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Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

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Re: Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

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Post by fooblaster »

blibble wrote: post #2

Android is just awful in terms of reliability I find it hard to believe anyone working for Google on Android actually uses an Android phone as their personal device I suffered all of: phone reboots 50% of the time using the camera, assistant won't answer sometimes, phone calls lock up the phone, alarm clock randomly doesn't work, it just goes on and on I had the original Android phone with Android 1.0 and had bought…

I have used a pixel 4a and pixel 6a for many years now and haven't had any of these issues. It sounds like potentially had defective hardware, and instead of getting it repaired you just lived with it.

Re: Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

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Post by blibble »

blibble wrote: post #2

Android is just awful in terms of reliability I find it hard to believe anyone working for Google on Android actually uses an Android phone as their personal device I suffered all of: phone reboots 50% of the time using the camera, assistant won't answer sometimes, phone calls lock up the phone, alarm clock randomly doesn't work, it just goes on and on I had the original Android phone with Android 1.0 and had bought…

apparently I can't edit my own comment now

but for context the unreliability was always on the official Google flagship device using the update pushed to me OTA

no betas, no rooting, nothing

plain Google official Android on the official flagship device

and it sucked, hard, for multiple different devices over years

(and my family suffer the same pain on their devices too)

Re: Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

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Post by SushiHippie »

blibble wrote: post #2

Android is just awful in terms of reliability I find it hard to believe anyone working for Google on Android actually uses an Android phone as their personal device I suffered all of: phone reboots 50% of the time using the camera, assistant won't answer sometimes, phone calls lock up the phone, alarm clock randomly doesn't work, it just goes on and on I had the original Android phone with Android 1.0 and had bought…

GrapheneOS is literally the only thing that's keeping me on android. It has been really realiable for me, way more reliable than Samsungs or Google Pixels Android ROM.

Though if GrapheneOS dies my next option will probably a linux phone, as I'll never get along with iOS.

Re: Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

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Post by jeffbee »

blibble wrote: post #12
blibble wrote: post #2

Android is just awful in terms of reliability I find it hard to believe anyone working for Google on Android actually uses an Android phone as their personal device I suffered all of: phone reboots 50% of the time using the camera, assistant won't answer sometimes, phone calls lock up the phone, alarm clock randomly doesn't work, it just goes on and on I had the original Android phone with Android 1.0 and had bought…

apparently I can't edit my own comment now but for context the unreliability was always on the official Google flagship device using the update pushed to me OTA no betas, no rooting, nothing plain Google official Android on the official flagship device and it sucked, hard, for multiple different devices over years (and my family suffer the same pain on their devices too)

It seems to me that the flagship device requires the beta. I had to enable beta QPRs to get features that are in the advertisements of the Pixel 8 Pro. Those features didn't exist out of the box, which was confusing.

Re: Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

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Post by shadowgovt »

jeffbee wrote: post #8
jacek wrote: post #3

That's not the first story like this. It seems like more and more often the QA is done by users who have not signed up for it. Why can't a multibillion company do a proper QA?

The fact that they have the ability to roll this out to a handful of users, all of whose devices stopped working, and to detect that and not proceed with the rollout is considered success, by them.

And, indeed, this rollout generally is done after in-house testing.

So something's likely up where folks in the wild have their phones configured in a way Googlers don't.

Re: Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

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Post by jeffbee »

refulgentis wrote: post #4
blibble wrote: post #2

Android is just awful in terms of reliability I find it hard to believe anyone working for Google on Android actually uses an Android phone as their personal device I suffered all of: phone reboots 50% of the time using the camera, assistant won't answer sometimes, phone calls lock up the phone, alarm clock randomly doesn't work, it just goes on and on I had the original Android phone with Android 1.0 and had bought…

About 3/4 use Android, but very few have the courage to run recent builds. It's been a frustration point up the ladder, because they feel the ~same as you: why are they the only ones filing bugs? But it's not that. It's decayed internal culture. There's other stuff around the margins they could change*, but, the rot is deep and unlikely to be fixed. Too focused on...non-business objectives...to be effective. Too cruc…

They used to just give everyone a Nexus every year.
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