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Nexus 6 better on Lollipop, Marshmallow or Nougat?

Hello everyone,
When I purchased my Nexus 6 it had 6.0.1 Marshmallow preinstalled on it and then I took the ota's to 7.0/7.1.1 Nougat.
I'm curious as to how Lollipop ran on the Shamu.
For those who got their Nexus 6 with Lollipop on it and have gone all the way up to Nougat, I would like to know which one you think runs the best on it in terms of performance, battery life, and overall effeciency?

Dont go back to lollipop - worthless. Shamu runs great on both marshmallow and nougat - all comes down to your attachment to xposed, if You are not - go with nougat, if You are - stick with marshmallow. From my personal experience battery life is better on nougat, at least in my case, overall smoothness imo is better on nougat + security updates. You just gotta spend some time with both and see what fits you better.
My bet - Nougat.

Thanks for the input. Much appreciated.

I would say the best running is 6.0. 7.x brought worst battery early shut down issues. 7.x is being labled as google vista. Buggy and annoying.

Thanks. Good insight. Appreciate it.
My Shamu is buggy on 7.1.1 stock rom. Think I may revert back to 6.0.

I just want to point out, much of the "buggy", "early shutdown" issues reported are related to the age of the battery. I experienced these problems...until I replaced my battery

I just made the switch to 7.1.2 and I have to say that I really noticed a difference in battery life. My device seems to not drain randomly any more. Could just be that I started totally fresh but either way the latest version of nougat is doing me right.

@therealdanbear by 7.1.2 u mean custom rom or stock rom bcz Google offered its stock version upto 7.1.1

should i update to oos 4.1.6

guys i have bought a new one plus 3t device and its running mm 6.0.1
should i update to oos 4.1.6
is it better in terms of battery life and performance
p.s i do not intend to root or install any custom.rom right now and want to stick to oos for now
my basic requirements are good batter life and stability

So basically you are wondering if Android 7.x is better than Android 6.x ?
Well I guess the point is quite obvious.
Or why did you bother buying a new phone?
Unleashed by ONEPLUS 3T rooted

tdssmarty16 said:
should i update to oos 4.1.6
is it better in terms of battery life and performance
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Everyone is going to have a different experience with battery life and performance. Of course, the intent with each update, is to improve these thing (although it doesn't always work out this way) as well as increased features and security.
4.1.6 is running great for me.

RASTAVIPER said:
So basically you are wondering if Android 7.x is better than Android 6.x ?
Well I guess the point is quite obvious.
Or why did you bother buying a new phone?
Unleashed by ONEPLUS 3T rooted
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i am new to the oneplus community amd i dont know about the quality of uldates oneplus provides
i have used samsung and xiaomi devices nd in my opinion early updates from these guys were good but latter on they messes up the performance and battery so thats the reason i wanted to know if i shoukd use the out of the box oos version or should i update to 4.1 6

redpoint73 said:
Everyone is going to have a different experience with battery life and performance. Of course, the intent with each update, is to improve these thing (although it doesn't always work out this way) as well as increased features and security.
4.1.6 is running great for me.
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thnx for the info
feeling positive about upgrading now

OOS 4.1.6 is great imho. No issues so far, I couldn't go back to MM. People sometimes have issues because they flash updates over updates without wipe, and sometimes the phone may need it.
Since your device is brand new and you don't have a lot a data on it yet, I strongly advice you to update your phone to 4.1.6 and then to reset it (data and settings). This way you'll get a clean, fresh and proper update to use your new phone on Nougat in best conditions possible.

tdssmarty16 said:
i am new to the oneplus community amd i dont know about the quality of uldates oneplus provides
i have used samsung and xiaomi devices nd in my opinion early updates from these guys were good but latter on they messes up the performance and battery so thats the reason i wanted to know if i shoukd use the out of the box oos version or should i update to 4.1 6
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4.1.6 It's not an early update, it's not a beta rom.
It's a stable rom officially released.
Regarding battery there are dozen of complaints, but also many users who don't have an issue.
So, you can't really make up your mind just by reading on the comments of other users.
Unleashed by ONEPLUS 3T rooted

Android 8.1

Hi, Oreo 8.1 final beta is available for Pixel 2 users and will enable the Pixel's NPU for third party apps. Just wondering if anyone knows what 8.1 might do for the Mate 10? Google Lens?

I don't know what it will do to the Mate 10, but I have seem some signs of internal builds of what looks like might be EMUI 8.1
I haven't released anything yet, though. Take it with a grain of salt for now

Update on the above: EMUI 8.0.1 exists but it's still Android 8.0, not 8.1

duraaraa said:
I don't know what it will do to the Mate 10, but I have seem some signs of internal builds of what looks like might be EMUI 8.1
I haven't released anything yet, though. Take it with a grain of salt for now
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Any major changes in EMUI 8.1 ? Or just adapting EMUI for the new hardware stuff on P11 ?

warea said:
Any major changes in EMUI 8.1 ? Or just adapting EMUI for the new hardware stuff on P11 ?
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Turned out to be EMUI 8.0.1, and no major changes that I can report on. Of course whatever is the final release for the P11 might be different.

Huawei don't bother with incremental OS updates. Correct me if I'm wrong, bit every Huawei and Honor phone never got 7.1 shame as 7.0 had a battery drain issue that was fixed in 7.1 a year later and my Honor 8's battery is still very poor.

mwatson said:
Huawei don't bother with incremental OS updates. Correct me if I'm wrong, bit every Huawei and Honor phone never got 7.1 shame as 7.0 had a battery drain issue that was fixed in 7.1 a year later and my Honor 8's battery is still very poor.
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Yes. I don't recall seeing an incremental update on Huawei either.

duraaraa said:
Yes. I don't recall seeing an incremental update on Huawei either.
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That's incredibly unfortunate given that .0 Android releases are usually quite half-baked. I guess it goes well with the half-baked EMUI.
This time there is a pretty darn important reason to go to 8.1 for Huawei, though. Fast, even.
Huawei is massively advertising the NPU of its Kirin 970 SoC - and on Android 8.0 the NPU is borderline useless. The couple of AI apps on the phone right now are little more than tech demos.
Android 8.1 brings the AI API necessary to make the NPU accessible to other apps.
Here is an editorial that speaks about the details and very much assumes that Android 8.1 will be coming to the Mate 10 (Pro) quite soon:
Android 8.1 and Oreo's AI future
If Huawei is truly skipping 8.1 this time around, they'd be significantly dumber than expected.

If the info in this link is true https://www.androidcentral.com/editors-desk-android-81-and-oreos-ai-future
I think the mate 10 will be the best/most advanced Android phone till the rest of the manufacturers bring NPU to there phones.

Huawei own OS .

Anybody familiar with Huawei own OS.
Seeing reviews seems to be better faster and smoother then Android.
Will we have to upgrade to that OS or chance phones ?

No one can be certain about the future. Their is could be faster...or maybe not that noticeable. The very few who actually saw and work with their beta are not saying much. But the devices released already will keep working with android and will receive security updates through their life. For the future devices...no one can tell you for sure.

Question regarding oreo vs pie

Can somebody try to answer what might be the reason behind the discrepancy between oreo and pie performance? Is it bad software or just our phone is a little obsolete?

what do you mean?
pie is slower than oreo or the opposite
I'm on pie it is great

wojtek007pl said:
Can somebody try to answer what might be the reason behind the discrepancy between oreo and pie performance? Is it bad software or just our phone is a little obsolete?
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It's just not optimized. I prefer oreo as it worked flawlessly with my op3t, but still it's better to stay on pie for the security updates.