So few weeks ego we had Google announcement for next major version of Android OS and since ZTE in the recent past not had a good reputation of providing major software upgrade and support for extended time so what do you thinking all of you Axon 7 users?
Will we get the next software version or stuck with Nougat and that’s it and no more software support and development.
Keep in mind that Oneplus already announced that 3/3T will get Android O but from ZTE we didn’t hear anything till now.
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Simple answer... No I don't think it will officially. This will be over a year old by the time it's even released for Pixel.
paatha13 said:
So few weeks ego we had Google announcement for next major version of Android OS and since ZTE in the recent past not had a good reputation of providing major software upgrade and support for extended time so what do you thinking all of you Axon 7 users?
Will we get the next software version or stuck with Nougat and that’s it and no more software support and development.
Keep in mind that Oneplus already announced that 3/3T will get Android O but from ZTE we didn’t hear anything till now.
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I dont think ZTE will continue support for the AXON 7. They maybe dropping a new phone and thats it.
Oh nO !
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paatha13 said:
So few weeks ego we had Google announcement for next major version of Android OS and since ZTE in the recent past not had a good reputation of providing major software upgrade and support for extended time so what do you thinking all of you Axon 7 users?
Will we get the next software version or stuck with Nougat and that’s it and no more software support and development.
Keep in mind that Oneplus already announced that 3/3T will get Android O but from ZTE we didn’t hear anything till now.
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I don't know shlt about custom ROM development, but why do you think that development would stop if ZTE stops making official updates? That is not the case on a lot of other old devices, for example without going too far back the Moto G 2 (2014) stopped receiving updates on Marshmallow, but pretty much as soon as Nougat rolled out, we got CM14. Even that old HTC HD2 phone got Android N after 7 years...
The only reason I can think of is the kernel stuff... again, no idea
I think it will get the update, the hardware is capable and the phone runs great so i don't see why not.
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alom5 said:
I think it will get the update, the hardware is capable and the phone runs great so i don't see why not.
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Oh, if only that would be enough for OEMs to continue releasing newer versions of Android for their devices. If that would be the case, almost all device generations from the past 3 years would get Android O, because the hardware is more than enough for it to run smoothly. My old Galaxy S1 (end of support at Android 2.2) and S4 (end of support at Android 5) were running Android Marshmallow and Nougat absolutely amazing and far better than any of their older OEM rom.
But on the Axon on the other hand: On custom roms as long as Daydream isn't running as fine as it is on stock roms, i am unfortunately stuck on stock and hoping for the good development community to claim that last hurdle for me to finally switch over.
Would anyone keep their Axon 7 long enough to notice whether or not O comes out? ZTE doesn't support Lineage OS, the radios are weak and unstable, the camera gets dust in it, the OIS burns out, Do Not Disturb still malfunctions, the Settings UI is incomplete, the microphones cut out, etc. Those with battery drain issues will reaching end-of-life soon.
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Would anyone keep their Axon 7 long enough to notice whether or not O comes out? ZTE doesn't support Lineage OS, the radios are weak and unstable, the camera gets dust in it, the OIS burns out, Do Not Disturb still malfunctions, the Settings UI is incomplete, the microphones cut out, etc. Those with battery drain issues will reaching end-of-life soon.
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Those don't really happen to everyone... Except for the radio stuff. I even took apart my phone and there isn't any dust below the lens. And i'm not living inside a Class 10 Clean room...
My DND mode is working just fine, mic fine, and if you have battery drain you can RMA or at least reflash a full stock system if it's not a hardware problem
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kevinmcmurtrie said:
Would anyone keep their Axon 7 long enough to notice whether or not O comes out? ZTE doesn't support Lineage OS, the radios are weak and unstable, the camera gets dust in it, the OIS burns out, Do Not Disturb still malfunctions, the Settings UI is incomplete, the microphones cut out, etc. Those with battery drain issues will reaching end-of-life soon.
