9/29 Google Press Event Discussion (Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X)

[Graze]

Google kept allowing shit speakers until the N6, why go back to one with the 5X? Its best feature is its camera, but the 6P has the same one.

Because its a god damn mid tier phone. You cant have it all for the price!

 

[poofyhairguy]

Because its a god damn mid tier phone. You cant have it all for the price!

So put out a 5P for $100 more. I would buy it in a heartbeat.

The world is full of cheap phones now. We are running out of nice flagship options without compromises.

 

[tsupersonic]

So put out a 5P for $100 more. I would buy it in a heartbeat.

The world is full of cheap phones now. We are running out of nice flagship options without compromises.

A 6P in the form a 5" phone would be sweet, IF and only if it wasn't made by LG. I'm sick of LG Nexus phones, it's time for a change.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Oh yeah, my fantasy Nexus 5P is made by Huawei and has a Q820 inside.

 

[Trader05]

Oh yeah, my fantasy Nexus 5P is made by Huawei and has a Q820 inside.

This.

 

[poofyhairguy]

While we are at it the fantasy 5P is designed to fit into the plastic VR kit Google intends to replace Cardboard with.

 

[s44]

Uhg. Just wish Google could take the camera from the 5X/6P and drop it in a Moto device at 5" with an AMOLED and functioning ambient display and call it a day.

So, you want a Galaxy S7 GPE.

 

[vi edit]

So, you want a Galaxy S7 GPE.

That works with Google project fi 😛

 

[sze5003]

So, you want a Galaxy S7 GPE.

I'm kind of bummed they didn't use USB type c on the s7. I find it great on my 6p and feels like it wouldn't become loose after use compared to a the many micro USB devices I've had.

 

[tsupersonic]

So, you want a Galaxy S7 GPE.

Would be great. Samsung makes excellent hardware, but their software (even though Touchwiz has gotten better) still leaves something to be desired. I'd absolutely love a GPE S7 Edge. I wish they'd bring back the GPE program!

 

[poofyhairguy]

So, you want a Galaxy S7 GPE.

I loved a GPEd S4.

Still my alltime favorite phone.

 

[ChronoReverse]

A GS7(e) GPE would easily be the best phone this year.

 

[poofyhairguy]

A GS7(e) GPE would easily be the best phone this year.

Can we at least pretend Google will make a Nexus 5P? At least until we confirm that the next five inch Nexus is whatever LG can crap into a box? 😉

 

[ChronoReverse]

Can we at least pretend Google will make a Nexus 5P? At least until we confirm that the next five inch Nexus is whatever LG can crap into a box? 😉

The year the LG G2 came out, I thought that to myself. But then we got the Nexus 5 with cut down battery life and inferior camera. To be fair, it's LG. But still I'm hesitant to trust that the Nexus 6P was anything but a fluke.

 

[sze5003]

The year the LG G2 came out, I thought that to myself. But then we got the Nexus 5 with cut down battery life and inferior camera. To be fair, it's LG. But still I'm hesitant to trust that the Nexus 6P was anything but a fluke.

Its a great phone but maybe not if you are coming from the nexus 6.

 

[poofyhairguy]

But still I'm hesitant to trust that the Nexus 6P was anything but a fluke.

Yeah, that is probably the right attitude to have.

 

[bigboxes]

Finally unlocked and rooted my 6P last night. Installed Adaway this afternoon. I love this phone. Battery lasts all day and then some. Fully charges from drained in less than an hour. USB Type C connector is secure and not fragile. Performance is so fluid. Camera is amazing. Google Fi. No contracts. What's not to love? 😎

 

[gorcorps]

Finally unlocked and rooted my 6P last night. Installed Adaway this afternoon. I love this phone. Battery lasts all day and then some. Fully charges from drained in less than an hour. USB Type C connector is secure and not fragile. Performance is so fluid. Camera is amazing. Google Fi. No contracts. What's not to love? 😎

I haven't been impressed with the battery life after the first couple weeks. It lasts quite a while if I'm not using it, but as soon as I get home and use it more it seems like all the gains made through doze were wiped away. I'm getting about the same if not worse battery life (some days) than my Note 4 had with similar use. If I was in a position where I needed to be replying to emails from my phone all day instead of having it run idle I'd be charging mid-day every day.

I like the phone a lot, but battery life is not something this phone can brag about IMO.

