[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Exostenza:
I waited to upgrad from 6.0.1 until 7.1.2 was released because of all the negative feedback I heard from 7.0 users. The second I upgraded I noticed not only was my system way less responsive, but people were complaining constantly about my voice going in and out; sounding like I was close and then far away. I read up on the noise cancelling mic issues where people claimed it was faulty hardware, but it cade no sense to me that it would break the second I did my upgrade. I have used countless ROMs, Kernels, and fixes to try and regain the speed, battery life, and voice quality of 6.0.1 with no acceptable result. Although, the problems weren't big enough for me to care so I got used to using my $25 wired headset when talking to people and the general lack of responsiveness and battery life that Android 6.0.1 had.

Then the early shut down issue hit me a few days ago and without acception my phone would shut down anywhere between 45-20% and would refuse to turn on until I charged it for a bit which was completely unacceptable. I called google and they said because I didn't buy the phone from them that I would have to go through Huawei for an RMA. Upon learning that I would be without a phone for roughly 3 weeks up to 2 months I decided to take matters into my own hands. I researched how to replace the battery and ordered all the necessary tools and a replacement battery. The next day I stumbled across a post claiming that it is all software and not hardware where the user fixed all their problems by downgrading back to Android 6.0.1. I decided to give it a shot and since the downgrade I have had no issues with my voice quality when speaking to people through the main mic and the noise cancelling mic is now doing its job perfectly again, the increase in overall system and app speed and responsiveness is quite pronounced, and the biggest kicker of all is that I have NO battery issues. The battery lasts longer and does not shut down until it is truly dead.

It is completely unacceptable that Google has left us N6P owners with faulty software that has taken up our time and money and it is also clear they know that it is a software issue as many people are reporting that Google is straight up refunding them the full purchase price of the device instead of offering an RMA; there is no other reason to do this other than the knowledge that these issues are not hardware based and in fact software based.

So, I am stuck with a flagship phone from Google because I bought it retail instead of from their store that can't even run the latest software which is why I have always bought Nexus devices in the first place. This is completely unacceptable and I wish I lived in the USA where the class action law suite is being put together and they are scrambling to playcate their customers while those of us outside of the USA are left completely dead in the water on this issue.

As a community what can we do to put the pressure on Google and make them understand that this is a completely unacceptable situation? Us loyal Google/Android customers have been screwed pretty hard with the N6P....

tl;dr - If you have mic or battery issues a downgrade to 6.0.1 should fix them for you instead of having to pay for it to be fixed or fix it yourself and we should let googe know the current state of affairs is unacceptable for us N6P users!

What do you all think?