Just installed Nougat

[racedog]

Just got the download and installed it. Let us know when you get it. My guess is that we beta testers will get it with the first group to be rolled out.

 

[eric002]

I've got it but disappointed it see that there's no manual exposure settings for the camera. I read that Google Was bringing that back.

 

[njgill05]

Installing right now, it's nice that the beta testers get first crack at it.

 

[eric002]

Absolutely. I couldn't agree more with you. Literally though, nothing has changed whatsoever. I mean as I keep on bringing it up, I want to see the manual exposure settings for the camera back asap! The navigation buttons being changed a little bit would be a nice tweak as well.

 

[ptkelly]

For me the only noticeable change is that my Kindle app loads much faster now. With beta 4 it was glitchy and sometimes didn't load and with beta 5 it loaded but took maybe 15 seconds. Now, two or three seconds and it runs great.

I moved to another camera app so I could get .dng files if I want. I'm using Manual Camera and so far it works great with Android 7. I tried FV 5 with beta 5 and it didn't work well. I don't know about now because I'm pretty happy with Manual Camera.

 

[Billy Bob Jimmy Joe]

So, basically, there are no changes at all going from DP5 to official N?

 

[Broonale]

I got it today. It was about 59Mb. So far my gyro seems to be fixed.

 

[bjrosen]

Got it this afternoon. Looks the same, it even has the same cat Easter egg, but that's not surprising, dev 5 was the release candidate so you would expect only minor bug fixes in this release.

BTW I hope they start Oreo betas much earlier, I'm not comfortable running released code, I really like being on the bleeding edge. My computers are mostly running Fedora which is Redhat's dev platform, it doesn't feel natural to me to be running something stable.

 

[eric002]

I just wanted that manual exposure camera. I use the Google camera app so it is what it is.

 

[Anthony Stewart]

I'm currently on the beta programme, is the update any different? If it's not any different I won't remove the beta version.

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[Don_Henry]

I'm currently on the beta programme, is the update any different? If it's not any different I won't remove the beta version.

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Actually you don't remove the beta - when you get the official OTA, it simply installs over the beta.

 

[payaxy]

Apparently if you stay in beta program, you will be getting more preview versions in the near future

 

[StayFly]

I got it yesterday, still haven't played with it enough to see a difference from the previous beta.

 

[njgill05]

True there isn't much concrete difference between the beta and the final release that I've found, but the overall system runs a bit faster and smoother and any hiccups with apps has been eliminated for me at least.

 

[wxboss]

For those who are not in the beta program, you will notice a difference once Nougat is installed. There are visual/notification changes and even the Settings screen will display your current option (e.g. the Location setting will display what option you have chosen (GPS/Location/Off) within the Location display frame, so you don't need to tap on the Location tab and go into the Location setting page to see what is currently selected/active).

I've just installed it and will most likely play around with it more later, but if you are on MM, you will notice definite changes after installing Nougat. It looks really good so far!

Edit: I also notice that it freed up some storage space on my phone as well. While on MM, I had about 3.7 GB of storage used (I have the Nexus 5X 16 GB version). After install and before factory wipe, I have 2.83 GB used.

 

[eric002]

Here is something else I've noticed...in the final release of Nougat regardless of if you're using the Google now launcher, or the Nexus launcher, if you go into the Google app settings, there's no longer anymore option for autorotation of the screen. Again not too big of a deal but just To mention ! it. Also I'm the Google camera app, regardless of landscape or portrait orientation, even though it's very dim, you can now always see the navigation buttons vs before. Here's what I'm talking about. Also I did finally changed up the screen doing density and zoomed it out quite a bit which adds a lot more real estate to my phones screens. Still usable of course but a lot more screen real estate.

 

[oldtimefighter]

I've got it but disappointed it see that there's no manual exposure settings for the camera. I read that Google Was bringing that back.

So, basically, there are no changes at all going from DP5 to official N?

True there isn't much concrete difference between the beta and the final release that I've found, but the overall system runs a bit faster and smoother and any hiccups with apps has been eliminated for me at least.

Google had already said there wouldn't be much changes between the DP5 and the final version of Nougat. That will be for the maintenance release that will come out when the new Nexus phones are released. I also expect a "major" camera update at that time.

...if you go into the Google app settings, there's no longer anymore option for autorotation of the screen.

There should be an option by why anyone would want the homescreen to auto rotate on a phone is beyond me. Apps (like YouTube) can auto rotate by themselves.

 

[mogelijk]

I've got it but disappointed it see that there's no manual exposure settings for the camera. I read that Google Was bringing that back.

Changes to the camera will come when Google updates the camera app, the camera app isn't directly updated by Android updates.

 

[eric002]

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Well before in the Google app settings there was an option to turn home screen Auto rotation on or off, that option is gone. I mean now not a big deal, just saying.

 

[delta7]

how do I disable the app drawer on the 5x?