Upgrade Huawei Ascend P7-L10 to EMUI 3.0(Android 4.4.2)

Note: In 2017, all ROM images were removed on the official website. Huawei says it will provide a “more convenient and satisfactory update service”. Since then, all user must rely on over-the-air (OTA) updates. Reference

Yes, I am still using it as the second mobile. The software is Android 4.4.2 + EMUI 2.3 when I bought it. And I am in Norway, didn’t get any OTA update for it.

Recently I joined a QQ group of P7 sub-forum on Huawei Fans Club. One friend there told me there is an EMUI 3.0 image available on Huawei Germany Support(search “Smartphones” and “P7-L10”, and check the item “Sophia-L10_V100R001C00B621C432D001_Firmware_Germany_Channel_Android 4.4_EMUI 3.0_05012HCE”).

I downloaded it, uncompressed it, copied it to a MicroSD/TF card(better 4G or larger). After backup the data on the phone, use Settings->System Update->Local Update, the mobile will restart and use the image from MicroSD/TF card.

And it’s better to do a wipe after the upgrade. How to wipe:

  • Shutdown the mobile
  • Press “Volume Up” and “Power” at same time, in this mode, you can use “Volume Up” and “Volume Down” as “Up” and “Down”, “Power” as click.
  • You will get a menu with three buttons, “Reboot Sytem”, “Wipe Data/Factory Reset” and “Wipe cache partition”.
  • Choose “Wipe Data/Factory Reset” and click it
  • Choose “Wipe cache partition” and click it
  • Choose “Reboot Sytem” and click it

Then it should be EMUI 3.0(Android 4.4.2) now. Good luck!

Note:

  • Version Number: P7-L10V100R001C00B621
  • Custom Version: CUSTC432D001

BTW, they started to do a public test of EMUI 3.1(Android 5) for those P7 models in China.

Reference:

No easy vacation for pupils in Norway

My daughter just went to school a few weeks ago. We started to think about the vacation days around Christmas and New Year. When my daugter was in kindergarten, normally we can choose her vacation days as we want. But now, the thing is different.

After talk with the teacher, she said that she only can approve the day-off upto 1 day. And we should submit the application to kommune(the government, and the public schools are parts of it) if more than 1 day. And the application, which is related with vacation/holiday, will not be approved…

We live in Ullensaker, let me start from their webpages. In Ullensaker Kommune: Permisjon fra opplæringen, it mentions the the Education Act(Opplæringsloven) §2-11. (Lov om grunnskolen og den vidaregåande opplæringa (opplæringslova)(Norwegian) and Act of 17 July 1998 no. 61 relating to Primary and Secondary Education and Training (the Education Act)(English)).

  • Opplæringsloven(Norwegian)

§ 2-11. Permisjon frå den pliktige opplæringa
Når det er forsvarleg, kan kommunen etter søknad gi den enkelte eleven permisjon i inntil to veker.
Elevar som høyrer til eit trussamfunn utanfor Den norske kyrkja, har etter søknad rett til å vere borte frå skolen dei dagane trussamfunnet deira har helgedag. Det er eit vilkår for retten at foreldra sørgjer for nødvendig undervisning i permisjonstida, slik at eleven kan følgje med i den allmenne undervisninga etter at permisjonstida er ute.

  • Section 2-11. Leave of absence from compulsory education(English)

When defensible, the municipality may upon receipt of an application grant individual
pupils leave of absence for up to two weeks.
Pupils who belong to a religious community outside the Church of Norway have, upon
application, the right to be absent from school on those days their religious community
celebrates as holy. This right is conditional upon the parents ensuring necessary tuition
during the period of leave, so that the pupil is able to keep pace with the ordinary teaching
when the period of leave is at an end.

And the regulation from Ullensaker kommune:

Regler for elevpermisjon utover en dag i Ullensakerskolen:

Søknader om permisjon fra rett og plikt til opplæring i grunnskolen for å reise på ferie, innvilges
ikke.

Det kan søkes om permisjon fra rett og plikt til opplæringen på andre grunnlag enn ferie. Dette
inkluderer:

  • Permisjon til familiebegivenheter av særlig sorgpreget karakter, for eksempel dødsfall
    eller begravelse
  • Permisjon når eleven er tatt ut til å delta ved idrettslig eller kulturell konkurranse/stevne
    på nasjonalt eller internasjonalt nivå. Det skal normalt ikke gis permisjon til
    treningssamlinger eller lignende.