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Also regarding "ZTE doesn't support Lineage OS" Which OEMs actually support it?
kevinmcmurtrie said:
Would anyone keep their Axon 7 long enough to notice whether or not O comes out? ZTE doesn't support Lineage OS, the radios are weak and unstable, the camera gets dust in it, the OIS burns out, Do Not Disturb still malfunctions, the Settings UI is incomplete, the microphones cut out, etc. Those with battery drain issues will reaching end-of-life soon.
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no oem supports lineage, but you're right. they kind of promised to support cyanogenmod. weak radio drives me crazy, sometimes it loses internet for a few moments, i have this phone since january and have no dust in camera, and ois works well. tired of stripes in app in low light though. dont know about do not disturb. settings are complete garbage. generally i use polish language and phone is half polish half english.. that's a joke as i got it through official retailer in poland. about microphone - i got dirt in there, had to peel it off with a needle. same happens with speakers grills all the time. have no issues with battery though.
i think this phone might get android o, but sadly it might be its last update. and more sadly, the update itself might not be good quality
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Those don't really happen to everyone... Except for the radio stuff. I even took apart my phone and there isn't any dust below the lens. And i'm not living inside a Class 10 Clean room...
My DND mode is working just fine, mic fine, and if you have battery drain you can RMA or at least reflash a full stock system if it's not a hardware problem
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Also regarding "ZTE doesn't support Lineage OS" Which OEMs actually support it?
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I'm not saying all the problems exist at once, but they're common and still happening. I just had ZTE clean the dust out of my camera and my radio frequently cycles off and on. Some people can't stop rapid battery drain even when the phone shows that it is not awake.
I haven't had an OPPO in a while because they don't have the right LTE bands, but they used to fully support 3rd party ROMs. Flashing and anti-bricking features were built into my Find 7.
After reading your posts about the radio problems and dust in the camera, I haven't notice no one of those drawbacks. So I'm in France and my career Bouygues give me a very strong signal, most of the time in 4g+ and no dust problem. I'm with the stock Nougat B04 (Android 7.1.1) and very happy with it.
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A lot of reasons to stay stock in this phone, thanks for the update.
JLLE said:
After reading your posts about the radio problems and dust in the camera, I haven't notice no one of those drawbacks. So I'm in France and my career Bouygues give me a very strong signal, most of the time in 4g+ and no dust problem. I'm with the stock Nougat B04 (Android 7.1.1) and very happy with it.
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Hi! Did you do anything particular with you APN? I'm on Sosh and i don't get any 4G+, full stock...And I'm suppose to have 4G+
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A lot of reasons to stay stock in this phone, thanks for the update.
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I think the main reason to stay stock is the fact that there aren't any good alternatives. Pretty much all the posted ROMS have some deal-breaking bugs in some way or another. Pretty disappointed by the scene for this phone. It's a great device and I haven't had the issues discussed in this thread but looks like absolutely no one's interested in it. My only annoyance is the fact that they claimed how open this phone would be but it's got tons of nonsensical restrictions I've never come across before like not being able to set your own default dialer app without installing a custom ROM and outside app call recording does not work - which ZTE shows no signs of adding as a feature to their mandatory dialer app.
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Hi! Did you do anything particular with you APN? I'm on Sosh and i don't get any 4G+, full stock...And I'm suppose to have 4G+
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I dunno how it works in your country, but these settings should get you by. I find them to be universal so far. I get full 4G LTE on stock.
Name: [Bouygues] (or whatever name you want, doesn't matter)
APN: Internet
APN type: default, supl, hipri
Then save and switch to the newly created APN.
Those are the settings that work for me, no problems at all.
JLLE said:
After reading your posts about the radio problems and dust in the camera, I haven't notice no one of those drawbacks. So I'm in France and my career Bouygues give me a very strong signal, most of the time in 4g+ and no dust problem. I'm with the stock Nougat B04 (Android 7.1.1) and very happy with it.
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I dunno how it works in your country, but these settings should get you by. I find them to be universal so far. I get full 4G LTE on stock.
Name: [Bouygues] (or whatever name you want, doesn't matter)
APN: Internet
APN type: default, supl, hipri
Then save and switch to the newly created APN.
Those are the settings that work for me, no problems at all.
