Edited by Nov4eK at 2017-11-16 19:48

Same thing. I won't buy any Meizu again within the observable future. Hardware is good.

But software is a total BUGGY PIECE OF TRASH and brown substance.
Those, who say, that Flyme has no bugs, simply don't use those buggy functions and are not power users of their phones. I don't blame them, cause we are using phones differently.

I'm the owner of Meizu MX4 (2014). Meizu HAVE KILLED this phone. All stock ROMs have an unoptimised kernel, that has a lot of debugging scr ipts running in the background, so the performance is lowered dramatically:
1. In games there is a 5-30 lower fps, than this phone can really show. (This amount of difference was obtained by testing stock Flyme ROM VS custom Android 7.1.2 MX4 ROM with custom kernel for MediaTek (Luckily, MX4 users have the enthusiast, who has access to MTK kernel sources) )
2. Bad optimization of the interface itself. In all applications, that have complex animations/transitions - they are lagging.
3. Excessive usage of RAM. My MX4 with 2 Gigs of RAM behaves like phones powered by stock Android with 1 GB of RAM.
4. Excessive battery drainage.

Flyme itself is also truncated compared to stock Android. Flyme has NO device encryption function (Therefore probably not compatible with Android for Work).
Flyme has practically not usable NFC on phones with NFC and Global Flyme ROM.
Flyme probably has no Doze on Meizu devices with Android 6.0 or higher. At least it does not have the Doze management interface in Settings App, and it's bad.
Only in Flyme 6 the bug with live wallpaper apply activity is fixed (This bug was "No live wallpaper settings button, only wallpaper preview and "Apply" button". Can be noticed on all Flyme 5 ROMs).
Flyme has a messed up Battery drainage stats compared to stock Android. Only in Flyme 6.2.0.0A there are normal Battery stats.

Flyme programmers like also to replace something implemented by stock Android by their own functions. For example, Android low power mode was replaced by Flyme's low power mode.
On Flyme we are also not able to set Pattern lock, cause it's absent. We are also not able to show custom text on lockscreen.
Because of the blur in notifications drawer, the drawer lags, when the screen displaying something dynamic.


NO MEIZU AGAIN! Use Android Open Source Project on your phones, as a ROM. Cause Flyme is really bad thing. Leave Flyme for chinese phones, but remove this piece of trash from global versions of Meizu phones. (However, I'm not sure, that Chinese people like Flyme chinese ROMs. Maybe hate them too, like I am)

We can bomb this forum by messages for replacing Flyme to the AOSP ROM (Leave AOSP unchanged, but adapt it for one-button control. By the way, I like the one-physical-button approach.) But for getting some result of this action a lot of us need to do it at the same time.
And yes, I have the bug, where downloaded pictures in Gallery are not showing, until I reboot the phone, or shoot something on camera.

Yep,  no meizu in the future.  They start well,  but no more.  I think my next phone will be Zte Axon 7 , a beatiful phone with DAC,  and dollby . I bought pro 5 for good hardware specs,  DAC beautiful sound but no dollby.  Bugs have almost any os,  but the brand phone come with new updates quickly , in years quickly .

I've got a Pro 5 64GB. Yes, lots of bugs. E.g. I cannot lower or raise the volume while speaking, because the proximity sensor, by deactivating the screen, disables the volume buttons.

Some other time, the phone restarts without no reason...

I don't have Nougat, si I cannot use several options developed for Android 7.1...

The Pro5 is a great piece of hardware, but there won't be another Meizu after this, sorry.

支持一下。。。

I have official Flyme 6 for chinese phones 6.0.1.0A.
Apart from mentioned bugs there are new. There are two that I really dislike: default apps are changing back to stock apps every day or on restart and time from time phone “cleans” itself deleting documents, photos, other files... So, yeah, much to do and.to fix. And still android 5.1

Device has such amazing specs and still struggling with OS... Just sad...

Totally agree, if there is something more updated Android I and all my family who use these phones will not buy and we will not advise anyone MEIZU. Very upset that that you take Chinese brands at crazy price and at the same time in the ancient android and no update fixes some minor shell, is very low and not nice on their part.

Vorrei provare la flyme 6 sono italiano e ho un bellissimo  meizu pro 5
Aspetto x capire come posso installarla x provarla ok grazie a tutto lo staf

"Meizu never again" should be their catch phrase, it's pretty damn accurate and if there's some users who're thinking about buying a phone from Meizu reading this simply don't, get anything but Meizu.

Anyway I'd like to add that last I've heard was that the dev team actually mostly agree and acknowledge the issues users have found but the higher ups simply do not give a damn about it, and want things done the way THEY decided it'd be instead on working on things users want.. this might be ok in their homeland but never here.

and btw meizu now days, since meizu pro 5 just produce crap phones

meizu pro 6 plus in the end of 2016???

nothing new....

meizu handicap is flyme, chinese brands start to open their eyes and make phones with custom clean roms , not buggy and *** as flyme, miui, etc etc

and flyme is a piece of crap

bad integration with google services

some well know bugs since flyme 4.5 that still the same ( for example the download folder folder in gallery don´t update correct)

notiifications in some devices they work, in others they dont.... for example, in mx4 notifications were working nice, in pro 5, only with pnf root i have all notifications...

flyme for me is better than miui in apps contpatibility but worst in speed optimization or updates

a flasgship from 2015 still have 5.1 in 2017 is total lamme