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A pretty nice addition to [the third developer preview of the OS formerly known as Android M] is granular control over the permissions [which] each and every app requires upon installing it, giving Android users "meaningful choice of control". Just like in iOS, apps in Android 6.0 Marshmallow will only [allow] you to grant them a certain permission immediately before the app needs it and not in bulk during the installation, [as was the case] in previous Android installments.
[...] Android 6.0 Marshmallow officially introduces API Level 23, which is one of the requirements to have app permissions that can be granted on demand. All Android apps need to be updated [by their developers] so that they support the brand new API0 Level 23 libraries in order to introduce the individual granular app permissions.
SiliconANGLE notes that 6.0 is also getting native fingerprint support, a new power-saving mode, and Android Pay.
They also note
Hardly anyone with an existing Android phone will ever get to use [6.0].
[...] Android-powered devices rely on the manufacturer to update the operating system and the reality is that it rarely happens.
To put it more crudely, the Android update process is f**ked.
[...] [As Android remains open source and free to use,] Google can't force manufacturers to come to the party in terms of upgrades [any] more than it can force manufacturers to stop skinning their Android installs with their own custom user interfaces and software.
Release of Android 6.0 is expected in 2015Q4.
Original Submission
(Score: 2, Insightful) by NullPtr on Monday August 31 2015, @10:49AM
Hardly anyone gets android updates? My z3 went from 4 to 5. Your same is true of all flagship phones released in the last year or so. Talking bollocks mate.
(Score: 1) by riT-k0MA on Monday August 31 2015, @12:01PM
Let's face it: the Z3's 5.01 update was abysmal. I just upgraded to 5.1.1 and it's even worse. I turn off my mobile data and wifi at night and wake up the next morning to find that something turned on the internet connection at 3am and phoned home. It's quite disconcerting to have your alarm go off and find that your disconnected phone has several unread emails in the inbox that arrived after you fell asleep.
(Score: 1) by NullPtr on Monday August 31 2015, @01:43PM
I won't face it, no. I don't turn off my data/wifi overnight though as I typically find a percent or so taken and I can live with that as the battery is so good (at least, i get a full day's usage no matter much I use the phone). But I have used similar settings in the past (triggered by smart connect when I connected the device to the magnetic charger) and it worked fine; I'd grab the phone from the charger and immediately i'd get facebook messenger messages, emails etc. Have you worked out whether it was wifi or data being used? Do you have a bunch of tools like greenify, tasker etc installed?
(Score: 1) by Francis on Monday August 31 2015, @05:56PM
It depends where you live and what your carrier is. If I put the phone into airplane mode, it'll use about 2% of the battery charge over 8 hours. If I leave the airplane mode off, it's more like 30%. Some of that is the data transfer, but a lot of that is because AT&T sucks and no matter where you go, the signal isn't as good as it should be.
(Score: 2) by WillR on Monday August 31 2015, @05:12PM
Your same is true of all flagship phones released in the last year or so.
And how many people are using 1-year-old "flagship" phones, compared to the total number using Android?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:51AM
That IS hardly anyone. While manufacturers would certainly like it(*), not everyone goes and buys a new flagship phone every year or so.
*) thus they are all for shit that encourages such behaviour, like sticking to half-assed update system.. as a bonus there an aura of plausible deniability since it stems from genuine incompetence