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[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] adrb61:
Yes they do. It is easy to mute the phone for a meeting and then to forget about it and not get any notifications about anything.

Lots of people use it, for meetings, shows or other timed events. This is why Google introduced it from Android 5.0.1
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ogre6473:
Keep the Shake to turn on flashlight exactly as it is! It's perfect!

Bug: On occasion, when I clear all background apps the flashlight turns itself on. Sometimes immediately, sometimes a few minutes later. Always after the screen has turned off whether from timeout or from me pressing the button. I suspect it's from me constantly using the shake feature and a process is being closed/restarted when I clear all.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] toyanucci:
I agree. I like the flashlight implementation. I like that I have to turn the screen on to make it work
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] igoforthebest:
The dual time on lock screen has AM and PM swapped for few specific times. for example 7AM for me turns into 7PM then reverts back to 8AM after an hour.

The phone sometimes loses the bluetooth paired devices. I have to pair them all again from time to time.

Messaging apps like whatsapp has ringtones as default. It only shows ringtones and we cannot access notification tones.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
You don't think being able to shake it to turn off would be nice? After using lots of moto phones, this implementation feels very awkward. Why do you like turning the screen on before shaking? I've never used a moto phone where I've accidentally turned the flashlight on even once, and I've owned all the moto's since the original moto x.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] toyanucci:
I owned a moto x pure and yes, it works great there but I don't find zte's implementation to be any less, it's just a different implementation. Also in my mind it may be better for battery life to not have the phone wake with every movement in anticipation of a second "chop" to turn the flashlight on. It just doesn't bother me the way it's done here but I can understand why it would bother some people.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] stevenkelby:
I'd pay $100 to have everything in the first post fixed. Thanks for the thread Xxbrunoxx
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
Glad to know it's not just me! I linked this thread to a ZTE staff member over on Z-Community, and they said they had been looking at it. They announced they would be pushing back the upcoming update to early next week, wonder if this list had anything to do with that?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] paatha13:
Hope as many of the requests being included in the next software update.

ZTE must work hard and bring for much better UI experience so the device being much better overall.

The hardware is already very capable but software is that would make the device from just good to near excellent.

Sent from my iPad Air 2
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rczrider:
I agree with most everything in the OP. Some I care about less than others, of course, and some are obvious (really, the notification bell is almost a joke it's so bad), but it's a solid list.

For the nav buttons, I would add that on-screen should be optional, but also schedule-able. For the most part, I think on-screen buttons are a waste of screen real estate and muscle memory helps me use the non-backlit capacitive button in the dark...but having on-screen buttons show at night would be great.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] stevenkelby:
Yes that would be awesome, just tiny little ones right at the edge of the screen even just to help find the capacitive ones.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xgerryx:
I think above all else, the capacitive buttons really irritate me more than I thought they would. All of the layout down there, from the home button to the clear all recents button, the spacing, is all bad. On screen buttons would help but it's been so aggravating I've considered selling. Using it at night, even with a rare missed button, is awful and I don't have confidence the button I try to push is going to be pushed.

Biggest problems to me:

Lack of on screen nav buttons

Stupid notification bell

Lack of always-on moto-display-like thingy

Double tap to wake still sucks (and I hate the vibration)

No DND, volume not linked correctly on some audio

Data reception on Verizon is worse than other phones (but we know why that might be at this point)

Some other problems were solved with BL unlock, root, xposed, but a lot of that was just adding back things from other phones that this one didnt have for some unknown reason.

EDIT: I would also like to echo your (OP) call screen proximity sensor issue. It is a huge freakin annoyance and it definitely needs attention

Thank you for making this thread.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Chris2810:
When you go to apps, in the right upper corner you have 3 dots, and there you can select something like show system apps.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
This still doesn't let you disable many of them that you can disable if you open up "stock launcher". The disable button is greyed out.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] stevenkelby:
Yeah that doesn't work.

Do you even Axon 7 bro?

I was unable to disable those stock apps until this thread. Thanks again op!
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
Glad I could help! :)
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Chris2810:
My bad then, I'll have to do the same as you.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] stillTRE:
How often? I have had minor bluetooth issues with Windows Phones for years, I was hoping to avoid them on Android, should I be concerned? (my Axon 7 arrives next week)
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] igoforthebest:
Well it has happened twice with me but I dont think you need to be concerned. It has never happened in any other android device I've used and I also havent seen many reporting this issue for Axon 7. Thats the bluetooth part.