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I'll try thank you
Another thing, when I do *#*#4636#*#* and "select band", I only get "USA", but I'm on official Nougat from ZTE DE and I have an A2017G
I also can't choose my prefered network in this menu: I mean only LTE or LTE/GSM or TD-CDMA
At the moment, i'm trying a full fresh install with the package from ZTE DE and let the phone do all the OTA update
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I'll try thank you
Another thing, when I do *#*#4636#*#* and "select band", I only get "USA", but I'm on official Nougat from ZTE DE and I have an A2017G
I also can't choose my prefered network in this menu: I mean only LTE or LTE/GSM or TD-CDMA
At the moment, i'm trying a full fresh install with the package from ZTE DE and let the phone do all the OTA update
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Yes, that is probably best if you've tinkered with the band settings. It can be a headache and mess your internet settings up. Try the suggestion I gave you after the fresh install. That won't be a problem if you want to delete it later.
After reading the issues done if you guys are having... i can only suggest to get the Chinese variant ???. It's a brilliant phone for me and I've had no issues with it... Probably the best phone I've had. I have sitting in the draw 2 note 4, note 3 s1, xperia x1( collectors item those 2).... But this phone as far as I'm concerned is the dogs bolloks..
Only thing for me is now that the sun is out.... The screen doesn't get bright enough in the sun
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I have the A2014G for a couple of months now and no problems at all.
No dust or radio problems.
If it would get Android O?, probably not, but I think they will give us a final 7.1.2 release before passing to work in the Axon 8 (or whatever the name is), and probably we would get some security patches every 3 months.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if they would do that, because pretty much all the versions of Android are similar since Marshmallow, and for me Android O brings nothing interesting enough to want the update.
ROM's are all based in Lineage, so all they share the same problems and issues, so for this phone, I would say stay in stock if you really want a fully functional phone.
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Will Le Eco allow us to unlock the bootloader?
How is the phone when it comes to software cooking? I want a device that can get decent roms here from awesome developers
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Will Le Eco allow us to unlock the bootloader?
How is the phone when it comes to software cooking? I want a device that can get decent roms here from awesome developers
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It's best bang for your bucks for 300$. This phone is a beast it's flying through everything you throw at it and battery is crazy good.
There is some Roms for it if you like flashing them for different tastes. Roms are good, they similar I think just different flavours like I said, it work well most of them.
Should you buy it? Definitely you will be glad you did, Cheers
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Yes Bootloader is unlocked easily, easiest phone to rooted for me.
yes and yes
but what about roms? lineage os? etc? seems like no one is working on this phone
This is depressing btw: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71369597&postcount=237
And this is just retarded: http://forum.le.com/us/index.php?threads/please-do-not-root-your-ecophone.3950/
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but what about roms? lineage os? etc? seems like no one is working on this phone
This is depressing btw: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71369597&postcount=237
And this is just retarded: http://forum.le.com/us/index.php?threads/please-do-not-root-your-ecophone.3950/
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What do you expect honestly? You want top of the range hardware AND top software and development AND you expect the phone to cost 250dollars? You cant have all of these things for such money. You want more software development? Buy oneplus 3t, it has exactly what you want. Same hardware as le pro 3, just smaller battery and better amoled screen, also costs 200dollars more. Dont want spending more? This ia best device for money, end of story
All roms are same or similar, function of the phone is the same. Just some people addicted of flashing them.
We need few roms that work good thats enough. This phone had more than few good roms.
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but what about roms? lineage os? etc? seems like no one is working on this phone
This is depressing btw: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71369597&postcount=237
And this is just retarded: http://forum.le.com/us/index.php?threads/please-do-not-root-your-ecophone.3950/
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There is official lineage os 13 running on my phone right now which works quite well. I do not count on Leeco to deliver nougat quickly, but at some point they most likely will or someone will find a way to make the camera work otherwise. And what exactly would you need it for? I want it too but "need", no.
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There is official lineage os 13 running on my phone right now which works quite well. I do not count on Leeco to deliver nougat quickly, but at some point they most likely will or someone will find a way to make the camera work otherwise. And what exactly would you need it for? I want it too but "need", no.
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How is battery life performance on official lineage os 13 ?
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How is battery life performance on official lineage os 13 ?
