Since ICS has been released there has been very mixed opinions about it. But none of it clear on how it happened, how it was flashed, any other things to mention and what not. So now I want to round up all the ICS bugs and see who is experiencing what and how.
I've made up the following format so everyone can copy it and use it to report every bug/glitch/lag/(negative) change they noticed. So we can round them up and see what is really up with the update.
Format
HTML:
[b]ROM[/b]
[b]Installed ROM:[/b]
[b]Flashing method:[/b]
[b]Overall Opinion:[/b]
[b]Bug Report[/b]
[b]Type:[/b]
[b]Description:[/b]
[b]How to reproduce:[/b]
[b]Extra commentary:[/b]
Options to use:
Installed ROM is like: (Switzerland generic, Italy generic, etc)
Flashing method is like: (Flashtool/PC Companion/SEUS)
Type is like: (Bug/Glitch/Lag/Negative Change)
etc.
ROM
Installed ROM: CH generic
Flashing method: flashtool
Overall Opinion: good, but i expected more speed improvements, battery life is really great in standby
Update process:: did a wipe with flashtool but did not format internal storage
Bug Reports
Type: data connection
Description: data connection is being dropped on 3G/H networks, have to reboot phone to get back online
How to reproduce: -
Extra commentary:
Usually happens after coming out of a blind spot (no network or really poor GSM signal area)
Type: wifi issue
Description: wifi signal is getting really weak time to time, randomly
How to reproduce: -
Extra commentary: -
Additional:
Homescreen sometimes redraws 3rd party widgets (usually after using memory-hungry apps)
ROM
Installed ROM: stock SG generic
Flashing method: PC Companion (then repaired via PC Companion again to perform full wipe)
Overall Opinion: ICS sure tastes good with Xperia S!
Bug Reports
Type: Bug
Description: Weaker Wifi connection compared to GB
How to reproduce: Turn on Wifi and notice the bars
Extra commentary:
Type: Bug
Description: Timeline missing from Facebook app
How to reproduce: Start the FB app and access an FB profile
Extra commentary:
Type: Bug
Description: Music will stutter when multi-tasking. This happens on both the default Walkman app, as well as Poweramp, and also when using headset
How to reproduce: Start music playback and engage in memory-intensive activities like playing games
Extra commentary: See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1729834
Type: Bug
Description: On apps like Widgetsoid, the screen lock function is no longer working properly. The screen will turn off for a second, and then come back on again
How to reproduce:
Extra commentary: I know some have reported that Screen On and Off app works properly, but I prefer to use Widgetsoid as it has more functions
Type: Negative change
Description: Screenshot function now only available by pressing Power button and Volume down rocker at the same time. This sometimes lead to hit-and-miss situations
How to reproduce:
Extra commentary:-
hush66 said:
ROM
Installed ROM: stock SG generic
Flashing method: PC Companion
Overall Opinion: ICS sure tastes good with Xperia S!
Bug Reports
Type: Wifi
Description: Weaker Wifi connection compared to GB
How to reproduce: Turn on Wifi and notice the bars
Extra commentary:
Type: Facebook
Description: Timeline missing from FB app
How to reproduce: Start the FB app and access an FB profile
Extra commentary:
Type: Music playback
Description: Music will stutter when multi-tasking. This happens on both the default Walkman app, as well as Poweramp, and also when using headset
How to reproduce: Start music playback and engage in memory-intensive activities like playing games
Extra commentary: See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1729834
Type: Screen-lock function on 3rd party apps
Description: On apps like Widgetsoid, the screen lock function is no longer working properly. The screen will turn off for a second, and then come back on again
How to reproduce:
Extra commentary: I know some have reported that Screen On and Off app works properly, but I prefer to use Widgetsoid as it has more functions
Type: Screenshot
Description: Screenshot function now only available by pressing Power button and Volume down rocker at the same time. This sometimes lead to hit-and-miss situations
How to reproduce:
Extra commentary:-
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+1 of all that and additionally, the Facebook application can't be used for more than 5-10 mins. It will start to eat up the memory and the phone gets hotter and hotter.
You can reproduce this by using Facebook application and keep scrolling all the way way down and down and down.
ROM
Installed ROM: Italy Official ICS from Sony
Flashing method: Update Service
Overall Opinion: very good
Bug Report
Type: none
Description: none
How to reproduce://
Extra commentary: Everything is working sweet
ROM
Installed ROM: DE Generic
Flashing method: Flashtool
Overall Opinion: Mediocre
Bug Report
Type: Bug
Description: Minute circle in timer in wrong location when force gpu is enabled
How to reproduce: Enable force gpu and start the timer
Extra commentary: Fixed by not using force gpu
Bug Report
Type: Bug
Description: Quicklaunch camera sometimes does not work
How to reproduce:
Extra commentary:
Bug Report
Type: Negative change
Description: UI is very inconsistent, looks sloppy
How to reproduce:
Extra commentary: You'll see multiple styles used. There are 4 differnt buttons, ones that glow blue, white, with gradient and the gingberbread buttons are also still there. Different settings background, one from sony and one from ics stock that also has colour banding.
