Nexus 6P update to Android 8.0 OREO

[Rob]

Have you updated your Nexus 6P to Android OREO? How's it going for you so far?

I was already on the Android 8.0 Beta and after this official update, which I got as an OTA yesterday, everything seems to be working perfectly fine. I'm not overly impressed with anything, but definitely satisfied!

 

[codesplice]

I'm still waiting for the release OTA to appear on my DP4-equipped 6P. I'll probably just flash the factory images once those get finalized; I understand that the images posted yesterday are actually several weeks out of date.

 

[doniago]

Has anyone been having trouble saving pics from camera apps? I'm on the Beta and any camera app says I have no free space.

 

[codesplice]

Has anyone been having trouble saving pics from camera apps? I'm on the Beta and any camera app says I have no free space.

Make sure you've granted the Storage permission for that app.

 

[Rxpert83]

I flashed the update last night, I liked it a lot, but one of the apps I use fairly regularly wasnt quite compatible yet, so I downgraded.

 

[doniago]

Make sure you've granted the Storage permission for that app.

I have. It's any camera app, including Google's own. On a lark I denied all permissions to the stock Camera just to see whether re-granting them would help. No joy; Camera still stays I don't have enough storage space.

 

[codesplice]

... how much space do you have?

 

[doniago]

Settings->Storage says 44.26G used of 128G, or 34% used. I have Smart Storage turned on, whatever that means. Photos & videos are 1.9G

 

[codesplice]

Hmm, that's a new one to me. Can you try using the Google Camera app in Safe Mode to see if the behavior stays the same?

 

[doniago]

Will give it a shot!

 

[steve]

Has anyone been having trouble saving pics from camera apps? I'm on the Beta and any camera app says I have no free space.

Saving pics, no. Taking pics, yes. Since 8.0 I have had blurry pictures and my camera won't focus. Not sure it if is related or not but it sucks. I guess I should do a clean flash and see if it helps. 🤔

 

[doniago]

^I'm thinking the same thing, but not looking forward to it. OTOH, I have a three-day weekend coming up...

 

[steve]

I still didn't get the OTA. WTF?

 

[codesplice]

I still didn't get the OTA. WTF?

What carrier are you on?

The OTA image for the 6P has a note that it's "Not for TMO/USCC/Fi," so it's possible that They are still waiting on the carriers to push it to those devices.

(I did get tired of waiting and flashed that factory image on my T-Mobile 6P; no issues to report.)

 

[steve]

What carrier are you on?
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<a href='https://developers.google.com/android/ota#angler' target='_blank' class='externalLink'>OTA image</a> for the 6P has a note that it's 'Not for TMO/USCC/Fi,' so it's possible that They are still waiting on the carriers to push it to those devices.
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<i>(I did get tired of waiting and flashed that factory image on my T-Mobile 6P; no issues to report.)</i>

Oh, I am on Fi. Blah. Thanks for reading for me... I lack that sometimes.

 

[Peter Bernsen]

What is TMO/Fi. My provider is KPN. No OTA yet.

 

[steve]

What is TMO/Fi. My provider is KPN. No OTA yet.

T-Mobile and Project Fi (Google's cell provider that uses T-Mobile, Spring and Cellular One).

 

[Peter Bernsen]

Thanks...So wait for my provider to push the ota?

 

[codesplice]

Thanks...So wait for my provider to push the ota?

Yeah, I'd sit tight for another week or so. It seems like every device except for the 6P has had builds approved/pushed to all carriers, so it should be #soon.

 

[Peter Bernsen]

Thanks, one week.. there is not much to do. The next thing is the Pixel2 intro and hoping they ship it also to the Netherlands.

 

[hstroph]

I had the OTA pushed to my Nexus 6P yesterday, but I prefer to flash the factory image myself. I did so, and also flashed TWRP 3.1.1 as well as rooted with SuperSU 2.82.

The "desktop" is slow to paint, Root Call Blocker Pro and Cerberus re-start once every minute, and this moring a popup message from SuperSU stated "zygote64 has silently been denied superuser status". An "adb shell" as root was unable to find anything named "zygote\*", so I chose to re-flash Android 7.1.2.

I'll never use a .0.0 release again.

 

[codesplice]

I had the OTA pushed to my Nexus 6P yesterday, but I prefer to flash the factory image myself. I did so, and also flashed TWRP 3.1.1 as well as rooted with SuperSU 2.82.

The "desktop" is slow to paint, Root Call Blocker Pro and Cerberus re-start once every minute, and this moring a popup message from SuperSU stated "zygote64 has silently been denied superuser status". An "adb shell" as root was unable to find anything named "zygote\*", so I chose to re-flash Android 7.1.2.

I'll never use a .0.0 release again.

Did you include the data wipe when you flashed the factory image, or did you manually flash the file systems individually and skip userdata.img?

 

[doniago]

Hmm, that's a new one to me. Can you try using the Google Camera app in Safe Mode to see if the behavior stays the same?

No joy on Safe Mode. I was considering doing an FDR, but if O is going non-beta next week anyhow, no point in doing it right now.

 

[codesplice]

No joy on Safe Mode. I was considering doing an FDR, but if O is going non-beta next week anyhow, no point in doing it right now.

You might also try disabling the Camera app (Settings > Apps & notifications > App info > Camera > Disable), which will have the pleasant side-effect of removing any updates and restoring the version of the app that was included with the build you're on. You can then re-enable the app to see if that made any difference.

 

[hstroph]

Did you include the data wipe when you flashed the factory image, or did you manually flash the file systems individually and skip userdata.img?

It's my habit to remove the "-w" fastboot option from flash-all.sh before executing it.