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  Android 7.0 ("Nougat") Home screen "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2016-08-23 11:29 -0400
    Re: Android 7.0 ("Nougat") Home screen "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2016-08-23 21:11 -0400
    Re: Android 7.0 ("Nougat") Home screen Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-08-24 07:13 +0100
      Re: Android 7.0 ("Nougat") Home screen Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-08-24 08:07 +0100
        Re: Android 7.0 ("Nougat") Home screen Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-09-13 11:13 +0100
      Re: Android 7.0 ("Nougat") Home screen "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-09-13 16:06 +0200
        Re: Android 7.0 ("Nougat") Home screen Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-09-13 21:25 +0100
          Re: Android 7.0 ("Nougat") Home screen "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2016-09-14 17:20 +0200

#33604 — Android 7.0 ("Nougat") Home screen

I enrolled my Nexus 5X phone in the Beta program and the Android 7.0 
update started downloading almost immediately, then installed.

Some of the pictures I had seen previously showed a different-looking 
Home screen,with 5 icons along the bottom instead of 4 plus the 
whatever-you-call-it button in the middle, but my Home screen still 
looks the same as before.

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#33605

On 08/23/2016 11:29 AM, I wrote:

> I enrolled my Nexus 5X phone in the Beta program and the Android 7.0
> update started downloading almost immediately, then installed.
>
> Some of the pictures I had seen previously showed a different-looking
> Home screen,with 5 icons along the bottom instead of 4 plus the
> whatever-you-call-it button in the middle, but my Home screen still
> looks the same as before.

Update: I have learned that some of the features in the leaked pictures 
will not come until a maintenance release.

Perce

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#33609

Percival P. Cassidy wrote:

> I enrolled my Nexus 5X phone in the Beta program and the Android 7.0
> update started downloading almost immediately, then installed.

How's your battery life compared to Marshmallow? Mine is eating it much 
faster :-(

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#33610

in 33811 20160824 071318 Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
>Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
>
>> I enrolled my Nexus 5X phone in the Beta program and the Android 7.0
>> update started downloading almost immediately, then installed.
>
>How's your battery life compared to Marshmallow? Mine is eating it much
>faster :-(

Mine is much better!  (sorry :-))

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#34168

Bob Martin wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> How's your battery life compared to Marshmallow? Mine is eating it much
>> faster :-(
>
> Mine is much better!  (sorry :-))

I think I've discovered the reason, when WiFi was enabled it was causing 
a lot of waking in the "Android OS" and "Android System" processes, i.e. 
it was awake about 75% of the time, but strangely only for the first 6 
hours after a re-charge, and the waking was making it eat battery at 
about 3x the rate compared to when WiFi was off.

With my last three phones (N4, N5 and N5x) I've had the setting "Keep 
WiFi on during sleep" set to "on", I can't remember why I wanted it, 
perhaps related to K9 push email, it might have eaten a little more 
battery, but enough to live with.

Anyway I've now turned that setting from "on" to "only when charging" 
and the excess battery drain has gone.

I'll probably exclude K9 from battery optimisation, as it now seems to 
not push emails when it's sitting idle on the desk, and then notices the 
backlog when I pick it up, which feels the wrong way round to me, I'd 
rather pick it up in response to it telling me I've got an email!

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#34175

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:13:18 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

> How's your battery life compared to Marshmallow? Mine is eating it much 
> faster :-(

Could it be because you're WiFi is constantly searching (or trying to
search) for networks? There's a lot of WiFi problems going on with
Nougat; it keeps on searching which in turn drains the battery.

An issue was opened:
Issue 221056: 	Nexus 5X does drops WiFi connection on Android 7.0
<https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=221056>

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s|b

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#34200

s|b wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> How's your battery life compared to Marshmallow? Mine is eating it much
>> faster :-(
>
> Could it be because you're WiFi is constantly searching (or trying to
> search) for networks?


No, it even did it when in known locations with strong signals, the 
battery only started dropping like a stone once the 7.0 upgrade was 
installed, it had been fine beforehand ... and thankfully it's back to 
2-3 days life rather than 1/2 to 2/3 of a day life again.

> There's a lot of WiFi problems going on with
> Nougat; it keeps on searching which in turn drains the battery.
>
> An issue was opened:
> Issue 221056: 	Nexus 5X does drops WiFi connection on Android 7.0
> <https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=221056>

I'll keep an eye on it ... interesting that there's a suspicion that 
5GHz vs 2.4Ghz may be behind the issue (I'm setup to favour 5GHz) also 
the developer wifi debugging is handy.

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#34227

On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:25:34 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

> I'll keep an eye on it ... interesting that there's a suspicion that 
> 5GHz vs 2.4Ghz may be behind the issue (I'm setup to favour 5GHz) also 
> the developer wifi debugging is handy.

Today I had a chance to briefly test a 5GHz network. I could connect
without a problem. However, I've read a message where a user claims his
problems start about 10 minutes after he connects to a 5HGz network. I
was only connected for a couple of minutes.

My sister also has a Nexus 5X and after the Nougat update the device
didn't connect automatically anymore. Resetting network settings helped
her out and she doesn't have my problem; she's able to add/save more
than 12 networks.

But I guess I'm lucky. There's one poster who isn't able to connect to
any networks at all...

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s|b

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