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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 therealfiona »

Loved my Nexus 5x until the high power CPU cores started failing causing instabilities. Loved my pixel 2 until the battery stopped holding a charge. Liked my 4a (it is literally a faster 2 that you can't squeeze to bring up google assistant (the squeeze was my fave feature)) until the April 2023 update that ruined the battery life. They never fixed it. Pixel 7 was suffering the same issues at the time. I made the decision to switch to a Samsung S23+ and not looking back.

Build quality of the Google flagships never have been the best, but they always have issues. I am getting too old to have time to fiddle with this stuff and just want something that works.

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

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Post by sz4kerto »

saintfire wrote: post #35
InCityDreams wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No chance of letting them (your family) decide for themselves?

They're not going to let they're family have green bubbles. If you cared about those around you then you would do the same.

In Europe we just use multi platform messengers :) like Telegram or WhatsApp or something.

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

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Post by Freak_NL »

SushiHippie wrote: post #16
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.

GrapheneOS is what specifically made me buy a Pixel (6 in my case). It's probably the sanest Android distribution available.

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

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Post by bitwize »

therealfiona wrote: post #41

Loved my Nexus 5x until the high power CPU cores started failing causing instabilities. Loved my pixel 2 until the battery stopped holding a charge. Liked my 4a (it is literally a faster 2 that you can't squeeze to bring up google assistant (the squeeze was my fave feature)) until the April 2023 update that ruined the battery life. They never fixed it. Pixel 7 was suffering the same issues at the time. I made the dec…

I hear a small company called Apple is making a viable alternative.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

Ah, another case of OTA murder of perfectly good devices. You have to wonder at what point regulators will step in to ensure that companies end up liable for updates that effectively cost consumers money. Updates should be to make devices safer and better, never worse. One of the devices in our house has been nagging me since forever to update and I'm just about 99% sure that if I do allow it to update I'll end up regretting it. So now I'm facing a tough choice: potentially run a device with a security issue on the network here or play the update game of Russian Roulette (with 5 bullets instead of the normal single one) and hope that I still have a functional device afterwards.

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

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Post by rconti »

newprint wrote: post #26

Pixel owner here. Lately my phone been very slow or acting out. That explains it. Last year or few years ago, Google released update that broke Bluetooth on Pixels. Google's team released the update, broke things, went out for extended Christmas break and fixed things a few months later. I'm not fan of the Apple phones and the fact that they cost a fortune, but I don't recall them putting out hardware breaking update…

I'm sure someone will point out breaking iPhone updates that have happened in the past, but I've never been hit by one. Bad things happen, I think Apple is just REALLY aggressive about pulling updates that break things to limit the impact. That's the most important thing, IMO. Well, that and a fix for the people who got screwed.

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

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Post by HackerThemAll »

seatac76 wrote: post #44

It was stuff like this that made me switch to iPhone. The notable ones were the December bug and them breaking SMS. What sort of testing they use is beyond me.

The funny part is that internally they get the update way earlier than anyone outside, so it should already be spotted.

https://9to5google.com/2017/04/18/google-pixel-xl-ota-dogfoo...

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