Some Google Pixel Devices Are Shutting Down At 30% Battery (androidauthority.com) 130
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Authority: It seems that some Pixel devices are affected by the same infamous shutdown bug that plagued the Nexus 6P where the device would prematurely turn off at 25 to 35 percent. The Huawei Nexus 6P has finally received the Nougat update. But ever since, Google's last ever Nexus device has been on the news, and for all the wrong reasons. Among the problems was a shutdown bug: the phone would shut down when the battery is at 30 percent or so. Well, it looks like the issue isn't unique to those Nexus 6P users. A few Reddit users are reporting that their Pixel devices are also suffering from the same shutdown bug. Some Pixel phones would prematurely shut down at or around 30 percent and would not turn back on until a charger is connected. A user by the name of vrski_15, who started the thread explains: "Twice in last 5 days, has the phone shutdown abruptly while I am in middle of something. In both instances, battery was between 25-35%, and the phone under normal conditions should have lasted for at least next 3-4 hours." With the Nexus 6P, Huawei first ruled that this was not a hardware problem but a software-related one. However, users found that the problem persisted even after downgrading to Android Marshmallow. This led Huawei to investigate further with Google, and although the company hasn't revealed the cause yet, it is probably related to the problem that these Pixel users have been experiencing.
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Disclaimer: had boss who placed zero emphasis on circuit testing. Not good idea with batteries.
Copy Cats (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Copy Cats (Score:5, Funny)
Really? You don't have to copy everything Apple does.
Well at least Pixels aren't doing poor imitations of a hand grenade. That's a plus ... isn't it?
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Gives you that whole movie thriller experience.
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Really? You don't have to copy everything Apple does.
It's funny because it's not true?
Hmm.
Re: Copy Cats (Score:2)
Power management in probably the top innovation in mobile and getting it right is hard. Getting even somewhat wrong can be disaster. Just look at the hoverboards from last Christmas.
Back in the day we simulated hundreds of duty cycles for a battery before letting them in the feild. Even then there was no way to know for sure that a battery would perform.
Will they release a Nexus 5 replacement? (Score:4, Interesting)
I wish that Google released a real Nexus 5 replacement. I'm talking about an affordable and reasonably-sized device. After I used my Nexus 5 to destruction (it actually held up better than any other phone I've ever had) I looked at their newer devices, but they were all too big or too expensive for what you get. I had to get an iPhone, but I hate it. I really wish that Google releases a real Nexus 5 successor, and that it quits throwing these big and costly phones our way.
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I hear they're looking at Tizen.
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There's plenty of fantastic Android phones besides Google offerings. I'm very partial to OnePlus these days - the bang-for-the-buck ratio on their products is ridiculous.
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Do any of those non-Google phones get software updates as often and as quickly as Google provides for their phones?
Yes. Samsung, LG and OP are usually pretty speedy with their updates.
How many of them are made by Chinese companies?
Pretty much all of them. And i mean all cellphones, Android or not.
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Lenovo (Moto) are pretty good too, and they're vanilla Android, very little bloatware compared to Samsung.
Just bought one (Score:2)
I literally just bought a Moto G4 Play phone a couple of days ago. Being vanilla Android was a big selling point for me. I don't care for mobile games, so as long as it works as a phone, can SMS, and run a couple of apps that I want it's perfect for me. The price was pretty damn good compared to the other stuff out there. I really like the fact it has little to no bloatware.
It took me 10 years to replace my old Nokia N73. I hardly ever make calls, and I have a desktop PC so I could care less about what most
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I hardly ever make calls, and I have a desktop PC so I could care less about what most people use their phone for. The local telco finally removed 2G and some 3G support forcing me to look for a new handset...I guess I'm a ludite.
You're not alone. I don't make calls either, I keep the ringer off and I use the "Mr Number" app (free) to block pretty much anyone I don't know.
