yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 6  General] setiawanjimmy:
Hi. Those of you using BT regularly ( smart watch or car audio etc ) and willing to do some test, can you please hit me on telegram [MENTION=5379942]setiawanjimmy[/MENTION] or PM please.
[Nexus 6  General] mal13:
1st new RC for shamu on DirtyUnicorns has popped up. https://download.dirtyunicorns.com/?dir=shamu/Rc
[Nexus 6  General] genti.b:
Yes it has, finally :o

Waiting this for ages. I'll try and flash it as soon as I get the chance.
[Nexus 6  General] mal13:
As someone will wonder/ask...yes 8.1.0 w/ January patches.
[Nexus 6  General] ajaynsurana:
Tried installing DU 8.1. All went fine till I tried to Install ElementalX kernal and it did not get boot then.. stuck on Google Logo..
[Nexus 6  General] stivakos:
Waiting first impressions with DU.
[Nexus 6  General] Ulfsark:
Is it just me or is Nougat roms preferable to Oreo atm?

Stability, features and battery seems, just better.

=O=
[Nexus 6  General] xconwayx:
The simple answer is we were never meant to get Oreo. We are blessed to get what these devs are willing to build without any official support.
[Nexus 6  General] genti.b:
Been running DU's latest RC for about 6 hours now and so far so good. Did a clean flash obviously, with their recommended Gapps and I've rooted it with Magisk 15.3 (didn't change the kernel).

There are a lot of features still to by added on this, but overall it's stable. No random reboots, battery stand-by looks good. Although is still early to tell, the first signs are good. I'm keeping this :good:
[Nexus 6  General] chopt51:
I flashed it. It's pretty bare bones. Too many place holders for options that don't exist. Honestly I couldn't even make it through my apps downloading before I had to get back in recovery and wipe my phone. There are too many other ROMs that are way ahead of DU for now.
[Nexus 6  General] wavedashdoc:
Tried it as well extremely solid. Mark is an awesome Dev. He was one of the first to bring 7.1 Shamu. If his support is anything like those days, this rom will eventually be an awesome addition to the other Oreo builds. I had one issue which made me switch back to Beltz, gps specially navigation seemed broken. Even though it said it was on apps like maps and YouTube TV kept bouncing me back out saying that I need to enable location.

Really appreciate the support for this phone past EOL. Reminds me of the Galaxy Nexus days. Except this phone has no compromises lol.
[Nexus 6  General] kgiri247:
I disagree running the latest builds of 8.1 really makes this 3 year old device feel renewed. I feel like the latest builds of 8.1 Oreo run quicker than stock nougat. Battery life is similar or the same. Aside from a few minor issues I see no reason to go back in time and not run 8.1. The beauty of the Nexus is running the latest OS and Im happy our Shamu runs it so well.
[Nexus 6  General] EternalFlame:
Yep yep yep, came a long road from Gingerbread to Oreo over the past years on different devices and i must admit that 8.1 on my 2015 Nexus 6 is the smoothest experience ever, who needs a Pixel for 1000 bucks :cool:
[Nexus 6  General] imaGine00:
I'd like be telling same as you but I get very bad battery life with Oreo (tried Nitrogen, AICP, ABC). And I get also performance issues when battery is around 30% and less. Moreover, Oreo 8.1 is really RAM hungry compared to Nougat 7.1.1 and it comes with lags, etc etc.

It's true that Oreo 8.1 is so smooth and comfortable but in every day life I sadly have the feeling it's not ready yet.

Is there a special trick or something I'm missing here ? Is there a custom kernel's helping ? Any GAPPS perfectly working ?
[Nexus 6  General] alryder:
I'm running beltz and I don't seem to have any of those issues. My battery life is really good but my phone tends to die with about 15% battery left which I blame on a three year old battery. It starts faster and is more responsive than it has been for quite a while. Before I started playing with the 8.1 builds I was going to retire my Nexus 6 but now I'm looking for a reputable shop in my area to replace my battery instead.
[Nexus 6  General] mezerr:
I have the same thing on Nephilim. I've edited my Thermal-engine-shamu.conf file to throttle MHZ down to 1750 at 15%, and to disable one core. Seems to resolve the shutting down issue.
[Nexus 6  General] wavedashdoc:
You're battery is starting to fail, while this is a workaround, if you plan on keeping the phone it's best to replace the battery. It's not too difficult either.
[Nexus 6  General] mezerr:
Possibly.. but BCL is also disabled, which is why I assume it was shutting down at 15%. With BCL enabled, it goes right down to 2%
[Nexus 6  General] wolfballz:
Give Nephilim a try. Runs smooth, fast, and full of features.
[Nexus 6  General] EternalFlame:
Hard to tell man, i use beltz since i heard of it, tho i´m currently running a "beltz test-build" to help setiawanjimmy fixin the BT issues, but i hadn't any of those problems on official released builds too, i do nothing special, i mean i don´t use heavy apps like Facebook and i get rid of google assistant and pixel launcher (i use NLP for instance) and so on, it makes a big difference if you use well coded apps or not (RAM/Performance-wise).