For the dual time I think its just a bug which can be easily fixed.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
Bluetooth has never once dropped for me. You'll be fine
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] admrusty01:
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With Tasker you can link notification volume and ringer volume together.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Chris2810:
Do you mean Google Now Launcher from PlayStore? I tried it and still can't disable them. Actually can't even see some. You probably mean something else by stock launcher, where can I get it?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
No the launcher that comes with the phone called "stock Android"
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Chris2810:
I don't have it. Do you have the US or EU version?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jpde:
The EU version doesn't have that stock Android theme (as has been pointed out previously in this thread)
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
Added how to get rid of write protection. If you're rooted and can't get adaway working, try this. Worked great for me!
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
Added new flashlight bug. Thanks [MENTION=4578262]ludovicien[/MENTION]!
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] stevenkelby:
B27 also removed the ability to remove the stock apps.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] djona12:
Thanks for summing up some issues ! Although I don't agree with everything, it's a good way to keep track :).

For the calculator app, there is a "fix". You can send it to the home screen by holding it while in the tools app.

For the camera gesture while off-screen, you can assign one finger to unlock and launch the camera app immediately (maybe two, one for each hands).

Those are more workaround than fixes but they do the job.

Anybody got a fix for the Dolby reset to default issue ? It's the only thing really bugging me since the default "music" preset is so boring on A2017G...
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
Nice fix for the calculator app on home screen, will add it to main guide!

There is no way to open camera while screen is off directly, the camera option in settings -> fingerprint allows you to touch the fingerprint sensor when camera is already open to take a picture. Since volume buttons already do that and it's very easy to cover up the flash when you do this, not particularly useful.

I've heard about the Dolby reset issue, but since I don't use headphones and don't play with my EQ, I haven't noticed this. Any more info about what's going on here?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sk0o:
.

When my phone is in standby and I double press the power button the camera app launches instantly.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] djona12:
I read the calculator fix here on CD I think, can't remember for sure where...

Yes you can, at least on A2017G. But the setting isn't in the one in the camera app.

It's in the fingerprint settings. The third option gives you the ability to open any app with the fingerprint of your choice from off screen locked phone. I use it for the camera app.

I can't say how it's working on a software level but the "bug" is as follow:

Play a song, change EQ, songs play with the selected EQ, next song plays, EQ automatically switch back to default (music).

Switching the EQ before playing the first song doesn't keep the selected one as default either. It behaves the same by switching back to "music" after one song.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
What version do you have? This definitely does not work on the A2017U running the latest B27.

Here's what this setting looks like on A2017U running B27 update. What does this look like on A2017G?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] djona12:
Yeah there is a difference between the fingerprint settings... Here's what it looks like on A2017G on B03. It was there on B02 too.

The circled option meaning "Quickly open an app".
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] mateo85:
Works for me as well:)
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kodrnusa:
European model B03 , double klick power button and the cammera launches immediatly from standby (black screen), alsoyou can choose which app to open with your finger print. I think this is comming to US Model with next update.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] djona12:
Thanks for the tip, i didn't know that one !
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] shirakani:
After using this phone (china ver, 6gb variant) for a few days I must say that I so very badly want to totally GUT OUT MiFavor...

Does anyone know how to TOTALLY utterly gut it out so the phone is literal basic STOCK ANDROID? Or do I have to unlock my bootloader and flash something?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] slamdunksaliby:
Just a note, it looks like the power saving option greatly downclocks the CPU. It's awesome though because I don't see a noticeable drop in performance.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
At the moment, if you want working speakers, not much you can do other than install different launcher.

I'm confused by this screenshot. The little CPU maxes out 1.59 GHz, what am I missing?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] slamdunksaliby:
Oh my mistake, I thought this was referring to the big CPU.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] XblackdemonX:
You should really post this on the official ZTE forums instead.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Locklear308:
I LOVE charging sounds. Never understand why people don't like feedback. I've got custom plug in, unplug, and fully charged sounds :D

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Nova, although Nova should ALWAYS be used haha.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] shirakani:
I'm confused by this... what's wrong with the speakers?... o.o

I rooted, totally gut out MiFavor completely and made Nova Launcher my main default... I haven't noticed any issues at all. Dolby Atmos still works fine (I didn't remove that, of course, its separate)... speakers work, sound is as big as expected.... Is there something on other variants that stops speakers working if you remove MiFavor?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
There's a cm13 rom in the dev section, but the only build posted doesn't have audio working at all, asking with lots of other bugs. The dev posted it a while back and hasn't published anything since. That's about all you can do to get rid of mifavor. Can't change settings menu, recents, notification shade, etc without flashing a custom ROM.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
I did, didn't get any responses so I abandoned it in favor of this one. I've given the link to this thread to ZTE employees on z community.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] shirakani:
Ah, yeah.

