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[GUIDE] Optimizing battery life of your P990

This is a guide of how I have managed to massively extend my battery-life on the Optimus 2x. I personally use instant messaging like whatsapp and talk, and everybody should where possible, so I don't believe in turning off data during the day to save battery (sms is so 1999)! This are my recommendations to tune your battery-life from unacceptable to at least acceptable times (1 workday with quite high usage).
Items found to work especially well on the Optimus 2x P990
Use WiFi whenever you can, but disable when there are no networks you can join
- 3G seems to be by far the biggest drainer of battery-life, and WiFi idle seems to consume very, very little power. Make sure WiFi is *not* disabled when the screen turns off. Make sure to switch it off when you're not able to use a WiFi network however, to stop it scanning.
Set Network-Type to GSM (auto)
- Use the default dialer and select *#*#4636#*#*, select phone information and select GSM auto (PRL). Still allows for hsdpa data, not the maximum highest speed, but still quick enough for usage and extend battery life of some networks massively. If you want to be even more agressive, turn it to 2g only, but I find this too slow for casual surfing or internet usage, but if you only need it for instant messaging it should be good enough.
Disable gestures and orientation sensing
- Disable the specific gestures in the gestures menu and disable orientation by the button on the notification bar. Spare parts detects minutes of activity of the sensors during normal usage where it's not actually needed, so simply disable it when not using it from the notification bar (which is easy to do without switching apps anyway).
Make ABSOLUTELY sure your RIL matches your baseband
This is crucial. Without a matching RIL file (lge-ril.so in /system/lib) is ok, otherwise you will have a massive drain and problems with networks disconnecting all the time. Use LG GetRIl in the market to fix this if you cannot do it manually.
Check if your MicroSD card is detected when installed!
- I have issues sometimes with my MicroSD card being plugged in but not deteced, which causes my MicroSD card to become very hot, and my battery to empty in 3/4 hours completely. Reboot or remove and reinstall when it happens. Generally try to keep your phone keep as cool as possible, hot temperatures will decrease your battery-life.
Conventional and standard items for Android phones:
Check partial-wake usage in Spare Parts to find fauly apps!
- Check once in a while if there are any dodgy apps keeping your phone awake, causing your idle power consumption to be pretty bad!
Discharge your phone in a pattern of 100% to 20% and recharge
- Keeping cycles like this where possible, especially just after resetting battery statistics or installing a new rom, will eventually mean your battery will stay better for a longer period and you will notice your battery-life should be ok.
Make sure the minimum number of apps are running as services
- Go to Applications, Active services and find which unused apps you can disable.
Turn off Wireless Network Location if you are not using it
- Go to Location and Security, and disable use wireless networks.
Make sure not to use a task killer, especially not with automatic killing
- Sometime a taskkiller can be good to stop a app that hangs or causes issues, but make sure to not make it a default practice. To optimize battery usage, please tune the min/max of free memory managed by Android subsystem itself. Download Minfreemanager from the market, and set empty app to 96mb and content provider to 64mb and make it stick after reboots. This should make sure your phone will not slow down after a while of usage and enough inactive/idle apps are closed in the background.
Set Facebook / Twitter sync to once every 2 hours or more
- Make sure you don't let your phone sync that often, better to update it manually when you want to see it instead of syncing that often. Especially with Twitter having push now your direct messages will still turn up instantly even with slow synctimes for non-direct messages.
Watch out with Picasa sync
- Great feature, but dangerous since if it decides to start syncing when you are not on WiFi with bad reception, since it will mean it will sync potentially for a long time, destroying battery-life unexpectedly. There should be an option to sync this only on 80%+ battery only on WiFi but there isn't any, unfortunately.
Disable Google Latitude in Maps if not used
- If you need a longer battery-life, make sure you tell Latitude in Google Maps to not update your location (also see the point of network location), and make sure you sign out of it as well (so it doesn't update in the background if you are not using it).
I will update this and looking for good suggestions, please let me know especially about network-type GSM auto (PRL) and if it makes the same huge difference on your side. Also, another note, I am using 0405 baseband since I find best battery-life bundled with the RIL from a Vodafone Spain 0405 RIL as shared here.
Good luck improving your battery-life!

wapz said:
I will update this and looking for good suggestions, please let me know especially about network-type GSM auto (PRL) and if it makes the same huge difference on your side.
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Im trying it out, but just an observation, the setting goes back to WCDMA prefered when you reboot the phone. Any way to make it stick?

