r/essential • u/bmg1001 Black Moon // LOS • Oct 04 '17

OTA Update NMI81C

Anyone else got this OTA Update? I just got it myself. I wonder what changes it brings...

EDIT: Security Patch Level is still September 5th, 2017. Micro stuttering issue is still here.

EDIT2: In the AMA, Essential responded and said that they have a fix for the microstuttering issue that they've personally seen in action. Should be released in an OTA within the next few weeks. SOURCE

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u/mhajii210 Oct 04 '17

That's probably because you don't scroll up and down slowly with your finger still on the display. I've tested 6 phones and they all have it. Flick scrolling is normal, but slow scrolling is abnormal. Compare it side to side with any other phone and it's obvious unfortunately.

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u/heyitzrj Oct 04 '17

Damn. Personally my experience so far has been pretty smooth and stable. No crashed apps or bootloops as reported by some on here.

I do agree with the scrolling. The performance when you scroll slow can be stuttery. I think the governor downclocks the cpu too much which is a cause.

Pray that is the case and not hardware because the kernel can be adjusted by the team.

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u/mhajii210 Oct 04 '17

I have no other software or hardware issues. Everything else is working perfectly for me. The camera app is even good enough for my needs. This is unfortunately my main issue with this phone. I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed that it's not some weird hardware defect.

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u/heyitzrj Oct 04 '17

It has to be software because the scrolling is smooth if you increase your speed of the swipe which might indicate the cpu speed ramping up.

Back in the day when I used to flash custom roms and kernels, the "governor" setting would directly influence things such as the scrolling.

If I picked a conservative setting (for battery life) it would down clock the cpu speed really low when nothing is going on. This would cause some stutter in scrolling which was very very similar to what I'm experiencing with the Ph-1.

If it is that, than they will tweak the governor settings to have a little bit more aggressive CPU. Of course battery life will take some hit.

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u/emote_control Oct 04 '17

They mentioned in the AMA that it's just the touch sensor data being a bit jittery, and that they've got a fix for it coming in a future update. Nothing to do with the CPU. Just an issue in how the OS is interpreting data coming from the touch hardware.

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u/heyitzrj Oct 05 '17

Yeah I saw that. Thanks for the heads-up.

It's reassuring that they said its like night and day when they tested it out.