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LRX21Q Improvements

So, I manually flashed the recent OTA. Felt like sharing what I have noticed.
For one thing, EVERYTHING is snappier. Going into recent apps is fast, home screen and apps don't take forever to load. That's a definite improvement. If it changes after running for awhile, I'll update.
Google Now's Always On voice recognition now works. I couldn't get it to work while away from the Google Now launcher before the update.
Uncertain about battery consumption with browsers yet. I'm hopeful, and the back of my tablet not being a toaster oven all the time while browsing on Xda gives me hope, but again, this is me just being hopeful.
Nothing for enabling the notification LED yet. Weird.
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st33med said:
Uncertain about battery consumption with browsers yet. I'm hopeful, and the back of my tablet not being a toaster oven all the time while browsing on Xda gives me hope, but again, this is me just being hopeful.
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Thanks for the impressions. Hopefully the excessive power usage while using browser is fixed or will be soon.
I will note though that even though it shouldn't need to be used to avoid using Chrome, I think that using Tapatalk to browse XDA is a better experience. IMO, of course.

Fromako said:
Thanks for the impressions. Hopefully the excessive power usage while using browser is fixed or will be soon.
I will note though that even though it shouldn't need to be used to avoid using Chrome, I think that using Tapatalk to browse XDA is a better experience. IMO, of course.
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I noticed this too and im glad it wasnt only me. Certain websites cause the tablet to heat up, sometimes taking up as much as 40-50% CPU in the background until i force stop it.

Just flashed and rerooted. I hope its smooth now

mk92595 said:
Just flashed and rerooted. I hope its smooth now
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can you confirm that CF-Auto-Root still works with the latest OTA?

nealkoy said:
can you confirm that CF-Auto-Root still works with the latest OTA?
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Yes.

Will do a factory reset after this update to get a smooth new start

Any updates on the heated section next to the camera where the processor is at?

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Any updates on the heated section next to the camera where the processor is at?
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That heat is coming from the processor, that just means it's just under heavy load.

Sadly, WiFi 802.1x auth still doesn't work (PEAP) and the "Sign-in to Wifi network" screen is still blank for me. (Tested with Cisco Wireless LAN Controller at work.)

st33med said:
So, I manually flashed the recent OTA. Felt like sharing what I have noticed.
For one thing, EVERYTHING is snappier. Going into recent apps is fast, home screen and apps don't take forever to load. That's a definite improvement. If it changes after running for awhile, I'll update.
Google Now's Always On voice recognition now works. I couldn't get it to work while away from the Google Now launcher before the update.
Uncertain about battery consumption with browsers yet. I'm hopeful, and the back of my tablet not being a toaster oven all the time while browsing on Xda gives me hope, but again, this is me just being hopeful.
Nothing for enabling the notification LED yet. Weird.
All I can see. Share what you've seen here.
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I've noticed the same thing. Basically the stutter and lags have pretty much been fixed. For those wondering the home screen refresh has also been fixed.
I've been testing battery life today in combination with the chrome beta browser. Where I used to get 4/5 hours of sot with a single charge I'm now at 4.15 minutes of sot with 52% of battery left.
The new update has done wonders for the n9 and it just shows how much lollipop is still in it's infancy and still needs some updates to get everything sorted out. I'm sure it's the same for the Nexus 6.
Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk

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I've noticed the same thing. Basically the stutter and lags have pretty much been fixed. For those wondering the home screen refresh has also been fixed.
I've been testing battery life today in combination with the chrome beta browser. Where I used to get 4/5 hours of sot with a single charge I'm now at 4.15 minutes of sot with 52% of battery left.
The new update has done wonders for the n9 and it just shows how much lollipop is still in it's infancy and still needs some updates to get everything sorted out. I'm sure it's the same for the Nexus 6.
Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk
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IS this refresh the re-draw of the launcher when turning the device orientation in an app and then exiting?