Bug Report
Type: Bug
Description: walkman lags when scrolling through artist>album
How to reproduce: Have an artist with a lot of albums. when opening artist view scrolling through the albums is extremely laggy
Extra commentary: Scrolling through all albums does go smoothly
ROM
Installed ROM: ICS Generic DE / ICS Generic CH
Flashing method: Flashtool
Overall Opinion: not bad but not the big deal
Bug Report
Type: Bug
Description: Force Close Keyboard settings
How to reproduce: editing something in the Keybord settings and then go back, it will force close the whole settings. But settings will be addet
Extra commentary:
People also should report if they did factory reset and sd format.
Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk 2
R64 said:
ROM
Bug Report
Type: Bug
Description: Minute circle in timer in wrong location when force gpu is enabled
How to reproduce: Enable force gpu and start the timer
Extra commentary: Fixed by not using force gpu
Bug Report
Type: Negative change
Description: UI is very inconsistent, looks sloppy
How to reproduce:
Extra commentary: You'll see multiple styles used. There are 4 differnt buttons, ones that glow blue, white, with gradient and the gingberbread buttons are also still there. Different settings background, one from sony and one from ics stock that also has colour banding.
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when i posted, there was no "type" required and i meant only bugs. the rest is not real bug, but negative change, though i second them all. Actually i don't even understand why Sony apps are not built with gpu acceleration in mind...
donjamal said:
ROM
Installed ROM: CH generic
Flashing method: flashtool
Overall Opinion: good, but i expected more speed improvements, battery life is really great in standby
Update process:: did a wipe with flashtool but did not format internal storage
Bug Reports
Type: data connection
Description: data connection is being dropped on 3G/H networks, have to reboot phone to get back online
How to reproduce: -
Extra commentary:
Usually happens after coming out of a blind spot (no network or really poor GSM signal area)
Type: wifi issue
Description: wifi signal is getting really weak time to time, randomly
How to reproduce: -
Extra commentary: -
Additional:
Homescreen sometimes redraws 3rd party widgets (usually after using memory-hungry apps)
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i have exactly the same issues as you...i am glad i wasn't the only one...i didn't do a factory reset or anything...i just flashtooled from SG GB to CH ICS directly without wiping user data....i don't think it would make any differences if I had wipe everything out before I upgraded.....
3g data connection is the one that bugs me....overall signal seems to be weaker...i think sony might have lowered the radio output to save power...
ROM
Installed ROM: Generic Italy
Flashing method: via Bridge for Mac
Overall Opinion: I can say I'm satisfied with ICS, no particular bugs for me, except for....
Bug Report
Type: Super slow battery Charging
Description: Battery takes eons to charge! It is extremely slow. Obviously I'm using Sony charger.
How to reproduce:Plug the phone
Extra commentary:
Bug Report
Type: FM Tuner not working
Description: FM tuner only outputted static sounds.
How to reproduce:Turn on the radio
Extra commentary:Solved with a reboot
donjamal said:
ROM
Installed ROM: CH generic
Flashing method: flashtool
Overall Opinion: good, but i expected more speed improvements, battery life is really great in standby
Update process:: did a wipe with flashtool but did not format internal storage
Bug Reports
Type: data connection
Description: data connection is being dropped on 3G/H networks, have to reboot phone to get back online
How to reproduce: -
Extra commentary:
Usually happens after coming out of a blind spot (no network or really poor GSM signal area)
Type: wifi issue
Description: wifi signal is getting really weak time to time, randomly
How to reproduce: -
Extra commentary: -
Additional:
Homescreen sometimes redraws 3rd party widgets (usually after using memory-hungry apps)
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I have to say I reflashed GB, then rooted the phone following the locked bl rooting guide and now I have WiFi almost full all the time. The data drop issue seems to be carrier related, I just learned that yeasterday, so no bugs so far. Only thing is the UI inconsistency but hey, that is minor I'm really happy now and most important, I do have root
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ROM
Installed ROM: Generic Hong kong
Flashing method: Update service pro
Overall Opinion: open apps performance slower than GB
Bug Report
Type: notification bar in Lock screen
Description: I can drop down the notification bar in lock screen.
How to reproduce:unlock phone
Extra commentary:
danlct said:
ROM
Installed ROM: Generic Hong kong
Flashing method: Update service pro
Overall Opinion: open apps performance slower than GB
Bug Report
Type: notification bar in Lock screen
Description: I can drop down the notification bar in lock screen.
How to reproduce:unlock phone
Extra commentary:
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:laugh: This is a feature, not a bug
ROM
Installed ROM: CH generic
Flashing method: Flashtool
Overall Opinion: satisfied with the update. A lot smoother than the official GB rom.
