Hello all,
Had my Nexus 6 since launch day in the UK, and I started out really liking it, but it's getting more and more in my bad books as I live with it. Wonder if anyone who has one could look over this and tell me if these issues are standard with this device, or whether I need to get onto the network (Vodafone - what a pain)
Reboots - I'm getting a number of reboots. I know this can be app caused, and I'm working through. The main problem is that it requires a pin or swipe to start it booting up, so overnight if it happens, you've got yourself a dead phone till you physically get it going again in the morning
slowdown - I've got a couple of games, one is sky force, that worked well on my note 3, but suffers some terrible slowdown on the Nexus. No idea why this would happen with a better processor
not connecting to 5g on the router - my router has a 2 and 5 g aerial. It works fine on the 2 g, and every other device works on the 5g, but the nexus just will not connect.
slowness of starting up the camera - starting the camera can be 30 seconds.
Upside down display camera pics on some apps - KIK for eg? I know others with Lollipop who don't have this issue on their Sammys.
very bad battery - In use, heavy use, it'll be 3 hours. Average use, bit of messaging, a game, internet, could be 4 hours.
lack of focus on camcorder - it won't stay on a fixed
Slowness of booting up - Can be literally 5 minutes to boot to the main screen. Reminds me a bit of Windows at its worse!
I've had smartphones for many years, and I'm used to their foibles, like battery life and apps that cause reboots, but this is probably the most difficult phone I've had to live with!
I love the screen, the hugeness of it is just what I want, and the sound is great.
I'm getting the crashes, primarily when using the camera, doesn't reboot just stops, 3 times in a few minutes on more than one occasion. Sometimes won't connect to home WiFi without a restart. Start up is very slow. Don't suffer from the other issues. I'm on O2 4G.
mozza1976 said:
Hello all,
Had my Nexus 6 since launch day in the UK, and I started out really liking it, but it's getting more and more in my bad books as I live with it. Wonder if anyone who has one could look over this and tell me if these issues are standard with this device, or whether I need to get onto the network (Vodafone - what a pain)
Reboots - I'm getting a number of reboots. I know this can be app caused, and I'm working through. The main problem is that it requires a pin or swipe to start it booting up, so overnight if it happens, you've got yourself a dead phone till you physically get it going again in the morning
slowdown - I've got a couple of games, one is sky force, that worked well on my note 3, but suffers some terrible slowdown on the Nexus. No idea why this would happen with a better processor
not connecting to 5g on the router - my router has a 2 and 5 g aerial. It works fine on the 2 g, and every other device works on the 5g, but the nexus just will not connect.
slowness of starting up the camera - starting the camera can be 30 seconds.
Upside down display camera pics on some apps - KIK for eg? I know others with Lollipop who don't have this issue on their Sammys.
very bad battery - In use, heavy use, it'll be 3 hours. Average use, bit of messaging, a game, internet, could be 4 hours.
lack of focus on camcorder - it won't stay on a fixed
Slowness of booting up - Can be literally 5 minutes to boot to the main screen. Reminds me a bit of Windows at its worse!
I've had smartphones for many years, and I'm used to their foibles, like battery life and apps that cause reboots, but this is probably the most difficult phone I've had to live with!
I love the screen, the hugeness of it is just what I want, and the sound is great.
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could be a faulty phone or rom ... I've had mine for a month now and no problems so far and great battery life
mozza1976 said:
Hello all,
Had my Nexus 6 since launch day in the UK, and I started out really liking it, but it's getting more and more in my bad books as I live with it. Wonder if anyone who has one could look over this and tell me if these issues are standard with this device, or whether I need to get onto the network (Vodafone - what a pain)
[*]Reboots - I'm getting a number of reboots. I know this can be app caused, and I'm working through. The main problem is that it requires a pin or swipe to start it booting up, so overnight if it happens, you've got yourself a dead phone till you physically get it going again in the morning
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This is actually looking a lot like it may be a software defect. For now, the best solution (i.e. temporary, until 5.1 comes out later this month) is to run the phone withOUT encryption. There are lots of threads around about the minor boot partition change needed to accomplish this.
[*]slowdown - I've got a couple of games, one is sky force, that worked well on my note 3, but suffers some terrible slowdown on the Nexus. No idea why this would happen with a better processor
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Two reasons;
1) is that despite the better processor, anything I/O heavy will take a lot of CPU power to just handle the crypto. Hopefully, this is something that will be solved (hwcrypto) with 5.1.
2) android 5.0 has some major changes in the runtime -- ART vs Dalvik. If the application developer broke rules in building the software you are running, then it is possible that it won't work optimally on ART. Hopefully, the application developer can adapt.