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IS this refresh the re-draw of the launcher when turning the device orientation in an app and then exiting?
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I think he is referring to the re-draw that seems to occur randomly when returning back to the home screen. Based on the impressions I may just flash the factory image to LRX21Q if these improvements are widespread. I still haven't received the OTA and can't sideload it because my tablet is still on the pre-release BL for some reason.

mbirth said:
Sadly, WiFi 802.1x auth still doesn't work (PEAP) and the "Sign-in to Wifi network" screen is still blank for me. (Tested with Cisco Wireless LAN Controller at work.)
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Was never a problem with my nexus 9. Working flawless.

It feels faster for sure, doesn't seem to get as hot either but maybe it does.

Yes I definitely see the improvement. I was one of the first buyers on the first day. But the unit I got has defected NFC chip. I returned it and got a replacement. Latest update definitely fixed the stutters and lags. I can vow for this.

scandalousk said:
I've noticed the same thing. Basically the stutter and lags have pretty much been fixed. For those wondering the home screen refresh has also been fixed.
I've been testing battery life today in combination with the chrome beta browser. Where I used to get 4/5 hours of sot with a single charge I'm now at 4.15 minutes of sot with 52% of battery left.
The new update has done wonders for the n9 and it just shows how much lollipop is still in it's infancy and still needs some updates to get everything sorted out. I'm sure it's the same for the Nexus 6.
Sent from my Nexus 9 using Tapatalk
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Is this under heavy usage?

Overheating and Screen Flickering
Do you think that the overheating issue near the camera and the issue where the screen is flickering when the device is not at full brightness, can be fixed by a software update or a firmware update?

ElementalXY said:
Is this under heavy usage?
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François Simond a kernel dev said this.
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Just a heads-up, this OTA provides a VERY significant performance improvement - there was a Kernel regression that they fixed on this build regarding memory cgroups. Its very noticeable while using the tablet with this new patch.

I haven't noticed a difference yet but I didn't do s full wipe when I flashed.

Sudden drop in battery performance on my Nexus 6P(no rogue 3rd party apps).

Hello everyone!
So I have been having these battery issues since April security patch. the phone gets really warm to the touch even by doing the simplest of things like browsing and watching youtube. Android OS keeps the phone awake 80% of the time and I am only getting 2-3 hours of use throughout the day. Restored the phone to factory settings(fresh start, nothing restored) three days ago and still the same issue. Android OS drains the battery life even though I made sure that only google apps are installed on the phone.
But today things got even weirder. I disabled Google Now and location services as a test and the battery drain and heat issues were gone temporarily. I was getting a great battery performance from morning to afternoon. I check my battery stats and I notice that Google services mysteriously drained 17% of my battery life and that it's been running for 21 days straight? That's impossible since I just did a fresh reset to the phone three days ago. I rebooted the phone and that "Google services" drain changed to WiFi instead?! That's crazy!
I contacted Google store support team and they have been really helpful so far. They offered to replace the phone with a refurbished unit, but I don't think I am ready to give up on this phone just yet.
Thank you!

waelalzubieri said:
Hello everyone!
So I have been having these battery issues since April security patch. the phone gets really warm to the touch even by doing the simplest of things like browsing and watching youtube. Android OS keeps the phone awake 80% of the time and I am only getting 2-3 hours of use throughout the day. Restored the phone to factory settings(fresh start, nothing restored) three days ago and still the same issue. Android OS drains the battery life even though I made sure that only google apps are installed on the phone.
But today things got even weirder. I disabled Google Now and location services as a test and the battery drain and heat issues were gone temporarily. I was getting a great battery performance from morning to afternoon. I check my battery stats and I notice that Google services mysteriously drained 17% of my battery life and that it's been running for 21 days straight? That's impossible since I just did a fresh reset to the phone three days ago. I rebooted the phone and that "Google services" drain changed to WiFi instead?! That's crazy!
I contacted Google store support team and they have been really helpful so far. They offered to replace the phone with a refurbished unit, but I don't think I am ready to give up on this phone just yet.
Thank you!
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I hate to recommend this, but sometimes things go out of wack after a SW update, so a hard reset would probably be needed. I would try that (just start from zero) before jumping into a refurbished phone that might have some other kind of issues. Have you tried a hard reset yet? I see that you did a fresh reset. Did you go through the recovery though? Not just the regular UI. I think it's better to clear cache, and every thing through the recovery (custom or stock).

