After my on air update on February 10, 2018, my G6 has slowed down lagging badly. Even the contacts are taking 10 seconds to comeup. click on call button taking 4-5 seconds to respond. Battery is draining fast not even lasting 2 hours. The phone is heating up as well. Prior to this update the phone was absolute pleasure to use, solid build etc.Request for little help here.
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I have these EXACT same problems, and so does another friend who has a G6.
Got the OTA update on Feb 10th too - 1st Jan 2018 security patch / Kernel 3.18.31 - (India) - and the problems started
immediately after.
SYMPTOMS
- Battery (used to give 6-7 hr SOT) now lasts for barely 2-3hr SOT. See attached screenshots.
- Phone is constantly hot
- Biggest battery drain is "Android Core Apps" (note that Contacts is part of this)
- Phone is laggy
- Dialer takes 3-5 seconds to call a number after i hit the dial button (eg. on recent calls list)
- Opening Contacts takes ~10 seconds before the list starts to populate
- Scrolling down on the whatsapp list takes 5-8 seconds before contact pictures show up (used to be <1 sec)
- People who call me claim it took me forever to pick up, but I picked up on the first ring
- Developer tools > Show CPU usage > On average its ~15.00-21.00 when the phone is idle. Lowest i've ever seen is 9.00
THINGS I'VE TRIED
- Turning off SYNC (in the notification shade) - this helps battery life a bit, but isn't really a fix
- Clearing cache (Settings > Storage > Internal storage > Cached data) - made no difference
- Restarting (duh) - made no difference
- Uninstalled PayTM (since it was the app with the highest drain - see screenshot) - no difference
- Just (5 minutes back) saw that "Docs" was stuck syncing since the 13th. Went to the docs app and manually refreshed. - Will let you know
YET TO TRY
- Unlinking additional/secondary Google accounts (i read somewhere this might help)
- Hard reset / wiping phone (my friend is trying this at the moment)
I will say that the hotness and battery life have improved in the last 2-3 days. But the phone is still behaving extremely poorly.
Also another friend with a Pixel 2 said he was facing similar issues (with contacts etc) after a recent Google update.
- R