[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] Galaxo60:
Maybe I'm one of the few persons that actually like MiFavor, I think it offers nice features and when ZTE improves the design and start to polish and get rid of all the bugs, it would be a really and pleasant skin for most users. Even when everybody here seems to love stock Android, I find it boring and with a lack of nice features that skins from other brands are offering. Only XDA guys want Stock Android, but most of the "normal" people and users want features out of the box without the hassle of doing any weird thing into their phone.

I can say I know MiFavor really good because I have been doing clean updates the last 3 times (B10, B11, B01-Nougat 7.1.1) and I go menu by menu and option by option setting everything manually and according to my needs.

I'm assuming ZTE is working on a fix for the known issues we have for now (Dolby, Play Store, Invisible accounts, ZTELocker, etc), so I won't put them in the list, neither I will put things to camera, sound, screen, etc, because those are features of the phone and not of MiFavor. Anyway, here is my shot:

1) TOP 3 pros of MiFavor

Task Manager - Having the ability to kill and keep closed the applications you choose is really useful and can improve battery and performance if configured properly.

Schedule Energy Saver - I find pretty useful being able to disable all the unnecessary connections and stuff by night, but still having the ability to communicate through phones or SMS in case of emergency.

Double Tap to Wake - Is always handy and comfortable to use.

2) TOP 3 consof MiFavor

Notification Bar Shortcuts - You should add the ability to hide them, we don't need them all there the whole time. Arrange them is not enough, we don't want to see half of our screen with useless tiles. We should be able to hide them as well.

MiFavor Launcher - Is just useless, and as you have noticed, no one is using it. It doesn't have any unique or nice feature in other for people to keep using it. Most of the people will install Nova or Google Launcher because of the Google Now integration. I don't see the point of putting something not useful or that no one is actually using.

Notifications (Ambient Display) - Phone, SMS and Agenda are able to wake up the screen with notifications, but why not other applications as well?, why you don't make a configurable option in the notification menu?; on the other hand, having Ambient Display would be really nice and would take advantage of the AMOLED display we have, I mean, what's the point of having an AMOLED screen if we don't take advantage of its benefits?.

3) is there any feature that has not implemented yet but you think that it is a must -have on MiFavor?

Give us back the damn camera shortcut!

Any standard Android phone, stock or with custom skin, has the shortcut to open the camera by pressing 2 times Vol-, why you removed such a useful feature?. Currently there is no way to access the camera in a fast and easy way. AFAIK, this was removed in B03 and ZTE promised it will come back in a later update, but months have passed and I don't see it coming again.

Fingerprint Gestures

I saw them first on Huawei phones, but now are part of Android Stock as well. Is really nice to be able to use the fingerprint for something else, like showing the notification screen, dismissing notifications, etc.

Do Not Disturb Shortcut

Why we don't have a DND tile on the notification bar?, it seems weird to remove this because a lot of people have been complaining for months and months about this. There is no easy way to put your phone in DND and if you want to put it, you have to navigate all the way through the Sound menu, when it should be something really easy to achieve.

4) Do you like the MiFavor theme feature? Would you like to have more themes on MiFavor?

I like themes, and I think in general people like to customize the phone, but having just 5 themes to choose and not having the ability to install more is just lame. EMUI has my favorite theme app, when they give you around 7 themes by default, and you can access and download hundreds more in the app, and also you can choose to customize every single aspect of the themes. CM had a really nice theme store, with ability to install any theme you wanted and customize it. There is a lot that you can be done here if you plan to keep the theme thing.

5) Would you like to use the third-party apps instead of the MiFavor default apps? Which default apps are the most likely to be replaced? And replaced by which third-party apps?

Get rid of all the MiFavor applications and stick with Google ones!

Don't spend times and resources developing, testing and fixing app that Google already has. Let Google do the hard job for you and just include Google Apps.

Remove Gallery, Videos, Music, MiFavor Launcher, Agenda, Browser, AOSP Keyboard, Phone, Contacts, Calculator, Clock and other any application that Google has. Spend your time better polishing the software and fixing the critical bugs you already have, because at the end no one will use the default apps and people will still stick with the Google counterpart most of the times. As an other option, ZTE can gives us the ability to completely uninstall them or at least disable them.

And, if you have any other ideas, please comment below.

Keep working hard on your software, polish it and make it bug free!

Is not important how many features you offer, but what is important is that the ones you are offering work perfect. ZTE has a nice piece of hardware that has been only shadowed for the bugs and mediocre software experience since day one. Even after 1 year of release, people is still considering the device because all the nice features and the perfect combination of sound, camera, display, battery, etc., but you only need to enter the forums to discover that software is a big deal breaker in this device, and when potential customers see that, they prefer to stick with known brands even when most of the times they would pay double.

I hope you can forward this to the ZTE R&D team, and they have the patient to read all this thread in the same way we were patient writing and hoping things can improve for us as customers in the future.

We love the device and all the features, but ZTE has lost already a lot of customers and potential buyers because of the crappy and buggy software.

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