Just shut down the phone and restarted and setting has not returned to WCDMA preferred on mcr fr19 but stayed on GSM auto (prl).
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I think that if you tick 2G only on and off again it will go back to WCDMA Preferred.

Rusty! said:
I think that if you tick 2G only on and off again it will go back to WCDMA Preferred.
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mine definitely does not stick and i havent toggled 2G or anything else...

Thanks for the advice, seems to have done the trick for me. There seems to be very little speed difference with GSM auto set, I'm sure the improvement in battery life will compensate for the decrease in speed

Just restarted the phone and the network was reset to wcdma preferred
However good tutorial
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Make sure not to use a task killer, especially not with automatic killing
- Sometime a taskkiller can be good to stop a app that hangs or causes issues, but make sure to not make it a default practice. To optimize battery usage, please tune the min/max of free memory managed by Android subsystem itself. Download Minfreemanager from the market, and set empty app to 96mb and content provider to 64mb and make it stick after reboots. This should make sure your phone will not slow down after a while of usage and enough inactive/idle apps are closed in the background.
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It's not saving. Goes back to old values.

Click on menu button and choose save and apply at reboot.
Not sure why the wcdma settings keep being restored for others. Are you guys using cm7 or stock/mcr?
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wapz said:
Click on menu button and choose save and apply at reboot.
Not sure why the wcdma settings keep being restored for others. Are you guys using cm7 or stock/mcr?
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CM7 (Well MIUI, but it's based on CM7). It's very annoying.

wapz said:
Click on menu button and choose save and apply at reboot.
Not sure why the wcdma settings keep being restored for others. Are you guys using cm7 or stock/mcr?
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CM7 (Well MIUI, but it's based on CM7). It's very annoying.
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For the ones having the problem that wcdma settings keep being restored, just enble 2g radio only first, from the wireless menu. Later repeat the indicated steps and reboot. Did the trick for me.

crime_of_heart said:
For the ones having the problem that wcdma settings keep being restored, just enble 2g radio only first, from the wireless menu. Later repeat the indicated steps and reboot. Did the trick for me.
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sounds excellent! hope somebody can come back with any input on GSM auto (PRL) experiences, for me it really improved battery-life with a couple of hours.

wapz said:
[*]Make ABSOLUTELY sure your RIL matches your baseband
This is crucial. Without a matching RIL file (lge-ril.so in /system/lib) is ok, otherwise you will have a massive drain and problems with networks disconnecting all the time. Use LG GetRIl in the market to fix this if you cannot do it manually.
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I agree with you in all points - except for this one! I could not believe it myself but it has turned out that I get the best battery life on my O2x using this combination:
- MoDaCo FR19
- Baseband 0530
- RIL 0622
Baseband 0622, which is actually recommended for FR19, was horrible for me regarding battery life! I was surprised to see this non-matching combination provide a far better experience! Also, no problems with connectivity or call quality whatsoever. I'm on Vodafone Germany, for what it's worth.

Interesting. Do you see any dialer wake in spare parts at all? I notice I recently got android system playing up quite a lot, no idea what is causing it :-(
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Yes, I see the Dialer show up in Partial Wake Usage. It's on first or second place, but the blue bar is not very long though, maybe 3-4 mm.
Dialer usage seems to increase after 3-4 days of uptime, strangely...

