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Some Pixels Have Problems (techtimes.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the Android-issues dept.

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."

12 of 69 comments (clear)

  1. WTF? by adolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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    Kid-proof tablet..
    1. Re:WTF? by Higaran · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Yes, google really screwed up on this year, they literally built a iphone clone, running android, and got rid off all the things that made their phones great, including the name.

  2. What the hell is a "Pixel"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!?

    1. Re:What the hell is a "Pixel"? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 2

      Wow. Like you couldn't discern from the first sentence that a device having a camera, audio, and LTE Band 4 capabilities, sharing the name of one of the most-hyped phones of the year, was a phone? You must either be an idiot or a troll. Although I did like the spittle-flecked shouting of your faux outrage.

      You're getting little froth on your keyboard as well, muchacho. The summary wasn't well written, and not all of us are born knowing everything. One less espresso in the morning might be indicated.

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      The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
    2. Re:What the hell is a "Pixel"? by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 2

      Wow. Like you couldn't discern from the first sentence that a device having a camera, audio, and LTE Band 4 capabilities, sharing the name of one of the most-hyped phones of the year, was a phone? You must either be an idiot or a troll.

      I'm with him.

      What's so hard about making the headline "Some Pixel Phones Have Problems"? With just six more keystrokes the problem completely goes away.

      My time is precious. When I'm reading the slashdot front page I don't want to have to read a whole paragraph and do a bunch of reasoning to determine whether this is an article I want to skip or spend still more time digging into. I want it immediately apparent what the HELL the article is about, so I can move on.

      I suspect many of Slashdot's other approximately three MILLION monthly unique users feel the same way.

      If a fraction of a minute spent by ONE person, making the title and/or first sentence clear as to the subject, saves an average of a minute each for three million readers, it saves 25 MAN YEARS of effort. That's the bulk of the productive time of an entire career.

      So do humanity a favor and spend the moment when posting.

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  3. The problem could be Android by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  4. Typical problem rate for smartphones? by yobtah · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  5. The downfall of RGB begins!! by joao.cordeiro · · Score: 2

    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!!

  6. Re:Not just Pixel by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    it's not overly problematic, but when it does it completely freezes the device until some watchdog kicks in and it reboots itself.

    Reboots itself? Luxury! Why, in my day we had to hold the power button down for five seconds.

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  7. Re:Pixel by TheFakeTimCook · · Score: 2, Insightful

    An Indian company seems to he done better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    And an American Company has done even better.

  8. Re:oh no by Osgeld · · Score: 2

    the 1 month old phone retard

  9. I have a Pixel by javajeff · · Score: 2

    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.