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Some Google Pixel Devices Are Shutting Down At 30% Battery (androidauthority.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Authority: It seems that some Pixel devices are affected by the same infamous shutdown bug that plagued the Nexus 6P where the device would prematurely turn off at 25 to 35 percent. The Huawei Nexus 6P has finally received the Nougat update. But ever since, Google's last ever Nexus device has been on the news, and for all the wrong reasons. Among the problems was a shutdown bug: the phone would shut down when the battery is at 30 percent or so. Well, it looks like the issue isn't unique to those Nexus 6P users. A few Reddit users are reporting that their Pixel devices are also suffering from the same shutdown bug. Some Pixel phones would prematurely shut down at or around 30 percent and would not turn back on until a charger is connected. A user by the name of vrski_15, who started the thread explains: "Twice in last 5 days, has the phone shutdown abruptly while I am in middle of something. In both instances, battery was between 25-35%, and the phone under normal conditions should have lasted for at least next 3-4 hours." With the Nexus 6P, Huawei first ruled that this was not a hardware problem but a software-related one. However, users found that the problem persisted even after downgrading to Android Marshmallow. This led Huawei to investigate further with Google, and although the company hasn't revealed the cause yet, it is probably related to the problem that these Pixel users have been experiencing.
So send it back. It is defective.
Really? You don't have to copy everything Apple does.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Hold the phone right you idiots!
I wish that Google released a real Nexus 5 replacement. I'm talking about an affordable and reasonably-sized device. After I used my Nexus 5 to destruction (it actually held up better than any other phone I've ever had) I looked at their newer devices, but they were all too big or too expensive for what you get. I had to get an iPhone, but I hate it. I really wish that Google releases a real Nexus 5 successor, and that it quits throwing these big and costly phones our way.
Jesus H Christ, these Trump fanatic retards...
Same AC here. I apologize for my incredibly stupid post. Clinton was clearly the better candidate and deserves to win the election. We're it not for meddling by the Russians and an antiquated electoral college, Clinton would have been the clear and deserving winner. I'm sorry for making such a stupid post, and I will work to improve the quality of my posts. Clinton was clearly the better candidate, though it's not hard to be better than a clueless buffoon like Trump.
This submission being at the top of the /. front page proves you are wrong.
Um, you realize the topic of the story you're commenting on right?
". We're it not for meddling "
WE ARE it not for meddling? What is it about the apostrophe that seems so complex?
No, I'm Spartacus.
No *I* am the original AC.
Will the real AC please stand up. We're gonna have a problem here.
Hey beauhd ... just a reminder... Clinton lost. Have a nice day.
...and I thought it was just me. I have been having the premature battery shutdown problem ever since I installed Nougat. I just assumed the battery was getting tired.
My Samsung phone does the same thing
My nexus 4 did that some times too. I thought it was mostly due to the battery being old (it is an old fone anyway), but other times it would run all the way down to 3% just fine. There's too many reasons or factors that could cause it like overheating or just some app causing some huge error. Or maybe it has some issue with the rom. Actually now thinking about it I don't think i've had the issue on my Nexus since I flashed it to Chroma.
Others have pointed out the silliness of saying this in a Pixel thread, but if you need to know why Apple always gets brought up, here's why: when you compare Apple to Android, you are comparing a lesser market share to a greater one. But when you compare any given phone, the Apple one is the only one that matters.
The Galaxy Note 7 sold about a million.
Everything I can find about the Google Pixel shows them hopefully selling between 3 and 5 million units, but I can't find actuals.
The iPhone 7, Apple hid the numbers on. It's still predicted to have hit about 60-80 million units shipped already.
Any given Apple phone will outsell any given competitor by at least an order of magnitude, and often two orders of magnitude. So if the Samsung Brown Note 35 literally makes your toes fall off, that's smaller news than the iPhone 8 having a dead pixel.
There's a very remote possibility that Sanders can still get elected. If something were to happen to trump, Nanci Pelosi would get to decide to the next president. There's no love loss between her can Clinton, let me tell you. Sanders would become the next president.
You're a moron. If Trump died, the Republican-led House would pick the next President.
If Pence died as well, the Republican-led Senate would pick the Vice President.
It was the same price as the Nexus 5. Besides, if you wan't a good low cost phone you should look at OnePlus.
