Nougat OTA Update

[renegad3]

Hi. On a friend's Nexus 5X, they have received the OTA update already. They were not on the Developer preview. It was released to them about a week ago.

It really all depends on what carrier your Nexus 6P is with. Different carriers release the update at different times (even though they should all be relatively very close in a time range). You should get it in the next coming weeks. It shouldn't be too long for you to get it. If you do want to get it now or earlier, I have heard that you can sign up for the Developer Preview now, get that installed on your 6P, then you should get the OTA update for the real Nougat in a day or so. That's what I have heard, I don't know if it's 100% correct. Hope this helps!

Google releases the update, not carriers.
If you sign up for the Developer preview, right now, you will get a notice for the official Nougat release, not the preview.
If you dont want to sign up for the preview, you can simply sideload the official OTA right now, I have posted a link previously in this thread.
Your friends 5x already got their update, because Google has already released factory images for it. That is not the case for the 6P as of yet.

 

[RHChan84]

Nexus is not dependent of carrier release. It comes from Google.

 

[ansextra]

That's not the official factory image though.

It's the official release.

 

[ansextra]

Mainly the battery drain that's being complained about everywhere caused by a multitude of issues.

You must be reading different reviews than I am. Also, my experience is that with the new Doze battery life is phenomenal.

 

[bjrosen]

It's starting to look like the "official release" was really a release candidate not the final release. There is still no factory image for the 6P or the 6 which leads me to think that they have found a bug that they need to fix before they roll it out to the non-beta users. The battery life is worse on 7.0 then it was on DP5, it could be that or maybe there is something more serious.

 

[greatgoogly]

Gotta wonder at this point if with the end of the Nexus program if Google will just decide that there are too many bugs with Nougat for the 6P and not provide it (there's certainly no legal requirement that they provide Nougat to 6P owners). That said I joined the beta program, got the update, did a factory reset, and then reset up my phone and I have not experienced any major issues. Battery life seems about the same. The only odd thing is often times when I shut the phone down a podcast that I was playing earlier in the day will come back on at full volume and play for about 20 seconds as the phone shuts down.

 

[HaboobZ]

You must be reading different reviews than I am. Also, my experience is that with the new Doze battery life is phenomenal.

It's all over these forums, Reddit, etc. A majority of the people are experiencing major battery issues. Only a handful are not.

It's definitely not the final release (as it wouldn't require us to sign up for the beta program to get it). So once it's final and they release it OTA without beta sign-up, then we can say it's the factory image/final release/etc.

 

[ansextra]

It's all over these forums, Reddit, etc. A majority of the people are experiencing major battery issues. Only a handful are not.

It's definitely not the final release (as it wouldn't require us to sign up for the beta program to get it). So once it's final and they release it OTA without beta sign-up, then we can say it's the factory image/final release/etc.

It is the final release. I have NRD90M. That is the release version from everything I've read.

 

[anon(27512)]

anyone know when they might upload the factory image?

 

[maverick7526]

It is the final release. I have NRD90M. That is the release version from everything I've read.

It's weird they haven't released the factory image yet for the 6P. It's been long enough. Unless there is some issue they aren't telling us about.

 

[RHChan84]

That is weird. They usually release the image before any OTA

 

[ansextra]

It's weird they haven't released the factory image yet for the 6P. It's been long enough. Unless there is some issue they aren't telling us about.

Could be...But I didn't cancel from the Beta Channel anyway so if there is an update I'll get it soon enough... For now, though, I'm told I have the release version and it's working well for me.

 

[opuntia2]

If you look here you'll see that the Android 7.0 images for the Nexus 6P are not available yet, so the OTA probably isn't being pushed either.

Excellent observation. There's definitely a relationship between the two.

 

[vzwuser76]

Gotta wonder at this point if with the end of the Nexus program if Google will just decide that there are too many bugs with Nougat for the 6P and not provide it (there's certainly no legal requirement that they provide Nougat to 6P owners). That said I joined the beta program, got the update, did a factory reset, and then reset up my phone and I have not experienced any major issues. Battery life seems about the same. The only odd thing is often times when I shut the phone down a podcast that I was playing earlier in the day will come back on at full volume and play for about 20 seconds as the phone shuts down.

IIRC there is a stipulation that all Nexus devices will get 2 years of major releases and 3 years of security patches. I seriously doubt, end of Nexus program or not, that Google wouldn't even get the update to what is their premium device but would to their budget device (the 5x). Not only would it look bad, but I'd imagine they want their Nexus users to transition to the Pixel line, and dropping support from a device not even a year old would be a death sentence for them. Look at what happened with Motorola/Lenovo when they did that.

 

[maverick7526]

IIRC there is a stipulation that all Nexus devices will get 2 years of major releases and 3 years of security patches. I seriously doubt, end of Nexus program or not, that Google wouldn't even get the update to what is their premium device but would to their budget device (the 5x). Not only would it look bad, but I'd imagine they want their Nexus users to transition to the Pixel line, and dropping support from a device not even a year old would be a death sentence for them. Look at what happened with Motorola/Lenovo when they did that.

I'd switch to the pixel line, as long as they decide to make a decent sized phone, so 5.7" or above. Anything below that won't get any consideration.

 

[bumpandrun]

Seeing as there is no factory image for the 6P, I will wait for the OTA as they have probably found a bug and are working on it.

 

[maverick7526]

Seeing as there is no factory image for the 6P, I will wait for the OTA as they have probably found a bug and are working on it.

There's def a bug. On my battery screen Android OS and Android system take up the most battery, unless I use my phone for 3hrs of SoT.

 

[greatgoogly]

Any dreams of getting Nougat images with the September Security update are now officially dead. September Security updates are out, lo and behold still no Nougat image for the 6P. Only the Marshmallow image has been updated to include the September Security patches. Beginning to get a feeling that there is a deal breaker issue that has been discovered that is at the very least seriously delaying the official Nougat roll out to the 6P (perhaps there's a problem with the Snapdragon 810) Nexus factory images and full system OTAs are now available with September's security updates, still missing Nougat images for the Nexus 6P, 6, and 9 LTE

 

[puch96]

Hmm.. .makes me wonder if I'll ever get the September security update if I have 7.0 on my 6p.... (only way I got it is by enrolling in beta program, then un enrolled)... Maybe we'll have to wait until October with the release of the next Pixel phones........

 

[PGrey]

Is anyone getting either update (nougat or the security patch)?
I haven't gotten either, although I've checked several times, and found this, where apparently the 6P update has been blocked, until some action is taken:
Vodafone Australia confirms the Nexus 6P Nougat update has been halted, Huawei is working on it

It seems like in the meantime we should get the latest security patches for 6.0.1?

I'm new to the Android (phone anyway) world, been on Win phones for a long, long time, so I'm just catching up on how patching works here, exactly.
Just trying to make all my MS(Live) mechanisms work on my phone is enough to keep my spare phone time occupied, for now, but I'm hoping to not configure everything, and end up re-doing a bunch, after the update ;-]