This was missed in the original post so let me add my two cents worth.
To save even more battery, I would as well, advise paying some attention to screen brightness and wallpaper/theme selection.
In my experience, you can save 20 to 30 mAh by turning off Auto Brightness and setting it to something lower. The auto brightness control in O2X is overly bright and dismal in its operation. It barely changes in response to varying light conditions.
For this, you need an automation app called Tasker, or something similar. I use Tasker to control all manner of things including all the network situations mentioned in the first post of this thread. For saving battery in relation to screen brightness, I use Tasker to set screen brightness to 70 during the day, and to turn it down to 50 during the night. You can adjust these to your own preferences. But, as mentioned above, running these values saves me about 20 to 30 mAh of power when the screen is on.
In general, selecting darker wallpapers and themes will also help you save some power. Many messaging and email apps, for example, will give you a choice of a dark or light theme. If they do, I always choose a dark theme to ensure minimal power consumption.
My two cents worth

abwyatt said:
This was missed in the original post so let me add my two cents worth.
To save even more battery, I would as well, advise paying some attention to screen brightness and wallpaper/theme selection.
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Not a bad point, thanks. I am using a low manual brightness, is there maybe a brightness bar widget so you can tune it manuallly directly from a homescreen? That would be great.
And of course you must be crazy to use live wallpapers. Why would you want to make your battery last shorter and your homescreen slower and more annoying to look at?

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Not a bad point, thanks. I am using a low manual brightness, is there maybe a brightness bar widget so you can tune it manuallly directly from a homescreen? That would be great.
And of course you must be crazy to use live wallpapers. Why would you want to make your battery last shorter and your homescreen slower and more annoying to look at?
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Yeah, good additional point that I missed about the live-wallpapers
I use a small app called Quick Settings which installs in the pull-down notification screen to quickly adjust screen brightness if I need to override the auto settings I set in Tasker.
PS. You might want to update your first post with the info about controlling screen brightness since many users are ignorant of the default auto-brightness setting, AND your post is very useful and I see it being referred to as a solution quite often. I was made aware of this thread from way over at Modaco. Good work!
Hope the moderators will stick this thread to the top of the forum.

I thought dark wallpapers are more needed for devices with amoled displays. 2x has got a lcd am i right?
Dont know if it that important for it then...

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Yeah, good additional point that I missed about the live-wallpapers
PS. You might want to update your first post with the info about controlling screen brightness since many users are ignorant of the default auto-brightness setting, AND your post is very useful and I see it being referred to as a solution quite often. I was made aware of this thread from way over at Modaco. Good work!
Hope the moderators will stick this thread to the top of the forum.
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I will update it soon. Where did you see it referenced on MoDaCo?
pa.pn2 said:
I thought dark wallpapers are more needed for devices with amoled displays. 2x has got a lcd am i right?
Dont know if it that important for it then...
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Yes, correct. But nobody said we should use one in this topic, we only discussed live wallpapers

[Q] Constant background data since ics

Hi, I have had my note (gt-n7000, all stock, not rooted) since December and have kept an eye on my data usage using data counter widget and NetTraffic widget. On gingerbread everything was fine, very little background data, monthly usage well below 100MB (I'm on wi-fi 90% of the time), my battery usage was not great but no cause for concern at 8-10 hours standby.
Since the update to ics I have had battery issues, 4-5 hours standby max and I think this is caused by a constant 1kb/s connection every second. I have somehow managed too use 150MB in 10 days without even using my phone on 3g (standby only for average.... 1 hour a day!? ish). The phone doesn't get as hot as it did when ics first installed.
Onavo said Facebook was using high data so I have uninstalled it to test. RadioOpt Traffic monitor 4.1 shows "System Traffic" as extremely high.
I have tried:
Rebooting the phone.
Killing tasks/clearing memory.
Force stopping every process to see if that would identify the app/service causing the extra background data.
Disable sync.
Disable Samsung account.
Uninstalled Samsung push service.
Launch TWlauncher and remove all widgets and pages, I run ssLauncher.
I hadn't noticed the data usage when I first installed ics, it was a probably a week before I did. I don't think I have many new apps that would do this although something may have changed when an app updated.. but then wouldn't that show up in Onavo?
Does anyone know of any apps (non-root) that will give me detailed network information? ip addresses/domains attached too and What apps are currently connected?
Has anyone else noticed the same issue? I did search the forum before posting so doubt it.

