Atlast MOTO/LENOVO pushed out OTA for Android 8.0 for moto z2 play on retin channel on 1st may'18. After upgrading to 8.0 I was once again disappointed as the update didn't solved all the existing issues on z2 play.
First I'll start with the moto app launcher. Here frequency of mysterious disappearnce of google now feed even after it was turned on seems to have decreased a little bit for the time being, but we are still missing the latest google search widget with its new appearance customisation feature. Next we have live animated calendar icon where date shown on the icon changes with the current date but unfortunately moto/lenovo didn't updated the default clock icon and time shown in the icon remains constant (but it changes if I use pixel launcher).
We still have main three genetic problem for this device mainly:
- Extreme high mobile standby battery drain
- High phone idle battery drain
- Low ringtone volume
Along with above these we still have mysterios battery level indicator (which either remains fix for a long time or starts falling too rapid for doing same task)
Finally moto has opened the option for native video calling if carrier support rather than using a complex process for enabling it.
(https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z-Play/Support-for-Native-4G-Video-Call-in-Z2-Play-Jio-to-Jio-lt-VoLTE/td-p/4059247)
It is still doubtful why another new feature for changing icon shape is completely missing.
Finally the most important one, device is having google drive backup issue. Backup to google drive is stucked and forever getting a message that 'waiting to backup', it doesn't matter wheather phone is connected to internet via mobile data or wifi or even charging. It has been a problem from google side, don't know about latest status of the problem. I'm facing this exact problem and I had no idea what moto/lenovo did/doing/will do about it.
Maybe someone from moto/lenovo will be able to provide more information.
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Pls don't request me to do once again a battery calibration/hard reset/factory reset/network reset, full discharge & overnight charge, clearing cache as I'm tired of doing these.