en28so said:
I hate to recommend this, but sometimes things go out of wack after a SW update, so a hard reset would probably be needed. I would try that (just start from zero) before jumping into a refurbished phone that might have some other kind of issues. Have you tried a hard reset yet? I see that you did a fresh reset. Did you go through the recovery though? Not just the regular UI. I think it's better to clear cache, and every thing through the recovery (custom or stock).
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I did it through recovery. I have cleared the cache and rebooted the phone several times the past few days. Nothing seems to help at all.

Turn off your google backup.
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waelalzubieri said:
I did it through recovery. I have cleared the cache and rebooted the phone several times the past few days. Nothing seems to help at all.
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Wow. Maybe a custom ROM might help? Have you tried that? That's the last thing I would do. Good luck!

Not recommended but I just flashed January vendor and ROM and that has helped my battery life. I. Believe it is the security updates that kill our battery.

shawn1482 said:
Not recommended but I just flashed January vendor and ROM and that has helped my battery life. I. Believe it is the security updates that kill our battery.
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Is it a widespread issue? Like I said in my post, I saw the decline ever since I got the April security update. The May patch actually managed to make things worse. There seems to be something hidden in the OS that it's draining the battery and causing the awake issues. I haven't tried rooting the device because I lack the experience to do so. I will probably look into it on these forums, but at this point I have tried everything.
Disabling Google now helped a lot and it exposed some sort of a glitch with the stock battery monitoring app. I am not sure if it's hardware or software, but it's certainly not normal. I am tempted to just replace it, but I am afraid that this issue will just plague the new one from Google. I am really disappointed How Google handles updates on this device. I always thought that stock android is most stable version of android, but the software on my old Xperia Z is actually more stable than this. It never had battery drain issues and standby battery life was always great. The battery life on Nexus 6P is actually worse than the Xperia Z even though that phone is 3 years old.

waelalzubieri said:
Is it a widespread issue? Like I said in my post, I saw the decline ever since I got the April security update. The May patch actually managed to make things worse. There seems to be something hidden in the OS that it's draining the battery and causing the awake issues. I haven't tried rooting the device because I lack the experience to do so. I will probably look into it on these forums, but at this point I have tried everything.
Disabling Google now helped a lot and it exposed some sort of a glitch with the stock battery monitoring app. I am not sure if it's hardware or software, but it's certainly not normal. I am tempted to just replace it, but I am afraid that this issue will just plague the new one from Google. I am really disappointed How Google handles updates on this device. I always thought that stock android is most stable version of android, but the software on my old Xperia Z is actually more stable than this. It never had battery drain issues and standby battery life was always great. The battery life on Nexus 6P is actually worse than the Xperia Z even though that phone is 3 years old.
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I've seen a lot of posts over the months with people having the same problem we are. I came from a mid range LG stylo with a snapdragon 610. I would have 8 hours screen on time daily. Its sad that goggle cant get the same out of their own hardware. Also I have seen that the Note 5 and S7 Edge both get better battery life as opposed to our stock phones. For as much as people praise stock and look down on Touchwiz, they are doing something right over there.

But it doesn't affect everyone and that what puzzles me. Only certain phones are hit by these issues, while other people are getting excellent battery life. I have seen plenty of people post screenshots of 6 hours+ of on screen time. I am lucky to get 3 hours. I think Google should really invest in creating a better power management system into Android. Companies like Sony and Samsung built their own and the battery life on their devices always perform predictably relative to what I am seeing on this phone. I have never witnessed The doze feature kick in since I have bought this phone. Sony had stamina mode since 2013 and it actually worked.

