Android Official Android Thread

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Well sure, when your screen time is nothing, it'll last awhile. The standby is pretty fantastic tho. Hopefully this is the start of pixel phones not having shit battery life. The 5 is supposed to be solid as well.

Totally, I am more impressed by the standby.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

usually they state "week standby" and its like 2 days

 

[LikeABauce302]

This afternoon my Pixel 3 XL bricked itself. I had it charging and it was working fine. When I unplugged it, the screen went black and that was it. While plugged in, the battery indicator will flash, but it won't power on or do anything else.

To remedy the problem, I impulse bought a OnePlus 8. So far the thing is useless. I can't get into my google account because it won't receive a text message for 2 factor authentication. Any ideas on why a phone won't receive a text? It has verizon messages as the default SMS app. I would download something else, but I can't even log into the Google Play Store until after I can receive a text.

As much as I love android, I just might return this junk and get an iPhone tomorrow. I really wanted to hold out for the Pixel 6, but it's not out yet and there isn't much to choose from for Android phones right now.

 

[Rent Free]

Samsung or bust been using S series since forever.

S20+ currently

 

[TommyGloves]

This afternoon my Pixel 3 XL bricked itself. I had it charging and it was working fine. When I unplugged it, the screen went black and that was it. While plugged in, the battery indicator will flash, but it won't power on or do anything else.

To remedy the problem, I impulse bought a OnePlus 8. So far the thing is useless. I can't get into my google account because it won't receive a text message for 2 factor authentication. Any ideas on why a phone won't receive a text? It has verizon messages as the default SMS app. I would download something else, but I can't even log into the Google Play Store until after I can receive a text.

As much as I love android, I just might return this junk and get an iPhone tomorrow. I really wanted to hold out for the Pixel 6, but it's not out yet and there isn't much to choose from for Android phones right now.

Fyi...I have a 3xl and I had a similar issue last year. It kept rebooting or sticking on the back screen. I let the phone fully discharge and then
let it fully charge. Its been fine ever since. Not sure what happened but it might be worth a try.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

This afternoon my Pixel 3 XL bricked itself. I had it charging and it was working fine. When I unplugged it, the screen went black and that was it. While plugged in, the battery indicator will flash, but it won't power on or do anything else.

To remedy the problem, I impulse bought a OnePlus 8. So far the thing is useless. I can't get into my google account because it won't receive a text message for 2 factor authentication. Any ideas on why a phone won't receive a text? It has verizon messages as the default SMS app. I would download something else, but I can't even log into the Google Play Store until after I can receive a text.

As much as I love android, I just might return this junk and get an iPhone tomorrow. I really wanted to hold out for the Pixel 6, but it's not out yet and there isn't much to choose from for Android phones right now.

Google Verizon access point names and manually add it to mobile networks in the android network settings.

 

[LikeABauce302]

Google Verizon access point names and manually add it to mobile networks in the android network settings.

I just got it working. I went back to the Verizon store and they put a new sim card in it. We were having account issues last night so they put my old sim card in the new phone. I guess the 4g sim card didn't work on the new 5g device. I'm still in the android crew and didn't rage buy an iPhone

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I just got it working. I went back to the Verizon store and they put a new sim card in it. We were having account issues last night so they put my old sim card in the new phone. I guess the 4g sim card didn't work on the new 5g device. I'm still in the android crew and didn't rage buy an iPhone

we had a similar issue. They gave us a tablet sim for a phone....

 

[Bru]

My father-in-law has had weird Verizon connectivity issues with cell service on his current sub-Galaxy model (A51) - couldn’t connect to any cell service. They told him to restart in airplane mode to get service back when he loses service, which he has to do every day. Verizon said it was temporary but sounds like a pain in the ass.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

My father-in-law has had weird Verizon connectivity issues with cell service on his current sub-Galaxy model (A51) - couldn’t connect to any cell service. They told him to restart in airplane mode to get service back when he loses service, which he has to do every day. Verizon said it was temporary but sounds like a pain in the ass.

have him try to go into mobile networks and turn off 5g or select just 4g/3g as the data option. If that is their solution, he is basically just forcing a cell service search. Sometimes removing 5g makes the phone switch bands less often resulting in more stable service at the cost of the fastest speeds possible.