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I was afraid you would ask , it's relatively poor. Relatively! I use it "normally", meaning whatsapp, telegram, Facebook, emails, a smartwatch keeps Bluetooth on, and I check news like 5 times a day. With that and putting it in flight mode over night, it lasts 2 days with around 3 - 5 hours SOT. Turbo's roms lasted around 50 % longer, standby and SOT, but in 2 different versions of his my phone didn't collect emails and messages which is a no go for me.
And lastly, my previous LG G4 lasted one day under those conditions, so I'm still quite happy.
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How is battery life performance on official lineage os 13 ?
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Compared to stock, not great. BUT, compared to other devices, it is comparable.
I don't want to open a new thread for one question so I will ask here:
does this phone have dual-4g or one of SIMs have to work on GSM, just like in le1 pro?
Dual 4g, I use Vodafone for everything and have another 3gb lte data only from t-mobile in slot 2 as backup.
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There is official lineage os 13 running on my phone right now which works quite well. I do not count on Leeco to deliver nougat quickly, but at some point they most likely will or someone will find a way to make the camera work otherwise. And what exactly would you need it for? I want it too but "need", no.
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I don't know if you have been keeping track, but Lineage 14.1 just arrived, so much for no1 working on this . If you like, join the developers channel, you should soon see feedback there. I'll do the update tomorrow since it's too late for me now and my kids will wake me at 6, 7 if I'm really lucky ^^.
Buy it without thinking too much it's the best choice for the price
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Huawei-Mate-9-to-receive-Android-8.0-Oreo-update-soon_id98317
Cool. Maybe we will see an update by the end of the year though I expect it to come after Xmas.
Yes, and which version will get it first? Chinese, European, or US? Anyone want to hazard a guess?
Typically, the Chinese get it first, then India, middle east, Mars, Pluto, Alpha Centuri, THEN the Usa MIGHT get it.
Personally, it really doesn't matter to me. Marshmellow was stable on my Mate8, as was Nougat. Nougat is stable
on my Mate9. Other than security patches, it really doesn't matter...to me.
The new features are not that important. Only thing that's be really great to have is the filling API so you can use password managers easily.
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Only thing that's be really great to have is the filling API so you can use password managers easily.
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Agreed.
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I'm really excited about Oreo's tunable doze. Well, assuming Huawei release enough sources to let us take any advantage of it. Standby time on this phone is not great. I have maxed out LTE signal, I live across the street from my cell tower and it still loses 5 to 8% overnight. Greenify was no help, nothing's running, no abnormal wakelocks etc. It's just bad apparently. I can only imagine how bad it is for anybody that has less than perfect signal where they live.
Strange I lose 1 to 2 percent overnight
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Strange I lose 1 to 2 percent overnight
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I'm really excited about Oreo's tunable doze. Well, assuming Huawei release enough sources to let us take any advantage of it. Standby time on this phone is not great. I have maxed out LTE signal, I live across the street from my cell tower and it still loses 5 to 8% overnight. Greenify was no help, nothing's running, no abnormal wakelocks etc. It's just bad apparently. I can only imagine how bad it is for anybody that has less than perfect signal where they live.
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A little off topic but battery usage on the Mate 9 is odd for me. Here is what I noticed:
If I unplug my phone then dont use it all overnight, my phone goes into deep sleep for 97% of the time as reported by BBS. This results in a battery drain of about 0.2-0.3%/hour.
Even if I just turn on my phone for 1 sec to see the time, and do not use it at all for the next few hours, my phone never gets back to as high a deep sleep figure. Wake time with screen off dramatically increases and my battery drain goes to about 1-1.5% per hour.
If I use GPS, battery drain is really really bad.
All that being said, I am hopeful Oreo and EMUI 5.X or 6.X improves on battery life.
I use appops ... To turn off lots of apks like messenger , fb , I deny lots of the permissions and I still get 3 days easily on battery life
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I have seen a lot of reports of bugs with Oreo - for google and nexus devices, so I hope that Huawei's implementation of Oreo is a version that has those bugs - fixed.