waelalzubieri said:
But it doesn't affect everyone and that what puzzles me. Only certain phones are hit by these issues, while other people are getting excellent battery life. I have seen plenty of people post screenshots of 6 hours+ of on screen time. I am lucky to get 3 hours. I think Google should really invest in creating a better power management system into Android. Companies like Sony and Samsung built their own and the battery life on their devices always perform predictably relative to what I am seeing on this phone. I have never witnessed The doze feature kick in since I have bought this phone. Sony had stamina mode since 2013 and it actually worked.
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Most of those people posting those outrageous number root and do kernel tweaks. I've gotten at most 6 hours SOT on stock without root. You are right our phones do all react differently to certain circumstances. I don't know if it's feasible to you ,but you should try rooting and trying out a few Roms some help others don't. If you aren't into Roms and decide to root try earlier vendors and stock roms and see it those work. I'm not an expert by any means just my suggestions.

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Most of those people posting those outrageous number root and do kernel tweaks. I've gotten at most 6 hours SOT on stock without root. You are right our phones do all react differently to certain circumstances. I don't know if it's feasible to you ,but you should try rooting and trying out a few Roms some help others don't. If you aren't into Roms and decide to root try earlier vendors and stock roms and see it those work. I'm not an expert by any means just my suggestions.
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Well, the fact that you are having great battery life proves my point. It's either that the quality control of the batteries used on these phones are terrible, or that the software or kernel are corrupted from factory causing these issues. There is no way to fix them by hard reseting the phone so far. I am going to try to flash a stock rom on this device and see what happens. Thanks by the way.

1) Are you rooted? If not, at least do that and install BBS in order to track down what's eating your battery.
2) Probably we'll run into a common problem / bug the last two months.
After unplugging the phone, it seems that the wakelock *backup* runs constantly, does not let phone get into sleep, and runs in the background while using your phone causin battery to drain faster.
3) About battery life. Comparing battery results between two users it has no point, unless you really now his usage pattern. Not only the setup, but which apps of them used most etc.
For example Facebook app is real battery eater. I've seen an hour more SOT without this app.
I can give several examples like this.
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Axon 7 A2017G Android 7 Battery drain

Help...
The Battery drain is too much... how to fix it?
Everything was doing great in android 6.
how can I downgrade to Android 6?

Which version are you using?
If you use the beta 7.1.1 then don't post bugs like yours.
Wait for final version.
Before that do a reset and test your phone again.
Otherwise look also for apps like wakelock detector or better battery stats in its alarm section.

SilentEYE said:
Which version are you using?
If you use the beta 7.1.1 then don't post bugs like yours.
Wait for final version.
Before that do a reset and test your phone again.
Otherwise look also for apps like wakelock detector or better battery stats in its alarm section.
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uh sorry
its A2017GV1.1.0B01
Android 7.0
not rooted

I just updated my ZTE Axon 7 (128gb Internal Storage - 2nd resubmitted) Android 7.0 to Android 7.1.1 and now, my battery is RAPIDLY DISCHARGING! EVEN WHILE ON THE CHARGER! I wish I could revert back to 7.0, but I fear that cannot be possible without performing some sort of technological gymnastics and a Pagan Ritual. I'm really stressed, here.

TruthStalker said:
I just updated my ZTE Axon 7 (128gb Internal Storage - 2nd resubmitted) Android 7.0 to Android 7.1.1 and now, my battery is RAPIDLY DISCHARGING! EVEN WHILE ON THE CHARGER! I wish I could revert back to 7.0, but I fear that cannot be possible without performing some sort of technological gymnastics and a Pagan Ritual. I'm really stressed, here.
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It's not happening to mine, just revert it back to 7.0.

TruthStalker said:
I just updated my ZTE Axon 7 (128gb Internal Storage - 2nd resubmitted) Android 7.0 to Android 7.1.1 and now, my battery is RAPIDLY DISCHARGING! EVEN WHILE ON THE CHARGER! I wish I could revert back to 7.0, but I fear that cannot be possible without performing some sort of technological gymnastics and a Pagan Ritual. I'm really stressed, here.
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I had this too. Let it discharge and shutdown. Than recharge your phone while powered of. Problem solved.

