Honor 4X - Official EMUI 4.0 for South East Asia ( CHE2-L11C636B510 )

Official Marshmallow update for Honor / Huawei phone are being released rapidly, just as other phone earlier, Honor / Huawei have officially release the EMUI 4.0 update for Honor 4X. This update is the most anticipated since Lollipop because of the additional feature that EMUI 4.0 brings to the phone. This update file seems like a master update file and may be able to update even from Kitkat (EMUI 3.0).

Honor 4X - Official South Asia EMUI 4.0 update (CHE2-L11c636B510)

* Updated with Version Build support (Only applied to listed build)

Official Marshmallow update for Honor / Huawei phone are being released rapidly, just as other phone earlier, Honor / Huawei have officially release the EMUI 4.0 update for Honor 4X. This update is the most anticipated since Lollipop because of the additional feature that EMUI 4.0 brings to the phone. This update file seems like a master update file and may be able to update even from Kitkat (EMUI 3.0).

Honor 4X - How to update to EMUI 3.1 Android Lollipop (European Model)

This update have been available a while but it wasn't readily available sadly to everyone in Europe. A reader on this blog from Europe was asking about their region specific update and somehow that part we didn't cover properly.

EMUI 4.0 - Enabling Adopted Storage

EMUI 4.0 brings a lot of new feature that are Marshmallow native and also EMUI exclusive but there is one additional feature that most phone manufacturer omitted from their menu including Huawei. Adopted Storage was a new feature that was added to Marshmallow in light of the complaints regarding Lollipop issue with SD Cards. In Lollipop, not all app could be moved to SD Card and the worst is the apps would be moved back to internal storage once any update is installed.

Before we go further in showing how it is done, we would need to advise all of you that doing this might gave issue to your current setup that could lead to data corruption and lost. There are valid reasons to why this adopted storage wasn't included in most phone manufacturer menu and one of it is for system stability.

Honor 4C and Honor 4X - EMUI 4.0 Beta registration is now available (Android 6.0 Marshmallow)

Good news to all Honor 4X and Honor 4C users, the Android 6 (Marshmallow) BETA registration for both device is now available. With these 2 phones added, we can assume that Official EMUI 4.0 will be available in the near future for almost all Honor phones released since 2014. Kudos to Honor for providing updates to these phones as its already have 2 major version since release with EMUI 3.0 (Kitkat) and EMUI 3.1 (Lollipop).

EMUI 3.1 Update - Malaysian Official Update files for your Huawei and Honor Devices

Huawei Malaysia and Honor Malaysia has finalized the release of all supported device update for EMUI 3.1. Because of the updates comes fast and with multiple device at a time, we made a decision to compiled all update in a single post to make things easier for readers. This post would be the main featured post on our blog until the next major EMUI update will be available.

Honor 4X and 4C - Official Malaysia update available (B360)

The official Malaysia update file are now available for both Honor 4X and Honor 4C to download from Huawei Malaysia support page. Understandably, the updates are not pass thru OTA because of the phone own limitation in the internal memory and could lead to many more issue with low storage.

Honor 4X - Official Asia pacific EMUI 3.1 Lollipop update (C636B330)

Honor are making true to their promise by making Lollipop update available to almost all phones that was release after Honor 3c and 3c lite. The most recent would be Honor 4X CHE2-L11 lollipop EMUI 3.1 update was release to the public last week. The offline update came at a huge 1.4GB zip file that would be almost 3GB (2642MB) extracted.

Honor 4X - Restore stock recovery to enable update

Honor 4X is one of the most popular smartphone release by Honor last year and a lot of the users actually rooted their phone. If you are root using the method posted on our blog here, here is the method for you to install update to your rooted phone. This post is a result of a comment posted on our root method post asking how to enable update installation.

Honor 4C - Official Android 5.1 Lollipop update available (India)

Honor 4C (the smaller screen sibling of 4X) has been given an official update to Lollipop from Honor India. The update came in the form of a manual update and not OTA as expected on the 21st September. Honor 4C is a device that is internationally similar for all available market thus making this update as an international device update also.

Stage Fright - Google still playing catch-up but some forked Android fare better

Stage fright may be the worst bug that ever appear on any android and after almost a month after the public announcement, google are still unable to patch it properly. This might not be the best advertisement for Google and specially Nexus phone if this is dealt swiftly. Only last week Google and Samsung announce that both of these company would emulate PC to bring monthly security updates for their phone starting august.

EMUI 3.1 - Lollipop 5.1 BETA update for Honor 4X and Honor 4C is available

* Update : Offical EMUI 3.1 for Honor 4C is available (India firmware)

We have posted earlier about the open registration of BETA EMUI 3.1 (android 5.1) update for users in Malaysia and today, Honor Malaysia have surprise users in Malaysia by not sending OTA update but letting user download the update themself. The update (BETA) seems to be the exact file distributed in Europe base on the naming convention of the update files. The biggest drawback is the update is not an OTA update so anyone installing the update would lose all your data, please backup.