LBE Privacy Guard can give you detailed info as to the data being used by each app but I'm not sure it's much better than the info ICS gives you when you go to settings / data usage.
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LBE was useful thanks, I have used it to identify 3D flip clock as one application using a lot more data than it should. After uninstalling my data usage has improved. May have just been a bad install or a faulty update.
I'm now wondering why "voice talk" is using so much, especially as I don't use it and every time it asks me "what would you like to do?" I tell it to uninstall itself but nothing happens. is there anything I can do to disable it?

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LBE was useful thanks, I have used it to identify 3D flip clock as one application using a lot more data than it should. After uninstalling my data usage has improved. May have just been a bad install or a faulty update.
I'm now wondering why "voice talk" is using so much, especially as I don't use it and every time it asks me "what would you like to do?" I tell it to uninstall itself but nothing happens. is there anything I can do to disable it?
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Go to settings>applications click the "all" tab and there you can scroll down and locate voice talk. Click on it and then you get several options. One of them should be to disable it.

Great thanks

[Q] any kind of notifications, without turning on the screen?

As most of us know our beloved Note (1) doesn't have the "notifications LED" present in so many dumber and older phones.
After completely breaking the power button from just checking if there's any notification I've got a new phone and I'm on a quest for finding some alternative notification.
So, it seems that in order to actually GET that there's some notification you need to have talkback enabled and that's buggy (you get this spooky voice when doing certain tasks). FINE, I disabled (freeze) both samsung and google TTS (although I didn't really wanted, but OK). Then I get a hand icon in the notification area with "talkback activated". Ok, FINE. I'm using Flashlight Notifier (which flashes the camera LED) and it seems to be somehow working, except that it leaves the (camera) LED turned on continuously!!!
I seems that there's some other option to flash the soft buttons backlight but it needs some very old (I think GB) ROM and I'm not going there. For what is worth I'm on a stock new JB with speedmod kernel.
In short, any solution that "just works", getting extremely frustrated with all the stupid problems I run into? I need notification for gmail, hangouts, sms, missed calls, nothing fancy.

Whats wrong with vibrate and message/ring tone?
This is question. So should be in Q and A thread

a. vibrate/ring disturbs people around (especially when there are at least 10-20+ notifications coming every day)
b. you might step out briefly and you might not take the phone (all the time...) with you to WC and such. Yes, some applications allow for repeat rings (like the default SMS app) but that only makes (a.) worse
I think it is good to be able to just look at the phone and see that you don't want to turn the screen on as opposed to turning the screen on, see you don't need anything from there, turn it off.
If a mod wants to move the thread please and thank you.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itsme4ucz.screenoff

Thanks, interesting but not at all what I want. Just want something to blink reliably ...
There's a whole cohort of software that does that but is usually geared towards making the "real" notification LED blink in various colours and also it usually shares the talkback (samsung) bug (but I'm willing to work around it).

d210 said:
Thanks, interesting but not at all what I want. Just want something to blink reliably ...
There's a whole cohort of software that does that but is usually geared towards making the "real" notification LED blink in various colours and also it usually shares the talkback (samsung) bug (but I'm willing to work around it).
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try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.

d210 said:
Just want something to blink reliably ...
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Fork this, modify it any way you like, compile and bob's your uncle.

treacherous_hawk said:
try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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Thanks. Is it a warlock...
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dsmas said:
Thanks. Is it a warlock...
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did not get you. warlock (literal meaning?, some user?).