US version will be getting oreo
p51d007 said:
Typically, the Chinese get it first, then India, middle east, Mars, Pluto, Alpha Centuri, THEN the Usa MIGHT get it.
Personally, it really doesn't matter to me. Marshmellow was stable on my Mate8, as was Nougat. Nougat is stable
on my Mate9. Other than security patches, it really doesn't matter...to me.
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The US version of the phone will be getting oreo, no "might" to it supposed to be sometime in December, they already had a beta for the US version (long closed) and that build is available on ff (MHA-L29 8.0.0.321 (C567)). I installed it and so far it's just as stable as nougat, not any substantial changes except for the kernel jump to 4.4 from 4.2 and the October 5 security update. Huawei Oreo update includes project treble which will make further updates easier and hopefully more timely.
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I have seen a lot of reports of bugs with Oreo - for google and nexus devices, so I hope that Huawei's implementation of Oreo is a version that has those bugs - fixed.
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I haven't seen any real bugs so far, most of the "bugs" reported with Google and Nexus devices had more to do with that particular devices HAL than the Android framework itself, if tried pretty much all the features so far and haven't noticed any issues, especially this that have been reported by Google pixel and Nexus users. IMHO since Huawei manufactures their own silicon and writes their own HAL code they are probably a little better equipped than companies (lg and htc) that just are relying on closed binaries and documentation from SoC suppliers.
lol tought it was a new thread
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The US version of the phone will be getting oreo, no "might" to it supposed to be sometime in December, they already had a beta for the US version (long closed) and that build is available on ff (MHA-L29 8.0.0.321 (C567)). I installed it and so far it's just as stable as nougat, not any substantial changes except for the kernel jump to 4.4 from 4.2 and the October 5 security update. Huawei Oreo update includes project treble which will make further updates easier and hopefully more timely.
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I haven't seen any real bugs so far, most of the "bugs" reported with Google and Nexus devices had more to do with that particular devices HAL than the Android framework itself, if tried pretty much all the features so far and haven't noticed any issues, especially this that have been reported by Google pixel and Nexus users. IMHO since Huawei manufactures their own silicon and writes their own HAL code they are probably a little better equipped than companies (lg and htc) that just are relying on closed binaries and documentation from SoC suppliers.
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Same here...the "321" is as stable for me, as 7 was.
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Same here...the "321" is as stable for me, as 7 was.
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Are root and xposed working in Oreo? And are there any custom rom for Oreo now? Thanks!
lemonade747 said:
Are root and xposed working in Oreo? And are there any custom rom for Oreo now? Thanks!
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I haven't rooted in years. Last phone I rooted was a Galaxy Note. After the Mate2, 8,9 I've never had the need to root.
No custom Oreo ROMs
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Are root and xposed working in Oreo? And are there any custom rom for Oreo now? Thanks!
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As far as I know there isn't a root yet for the Oreo ROM, no Xposed either. The mate 9 is on the list to get lineage 15 which is Oreo, but there is really no telling how long it will take to get a usable ROM from them.
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As far as I know there isn't a root yet for the Oreo ROM, no Xposed either. The mate 9 is on the list to get lineage 15 which is Oreo, but there is really no telling how long it will take to get a usable ROM from them.
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There is for for Mate 9 Oreo.
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I haven't rooted in years. Last phone I rooted was a Galaxy Note. After the Mate2, 8,9 I've never had the need to root.
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what about the ads in apps and everywhere else?
Use dns66 - works perfect for me
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if any of you know ZTE was going to provide any software update on their stock rom. From what I read, it does seems to be very unclear considering what's happening with the US government. So far, I haven't rooted my phone yet since my old LG G3 started to have wireless connectivity issues after I flashed a few roms on it and I continued to have those issues after I put the stock LG rom, so I'm a little bit scared to try again. Still, I'm wondering if any of you guys knows if there's a good rom out there that can work fine and that has the lasted security patch. If not, I'll probably think about switching phone, since I don't really like the idea to use a phone that's unsupported.
Thanks
There won't be any more Nougat updates as it's up to the ROM (Nougat B10 for my global model) where it bridges to Oreo and now Oreo even if it's released or leaked won't get updates.
Just my opinion but can't see how it could go any other way.
