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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'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?
Pixel is an Android 7 phone from Google manufactured by HTC, Google for some reason decided to piss off their Android vendors by making their own phone, only to make an ugly crap phone selling on the Google brand, not its own feature set.
Google use to make cutting edge phones that drove the feature set of Android, but this one has a middling screen, no SD card support, and no unique selling points as such. It lacks any style, and a lot of the features you'll find in third party Android phones.
It's supposed to be selling well (taking 5% of Verizon's phone sales = 1.7% of US phone sales), if that is the definition of selling well.