Also, i push the CPU Boost and highspeed_freq to 1728 MHz and the boost duration to 800 ms for butter smooth scrolling, one big factor too is i do not game or anything where i have to touch the screen like crazy.

edit: try those GApps: https://androidfilehost.com/?w=profile&uid=673791459329055917 ,those are working for me without problems if you like the slim package.
[Nexus 6  General] imaGine00:
Already tried this trick ?

1. Power off your phone.

2. Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons. This will put the phone in fastboot.

3. Use the Volume buttons to scroll through the menu until you see "Bootloader logs"

4. Press and hold the power key for a long time (7+ seconds) until the phone reboots.

No games, no Facebook, I just need a stable phone for everyday working life but I like testing new stuff ;)

Thank you for your advice, I'm gonna give it a try !

RIght, I haven't tested it yet. Maybe this is the one !

Have you tested Elementalx oreo kernel yet ?
[Nexus 6  General] Guapo613:
I'm using Beltz latest build and I'm surprised as to how good the battery life is.
[Nexus 6  General] genti.b:
Yep. Mark and the whole DU are very good developers (as are a lot of others who are pushing Oreo updates almost on daily basis) and they don't push official ROM versions until they are absolutely sure that everything works. These two RC builds that they released are for testing purposes with many features yet missing. Besides that, the ROM works pretty good atm.

P.S. As for GPS-navigation, they already provided a fix for that in the second RC and now seems to be working. Some other features were added as well.
[Nexus 6  General] wavedashdoc:
Yeah I did see he posted a new build with the GPS fix, I think I'm going to hold off for now. Definitely a good time to have a Nexus still with all these options. I feel bad for those who paid more than 800 for a new phone. (Besides having a superior shutter speed in the camera) there aren't many compromises with this phone.
[Nexus 6  General] t3chwizard:
Does ABC have battery and clock customization options?

Also could you link where to find ABC because I haven't seen it in the development section?
[Nexus 6  General] gothy.gothy:
What Gapps are mostly recommended for Beltz?

Thank you
[Nexus 6  General] AccuNeal:
I use this one https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=746010030569947776

---------- Post added at 02:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:43 PM ----------

No one else has mentioned: [MENTION=5379942]setiawanjimmy[/MENTION] has posted an update for beltz oreo 8.1 here https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75259057&postcount=20293

He has added some nice features while preserving his clean ROM. Use the open gapps in the above post for a lean installation.
[Nexus 6  General] vasolini:
Thanks for the heads up! I'm hoping for an ABC update!
[Nexus 6  General] genti.b:
Unfortunately I don't remember because I have moved passed that (searching for the perfect N6 ROM). I only used it for 3-4 days before I flashed another one (flashoholic). The NFC caused some trouble because it drained the battery a lot, so I decided to change it.

But I can provide you with this link:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75177519&postcount=20181
[Nexus 6  General] adm1jtg:
Just loaded latest beltz and while not in the change log my BT issues are fixed as well
[Nexus 6  General] wavedashdoc:
He provided a test build to multiple users and the Bluetooth issue is no more. This is the most stable release.
[Nexus 6  General] Guapo613:
Dirty flash on top of the previous build or complete wipe?
[Nexus 6  General] wavedashdoc:
Follow this exactly:

Wipe dalvic and cache

Flash rom

Flash gapps

Flash Magisk (optional)

Then go into the file manager of twrp and delete everything in this "Data/system/package_cache/

Note: I had a "1" folder which had everything in it, and I deleted that.

Reboot

Profit.

Thanks to [MENTION=4592625]selw0nk[/MENTION] for the heads up. Also, in a future release this deletion step won't be necessary.
[Nexus 6  General] garywojdan81:
Worked great, thanks for sharing.
[Nexus 6  General] EternalFlame:
Ye was a little busy the past 24h sorry lads :angel:

Hope everyones BT is working now, tested the hell out of it, paired it with a few different devices/pc's/sound systems/headphones, not a single issue on my end , hope everyone has the same experience. :svetius:
[Nexus 6  General] beta1204:
Hi,

Update to the latest version ok ! Great rom !