Google are a bunch of amateurs when it comes to software. My nexus 5 had more problems in one month than my iphone in a year. And my iphone se isn't that much more expensive than a nexus 5. Shoddy engineers create shoddy products. There is a reason Google gives thing away for free. They can't charge money fo those shoddy services.
cause android makers accept mistakes and hold themselves accountable, apple is arrogant and tells us we are holding it wrong
now shut the fuck billy
are my guess for the reason. For lack of a car analogy. Different waves, superimposed, randomly causing monster waves.
Or in terms of the phone, various consumers with non-steady load, pulling randomly higher currents at one time or another, all happening to do it at the same time, causing some voltage drop that is detected as an empty battery.
Because Android is not Apple.
Apple is a wall garden filled with scumbags that is just trying to squeeze you dry.
Android on the other hand and especially Google are just people who try to do the right thing but do make some honest mistakes. That's how open source is supposed to work.
How can you blame Android? Apple on the other hand charges a premium so they better make sure they are light years ahead to justify their evil deeds.
Maybe they discharge at 30%, but they charge to 130%! With some recent battery innovations, they may be able to reach 150% of charge and shut down at 50%!!!!
Will the Real AC please stand up Please stand up.
That not it. The headlines just report the issue. The hate is all in the comments so no, being reported does not justify your point.
Read the comments thread. See how much ridiculous Apple hate there is on an Android defect thread.
I'm an Android user, but man these comments are way overboard and really juvenile.
Because This is slashdot and we are nerds.
If you're an iPhone user sorry it's not your club.
Go back to your hipster cafe.
Now get off my lawn (which is in my mother's basement).
I owned a nexus 6p until i replaced it with a pixel xl, at which point i gave the 6p to my dad and neither device has ever had this issue. Not only that I've never even heard of this issue until now.
You heard it here first: Next year's phones will be thicker so people will shut the hell up about battery life.
Well that and to make Trump's baby hands look even smaller.
Recently my Nexus 5 has been doing this as well. Shuts off with between 30% & 50% battery and I can't get it stay on until I plug it into a charger. Then it's OK for a day or so, then we do it again.
I wonder if the people suffering from this problem are being targeted with a stingray, or some other covert baseband functionality that's draining the battery faster than regular usage would account for. This would potentially be invisible to the OS and its battery hooks, since the baseband processor operates at a lower level.
I have a Motorola Nexus 6 (not 6p) recently on 7/nougat. Reflashed with newest Google image last week. I also have a 2nd gen Nexus 7, running marshmallow. Neither have exhibited this fysyhfyexhb%73CARRIERLOST
Silence is a state of mime.
For fucks sake. Clinton lost. Will it take much longer for you guys to shut up about HRC?
There's nothing good to say about Trump, so they have to keep saying bad things about Clinton to justify their shitty decisions.
Clinton ran a campaign based on "I'm not Trump". That was her entire platform, and it wasn't enough to be elected. That says a lot about her.
lucm, indeed.
Yeah that's like when Noam Chomsky complained on the Larry King show that the mainstream media was boycotting him.
lucm, indeed.
The headlines about Apple are always biased, like "Apple working with Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro's Battery Issue" while the real story was that Apple marketing said there was no problem and Consumer Reports was doing their test wrong.
In this case, some dude on Reddit says he has problems with his Pixel and the headline is "Some Google Pixel Devices Are Shutting Down at 30% Battery".
No wonder smart people find that irritating.
lucm, indeed.
So if the Samsung Brown Note 35 literally makes your toes fall off, that's smaller news than the iPhone 8 having a dead pixel.
The fact that Apple makes $400 per iPhone while Samsung is making $23 per device (that mysteriously sell for about $400 less than iPhones) also matters.
Like people who still defend Bill Cosby or those women who send marriage proposals to serial killers on death row, the typical Apple fanboi who cheers Apple for taking their money (and making "90% of the profit in this market") is a fascinating social phenomenon.
lucm, indeed.
If you're an iPhone user sorry it's not your club.
Go back to your hipster cafe.
I don't think hipsters use iPhones nowadays. Real hipsters drive vintage Volvo and make their own deodorant using fair trade, earth-friendly ingredients; their phone is more likely to be from an underdog like Blackberry, or a custom/specialized Android statement like the Ektra.
lucm, indeed.
For some reason now that the results are set in stone and we think that we can finally get on with our lives no matter who we voted for....
Obama decided to start provoking Trump needlessly and using the powers he had but not used for the last 8 years.
Ok I was an Obama supporter for a Long time... but recently he's starting to behaving like trump and we once again cannot tell what the hell all these shit is about.
