I must say, since getting 7.0 on my 5X, battery life has improved a lot. It could barely make a full workday on 6.0, but now it will last almost two days of average use.
I wouldn't even think of installing this beta, they don't give me any reason to. Maybe if they would fix the contact syncing with non-Google providers, or something.
Maybe if they would fix the contact syncing with non-Google providers, or something.
I have found serious bugs with syncing contacts to Google's servers. I found that the web version of contacts didn't have a bunch of changes I made to a contact on my phone, so now every time I make changes on my phone I look and rarely are they on the web contacts.
I started a case with Google (I have a 5x, so I'm supported) and go to the point they wanted me to factory reset rather than find the bug. I said no thanks. I even pleaded that that would just mask the bug and didn't they want to find the problem? After all, I was completely stock (I didn't even unlock the bootloader).
I didn't know it was that broken. I always assumed my Android Contact problems came from using Office 365 Exchange with Outlook as the main source of my contact list, with many years of history in it.
Going from 7.1 to 7.1.1 on my Nexus 6p has ruined my battery life. Light web browsing for 1 hour in the morning while playing radio with TuneIn always cost me 10-12% of my battery. Since 7.1.1 it has cost me 30% of my battery. The battery drain has been insane. I've reset permissions and tried to track down what's causing this, but I can't find a culprit.
Don't know about the 6p, but on both my old 2013 Moto X and my current Nexus 5x, I've had to manually reboot the phone an additional time after completing an update. Until I do this, some Google service consumes an inordinate amount of battery -- dropping the battery charge 10% or so an hour while the phone is idling.
That is, I do the update. The phone restarts as part of the update, yada-yada... Ok, I'm officially all done with the update. No more reboots. But this service is eating battery like crazy. Manually power the phone all the way off, once more, and then restart. Finally, battery use goes back to normal, and in Settings this Google service no longer headlines as the primary power consumer.
I wouldn't even think of installing this beta, they don't give me any reason to. Maybe if they would fix the contact syncing with non-Google providers, or something.