Huawei P30/P30 Pro

Hamsterchops

I recently bought a Xiaomi RedMi 6a

Never gonna set the world on fire, but glad I bought that brand instead of Huawei.
Hopefully the issue won't spread to other Chinese brands like Xiaomi.

Griffinx

Can anyone recommend a screen protector for my P30.. The one that came it has a few scratches.

Eg is this one any good

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PFJT4RX/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_F2g5CbCJY0BYR

kitten_k

Hey I have a P30 but when I delete a pic from the gallery that I received through WhatsApp it also deletes from the app. How can I fix this please

OldMrBrennan83

Do Huawei have anything along the lines of Smartswitch for initial setup?

youcancallmeal

kitten_k wrote: »

Hey I have a P30 but when I delete a pic from the gallery that I received through WhatsApp it also deletes from the app. How can I fix this please

WhatsApp stores it's pictures in a folder in your gallery so you what you're describing is normal behaviour unfortunately. You can delete a whatsapp pic in the gallery and then download it again through the app if you want but I think you can only do it for so long before the pic becomes unavailable.

kitten_k

youcancallmeal wrote: »

WhatsApp stores it's pictures in a folder in your gallery so you what you're describing is normal behaviour unfortunately. You can delete a whatsapp pic in the gallery and then download it again through the app if you want but I think you can only do it for so long before the pic becomes unavailable.

Is there any way to delete it from the gallery but not the WhatsApp app?

kitten_k

This is what happens when I try to go back into the photo on the app

Eggonyerface

kitten_k wrote: »

Is there any way to delete it from the gallery but not the WhatsApp app?

I don't think so,but going foward you can select the option in whatsapp settings for media not to show in your gallery completely(settings/chats/media visibility) or you can select this option by each chat separately (press the contact or group name in the top of the chat,then select media visibility)

Cudders

Anybody else still waiting on their speaker from pre order?

Captcha

"By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist

A U.S. businessman friend of mine who works in China remarked to me recently that Donald Trump is not the American president America deserves, but he sure is the American president China deserves.

Trump’s instinct that America needs to rebalance its trade relationship with Beijing — before China gets too big to compromise — is correct. And it took a human wrecking ball like Trump to get China’s attention. But now that we have it, both countries need to recognize just how pivotal this moment is.

The original U.S.-China opening back in the 1970s defined our restored trade ties, which were limited. When we let China join the World Trade Organization in 2001, it propelled China into a trading powerhouse under rules that still gave China lots of concessions as a developing economy.

This new negotiation will define how the U.S. and China relate as economic peers, competing for the same 21st-century industries, at a time when our markets are totally intertwined. So this is no ordinary trade dispute. This is the big one.

For it to end well, Trump will have to stop with his juvenile taunting of China on Twitter (and talking about how trade wars are “easy” to win) and quietly forge the best rebalancing deal we can get — we probably can’t fix everything at once — and move on, without stumbling unthinkingly into a forever tariff war.

And China’s president, Xi Jinping, will have to recognize that China can no longer enjoy the trading privileges it has had over the last 40 years, so he’d be wise to curb his nationalistic “no-one-tells-China-what-to-do” bluster and look for the best win-win deal he can get. Because Beijing can’t afford America and others shifting their manufacturing to “ABC,” Anywhere-But-China, supply chains.

Here is how we got here: Since the 1970s, the U.S.-China trade relationship has been pretty constant: We bought China’s toys, T-shirts, tennis shoes, machine tools and solar panels, and it bought our soybeans, beef and Boeings.

And when the trade balance got too out of whack — because China grew not only by hard work, by building smart infrastructure and by educating its people, but also by forcing technology transfers from U.S. companies, subsidizing its own companies, maintaining high tariffs, ignoring W.T.O. rulings and stealing intellectual property — Beijing placated us by buying more Boeings, beef and soybeans.

China kept insisting it was still “a poor developing country” that needed extra protection long after it had become the world’s largest manufacturer by far. Nevertheless, the relationship worked for enough U.S. companies enough of the time that the world’s biggest incumbent superpower, America, accommodated and effectively facilitated the rise of the world’s next largest superpower, China. And together they made globalization more pervasive and the world more prosperous.