Saying he would have won if he could run a third term? WTF? I can imagine Trump claiming all sorts of what ifs, but now even Obama is acting all Juvenile
Clinton ran a campaign based on "I'm not Trump". That was her entire platform, and it wasn't enough to be elected. That says a lot about her.
Yes, but it says nothing whatsoever about Trump.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Shit it's the hippisters! Hipsters and Hipsters are coming full circle!
Now go back to your tree!
I'm a hard code user of Android smartphones but very unhappy with Google devices. I've owned a Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 and the hardware is just not good.. Lots of battery issues with both of them and issue with the power button and boot loop just after a few months of use. Similar trouble with my wife's Nexus 5 as well..
I now use a OnePlus 3 and my wife and a Mi5 and we are much happier with our devices than we were with the Nexus phones...
Lyinghillaryclinton.net Clinton = server to bypass freedom of information act. Bill Clinton meeting the AG on an airplane Clinton destroying emails after having a federal subpoena Clinton and Benghazi don't even go there. Russians hacked what tell us what they have you can say Russians hacked but what did they have nothing the DNC emails that came out that Wikileaks Clinton could have came out and explained them or denied them at any point she chose not to because they were true and showed who she really was Hillary Clinton refused to release her speech to Goldman Sachs because it proved she was out of touch with the average person and had two viewpoints one public one private her foundation took money from countries that kill and abused gays and women but she supports gays and women she's what we call a two face she was recycled Clinton trash that nobody wanted and if you believe that she was the best choice you two are a moron and think about this she so bad that Trump destroyed her in the poles destroyed her the entire map was red states that haven't been in many many years that's how band she was but you keep living in la-la land
We're doing it in the name of fun :)
If you take it seriously maybe you should not be using the internet.
Yeah I've ran into this same issue as well. It's probably the apps draining most of the battery's power, could just be a software issue on Google's end. Other than that I love my Google Pixel a lot, especially how it takes high resolution photos. I've already invested some money in a power bank for now. I was able to get my google pixel from this giveaway here - http://bit.ly/2gIJ6qZ - It arrived within a week. But other than that I'm a huge fan of the Pixel thus far.
If you dislike hipsters you're probably gonna be thrilled to discover their nemesis: the normcore.
Normcore is a unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, normal-looking clothing.
Yes, it's a thing.
lucm, indeed.
All of my phones acted like that or shut off even earlier under load when the battery came close to two years of use.
Clinton ran a campaign based on "I'm not Trump". That was her entire platform, and it wasn't enough to be elected. That says a lot about her.
Yes, but it says nothing whatsoever about Trump.
Trump became President on his own. First president in history who didn't sell out to lobbies or Washington cronies. He's not even in office yet and already he's making America Great Again just because of that.
lucm, indeed.
I mean Hipsters and Hippies.
Sorry
Yeah. I use Apple products (macbook, ipad, iphone, iMac, Apple routers) but I shit on Apple all the time because it's more fun that way.
That makes me more of a cynical user rather than a fanboi which lends more street cred.
Obviously I won't post this using my 1337 Low ID account.
Slashdot's editorial board is more biased in the Apple vs Android rivalry than the New York Times is during an election year
LOL! yeah! It's totally about street creds!
My Pixel has also been consistently shutting down at 25-30% (no warning) for the past few weeks. Comes up as 0% when recharging. Also strangely, Android OS tends to be the #1 battery user.
Anyone who voted Clinton should have all privileges of citizenship revoked. Clinton was a completely unacceptable candidate and anyone who voted for her is unfit to participate in governance of this country.
Well, yeah, that would drive home the point that Trump is an actual fascist in every definition ever used. Good idea, since I don't live in Nazimerica.
* shitty disposable consumer electronics breaks shocker *
For fucks sake. Clinton lost. Will it take much longer for you guys to shut up about HRC?
There's nothing good to say about Trump, so they have to keep saying bad things about Clinton to justify their shitty decisions.
WRONG!
She ran her whole campaign as "Vote for me, because I am a woman",
did you even watch any interviews with her?
Clinton ran a campaign based on "I'm not Trump". That was her entire platform, and it wasn't enough to be elected. That says a lot about her.
... it shuts down at 10% even after I told it to go ahead and go to low power mode! Yes, it uses the same original battery since it was bought.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Clinton ran a campaign based on "I'm not Trump". That was her entire platform, and it wasn't enough to be elected. That says a lot about her.
Yes, but it says nothing whatsoever about Trump.
