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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 DANmode »

hbn wrote: post #145
jacquesm wrote: post #52

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Apple is by no means perfect when it comes to updating devices. https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+ota+update+breaks+phon... There isn't a single manufacturer that consistently gets this right, only different shades of gray.

At the scale Apple operates at, if there's a widespread issue with the iPhone, it will be known. And not just reported about on tech nerd sites, it'll be on major news stations because it's potentially affecting your dad and many people you know. That's why bendgate and antennagate were such famous incidents. If Apple was having hardware and software defects at the rate of recent Pixel phones scaled to the iPhone's m…

Apple users aren't as picky about what their device should be doing, or achieving.

Half the time, they have no perception of, or perspective whatsoever on what's buggier than what they were previously using.

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Post by bitwize »

ravetcofx wrote: post #86
bitwize wrote: post #46

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

Samsung is quite reliable. I really like Dex and their overall multi-tasking capabilities

Too bad they pulled an Other OS with it.

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Post by csdvrx »

summm wrote: post #151
csdvrx wrote: post #67

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> How hard would it be to revert to the previous working version? In Qualcomm EDL firehose mode? Super simple if you have the QPST: the phone is waiting for an image to write to the flash. It's actually waiting for the image to immediately reboot once it's written. But google doesn't release these images, so it's like having computer permanently bricked after the hard drive was corrupted because there's no install me…

Since Pixel 6 Qualcomm is no longer used...

There are several similar formats allowing to do the exact same thing with other chips: I'm most familiar with mediatek, but essentially it's always a read-only bootloader, in case the normal boot can't start.

I can't imagine google forgetting to add an EDL-like reflash mode for their SoC.

I can however imagine them not providing the files needed for the reflash, since that's been true since they used Qualcomm.

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Post by krpl »

morserer wrote: post #159
3np wrote: post #106

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So degoogled GrapheneOS not affected.

Am on degoogled graphene, can confirm, solid as a rock now and since day one. GOS is in a class of its own.

Also on Graphene, everything is working just fine.

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

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Post by apapapa »

viscountchocula wrote: post #17

If you're not yet updated to the January Google Play system, can you keep the phone from auto-updating? I know how to do this for a full Android system update, but not for Google Play Services.

The first thing I do with a new phone is disable all app automatic updates... Hope that also disabled the play store updates

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Post by GeekyBear »

0xblinq wrote: post #98

iPhones are expensive for a reason. Moving from android was the best decision I’ve made tech-wise. If you can afford it, it’s totally worth its value.

An iPhone SE is not expensive and is supported for just as long as the flagship iPhones are.

The OG $399 iPhone SE from 2016 is currently on it's eighth year of security updates, having gotten another update just a week ago. That works out to $50 per supported year.

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Post by iopq »

bradleyishungry wrote: post #112
iopq wrote: post #74

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This isn't true, there are a ton of companies that make lots of money while not being pieces of shit AMD is pretty good at having open source drivers, supporting Linux and Wayland, working with Framework to make an upgradable GPU in laptops.

amd also was sued and settled for price fixing with nvidia in 2008

That was ATI execs emailing Nvidia

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-amd-ati-graphics,63...

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

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Post by 0xblinq »

blashyrk wrote: post #158
0xblinq wrote: post #98

iPhones are expensive for a reason. Moving from android was the best decision I’ve made tech-wise. If you can afford it, it’s totally worth its value.

Or, unpopular opinion, if you don't care about brand and/or cutting edge camera quality, just buy a cheap Xiaomi phone. I have been using the Poco X3 for 3.5 years with absolutely zero issues. Even the battery still holds through an entire day of regular usage. It cost me 1/4 of the price of an iPhone and I get the same if not bigger value for my use cases (bigger in terms of battery life which was laughable back whe…

I’ve had a Xiaomi phone and it was the worst crap I’ve ever had.

I can understand somebody compares a pixel to an iPhone… but the only advantage of a cheap/low tier android phone is that…. They’re cheap.

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