CaptainAmerica
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- Current Phone Model
- Droid Turbo
So, VZ here in Massachusetts pushed the Marshmallow OTA update on my phone yesterday evening. I backed-up all of the important stuff and then this morning I took the plunge and launched the update.
It took about 15 minutes to go through the main install, with the Android bot on the black background and the tiny blue progress bar. After it rebooted it got me worried for a little, because the phone stayed a while with the white Moto logo doing apparently nothing. After a few minutes it finally started to do the famous "app optimization", which lasted another 10 minutes or so.
All in all it took about 30 minutes (and over 10% of battery level...) to complete the updated. Somehow I had to manually update one of the Google system app, Google Play Service, I believe. I got the warning triangle in the notification bar telling me that I had to do it. It went without a hitch, though, and after doing that the phone looked pretty much as it was before.
A few comments about what I have noticed so far:
- The look of the Command Center has changed. That is the round widget that takes the top one third of the main home screen. I like this new one. Instead of getting those two little "wings" when you tap on it with more info, not it sprouts two smaller circles with Min/Max temperature at your location and battery percentage. It reminds me of how it was in my old RazrM
- The Command Center now allows quick access to your next event on the calendar, in the lower half of the main circle.
- The weather page as changed too, now it has all black background and white text and icons. Call me drab, but I like this look much better than the previous one, which always seemed to me like a bunch of different colors thrown together
- The Calendar app has been overhauled. Now the month view actually show you the daily events. Tiny fonts and only the first eight characters or so, but MUCH better than the useless colored bar of the old Calendar. Definitely like this update!
- The notifications when the screen is off are now a mix of white and light blue fonts. Not a big deal, but pleasant.
- In the "Battery" settings there is now another menu item tapping on the three vertical dots on the upper right, "Battery Optimization". It allows to turn on battery optimization for all apps at once or select which one you want to optimize. I turned it on for all, let's see what happens. I suppose this is the "Doze" function?
So far I have not noticed any adverse reaction to the update. My Bluetooth pair list is all there too, by the way. The phone worked as always with BT in my car and it is synchronizing with my FitBit Charge HR without me having to redo anything.
All apps that I have tried so far are working as usual. Too early to say if there is an impact on battery life. It is a little past noon here and I am at 66%.
I have had the Turbo for about eighteen months now, so I have noticed a reduction in how long it goes on a charge. I'd say still within what you would expect with the normal capacity decay of a Li-Ion battery. I can still go easily the whole day on a charge with some margin left, unless I use heavily the GPS.
That's all for now, folks. I will probably do a cache wipe later today, just to be on the safe side, but all is well.
Oh, and by the way, the update also reclaimed a good 3% of my storage space. I do not think it is just because it deleted the install file, the space was taken even before. Maybe as part of the post-install clean-up Android wiped some hidden garbage. Nice bonus!!!
It took about 15 minutes to go through the main install, with the Android bot on the black background and the tiny blue progress bar. After it rebooted it got me worried for a little, because the phone stayed a while with the white Moto logo doing apparently nothing. After a few minutes it finally started to do the famous "app optimization", which lasted another 10 minutes or so.
All in all it took about 30 minutes (and over 10% of battery level...) to complete the updated. Somehow I had to manually update one of the Google system app, Google Play Service, I believe. I got the warning triangle in the notification bar telling me that I had to do it. It went without a hitch, though, and after doing that the phone looked pretty much as it was before.
A few comments about what I have noticed so far:
- The look of the Command Center has changed. That is the round widget that takes the top one third of the main home screen. I like this new one. Instead of getting those two little "wings" when you tap on it with more info, not it sprouts two smaller circles with Min/Max temperature at your location and battery percentage. It reminds me of how it was in my old RazrM
- The Command Center now allows quick access to your next event on the calendar, in the lower half of the main circle.
- The weather page as changed too, now it has all black background and white text and icons. Call me drab, but I like this look much better than the previous one, which always seemed to me like a bunch of different colors thrown together
- The Calendar app has been overhauled. Now the month view actually show you the daily events. Tiny fonts and only the first eight characters or so, but MUCH better than the useless colored bar of the old Calendar. Definitely like this update!
- The notifications when the screen is off are now a mix of white and light blue fonts. Not a big deal, but pleasant.
- In the "Battery" settings there is now another menu item tapping on the three vertical dots on the upper right, "Battery Optimization". It allows to turn on battery optimization for all apps at once or select which one you want to optimize. I turned it on for all, let's see what happens. I suppose this is the "Doze" function?
So far I have not noticed any adverse reaction to the update. My Bluetooth pair list is all there too, by the way. The phone worked as always with BT in my car and it is synchronizing with my FitBit Charge HR without me having to redo anything.
All apps that I have tried so far are working as usual. Too early to say if there is an impact on battery life. It is a little past noon here and I am at 66%.
I have had the Turbo for about eighteen months now, so I have noticed a reduction in how long it goes on a charge. I'd say still within what you would expect with the normal capacity decay of a Li-Ion battery. I can still go easily the whole day on a charge with some margin left, unless I use heavily the GPS.
That's all for now, folks. I will probably do a cache wipe later today, just to be on the safe side, but all is well.
Oh, and by the way, the update also reclaimed a good 3% of my storage space. I do not think it is just because it deleted the install file, the space was taken even before. Maybe as part of the post-install clean-up Android wiped some hidden garbage. Nice bonus!!!
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