none that dont cause severe wakelock lol
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Typo error. Sorry.
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NoLED seems to be fine (I was thinking for a long time that on OLED it might be a good idea to have some "few pixel" notifications, although I understand there is still significant power consumption even with OLED and few pixels on).
The device still deep sleeps (at least without notification) but of course this is the type of thing liable to kill the battery overnight.
Still, it works great and for most notifications I need it doesn't even need talkback (that's a big plus because I don't have to freeze TTS). And it looks great! Will report later or tomorrow how things go, with my luck I'll run into some issues in no time.

wow

treacherous_hawk said:
try NoLed from play store, there is a thread for the same in XDA too.
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I was looking something like this. (It has many options / choices).
Thanks.
baz77 said:
none that dont cause severe wakelock lol
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The battery drain was extra 2-3% while me and the phone were sleep from 10pm to 6am. Acceptable. Good. With setting - noled always on and battery % while charging on.
Thanks.
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lol, maybe they obtimized it, that is good news if true. The wakelock occurs when not charging btw.

Thank you everyone!
NoLED is great for now, battery life is good, it catching all I want (maybe except hangouts) without enabling accessibility and is better than I dreamt.
Maybe, maybe a little concerned with display life now (it looks like there is still some kind of backlight, not only the small icons) but overall it looks good!
Maybe some option to blink the camera LED would still be good but you can't have everything.

Battery Saving with Deep Sleep Battery Saver

So, I know the whole discussion around task-killers and Android - let's try and avoid that here.
I rediscovered this app last week, I had an old version but it updated from Playstore. I stopped using task killers a long time ago, but I'd forgotten that the approach Deep Sleep Battery Saver takes is slightly different: it makes sure that the phone is REALLY asleep when the screen is off.
Now people have said that it's wake locks clash with Android own.
I went ahead and tried it on the highest setting - slumber - and it's fantastic in both my P7 & P6, and also on my Lg2.
The only thing I have to remember is that when I'm downloading files that take longer than say, 2mins, I have to change my screen-on time to accommodate, otherwise it will stop the download as soon the screen goes off.
I found this is a small thing to remember given the battery savings.
I mean the difference is sooo large I can't tell you.
I put it down to this - we all have a variety of apps on our phones and we really don't know what keeps running in the background.
The Huawei Music app for example, is notorious, as is the Camera ago on the Lg2.
Deep Sleep Battery Saver shuts everything down, period. And it works. I'm absolutely stunned by how much later into the night I can use my phones with a single charge in the morning.
It's a little like GREENIFY but as I don't root my phones anymore, this was a great alternative.
Actually even better is that I don't have to go through my entire list of apps picking and choosing.
I just select SLUMBERER.
The results have been so fantastic on my P6 & P7, that I had to share.
The Lg2 is great with battery WHATEVER you through at it.
The P6 & P7 are gorgeous phones - with anemic batteries...it's always been the case.
With this app, I have discovered a while new sense of respect and use for my P6&P7.
Of course, once your actually using the phone, the drain is as fast as always, it's just that the savings you make in between are phenomenal.
Just saying.
DS Battery Saver can be found FREE on playstore.
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P.S. Oh! Just remember to turn off 'enable logging' in settings-general, leave the 'show persistent notifications' ticked in notifications& language, and turn off ALL the 'battery notifications' in notification& language.
Those are the things responsible for wake-locks.

