Feedback for v2.1

So I have been following the power issues that some have mentioned. I have had a couple of nights where my battery seemed to drain. One thing I noticed this AM was that my Apple Airpods where showing as connected in the Devices list. However, my Airpods where in the case.

I have never seen them connected while in the case before this AM. And in the past, when I take them off and put in the case, they would disconnect.

I’m going to monitor and see if this is why I’m seeing random power drains at night. Just wanted to share.

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Hi Manoj,

Vendor Name : Samsung
Device Name : Galaxy S9
Device CodeName : startle / SM-G960F
Version which existed previously : 2.0 R

The new update (2.1 S) kill my battery

I don’t use my phone and the battery drains very quickly

I experience currently with the 2.0 & 2.1 versions, that the programmed silence mode don’t deactivate back itself as planned…
Does someone else experienced the same ?

Samsung S9+ “star2lte” bought at Murena
SM-G965F
previously running with /e/OS 2.0 (R, stable)
not rooted

Works very well,
Thanks!

All is fine :ok_hand: v2.1 doesn’t require more energy in comparense to v2.0.

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Vendor Name : Fairphone
Device name : Fairphone 5
Device CodeName : FP5
Version of /e/OS : 2.1-t - stable
No previous version
Is the device Rooted / Not rooted : Not rooted

I had a lot of issues with the camera after upgrading to 2.1-t. No picture saved or corrupted image (see Camera issue on 2.1-t-20240603406607-stable-FP5 - #5 by ctranxuan).
Clearing the camera app. data and cache does not fix the issue (contrary to Feedback for v2.1 - #82 by octobre)

Fairphone
FP4
previous installd: /e/OS 2.0 S
not rooted

Thank you for your excellent work! Every thing is working very good.
Only one issue with the auto brightness: every time I switch on the phone, the Display gets a bit more bright. I need to adjust the brightness manually. This is even more annoying since /e/OS T, because it is no loger possible to slide on the status bar for adjusting the brightness. I need to pull down the status bar twice before I can adjust the brightness.
I appreciate the new privacy setting to deactivate the button highlighting while entering the pin!

Now I found an instruction for calibrating the auto brightness and it seems to work:

  1. go to a dark room
  2. deactivate the auto brightness
  3. manually set the brightness to minimum
  4. activate the auto brightness
  5. deactivate the auto brightness
  6. go to a very bright place
  7. manually set the brightness to a suitable value
  8. activate the auto brightness
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Awesome! :smiley_cat: Tried on my Xiaomi Mi MIX 2, auto-brightness is now much more accurate!
@Manoj maybe this post could be moved to How-To?

Done

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  • Vendor Name: OnePlus
  • Device name OnePlus 8
  • Device CodeName instantnoodle
  • Version of /e/OS or Stock: 1.21-r-20240323388914-stable-instantnoodle
  • Is the device Rooted / Not rooted: Not rooted

After update OTA and reboot the device enter fastboot.
I manage to reboot to previously version through

sudo -s
fastboot getvar current-slot 
fastboot --set-active=<A_IF_B_OR_B_IF_A>    
fastboot reboot

However, I cannot update to 2.1.

@Iceman @Felpa is your issue similar to this bug on Gitlab

If yes pl add your comments to the thread on gitlab.

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@Iceman @Felpa

It’s probably the same issue as mentioned by @Manoj .

Did someone to install the update manually using recovery v1.21? I read somewhere here in the forum that someone managed to install doing that. I did not try yet.

Unfortunately, over the day the auto brightness shifted more and more to more bright display. In the dark room I experienced about 10% brighter display than after the calibration. Does some one has an idea?

You may try to “teach” step 3 in a dimmed light, and lower the value at step 7.

@xancudo
I just went with a fabric reset. Got tired of looking for other solutions. No problem now.

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Update:
I’d say things are more or less back to normal - I see sometimes in the battery usage “Android OS” or “Wakelocks” but for a few percents only - not always.

So I would be tempted to say that as some people pointed out in some forums, when installing a new version of Android, the new OS sort of analyses our app usage at the beginning and it may result with battery drain -
Could be worth mentioning it in the upgrades… or maybe I missed it ?!

@ others who noticed a battery drain : did it stop for you as well ?

OnePlus Nord working perfectly. It’s much more faster than the 1.8 version that I had. I didn’t see there was so much update :sweat_smile:. Thanks for the job !

Vendor Name : Fairphone
Device name : Fairphone 5
Device CodeName : FP5
Version of /e/OS : 2.1-t - stable
Previous version : 2.0-t - stable
Is the device Rooted / Not rooted : Not rooted

Option “Edge long swipe action” doesn’t work anymore since 2.1 on the home screen, was working on 2.0

And same problem as @ctranxuan for the device camera with the RAW format since 2.1

I tried to upgrade thr OnePlus 8 Pro OTA. After downloading I startet the upgrade. The reboot stocks on the start screen (the screen withe the information about the unlocked bootloader).
After some reboots the OnePlus starts withe the"old" version (1.21-r-20240323388914-stable-instantnoodlep).
Now the update shows again the new Version. I paused the download (see screenshot).

Is there a way to upgrade without sideloading etc.?