Android 9 Pie... Do you like it?

[Zoloo Fanny]

Disappoint, My Pixel gets hot, battery drain so fast.

 

[bubu333]

I'm not a fan of the new UI with all these rounded corners and app icons.

 

[bubu333]

But the new notification channel system is a good feature though.

 

[lcgoldman]

Flicked via the BlackBerry keyboard on my Pixel 2

I the BlackBerry keyboard. Best virtual keyboard hands down!

 

[diya50019]

Yes, i really liked Android 9 Pie. it's working Very smooth and Battery life is better. i don't faced any problems yet.

 

[oepstei6737]

Pie battery life can be extended by 50% by turning wifi scanning off.

 

[Gillysixpence]

Brilliant thanks, my hubby was having this issue on his OnePlus6. I've passed it along.

 

[Gillysixpence]

Have you tried setting your actual 'device' language to UK US. I had to do that to get multiple voices for assistant. I also can't grab text from the recents, also UK.

 

[Gillysixpence]

So far I'm really liking it. I'm trying the gestures out which are much easier to use that I expected, having never used them before.
I like the volume button changes as far as the profile switcher but would prefer to have the ringer as the default I think, I feel I'd use that more, so hope that will be implemented.
I much prefer the recents tiles this way but would love to have the live copy/paste option in them on my P20. Not sure if that is phone specific or not but I think it may be.
I also seem to be able to do more from the lock screen notifications whereas before I couldn't do anything at all without unlocking. I'm happy with that as I can do what I need to without compromising the security of my messages etc.
I've left location on as usual but have toggled off the blue tooth and wifi scanning as I really don't need that on all the time and would rather have excellent battery.
As far as battery I've only had it since yesterday afternoon so am watching to see how it behaves, hoping it'll be as good as Oreo or better once it learns how I use my phone as I'm so super impressed with battery on this phone.

 

[ptkelly]

I have liked it since the first beta on through. Works fine for me.

I should mention a terrible battery drain the first three days that I'm sure had nothing to do with being on the damn phone 23 hours a day.

 

[Gillysixpence]

I've had it for a few days and - mostly - I like it.

In the UK I don't (yet) get a choice of more than 2 Assistant voices or the ability to grab text from the Overview menu, however, I'm sure it'll cross the pond eventually.

I like the Gestures and the Auto-rotate changes.

Have you tried setting your actual 'device' language to UK US. I had to do that to get multiple voices for assistant. I also can't grab text from the recents, also UK.

 

[Ricardo Sousa2]

Hello, overall I like it. Just have an annoying feature I can't seem to turn off. Some apps have a pop up icon like the one messenger have when someone texts you. Anyone knows how to turn it off?

Cheers

 

[mohit9206]

Overall its a bit worse than Oreo.
Good things first.
1. Just as fast and smooth as Oreo
2. Battery life just as good as Oreo.

Things i don't like
1. Adaptive battery - i gave it one week, it doesn't adapt, all it does is aggressive background killing of apps so i turned it off

2. Adaptive brightness - Turned off after couple of days, never adapts, never been a fan of auto brightness.

3. Aggressive memory management - Much worse than oreo even with adaptive battery disabled. Kills background apps much faster than Oreo.

Things i don't have an opinion on
1. Gestures - i don't use it, i have Nova launcher which has gestures and i have Moto one button nav using the fingerprint sensor so i dont need anything else.

 

[millerman]

Flashed my Note 9 a few days ago with Pie. So far so good. Great battery life and smooth. Really liking the software. UK and using EE.

 

[jajaja1234]

Hate it, not just because of the looks but because it's a PITA. It changed a bunch of settings, I had to re-download my entire Spotify collection for some unknown reason, lock screen notifications don't show properly and I've now got a permanent notification telling me that Locale has switched off my Bluetooth, which I can't get rid of, and I use Locale constantly to manage my settings. Notifications should be MY CHOICE. It's MY PHONE which I PAID A LOT OF MONEY FOR.

 

[Itsa_Me_Mario]

Hate it, not just because of the looks but because it's a PITA. It changed a bunch of settings, I had to re-download my entire Spotify collection for some unknown reason, lock screen notifications don't show properly and I've now got a permanent notification telling me that Locale has switched off my Bluetooth, which I can't get rid of, and I use Locale constantly to manage my settings. Notifications should be MY CHOICE. It's MY PHONE which I PAID A LOT OF MONEY FOR.

So minimize or disable the notification?

 

[jajaja1234]

So minimize or disable the notification?

That's the problem, it won't let me



I want control over my phone, that's why I use Android. I feel like I'm using iOS at the moment.

 

[Stormstaff]

Not so far. Too many changes. A lot of text I can't see. I can't see my calendar at all.

 

[Itsa_Me_Mario]

So now we seem to have two different types of threads happening in this thread. We have do you like Android Pie, and we have do you like the bastardization, or implementation if you will, of Android Pie that the oems are releasing.

 

[Sedp23]

Love it so far no issues for me works great and Adaptive battery seems to give me a little bit longer battery life