Bug Report
Type: Bug
Description: sometimes when i receive a text message from someone, and i go to my inbox directly from the lockscreen, this sometimes causes the messages 'app' to hang a little. It won't show any conversations or go to the requested conversation.
How to reproduce: by going to a conversation directly from the lockscreen
Extra commentary: happens from time to time, not always
ROM[ICS Stock ROM/b]
Installed ROM:
Flashing method:[PC Companion/b]
Overall Opinion:[Good Rom/b]
Bug Report
Type:[Bug/b]
Description:[Easier to reach 2/3/4 messages when sending a text message/b]
How to reproduce:[Sending messages/b]
Extra commentary:[Tested the same message with a phone with ics and gb and it didn't spent 2 messages ~63 characters equals 2 messages/b]
Installed ROM: CH Generic
Flashing method: Flashtool
Type: Negative Change
Description:
Option to turn off auto learn words has been removed. Typo also learnt which is not kool lol
ROM
Installed ROM: CH Generic
Flashing method: Flashtool
Overall Opinion: Alright
Bug Report
Type: Video Recording
Description: Whenever you decide to record a video, the camera freezes, and then android reports that the camera has stopped responding
How to reproduce: Switch to video camera, start to record
Extra commentary: I've done a lot of build.prop and minfree tweaks so that could be the problem, but doesnt seem likely
ROM
Installed ROM: SG Generic
Flashing method: Flashtool
Overall Opinion: Better in design/ visual and most areas in user experience, albeit with lotsa rooms for improvement
Bug Report
Type: Phone/ Contacts/ SMS
Description: Noticeable lag when launching Phone/ Contacts, sometimes in SMS
How to reproduce: Leave the phone idle for a while or run many other apps, and then launch phone app
Extra commentary: Xperia S is a phone essentially, the lag in Phone app is really unacceptable and unpleasant experience
I don't know how to explain this bug haha, I had it and I took some screenshots of it!
Related
~~ Stopped Running ICS!! ~~ (for a Reason)
Hi to everyone,
i just want to tell you about my experiences of the ICS-ROM for the RAZR XT910 GSM-version.
First of all, i think that the ics in todays status is more worth than the "old" 2.3.5-rom.
Yes, there are bugs, but if you don't need some features, you could live with it
So here's my list of bugs found:
sometimes background picture disappears or just show's half (reboot fixes)
the gallery is slow on loading (only first time, but load it... otherwise it could crush)
sent mms were not shown in the messaging history
photo editor crushes lots of times
bluetooth does send data, but still does not recieve nything
the lock screen sometimes can't be unlocked (just use next bug)
you can bypass the lockscreen by pushing the home button
while switching music the standard player crushes
some apps does not work (they aren't made for ics now)
BUT some apps just crush the first time, second try they work
app overview screens can be switched fast, but widget screens are very slow in the menu
flash seems to be unsupported
if you don't work with english language, both are mixed (reboot does not fix)
while tiping a number the background becomes pixelized (reboot fixes)
some widgets can't be added to the homescreen
smart actions crushes (uninstall all updates and reboot fixes the bug - DO NOT UPDATE AGAIN!!)
shows time for + 0:00 timezone
MotoCast appears as test app (seems to be not modified for ICS)
ockscreen crushes several times after pushing power bottun
data error while getting free coins/crystals/bottles in apps
4 software buttons aren't enlighted (sometimes reboot fixes)
market crushes while using it by update-notification of android
But there's not everything bad or bugy. Here are some things that work correctly (for me):
sms sending and receiving
make and take calls
make photographs
alarm function
restore root from previous version with OTA rootkeeper
market
app updates
loading and installing apps
wlan
data networks (GPRS / 3G / HSDPA)
standard browser
downloads via browser
google maps
google+ app
adding gmx-account / sending and receiving mails
taking screenshots by POWER + VOLDOWN
autofocus while taking videos (did not work on 2.3.5)
setting and using smart actions (with nonupdated version)
So i think the main parts of the os are working and it's usefull. i'll run this ics-ota till the official ota will be published.
PS: i'll add some more bugs and working features after longer tests
PPS: Sorry for my bad english
greetings,
Sh4itan
restarted usage of red color.
if anyone else uses this ota you could provide your information about bugs and working features in this post!
2 problems that make me go back to Gingerbread:
- the phone gets to be pretty warm (not hot) and that has some impact on the battery
- sometimes it does not remember wireless passwords and you have to put them in manually
dancat said:
2 problems that make me go back to Gingerbread:
- the phone gets to be pretty warm (not hot) and that has some impact on the battery
- sometimes it does not remember wireless passwords and you have to put them in manually
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The battery life in gingerbread sucks also.
I hope the ics update brings better battery life.
If not,the razr is end off story.
painterceessie said:
The battery life in gingerbread sucks also.
