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Android Pie Breaks Pixel XL's Ability To Fast Charge (theverge.com)
Google's recent launch of Android 9.0 Pie hasn't gone off without some early bugs and issues. According to The Verge, users are reporting that Android Pie prevents their phone from fast charging when plugged into many chargers. Google's own charger doesn't even appear to be working. From the report: Other Pixel XL owners say the bundled charger still functions properly and displays "charging rapidly," but third-party USB-PD (power delivery) chargers no longer juice up the XL as quickly as they did pre-update. Google has oddly marked a bug report on the problem as "won't fix (infeasible)," which is likely alarming to see for those experiencing it, especially since it can very clearly be attributed to the Android 9.0 update. Things were working normally, then Pie came, and then something broke. A second thread has been posted with more users chiming in to confirm they're affected.
Noted how quickly that bug got reopened after this hit /.
Instead of closed by some half-assed lackey, then what hope do we have of getting other bugs fixed (skia segfaults with bitmap (free'ing) handling whilst drawing in another thread, argb8888 segfaults (with register corruption), etc)
I mean, seriously, take a look at some of the bugs on there. Some devs are f*cking SCREAMING to get some bugs fixed and the dev team (which need to be bigger) are most of the time, oh hum, obsolete now I guess (then it continues in the next several fucking versions of the OS so the devs give up bothering to report)
Sort it out.
Could be an issue with the cheap Chinese chargers not supporting the usb protocol correctly, such as properly negotiating the current it is to supply.
I don't think it's quite panic time yet. While it's true that this was marked 'Won't fix' at one point, the issue has now officially been reopened.
It's going on my nerves.
I have a tablet running Android 5. Runs perfect. Why does the Airbnb app have to fail running correctly? What does the app have that it requires the Avantgarde of software to run on?
This is bullshit. I wish vendors would focus more on stability and long-term support than this nonsense. Same goes for operating systems.
My 2 cents.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Probably buggy knockoff junk
You knocked your junk off with a buggy? Poor guy
Privacy: Apps get internet access by default, granting an app access to any data on the phone lets it slurp all the data over to the company. FFS the calculator app on my phone phones home.... as if that's any of their business! Unacceptable, unfixed.
Confused 'Back' button, a do-all back button that steps backwards, cancels, switches app, exits app, does everything confused as fook. Broken design unfixed.
No way to tell the OS you're done with an app. Does the app need to continue in the background, yet get killed by the OS? Does it run in the background but *should* be killed by the OS? No amount of AI can fixup this shit, whatever UI man is blocking this, sack him.
Running multiple apps should not require the app be resizable, yet it does.
The app is portrait or landscape, the screen is portrait or landscape, when the phone ran one app at a time one the screen, this was one-to-one relationship. That's not true anymore and it needs to be addressed. Unfixed.
Fook is the memory a joke. At what point will I ever be able to run a 5GB app on a phone with 6GB??? At what point will I be able to switch away from an app, and not switch back only to find it needs to reload again.
Is the purpose of a smartphone to run apps the user wants run, or to save battery and second guess what the user wants to run? If you actually knew what the user wanted, you wouldn't be second guessing it to save battery.
Now its swipe up for the list of used app. Use to be click, now its swipe, a more complex action.... I hope this is a prelude to a better design, because you've just deprecated the MRU, hiding its functionality behind the home button. Great if you're actually going to fix up the mess of "apps run by their screen shot that may or may not be running' (= the MRU) and "apps run by their icon that may or may not also be running' ( = the app tray). On the other hand, I suspect you're just copying Apple blindly and badly.
ahhh,
that is the AI taking over optimizing your battery.
obviously it's better for your battery not to be charged.
the AI knows best, just comply.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Noted how quickly that bug got reopened after this hit /.
You actually think anyone involved with this gives a shit about a slashdot posting? Slashdot hasn't had any meaningful influence in well over a decade and it's usually several days behind the curve on anything newsworthy. A few thousand people are regulars here and most of the well known people who used to hang out left quite some time ago. I have a hard time recalling the last time I read a posting here that I hadn't read elsewhere at least 24+ hours previous. The only reason most of us are still here is that we are weirdos who like to argue with each other and sometimes there is some interesting discussion about topics we care about.
I have noticed that when I use a certain (shady) cable to charge my iPhone, it charges much faster, but then it doesn't hold the charge. When I use the normal cable, getting to 100% takes much longer, but the device lasts twice as long. Is that known/expected behavior?
I do not have this problem with Pie. I am getting fast charging (10-15% in 15 min commute.) I am getting 30-36 hours out of a charge now.
Now I wonder if it is an update problem. I could not wait for the OTA, so i sideloaded it. In the past, I have had upgrade issues that was fixed by doing a complete firmware clean install. I am having none of the reported issues.
How does this stuff happen to your own devices? Its as bad as Apple screwing up IOS on devices, or Microsoft messing up updates on Surface devices. You make your own hardware and OS you would think you could at least make sure OS upgrades can work well on your own shit.
So far, not a SINGLE conviction - either a guilty plea or conviction - for anyone about collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. But there have been 6 high-level FBI agents fired for illegal/unethical acts against the Trump campaign...
Well that's annoying as shit. Guess I'll hold off on updating my phone to 9.0 until this gets fixed.
And should only be enabled when you actually need your phone to charge quickly. This will prevent premature wear on the battery.
This is exactly why I don't update shit unless something is broken. Security blah blah blah. Vendors want to hold my security hostage in exchange for removing features and introducing bugs along with those security updates, then I ain't playing that game. If you want people to keep up on security, you'll offer security-only updates. Until then, fuck you and your shitty "upgrade."
Are you tired of google's shit OS? Crappy updates that breaks functionality? Hate that short 2 year support? Security issues out of the box? lol
...if not to prevent bugs like this. Isn't all the stuff that makes your hardware work supposed to be contained in the /vendor partition and not updated with new OS versions. Surely the ability to fast charge would be part of that, no? Or does Google put out a whole new /vendor setup when they upgrade you anyway. If so, what's the point?
Posted from my Android phone. Oh, I can change this? There, that's better...
Everybody loves to jump on Samsung for not updating immediately to the latest Android, but this is the kind of stuff that they have to sort out before they can ship Google's latest BETA(TM) of Android.
Hey though, if you like paying to be a beta tester, enjoy your Pixel phones.
Is Lennart "Wontfix" Poettering now working at Google? Or is his arrogance just infectious?
Google has oddly marked a bug report on the problem as "won't fix (infeasible)," which is likely alarming to see for those experiencing it, especially since it can very clearly be attributed to the Android 9.0 update. Things were working normally, then Pie came, and then something broke.
Nothing to see here. Typical Google.
Just edit the source!
My fast charge on my Gen1 non-XL is fine, and my battery use while the phone is off is much improved... but while using it, I can almost feel it draining.
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