Regler for elevpermisjon på inntil en dag i Ullensakerskolen:

  • Det skal ikke innvilges permisjon til ferie
  • Det skal normalt ikke gis permisjon til elever med udokumentert fravær fra opplæringen.
  • Det kan, etter en individuell skjønnsmessig vurdering, innvilges permisjon til deltakelse i
    spesielle arrangementer og markeringer, som f.eks:
    • Familiebegivenheter
    • Idrettslig eller kulturell konkurranse/stevne etter dokumentasjon
    • Organisasjonsarbeid og politisk arbeid etter dokumentasjon
    • Tradisjonsrike arrangementer i Ullensakerskolen etter dokumentasjon

The regulation from Bærum Kommune is similar.

Other information:

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Qt 5.5.0 on OS X: fix for ‘-Winconsistent-missing-override’ warning

Qt 5.5.0 officially released on July 1st. But on OS X, for example 10.10.4+Xcode 6.4(clang-602.0.53), you will have lots of warnings about ‘-Winconsistent-missing-override’, like:

Yes, there is a bug report(QTBUG-46833) for it. And the fix is in 7d5e849e.

The solution is:

Go to Line 158, change 6020049 to 7000053. Save it!

Will not buy Huawei Mobiles any more

I and my wife used iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 before. We think iPhone 6 is too expensive and want to have a try with Android.

There were some deals about Huawei Ascend P7 near 2015 new year. We got it at 1999NOK(the cheapest price should be 1699NOK). My wife used it a few weeks and decided to switch back to iPhone 5. Then I started to use it.

It is a flagship phone which was released on June, 2014. Huawei’s Richard Yu introduces the Ascend P7 in Paris on May 7, 2014. The software is Android 4.4.2 + EMUI 2.3.

And Google released Lollipop(Android 5.0) at November, 2014, and now it is June, 2015. I still can’t find any from System Update, it’s always “No updates found”. After some googling, I found “Huawei Fans Club“, and there is a sub forum for P7. I got more knowledge about P7. There are several models: L00 for China Unicom, L07 for China Mobile, L09 for China Telecom, and L10 for European area(which I am using) and etc.

L00/L07/L09 models got EMUI 3.0 update, but it is still Android 4.4.

There is a plan from Huawei to have some kind of public test release of Lollipop on P7 on July, 2015, but L10 is not included. So I think my P7-L10 will not have that update in a short period, I mean several months.

P7 was one of flagships from Huawei, and still in current status, can’t catch up the latest release of software in more than half year.

I will try more with my LG Nexus 5, but the GPS on it is some kind of crap when I played Ingress.

Reference:

挪威永居更新提醒

最近一年,挪威永居的更新,需要在网上预约时间。根据地点的不同,例如Oslo、Bærum等人口稠密的地区,估计会有超过一个月的排队时间。所以需要更新永居的朋友,建议及时办理,最好提前3个月。

步骤:

预约的是去警察局的时间,去了之后,一般10个工作日会把新卡寄到家里。旧卡会被要走,有需要留念的,提前扫描好。

牢骚一下,以前就是到期前一个月左右,去本地警察局办理就可以了,换了方式,也不及时通知一下。今年我更新的时候,幸好不需要出去。最近听说有朋友因此遇到麻烦了。

How to search changes with string in commit message in gerrit

Recently started to do merges for Qt Project again, there are some mergers, then perhaps there are some duplicate work. Better to find them before creating new merges.

jkt in #gerrit channel on irc.freenode.net answered my question, “message” is for it.

Documentation in Gerrit Doc: Gerrit Code Review – Searching Changes.

For me, I could just try “message:”Merge remote-tracking branch””.

Level 8 in Ingress today

Yes, Ingress, it’s not a new game…

I had never heard about it before. And I got the invitation from a colleague on Dec. 24 last year. And I created my account on Jan. 9, 2015. It’s a good game, at least it’s one of passions to go out for me.

This morning, I got level 8. The only thing which I still want to try is to create a huge field.

During this period, a bit more than 2 months, I used 3 phones, iPhone 5/LG Nexus 5/Huawei Ascend P7, the experiense order is iPhone 5/Huawei Ascend P7/LG Nexus 5. One is because GPS sensor, another is Nexus 5 always lost mobile signal when playing…

There are some crazy people, they drive car to do the game, even 2:30 am at night…, and there is a family of Ingress players, the couple should be level 9 and level 8, and they have a daughter with level 7…

If you want to have a try with it, I could send invitation to you. BTW, I am in Resistance faction, the blue one.

Reference:

挪威瑞典关于少数族裔青少年母语课的法律规定

挪威

大致意思是,在中小学上学的少数族裔学生如果挪威语水平不够的,可以接受母语课程直到挪威语水平达到标准。

瑞典

大致意思是,在中小学上学的少数族裔学生有权利获得母语课程,多种形式,但通常在正常上课时间以外,学生可以自愿参加。