[*]not connecting to 5g on the router - my router has a 2 and 5 g aerial. It works fine on the 2 g, and every other device works on the 5g, but the nexus just will not connect.
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Works for me....?
Try a router with OpenWRT.
If I remember correctly, some of the OLDER 5G 802.11AC chips used in a lot of routers, like TPLINK Archer C7v1, which has a Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880-AR1A had hardware that was a bit rushed to market and failed to meet a number of the AC specifications. So if your router is such an AC, then the hardware that is working with it may be using 802.11N (older tech), whereas this phone is trying to negotiate an 802.11AC link with it, and failing. So there is a good chance that the problem is actually on the ROUTER's side, rather than the phone.
[*]slowness of starting up the camera - starting the camera can be 30 seconds.
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Something not right there. Mine takes 2 seconds from pressing the camera button.
[*]Upside down display camera pics on some apps - KIK for eg? I know others with Lollipop who don't have this issue on their Sammys.
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There are *two* ways to deal with orientation in jpg images; one is to write the image to the file "upright", the other is to write it to the image file as it comes from the buffer, and just give it an orientation flip flag. The software you are using *may not respect* the orientation flag.
[*]very bad battery - In use, heavy use, it'll be 3 hours. Average use, bit of messaging, a game, internet, could be 4 hours.
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I'm actually finding the battery to be quite phenomenal on this device. With low-moderate usage, it will actually go for TWO ENTIRE DAYS on a charge. Usually to get that kind of battery life, I have to apply very invasive controls against google services to prevent them from setting alarms and holding wakelocks.
However, if you have the screen on high brightness and actually turned on a lot, do remember, the screen is ENORMOUS. It takes power to light it up.
[*]lack of focus on camcorder - it won't stay on a fixed
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I had to check that to verify, and confirm it. That appears to be a bug in the camera application. Try a different camera program for now, and hope that 5.1 fixes it.
[*]Slowness of booting up - Can be literally 5 minutes to boot to the main screen. Reminds me a bit of Windows at its worse!
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Might be software crypto, mine isn't encrypted, and literally boots right up to the unlock screen in about 10 seconds.
I've had smartphones for many years, and I'm used to their foibles, like battery life and apps that cause reboots, but this is probably the most difficult phone I've had to live with!
I love the screen, the hugeness of it is just what I want, and the sound is great.
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Well, the SIZE is almost certainly what is causing you battery life issues. The rest of it is basically because you are running an early version of a MASSIVE system update and simultaneously riding on new hardware that brings in its own batch of *software* bugs. There are some bugs in it that need to be worked out, and hopefully, the majority get worked out with 5.1. There *are* google-private 5.1 builds for Nexus 6 already, so it is just a matter of waiting for them to complete QA and ship it out.
Thanks for this, really appreciate the time, I'll have a good look through later!
Found a fix for the 5ghz router issues on the Google forum.
Apparebtly the nexus favours the American 5g channels... So I've set it to 36 and 40 and its working well! Yey.
Tomorrow I'll try a cache wipe to see what else I can correct before the update.
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So I was waiting to get the Samsung Galaxy S 2, but since I had this upgrade and 2 in October, I decided to go ahead and try out the Thrill. I am coming from a Captivate and wanted the following changes: a WORKING gps, a flash for the camera, dual core, and a front facing camera.
The Good:
1) Speed. This thing is pretty snappy.
2) Feel. I like the solid feel of this phone. Size is fine. I like the weight of the phone too.
3) Screen. I like the 4.3 over the 4" screen. I dont mind that it is not a Super AMOLD +. Screen still looks good.
4) GPS works. Yay! Sooo much nicer than the Captivate. Well works great in the car, but not so great in the house. But it is still much better than my Captivate. I can actually do driving directions with an error of 5 feet. Not bad.
5) 3D is pretty cool, but it is not something I care about too much.
6) Square front face. I like this because you can use generic rectangular screen protectors on this and it works fine.
The Bad:
1) Battery. Not soo great. Worse than the Captivate. Need to make sure I am near a charger or get a bigger battery.
2) Speaker. This speaker volume is very low. Calls, music, ring tones are much much lower than the Captivate.
3) Slow camera capture... Its pretty slow. Not unusable, but annoying.
4) The charging port. I am not a fan of the cover for the USB port. Trying to plug in the cord in the dark is near impossible.
The Issues:
1) Random Reboots. I have experienced this twice so far. The phone randomly reboots itself. It has not happened when I have used it. Its when it is idle it just reboots.
2) Distorted speakers. When I have the phone on speaker and up at peak volume, that is very noticeable distortion coming through the.