For information, there seems to be a problem in the translation (in french) in the settings menu (see screenshot).

Is that a problem for everyone or just in French ?

Thanks !
[Nexus 6  General] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
On a dirty install of beltz several items in Settings ended up having names that were actually the description of the setting. The app itself in the app drawer had a gibberish name, and when trying to clear cache the app name was "Permissive".

A clean install of beltz didn't have these issues.
[Nexus 6  General] fkfmfz:
Do what is on post #1037 to fix those strings
[Nexus 6  General] wavedashdoc:
I literally just posted about how to fix this.
[Nexus 6  General] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
:laugh:

Wish I had seen that before I clean flashed at 1am in the morning EST. Nevertheless, something I'll keep in mind for next time.
[Nexus 6  General] alryder:
For what it's worth, I always wipe dalvic, cache and system, then flash the new version of the ROM. I don't know if that's considered a clean or dirty flash but it always seems to work for me and my apps and their settings are 100% retained.
[Nexus 6  General] garywojdan81:
That's considered dirty. Clean wipes everything but internal storage.
[Nexus 6  General] beta1204:
Great ! it works!

Thanks !!
[Nexus 6  General] Markeee:
Nephilim 1.4 is out
[Nexus 6  General] Duyo:
So I flashed Nephilim 1.3 the other day. Its working fantastic. This is the first 8.1 rom that I tried that works perfectly with my smart watch. Thanks for this. I was on S.I.X. rom 1.6 since August.

I always un theme my substratum theme before I back up with recovery. Is this this good practice or can I back up as is?

I also un theme before a dirty flash.

Thanks

Thanks.
[Nexus 6  General] alryder:
The way the changelogs read for the latest release of Beltz it seems that these three changes are options that can be disabled but I can't find where to disable them:

+ ‎Allow to customize notification channels led light

+ ‎Battery light customization

+ ‎Allow to suppress notifications sound/vibration if screen is On

I'd like to disable the LED completely like it was before and I'm starting to think that may have to be done with a Kernel Manager but I think I have looked everywhere for a place to unsupress notifications when the screen is on. Any ideas on these?
[Nexus 6  General] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
[MENTION=4596349]alryder[/MENTION]:

Notifications: Settings > Apps > Notifications. Tap on the app and you can set its LED color there. Notification suppression is likely there as well.

Battery LED: Settings > Battery > Battery Charging Light.

There apparently is no way to shut off the LED, but in the color picker you can choose black as a color, which is effectively the same as shutting it off. The alternative is to replace lights_shamu.so from the ROM with an unmodified version.
[Nexus 6  General] johnb380:
It's posted in builders thread ABC update for Shamu and on AFH.
[Nexus 6  General] Guapo613:
I flashed AndroidX December 19 build by camcory on my spare Nexus 6 and all I can say is "Wow". I'm about to throw a SIM in this thing and start using it. I'll report my findings but this ROM seems very well put together.
[Nexus 6  General] kgiri247:
I ran that build for a while and it is very good but had random reboots to often. You should check out the latest Beltz build linked a few pages back or Nephilim's latest 1.4 build. I flashed 1.4 and this thing is so smooth and fast.
[Nexus 6  General] Guapo613:
I'm using Beltz on my Nexus 6 daily driver but I'm going to try this out on my spare N6. From what I understand, Beltz is based on Android X, I could be wrong though.
[Nexus 6  General] hameedf:
I like this rom very much and I wish it get more updates
[Nexus 6  General] Guapo613:
What I like most from Android X and Beltz is the stock, minimal feel about them.
[Nexus 6  General] franatic08:
Just a quick question, where can I find the status bar editor in the latest Beltz?

I want to disable some icons (like alarm, etc).

Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] Blaiser47:
Need to enable system ui tuner. Long press notification icon in notification panel. When toast pops up saying it is enabled, go find it in settings, system
[Nexus 6  General] garywojdan81:
Long press the settings icon on the bottom of the notification shade to turn on access to the system ui settings then settings>system>system ui>status bar
[Nexus 6  General] franatic08:
Of course!

I have gotten so used to having that enabled by default in most ROMs, that I forgot about the standard way of enabling it.

Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] mnsiw:
Do we have Trusted face (TF) working on any Oreo 8.1 ROM yet? I'm on Beltz, it has TF but doesn't work, shows 'Trusted Face has stopped'
[Nexus 6  General] genti.b:
As far as I know there aren't any 8.1 ROM's that support it (someone can correct me if I'm wrong). For the past week I have been running the RC build of Dirty Unicorns and have the same problem.
[Nexus 6  General] mnsiw:
Finally got it working :)
[Nexus 6  General] genti.b:
Haha... Do tell man. How and with what!?
[Nexus 6  General] mnsiw:
Kinda long story :) only thing you need is a zip (probably missing lib) from this GitHub discussion https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/issues/555

If you need instant face unlock, then install Xposed (I'm using Systemless Xposed Framework for Magisk) and instant face unlock xposed module.

Working perfect for me.
[Nexus 6  General] mnsiw:
Guys please share if you know how to enable 'hey google' hot word, is it different google app or some build.prop tweak, its working on my Nexus 5 with AOSP 8.1 ROM
[Nexus 6  General] vasolini:
It's been working on a few of the 8.1 ROMs on my N6. I'm currently running ABCrom and it's working fine. Same with Beltz, Nephilim, and some others. It will set up as the regular "Okay Google" and in a day or so, I get the update pushed to set up "Hey Google". I should also note that I use the "Get Assistant" app from the PlayStore which modifies the prop.build to Pixel XL. I don't know if that helps or not since I always install it out of habit!
[Nexus 6  General] mnsiw:
Thanks, going to try this app or editing build.prop. I'm on Beltz for days and a beta tester for Google app but still not getting 'hey google' update.
[Nexus 6  General] EternalFlame:
new beltz build up lads :good:

--> https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75325725&postcount=20422
[Nexus 6  General] hormosapiens:
What is going on here... I see two roms by the same dev. Beltz and ABC for Nexus6. Which one is better? any differences.? What gapps goes with this ones. I am right now on ABC latest and the only thing I can not figure out is how to add 365 exchange support on gmail app.
[Nexus 6  General] :
Running nitrogen os 8.1- newest build from 1/12 with the latest gapps, then flash the faceunlock mod zip ( a dev modded to work with the 32 bit architecture) = trusted face works great. The link is listed in the nitrogen thread a few pages back. Hope that helps someone
[Nexus 6  General] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
If I recall correctly ABC has some features not found in beltz. This is because ABC is built using Nitrogen as a source, while beltz is built using AOSP as a source. Now, which is better? You'll have to decide that for yourself.
[Nexus 6  General] setiawanjimmy:
Beltz is my personal rom with features that i use only.

ABC is ezio's rom. I just build it for shamu. It has more features than beltz.

There are no roms better than the other. Its not competition or business. It's free. Just download and install whatever you like.

It's not true. ABC is built based AOSP. It's made by my good friend [MENTION=2095315]ezio84[/MENTION]. It's not based on Nitrogen. Ezio is a very talented developer. Most of the features on custom roms right now are either made by him or port to oreo by him.
[Nexus 6  General] Guapo613:
I'm using your January 12 2018 build and it has not given me a single reason to try your newer builds. Battery life is incredible considering that the phone is quite old. Do you have a way I can PayPal you a donation?, also, is there an advantage to update to your newest build or should I stay on the January 12th build?
[Nexus 6  General] alryder:
I've loved using Beltz because of it's closeness to the stock ROM, but recently there have been a couple of features added that I haven't figured out how to disable, specifically LED support and disabling of notifications when the screen is on. When you add features such as those do you usually try to provide a way to disable them?
[Nexus 6  General] setiawanjimmy:
Thank you but I don't accept donations.

Take a look at the changelogs and you can decide to update or not.

LED when charging or notification led? I believe you can set the led color to black, which is the same as disabling it.

Disabling notification when screen is on? There is option to disable or enable it. Look at settings-notification. Keep "Allow notification" switch on.
[Nexus 6  General] alryder:
I have it set to black and even though I know the LED uses very little battery it still bugs me lol. Thanks for pointing me to that setting, I knew it had to be there somewhere.
[Nexus 6  General] setiawanjimmy:
On every update, i always post beltz full features. That's the features and where it's located throughout Settings. I'll post it here again.

