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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 summm »

csdvrx wrote: post #67
curt15 wrote: post #28

Doesn't Android use A/B updates these days? How hard would it be to revert to the previous working version? https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/ab

> 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...

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

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Post by trog »

ijhuygft776 wrote: post #135
channel_t wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I can't say that I have noticed anything out of the ordinary yet on my Pixel 7, I will say that I have been a diehard Google phone user since the Nexus 4 days and have been really disappointed with how things have turned out with the more recent iterations of Google phones. Terrible battery life, bugs, poor quality fingerprint readers, questionable design decisions in general. The phones used to be a fairly rea…

Not really a Google fan, but the fingerprint reader on my Pixel 7a is much better then it was on my Pixel 5, when it works.

My 7a is better than my 6a, but they're both very poor compared to the dedicated scanner on my Pixel 3 (which was also able to be used for actions, like pulling down notification bar). I miss it a lot.

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

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Post by meloddo »

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…

Once my girlfriend's apple watch became a $300 bracelet after an iOS update broke the watch app on her Iphone (wouldn't open). Without the app, the watch was completely unusable. And, after looking into it, this issue had been reported to Apple 4-5 months prior where Apple supposedly immediately fixed it with another update. However, my gf and multiple forums online still had the issue and Apple refused to address it (I assume they quietly fixed it in a later update).

The only way to fix it was to back up her phone and factory reset, and if we hadn't done that who knows how long it would have been before she could use the watch.

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

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Post by fletchowns »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #116
fletchowns wrote: post #91

I installed the update on my Pixel 7 but I haven't experienced the issues described in the article. However, I am back to having to re-pair my Garmin Venu 2 Plus watch every day after some Pixel update a few months ago. It was broken in early 2023, then they fixed it, then broke it again :( https://www.reddit.com/r/GarminWatches/comments/12hpk0c/venu... I can't help but think they do it deliberately, in order to driv…

Ah, so. I'm not the only one. In my case I actually can't properly pair the device at all. I hadn't used my watch (Fenix 6 X) in many months, and last time I used it was with another phone. I went to pair with my Pixel on Android 14 and the actual bluetooth pairing works fine -- shows up in the list of Bluetooth devices -- but the Garmin app refuses to add it, thinks it can't talk to it. So the phone / watch connecti…

I always have to go to the gear menu on my phone, Connections -> Connectivity -> Phone -> Pair Phone to put it in pairing mode in order for the Garmin Connect app to detect it. The bluetooth pairing alone is never enough for me, it seems to pair successfully but then like you mentioned, the app never talks to it.

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

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Post by wrboyce »

dvnguyen wrote: post #122
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 don't see myself switching to an Android phone but iPhone updates do break things. Since upgrading to latest iOS, both my phone (personal and work) keyboards are unusable if I enable both English and Vietnamese keyboards. Looks like there's a bug in their keyboard prediction engine. It's been 4 months and I don't see they fix it yet.

How is this bug manifesting? Do you mean literally unusable or something less serious but irritating? I ask because I have English and Spanish keyboards on my phone and don’t think I’ve noticed anything.

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

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

fletchowns wrote: post #155
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, so. I'm not the only one. In my case I actually can't properly pair the device at all. I hadn't used my watch (Fenix 6 X) in many months, and last time I used it was with another phone. I went to pair with my Pixel on Android 14 and the actual bluetooth pairing works fine -- shows up in the list of Bluetooth devices -- but the Garmin app refuses to add it, thinks it can't talk to it. So the phone / watch connecti…

I always have to go to the gear menu on my phone, Connections -> Connectivity -> Phone -> Pair Phone to put it in pairing mode in order for the Garmin Connect app to detect it. The bluetooth pairing alone is never enough for me, it seems to pair successfully but then like you mentioned, the app never talks to it.

Oh, I'm doing the pair process through the Garmin Connect app. I put the watch into pairing mode, then go to the app. The app sees the watch, then Android prompts for the bluetooth pairing code. That succeeds, the app goes into some sort of state of talking to the watch -- the watch switches to showing a little logo for the app even -- but then the app cacks out saying the pairing was not successful.

Something is going wrong with some internal state transitions, or it loses connectivity while doing some sort of data sync or something.

Sketchy.

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

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Post by blashyrk »

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 when I still used an iPhone 6, don't know if things have gotten better now).

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

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Post by morserer »

3np wrote: post #106
e12e wrote: post #77

> The issue is being reported by owners of numerous Pixel models, including the Google Pixel 5, 6, 6a, 7, 7a, 8, and 8 Pro, suggesting that it isn't confined to a particular hardware architecture. > The root cause is unknown but is likely a software issue with the January 2024 Play system update that Google hasn't pinpointed or fixed yet. > If you are still on an older update (last was November 1, 2023), it is recomm…

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.

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