I'm not really a power user of my phone, I mostly use Google Keep and the maps. But just for those times when I need to check something in my emails or take a quick picture of the license plate of some fucker who inconvenienced me in a parking lot (for future retaliation), it's worth the $45 monthly price.
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If you're in Australia you can switch to a mobile plan from Aldi supermarket. It's pre-paid, but unlike most which expire the credits each month, this one lasts for 12 months at a time and is only $15. So, if like me, you really only keep a phone on hand in case of a vehicle break-down or a rare lunch meetup then you can switch to this plan and save $525 / year for the rest of your life.
I have a 6P... (Score:2)
...and I thought it was just me. I have been having the premature battery shutdown problem ever since I installed Nougat. I just assumed the battery was getting tired.
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Both I and a friend of mine bought 6P's a few months ago and neither of us has seen this issue. Awesome batterylife ( way better than my S6 edge had ) since 6.x was running on it, and no problems during 7.0 or 7.1.1.
Being seemingly sporadic it makes me wonder if maybe it is some kind of settings or app issue. I personally shut down as many services on the phone as possible, and my friend has been running the 7.x betas since the phone was bought.
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Same AC here. I apologize for my incredibly stupid post. Clinton was clearly the better candidate and deserves to win the election. We're it not for meddling by the Russians and an antiquated electoral college, Clinton would have been the clear and deserving winner. I'm sorry for making such a stupid post, and I will work to improve the quality of my posts. Clinton was clearly the better candidate, though it's not hard to be better than a clueless buffoon like Donald Trump.
Samsung Note Edge (Score:1)
Nexus 4 (Score:2)
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There is a reason Google gives thing away for free.
Yes. They give things away so they can study your behavior and tweak their ads accordingly.
It's an ugly business model, but is it truly uglier than Apple, which is essentially a vanity press for software developers, selling them expensive tools and asking exorbitant fees to let them publish their app on the app store with minuscule odds of even breaking even?
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You also need an Apple computer. Mysteriously for Android development you don't need a Google computer.
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I can see a recent announcement that Apple is willing to open source OS X, but finding ISOs to download is harder. Can you link a couple of places with the ISOs and maybe some info on installing it onto Windows PC?
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But they charge to 130% (Score:5, Interesting)
Maybe they discharge at 30%, but they charge to 130%! With some recent battery innovations, they may be able to reach 150% of charge and shut down at 50%!!!!
Re:But they charge to 130% (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they discharge at 30%, but they charge to 130%! With some recent battery innovations, they may be able to reach 150% of charge and shut down at 50%!!!!
Talking to their head of support, Nigel Tufnel, he said that's exactly what happens.
My Nexus 5 too (Score:2)
Haven't neen it myself (Score:3)
My old iPhone 4S... (Score:2)
... it shuts down at 10% even after I told it to go ahead and go to low power mode! Yes, it uses the same original battery since it was bought.
It Might be the Battery (Score:2)
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with Android 6 Marshmallow here. I'm an avid battery swapper, always keeping one charged so I can get back to 100% in several seconds, and benefit from a clean boot. I just don't like having the phone plugged into a charger all the time, or walking around with a cord hanging out to a portable charger. My phone recently started suddenly losing power around 30%, not shutting down, just turning off and getting stuck in a loop booting up. I noticed that it happens with only one of the
Re: Solution (Score:1, Funny)
Same AC here. I apologize for my incredibly stupid post. Clinton was clearly the better candidate and deserves to win the election. We're it not for meddling by the Russians and an antiquated electoral college, Clinton would have been the clear and deserving winner. I'm sorry for making such a stupid post, and I will work to improve the quality of my posts. Clinton was clearly the better candidate, though it's not hard to be better than a clueless buffoon like Trump.
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For fucks sake. Clinton lost. Will it take much longer for you guys to shut up about HRC?
There's nothing good to say about Trump, so they have to keep saying bad things about Clinton to justify their shitty decisions.
