsung thing to be honest. Long press on apps you don't want/use. Most of them can be uninstalled or disabled. And yeah, told you the stock launcher has a horrid UI lol

hardkore · 13 Jan 2018 at 09:43

Just a heads up chaps, Huawei giving you £100 cashback if you bought the phone SIM free or via contract from specific retailers.

More info https://huaweipromo.co.uk/gb/en/pages/m10pro/how-it-works

DrToffnar · 13 Jan 2018 at 10:17

Ahh dammit, just outside the order window I think

Have any of you guys noticed a bit of auto brightness/screen difference when changing between some apps? Might just be me, but I swear the contrast or something is changing at times.

tiffanys · 13 Jan 2018 at 10:46

hardkore said:
Just a heads up chaps, Huawei giving you £100 cashback if you bought the phone SIM free or via contract from specific retailers.

More info https://huaweipromo.co.uk/gb/en/pages/m10pro/how-it-works

that is good.

DagsJT · 13 Jan 2018 at 11:24

I think I'll move mine on and move to a Pixel 2. Not wholly impressed with the camera still and my little hands would prefer the smaller phone size that I'm used to anyway.

Excellent phone in general. Speed is superb, battery life is outstanding. I'd still highly recommend it.

Mylestheone · 13 Jan 2018 at 14:18

DrToffnar said:
Ahh dammit, just outside the order window I think

Have any of you guys noticed a bit of auto brightness/screen difference when changing between some apps? Might just be me, but I swear the contrast or something is changing at times.

Typical Huawei nonsense unfortunately

https://forums.androidcentral.com/h...rightness-changes-when-opening-some-apps.html
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-10/help/brightness-automatically-reduced-apps-t3697589

apparently going to be fixed whenever they get around to updating to 8.1 - It was one of the smaller things that annoyed me about the phone though.

DrToffnar · 14 Jan 2018 at 20:35

Ahhh that's unfortunate. Still, least they've acknowledged it.

Can't believe the battery on this thing. Didn't think any other big flagship could best my OP5...

Mylestheone · 16 Jan 2018 at 16:03

Yeah it really does run for a long time.

DrToffnar · 8 Feb 2018 at 11:35

They seriously need to fix that brightness adjusting issue when going between apps. It's so incredibly distracting!

Simps · 11 Feb 2018 at 23:52

Can anyone comment on if the camera is better on this (pro version) than the OnePlus 5T.
Cheers.