Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

Post by jstarfish » Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 6:23 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #56

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?

I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up making them money: people will replace their devices with newer ones. Once the device is sold it no longer has a function for the manufacturer until the next sale happens to the same user. So any update that bricks a percentage of the devices (or makes them effectively unusable) may well extract some more $ from the users.

Post by wizzwizz4 » Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 6:26 PM UTC

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #87

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.

> This isn't true Are you misinterpreting the previous comment? They didn't say you HAVE to cut corners to make billions, only that you CAN. EDIT: Oops, I missed the "only" in the other comment"

Post by JAM1971 » Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 6:27 PM UTC

josephcsible wrote: post #102

lacoolj wrote: post #51

Title is super misleading. I have 3 different pixels, all different versions (4, 5a, 7a) and none of them are "unusable" after the update. I'm sure others are having issues, but this isn't something that's bricking everyone's phones.

Are you sure they all got the Google Play system update, and that you're not confusing it with the Android security update?

Post by jacquesm » Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 6:30 PM UTC

leto_ii wrote: post #88

jacquesm wrote: post #71

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With three phones and a one-in-eight chance of being unaffected (assuming 50% for each phone) that still leaves a very large number of phones out there that are potentially affected. 100's of millions of devices. The article is pretty clear that it doesn't seem to affect every phone, but that there are numerous complaints. I'm always imagining 'Some' in front of headlines like these unless it says 'All'.

> With three phones and a one-in-eight chance of being affected (assuming 50% for each phone) 1/8 would be the chance to have all 3 affected. The chance of having at least one affected would be 1-1/8.

Post by jacquesm » Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 6:31 PM UTC

csdvrx wrote: post #95

jacquesm wrote: post #76

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Nice sleuthing! It's incredible to me that there is no bullet proof recovery mode for this, even something as dumb as an Arduino can recover from almost every form of abuse.

> It's incredible to me that there is no bullet proof recovery mode for this, even something as dumb as an Arduino can recover from almost every form of abuse. There's a bullet proof recovery mode, check my comment below ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145490 ) where I detail the steps and provide links. The EDL firehose mode is just the phone showing up on a very unique USB-ID and waiting to be spoon fed th…