Huawei G8 Android Marshmallow Beta

Beta registration for Huawei G8 Android Marshmallow

Do you own a Huawei G8? Want to be among the first to equip and test out EMUI 4.0 features on it? Here's the chance for you to experience all the fluffy goodness Android Marshmallow has to offer, before most of the users even get it!

What you need to know

- The beta registration is only opened for the Malaysian variant of Huawei G8 (RIO-L01)

- This experimental build of Android Marshmallow 6.0 / EMUI 4.0 will be released in the form of OTA (over the air) to registered Huawei G8 that runs on latest lollipop version (RIO-L01C900B150CUSTC636D005)

- As this is an experimental build, unexpected issues/bugs may arise at any point at any time.

- If your phone had been rooted, you may not be able to perform an OTA update. Kindly unroot your phone before proceeding with the update.

If you understood all of the above, and would still like to be a part of this program, kindly click on this link to register by 23rd April 2016, 12:00am.

Once you have successfully registered, sit back and relax, wait for the experimental build software to be seeded to all registered users by Q2 2016.

Release Notes

[Gallery]

Various labels

You can customise the font size, colour, effects and label's location now.

Sport watermark

You can note down the altitude of the mountain you have climbed and some simple words, making your travel photos more intuitive!

Memo feature

Supports customising a unique memo on every image, thus making your images truly to be a part of you.

Improved album

You can now add photos in batches to a newly created album

Batch printing of images

You can now save all selected images as a PDF and print them at the same time.

[Contacts]

Business card

It can analyse and get the information from a business card, and automatically create a new contact.

Smart group contacts

Classify all contacts according to company name. Now, finding someone in your contact list can be done in seconds!

Contact QR code

Your phone will auto generate a QR code for every newly created contact which makes it easy to share!

[Messages]

Mark all as read

You can mark all messages which you don’t want to spend any time reading as Read.

Cancelling a sent message

You can reclaim the message by double-touching the message bubble within 4 seconds.

[Application]

Compass

The new compass application have integrated level gauge

Alarm ring duration

Now, how long the alarm rings all depends on you!

[Settings]

Battery percentage display

The battery percentage can be shown within battery icon.

Notification panel and status bar

Added a fresh new drag action for notification and shortcuts making you get what you want with one tap.

Power on tone switch

Now you can control whether to turn that power-on tone on or off.

[System]

Changeable desktop text

The text on desktop will be automatically adjusted to white or black according to the shade of the wallpaper you set. It makes your desktop more clear and intuitive!