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    How do I upgrade my Huawei P8?

    Re: How to upgrade Huawei P8 There is a big thread on XDA about installing the marshmellow update. You need to update to b200 first then to the latest one. Works on all GRA-l09 as far as I know. You copy the update to your SD card in a special created folder then the utility picks it up. Im on...
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    How is battery life on the Huawei P8?

    Whats everyone getting? My one is on 5.0 currently and started off quite good getting 48hours with 4 on screen but it has developed some Google play service bug now where this is using far and away the most battery. A factory reset resolved for a few days but its back again. I have disabled...
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    Smart cover quirk

    Hi guys Does anyone use a smart cover? I got a Nillkin one which is really nice and works fine apart from one major problem. Touch is not registered through the glass screen so I cannot change clocks, answer calls or anthing. Ive double checked settings for this and cant understand why it wont...
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    Horrible battery life: Overnight/standby battery drain.

    I also had this issue, when i purchased the phone the first week it was lucky to make it a work day with 1hr of screen on. I figured it would be pointless factory resetting from boot as it was a brand new phone but I did it anyway and problem solved. I can get about 40 hours on with 3.5hrs sot...
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    P8 and stock email app not "pushing"

    Ok an update on this. I have discovered that exchange accounts can be set to sync automatically(push) but IMAP accounts dont have this option. They do in third party clients just not the emiui 3.1 one it would seem which sucks.
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    P8 and stock email app not "pushing"

    Yea everything is set correctly. I have mobile data always on and this allowed for email. If I install bluemail it works ok Stock app only syncs exchange when on wifi or others when I open the app and refresh them manually So annoying. Im on 5.0 Posted via the Android Central App
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    P8 and stock email app not "pushing"

    Hi Guys Bought this phone the otherday and so far its great except for one issue. I am loving the stock email app as it looks great and is very fast compared to say Bluemail. Problem is my emails dont come in (one exchange one a home imap and one hotmail) unless I open the app and refresh the...