Users of the Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro can expect a new update at any time. The update brings the August security patch along with some improvements.
Update version 9.1.0.193 brings a new security patch that addresses some vulnerabilities in the operating system. In addition, some improvements have been added. The smartphone receives, among other things, a new night mode for the selfie camera. This means you can now also take beautiful selfies in dark environments. In addition, Huawei has added a video editing function to the gallery app.
The update is approximately 245MB in size and will be rolled out in phases to the Huawei P30 and P30 Pro. You will receive a notification as soon as the update is ready for your device.
Since the US sanctions in 2019, there has been a lot of uncertainty about the rollout of future Android updates for Huawei smartphones. However, there are now rumors going around that speak of an Android 11 update for the Huawei P30 and the P30 Pro.
Because Huawei has been blacklisted by the US government, the Chinese manufacturer is no longer allowed to collaborate with Google. As a result, Huawei is currently unable to market new Android smartphones that use Google services. The future of Android updates for existing smartphones also does not look bright, because people outside China attach great importance to applications such as Gmail, Maps and YouTube. The absence of these Google services in future Android updates will not be appreciated by users.
However, Huawei is still working on Android updates. Huawei previously indicated that the manufacturer will continue to work on security updates and customer service for existing Android smartphones. The manufacturer also indicated that the Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro will receive an Android 10 update. However, according to the German website SmartDroid, Huawei will also roll out an Android 11 update.
Following an earlier message about the P30 series, a Huawei PR employee reportedly contacted the website. This employee indicated that the Huawei P30 will be updated to Android 11. This is remarkable since Huawei has been working on its own operating system Harmony OS 2.0 for some time. However, this operating system is based on Android 10. Information about Huawei and Android 11 has not surfaced before. We therefore wonder whether Huawei has indeed been working hard behind the scenes on an Android 11 update or whether this message may be incorrect.
One of the most frustrating things about using a mobile is do not receive notificationsEspecially if there is no exact model of why they happen or stop happening, it only happens sometimes or in certain applications. And that’s exactly what happens in some Huawei mobiles.
Some Android customization layers rely on somewhat aggressive battery-saving techniques, which “kill” processes faster than the standard Android method. Huawei mobiles include not one, but two systems in this regard, being Most restrictive PowerGenie of them, although they are virtually unknown.
What is PowerGenie
First things first, what exactly is PowerGenie? From the user’s point of view, it is a mysterious application present in most Huawei mobiles launched with EMUI 9 or higher. The app cannot be opened, has no icon, and has no options. In the latest versions of EMUI, it is officially called How arealthough in the past it was called Electrical engineering.
As explained in DontKillMyApp, PowerGenie is an energy management system that kill apps that are not on an inclusion list. The main problem with PowerGenie is that as a user you cannot exclude a PowerGenie app, but rather a list controlled by Huawei.
The two names of PowerGenie
PowerGenie should not be confused with the power consumption optimization options accessible from the mobile battery settings. Here in the section Start of application You can prevent Huawei from managing the power consumption of certain apps by switching to Manage manually.
In other words, a Huawei mobile has two filters to kill processes to save battery. The first is the optimization of the application startup, configurable by the user. The second is PowerGenie, in which the end user cannot make any changes.
Huawei’s power optimization itself is customizable
There is little public information about how PowerGenie works, as there is no official documentation on this, although the company has confirmed its existence from time to time, as well as the important detail that an app cannot be added to the inclusion list.
The APK application, which occupies only 77 kilobytes, includes several Google, Android and Huawei application lists to which, presumably, some of the restrictive energy conservation policies do not apply.
Presumably some of the applications excluded from PowerGenie
It’s great, but as a user how does that affect you? On the one hand, with a more restrictive application management policy, the mobile battery can last longer. However, it is possible that do not receive notifications from certain apps, especially ones that you haven’t used for a long time or are not very popular, like Facebook or Google apps.
For example, if you have installed an application to remember to water the plants and notifications do not appear even if you have configured it for manual management in the power options. If your plants die, it’s not your fault, it’s PowerGenie’s.
How to deactivate PowerGenie
That said, if you want to disable PowerGenie, you can, although it is not easy. You will need to use ADB commands and we do not recommend doing so unless you know what you are doing and are satisfied that PowerGenie is affecting the way you use your mobile.
First of all, it never hurts to make one PowerGenie APK Backup. You can do this with ML Manager or other similar apps. The process is as simple as finding PowerGenie in the system apps section and pressing Extract (or Share, to send to another app). You can really rehabilitate it again with another ADB command, but it never hurts to have a copy of it just in case.
So now is the time connect to mobile via ADB. Here we have told you about the process several times, which consists of three steps. Download ADB to the PC, connect the mobile to the PC with a USB cable, and run some commands on the command line to establish the connection. The mobile must have activated the usb debugging and development options.
To verify that the ADB connection between Android phone and PC is correct, you need to type ADB devices and receive an answer display « device » next to your device. If so, then you are ready for the next step.
If so, it’s time to run the command to uninstall PowerGenie. Run the command adb shell pm uninstall –user 0 com.huawei.powergenie, hit enter and if all went well you will receive the text within seconds Success.
It is done. If you search for PowerGenie (or Haware) on your mobile, it will no longer appear among the installed system apps. Now is the time you should check if your mobile loses fewer notifications than before, especially in apps that you’ve already manually configured in power options.
If you notice that your phone is worse than before or you prefer to leave PowerGenie as it was, bringing it back to life is as easy as making it disappear. Also using ADB, use the command adb shell cmd package install-existing com.huawei.powergenie. As if by magic, PowerGenie will rise from its ashes. Restart your phone to make sure it turns back on.