Yeah all I've done is the max possible w/ root, which is to remove as much of MiFavor as possible, including background services like com.zte.helper, etc... most 'zte' anything is removed unless its absolutely required.

That has made the phone clean and usable ENOUGH to make the wait for a proper full custom rom w/ everything working more tolerable.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
I'd love to see the list of what's safe to remove if you don't mind sharing?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] shirakani:
****, uh.... I didn't keep a list backup... Once I tested that the phone wasn't going to suddenly die sideways I cleared my uninstaller's recycle bin....
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bacomino:
Fingerprint sensor

Hello... First at all, thanks for this usefull post !

It should be possible to slide down/up on the fingerprint sensor to display/hide the notification panel (Like Huawei P9 do)...
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxBrun0xx:
Unfortunately, I believe this is impossible. The physical fingerprint sensor in our phones does not support gestures, so this feature cannot be added via software.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] slamdunksaliby:
Interesting, I didn't know this was hardware related
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] thequinox:
This guy has a tasker script that auto clicks the bell on the lock screen. That seems to be the best option so far.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bacomino:
totaly disable the lockscreen

The ability to simply totaly disable the lockscreen should also be a verry good thing.... :)
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jlomein:
I'm probably in the minority here, but I have an old Windows 7 PC that didn't automatically install the drivers properly after connecting my Axon 7 in MTP mode. I switched to Install Driver mode on the Axon, installed, switched back to MTP mode, and everything works great now.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] awsomjgp:
ZTE should keep the status bar and the quick settings alone. Make it stock.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] awsomjgp:
Also why are there 3 different wifi icons?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jwilensky:
Doubles tap power button to launch camera...
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] awsomjgp:
On the g model it does, but on the u model it doesn't. :(
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] daedren:
Hopefully, the various teams work in order to bring the software experience closer to both models.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] padule:
My thoughts:

Caller ID: currently it doesn't match it correctly with the contacts if the number is saved with the international prefix. I travel abroad a lot so I MUST have them saved with the international prefix. Never had any problem with any phone even back 15 years ago. This must be fixed.

DND (do not disturb): needs a toggle on the notification shade to quickly turn it on/off

Notification bell: apart making it optional, as many already pointed out, it should show a number indicating how many notifications there are.

+1 to the already mentioned "toggle for screen cast", "double tap to wake not working 90% of the times" and "status bar icons colors".
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] dcscorpio76:
This thread is awesome [MENTION=4413986]xxBrun0xx[/MENTION]. Very useful dialogue here. I have subscribed and will follow along. As a very recent Samsung convert, this is the first non Samsung phone I've purchased in at least 7-8 years. It was difficult to choose between the Axon 7 and the Oneplus3 because I love flashing custom roms. Hopefully I made the right choice! Thanks for the thread!
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] stevenkelby:
One more bug I haven't seen mentioned. I use my axon 7 to stream Pandora 12 hours a day, through the headphone jack into a stereo. The Axon 7 output is always on max.

Every few days the volume will suddenly drop to half and a warning will appear that "listening at high volume for a long time will damage your ears" or similar.

Then I have to stop what I'm doing and go turn the volume up again. It's pointless and stupid.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ticotexas:
It looks like the wifi assistant is missing under Settings > Google > Networking (networking is missing). It's a safety measure for when you are on public wifi.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ticotexas:
2 more: i wish long-pressing the back button would kill an app; and the clock app needs a night screensaver mode (i think mentioned before)
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Znuf:
Hi everyone,

I have a bug with incoming call.

It doesn't show me the contact name. Only the number. Their is a way to fix that?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] paatha13:
Get third party app.

I'm using this one

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller.row

It's a bug on ZTE dailer app.

Alternative you can try this one very good also.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hb.dialer.free
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Znuf:
I tried the pixel one but nothing changed. I'll try yours. Thanks
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bacomino:
I had the same bug

I had the same problem twice with my phone...

