Do you still use the Axon 7?

[nuserame]

I still like the great sound, the great camera (in daylight)… but the screen is glitching (left half stops working several times a day), the battery life is now very short, the phone is starting to feel slow.

Do you still use yours?

Or what did you replace it with? Are there any phones this good for under US$400?

 

[RobboW]

Still using mine. I suspect the battery has lost a little capacity now, or maybe I need to clear out some apps but it works fine.

I did buy myself an Axon 7 mini recently.
It was a bargain. AU$149 new in box from retail store. I use it mainly for music and streaming television plus some web browsing and it's perfect for this. Works just as well as the Axon 7 for these things. The Axon 7 can still be found here for AU$399 new in box which is still a bargain too.

I think the Asus Zen Phone 6 is looking interesting for the future.

 

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I still like the great sound, the great camera (in daylight)… but the screen is glitching (left half stops working several times a day), the battery life is now very short, the phone is starting to feel slow.

Do you still use yours?

Or what did you replace it with? Are there any phones this good for under US$400?

i know two people that came back after buying other, much newer phones. All it needs is a battery swap that should set you back around $8 if you do it yourself, and you can get stupid numbers like around 7h of SOT out of this 3 year old phone.

I just broke my screen, and this was my second axon anyways, so i'll be going. But there's no need unless you get paid for playing pubg professionally or something lmao

 

[YoungAll]

I am still using mine as secondary phone and media player. I store all my music, videos and photos in it and 256gb sd card as additional. I love the sound from this phone, through speakers and headphone jack just sound so good. In case I miss the sound from LG's quad dac, I add LG G5 B&O module to still get better headphone experience, more bassy sound (I am an LG phone fan also for their music quality)

The camera has been great since Gcam works pretty well, it produces good and detail pictures and the low light performance is so great.

My axon battery getting weaker as it aged, in accubattery it shows only 1900mAh capacity left fot battery health. Got to replace this in near future.

So far I'm so happy with this axon since I can't afford the phone with better speakers quality and much higher price

 

[ibphantom]

Just replaced the screen for the second time. I just wish I could fix my headphone jack. The prongs on the inside don't hold the plug in right anymore

I love the phone though. I'll probably get the Pixel 4 in the Fall, but keep this phone for a long time to use as a learning tool in coding and flashing.

 

[roadworker]

Bought a Red Magic 3 a week ago,but my Axon 7 is still in use,and will be until it doesn't startup anymore...
It will be replaced as my daily driver as soon as the protection case for the Magic 3 arrives,but for audio playback (that's the main reason why it's still running stock rom,although rooted and an unlocked bootloader) and home use (remote control for receiver etcetera),it will still be around for quite some time....
ATM,I can't complain about the battery life,and I hope it stays that way for some time.....

 

[Fuilares]

I'm using my axon 7 since 2016/2017 but maybe later in this year I will change it. For now it works great, I swapped battery and installed HavocOS, so it feel like a new phone

 

[FoxHunter04]

It's my daily drive, the battery is not that great probably because of the 1440p display, the glitching in the display only happened to me because I dropped the phone on the floor with the corner with the display connector down suffering the impact. But the phone do not feels slow to me, I even play Fortnite and PUBG with no down frames, I really cannot say bad things about it's performance, it holds up to today's most demanding apps with no hassle.
It's a really solid phone, aluminum body with great heat dissipation (a thing that most Snapdragons 820 didn't had). One of the best Hi-Fi phones out there, great DAC. Can support MicroSD cards up to 2TB, dualSIM, VolLTE, 20MP camera and with the Google Camera it truns to one of the best cellphone cameras I've ever laid my hands on.

Now the main problems are the ZTE updates which stopped in Oreo betas, the custom ROMs are great but you lose Dobly Atmos with them, to get you need to install a lot of patches to make it work and it doesn't work perfectly.
And MiFavor, I installed CPL and never replaced my launcher after.

 

[gld59]

The Axon 7 can still be found here for AU$399 new in box which is still a bargain too.

Urk. I paid 355 for mine, 15 months ago, and I think Officeworks dropped the price once more as they cleared them out.

 

[macmobile]

Still my daily driver, yes. Solid phone, very mediocre software.

 

[Spillunke]

Im not using the Axon anymore for daily use. Switched to a Mi Max 3 a year ago. Axon 7 is just a backup now or the music smartphone on a soundsystem.
Battery drain is horrible and the screen is to small compared to the Mi Max 3

 

[machetie]

Have 2 of them, one grey daily driver and the other gold on backup with spare parts if need be. Had the gold one since August 2016, only got the grey one for $50 on eBay since the person didn't know how to fix the half screen connector problem. (Ended up getting it for free since it was FRP locked). I'll keep this phone until I find an equally replacement with updated cpu.

 

[Blankisblank]

It's my main device and will probably continue to be for a couple more years. I too have the half glitch thing, bit from my understanding it's just a loose connection inside (which I'll check up on when I replace my battery). It's still fast still feels smooth, especially with LOS or other ROMs which is why I hope this keeps on getting support for a long time

 

[xboxbr]

yes, I do. Havok 2.6 (android Pie)
battery life still good

 

[ko_wei13]

Still using since 2 years ago. Solid quality build. Can't agree more on the getting worse battery life. Planning to have it replace to use the phone for few more years until it dies.

 

[marcdw]

Still on the Axon 7 also. Always been a secondary, though I originally got it to replace my G3 but that's still my daily. Heh. The Axon acts more as my multimedia device since nothing else (that I own) compares.


ZTE Axon 7 A2017U, AospExtended v4.6 ROM, Radioactive v2.4 Kernel, microG (NoGapps), Multiboot, XDA Legacy