EMUI 3.1 Beta - Honor 4c and Honor 4X is next for Lollipop update

EMUI 3.1 and Lollipop is coming thick and fast for Honor models and now it is time for Honor 4X and Honor 4C. Honor 4X and Honor 4C was launched with EMUI 3.0 and Kitkat just months ago and now Honor Malaysia is sending email to all Honor 4X and 4C buyer for Beta testing invite. The same method will be applied to this update as such as the Beta for earlier Honor 6 mobile.

Meizu M2 Note - Benchmarking MT6753 vs Kirin 620 (Honor 4X)

MediaTek's previously announced MT6753, arrived commercially in the form of Meizu M2 Note. With considerably slower maximum CPU speeds for the eight CPU cores, as well as a lower performance GPU, the newer M2 note is not an upgrade as the name suggest but more of a new option for a different market. The lower cost of the MT6753 platform gave Meizu M2 Note a lower price point and gave Meizu the ability to join the lower priced phablet war.

With the new cheaper SoC used in Meizu M2 Note, its now a direct competitor to Honor 4X, the earlier M1 Note is slightly higher priced. This post will look at how does the latest SoC fare if being put head to head with Huawei's own Hisilicon Kirin 620. Both of this phone are priced at 999 CNY and both is using a lower performance chipset that was made to be more balanced in term of performance while giving better battery life.

Huawei P8 Lite - European availability and comparison with Honor 4x / 4c

After the major announcement of Huawie newest flagship in the form of P8 and the P8 Max, another smaller sibling appear in announced in the P8 Lite. It's now available in Europe and would be available in many other countries later this year. This smallest sibling might not be getting the limelight as the other P8s but this smart phone still would make a good buy just by looking at the specs offered.

P8 Lite as the name suggested is the lower model of Huawei P8 but the difference are only at the internal hardware with P8 Lite still retains the unibody and the build quality that you could expect from a flagship devices. In a glance, we could tell that this phone would be having a similar performance as the Honor 4x / Honor 4c as it shares the same internal hardware.

Lenovo A7000 vs Honor 4X - Technical spec comparison

The recently launched Lenovo A7000 will fight head on with Honor 4X as the best phone under RM700 (USD $193). The budget phablet currently available exclusively through online purchase throughout South East Asia just as Honor sells their phone. The similarity doesn't end there as both phone spot almost an identical spec with 5.5 inch screen, 8GB ROM (expandable), 64 bit Octa-core, 2GB RAM and physical navigation bar.

Lenovo A7000 is available in Malaysia for pre-order thru Lazada and the official sale would start on the 20th May. This Lenovo A7000 smartphone are marketed as the first ever phone that are equipped with Dolby Atmos support that would simulate a full surround sound even on any stereo headphone. Another selling point is this phone would be loaded with Android Lollipop on Vibe UI, making this on of the earliest adopter of Lollipop on Mediatek's MT6752m chipset.

Honor 4x Che2-L11 - How to root Honor 4x (Kirin 620)

* Honor 4x - Kirin 620 vs Snapdragon 410
* Disclaimer : We are not responsible for bricked device and your warranty will be void
Honor 4x came in multiple device format but there are 2 distinct version, the Snapdragon 410 and the Hisilicon Kirin 620. Both of this device is named according to their configuration based on Honor Cherry family where Che1 is for Snapdragon and Che2 for Kirin 620. The later number in the naming convention is to differentiate specific models and the drivers (for ROM update / flash purpose)

In this article, we will show how to Root your Kirin 620 based phone (Che2-L11 (international), Che2-L12, Che2-L23, Che2-TL00, Che2-TL00H, Che2-TL00M and Che2-UL00) with the exploit created for Che2-tl00h model that is available in China. Luckily for us, the Che2-tL00 is exactly the same configuration as our Che2-L11 with Dual 4G standby, 8GB storage and 2GB of RAM. In order to do this, we need to unlocked the bootloader and that would means a full factory reset would be applied. Android would wipe all data in the event of bootloader unlocked for security reasons.

Honor 4x - Battle of the brain , Snapdragon 410 vs Kirin 620

Honor 4x is the latest phone available from the Huawei stable under the sub branding of Honor. The 5.5 inch mid tier phablet is the latest but not the greatest in the Honor line. One thing that this Honor 4x bring to the table is this would be the first 64bit SoC available on any Honor phone. The 64bit capability is not with its own twist with Honor 4x came in two different SoC model.

The recently available Honor 4x in Malaysia came with Huawei owned Kirin 620, this is very different from the earlier batch that was sold in India that was powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 410. Both of these SoC is 64bit enable running on ARM's A53 architecture but running in a very distinct configuration to say at least. This post will look at both options available and what would stand out in both of these processor option.