Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant

Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant by assblaster on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:24PM (#19975222)

I truly am worried that Huawei technology is compromised. Why? I owned a Nexus 6p, made by Huawei, which was found to have a suspicious hardware "bug" where the battery's level is measured as higher than what is reported by the device itself.

Huawei maintains that it is not a hardware issue, while Google says that it is a hardware problem. A class action lawsuit was just settled because of this.

My suspicion: Huawei surreptitiously collected data, using up CPU threads, and core Android software did not detect this hardware usage.

I know many many owners of the Nexus 6p that had this problem, and it was only this Nexus which had it, the only one made by Huawei.

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Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant by Topgamer7 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:33PM (#19975295)

Didn't know there was a class action. Mine used to die randomly all the time until I replaced the battery. I'm contemplating getting a new phone because a good portion of the time it's still slow AF

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Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant by assblaster on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:35PM (#19975305)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

$400 for you.

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Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant by assblaster on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:38PM (#19975340)

The issue that I personally experienced is a random reboot, and when the phone restarts, it reads a battery level of 1% when prior to reboot it read as much as 45%.

I exchanged it for a Pixel 1 because of extended warranty.

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Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant by chenster on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:30PM (#19975271)

Got creditable source?

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