Realme GT7 is a $600 SCAM: Stale 6.1.157 Kernel (Oct 2025) & Ancient March 2023 Vulkan Drivers (r44p1)
Never buy this overpriced trash. I bought the GT 7 for 600 bucks thinking it was an absolute beast, but in reality I got heavily tilted by this scam.
Under the hood it's total cringe — there's no such thing as an MTK 9400E in existence, it's literally just the old 9300+ that the devs heavily throttled on the memory bus from 9600 down to 8600 MHz just so this Frankenstein wouldn't melt right out of the box.
The software side is complete insanity: since Nov '25 I was sitting on an ancient 6.1.134 kernel from April 2025, and only in late July '26 do these devs drop patch 6.1.157 on me, which, lol, came out back in OCTOBER 2025. Do you guys realize the scale of this fuckup? The update was stale by 9 months! On top of that, the Vulkan drivers (r44p1) here are straight from MARCH 2023, they literally haven't updated them once. The hardware is severely conflicting with this fossil kernel while outsourced devs are just out here building visual skins and cringe folder animations for us.
Yesterday I tested Where Winds Meet at a pathetic 30 FPS: from a cold start (32°C), the battery shoots up to 45°C in 8 minutes, and in 17 minutes it punches through 48°C! In a 40-minute gaming session, the battery dropped by 30%. Even in Mobile Legends on lowest settings, the battery heats up to 42°C, it's straight-up GG. If you jump into multiplayer in heavy games, the temp will blow past 55°C, battery is dead-ass fried and degraded.
They ship decent optimization for China, but the global version is a total embarrassment. The device is a literal furnace, using it is straight-up dangerous, stay the hell away from Realme!