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Some Pixels Have Problems (techtimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Tech Times:
Pixel owners have so far reported on camera issues, audio issues, LTE band 4 connectivity problems and others, but the random freezing remains among the most persistent ones. While most previous issues have already received a fix, users have been complaining about the Google Pixel or Pixel XL randomly freezing since November and it seems Google has yet to get to the bottom of this. The official Pixel User Community forum has a long thread on the matter and the discussion started a good while back [in early November]...
[U]sers reporting on the Pixel Community Forum run different apps and they haven't found a common denominator just yet, and some don't have any third-party apps at all, further suggesting that the issue might not be caused by a third-party app. On the other hand, some Pixel owners got rid of this issue by uninstalling a third-party app called Live360 Family Locator, but others didn't even have the app installed and still experienced the issues.
Despite the problems, "most Pixel owners thus far have been quite pleased with their device," notes BGR -- though Softpedia also reports on some users complaining about "static and distorted sounds when at the three highest volume levels."
[U]sers reporting on the Pixel Community Forum run different apps and they haven't found a common denominator just yet, and some don't have any third-party apps at all, further suggesting that the issue might not be caused by a third-party app. On the other hand, some Pixel owners got rid of this issue by uninstalling a third-party app called Live360 Family Locator, but others didn't even have the app installed and still experienced the issues.
Despite the problems, "most Pixel owners thus far have been quite pleased with their device," notes BGR -- though Softpedia also reports on some users complaining about "static and distorted sounds when at the three highest volume levels."
I thought the main benefit of a Google phone was that it worked well, and tended to be cheap.
This one isn't cheap, and doesn't work well.
Kid-proof tablet..
An Indian company seems to he done better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I was looking at my monitor looking for dead pixels and wondering how you would know which pixels are dead?
Could we please maybe add a FUCKING SENTENCE to describe what the FUCK you are talking about!?
Freezegate?
The Pixel I was stuck with had Sandler in it
I'm on a different Android phone and recently upgraded to the latest version of Android and dealing with freezes and extreme sluggishness almost daily.
the OS is just suspending all other operations while it uploads the user's GPS logs, current location, browser history, pics and app data back to google's servers and then it resumes operation. Sometimes the uploads can be quite large so the freezing can sometimes be onerous...
Geez people, get with the "program". You are the product being marketed afterall, inconviences to you are not important. Who uses their "smart" phone to actually make calls nowadays?
early adopter tax
Smartphones are complex. A few examples of any given model will have problems. iPhone, Galaxy, Pixel, all of them. Does anyone know what typical problem rates are? Are the problem rates for Pixel phones close to typical? If so, there's nothing notable to see here.
I've had the same problem on my Nexus 6P since a few months. It doesn't happen often (at most once or twice per week) so it's not overly problematic, but when it does it completely freezes the device until some watchdog kicks in and it reboots itself.
When will people realize that Google are far behind on the learning curve for making hardware? In Silicon Valley it used to be that, if you were 2 weeks behind when releasing your product, you had already lost the market to your competitors. This is also why in the '80s tech companies chose not to patent their technology, just to gain time. No matter how hard they try, Google are so far behind Apple that they will never catch up. "Keep trying" may be good enough to make investors happy but that's about it.
My Pixel XL is my 7th Google phone (G1, Nexus One, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 6, Pixel XL) and this is the first one to not have odd quirks, and in fact I've only had to reboot it once and had one crash/reboot since I've gotten it. By far, it's been the most stable so far.
It's also been more stable than both my Nexus 7 and 10, which were themselves far more stable than any of the phones.
I have told every one for half a century that RGB sucks, no one paid atention.
Now you got pixels with problems! Now the bits of those 24bit color codes are in your hands!!
I'll bet it's a memory issue. I remember a while back that early GoPro cameras were freezing for no reason and one of the prime suspects was a poorly coded app that was requesting a block of memory, but never checking to see if it was successful.
She has no issues with her phone. There's no guarantee of consistency between different phones of the same model.
My Pixel works great. I've had it since release and I've had one restart... and that is pretty much it. It is light years better than my Nexus 6.
Dead pixels have no problems cos they are dead.
My pixel is working great. I'm glad I'm not hit by whatever this bug is.
"[We'll be] really getting inside your head and making it an unpleasant place to be" -- Trent Reznor
My pixel has crashed once on the Google Assistant. Other than that, no major issues. I changed from iPhone because of the 1) headphone jack, 2) iTunes is a dreadful experience, and 3) Apple destroyed their music app.
Copying music became super easy with drag and drop from Linux and Windows, and the Music app works fine. What I hate about the Pixel or Android:
1) Google music app has no gapless playback? Really? 2016?
2) When connected to bluetooth, all audio needs to go over bluetooth. Apparently, the OS does not know to send voicemail over the car speakers. The iPhone did this flawlessly.
My Nexus 5X (latest Android update available) goes into bouts of unresponsiveness sometimes. It comes back in about 2-5 minutes without a reboot, but it just goes into a coma for no reason once in a while. Most of the time it's when I wake it up - i.e. when I actually need to use it. So far I didn't get this in a critical situation, but I expect that will happen at some point - say, when I need to use Android Pay to pay for something (oops, my phone froze, sorry).
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
The company that popularized the Internet search engine (once again) deliberately named a product line after one of the most common words on the Internet, rendering it beyond impossible for anyone to reliably connect with other people discussing it except by direct navigation to a specific place where (they suspect) discussions might be happening.
GOOGLE PRODUCT NAMING MEETING TRANSCRIPT REVEALED
They're at Google --- They Are Google --- and the moment is come. It happened on the Day of the Stupid in a round table and there are probably a half-dozen people gathered around a table.
"I think we should call it THE. No consumer product has ever been called THE. We'd be famous, it's a win!"
"I like single letters. They're short and sweet and we'd get, like, free advertising is we called it 'A'. A is already out there and it would tie directly into our a. Don't even capitalize it or anything."
"I like dot. Not the nasty word but the simple . We could promote it like 'the end of discussion, get a . or say something like what's better than a Google . ? Why ... of course!"
"Look we know we don't want to be one of those uncool companies that make up a word like 'Syzlyt'. The trendy thing today is to pick the most common dictionary words in the net universe and re-task them to show how badass you are. So while these are all excellent suggestions, [pat pat pat], I think we'll go with 'Pixel'. After all, it has pixels see ...? Am I right? Am I right? Tell me I'm right!"
[all together] "You're right."
[concerned voice] "Um people... I just did a Google search on the word 'piixxel' Only ~8,000 hits and there seems to be NO products out there tied to it. We can do interesting typographical things with it, make some clever logos and people will take to the double-i double-x spelling immediately. It has all the advantages of 'pixel' yet everyone who discusses it will leave a great trail in the indexes. Folks will be able to drill searches down quickly and accurately..."
[another voice] "Shut the fuck up! Who let you in here? Get out!!"
[another voice] "That doesn't work you know. I just typed 'piixxel' into a search like you did and Google said, "Did you really mean 'pixel'? You didn't mention that! That PROVES that 'piixxel' is BAD idea. Am I right? Am I right?"
[all together] "You're right."
[concerned voice] "What... are you people all idiots?? Do you really want to create a product with a name so generic that people won't even be able to reliably find information about it??"
[embarrassed silence, murmur] "Yes."
TRANSCRIPT ENDS.
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
Sadly, this has been my experience with Android in general. I gave up on it.