The first time, I hard reset my phone

But the second time, I disconnected my Google account from the phone and then deleted all my contacts (be careful, ALL my contacts are stored in my Google account so if your's are not, you will delete them definitively).

Then I reconnected my Google account and everything gone right after the sync :D

I think it's a backup restore problem...

Let me know if it works...
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jawz101:
I wouldn't want my ringer and notification volume tied together. My ringer is the classical Badinerie, which makes me appear cultured. My notification tone is the Whistle, which makes me appear like a dog in heat.

I haven't read the rest of the comments but the Install Driver option when connecting to a PC is for installing adb and a handful of drivers for connecting to tethering, adb, bootloader, and recovery.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Senjaya:
Hi. Im using China version. And the background app seems stop automatically. Is there any custom rom for china ver? Thanks.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Steveyknoxville:
Hi all, I have been trying for a while to decide between the one plus 3 and the axon 7. Finally decided to get the axon. Then I found this thread...... Now I have been put off the Axon seems to be allot of issues.... Can anyone with an axon or a one plus 3 give feedback. Cheers Steve
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] prestonmcafee:
I like the Axon a lot

I am very happy with my Axon, which is an unlocked US model. Some of the complaints don't seem to apply to the US model, or perhaps I got lucky with the build. I find it very fast, smooth and works great. I use Nova Launcher and turn off the mi-pop. I've had no trouble playing video and the speakers are pretty great. The screen is beautiful. The camera also seems better than many of the reviews suggest, similar to iPhone 6's camera. I'm not sure why there is so much grousing. All of the irritants in the first page list on this thread are present but I'm not finding them very irritating -- mostly they don't waste my time. Indeed, my major concern is that not enough people bought this phone -- so it won't get clean builds from the XDA devs and will get stuck in time. There isn't the size of community that the Oneplus 3T is generating, which probably means that the Oneplus will have updates and the Axon 7 will, much earlier, not be updated. By then I'll probably buy another phone anyway, though.

ZTE should offer a pure android build for an extra $50. I bet it would get some takers and create a dev community who then proselytize the phones. Free money.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Steveyknoxville:
Chinese or US Axon7

Thanks for the reply.... Great to know. I agree Android version would be awesome.

I really would like to get a US version, bit I live in NZ and no one on Swappa will ship to me and eBay is to expensive... ðŸ˜‘ Do you know where I could get one. I might have to get the Chinese one.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] prestonmcafee:
I bought the US version from Amazon in the US for $350, but it seems to be back to $399 now. Many Chinese versions of phones don't support the LTE bands T-Mobile uses (B2 and B4) so I typically can't use them.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ramnkc:
Some additional things we might consider to add

Call vibrations setting - allow user to configure call connected or hang out vibrations settings

Phone vibrations setting - Weak, normal, strong

Screen Effect - currently screen effect configuration preset available settings are not enough. And screen color is way too saturated especially on Amoled screen. ZTE should fix this as first priority.

App Drawer - Should had allow user to enable or disable it... my laucher is so disoriented now.

Notification icon on notification bar- should had allow user to enable grouping or not grouping. Now default is group, i couldn't see what notification is pending unless i pull down the notification panel.

Additional app notification badge - Notification badge did not show in folder view unless you expand it. Else it won't show anything. Whatapps notification badge is missing ?! But wechat is available? Come on !

Pocket Dial Prevention - setting to allow user to configure "Prevent pocket dial" settings, this will disable user accidentally dial or open or do anything while phone is in our pocket. This is high priority as previously phone only able to lock and open with screen pattern or pin, but due to the finger print unlock as it can unlock my phone in my pocket

To be honest, MiFavor had so much to catch up to current market launcher. I know some will argue you can always use different launcher but my argument is either you built you build your own launcher or don't built it. If you built your own launcher then you must play up to the game, else you might as well forget it.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] aggdroid:
Just got the Axon 7 yesterday coming from an LG G3 and so far I am enjoying the phone and would ditto the orginal post except for the Lockscreen bell which is "fixed" on my phone: Settings > Notifications > Show on the lock screen has the option to have Wallpaper preferred or Notification preferred...so your notifications are present without clicking the bell. I saw a lot of reviews complaining about the bell and was prepared to hate it as well, but i haven't seen anyone just say hey, just change this setting which seems to work fine..
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] nauman284:
[MENTION=4413986]xxBrun0xx[/MENTION] and also theme store for zte axon 7

what is the purpose of themes in setting if you can't download new one :(