I hope the ics update brings better battery life.
If not,the razr is end off story.
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Till now i've not noticed any change in battery life... maybe it's little better, if you don't do very much, but in usage it's the same... Dead after max 14h...
ICS is draining the battery fast if you don't use SetCPU or something like that. It seems to not scale the CPU to the minimum frequency almost permanently when the display is off.
If you use SetCPU you'll see that you can save a lot of battery life when the device is in standby.
kholk said:
ICS is draining the battery fast if you don't use SetCPU or something like that. It seems to not scale the CPU to the minimum frequency almost permanently when the display is off.
If you use SetCPU you'll see that you can save a lot of battery life when the device is in standby.
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There's some weirdness going on with the CPU governors in the ICS leak. It includes the hotplug governor, but default is interactive (which was a firm favourite of mine on single core devices). The second core doesn't seem to be sleeping properly, and the frequency steps seemed a bit large to me.
Oh well, more governors is nice when we can't add more ourselves, eh?
Sent from my XT910 using xda premium
kholk said:
If you use SetCPU you'll see that you can save a lot of battery life when the device is in standby.
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while using AnTuTu CPU Master to set the cpu to scaling variable between 300MHz and 800MHz and deleting/backup some side running bloatware with Titanium Backup ★ root the battery life risen sharply.
While doing some pretty normal stuff like sending sms, using google maps with WLAN and doing research on the internet, my battery has endured two days!
And it's not the RAZR MAXX
Stopped running ICS!!
'cause i realised after every 're'-update (flashed back to 2.3.5 and went to ics again) there appears other bugs...
after third try keyboard stopped working!!!
installing this leak is very unstable and it's pretty sure to get unlogged bugs...
maybe after several try's there could be a 'perfect' working version of ics
but i'll try it no more
now running The Arctic 3.0.5 GSM
This topic will be posted and discussed bugs CM7.2 by FAT. I did not give a GitHub bugtracker because the mode is more convenient forum to work with users.
Bugs:
1. massive battery drain.
2. camera goes darker when switching to video mode, and still dark when switching back to photo mode. need to close and reopen camera to make it normal again
Total bugs:
2
Torch is not functioning, the Toggle LED Flashlight option is greyed out in Cyanogenmod Settings/ Interface/ Notification power widget/ Widget buttons.
its 1 bug not 0.5
Sent from my GT-S5830 using xda premium
kevinlekiller said:
Torch is not functioning, the Toggle LED Flashlight option is greyed out in Cyanogenmod Settings/ Interface/ Notification power widget/ Widget buttons.
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Torch is working Oh u mean to say toggel prefrence is not working rite Under cynagoen settings rite
nice initiative.
btw bugs from previous/other cm7 version that still plague later build including yours
1. massive battery drain.
2. camera goes darker when switching to video mode, and still dark when switching back to photo mode. need to close and reopen camera to make it normal again
Latest Google Maps not working (according to reports, haven't tested), this is an important app!!!
A Github available so you can share your code. Android is open-source, and it is important that you share your fixes with the community, not just compile "closed" ROMs!!!
iandol said:
Latest Google Maps not working (according to reports, haven't tested), this is an important app!!!
A Github available so you can share your code. Android is open-source, and it is important that you share your fixes with the community, not just compile "closed" ROMs!!!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1484542 this version works.
If the phone is locked and I receive a message, when I unlock the phone to read the message, the soft keys blink once. how can I fix this?
an0nym0us_ said:
nice initiative.
btw bugs from previous/other cm7 version that still plague later build including yours
1. massive battery drain.
2. camera goes darker when switching to video mode, and still dark when switching back to photo mode. need to close and reopen camera to make it normal again
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Massive battery drain sorry dont mind but the battery is good as far as i concern and some people also report that its having good battery life on my own experience i even noticed it is good not best ya compared to other CM version it is good
And I have problem with camera darkness plus vol up/down buttons not work for zooming (I set them in Advanced Options). Tethering not works too.
an0nym0us_ said:
nice initiative.
btw bugs from previous/other cm7 version that still plague later build including yours
1. massive battery drain.
2. camera goes darker when switching to video mode, and still dark when switching back to photo mode. need to close and reopen camera to make it normal again
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Same here..And I don't know why CM touch screen sensitivity always have different 'feel' compared to stock ROM, without notice I'm always touch the screen more tightly to prevent miss touch. I think you guys understand well
Ps. Since this ROM is nearest to official then I'll tell more CM bug:
The bass sound's ugly than stock. You can check with mort player with same equalizer (without DSP mgr of course). Also the equalizer freq change from 5 freq (stock) to 6 freq (CM) and if you slide bass booster on mort, the sound more awkward
Um..oh. Laggy gallery! LOL
Sent from my GT-S5830 using Tapatalk
alex0296 said:
If the phone is locked and I receive a message, when I unlock the phone to read the message, the soft keys blink once. how can I fix this?
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Not only for messages but when someone is talking to you in WhatApp and others, with all notifications. I think this is to warn you that something happened when the phone was in standby. It's not a bug imo.
The same thing happens with others CM7 roms that I've tested and the AOSP too.
but until you use them do not light. remember that in another CM7 ROM, this does not happen if I went to Settings-> CyanogenMod-> Interface-> LED Notification, except that in this rom, there is no menu Led Notification
is a very good rom but i have a problem, i test smartass, v2, conservative and never enter in deep sleep always 245mhz (my min frequency).
ps: sorry my bad english.
alex0296 said:
If the phone is locked and I receive a message, when I unlock the phone to read the message, the soft keys blink once. how can I fix this?
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That is common..
Market does not get updated to the latest version. In earlier CM versions, it used to get updated.
Market.
*edit Fixed the problem with market icon
Great ROM so far.
text messaging touch goes rumbled, maybe coz of sensitivity... hope to fix it on next release :clap: more power to Frozen Ace Team...
After two days of usage, I would like to report that this ROM has battery drain issues. Much more than the vo-1 version of CM 7.2
wifi?
Wifi does not work for me. It doesnt scan. When I turn it on in the notifications bar it just turns itself off again after a minute or so.
In the settings the same thing happens. (sometime here it even force-closes)
I found this in the ROM-Thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1263292):
"
Originally Posted by MrChaosDesire
Hmmm. Wifi does not scan. Maybe a reflash might work.
<3 CyanoAce 7.1
Wi-Fi works fine, but when you turn it ON you can`t see all points, as on stock FW. You must go to the Wireless setting and insert your password there."
When I tried several times to type in the password and SSID it still didnt connect and just turned wifi off again.
Unfortunaly, this link http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/41455-cyanogenmod-7172-samsung-galaxy-ace/ does not work for some reason. (maybe just my computer...)
just checked, it worked: link is not helpfull
I am noticing some problems with my s3 after the official jellybean update. It feels like it has been rushed to the phone. For example it doesn't have the quick reply feature in the notification window. It does for missed calls but not for messages. This is one the most anticipated features for me. Also when watching you tube and you don't want the screen to rotate it now does. I want to lock the rotation so I only get the small video at the top when my phone is on its side. It worked before jellybean update. Also auto brightness has changed. When auto brightness is selected you can manually turn it up with the slider in the notification window and it disables auto brightness and changes to what you set on the slider. Now on jellybean you have to uncheck the auto brightness box and then slide. Little features like this are starting to make me feel like it has been a massive rush to get jellybean on to the s3 which is ironic seen as though it took long enough. I have the international i9300 model s3. Is anybody else noticing the problems I have stated? Does anybody know a way of changing/getting the features? Thanks.
They were definitely to busy with the Note II, I mean come on at least give their flag ship the same/some of the features that a bigger version of the S3 has... That sexy multitasking should have been on the initial jelly bean update.
94% to 77 % in 7 hours.
WIFI : On , PSM off
Most power and wakelocks were by Kernal.
Normal?
I'm on LJ4, stock kernel?
I've not got a clue what you're on about?
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
I know what you mean. The note got great features like the multi window. Apparently that's coming before the new year but I highly doubt that. Are you noticing the same problems I am? Another problem I found is when screen goes off after inactivity you used to be able to press the home button a moment after it goes off and it would turn the screen back on leaving you at the page you was. Now the home button takes you back to the home when you press it. It's annoying you have to go back to the app.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
eggman89 said:
94% to 77 % in 7 hours.
WIFI : On , PSM off
Most power and wakelocks were by Kernal.
Normal?
I'm on LJ4, stock kernel?
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Me too, my problem is the battery with jb lj4
I think there is a few little niggles but overal its pretty much the same.
The autobrightness don't disable automatically now when you adjust the slider as you can now actually adjust the autobrightness brightness, Not sure why though.
Google Now - leaving it active at the mo, but not really found any usefullness from it as yet. The Time home feature is ok, would be good if it actually showed the route I take home - Via motorway, rather than the route through city center which i don't take!!
The new notifcation bar - its ok, nothing major. Expect a bit of all these features will improve over time as well once apps get proper updates. Some work but don't have full functionally - Songpop has no notifications now for example.
Battery Life - I did find that my normal phone use on ISC which included about 50/60 mins worth of calls etc wi-fi left on all the time but only actually connected to wi-fi at home (just 2G & 3G at work) i would have about 55/60% battery life left by the time i got home from work, on Jelly Bean - with the same useage i had about 40/45% left. I am now back to the same as before on ISC, but i didn't disable google now or anything just turned Wi-Fi off when left home and turn it back on when home - results was 55/60% battery remaining a as on ISC. Seems that the Wi-Fi drains when not connected - either it keeps on searching which it might not of done on ISC or its the Google Now doing something (Does say improve location by keeping wifi on - does this even if not connected!!) - Least this way i can still use google now and see how it improves its tags overtime.
I am now using a App called WiFi Timer to automatically switch Wifi on and off when i leave/get home.
Love that it now has voice downloaded so you can text etc with no data connection - find its more accurate now as well!
Never had the small vids on Youtube when rotated phone so not sure about that. Take it disabling autorotate doesn't do this?
Good and Bad
My experience is as follows:
Good:
Sheer speed, no perceivable lag.
A problem I had with only half the SMS notification tone being played (before it cut off) has gone away.
Bad:
Battery drain terrible even when idle. Turning off Google Now, Location Services and Samsung Push Notification fixed this.
When I activate Smart Stay, the screen does not want to turn off 80% of the time - even when I'm not looking at it.
When I wake the phone using the home key, it exits the app I was in. Previously, this would wake the device and return you to the current app (after unlocking). I have a partial work around using the PreHome app; this way the app is still visible underneath the PreHome dialogue box and I just need to press Back to get to my app again.
Widgets, seem to refresh less regularly, particularly Messaging and Gmail widgets which seem to hardly even refresh when I want them too.
Of No Consequence:
The red charging led is a little dimmer when charging.
Overall:
The speed benefits outweigh the niggles - just!
Dan
ohyesman said:
I am now using a App called WiFi Timer to automatically switch Wifi on and off when i leave/get home.
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No need for an App. You can do it inbuilt.
Go to Wifi, Menu button and Advanced
eggman89 said:
No need for an App. You can do it inbuilt.
Go to Wifi, Menu button and Advanced
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Yep i know, but this app is far better as it lets you setup different profiles for mornings, evenings & weekends etc which the inbuilt one don't. :good:
root?
i may just root my phone as i really am not happy with this jellybean update, nothing has really improved for me, if i root it and install a rom like codename all the features like quick reply would be there right?
Hey everyone,
This will be a Thread for collecting all the kinds of bugs and other issues you might have encountered.
I talked to the german FB group and talked about them sending them a collection of bugs etc from the community. They gave me an email address (from the communication team) where i can send it to once everything is done.
They will then proceed to send the information to the people developing for axon 7 (A2017G in this case). Of course it's not guaranteed that they will definitely fix all the issues. But it's worth a shot imo.
So at first it's important that bugs have the most importance in this thread since those have to be fixed in order to get an enjoyable oreo experience.
BUT you can also post any features you want to have back (examples are daydream, screen color calibration)
To get things finally started, here are the issues that i gathered so far from this thread:
-SD card mounting issues (SD card doesn't stay mounted after reboot)
-Increased battery drain (mixed opinion, some say it's worse, some say it's the same as nougat)
-Preinstalled apps which are uninstallable (like Accuweather, WPS Office) reinstall themselves after reboot
-Events set in Google calendar don't show a notification
-Bluetooth audio developer options (LDAC, 32bit, 96khz, etc) do not stick
-screencast not working on some miracast devices
-Panorama has lower vertical resolution (approximately 1900px while Nougat had 2800px)
-Charging sound file is missing (now it uses error sound file when connecting/disconnecting USB which sounds really annoying)
Missing Features that you wish to come back or added:
-Screen Color Calibration
-Daydream (which might come back since how they worded it to be temporarily disabled)
-Camera2 api not yet fully implemented
-Vulkan API (was present in Nougat, now removed in Oreo for unknown reason)
-Screen lock app (shortcut in quick settings to lock the device)
-Option to remove Carrier name in status bar
-Dark Mode option (preferably true black background for the while UI like quicksettings menu, settings menu etc for max SOT.)
-More sorting options for stock music player (by title number etc instead of by alphabetical order)
-ZTE Toolbox app
I'm sure there is more. But this is what i have found so far as of now. If there is any more issues you encountered, please post them so i can add them to the list.
Also if i missed any additional info for the issues above, please feel free to tell me.
- Dark mode option
- further dimming option (lowest brightness still too bright)
- screen off toggle/widget
1. Screen cast still won't work well, I never get it connected to miracast since nougat and they didnt fix it on oreo, all my other devices work so good with the same miracast.
2. Battery drain faster than nougat or I think this even worse than oreo beta build B01.
Feature:
- The alphabetical order on music folder for stock music is still annoying. No one hopes listening music from A to Z based on title.
One more:
I don't know if it's just me, but I have a bug where the download manager won't download anything for a long time despite having stable internet connection. This affects Play Store app downloads and downloads other than Chrome (since Chrome has its own download manager it seems). Basically, if I want to quickly download an app or update them, the initialisation starts but it keeps waiting for stuff to download. It won't abort with an error, it just sticks to the spinning circle. In the notification bar you won't see the download arrow animation, which should be there actually. But if I lay down my phone for a while and then pick it up, it may start downloading normally. It's very annoying, you can imagine m
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I don't know if it's just me, but I have a bug where the download manager won't download anything for a long time despite having stable internet connection. This affects Play Store app downloads and downloads other than Chrome (since Chrome has its own download manager it seems). Basically, if I want to quickly download an app or update them, the initialisation starts but it keeps waiting for stuff to download. It won't abort with an error, it just sticks to the spinning circle. In the notification bar you won't see the download arrow animation, which should be there actually. But if I lay down my phone for a while and then pick it up, it may start downloading normally. It's very annoying, you can imagine m
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I know what you mean. But it's not a bug from oreo. I had this too on nougat. Sometimes it still happens. But not as often as it used to be. Dunno what fixes it sadly, but thats probably an issue of play services messing up something since the axon 7 isn't alone. Many other devices have this problem as well sometimes. It comes and goes randomly.
And as you said, chrome and other apps with their own download manager don't seem to have these issues. Again, it's probably play services doing something wrong. Not sure tho, just a guess as play services had many problems in their history
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- Dark mode option
- further dimming option (lowest brightness still too bright)
- screen off toggle/widget
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What do you mean with dark mode? Like amoled substratum themes? Or like night light?
Poor wifi and 4g reception. This has been my main problem with this rom.
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What do you mean with dark mode? Like amoled substratum themes? Or like night light?
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Quick settings, status bar and system settings are all unbearably white. Due to Google's safety measures you can't even use a third party filter anymore.
On Nougat you could change the quick settings to gray at least and use a third party filter for all the rest. On Oreo, no chance at all. What a bad user experience!
So why even bother with a system update, if it doesn't let you adjust the display brightness to your liking anymore?! And I haven't even mentioned the usefulness of an all white UI on an AMOLED screen (Battery!?).
Panorama has lower vertical resolution.
Nougat approx 2800px
Oreo approx 1900px
Signal issues
Hd calls work with incoming but call does not connect for outgoing
Band switching issue band keeps switching thats the main reason for battery drain on 4g
My network is Jio 4g in India
It works in band 3 5 and 40
3 and 5 bands work together but they wont work well with 40 that is they keep switching from one to other with internet connecting and disconnecting
So i switched off band 40 using network signal guru app with magisk root permissions and everything works fine except slow internet speed and persistent hd call issue
Can anyone make solution for band issue
If there is a possiblity to reduce the heat generated during simple tasks.
I had most of those issues: significantly worse battery life, camera freeze when using RAW capture, when I reseted the phone, everything is back to normal, maybe battery is like 5-10% worse than nougat but not sure. Can't say anything about the missing features. I want them too, but most of wanted a Stock + UI and now we complain ? vanilla Android lacks many features like it or not. Hope they release some future firmware update to fix any issues and update the security bulletin.
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I had most of those issues: significantly worse battery life, camera freeze when using RAW capture, when I reseted the phone, everything is back to normal, maybe battery is like 5-10% worse than nougat but not sure. Can't say anything about the missing features. I want them too, but most of wanted a Stock + UI and now we complain ? vanilla Android lacks many features like it or not. Hope they release some future firmware update to fix any issues and update the security bulletin.
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You had most of these because i used the same thread your post was in as well about the freezing raw capture with stock cam.
But you are the first and only one who had this happen with the camera. So far nobody else reported having the same issue.
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I had most of those issues: significantly worse battery life, camera freeze when using RAW capture, when I reseted the phone, everything is back to normal, maybe battery is like 5-10% worse than nougat but not sure. Can't say anything about the missing features. I want them too, but most of wanted a Stock + UI and now we complain [emoji39] vanilla Android lacks many features like it or not. Hope they release some future firmware update to fix any issues and update the security bulletin.
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I never ever wanted Stock Android. Stock is the least customizable iteration of Android. So who could want this kind of user experience? People who think Google knows what's best for you? Ridiculous!
Any one tried downgrading to Nougat?
Tried official update.zip. Downgrade FAILS!
This package is for "ailsa_ii" devices; this is a ""
(My device only received official updates, never a custom ROM or root)
Yerry said:
Any one tried downgrading to Nougat?
Tried official update.zip. Downgrade FAILS!
This package is for "ailsa_ii" devices; this is a ""
(My device only received official updates, never a custom ROM or root)
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You can't downgrade with the official update.zip
Also this is the wrong thread to post this. This thread is for bugs found in oreo.
I appear to be having poor quality sound when playing audio though the main speakers. There's a hissing sound.
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You can't downgrade with the official update.zip
Also this is the wrong thread to post this. This thread is for bugs found in oreo.
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I disagree on both of your statements. here is why:
1. It is possible to downgrade, but not with all official update.zip that exist (I succeeded in the meantime!)
2. It is a bug in the Oreo rom that the device type is not set, preventing majority of old update.zip to run since they check the device type
I am missing the stock Nougat 'lock screen' option in the Quick options menu. I am using an app to soft lock the screen at the moment which works but am not sure at all why they removed it in first place.
I am also missing the Messaging and Phone customization options available in Nougat, including the different message bubbles types and the background change settings. It is now simply white and blue and you couldn't change it.
I have had a hard time fixing the Notification problem Oreo brought to many apps, including system, resulting in oversleeping for alarm clock app not working at all. This may not be a particular problem of ZTE directly since apparently it is an Oreo issue but I still don't understand why so many notifications have been forced to the swipe-down menu without default option to disable them. Like "this and this process running in the background" and using default notification tone for every single thing happening to the phone. Adjusting settings in Android System notification modes solved some problems but delayed or not showed at all certain notifications like SMS messages or alarm clock not working - even though these were specifically made to pop and make sound.
Battery life for me varies. It may be up to 10-12 hours if I don't do almost anything and just keep it in stand-by to 3-4-5 hours if I use the screen, some browsing and listening to music. Screen-on-Time in general is up to 2-3 hours in best case scenario. Also sometimes for no apparent reason I see the battery percentage going down like every few seconds by 1 percent and with no use of anything special, just the screen. Overall I could rate it (a little) worse than Nougat considering that I've now gone through all Power settings and disabling anything I don't need per app.
I can only congratulate ZTE for making Dolby Atmos now working on both earphones and front speakers at all times, including with custom player equalizer running at the same time as Dolby Atmos. It never worked for me and was also accompanied with various bugs on all 6, 6.1, 7 and 7.1.
The "choose what your SD card should do" on every restart is pretty bad and I strongly prefer the Nougat behavior when it simply worked. Maybe adding a Setting - "do not ask again" or an option in the System Settings where you can change the status of the SD card on the go would work better than unmounting it every time. This causes many issues with file managers, players and different other apps with files located on the SD card. I hope they re-work it.
Finally, I noticed that Ultra Power Saver works in a much worse way than it did on Nougat. It kind of goes into another OS mode upon return from which it does not start apps that are set to auto-start upon reboot. The Nougat style of simply black-and-whit-ening the screen and turning off any data was so much better and didn't return the phone in a half-functioning state when connected to the charger. Also at 15% as I adjusted it, the middle power saving function (Power Saver or so) does not seem to be at least visibly working so the battery keeps draining as fast as if it was not on.
So, in short - dark(er) Quick Menu, getting back Nougat default app customization options, fixing the SD card message upon every reboot, not forcing TouchPal to be default keyboard or in use even if another keyboard is chosen, or disabling both, and possibly working on better battery life would be all amazing. I still think ZTE did a great job with 8.0 and am happy they finally released it to us.
The phone was frozen and restarted several times.
After that, fingerprint doesn't work and I had to reconfigure fingerprint record.
I just installed it about 2 hours ago, and I've noticed many new details that Xiaomi didn't mention. This will include most of the new, missing, broken things etc.
The 'new' changelog :
- New scrolling mechanism; it is now an ios clone, and I LOVE IT. It is super smooth! However, it only applies to system apps.
- Faster fingerprint unlock; it is noticeably faster. I'm still not sure if the bugs regarding the fingerprint reader is fixed though.
- The sleep/screen timeout option is now present; previously missing on MIUI 10 :/
- Blur app previews in multitasking; you can now select the apps you want to be blurred in the multitasking section.
- You can now view the battery % next to the icon; previously fixed to in the icon.
- Updated camera app; decreased delay when switching between lenses, stickers and filters in the 'short video' section. Processing is probably better.
- You now have the option to disable quick shortcuts on fingerprint reader
- Updated android boot logo
- Gesture stutters are completely gone!
- Notifications now stay permanently in the status bar!
The things that are missing/broken
- Still no voLTE option
- Audio is still 96kbps
- AI button settings keeps crashing
- Screen randomly turns on multiple times when charging (your mileage may vary)
Do let me know in the comments on what I'm missing
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- Still no voLTE option
- Audio is still 96kbps
- AI button settings keeps crashing
- Screen randomly turns on multiple times when charging (your mileage may vary)
Do let me know in the comments on what I'm missing
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In eu rom 9.10.31 nothing of these.
I have a voLTE working, maybe you mobile provider is blocking this options. There a thread here on XDA about how to force unlock them.
Audio where? just checked in recorder, it's up to 192kbps.
AI button settings, works fine.
About screen on charging, may be i just haven't noticed
g_seva said:
In eu rom 9.10.31 nothing of these.
I have a voLTE working, maybe you mobile provider is blocking this options. There a thread here on XDA about how to force unlock them.
Audio where? just checked in recorder, it's up to 192kbps.
AI button settings, works fine.
About screen on charging, may be i just haven't noticed
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Well, this is an official OTA from Xiaomi themselves, eu is always better than the stock MIUI.