> After turning on, it starts applying security updates. Good. One month at a time. There are many months. This is bad. I have the same experience with a Pixel

> After turning on, it starts applying security updates. Good. One month at a time. There are many months. This is bad. I have the same experience with a Pixel. Today I bought a heavily discounted brand new Pixel 2, because I wanted to try (pure) Android (and migrate to pure AOSP afterwards). After booting the device, I was downloading updates for 6 hours while doing nothing else. I really wanted to like this phone, as I don't like iOS either. But I was disappointed. Not a polished experience at all. First many updates of applications. Fine. Quite quick. Then updating Android 8 to 9. Quite quick too. Then an insane loop of installing nth security update and rebooting. Why can't I get a fresh image in a single step? [1] Especially given that this is a flagship device from Google itself? Furthermore, the process is really slow and full of glitches. Sometimes updates would stop downloading because there was phone activity, yet I never touched the phone throughout the process. After every update, my phone would spend a lot of time and energy "optimizing apps" (bytecompiling?) only to request rebooting and doing the same thing again and again. Very wasteful. Lastly, I never got any notification once updates where installed and a reboot was necessary. So I had to keep checking to speed up the process. Updating from Android 8 to 9 was quick, but there was also a serious glitch I didn't mention. I don't have a wireless connection, just LTE. For some time, there was no option to force the update to be downloaded using LTE! After installing some app or rebooting, suddenly an option to go ahead and use LTE showed up in the same window where previously there was none. Also, the default settings in my out-of-the-box Pixel 2 out drained battery quite quickly, which I found shocking. Only after disabling NFC, bluetooth, location services and a few other things battery consumption was quite reasonable. I think also lots of services were initially polling for updates, and this drained energy. [1] Apparently you can do this with adb. Many other users have had the same frustrating experience, though: https://reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/b04yxp/brand_new_pixel_2_xl_followed_by_6_hours/ https://reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/b04yxp/brand_new_p...