And then some changes too big to ignore set in. First, China under Xi announced a “Made in China 2025” modernization plan, promising subsidies to make China’s private and state-owned companies the world leaders in supercomputing, A.I., new materials, 3-D printing, facial-recognition software, robotics, electric cars, autonomous vehicles, 5G wireless and advanced microchips.

This was a natural move for a China aiming to leap out of the middle-income ranks and to reduce its dependency on the West for high-tech. But all these new industries compete directly with America’s best companies.

As a result, all China’s subsidies, protectionism, cheating on trade rules, forced technology transfers and stealing of intellectual property since the 1970s became a much greater threat. If the U.S. and Europe allowed China to continue operating by the same formula that it had used to grow from poverty to compete for all the industries of the future, we’d be crazy. Trump is right about that.

Where he is wrong is that trade is not like war. Unlike war, it can be a win-win proposition. Alibaba, UnionPay, Baidu and Tencent and Google, Amazon, Facebook and Visa can all win at the same time — and they have been. I’m not sure Trump understands that.

But I’m not sure Xi does, either. We have to let China win fair and square where its companies are better, but it has to be ready to lose fair and square, too. Who can say how much more prosperous Google and Amazon would be today if they had been able to operate as freely in China as Alibaba and Tencent can operate in America?

And how much money did China save — to subsidize its own companies — when its military stole the plans for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth fighter and then made its own carbon copy, avoiding all the R & D costs?

I repeat: Trade can be win-win, but the winning shares can be distorted when one side is working hard and cheating at the same time. We could look the other way when trade was just about toys and solar panels, but when it’s about F-35s and 5G telecommunications, that’s not smart.

But that’s not all that is new and problematic. We now live in the age of “dual use.” In a dual-use world, “everything that makes us powerful and prosperous also makes us vulnerable,” noted John Arquilla, one of the top strategists at the Naval Postgraduate School.

In particular, 5G equipment like that made by China’s Huawei, which can transfer data and voices at hyperspeed, can also serve as an espionage platform, if China’s intelligence services exercise their right under Chinese law to demand access.

Indeed, the controversy around Huawei shines a spotlight on this whole new moment: Huawei increasingly dominates the global market for 5G infrastructure, which used to be controlled by Ericsson and Nokia. America’s Qualcomm is both a supplier of chips and software to Huawei and a global competitor.

But the Chinese government has curbed competition against Huawei in China — by both foreign and Chinese companies — to enable Huawei to grow bigger, more quickly and cheaply. Huawei then uses that clout and pricing power to undercut Western telecoms and then uses its rising global market dominance to set the next generation of global 5G telecom standards around its own technologies, not those of Qualcomm or Sweden’s Ericsson.

Moreover, in a dual-use world, you have to worry that if you have a Huawei chatbot in your home, an equivalent of Amazon’s Echo, you could also be talking to Chinese military intelligence.

In the old days, when we were just buying China’s tennis shoes and solar panels and it our soybeans and Boeings, who cared if the Chinese were Communists, Maoists, socialists — or cheats? But when Huawei is competing on the next generation of 5G telecom with Qualcomm, AT&T and Verizon — and 5G will become the new backbone of digital commerce, communication, health care, transportation and education — values matter, differences in values matters, a modicum of trust matters and the rule of law matters. This is especially true when 5G technologies and standards, once embedded in a country, become very hard to displace.

And then add one more thing: The gap in values and trust between us and China is widening, not narrowing. For decades, America and Europe tolerated a certain amount of cheating from China on trade, because they assumed that as China became more prosperous — thanks to trade and capitalist reforms — it would also become more open politically. That was happening until about a decade ago.

For the last decade, though, said James McGregor, one of the most knowledgeable U.S. business consultants in China and a longtime resident there, it’s been clear that Beijing, instead of “reforming and opening, has been reforming and closing.”

Instead of China getting richer and becoming more of a responsible stakeholder in globalization, it was getting richer and militarizing islands in the South China Sea to push the U.S. out. And it was using high-tech tools, like facial recognition, to become more efficient at authoritarian control, not less.