I've always had terrible battery life with this phone. Why is this software so bad. Also A2017G Nougat B01.

Random Username said:
I've always had terrible battery life with this phone. Why is this software so bad. Also A2017G Nougat B01.
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Maybe some issue with your signal or configuration, because with my phone I can get easily 4-5 SOT and at least one day of usage with everything synced, WhatsApp, 3 mail accounts, GPS, Google Now, etc.

Random Username said:
I've always had terrible battery life with this phone. Why is this software so bad. Also A2017G Nougat B01.
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Galaxo60 said:
Maybe some issue with your signal or configuration, because with my phone I can get easily 4-5 SOT and at least one day of usage with everything synced, WhatsApp, 3 mail accounts, GPS, Google Now, etc.
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Yeah signal is a big battery drainer, I have low signal in my home and my battery drains like hell, I always keep the phone on charger when I'm here lol.
Once I'm outside though my battery drains much slower.
Fricking network providers and their weak ass antennas, haha.

I don't even have a SIM card in. I just use the phone for gaming.

I probably have something wrong with my unit, becouse it seems like the battery is perfectly calibrated on 7.1.1 and no draint whatsoever, today managed 6h of sot, with some antutu, youtube, play store downloading, 4g+ and snapchat going on. I mean now when i lock the screen on certain % it stays, but on mm it dropped 2-3% after locking

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I probably have something wrong with my unit, becouse it seems like the battery is perfectly calibrated on 7.1.1 and no draint whatsoever, today managed 6h of sot, with some antutu, youtube, play store downloading, 4g+ and snapchat going on. I mean now when i lock the screen on certain % it stays, but on mm it dropped 2-3% after locking
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I have the same experience, is going really good so far.

Hmm time to refresh old post.
A2017G B04 full stock.
Since I got B04 my SOT dropped from ~5h to 2,5-3h. BTW. I already tried factory reset, cache cleaning from bootloader - no positive results.

Same with mine... Some reported it's due to bad cell signal is causing battery drain

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Same with mine... Some reported it's due to bad cell signal is causing battery drain
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Hmm in my city "Cracovia" in Poland usually I have 4-5 bars 4G and 4G+ so my signal is very good.

Mine too... But do notice I couldnt get full bars as well..But not sure as I am waiting for newer patch and see it helps....

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Mine too... But do notice I couldnt get full bars as well..But not sure as I am waiting for newer patch and see it helps....
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cmon zte chinize phones suffer from this too i didnt have this on B13 7.1.1 a2017

Major Issue After May 5 Security Patch

*Battery drain very fast even screen off
*Slow charging again
*Low sound in speakers
*Camera quality poor
*Over heating also when not in use
*Sometimes screen shows black/white
*Apps still crash
How much you have issue from these??

I can feel that battery can be a bit worse, my battery drains more when I watch YouTube, but no overheating or slow charging. Everything except battery life is good for me.

Yes, battery draining is huge....

After updating i see very often my wifi not working, it's randomly disconnecting

TrueMS said:
I can feel that battery can be a bit worse, my battery drains more when I watch YouTube, but no overheating or slow charging. Everything except battery life is good for me.
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But my phone over heat with in 10 min of watch youtube video and drain 4-5% in that time& charging time taken 3hr from 0-100.

Well, I didn't want to update since they updated the bootloader and now I can see that was a good choice. In your case I'd flash back the april build since it's stable.

The the May update for version 8.0 cause a wipe after unlocking the boot loader? Or is that only happening on 8.1 beta update?
Can someone clearly confirm, please?

what the fook do beta testers do

simple bootloader unlock will wipe data too.

From what i read here it is beetter not to update but wait....

Luckily I can't relate any of below listed issues!
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*Battery drain very fast even screen off
*Slow charging again
*Low sound in speakers
*Camera quality poor
*Over heating also when not in use
*Sometimes screen shows black/white
*Apps still crash
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Still running 100% stock 8.0.

kutulu32 said:
From what i read here it is beetter not to update but wait....
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Yes, it's always better to wait patiently and observe, not rush into something without informing about it.

No issues here, in fact it's the best build released yet imo

For me it's better than April one.

Zero issues so far. I did a clean install a couple of months ago because clearing my GSF to get Oreo quicker (I know, I know ) led to some issues. Have been enjoying this phone twice as much since. The clean install made my phone a very stable device once more and I've had zero updates with this and previous update so far

I dont know what you guys do to your phone, really.. Last May update up and running without ant issues (stock 8.0)

I can´t notice any difference. Seems to be only a security patch.

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The the May update for version 8.0 cause a wipe after unlocking the boot loader? Or is that only happening on 8.1 beta update?
Can someone clearly confirm, please?
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Yup, Unlocking bootloader does wipe your data when in your May patch.

No issues here either, all running sweet as before.

Everything's fine for me. Let's not panic over one single report of issues.
To OP, I guess you've already tried to fully stop and restart the phone (not just hit restart button)? If this does not help, I know it's painful, but Hard Reset could solve your problem.
Last option is go to warranty to get it fixed.

Oreo + stability update

Hi,
I have been using this phone for a year now. I really feel we got more preformance after oreo. The phone is pretty smooth after all the hassle. I do think we lost a bit screen on time with the os update. I feel that is many times the price of getting more speed. Anyway i tried for a while my G4 rooted + optimized. My conclusion is that optimized + sabs and non rooted s7 edge is really fast phone. I see no lag. I feel this phone has a year left in it and thats actually impressive knowing its 2,5 years old.
I tried Oreo without factory reset. My experience was that some of the apps did not function well. So i did the factory reset and all works now. I think its only smart move after os update. Now i will just clear system cache after minor fixes.
The last as good deal was lg g2 to me. Love your phone still its in the competition with never phones. After year i bet we see improvements that will make many of us consider changing to a next generation of phones.
Btw. Did anyone else get the stability update after oreo? What do you guys think of it? My feel is that now almost 100% is working and smooth as a butter.
Model: SM-G935F, Exynos

You need to specify what version of the phone you actually have.

Thanks for the comment.
I edited the first post to give the model of my phone
SM-G935F, Exynos

Pallonaado said:
Thanks for the comment.
I edited the first post to give the model of my phone
SM-G935F, Exynos
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I have moved back to nougat and stayed there for now, i did not mind the cell drain as it still lasted me all day, however i had random reboots as soon as i moved to official Oreo or even custom rom with 8.0 base, did not matter what i did the reboots would get worse over time. I moved back to nougat and not one reboot experienced, Oreo for me is good when it worked and would love to use it but drove me crackers when rebooting. SM-G935F

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i did not mind the cell drain as it still lasted me all day, however i had random reboots as soon as i moved to official Oreo or even custom rom with 8.0 base, did not matter what i did the reboots would get worse over time.
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This is actually intresting. My phone did random screen freeze and couple of reboots in nougat, but on Oreo that is not happening to me.
But i do definetly have the cell drain still after the last update. I kind of woke up by the fact that i have lost about 1h screen on time. Yes i am a heavy user so thats the first que for something is eating the battery.
What kind of cycle your battery lasts average and how is your SOT on nougat? My is average 27hours on time hours and sot 5-6 hours

Pallonaado said:
This is actually intresting. My phone did random screen freeze and couple of reboots in nougat, but on Oreo that is not happening to me.
But i do definetly have the cell drain still after the last update. I kind of woke up by the fact that i have lost about 1h screen on time. Yes i am a heavy user so thats the first que for something is eating the battery.
What kind of cycle your battery lasts average and how is your SOT on nougat? My is average 27hours on time hours and sot 5-6 hours
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I am unable to advise you on SOT as i don't monitor this, i am running a custom rom with nougat base (Sac23 S8 port) i have a battery life of between 29 and 32 hours, never really goes past 40% remaining at the end of the day.