Huawei P40/Mate30, Honor 30/V30Series and 4 Tablets Get HarmonyOS 4.2 Update
On June 27, TapTechNews. 27 phones including Huawei P40/Mate30, Honor 30/V30 series and 4 tablets are getting the official version update of HarmonyOS 4.2.0.120 (C00E100R8P3). This update adds features such as shake-permission management, automatic WLAN network connection switch, and interactive themes, and the system package size is approximately 6.99GB.
TapTechNews collated the details of this update as follows:
Compatible Models
Phones
HUAWEI Mate X2
HUAWEI Mate X2 4G
HUAWEI Mate X2 Collector's Edition
HUAWEI Mate30
HUAWEI Mate30 5G
HUAWEI Mate30RS Porsche Design
HUAWEI Mate30Pro
HUAWEI Mate30Pro 5G
HUAWEI Mate30EPro 5G
HUAWEI Mate Xs
HUAWEI P40
HUAWEI P40 4G
HUAWEI P40Pro
HUAWEI P40Pro+
HUAWEI nova8
HUAWEI nova8Pro
HUAWEI nova8Pro 4G
HUAWEI nova7 5G
HUAWEI nova7Pro 5G
HUAWEI nova6
HUAWEI nova6 5G
Honor Play4Pro
Honor 30Pro+
Honor 30Pro
Honor V30
Honor V30Pro
Honor 30
Tablets
HUAWEI MatePad Pro 10.8 inches 2021
HUAWEI MatePad Pro 5G 10.8 inches
HUAWEI MatePad Pro 10.8 inches
HUAWEI MatePad 10.8 inches
Update Log
Themes
A new Geometric Party theme is added. Choose different triangle geometric shapes to create and combine into an array, and roll to start the party above or below the lock screen according to the click gesture.
A new Geometric Sticker theme is added, which can stack triangle geometric shapes or colorful stickers into personalized themes, and the stickers can interact on the lock screen according to the click gesture, which is cute and fun.
A new Mood Party theme is added, allowing you to independently choose various lovely expressions and combine them into rich individual themes through multiple layout methods, bringing you more interesting interactive experiences.
A new Mood Sticker theme is added, using a wealth of popular expressions and more than 1500 mood expressions to match into ever-changing interactive themes, making the lock screen versatile and fun.
The Artistic Protagonist theme can change the custom background when cutting out and changing the background.
Interface
The scene cards of Xiaoyi Suggestion can be stacked for display, improving the use experience of scene cards.
Polish more operation details of scenarios to make the visual effects and prompts more delicate and accurate.
System
Optimize the use experience of global search, and make the desktop pull-down operation smoother.
Improve the use experience in various scenarios such as application start, task switching, and sliding operations to bring you a smoother and more fluid operation feel.
A new automatic WLAN network connection switch is added, which can independently control whether to automatically connect to the previously connected WLAN network (setting method: long-press the network name → modify the network → automatic connection).
Security
By controlling the permission of the application to obtain the direction of the device, intercept the 'hake-to-jump' advertisement in the application, providing a purer application use experience (control method: settings → privacy → permission management → application gets the device direction).
Establish an end-cloud cooperation mechanism to achieve more accurate and faster management of malicious applications.
A new false alarm prevention mechanism for viruses and risky applications is added to intelligently identify viruses and risky applic ations, making HarmonyOS purer and safer.
Manage the notification sending permission of newly installed third-party applications to effectively streamline notification messages and make life easier.
Currently, the models in the official version system of HarmonyOS 4.2 are as follows: