[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
If you have any suggestions, add in comments and I'll update the OP. Going to try to keep this list as comprehensive as possible.

Ambient Display

: Stock ambient display sucks, so I don't miss it here. But would be nice to get something similar to Moto's active notifications to make use of the amoled panel.

Smart power-save

: What does it really do? Is it limiting CPU speed? Is it using a more conservative governor? I can't tell any difference (performance or battery) when it's on vs off.

Voiceprint

: Completely useless. I bet not a single person uses this.

MyVoice

: This would be MUCH more useful if you could trigger it without touching phone while screen was off. In its current form, the time it takes to unlock my phone, hold back, say my command, and wait for it to respond, I'd be better off just doing whatever I wanted it to do. Screen off voice commands are natively supported by Qualcomm, even when the phone is in Doze.

Gesture & Motion

:

-Double tap to wake is very slow and doesn't work when phone has gone into Doze.

It also works in your pocket because there is no proximity sensor check. There needs to be.

-Shake flashlight: You really need to shake your phone violently now. So violently in fact that you will throw your phone more often than not trying to turn your flashlight on.

-Give us some kind of camera gesture when phone is off. Double tap power, hold volume button, shake phone, whatever.

Navigation Keys

: Capacitive buttons should be optional. I like being able to swap which side the back button is on, but we should be able to customize long-presses.

Battery Percentage

: Should be displayed inside the battery icon or replace it. Uses up a ton of space on the status bar.

Workaround: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kroegerama.android4batpercent

Holster Mode

: Completely useless. This is a phone, not a fitbit. Keeping the phone screen on all the time to use as a pedometer will destroy your battery life.

Cast Screen

: Why is this not a toggle in the notification shade? Why do I need to dig into the display settings to do this? You have a dual sim quick-toggle, but not a cast screen quick-toggle?

Sound

: I really like that when I mute ringer, media volume also mutes. But when you unmute, it goes back to whatever it was at before, which can be a lot louder than you think. Android should tie all volumes except alarm volume together, but if nothing else, let us tie ringer and notification volume together.

Mute Schedule

: Why did they remove stock 6.0's timed do not disturb functionality?

Charging Sounds

: Should be able to turn off.

Apps

: To disable stock calendar, clock, gallery, mifavor launcher, my voice, stock music app, and stock video app, you have to open "stock android launcher" and drag icons from the app drawer to top of screen. Why can't we just disable these same apps from settings --> apps?

Storage

: Let us use adaptable storage!

Connect to PC

: Does the "Install driver" option do anything? Have not found a computer that does not install driver automatically when MTP selected.

Lockscreen

: Get rid of the bell!

Notification Shade

: Editing toggles is nice, but let us add and remove toggles. Many of us don't use a 2nd sim card, so having 3 related toggles is a waste of space.

System UI Tuner

: Holding the gear icon in the notification shade causes it to spin and settings to open, but System UI Tuner never appears in settings. If you're not going to let us use System UI Tuner, get rid of the toggle.

Stock Weather widget

: I really like the widget, but does not scale when resizing. Also, does not open Google clock if stock clock is disabled when clicked. Oh well, back to Chronus.

Toolkit

: Not all of these are very useful, but definitely interesting. If you want to create a home screen shortcut to any of these, open the toolkit app and long press whatever icon you like.

Recent Apps

: clear button shouldn't cover up 50% of the currently open app. This will be solved in nougat, so probably not worth fixing, but if you're going to put a clear all button on this screen, but it near the top left or top right so it's harder to accidentally press.

Status Bar Color

: When status bar turns dark, icons stay dark so you can't read anything. These should turn white.

Speaker Phone

: If on speaker phone and screen times out, other person can no longer hear you until you toggle speakerphone off then back on, which means constantly touching your phone's screen so it doesn't time out.

Phone call Proximity Sensor

: Doesn't work. If you turn the screen off and hold the phone up to your head, if the proximity sensor sees light, which it will because it's not centered, it will turn the screen BACK ON. With this and the bug above together, phone calls are a

huge

pain in the ass.

Dolby Atmos

: This resets EQ settings very often. I can't figure out what causes it to reset to default, but the settings just never seem to stick.
Anyone have any more info on this?

Write Protection on Rooted phones

: Rooted and still can't get adaway or titanium backup to work? Turns out there's an extra layer of write protection here that's not found in other phones. Why do we need this? Luckily, there's a simple fix: Plug phone into computer, load up adb, type "adb reboot disemmcwp" (source:http://androidforums.com/threads/zte-write-protection-for-zmax-and-other-zte-phones.1040331/)

Disable stock apps

: in B20, you could disable several stock apps that did not allow you to disable them in settings --> apps by opening"stock Android" launcher and dragging app drawer icons to disable. Seems that has been removed in B27, so now we have no way to disable redundant clocks and calendars to name a few.

Any more suggestions? Anyone know any fixes for the above?