To save battery it works quite well indeed and I thank you for that. The only tiny issue is that I don't receive the calls anymore, only a text that says that somebody tried to reach me. No ring, no move, just missing calls. I could also turn off my phone to save battery...

goby92 said:
To save battery it works quite well indeed and I thank you for that. The only tiny issue is that I don't receive the calls anymore, only a text that says that somebody tried to reach me. No ring, no move, just missing calls. I could also turn off my phone to save battery...
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I receive ALL my phone calls, ALL my texts, as they are, when they come in, as usual, asap, otherwise what's the point.
My email, Facebook, whatsapp etc comes in soon as I turn on my screen.
The App doesn't touch your ability to make OR receive calls EVER. Something else is going on with you.
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This app is extremely useless once you install an anti-theft program.
When you install this program, programs like Cerberus, Kaspersky Internet Security anti-theft function or Lookout won't work as they should when you lose your phone (and the screen is off).

vEEGAZ said:
This app is extremely useless once you install an anti-theft program.
When you install this program, programs like Cerberus, Kaspersky Internet Security anti-theft function or Lookout won't work as they should when you lose your phone (and the screen is off).
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Yes.
If you're using an always on, anti-theft application, you're not really worried about conserving battery.
This app works if you need to get more life out of your charge.
Alot more.
That's how it works.
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Does it stop alarm clock from working?
I really hope it doesn't...

GawDroid said:
Does it stop alarm clock from working?
I really hope it doesn't...
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No it doesn't actually! The alarm clock over rides everything short of actually switching your phone off... And in some ANDROIDS even this isn't enough.
You'll be awoken, don't worry.
You'll also be amazed at the amount of battery life you suddenly have... I'm loving it! Just don't forget the p.s. end of post #1
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No it doesn't actually! The alarm clock over rides everything short of actually switching your phone off... And in some ANDROIDS even this isn't enough.
You'll be awoken, don't worry.
You'll also be amazed at the amount of battery life you suddenly have... I'm loving it! Just don't forget the p.s. end of post #1
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Thanks, I can confirm everything is working as intended.

Pie/One UI Impressions?

Using the US unlocked variant, I haven't yet received the pie update. However, just reading around, I get the general impression that the update isn't that good (buggy, lost features).
What are people's thoughts on it? Right now, I'm kinda glad I haven't gotten the update yet.

Looks like unlocked goes last for updates. I guess the carrier versions beta test for us.
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Works fine for me. Prefer it to Oreo.

djbutter said:
Using the US unlocked variant, I haven't yet received the pie update. However, just reading around, I get the general impression that the update isn't that good (buggy, lost features).
What are people's thoughts on it? Right now, I'm kinda glad I haven't gotten the update yet.
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I decided not to wait for Verizon Wireless to update my phone, and I saw a way to get it now on reddit so I pulled the trigger (go to https://firmware.science/ for instructions). It was brain dead simple.
Not sure what's supposed to be "buggy", because I have found zero issues - but then I've only had it a day now. Lost features? Not sure. Well, you can't set Performance mode any more in Device Maintenance (now called Device care), but I never changed it. And the Device Maintenance edge panel is gone, too. You can still get Battery, Memory, and Storage in settings. Also, you can schedule the phone run this automatically, now.
Night mode works (long as you're not using any theme). Battery life is impressive (lost less than 2% overnight). Edge panel icons are huge, now. Not a fan of that. At least Android Auto fully works... no more lost icon dock. That's the main reason I upgraded.
I mean, if you have examples of specifics where it's buggy or other lost functions, I'd be interested in what, but i can't complain so far.

Main issues for me
1. Multi window features are completely stripped down. No drag to popup, cant switch window positions without redoing the actions from scratch, etc.
2. Samsung Good lock customizations and routines are broken.
3. The interface is very erratic. Even Samsung apps with the interactive areas at the bottom still have the 3 dot menu at the top. Non Samsung apps anyway follow the old ui, so overall, its not that much of a benefit.
These were an integral part of my usage, so Pie is a disappointment for me at least.
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The only issue for me (and its major) is that I can no longer use Bluetooth in the car for phone calls. Connection always drops. I started another thread on this issue.

Not that impressed so far; cannot add items to quick settings menu - you can only move around the existing icons.
Lots of things now require more tapping to get there, ie simple thing like checking batter usage now needs five steps: pull down on quick start menu>press settings>press device care>press battery>press battery usage.
Would be so much easier if you could just create a shortcut to this screen??
PIE/One UI just seems change for the sake of change. I've not seen any benefits yet.

