Nokia 8 Android 9 PIE updates

[Gilgamesh293]

I think we will get official Ota updates

So you don't recommend me to request the pie beta ?

If we are going to get the official ota do you know when will that be ?

 

[revanmj]

So if i push the pie beta
What happens when the beta ends and we get official pie ?
Will i have to wipe all data and factory reset my phone or only download the official version normaly without any data loss ?

Based on Oreo beta from last year, we'll get OTA to stable version.

But you may have to wait for it the same as everybody else still on Oreo with your model/operator/country combination (Oreo beta participatnts didn't get stable OTA immediately after its release as one would expect).

 

[techno_man000]

A user on gsmarena stated :

Agucibu
Quick notes in the first hours using this update.
1. No soft buttons, good idea holding on the hardware ones
2. Camera has the same UI but I noticed until now much better brightness and exposure levels; nice one this finding! Camera in my opinion os much much better
3. Battery much more resilient up to now.
4. Better Ram management

Better RAM management and resilient battery?? On the contrary, there are RAM management and battery problem on my phone. On 8.1, at least 2GB of RAM was free. On 9.0, this is at least 1.7GB. However, i figured out source of problem. I guess that the problem is background apps. I tried to restrict background apps but it was not effective. Battery drains due to the unstopped background apps. I have reported these 2 problem to authorities.

 

[Ahmed5]

Battery drain rate has increased imo!!!
Battery life was much better before I updated!!

 

[revanmj]

For me battery seems the same, but I carefully select apps that I allow to run in the background.

Can't say about free RAM as I don't check it. But apps are kept in the memory and are not killed while in use (for example Spotify playing in the background), so I'd say memory management is good.

Also, practically all animations are fluid.

To summarize, as always, it seems experience depends on apps you have installed and if you control what apps can run in background or not.

 

[adz63]

Been running pie about a week now but only just discovered there is no gallery app. Was there one in the first place? If so can anyone share the APK please. I'm having to use the files app to view content

 

[Ahmed5]

Been running pie about a week now but only just discovered there is no gallery app. Was there one in the first place? If so can anyone share the APK please. I'm having to use the files app to view content

Photos app (Google) since the start. Never was any in the first place ever except photos.

 

[ajgftw]

Better RAM management and resilient battery?? On the contrary, there are RAM management and battery problem on my phone. On 8.1, at least 2GB of RAM was free. On 9.0, this is at least 1.7GB. However, i figured out source of problem. I guess that the problem is background apps. I tried to restrict background apps but it was not effective. Battery drains due to the unstopped background apps. I have reported these 2 problem to authorities.

Free ram isn't a measure of good ram management.
Android is designed to keep apps in memory for as long as possible so that they can be quickly swapped to if you go back to them.

Obviously how effectively this works depends on the apps that you use and how efficiently they have been coded and how consistently the developer kept to the Android developer guidelines/best practices.

 

[Germ2501]

Since running the betalabs release, I noticed while playing music(I'm using Poweramp), the music may stutter for a split second at random times. Nothing major but you may be able to catch it.

Does anyone else face this with the same or different music players?

 

[revanmj]

Since running the betalabs release, I noticed while playing music(I'm using Poweramp), the music may stutter for a split second at random times. Nothing major but you may be able to catch it.

Does anyone else face this with the same or different music players?

Never had this problem with Spotify.

 

[Ahmed5]

What is recommended animation speed
?

 

[revanmj]

I use 0,5x for window and transition animations, leaving rest on 1x.

This way I have quite fast transitions, while still having animations for them. For me 1x feel too slow.

 

[Ashish_Maurya]

showing me imei already in use ... what is this mean ???

 

[foxbatul]

best batt life ever. 4.5 days + 4.5 h SOT !!! ( after 2 weeks of usage)
Pie it's a winner.
1004

 

[webvan]

You have to access it via creating an activity widget using Nova Launcher.
Look out for "System UI demo mode" when doing so.

Thanks for the tip, would have never thought of looking there !

Lots of unexpected items in that activity widget, like the easter eggs, hehe

 

[Ahmed5]

What is this Glance Style ? Seems really awesome but has no affect in actual on glance

 

[revanmj]

I think Sirocco uses this styles settings as Nokia 8 and Sirocco were the only ones using Glance instead of Ambient Display AFAIK.

After those two HMD seems to have dropped Glance, possibly due to it being more limited than Ambient Display in case of notifications support.

 

[nabil427]

Guys I cannot find wps push any idea?

 

[revanmj]

Seems like Google has removed this in Pie and plans to add it in a "future release" - source.

 

[kutulu32]

What is recommended animation speed
?

If you mean in developer options you can keep default 0.5 or you can disable the animation completely . If you like the effects you can also try 1.5 or 2 . It depends on you with 0.5 or disabled the phone is "quicker"