 

[sze5003]

I haven't been impressed with the battery life after the first couple weeks. It lasts quite a while if I'm not using it, but as soon as I get home and use it more it seems like all the gains made through doze were wiped away. I'm getting about the same if not worse battery life (some days) than my Note 4 had with similar use. If I was in a position where I needed to be replying to emails from my phone all day instead of having it run idle I'd be charging mid-day every day.

I like the phone a lot, but battery life is not something this phone can brag about IMO.

I get about 4hrs or more screen on time. If I'm not using Spotify I get even more. This is with a lot of location apps on too. But I'm completely stock not rooted. Its better than my nexus 6 which was rooted running custom roms.

 

[stlc8tr]

A 6P in the form a 5" phone would be sweet, IF and only if it wasn't made by LG. I'm sick of LG Nexus phones, it's time for a change.

You're in luck! 🙂

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-nexus-5x-lg-successor-nexus-5-there-wont-be/

LG is taking a break from Google's Nexus phone program.

There are no plans to build a successor to Google's Nexus 5 or Nexus 5X phones, according to a spokesman for the Korean electronics conglomerate.

"LG needs to focus on its own brand," he said at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona on Friday.

 

[poofyhairguy]

You're in luck! 🙂

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-nexus-5x-lg-successor-nexus-5-there-wont-be/

Woohoo!

I find this quote very interesting:

LG is "totally happy" with its relationship and its work on the Nexus phones, but the project requires a lot of resources that could be better put in its own phones, he said.

So obviously building a Nexus is a burden on the OEM that does it. That would explain why LG was so willing for so long- prior to the Nexus 4 no one took their phones seriously. The Nexus program changed that.

Lets all hope Huawei volunteers to get the brand boost that building Nexuses provide and we get the Nexus 5P.

 

[Crono]

Anyone notice system memory usage on Nexus 5X going up over time? I also notice spikes in SystemUI usage (going from 4% to 9% usage, for no apparent reason). Installed, non-system apps don't seem to be the culprit, though I've tried uninstalling apps and clearing caches to see if they are at fault. All the installed apps are also on my 2013 Moto X (also a 2GB phone), which has not seen memory usage grow even after using it for months.

For a week free memory on the 5X was usually 800MB+, or 500MB at worst with heavier multitasking. Now it's 300MB or less. Restarting does clear up memory temporarily and it's not a huge issue, but I'm wondering if Marshmallow is just more memory hungry or poorly optimized vs Lollipop amd previous versions. I am currently using Resurrection Remix, though, not stock. I think I'll try flashing back or trying a new ROM, but I am starting to suspect Android 6 is just hungrier.

EDIT: installed Speed Up Swap, which I think modifies the swappiness parameter in the kernel. Does seem to reduce the noticable lag (5X is reasiably fast and responsive most of the time) swiping away apps in the recents view.

 

[zerocool84]

Anyone notice system memory usage on Nexus 5X going up over time? I also notice spikes in SystemUI usage (going from 4% to 9% usage, for no apparent reason). Installed, non-system apps don't seem to be the culprit, though I've tried uninstalling apps and clearing caches to see if they are at fault. All the installed apps are also on my 2013 Moto X (also a 2GB phone), which has not seen memory usage grow even after using it for months.

For a week free memory on the 5X was usually 800MB+, or 500MB at worst with heavier multitasking. Now it's 300MB or less. Restarting does clear up memory temporarily and it's not a huge issue, but I'm wondering if Marshmallow is just more memory hungry or poorly optimized vs Lollipop amd previous versions. I am currently using Resurrection Remix, though, not stock. I think I'll try flashing back or trying a new ROM, but I am starting to suspect Android 6 is just hungrier.

It's supposed to use more memory so it keeps more apps/tasks I'm the RAM so everything is faster and kills what it needs when it needs to. Android has been doing that for a while already.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I created a thread about camera photos that I had taken with my Nexus 6P just disappeared from my camera gallery. Tried several photo recovery windows programs and then installed some on my phone with no luck being unrooted.

Will rooting my phone now cause me to lose all of my data? And how easy is it to root then unroot my 6P?

 

[tuan209]

So is anyone actually having no problems with the 5x? Debating between the 5x and s7 but not a huge fan of TW. I would also like to switch over to Google fi.