Beltz features

Kernel :

Upstream 3.10.108

WireGuard support

Kcal support

Wake gestures

Sound control

Voltage control

Base :

Android 8.1.0

January security patch

Disable forced encryption

TBO Pixel Launcher

Notification :

Disable notification sound & vibration when screen on

Less annoying heads-up

Right quick pull-down

Blink light

Notifications light

Display :

Brightness slider

Auto brightness icon

Show tiles titile

Quick settings rows and columns

Double tap statusbar to sleep

Ambient music ticker

Sound :

Unlink notification volume

Playback control

Swap volume button

Security :

Scramble layout

Quick unlock

Disable power menu on secure lockscreen

Disable quick settings footer warning

Accessibility :

Double tap on lock screen to sleep

Power menu options

Navbar options ( smartbar, fling and pulse )
[Nexus 6  General] Cristian86:
Hi all,

I'm runnig Beltz 8.1_20180112 on my Nexus 6 two weeks now. In this built, but in the previous also, I noticed, that the battery drain caused by mobile-network standby stays betwenn 34 and 35%. Is this normal?

Thanks

Cristian
[Nexus 6  General] Strephon Alkhalikoi:
I guess it depends on who builds the ROM. On a quick search for ABC I found a build for the Redmi Note 4 that said it was based off Nitrogen. Clearly that person is wrong, and I apologize to all I may have offended.
[Nexus 6  General] alryder:
That seems really high. I'm running the 1/23 version (8.1.0-180123) and at 19 hrs since my last full charge Mobile Network Standby is only 5%.
[Nexus 6  General] Cristian86:
Thaught so... What can I do to fix it?

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[Nexus 6  General] alryder:
Have you been dirty flashing when you upgrade to a new version? I would try clean flashing the latest version found here.
[Nexus 6  General] Cristian86:
No, I always do clean flash. I will try the new one. Maybe it will help.

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[Nexus 6  General] ktmom:
If it doesn't help, you could also try a different radio (modem). There's a flashable radio thread in the N6 forum.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Nexus 6  General] Cristian86:
Ok, thanks.

But it it seems, that only posting this behaviour in this thread helped: I just checked again and saw it shrinked to19%

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[Nexus 6  General] hormosapiens:
Mobile network after clean flash is at about 35% of battery for me too.

ABC clean flash. Am on Tmobile.
[Nexus 6  General] alryder:
My response of that being really high was only based on my experience with my own phone. Maybe it's normal for it to be that high based on what you are doing with your phone during a particular charge cycle. Hopefully someone can chime in with a better educated response about what is normal.
[Nexus 6  General] Markeee:
I see Nephilim 1.5 is up if anyone's interested
[Nexus 6  General] EternalFlame:
[MENTION=8367564]Cristian86[/MENTION]

I experienced this only when i was most of the day on LTE, especially watching videos/multimedia content is super heavy on battery via mobile data, so i guess its normal in this case.
[Nexus 6  General] Cristian86:
Well, ok, I have to admit, that I'm watching a few YouTube-Videos during a day. Though not HD, but still.

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[Nexus 6  General] mnsiw:
Can we get extended desktop on Beltz, or any other workaround to hide status bar?
[Nexus 6  General] EternalFlame:
Dev said he won´t add it but you can use this one, it´s very reliable and turn itself off when you turn off the screen, so you just have to activate it once via quick tile, (of course you can turn this feature off so you can be in immersive mode all the time)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rascarlo.quick.settings.tiles

There is a free app too, don´t know if its working as well as the paid one :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.simonesestito.ntiles
[Nexus 6  General] ajaynsurana:
Thanks, I am currently on DU RC 2 +xposed. So far doing good but missing some features so will try to flash Nephilim 1.5

Edit - I just noticed DU RC3 0125, does anyone if we can do dirty flash this over previous version?
[Nexus 6  General] hormosapiens:
So, what 8.1 rom gives the best battery life? ABC is killing my battery with "mobile network standby" at 35-40%. I dont even have youtube installed :)
[Nexus 6  General] ktmom:
I'm running ABC with fantastic battery. Mobile network standby doesn't even show up. I think I posted earlier about trying a different modem, but before I gave up, I would also clear cache and dalvik in recovery. It might be some artifact from a restore.

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers
[Nexus 6  General] gothy.gothy:
Why don't you disable it from Developers options?
[Nexus 6  General] genti.b:
I dirty flashed it (erased system, dalvik and cache) and have no problems until now.
[Nexus 6  General] 9wire:
Seems like all the Oreo ROMs have about the same features, or am I missing something? I'm on nitrogen at the moment, but thinking about going back to 7.1.2 for more customizations.
[Nexus 6  General] lazer77:
Oreo is still kinda in the early stages. I'm sure more will be added, just give it time.