T-Mobile Updates

[hawklet00]

I've never really checked it, but stuff has been closing so much more often than it did with the previous update. I really hope they fix it in the next update.

 

[LeoRex]

What are the differences from before to now? I never checked mine before the update so I have no idea.

If it's what everyone had been seeing, memory swallowed up in system stuff (so not accessible to apps) more than doubled... Usually it would be about 1.4G, it's now 3 - 3.5G. So something in there is consuming 2G more than before.

Considering that a small amount is reserved, 128 to 256, that means this 4G phone can only carry about 256 to 512MB worth of running apps. That's horrid.

 

[patruns]

Looking at mine now with nothing open, I have 2.3GB free

 

[LeoRex]

Looking at mine now with nothing open, I have 2.3GB free

That's a good 1G higher than what it used to be previously, but not as bad.

That's what I can't figure. All of TMobile's G6s are the exact same model... No variations on storage or other bits. Yet not every phone runs into this issue, or not every phone had system bloat to over 3.

Every G6 I've personally seen has the same problem as me... And the T-Mobile store rep that I talked to said she has had a lot of people come in and complain. So it has to be widespread. I'm mashing the 'check for updates' daily in the hopes they push out a fix. But LG's not exactly good, and with the V30 coming, the G6 is yesterday's news.

 

[muckrakerX]

Have you tried running in safe mode?

 

[LeoRex]

Have you tried running in safe mode?

That saves all of .3G... Then booting back into normal it's all back. They screwed up the build and did a poor job in testing.

 

[patruns]

I should add I have disabled every T-Mobile app that had that option and have not downloaded any other T-Mobile apps or updated any that I do not use.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

how often does apps crash for you now? or how often does the phone freeze up?

 

[LeoRex]

Well... now? No more crashing... it's a mirac...

Wait... it's not. I got ahold of Tmo support and they overnighted me a replacement. It came with 10h loaded and I quickly disabled the auto OTA and suppressed the notification that 10p awaits me. Man.. phone runs GREAT when you have enough ram to run more than the settings menu. I know that the update doesn't affect every G6 it hits, but I'm not going to chance it.

I figure I'll sit back and chill until the next build comes.

 

[Theot]

I did another factory reset again last week and its been pretty good. I don't think the battery life is as good as it was on the previous build but I'm not having any issues with performance and the battery life is acceptable. I forgot to put in on the charger last night and only lost a couple percent overnight. Checked my memory usage for the last 24 hours and I'm at 2.1GB average. I was having major issues after first installing and it took two factory resets to get it to be good again so hopefully I'm set till the next build which looking at the history is at least a month away.

Side note, had some fun with friends friday night, they were trying to use their iphones (SE & my wife's 6s) for pictures in a dimly lit bowling alley and mine blew theirs away, they all admitted it was better which I love when iSheep have to be humble lol.

 

[X1tymez]

One thing I noticed is camera seen slow. Always missed capture moment.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

over the past week my OS has crashed 3 times. My wife's phone is so slow now it's ridiculous. All has happened since the TMO patch.

 

[hawklet00]

yeah...this latest patch has really f**cked memory management on this phone. i do a hard reset at least once a week to help mitigate this problem. Id do a factory reset to see if that completely fixes it, but im too lazy to re set up my phone.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

yeah...this latest patch has really f**cked memory management on this phone. i do a hard reset at least once a week to help mitigate this problem. Id do a factory reset to see if that completely fixes it, but im too lazy to re set up my phone.

Same. Haha

 

[hawklet00]

so i was looking at the site someone listed in this thread, and it looks like they added a new firmware update, but it lists the same version we currently have. maybe something is coming down the pipes?

link: https://lg-firmwares.com/lg-h872tn-firmwares/

 

[benjamin19]

over the past week my OS has crashed 3 times. My wife's phone is so slow now it's ridiculous. All has happened since the TMO patch.

This is very unfortunate. The wife and myself are on the October Security patch, and so far none of the AT&T updates have caused issues with ours so far. Such ashame that carriers have so much involvement on updates. Really makes me envious of Pixel and iPhone updates.

 

[hawklet00]

This is very unfortunate. The wife and myself are on the October Security patch, and so far none of the AT&T updates have caused issues with ours so far. Such ashame that carriers have so much involvement on updates. Really makes me envious of Pixel and iPhone updates.

apple has been able to strong arm the carriers, google/samsung/lg/etc. need to do the same and tell the carriers to f off and put the updates out.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

This is very unfortunate. The wife and myself are on the October Security patch, and so far none of the AT&T updates have caused issues with ours so far. Such ashame that carriers have so much involvement on updates. Really makes me envious of Pixel and iPhone updates.

It's very bad. It's actually pushed me to leave my beloved G6

 

[X1tymez]

Maybe all Tmobile updated require us to add new lines. Lol.

In market for new phone.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

One thing I noticed is camera seen slow. Always missed capture moment.

My wife's is sooooo slow now