I guess for longevity, all you can look at is if any custom ROMs are long term and bug free. I think all custom ROMs for Axon 7 have at least one proper bug which affects calls or camera. One reason I stay stock.
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There won't be any more Nougat updates as it's up to the ROM (Nougat B10 for my global model) where it bridges to Oreo and now Oreo even if it's released or leaked won't get updates.
Just my opinion but can't see how it could go any other way.
I guess for longevity, all you can look at is if any custom ROMs are long term and bug free. I think all custom ROMs for Axon 7 have at least one proper bug which affects calls or camera. One reason I stay stock.
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Thanks for the answer.
At least I'm not the only one to feel that this is what's going to happen. I love the Axon 7, but if it doesn't get updated, I should probably go for the Samsung Galaxy A8 since my carrier has a pretty good deal on it (15$ CAD over 24 months). The Nokia 7 doesn't seems like a really good phone as well with updates directly from Google. I think I'll have to shop a little bit.
The #8 post(replay from zteusa [email protected]) says all
https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/help/news-2017g-android-oreo-t3755822
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The #8 post(replay from zteusa [email protected]) says all
https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/help/news-2017g-android-oreo-t3755822
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That's even worst than I thought
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The #8 post(replay from zteusa [email protected]) says all
https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/help/news-2017g-android-oreo-t3755822
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what does it "say"?
Oreo is around, ZTE says the word "no update" and it gets out
Hi my camera either works or it doesn't depending on when I last dropped my phone so I was wondering if there is a buildprop edit that will disable the ois on the camera.
I saw on here the instructions for a OnePlus 2 in one of the sun forums so that is where the idea came from.
My only other option to consider is maybe seeking out a phone with a Samsung isocell camera and fitting it to see if the drivers work for it since it would be in the same family.
Someone on ZTE community recommended a camera from another axon 7 but that defeats the point. I might aswell just use that and keep my one as spares but I'd rather seek a fix rather than a new purchase.
My axon 7 is a 2017u model I bought in Canada but I am currently living back home in England. I am moving back next year so the 2017u is better for me on the network I use there.
I am also eagerly awaiting official 8.0 and lineage 15 as I will be looking to try both. Though finding it hard to get my head around the files needed to flash (bootstacks etc) as I came from a nexus 6p and nexus 5 previous so flashing to me was a doddle.
Cheers
John
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Hi my camera either works or it doesn't depending on when I last dropped my phone so I was wondering if there is a buildprop edit that will disable the ois on the camera.
I saw on here the instructions for a OnePlus 2 in one of the sun forums so that is where the idea came from.
My only other option to consider is maybe seeking out a phone with a Samsung isocell camera and fitting it to see if the drivers work for it since it would be in the same family.
Someone on ZTE community recommended a camera from another axon 7 but that defeats the point. I might aswell just use that and keep my one as spares but I'd rather seek a fix rather than a new purchase.
My axon 7 is a 2017u model I bought in Canada but I am currently living back home in England. I am moving back next year so the 2017u is better for me on the network I use there.
I am also eagerly awaiting official 8.0 and lineage 15 as I will be looking to try both. Though finding it hard to get my head around the files needed to flash (bootstacks etc) as I came from a nexus 6p and nexus 5 previous so flashing to me was a doddle.
Cheers
John
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A camera from another phone model is not gonna work, like, ever, unless it is the exact same sensor... dob't even think about it. But from another axon7, yeah.
Oreo B01 and B12 have been released by NFound as flashables, they are both official 8.0 and you don't need anything else (besides magisk of course) to flash them since they are aroma zips with the modems bundled. just select which modem you want and you're fine
Cheers...I will wait to see if anyone can guide me to a buildprop edit to maybe disable the OIS then...
Also quick question. What is with the b numbers for ROMs. I would have thought the Oreo ROM would be one number but you quote 2 different variants.
Is there a guide somewhere about that so I can catch up to the whole scene from the beginning of the axon 7
Cheers
Jcth1 said:
Cheers...I will wait to see if anyone can guide me to a buildprop edit to maybe disable the OIS then...