 

[DEEZUZ]

My father-in-law has had weird Verizon connectivity issues with cell service on his current sub-Galaxy model (A51) - couldn’t connect to any cell service. They told him to restart in airplane mode to get service back when he loses service, which he has to do every day. Verizon said it was temporary but sounds like a pain in the ass.

I just dumped verizon cause they were absolutely horrible with service and customer service.

Had to do the airplane mode several times and nothing improved.

 

[Spivitz]

Every time I see this thread bump I get excited

Then let Down

 

[LikeABauce302]

Now that I've played around with this OnePlus 8, it's just okay. It's fast, but the integration with google isn't quite as seamless as it was with the Pixel. I also don't care for the edge to edge display. It's hard to see things at the curved edges.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Now i remember why I stopped buying samsung devices

"premium"

the screen doesnt even light up when I get a notification....need a 3rd party app just to get it to work properly

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

I will say that is something I do miss from my old Android phones when I switched to an iPhone... the little LED notification light that would blink if you had a missed call, text, voicemail, etc (all had their own color).

You could just look over and know if you had a notification without having to pick up the phone and look at it.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I will say that is something I do miss from my old Android phones when I switched to an iPhone... the little LED notification light that would blink if you had a missed call, text, voicemail, etc (all had their own color).

You could just look over and know if you had a notification without having to pick up the phone and look at it.

You can do the cam flash blink on android now for notifications. I miss the programmable multi color led notification light.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

You can do the cam flash blink on android now for notifications. I miss the programmable multi color led notification light.

I can do something similar with the iPhone, but it uses the flash, which is way too bright. Just a single small LED on the front next to the camera would be fine.

 

[LikeABauce302]

I miss those notification lights too. They went away on Android devices. The last phone I had with the led indicator was a Samsung Galaxy S5.

 

[Bru]

have him try to go into mobile networks and turn off 5g or select just 4g/3g as the data option. If that is their solution, he is basically just forcing a cell service search. Sometimes removing 5g makes the phone switch bands less often resulting in more stable service at the cost of the fastest speeds possible.

I just dumped verizon cause they were absolutely horrible with service and customer service.

Had to do the airplane mode several times and nothing improved.

This isn’t meant to be “shots fired” because iPhones have their own issues, but the whole family was together and literally everyone in the house had an iPhone with Verizon 5G and zero issues but Verizon was saying it’s both platforms with the connectivity problems.

 

[LikeABauce302]

I just downloaded a modded version of the Google camera app onto the OnePlus 8. I'll have to snap some pics and see how it compares to the stock camera app.

 

[Pressure Ratio]

the screen doesnt even light up when I get a notification....need a 3rd party app just to get it to work properly

I know my Note 10+ has 'Always On Display' that shows texts and other notification icons. I can change a person's icon in texts. So I can even see who sent me a text on AOD. I miss the blinking LED but the AOD is good in it's own right.

And battery life isn't eaten by AOD either. Currently, I am down to 18% battery life and AOD used 3.2% of my battery.

 

[GTvert90]

This isn’t meant to be “shots fired” because iPhones have their own issues, but the whole family was together and literally everyone in the house had an iPhone with Verizon 5G and zero issues but Verizon was saying it’s both platforms with the connectivity problems.

There must be some extra funkiness with 5g. My fiance's S21 Ultra wouldn't connect to the network at all the other day. She had to go into network settings and manually select. Just had the phone for months and just randomly had the issue

 

[LikeABauce302]

I just downloaded a modded version of the Google camera app onto the OnePlus 8. I'll have to snap some pics and see how it compares to the stock camera app.

I gave my daily driver a quick wash and then took one pic with the Google camera app and one with the stock Oneplus 8 camera app.

This is the stock camera. It looks a little washed out. Maybe too much noise reduction?

This is from the Google camera app. It looks sharper and more natural to me.

 

[Mook]

Google's camera app > all

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I gave my daily driver a quick wash and then took one pic with the Google camera app and one with the stock Oneplus 8 camera app.

This is the stock camera. It looks a little washed out. Maybe too much noise reduction?

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This is from the Google camera app. It looks sharper and more natural to me.

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Googles camera app also jacks the saturation up in some cases. Personally I am not the biggest fan of google camera. Too much auto post processing.