Got my first Nexus 6p Yesterday. Not impressed!

The Google Now screen is not a feature of Marshmallow, it's a feature of the Google Now Launcher. It's been that way for quite awhile. There are a large number of third-party launchers you can use instead if you don't like that feature. I use and recommend Nova Launcher, but there are other good ones out there as well.

Backup of app settings is a new feature in Marshmallow, so since you were using an earlier version on your previous phone, they were not backed up in the cloud. Going forward that should be fixed.

SMS messages and the like have to be transferred manually. Depending on your previous phone, there should be a way to export them and then import the file to the new phone.

As far as the design of the phone goes there's not much anyone can do about.

However, If you are trying to add home screens I would recommend that you try Nova Launcher. It's completely customizable and it's been the only launcher I've used for years now.

For your email accounts I would add them all into gmail and then when you go into the menu in the gmail app there will be a button for "All Inboxes" and you can click that and have all emails from all inboxed linked to the gmail app show up ot you can tap on the email address at the top of the menu and select the specific email address you are looking for.

As far as the application settings go you are generally $hit out of luck there. If you're coming from an older version of Android there's not much you can do.

I'm surprised to hear that hangouts doesn't sync your voice mails and texts that are sent to you through your google voice number (this is important because the texts that were sent to you through your main phone number don't actually go through hangouts. They remain on the phone and hangouts just reads the information and presents it to you). If you want to transfer your texts I would recommend an app called SMS backup and Restore. It's free. basically one you create the backup from in the app transfer the file over to your 6P open the app on your 6P and tap restore and select the file (you may need to tell it where to look for the file in the app menu). I normally tell the program where to save the file so I know where it is and then email the file to myself. I then open the email on my new phone and save the file.

Hope this helps!

Seems the use of 3rd party launcher will clear up some of your issues. As others have mentioned, thats just the google now launcher, not marshmallow. Its pretty light on features.

The bezels are pretty large, but thats something I think will take some getting used to for me as well.

You can tell gmail not to notify you for email on Yahoo and then just check it manually

For backup and restore of calls, messages etc, i recommend Super Backup

Another one here who recommends Nova Launcher... I've found it has the features I find most useful without adding bloat. I've always used titanium backup in the past to restore data but as I'm going to try going rootless for a while with the 6p once I get it, I'll have to check out Super Backup. Thanks Omar Days for the rec.

zerowind said:

Another one here who recommends Nova Launcher... I've found it has the features I find most useful without adding bloat. I've always used titanium backup in the past to restore data but as I'm going to try going rootless for a while with the 6p once I get it, I'll have to check out Super Backup. Thanks Omar Days for the rec.

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For simple things like sms, call logs, and contacts if you dont use google already to back them up, it does the job perfect. Can back up to cloud storage too. Could do with an updated look though. Looks like it's designed for Android doughnut

I didn't realize the SIM cards were different. While removing the SIM card from my G2, the tray that held it jettisoned somewhere and I can't locate it. Now I have two devices that are useless. I will get a new SIM card today, but until then, I can't make any calls.

zerowind said:

Another one here who recommends Nova Launcher... I've found it has the features I find most useful without adding bloat. I've always used titanium backup in the past to restore data but as I'm going to try going rootless for a while with the 6p once I get it, I'll have to check out Super Backup. Thanks Omar Days for the rec.

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At least unlock the bootloader. That's the first thing I did.

Sooo, is this phone worth getting because I'm stuck with this damn Lg F60.

When I do get the Nexus 6p how will I change it to metro?