Trump became President on his own. First president in history who didn't sell out to lobbies or Washington cronies. He's not even in office yet and already he's making America Great Again just because of that.
You mean he only caved to the lobbies after he became elected? Or that he already was one of them to begin with? Because fuck - look at his cabinet. 3 guys from Goldman Sachs alone. Wasn't the worst thing about Hillary (apart from Pizzagate maybe) that she once gave paid speeches in front of Goldman Sachs?
Percentage is most likely approximate based on raw voltage measurement.
Ultimately the battery monitor circuit says nope, we're done on one output signal and the phone shuts off.
Saves a few pennies after all to not speak on an I2C bus with the battery monitor chip.
Who wants to sit there and count all those coulombs anyway?
Nah. Lamers, including you, are afraid of him is all.
So if the Samsung Brown Note 35 literally makes your toes fall off, that's smaller news than the iPhone 8 having a dead pixel.
The fact that Apple makes $400 per iPhone while Samsung is making $23 per device (that mysteriously sell for about $400 less than iPhones) also matters.
Samsung may be making $23 on the phones that cost about $400 less than iPhones - but their top-of the line phones cost more than iPhones. Stop pretending.
You win the Internets. Sir.
Ah, ok. So the problem is with people commenting things you don't like.
Internet must be hell for you.
I didn't vote for anyone. but has trumpf actually done anything yet?
DUH! Trump ran HIS campaign on "I'M NOT CLINTON" - and WON - so I guess it all boils down to the lesser of the two evils - or, even better, the outsider slam-dunking the ingrained establishment. FINALLY, we got someone to vote for that fit under the category of "NONE OF THE ABOVE" ! ! !
OK, so seriously off-topic - but it answers the issue brought up by lucm ( 889690 )
Besides, I have karma to burn - so get a grip, and learn to live with the facts of life - American people are totally fed up with the 2-party system that puts the same types into power, just labelled differently (conservative vs liberal / republican vs democratic) and who represent ONLY those that HAVE - and be damned to the population they are supposed to represent !
redneck geek
If you believe certain (most) mainstream journalists, he is already responsible for every bad thing that governments do. So that's something, I guess?
First president in history who didn't sell out to lobbies or Washington cronies. He's not even in office yet and already he's making America Great Again just because of that.
What? Are you on the purple crack again? He's not even in office yet and already he's putting the people at the bottom of the swamp in his cabinet.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
This is Huawei after all, a clandestine branch of the Chinese government (like all corporations in China) that is charged with the task of massive data collection for the regime.
If you own a Huawei device, you can rest assured that the Chinese government knows everything you are doing with that device.
Having all of this information will make it a lot easier to colonize the United States when the time comes to call in the debt.
Nice story bro, and that's all it is, a story.
I didn't vote for anyone. but has trumpf actually done anything yet?
You also don't read the news, do you? He's been shitting up international politics already. There's also the small issue of his cabinet, which he has staffed exclusively with the people he found at the bottom of the swamp.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Please contact the writing center for assistance, and re-submit by Friday.
Reason: run-on sentence
"The United States of America lost" - FTFY
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Jabba the Hut is the new President of the US.
Samsung flagship phones cost as much or more than a comparable iPhone. I know because I wanted to switch and I was convinced that a Samsung was cheaper. They're not. Sticking with iPhone now since there's no advantage in cost to switching yet.
Because, courage.
Obviously.
Slash dot is in the order in which it was submitted, not in any order of points or karam like reddit.
I literally just bought a Moto G4 Play phone a couple of days ago. Being vanilla Android was a big selling point for me. I don't care for mobile games, so as long as it works as a phone, can SMS, and run a couple of apps that I want it's perfect for me. The price was pretty damn good compared to the other stuff out there. I really like the fact it has little to no bloatware.
It took me 10 years to replace my old Nokia N73. I hardly ever make calls, and I have a desktop PC so I could care less about what most people use their phone for. The local telco finally removed 2G and some 3G support forcing me to look for a new handset...I guess I'm a ludite.
You can get off my lawn now.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
I know it's cheaper for my partner because he feels he can upgrade less often.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with Android 6 Marshmallow here. I'm an avid battery swapper, always keeping one charged so I can get back to 100% in several seconds, and benefit from a clean boot. I just don't like having the phone plugged into a charger all the time, or walking around with a cord hanging out to a portable charger. My phone recently started suddenly losing power around 30%, not shutting down, just turning off and getting stuck in a loop booting up. I noticed that it happens with only one of the batteries. The other battery will keep the phone running all the way down to 2% if I let it. I still swap the batteries, but the bad one has a "30%" marked on it with a blue Sharpie just so I know when to expect it to die. Someday I might replace that bad one and see how a new one performs. From what I hear, most new phones lack the capability of allowing the owner to change the battery. In my experience the battery is the most likely thing to fail, followed by the glass from contact with concrete.
