Android Pie Breaks Pixel XL's Ability To Fast Charge (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Monday August 13, 2018 @10:00PM from the bug-bounty dept.

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.

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If it's now taking this to get bugs fixed by Anonymous Coward · 2018-08-13 22:14 · Score: 5, Interesting

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.