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== Warning: Pie 9.0 screws with the audio through the headphones! The equalization is different and output volume is quieter than 7/8!! If you bought the G6 for the sound profile, you'll lose it in Pie. Even equalizing manually doesn't bring it in line with 7/8. Other users of other makes have also noticed this Pie problem on Samsungs, etc. ==

You could start with something like this equalization in the music player to try and restore the original profile of the G6.

https://ibb.co/r3YWgbZ

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Just installed it yesterday on my h873.

No improvements in functionality that I can find. Basically the same experience as oreo.

For those that really need two Facebook accounts at the same time, pie does let you install two Facebook, skype, line, etc apps independent of each other. Can't think of any good reason or use.

Only big exception is no way to force location top use ONLY gps, no a-gps. This means it locks faster, but can waste power in low cell connection areas trying to connect to towers for a-gps info. Plus, security risk as it gives the government one more way to constantly track you.

About 2 hours surfing with opera mini to about 50%, so feels initially like it's eating more battery (4 hours on pie, 4:30 on Oreo in my guesstimate until empty on my phone's old battery).

I've got everything possible turned off - unused apps disabled, sync off, gps, bt, wifi, nfc off - only auto brightness and cellular on and always on display on except 8 hours at night. Standby at night is as good as oreo as configured - practically 0% change in battery life as I've experienced with Oreo , too.

Another annoyance is the headphone volume especially when turned to the lowest sounds quieter than in Oreo. In Oreo, I simply used a custom equalizer setting to go even quieter, but now, I have to use a higher volume at night. Hope this doesn't mean I have to use a custom volume setting to go louder art the high end outdoors.

A gui annoyance is the home touch button bar at the bottom has lost its white on black theme. Only light gray on white and very light shades of a few colors. Plus, the bar color sometimes changes to the theme of the app (like red with opera browser) making it far more annoying than it should be. This should stay the same color regardless of app, but broken in Pie.

Rotation stutters. If you rotate the phone past 45 degrees than back quickly before it switches to landscape mode, especially with the keyboard visible, you can see the gui lag and stutter as it tries to cancel the rotation.

They fixed the translucency on the clock widget, adjustable, so you can read it when placed over photo backgrounds - e.g. Pure white or black solid color rather than translucent. But, they don't let you adjust it for the weather widget!??

To get the qslide calculator, you still need to install it on your own. https://xdaforums.com/lg-g6/help/qslide-calculator-t3596931/amp/

When selecting text and adjusting the selection range, a tiny magnifier box appears so you can see what letters you are selecting. But, it doesn't show the selection point with a cursor like Oreo, only highlights the selected text - slower.

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So, a lot of work to backup, download, prep lgup and uppercut, simply to update it to 9 with no obvious changes to the camera and other lg apps.

This is because Most of the Functionality comes from the apps you download, which comes from the Google Play Store. Thus, 8 or 9, the apps work the same and you get the same updated functionality (maps. Facebook. Etc) regardless.

Seriously, from 7 to 8 to 9, it still works and looks and acts the same basically and no real incentive to keep updating unless you'd like marginally better security (old exploits patched).

BUT, lg is terrible at frequent updates, once every 4-6 months, which means your exposed to new exploits for 4-6 months even on pie. Might as well run a good antivirus like bitdefender to catch new viruses than to depend on lg for timely os updates.

The ONLY good reason to update otherwise is to run apps that have dropped support for 7 or 8. Else, I could honestly run on 7 or 8 today and not notice any benefits from upgrading to 9.

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards

Notice that 4.4-5.1 still run 1 of 5 android devices in active use! Even Facebook and Messenger support installation on 4.4, so I wouldn't worry about being on an older OS for years to come.