Clinton ran a campaign based on "I'm not Trump". That was her entire platform, and it wasn't enough to be elected. That says a lot about her.
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Clinton ran a campaign based on "I'm not Trump". That was her entire platform, and it wasn't enough to be elected. That says a lot about her.
Yes, but it says nothing whatsoever about Trump.
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Clinton ran a campaign based on "I'm not Trump". That was her entire platform, and it wasn't enough to be elected. That says a lot about her.
Yes, but it says nothing whatsoever about Trump.
Trump became President on his own. First president in history who didn't sell out to lobbies or Washington cronies. He's not even in office yet and already he's making America Great Again just because of that.
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First president in history who didn't sell out to lobbies or Washington cronies. He's not even in office yet and already he's making America Great Again just because of that.
What? Are you on the purple crack again? He's not even in office yet and already he's putting the people at the bottom of the swamp in his cabinet.
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First president in history who didn't sell out to lobbies or Washington cronies. He's not even in office yet and already he's making America Great Again just because of that.
What? Are you on the purple crack again? He's not even in office yet and already he's putting the people at the bottom of the swamp in his cabinet.
I know that cabinet-bashing is the latest liberal propaganda, but actually his cabinet is not that bad. According to Wikipedia, CNN said that his cabinet is "a conservative dream team of domestic Cabinet appointments". Based on his vision of focusing on rebuilding roads and schools, that makes sense.
If you wanted a liberal cabinet that enjoys meddling in other countries affairs, you should have gotten Clinton elected. That's how it works.
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Clinton ran a campaign based on "I'm not Trump". That was her entire platform, and it wasn't enough to be elected. That says a lot about her.
Yes, but it says nothing whatsoever about Trump.
Trump became President on his own. First president in history who didn't sell out to lobbies or Washington cronies. He's not even in office yet and already he's making America Great Again just because of that.
You mean he only caved to the lobbies after he became elected? Or that he already was one of them to begin with? Because fuck - look at his cabinet. 3 guys from Goldman Sachs alone. Wasn't the worst thing about Hillary (apart from Pizzagate maybe) that she once gave paid speeches in front of Goldman Sachs?
It's hard to pinpoint the worst thing about Hilary. Maybe it's the fact that after denouncing it as a First Lady, she suddenly voted in favor of a law that makes child support a lower priority debt when someone declares bankruptcy - that happened once she started getting funding from bankers. Maybe it's the Travelgate. Maybe it's the time she stole furniture from the White House and only gave things back once her husband was offered higher quality furniture by a crooked banker who wanted to buy a presidenti
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Jabba the Hut is the new President of the US.
It was either that or Emperor Palpatine.
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DUH! Trump ran HIS campaign on "I'M NOT CLINTON" - and WON - so I guess it all boils down to the lesser of the two evils - or, even better, the outsider slam-dunking the ingrained establishment. FINALLY, we got someone to vote for that fit under the category of "NONE OF THE ABOVE" ! ! !
OK, so seriously off-topic - but it answers the issue brought up by lucm ( 889690 )
Besides, I have karma to burn - so get a grip, and learn to live with the facts of life - American people are totally fed up with the 2-part
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American people are totally fed up with the 2-party system that puts the same types into power
I don't think people are fed up with the 2-party system. I don't think they are fed up with anything in particular except maybe having a federal government that is too expensive, too invasive and not in tune with their views on sensitive topics. It would probably solve a lot of problems if the federal government was just minding its own business: building roads, protecting the border, running the post office. When they get into stuff like gun control or health care they are bound to make at least half the c
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AGAIN, DUH! Aren't the issues you mention the very issues that the '2-party system' (the establishment) is so totally involved in . . . that they can't get around to actually doing the job they were elected for - - - like building roads, border protection (uh, isn't this a TRUMP WALL item?), post office (not a federal department for many years, but an independent agency losing money as fast as, or faster than, any other federal agency?).
