Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
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Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
#2"...in Australia"
How is this not a S1 P0 that requires an emergency hot patch from Google? AU should ban pixel phone sales until this is fixed.
Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
#3This problem is apparently years old and happens in many countries. Given the liability associated I'm surprised Google hasn't fixed it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/wpirx8/had_an_...
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Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
#4Does anyone have details on the internals of Google's customer support orgs? They seem to have taken to heart compliance with only bare minimum legal requirements over the past four or five years.
And given that it's now also impossible to engage support on Facebook to fix account issues (I was locked out of my Oculus Quest 2 after attempting to merge my Oculus dev account with the Facebook account I closed in 2006), I wonder if it's time again to legislate higher standards for "support".
Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
#5Interesting, this is why I switched from android to apple ~ 5 years ago.
I was expecting a very important phone call for the outcome of the surgery of a person very close to me.
The smartphone, the Samsung galaxy S7 edge, finally rang, and I was trying to answer the the call, but no, android was doing something more important in the background, the whole UI was frozen and the phone call banner was not responding to touch. Finally, the phone rebooted by itself, and then it was back to normal. But my call was missed.
I did not get to listen to my person, because my android smartphone, was more smart and less phone.
Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
#6The Pixel 6 is an overhyped disappointment. I replaced my old super-cheap Android One phone with a Pixel 6 and it's full of hardware / software bugs: GPS has problems, I see graphics artefacts (GPU problems?) and Google doesn't care.
I'm not surprised at all it has such a problem.
I should have bought an iPhone SE.
Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
#7Whoa. My spouse was unable to dial 911 in the US once (probably the only time it was tried on that phone). Thankfully it wasn't a life-or-death, get-me-to-the-ER emergency and we just used my phone (Pixel 3). We thought it was an isolated bug on just that phone but this sounds super dangerous now.
How can this still exist?
Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
#8Remember when Microsoft Teams on Android, a userland application, would block emergency calls? [1] Guess the asinine emergency call system still isn't properly fixed after that incident.
[1] https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/11496917?hl=en (Pretty sure there was a big thread here, but somehow can't find it now.)
Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
#9The Pixel 6 is an overhyped disappointment. I replaced my old super-cheap Android One phone with a Pixel 6 and it's full of hardware / software bugs: GPS has problems, I see graphics artefacts (GPU problems?) and Google doesn't care. I'm not surprised at all it has such a problem. I should have bought an iPhone SE.
Oh, so that's why my Pixel 6 always thinks I'm 50 feet to the right of my current location.
Re: Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
#10The Pixel 6 is an overhyped disappointment. I replaced my old super-cheap Android One phone with a Pixel 6 and it's full of hardware / software bugs: GPS has problems, I see graphics artefacts (GPU problems?) and Google doesn't care. I'm not surprised at all it has such a problem. I should have bought an iPhone SE.
I've been a happy pixel user for years after getting burned with some cheap Android phones, most notably One Plus.
The Pixel 6 is an unmitigated clusterfuck. GPS/Maps locking up is the worst. Either wont load or will lock up during a trip and you will miss a turn. Try rebooting a phone while you're alone on a motorway, then having to type in your route again - super dangerous.
I've had the camera (video) lock up mid scene. Focus locks up. Fingerprint recognition is a fail 25-50% of the time.
These have been known issues since release, I made the now incorrect assumption these were natural bugs that would be fixed over time.
Pixel 6 is the last phone from Google I will own. Not sure I want to jump to iOS yet but things are looking increasingly bleak in the Android garden