All of this is now coming to a head in these trade talks. Either the U.S. and China find a way to build greater trust — so globalization can continue apace and we can grow together in this new era — or they won’t. In which case, globalization will start to fracture, and we’ll both be poorer for it."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/o...ump-trade.html

Gavin1980

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

Do Huawei have anything along the lines of Smartswitch for initial setup?

Phone Clone.

dougm1970

how is the p30 pro...on say 5x zoom...and moving objects like dogs running ?

ForestFire

dougm1970 wrote: »

how is the p30 pro...on say 5x zoom...and moving objects like dogs running ?

Eh... you do know you have had this same conversation on this very thread 4 weeks ago?

dougm1970

ForestFire wrote: »

Eh... you do know you have had this same conversation on this very thread 4 weeks ago?

yea ..sorry...i think i need to stop asking questions here and find someone who has one that will let me test the camera.
even with this weeks news i think i'd buy.

Keith186

dougm1970 wrote: »

yea ..sorry...i think i need to stop asking questions here and find someone who has one that will let me test the camera.
even with this weeks news i think i'd buy.

Don't have any dogs here to test the camera but I think you'd be mad to buy this phone now!
I'd say the sale and resale value will plummet if things stay the way they are so hold on for a bit longer if you can to see how it pans out.

I was in a similar situation before when I had my heart set on buying the Note 7 with the whole exploding battery situation, was glad I didn't get it in the end. At least you were guaranteed to get your money back in that scenario, might not be the same here.

binnox

Cudders wrote: »

Anybody else still waiting on their speaker from pre order?

Yep. 5 weeks now and no sign. I mailed them after 30 days and was told that there would be a mail when it was dispatched and that the promotion was so popular they were falling behind.

Griffinx

Cudders wrote: »

Anybody else still waiting on their speaker from pre order?

Yes

Griffinx

Griffinx wrote: »

When I select some text in an app, I get this screen




If I tap the 3 dots, I get this screen





When I then tap search, it uses Bing to do the web search.

Some app has changed this on my phone (I think Onedrive). Does anyone know how to change it back to Google?

Thanks

For future searchers, the solution to this was the Microsoft launcher app. Even though I wasn't using the MS launcher it had changed the search engine to bing. I can be changed back in the Microsoft launcher app settings.

binnox

binnox wrote: »

Yep. 5 weeks now and no sign. I mailed them after 30 days and was told that there would be a mail when it was dispatched and that the promotion was so popular they were falling behind.

Speaker arrived today. 32 days after confirmation. No email to say it was on the way and label was dated 15th of May. Address on label missing county and postcode missing so may been with courier for a while.

Griffinx

Cudders wrote: »

Anybody else still waiting on their speaker from pre order?

Got mine today

dan786

Got a 3rd Sonos one today. Only had two claims.

iHungry

I'm waiting on two since 2nd May

Keith186

Still waiting for mine too. 30 days were up today.

Cienciano

dan786 wrote: »

Got a 3rd Sonos one today. Only had two claims.

Nice, would be great to connect up or easy to sell on

Cudders

Speaker arrived today. Label on it said 23rd May.

MoodeRator

Here we go...



Taken at dusk

OldMrBrennan83

I thought for a minute the dog was dropping one

MoodeRator

LOL, no the fella was just having a run around the lawn

Pique

Was really hoping to get one of these on upgrade with Three. Love the P10 Plus I've had for the last couple of years.

Is there any sign they're gonna drop them in price or actually drop them completely?

I'd live with the lack of Android updates, tbh. Resale isn't a big priority to me.

Cienciano

Cudders wrote: »

Speaker arrived today. Label on it said 23rd May.

At least it arrived.

Did everyone get theirs set up? I had a problem with mine. Alexa would drop out after a about a minute and wouldn't connect. Annoying if you do a quiz or ask it a few questions in a row. Turns out for some reason it defaulted to amazon.com instead of .co.uk. during set up. If anyone else has the same trouble, unlink everything. Set it up again and put your location in as UK during setup and when it's all done change it back to Ireland.

OldMrBrennan83

How do you stop EMUI snoozing an app and stopping you getting notifications from it?

