Recent content by PurpleTentacle

I'm in the beta. Yes. It's getting most of the features, actually.

Looks like you have a local hotspot enabled on your phone. If that's not intentional, you should disable it.

That's intentional and has been around for several Android/EMUI versions. It's unlikely that Huawei will stop doing this crap in 8.1. My tipp: say goodbye to reliable notifications, even with massive whitelisting from Huawei's awful battery magement that's pretty much impossible to achieve...

Many Huawei customers are idiots and sadly Huawei's customer support isn't well informed. I wouldn't put any weight on the words of a single CSR. Yes, EMUI doesn't expose the encryption status to consumers - which is indeed worrisome and a problem in itself. But I'm reasonably certain that...

I just explained the difference between FBE and FDE and why your support agent most likely had no clue what they are taking about. But my explanation included a link and some over eager bot deleted it.

https://yourtechexplained.com/2016/12/08/explained-android-nougat-file-based-encryption/ I just looked it up, the Mate 9 shipped with Nougat. It's using FBE with near certainty. Or it would have been denied Google certification and therefore Play Store access. The same goes for the Mate 10...

How is that even possible given that Google absolutely requires all Android 6.0+ devices to not only support full device encryption but also have it enabled by default. The Mate 9 was released with 6.0, right? And it was Google certified - so it has to have been fully encrypted. How would it...