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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.
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.
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.
We whine incessantly about Apple and touch disease, while there are far greater problems with Android phones. Security is a disaster due to a lack of timely updates being pushed out by vendors and carriers. Phones are full of crapware that nobody wants. The Galaxy Note 7 was dangerous enough to be banned in many places and could kill users. And now the Pixel has been a half-baked disaster. But Slashdot users will be far more concerned with touch disease and whining about Apple. Why does Linux (Android) get a free pass, but everything Apple does is harshly criticized? Biased much?
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.
...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.
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.
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.
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%!!!!
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.
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...
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.
All of my phones acted like that or shut off even earlier under load when the battery came close to two years of use.
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.
* shitty disposable consumer electronics breaks shocker *
... 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).
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?
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.
Because, courage.
Obviously.
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.
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.
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.