[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] |Furō|:
Hey there Axon 7 owners!

I am currently very interested how different CustomRoms for the Axon 7 compare to each other, but I don`t have the time to flash all of them at the moment...

So I would love to hear YOUR experiences you have made with different CustomRoms on your device! I`m mostly interested in:

- Stability (possible daily driver on my main phone)

- Support (community, defs, QAs)

- Batterylife

- Sound

- Performance

- Updates? (OTA?, regularly? , etc)

- "Standard features (phone, GPS, bluetooth ...) working or not?

- Advanced features (Substratum (Customization), etc.)

- What do you love?

- What do you hate?

- Would you recommend it?

- Anything else you`d like to share ;) I`ll happily read any information!!

As I would love to have a Rom which is able to run Substratum well, I`m mostly interested in Roms like RR, NucleaRom, AOSPextended .... feel free to add more to the list and also feel invited to write of whichever Rom you are using, whether or not it is supporting Substratum.

I will start with my personal experience:

LineageOS (https://xdaforums.com/axon-7/development/unofficial-lineageos-14-1-zte-axon-7-t3545679):

Overall I was pretty happy with this ROM :)

Was stable enough for me (a random reboot every 2 to 3 days)

I think it`s definitly the most supported ROM (huge community and very active devs...), you usually get help pretty fast, whenever you need it! (thanks guys)

Batterylife wasn`t extraordinary, but it got me through the day, which is kinda enough... but I`d love more.

Sound was pretty good, ever since the speaker-fix, I personally liked the AudioFX-App. I`m not sure if LOS takes full advantage of the DAC though.

Performance was good, only thing bothering me: sometimes apps disappeared off my recents

Updates worked really well, ever after starting to use LineageDownloader (I do recommend this app when using LOS)! Very frequent updates (weekly!) that`s how I like it ;)

Had no issues with calls and every other "normal" task I`d throw at my phone

Substratum is sadly not supported, which made me move on ;) other than that LineageOS doesn`t have as many special features I`m aware of, it`s clean, stable but not the most customizable

I loved the barebone google approach with very small addons.

I hated nothing really, but overall I kinda want more possibilities to customize my phone ;)

I would personally recommend it to everyone who wants a working alternative to Stock Axon7 Rom and who doesn`t need all that many crazy options, but an overall very different and in my opinion preferable look and feel (when compared to stock MiFavor) I would also recommend it to everyone starting to experiment with customRoms.

NucleaROM (https://xdaforums.com/axon-7/development/rom-kernel-nuclearom-radioactive-kernel-t3586179/page58):

So I moved to this puppy because I really wanted to try out an all Black SubstratumTheme, and see what else a ROM might have to offer.... (and cuz it was recommended to me by a very nice guy (I don`t mind mentioning the name, but I don`t dare to :P)

Stability is great, as long as my device`s screen is turned on. But whenever my screen turns off, I get an immediate reboot, which is very annoying and makes it kinda not suited to be used as a daily driver.

However the Support is pretty good for a (compared to LOS for example) very small Dev-Team and community! I posted my issue with NucleaROM and the Dev responded very quickly telling me that it will be adressed with the next update -> props for that! However especially the community support is of course inferior to LOS (since far less people know and Use NucleaROM).

So far I can`t really do real life battery tests, since I`m currently using my phone with screen on for hours to then turn it off completely and reboot it when I need it again (to avoid the bug mentioned above). But I feel like Batterylife with an all black substratum theme on AMOLED is quite nice!

Sound is awesome (for me) probably the same as on LOS (but it feels a bit better to me :`) )

Performance is good so far as well.... I flashed the rom and didn`t notice the reboot-bug for over 3 hours, since everything was running so well I didn`t even turn off my screen and no random reboots happened in that time.... but when I wanted to sleep the reboot madness (I turned the screen off) started ^^ but when the screen is on, I`m very pleased with the performance!

Updates don`t look as good on this ROM. There is no OTA support and updates don`t seem to come that frequently (which is very understandable if you take the small dev team in account, which are doing all the work mainly in their freetime!!) but if you want weekly updates and OTAs then this won`t be the ROM for you probably.

Standard features seem to mostly work, apart from phone calls :/ (since when I hold the phone to my ear -> the screen turns off -> reboot ^^) and when I`m trying to use the speakers of the phone I`m having issues hearing the other person... so sometimes it works, but only after turning it on and off for a seemingly random amount of time...

Special features: this is definitely a huge stepup from LOS (this ROM includes pretty much everything I missed so far on LOS) Substratum is ther and working very well for me, I love the additional settings and options this ROM gives and even though it`s not important I absolutely dig the Boot-animation for some reason! :D

I love the feel, options and smoothness of this ROM!

I hate the reboot-bug (will update as soon as it is fixed!) and the calling issues.

For now I can`t recommend it as a daily driver, but if you are willing to experiment and either don`t depend that much on your phone or have a second one, than you could or should give this ROM a try and find out if it`s also as appealing to you as it is for me! You should definitly follow the development of this ROM though, since I feel like it has a whole lot of potential!! Fingers crossed I can use it as my daily soon! ;)

I`m very interested in different or the same experiences whith this ROM!

Let the sharing and caring beginn!