I'd just like to report....

[TonySmithPhoto]

...had the phone about 4 months, and all is working well.

There are good ones out there.

 

[B. Diddy]

LOL, me too!

 

[LeoRex]

Well.... I always talk of how selection bias can skew things around these parts. People come here to find answers to questions they have, so we have a disproportionate amount of issues being disussed. My friend Diddy here will appreciate the analogy, but it's like going to a hospital and coming away thinking everyone has a serious disease or medical issue.

 

[Hawgee]

Hahahaha. All the germs ARE at the horse pistol.
BUT, . . . . have had the 6P since November. There are those moments, 'is mine the only perfect one?'.

 

[B. Diddy]

My friend Diddy here will appreciate the analogy, but it's like going to a hospital and coming away thinking everyone has a serious disease or medical issue.

But they do! [scurries off to wash hands diligently for 30 seconds]

 

[Aredubu]

I've had my phone for a few days now, and really didn't think I would like it better that the Moto X Pure that I am now selling, or the LG V10 that I just sold. Needless to say, I am really liking this phone!

 

[JoeNM84]

Ditto. No problems with my 6P

edit:
Except the whole Google Apps syncing problem, but I don't blame the phone. I blame Google.

 

[vzwuser76]

Same here for the most part. It seems like battery life could be better, seeing as I don't get the 6 hr SOT that some do. But after reading up on the subject, it sounds like it depends on how you use your phone. For example, if you watch a lot of videos where the screen is on but you aren't physically interacting with it (touching, swiping, etc) you can get higher SOT. In my case, I may watch a video from time to time, but most of my interaction is surfing web pages where your constantly touching and swiping which includes the digitizer being used with the display, which translates to more battery drain. That and I don't have the greatest of signal in my home (use a network extender but I wonder if it being a 3G signal rather than LTE is causing higher battery drain as well).

Either way, beyond that I am completely satisfied with the 6p. Now just waiting for the official release of N.

 

[terminator y2k]

Got mine last week and it's been awesome so far. No complaints. If it comes down to it, people will find any little thing to nitpick or complain and whine about. You just can't make everyone happy in general, not just in regards to phones but just in life in general. :^)

*6P 64gb Graphite (AT&T)*
*iPad Air 2 64gb Space Gray (AT&T)*

 

[LeoRex]

I may watch a video from time to time, but most of my interaction is surfing web pages where your constantly touching and swiping which includes the digitizer being used with the display, which translates to more battery drain. That and I don't have the greatest of signal in my home (use a network extender but I wonder if it being a 3G signal rather than LTE is causing higher battery drain as well).

Yep.. exactly. The more you interact with the phone, the more power it uses. Now, short of resource intensive games, if you are constantly navigating, that uses a fair amount of power... it's called "TouchBoost".

Not to go on a tangent here, but I hope it'll help some understand a little bit more of what goes on. Your phone has software (the kernel) that controls your hardware and uses dynamic frequency scaling - a fancy way of saying that it speeds up and slows down the processor speed - based on the resource needs. If the phone's just sitting there, it'll try to drop all the CPU cores down to their idle speed.... and if you load up Asphalt 8, it'll open it up. But it's all that in-between stuff that people notice most. You know how a phone sometimes coughs and hiccups a bit when you first touch it, then smooths out? Some will call that 'lag', but most often the case, that jank is coming from the phone ramping up the processor's speed.

So to avoid having the phone cough and spit while you are scrolling through G+, there's a mode in the kernel that Qualcomm calls "Touch Boost". What that does is scale the CPU speed up to a fairly high level as soon as it detects that you touched the screen, then holds it there for a few seconds to make sure it's ready for the next time you touch it.... So its a double edged sword... Touchboost makes the phone feel nice and smooth, but it is also indiscriminate and doesn't really care if you actually NEED that much processing power or not.... so you might be using more power than you would otherwise need. Here's two shots... the first is my phone at 'idle'. The second is just me touching the screen. (the top "LITTLE" cluster is the smaller, more power efficient cores and the bottom "big" are the more powerful A57 cores)




Now, just the act of touching the screen pushed the LITTLE cluster to 1344MHz, which isn't that far off from the 1555MHz full speed for the LITTLE cluster. Even the big cluster got bumped up a couple of steps. Does the phone NEED that much power for me to scroll through a very light kernel management app? Nope.

Now, on custom kernels, you can fuss with these settings, turning off Touchboost and instead using the governor to set the CPU speed based on demand.

Ok.. sorry for the thread jack.... but I hope this helps you understand why just scrolling around in an app that shouldn't consume a lot of power consumes a lot of power.

 

[AnnDroid]

4+ months and loving this phone also. No problems, never leaves my side.

 

[TonySmithPhoto]

Nice to see others are just as happy as I am.

 

[Eclipse2K]

Best phone I've ever owned. My friends were raving about their new S7 but after trying them it's obvious I made the right choice.

 

[KillerQ]

Yep... Best phone ever.

I bought a Galaxy S7 for the sole purpose of using it with the GearVR (I don't use it as a phone) , and let me tell you, even with nothing even installed on the S7, it's over than my old S5, and feels like and S4 in my hand.

Posted via my Nokia 8210 from the inside of a Kitten.

 

[vzwuser76]

@LeoRex That was a really informative post. I just assumed that adding the digitizer use with the display was the reason I was getting lower SOT. But with Touchboost I can see why I see such a battery drop by using my phone primarily for websurfing and typing posts. So while I'm sure those 5-6 hr SOT are real, I know I'm not doing anything wrong with my phone and my phone doesn't have an issue when I'm maxing out at 3-4 hr SOT. We're each using our phones differently.

It's also a good reason why those battery rundown tests are not really helpful. First most people don't just watch videos until their battery dies. Second, some people seem to think that if a phone gets 9 hours on that test, that that's all it will get period. But unless you're using your device nonstop, the battery life will be much longer. So really, the only things those battery tests give us is how long they last relative to another phone running the same test, which depending on how it does vs other phones in the test, gives us a very rough idea of which phones will last longer than others. Same as SOT. Depending on what you're doing besides having the display on (scrolling, typing, etc) it's really not a way to judge battery life.

At this point, SOT is kinda like when an OTA is going out and people are trying to track the update by region, even though Google has said that doesn't play a part in the order updates show up. But people still do it every time.

 

[ottscay]

Had mine about 3 months, and all is well. It's not a perfect phone, but it's the closest thing I've had to one.

 

[TheDonJ77]

Had mine since November and still loving this baby!! I was slightly tempted by the S7Edge and free goodies but in the end I chose not to buy it and stick with my 6P. In the end, I'm content.

 

[doggy2965]

Here's my list of things I don't like about my 6p.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[LeoRex]

So really, the only things those battery tests give us is how long they last relative to another phone running the same test, which depending on how it does vs other phones in the test.

Very much this. If you sit around and just run those tests all day, those battery results will be useful... But for the rest of us, they are unreliable junk.

 

[vzwuser76]

Very much this. If you sit around and just run those tests all day, those battery results will be useful... But for the rest of us, they are unreliable junk.

A better analogy would've probably been the various benchmarks. A good score doesn't guarantee a smooth operating device. After running 2013 and later Motorola devices and now a Nexus, I will do everything I can to stay as close to stock Android as I can. Although it probably helped me notice the difference going from a Galaxy S3 to a 2013 Droid Maxx. What a difference.