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Not that impressed so far; cannot add items to quick settings menu - you can only move around the existing icons.
Lots of things now require more tapping to get there, ie simple thing like checking batter usage now needs five steps: pull down on quick start menu>press settings>press device care>press battery>press battery usage.
Would be so much easier if you could just create a shortcut to this screen??
PIE/One UI just seems change for the sake of change. I've not seen any benefits yet.
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Put device care as an icon on home screen.
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Already have setting icon on home screen, just a pain that you cant add items to quick settings anymore...

I got Pie last week (AT&T - US) and so far I don't have any complaints. A few cosmetic things to get used to, head-up notifications are a bit different looking, but battery life is actually noticeably better.

I like it. Was apprehensive about this at first as was concerned at ruining decent battery life but this is darn good!
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RGardner said:
I decided not to wait for Verizon Wireless to update my phone, and I saw a way to get it now on reddit so I pulled the trigger (go to https://firmware.science/ for instructions). It was brain dead simple.
Not sure what's supposed to be "buggy", because I have found zero issues - but then I've only had it a day now. Lost features? Not sure. Well, you can't set Performance mode any more in Device Maintenance (now called Device care), but I never changed it. And the Device Maintenance edge panel is gone, too. You can still get Battery, Memory, and Storage in settings. Also, you can schedule the phone run this automatically, now.
Night mode works (long as you're not using any theme). Battery life is impressive (lost less than 2% overnight). Edge panel icons are huge, now. Not a fan of that. At least Android Auto fully works... no more lost icon dock. That's the main reason I upgraded.
I mean, if you have examples of specifics where it's buggy or other lost functions, I'd be interested in what, but i can't complain so far.
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If you go in Settings > Device Care > Battery, the first option is Power Mode. You can choose High Performance from there.
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My only issue so far is that Pie seems to be forcing people to create duplicate threads here on XDA asking for people's opinions on Pie, even though there's already several Pie threads here. I hope Samsung squashes this bug soon.

kta said:
If you go in Settings > Device Care > Battery, the first option is Power Mode. You can choose High Performance from there.
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Ah!! Didn't see that. THanks.

Pie is downgrade from Oreo. No real benefits. Just questionable cosmetics.
-multiwindow management is a joke
-cannot have recent apps list view
-no call recordings
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EzEddie said:
The only issue for me (and its major) is that I can no longer use Bluetooth in the car for phone calls. Connection always drops. I started another thread on this issue.
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I have tried it several times and keep going back to Oreo. I got the official OTA (At&t) thinking the minor issue I had with bluetooth would be fixed. If I'm connected to bluetooth in car there is no alert if I get a text. This doesn't exist on Oreo. I know its minor but bugs me.
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main issue here
can't use multiwindowed
video recording is laggy, compared to oreo, it's not 4k and 60fps i think
lagging using spen to write your massage

Mr. Orange 645 said:
My only issue so far is that Pie seems to be forcing people to create duplicate threads here on XDA asking for people's opinions on Pie, even though there's already several Pie threads here. I hope Samsung squashes this bug soon.
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Ha! I personally haven't seen them; they're usually beta impressions or threads for specific issues.

butchieboy said:
I have tried it several times and keep going back to Oreo. I got the official OTA (At&t) thinking the minor issue I had with bluetooth would be fixed. If I'm connected to bluetooth in car there is no alert if I get a text. This doesn't exist on Oreo. I know its minor but bugs me.
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If you go in the Bluetooth Devices list, find the car Bluetooth, hit settings and make sure that both Call Audio and Media Audio are set to ON. You may have had Call Audio off if you experienced that behaviour.
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kta said:
If you go in the Bluetooth Devices list, find the car Bluetooth, hit settings and make sure that both Call Audio and Media Audio are set to ON. You may have had Call Audio off if you experienced that behaviour.
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Nope thats not the issue, thanks.
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