As far as leaving issues to the states, how do you figure ANYTHING ran
Another brick in the wall (Score:2)
border protection (uh, isn't this a TRUMP WALL item?)
About the Trump wall - are you aware that the Mexicans are themselves building a wall in the south to stop illegal immigrants from Guatemala? Illegal immigrants are not a US-specific issue.
Walls work, it's not a stupid idea. There's roughly 500,000 people who cross the Mexico/USA border illegally every year (excluding drug mules), this is not a problem that will be resolved with change.org petitions or Facebook pages. Let Trump build this wall; if there's a consensus in the population to let more unskilled,
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OK . Have it your way. I'm tired of trying to be agreeable with you about YOUR specific issue(s), while attempting to point out the root causes embedded in the full spectrum of geo-political issues covering NOT just singular issues, but the fundamental problems that genuinely worry so much of the American voting public (read - those that are paying attention to the global situation and it's ramifications).
"Re:Another brick in the wall" is starting to feel like another brick to the head.
You have good intent
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Thanks. I needed a swift kick in the crotch to remind me of the hate mongers / trollers still allowed to post freely.
Please learn to be civil, or go home and kick the dog.
At least I don't get vindictive about disagreeing posts - but then again - I don't really give a shit about those that tout their attitudes as gospel.
Remember, a closed attitude and a closed mind does nothing except gather cobwebs.
Have a Happy Holiday Season.
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I didn't vote for anyone. but has trumpf actually done anything yet?
You also don't read the news, do you? He's been shitting up international politics already. There's also the small issue of his cabinet, which he has staffed exclusively with the people he found at the bottom of the swamp.
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Yeah that's like when Noam Chomsky complained on the Larry King show that the mainstream media was boycotting him.
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Re:Why does Android get a free pass? (Score:4, Insightful)
Um, you realize the topic of the story you're commenting on right?
Re: Why does Android get a free pass? (Score:5, Insightful)
The headlines about Apple are always biased, like "Apple working with Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro's Battery Issue" while the real story was that Apple marketing said there was no problem and Consumer Reports was doing their test wrong.
In this case, some dude on Reddit says he has problems with his Pixel and the headline is "Some Google Pixel Devices Are Shutting Down at 30% Battery".
No wonder smart people find that irritating.
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Slashdot's editorial board is more biased in the Apple vs Android rivalry than the New York Times is during an election year
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Others have pointed out the silliness of saying this in a Pixel thread, but if you need to know why Apple always gets brought up, here's why: when you compare Apple to Android, you are comparing a lesser market share to a greater one. But when you compare any given phone, the Apple one is the only one that matters.
The Galaxy Note 7 sold about a million.
Everything I can find about the Google Pixel shows them hopefully selling between 3 and 5 million units, but I can't find actuals.
The iPhone 7, Apple hid t
Re:Why does Android get a free pass? (Score:4, Insightful)
So if the Samsung Brown Note 35 literally makes your toes fall off, that's smaller news than the iPhone 8 having a dead pixel.
The fact that Apple makes $400 per iPhone while Samsung is making $23 per device (that mysteriously sell for about $400 less than iPhones) also matters.
Like people who still defend Bill Cosby or those women who send marriage proposals to serial killers on death row, the typical Apple fanboi who cheers Apple for taking their money (and making "90% of the profit in this market") is a fascinating social phenomenon.
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If you're an iPhone user sorry it's not your club.
Go back to your hipster cafe.
I don't think hipsters use iPhones nowadays. Real hipsters drive vintage Volvo and make their own deodorant using fair trade, earth-friendly ingredients; their phone is more likely to be from an underdog like Blackberry, or a custom/specialized Android statement like the Ektra.
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If you dislike hipsters you're probably gonna be thrilled to discover their nemesis: the normcore.
Normcore is a unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, normal-looking clothing.
Yes, it's a thing.