[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] adorable:
Pie any good?

5/5/20 - Running 9 for a few months. Stable.

4.5~ hrs on my battery, decent knowing that it's an old battery in the phone and runtime isn't far off from 8.0. The SCREEN BRIGHTNESS is the biggest factor - go above 40%~ and the lg quickly burns through the battery much faster, go below and it can run an hour longer or so. The second is the wireless connection. 4G signal isn't so strong and it'll use more battery life.

3C battery monitor app does a good job tracking the charge/use cycles and graphs.

Quickcharge 3.0 is a few minutes slower than pd charging, but about 1:40 hours to a full charge. QC toots it helps lengthen battery life, and since the moto qc charger runs cooler than my Samsung pd charger, I've switched to the qc charging.

Settled into the audio levels difference. Just have to apply EQ + on all frequencies to get the volume up in noisy environments using the speaker. Otherwise, it's fine driving headphones at the normal eq.

Everything's generally stable. No ui issues of note. Settle in and the phone just works.

Very rare issue where the ui gets to the point where it pops up a wait/stop app prompt, but a reboot gets past that. Could be from visiting all those "dangerous" websites since regular browsing doesn't do it. Maybe twice I recall in many months on 9.

So only outstanding point would be if you want the root from the 8.0 vulnerability noted in the other thread, you'll be stuck without root on 9.0.

Otherwise, stable and good enough to run 9.0 daily.

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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.

Initial surfing showed it to be eating more battery, but now, a few days later with the system settled in, looking better than 8.0. Maybe 4-5 hours on 8.0, 5-6 hours on 9.0. Need to try it out longer to see of this holds up.

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.

The square button in the bottom toolbar (non-gesture gui) used to switch between the current and prior used app quickly, but in 9.0 it's not reliable and often returns to the same app. Bad.

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.