What’s included
The August 2023 update includes bug fixes and improvements for Pixel users – see below for details.
Bluetooth
Fix for issue occasionally causing Bluetooth keyboards to not connect *[1]
User Interface
Fix for issue causing certain Live Wallpapers to display incorrectly in different device orientations *[2]
Fix for issue occasionally causing lock screen to not respond *[2]
Fix for issue occasionally causing home screen launcher search input to not register *[2]
Fix for issue occasionally causing flickering or glitches while in Hub Mode *[3]
Device Applicability
Fixes are available for all supported Pixel devices unless otherwise indicated below.
*[1] Included on Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet only
*[2] Included on Pixel Fold only
*[3] Included on Pixel Tablet only
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Well, there’s certainly no urgency in applying this update lol
these are just the Pixel specific changes, but there are a lot of other fixes in the update
Can’t wait for Verizon to push this out on September…
are non carrier phones not available in USA ? boggle my mind to buy a phone in 2023 with a carrier instead of just paying the phone in full like we do in Europe
are non carrier phones not available in USA
Sure they are - you can buy directly from Google if you want. Phones from carriers are subsidized / free to hook you into a contract, but you can also just buy a phone and pop your SIM card into it.
I just learned the hard way that getting a p7 via carrier means it can’t be bootloaded, which means I can’t install grapheneOS on it. They gave me $800 off the phone if I bought through them, which was a nice discount, but it still sucks because I can’t do what I want on the hardware. Lesson learned for next time.
I bought mine non-carrier, but update timing, I’ve found, is controlled by my carrier since it was activated on their service.
Can you flash a generic ROM instead?
Technically mine is. I reflashed it back from graphene bc no tap to pay was a deal breaker. Though I did just get an update so maybe me reflash fixed my long-standing update timing issue.
I wonder if getting a smartwatch with tap-to-pay, like the Pixel watch could help with that? You could still continue to use GrapheneOS on your phone (assuming the watch has no phone dependencies).
That might be a solution. Once I’m done financing everything else I’m currently financing, I’ll reconsider. Would be nice if they could crack compatibility with the backend that tap-to-pay requires. That would be the last element I would need to have a functional Graphene work for me.
They’ve been extremely hit-and-miss. My wife is still on her px5, and I upgraded from a px3 that I had loved to the original 6, which was atrocious in so many ways. I made the ostensibly lateral move to a galaxy s22 (a free trade-in at T-mobile) after just about 3 months and have been so much happier.
The 6 was absolutely not ready for prime time (bugs) when it launched, and that was a horrendously huge phone to be the smaller one in the line. Hopefully they’ve fixed that with the 7.
I do miss the appearance of that phone’s software. Samsung is definitely way behind on android theming.
I have had a 6 since launch and never had a single issue with it 🤷🏼♂️
Don’t count on it. I had a 3 as well which was a good phone for 3 years until my wife’s 3 died. She didn’t want a pixel 5 at the time because we knew the 6 was coming out in a month or so. So I gave her my 3 and got the S21+. Getting used to the Samsung platform wasn’t too bad. I was upset that I couldn’t delete some apps, but it’s been a good phone to this day. My wife on the other hand got the 6, had nothing but issues for a year, then they had a deal on the 7 if we traded, so we did. She hates the 7 just as much. It even froze once completely and she tried to turn it off and it called 911. The operator almost didn’t believe her that it was an accident. We were legit worried that they’d send someone out because it seemed like she was under duress or something when she just couldn’t get her phone to respond to anything. Needless to say, we’re done with pixels for a while. I’m currently waiting for the fairphone 5 to see if it comes to the US when it comes out. Otherwise I’ll probably get another Samsung eventually. No idea what the wife is going to do.
I’d just really love my pixel to actually adapt to the fact that I sleep at 3pm until 10pm so when I plug in my phone during that time I don’t need it to charge in one hour.
My z fold does that, is that not an android feature? It stops at 80 until like an hour before I wake up. My schedule is fucked too, asleep at 7pm to wake up at 3.
Yeah my pixel 6 pro has adaptive charging, which just means it’ll charge at a slow speed so it’s full just before my alarm goes off.
What happens when you sent an alarm for 10pm before going to sleep? Does it slow-charge then?
I have the daily alarm for 10:05 p.m. and when I plug the phone in anytime between 3:00 and 4:00 when I go to sleep it generally doesn’t adaptive charge. It just says it will be charged in an hour and 40 minutes. Of course, since I posted this yesterday, it did not adaptive charge but today it did so it seems pretty damn random.