Also quick question. What is with the b numbers for ROMs. I would have thought the Oreo ROM would be one number but you quote 2 different variants.
Is there a guide somewhere about that so I can catch up to the whole scene from the beginning of the axon 7
Cheers
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No, we planned to do one but just didn't eventually.
There are 3 models: A2017 which is from China, A2017G which is Int'l, and A2017U for the US. These 3 models have different developer teams for some reason.
So the Chinese and U devs number all of their betas, and for example, in this case the first official update to Oreo would have been around B15 (They don't start from B01, they just count until they get a stable one and release it). So, that's why they skip numbers; for example on the U you have B32 and then came B35, because there were two unreleased betas in the middle. This causes the build numbers to go up a crapton.
The updates are usually labeled A2017xVx.x.xBxx. V1.0.0 is Marshmallow, and then Nougat may be V1.2.0 for example. But they all use different naming schemes and it's a mess.
The G team never skips numbers. For example the Oreo update is called B01. Nougat and Marshmallow also had B01 as the first versions. This way it's much easier because they don't skip any numbers, but you don't know how many betas it went through
In this case Oreo is A2017GV1.3.0B01
I don't believe disabling OIS from build.prop is possible
Cheers anyways. I installed the new unnofficial 15.1 lineage and the camera has been fine since so all is good at the moment.
Very happy chappy here. Glad I kept the phone and waited to take it to android 8
coming from the HTC m8 and this is the second closest thing to a cheap phone that throwing build quality away! (or is all glass). the first being the HTC 10 which is actually cheaper at 160$ but for people on that side of xda said that its battery cant handle anything. what about the Axon 7? I'd be flashing Stock on day one so skin isn't a factor for me.
No. the phone has a very good hardware, but the software is very unstable and nothing works. stay away.
Mine works. Still my daily driver on stock Oreo. I think many people stuff with their phones too much and ruin them.
I have bought mine several weeks ago and I am quite happy about it. A good thing is that there are lots and lots of working ROMs and utilities for it. It is almost unbrickable also.
I love the phone. I prefer Huawei but zte is great too. THe axon 7 is a great phone but the axon m is on sale everywhere for 200. I would get that. comes with the 821 and 4 gb of ram and fold in half screen.
I'm still using my Axon 7 as a daily driver. I think for $200 it's still a solid buy in 2019.
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No. the phone has a very good hardware, but the software is very unstable and nothing works. stay away.
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Can you elaborate more on what you mean by the software is unstable and nothing works? Just curious because I've been running all versions of stock Android and never encountered anything unstable, nor would I claim that nothing works. Phone works awesome even in 2019. Sure we don't have any updated cellular bands, or most recent hardware, but the phone is still solid for general use.
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Can you elaborate more on what you mean by the software is unstable and nothing works? Just curious because I've been running all versions of stock Android and never encountered anything unstable, nor would I claim that nothing works. Phone works awesome even in 2019. Sure we don't have any updated cellular bands, or most recent hardware, but the phone is still solid for general use.
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If you are ok with being on Nougat for the rest of the time you have this phone, then it is a good deal for you, use Nougat stock and stay there. Everything Oreo is broken in some way and drains more battery, ZTE gave us broken Oreo and quit dev for this phone.
Then there is Pie GSI via Treble, which will break more features and opens up another mess of things to learn, and you will be flashing things almost daily trying to fix something, which will most likely break something else.
Hardware specs are good, but software is a mess. Unless like I say, stay on Nougat.
As much as I love my Axon 7, and not going to replace it anytime soon, I think the Pocophone F1 is a much better choice hardware-wise in 2019 and it costs not much more than 200$.
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If you are ok with being on Nougat for the rest of the time you have this phone, then it is a good deal for you, use Nougat stock and stay there. Everything Oreo is broken in some way and drains more battery, ZTE gave us broken Oreo and quit dev for this phone.
Then there is Pie GSI via Treble, which will break more features and opens up another mess of things to learn, and you will be flashing things almost daily trying to fix something, which will most likely break something else.
Hardware specs are good, but software is a mess. Unless like I say, stay on Nougat.
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What about the LOS and PIE based roms? From reading some of those threads it appears they work well? No?