Beware of the Redittor who loans you a Sharpie.
Clinton ran a campaign based on "I'm not Trump". That was her entire platform, and it wasn't enough to be elected. That says a lot about her.
Yes, but it says nothing whatsoever about Trump.
Trump became President on his own. First president in history who didn't sell out to lobbies or Washington cronies. He's not even in office yet and already he's making America Great Again just because of that.
You mean he only caved to the lobbies after he became elected? Or that he already was one of them to begin with? Because fuck - look at his cabinet. 3 guys from Goldman Sachs alone. Wasn't the worst thing about Hillary (apart from Pizzagate maybe) that she once gave paid speeches in front of Goldman Sachs?
It's hard to pinpoint the worst thing about Hilary. Maybe it's the fact that after denouncing it as a First Lady, she suddenly voted in favor of a law that makes child support a lower priority debt when someone declares bankruptcy - that happened once she started getting funding from bankers. Maybe it's the Travelgate. Maybe it's the time she stole furniture from the White House and only gave things back once her husband was offered higher quality furniture by a crooked banker who wanted to buy a presidential pardon. There's many options here.
lucm, indeed.
American people are totally fed up with the 2-party system that puts the same types into power
I don't think people are fed up with the 2-party system. I don't think they are fed up with anything in particular except maybe having a federal government that is too expensive, too invasive and not in tune with their views on sensitive topics. It would probably solve a lot of problems if the federal government was just minding its own business: building roads, protecting the border, running the post office. When they get into stuff like gun control or health care they are bound to make at least half the country unhappy. Leave those issues to individual states, where there's a more cohesive view.
lucm, indeed.
First president in history who didn't sell out to lobbies or Washington cronies. He's not even in office yet and already he's making America Great Again just because of that.
What? Are you on the purple crack again? He's not even in office yet and already he's putting the people at the bottom of the swamp in his cabinet.
I know that cabinet-bashing is the latest liberal propaganda, but actually his cabinet is not that bad. According to Wikipedia, CNN said that his cabinet is "a conservative dream team of domestic Cabinet appointments". Based on his vision of focusing on rebuilding roads and schools, that makes sense.
If you wanted a liberal cabinet that enjoys meddling in other countries affairs, you should have gotten Clinton elected. That's how it works.
lucm, indeed.
Jabba the Hut is the new President of the US.
It was either that or Emperor Palpatine.
lucm, indeed.
AGAIN, DUH! Aren't the issues you mention the very issues that the '2-party system' (the establishment) is so totally involved in . . . that they can't get around to actually doing the job they were elected for - - - like building roads, border protection (uh, isn't this a TRUMP WALL item?), post office (not a federal department for many years, but an independent agency losing money as fast as, or faster than, any other federal agency?).
As far as leaving issues to the states, how do you figure ANYTHING ranging across the individual state's actions as 'cohesive', other than being bound by federal legislation to remain in the 'union'?
Sorry, do NOT want to start a flame war - but I would like to get clarification on these points before I begin considering anything you post as valid.
redneck geek
border protection (uh, isn't this a TRUMP WALL item?)
About the Trump wall - are you aware that the Mexicans are themselves building a wall in the south to stop illegal immigrants from Guatemala? Illegal immigrants are not a US-specific issue.
Walls work, it's not a stupid idea. There's roughly 500,000 people who cross the Mexico/USA border illegally every year (excluding drug mules), this is not a problem that will be resolved with change.org petitions or Facebook pages. Let Trump build this wall; if there's a consensus in the population to let more unskilled, poor immigrants in, it should be done the right way, not by turning a blind eye on human trafficking and all the horrible side effects of illegal immigration.
lucm, indeed.
Thanks. I needed a swift kick in the crotch to remind me of the hate mongers / trollers still allowed to post freely.
Please learn to be civil, or go home and kick the dog.
At least I don't get vindictive about disagreeing posts - but then again - I don't really give a shit about those that tout their attitudes as gospel.
Remember, a closed attitude and a closed mind does nothing except gather cobwebs.
Have a Happy Holiday Season.
redneck geek