LG G6 Initial Impressions

[ubizmo]

There shouldn't be a notification until it's activated. What's your model/who's your carrier?

Sorry, I meant to say the icon on the shade.

 

[Thud Hardsmack]

Sorry, I meant to say the icon on the shade.

Oh - well there you go, that activates DND, and there should be a notification in the shade towards the bottom of the list (if you have other notifications). Tap that, then End time.

 

[ubizmo]

Oh - well there you go, that activates DND, and there should be a notification in the shade towards the bottom of the list (if you have other notifications). Tap that, then End time.

Aha! That's what I was looking for! I never bothered looking into that notification ! Thank you.

 

[Thud Hardsmack]

Aha! That's what I was looking for! I never bothered looking into that notification ! Thank you.

Happy to be of service

 

[ubizmo]

There's a post in a forum somewhere detailing the safety levels of a few clients but I don't have it bookmarked anymore.

I think this is the one you mean: https://androidforums.com/threads/email-which-apps-keep-it-private.935578/. It hasn't been edited in about a year but I imagine it's still mostly accurate. Hub+ isn't included in the list.

 

[ubizmo]

Update: I've identified the "rogue" notification sound. It's "crystal", from the built-in list. I still have no idea why I'm hearing it when emails come in, since the system default is "twinkle" and the Hub+ accounts are set to silent. And I made sure to Clear Data and Force Stop the LG email client, which I never set up anyway.

Another quirk: This one has been mentioned by others. The camera is quite slow to open/load. Once it's in RAM it's quick enough but that first time is very slow. It's not a big problem for me, but it's there.

One more quirk: Auto brightness is just too dim in dark/dim conditions. I don't need it super bright but I do need it brighter than what I'm getting, so I turn auto off when it gets dark.

On that subject, the OnePlus 5 that I unfortunately had to return had a feature that I liked. I don't remember what they called it but it changed the display as the evening progressed. Gradually it faded toward a muted, less saturated look, almost grayscale. The idea was to save wear and tear on the eyes and to improve sleep. I liked it.

 

[Thud Hardsmack]

I think this is the one you mean: https://androidforums.com/threads/email-which-apps-keep-it-private.935578/. It hasn't been edited in about a year but I imagine it's still mostly accurate. Hub+ isn't included in the list.

That's the one, thanks. And while Hub+ isn't in there knowing BlackBerry it would have a single * as well.

 

[Thud Hardsmack]

Update: I've identified the "rogue" notification sound. It's "crystal", from the built-in list. I still have no idea why I'm hearing it when emails come in, since the system default is "twinkle" and the Hub+ accounts are set to silent. And I made sure to Clear Data and Force Stop the LG email client, which I never set up anyway.

Another quirk: This one has been mentioned by others. The camera is quite slow to open/load. Once it's in RAM it's quick enough but that first time is very slow. It's not a big problem for me, but it's there.

One more quirk: Auto brightness is just too dim in dark/dim conditions. I don't need it super bright but I do need it brighter than what I'm getting, so I turn auto off when it gets dark.

On that subject, the OnePlus 5 that I unfortunately had to return had a feature that I liked. I don't remember what they called it but it changed the display as the evening progressed. Gradually it faded toward a muted, less saturated look, almost grayscale. The idea was to save wear and tear on the eyes and to improve sleep. I liked it.

I have that odd crystal notification too.

 

[muckrakerX]

Have you tried an auto brightness app? I use Lux; I can "train" it to display the brightness level I prefer, relative to the ambient light.

 

[ubizmo]

I have that odd crystal notification too.

Do you get it for incoming emails, overriding whatever settings you've done yourself?

 

[ubizmo]

Have you tried an auto brightness app? I use Lux; I can "train" it to display the brightness level I prefer, relative to the ambient light.

I've used Lux in the past; maybe I'll try it again. It's annoying to need an app to do something the OS is supposed to do on its own, but yeah. I'll give it another look.

 

[Thud Hardsmack]

Do you get it for incoming emails, overriding whatever settings you've done yourself?

Actually yes, on Aquamail I'd left a couple accounts with default system and they're still sounding off with the original default, the crystal notification. The accounts with specific sounds don't have this quirk.

 

[ubizmo]

I think that's proof enough that it's an OS bug, not a Hub+ bug.

Another bug: every so often the keyboard refuses to appear when I touch a text entry field. I don't know if this happens with the LG keyboard but it does happen with Gboard.

 

[Thud Hardsmack]

I've had that happen with Gboard as well, used to be a lot worse and I'd delete its app cache and reboot to fix it. Now it's just a brief pause the few times it happens, and I wonder if it's having an issue with system calls. If I merely change what's being displayed on screen and come right back it works fine.

 

[bobdob]

Another bug: every so often the keyboard refuses to appear when I touch a text entry field. I don't know if this happens with the LG keyboard but it does happen with Gboard.

This happens to me on all devices with gboard from time to time. May be a different cause in reality, but I chalk it up as a gboard quirk.

 

[ubizmo]

This happens to me on all devices with gboard from time to time. May be a different cause in reality, but I chalk it up as a gboard quirk.

Interesting. I used Gboard for a year or so on the OnePlus One and never saw this before. On the subject of keyboards, yet another quirk I've noticed is the G6 occasionally resets the keyboard to the LG keyboard, for no apparent reason.

I am definitely getting the impression that there are enough bugs to warrant a maintenance update; I don't know how likely that is to happen.

 

[ubizmo]

I only use Aquamail for my Gmail accounts - the app I highly recommend for Outlook/Exchange is Nine email, syncs calendars, tasks, and contacts plus groups them in the Contacts app.

Just for fun, I ran Nine and Hub+ simultaneously for a day, with the same two accounts synced: an Outlook account and a GSuite. I compared battery power consumption and CPU usage. The result: Nine uses massively more power than Hub+, by a factor of about 5x.

 

[ubizmo]

This happens to me on all devices with gboard from time to time. May be a different cause in reality, but I chalk it up as a gboard quirk.

I've narrowed it down a bit. It seems most likely to happen after unplugging the phone from my car's USB port.

 

[ubizmo]

Just for fun, I ran Nine and Hub+ simultaneously for a day, with the same two accounts synced: an Outlook account and a GSuite. I compared battery power consumption and CPU usage. The result: Nine uses massively more power than Hub+, by a factor of about 5x.

It just occurred to me that this comparison was meaningless because I didn't add BlackBerry Hub Services to the mix. I only considered the Hub itself. So I'm going to do it again and look at the sum of Hub+ plus Hub Services versus Nine, which has its services completely integrated within itself.

 

[ubizmo]

And the winner is: Nine! BlackBerry Hub+ and its associated services used over twice as much juice in the course of a day. So I've switched.