You might have read the Huawei USA’s announcement regarding that Ascend Mate 2 international version won’t be getting the Android 4.4 KitKat firmware update as we covered right here – http://huaweinews.com/2014/10/ascend-mate-2-kitkat/. That blog post of Huawei resulted a huge community back slash and news coverage from almost all the Android tech sites. Huawei has pulled that blog post shortly after the whole social media rage for them and now they have put that blog post back with information saying the update is being reconsidered.
Huawei has republished that blog post with another statement on top of that blog post. Here’s what it says
According to Huawei’s statement, there is a possibility that we get to see the EMUI 3.0 Android 4.4 firmware update for the international version of Ascend Mate 2. Since Mate 2 is one of Huawei’s first device to officially enter the USA market, it will be a huge disadvantage for them to abandon less than a year old Ascend Mate 2 without software updates.
Even the US mobile network carriers will see this as a drawback if they are thinking to partner with Huawei to offer Huawei smartphones with contracts in the future. Lets hope Huawei get their act straight this time and rollout the KitKat Update for Mate 2 as soon as possible.
Link to Huawei’s blog post – http://goo.gl/hLSWLX
7 Response Comments
Im not an ascend mate 2 user, but they should maybe use those efforts to bring android 5 instead 4.4.
im youknow whatever whoever. but I LOVE MY ASCEND P1 , I WILL NEVER UPDATE IT . it works perfectly.
I believe the Huawei Ascend Mate 2 should get the Android 5 update. It was just released earlier this year and should have a 2 year update window.
ascend mate 1
kit kat please
How about mate1? Sombody please respond
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My wifi and data connection disconnects when screen goes off on my huawei ascend mate 2. For samsung phones it can be solved with secret codes like ##0011# but for huawei phones the secret codes are not working. or do you know a working secret code on hardware level for this? my power save mode is off. wifi is set on always on mode. auto synchronisation is on. my apps can all run in background. So I have set off all possible energy saving option for all apps. besides I have downloaded apps to keep wifi always on. but when I put it on always on mode on this app. It mentions that the wifi set on always on mode. but after 2 seconds I open the app (wifi always on app) it says that the wifi is on saving mode and not in always on mode. So there is another more dominant program (probably the huawei custom ROM) who has more privileges than a normal app so that it avoids that wifi is on always on mode.
Sometimes even when the screen is on, viber whatsapp does not receive calls or messages you should launch the app to receive calls and messages. you would say that it is a synchronisation problem. No. sync is on for all accounts. all accounts have full access on all my data and on the battery. All settings about battery saving options are set off.