#android 12

What the hell did they do to the design?

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Tweet by beebidon (they/them) saying:

"From reddit: Go to developer options on your phone and scroll down you will see animation blah blah 3 of them. You can turn of all three and have no animation.

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Pixel 6 Series Is A Mess Right Now!

On October 19, 2021 Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro were launched by Google as their latest flagship devices. For the Pixel series, as well as Google products', fans were so hyped for months. Even it was discussed more than Apple iPhone 13. It was all special for waiting to get this to be launched. All was because it got a great redesign factor and a new chipset made by Google themselves (manufactured by Samsung). So this made people that this chipset can rectify the problems with the performance of the Pixel phones and that was a great issue. Adding one more major point was the camera part. Yes, photos taken using Pixel phones were so impressive which made it special even loved by many professional photographers. So in the new Pixel Phones were packed with a rich hardware setup for cameras with a telephoto lens, wide and ultra-wide. This new setup rumor which came into practice later really made people do hope that this gonna be the best camera phone ever. So in general,

If the Pixel started as “Google’s iPhone”, So for 2021 these devices go back to that original proposition: they’re the best of Google in a phone. That means a dramatic sci-fi redesign, a whole new set of homemade internals, and a particularly ritzy camera setup. Going back to basics has rarely made so much sense.

So What Makes It A Mess Right Now?

The Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are great phones, each achieving great reviews, but they’ve also suffered from a surprising number of problems, with users reporting all sorts of issues with the devices.

Fingerprint Scanner: The pixel 6 range is that the fingerprint scanners don’t work very well. Readings can be slow and they will often fail. And Google did respond to this and they said it was because of the "Enhanced Security Algorithms". It should be fast but let's hope it can be rectified by a software update. It's just an optimization issue in my opinion. But the most unbelievable and funny part is experienced a few days back. A user's phone got back into 0% which lead to auto shutdown and after getting charged, the fingerprint scanner was not there LOL. Yeah nothing much about that, let's see how it would be rectified by Google.

Charging: Company promised a charging capacity of 30W but users experience around 13W over a full charging cycle. There’s probably no way for Google to increase it to 30W, as that’s likely a hardware limitation, but it might be possible for a software update to at least bring the average closer to 22W. For now, though there’s no news on that.

Calling: Yes not only with hardware, the software too had some small but big issues. Some users have reported that their phone will spontaneously call contacts, with the issue seemingly being related to Google Assistant, which might be mishearing things and thinking they instructed it to call someone. But there are some temporary fixes are done for this. Even sometimes users experience no signal issues too. It’s unclear how widespread this issue is, but there doesn’t appear to be a fix currently, other than hoping it resolves on its own, or that Google or your network will push an update through to fix it.

What Else: Yes there are some issues with the software part like unstable Auto-Brightness, Some camera bugs, etc.

Worth The Hype?

What's not fine is there was no notice of the changes and no pop up when I'm using an app that required certain permissions to function. Instead, the affected apps just kept silently failing until I went to purge the cache as a troubleshooting step and saw that no permissions were granted to an app that requires Files & Media access to function (offline RSS reader).

A check of all my other apps revealed that each and every one had permissions nuked. Some complained, some didn't.

While this annoys me, it actually doesn't annoy me as much as how hideous the stock clock app's analog face is now, and I'm ready to pay money to replace it.

[Image ID: A cropped screenshot from the Android 12 stock Clock App. The analog face which uses shallow bumps to note hour locations, is dark gray on a black background, has very thick and blunt light cyan arms for the hour and minute hand, and has a light pink dot on the perimeter as the second hand, shows 8:45:08 am. In the upper right corner, the time is confirmed as 8:45. Other system notification icons are in place. The phone's battery is nearly full.]