DopeTech

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

How do you stop EMUI snoozing an app and stopping you getting notifications from it?

Don't have the phone but search settings for battery optimisation and then set the app to "not optimised"

OldMrBrennan83

It's no pixel 3 but I'm quite liking the p30.

Inquitus

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

It's no pixel 3 but I'm quite liking the p30.

Aye my wife got one, the US Clusterfeck aside, it's a very decent phone.

OldMrBrennan83

I don't know if I'm missing something or if it's just Huawei's special way of doing notifications, but is there any way to get content to show on the lock screen instead of '1 New Message'?

dougm1970

i see the p30 pro is "free" on vodafone with a 60 a month contract....24 month contract.

FatRat

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

I don't know if I'm missing something or if it's just Huawei's special way of doing notifications, but is there any way to get content to show on the lock screen instead of '1 New Message'?

This took me ages to figure out. It was because in security features it was set to not display notifications contents until my face was recognised... but I had disabled face recognition. So you need to remove the facial recognition requirement to view notifications without having to unlock the screen.

OldMrBrennan83

FatRat wrote: »

This took me ages to figure out. It was because in security features it was set to not display notifications contents until my face was recognised... but I had disabled face recognition. So you need to remove the facial recognition requirement to view notifications without having to unlock the screen.

Legend, cheers.

Peatys

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

It's no pixel 3 but I'm quite liking the p30.

Have you tried the pixel 3?

My wife has a p30 pro and i was going to get one as the photos look class.
But I'm thinking of getting the pixel 3 because of the messing from the yanks..

OldMrBrennan83

Peatys wrote: »

Have you tried the pixel 3?

My wife has a p30 pro and i was going to get one as the photos look class.
But I'm thinking of getting the pixel 3 because of the messing from the yanks..

I had a 3XL up until getting the P30 Pro. I'll probably still use this until the Pixel 4 but I'd still rather have the 3XL overall in most ways.

The camera really depends on what you want from one and how much you put into it. The P30 Pro camera can do far more but it's a lot more work to get what you want. To just point and shoot it's not a patch on the Pixel, nothing is.

1jcdub

I'm due an upgrade and currently have a 2XL. I was also thinking of getting the Huawei P30 Pro up until the recent events. But now I'm thinking of getting the 3 XL but it's only 4 months until the 4 XL is released. Decisions, decisions

OldMrBrennan83

1jcdub wrote: »

I'm due an upgrade and currently have a 2XL. I was also thinking of getting the Huawei P30 Pro up until the recent events. But now I'm thinking of getting the 3 XL but it's only 4 months until the 4 XL is released. Decisions, decisions

If I had both phones sitting in front of me in the morning I'd pick up the 3XL.

1jcdub

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

If I had both phones sitting in front of me in the morning I'd pick up the 3XL.

Did you have an 2XL prior to getting the 3XL? Worth upgrading to?
They 4XL might be a bigger step up from the 3xl than than the 2XL was to the 3XL

1jcdub

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GustavoFring

I'd a 2XL and am on a 3XL now, no hardship keeping the 2XL until the 4 comes to be honest. It's not that big an upgrade and with the 4 so close you might kick yourself after.

OldMrBrennan83

1jcdub wrote: »

Did you have an 2XL prior to getting the 3XL? Worth upgrading to?
They 4XL might be a bigger step up from the 3xl than than the 2XL was to the 3XL

It a smaller 2 and it felt like a huge upgrade in quality to the 3XL at the time. Screen (and the small 2 had the good one) and haptics especially. If you don't need to upgrade right now I'd skip the P30 and wait for the 4XL.

1jcdub

Thanks for the advice. Going to wait for the 4 XL!

MoodeRator

How did people get the Goggle Assistant working on their Sonos? Says it is not available in my country

bogman

Received 161 update this morning OTA, EIR.

Keith186

MoodeRator wrote: »

How did people get the Goggle Assistant working on their Sonos? Says it is not available in my country

Think you need to set it up with US as your region. Once you set up the app there's no option to change it so you probably need to change it online through a browser on their site or try logging into the app with a new profile.
I got lazy and just left it with alexa so I haven't tried any workarounds yet.