3) Random issues with Bluetooth and Sync in my Ford truck. The phone will occasionally tell me that blue tooth encountered an error and wont connect.
Do any of you guys suffer from the random reboots, low volume, distorted speaker on high, or issues with bluetooth?
Another thing I am worried about is developer support. Do you think this will pick up some time? Im tempted to exchange for a SG2 because I know the community support will be huge.
shaxs said:
1) Random Reboots. I have experienced this twice so far. The phone randomly reboots itself. It has not happened when I have used it. Its when it is idle it just reboots.
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Try waterbeer firmware.
The only issue I've experienced is the poor speakerphone volume, but I think that's more of a problem with the location of the speaker, not the volume.
It makes for bad video calls unless you're in a completely quiet room.
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shaxs said:
So I was waiting to get the Samsung Galaxy S 2, but since I had this upgrade and 2 in October, I decided to go ahead and try out the Thrill. I am coming from a Captivate and wanted the following changes: a WORKING gps, a flash for the camera, dual core, and a front facing camera.
The Good:
1) Speed. This thing is pretty snappy.
2) Feel. I like the solid feel of this phone. Size is fine. I like the weight of the phone too.
3) Screen. I like the 4.3 over the 4" screen. I dont mind that it is not a Super AMOLD +. Screen still looks good.
4) GPS works. Yay! Sooo much nicer than the Captivate. Well works great in the car, but not so great in the house. But it is still much better than my Captivate. I can actually do driving directions with an error of 5 feet. Not bad.
5) 3D is pretty cool, but it is not something I care about too much.
6) Square front face. I like this because you can use generic rectangular screen protectors on this and it works fine.
The Bad:
1) Battery. Not soo great. Worse than the Captivate. Need to make sure I am near a charger or get a bigger battery.
2) Speaker. This speaker volume is very low. Calls, music, ring tones are much much lower than the Captivate.
3) Slow camera capture... Its pretty slow. Not unusable, but annoying.
4) The charging port. I am not a fan of the cover for the USB port. Trying to plug in the cord in the dark is near impossible.
The Issues:
1) Random Reboots. I have experienced this twice so far. The phone randomly reboots itself. It has not happened when I have used it. Its when it is idle it just reboots.
2) Distorted speakers. When I have the phone on speaker and up at peak volume, that is very noticeable distortion coming through the.
3) Random issues with Bluetooth and Sync in my Ford truck. The phone will occasionally tell me that blue tooth encountered an error and wont connect.
Do any of you guys suffer from the random reboots, low volume, distorted speaker on high, or issues with bluetooth?
Another thing I am worried about is developer support. Do you think this will pick up some time? Im tempted to exchange for a SG2 because I know the community support will be huge.
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Prior to upgrading (about 2 days) to the Thriller rom I had one reboot (that I noticed). Haven't noticed any since (about 2 days).
Speaker phone volume is pretty low. Haven't noticed any crackling though.
And I don't notice so much slow picture taking as I do how it is for the camera to open and load. I actually keep my camera on the continuous setting which takes a series of eapid pics since most of my pictures are of my 1 year old who can't sit still
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CallMeAria said:
Prior to upgrading (about 2 days) to the Thriller rom I had one reboot (that I noticed). Haven't noticed any since (about 2 days).
Speaker phone volume is pretty low. Haven't noticed any crackling though.
And I don't notice so much slow picture taking as I do how it is for the camera to open and load. I actually keep my camera on the continuous setting which takes a series of eapid pics since most of my pictures are of my 1 year old who can't sit still
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Thanks for the reply. Im learning to live with the few let downs. It has not rebooted. I *hear* there is a software fix coming soon from LG for battery drain so that is good. I wish I could find a way to boost the volume though.
I've had my Thrill for about 3 weeks and have had random reboots a total of 3 times. I wasn't too happy about it but it happens. The first time was when I launched the camera, I don't remember the second but the third was when I was watching a 3D movie in my gallery and clicked "home" it crashed instead. So in my case every random reboot has been related to the Camera/Gallery and since the camera is slow as ever so I'm not super surprised. The worst part is my battery loses about 20% or more when it comes back on like rebooting just sucked a quarter of my battery away. Either way I still love this phone.
I haven't noticed any distortion but I don't ever put volume of any of my devices at full. I feel they aren't intended for that and have blown speakers that way before so I'm always careful.
I love the screen but it could be prettier
The charge port is impossible to plug in, in the dark.
Looks like att would have tested this phone more than had
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TylDurden said:
I've had my Thrill for about 3 weeks and have had random reboots a total of 3 times. I wasn't too happy about it but it happens. The first time was when I launched the camera, I don't remember the second but the third was when I was watching a 3D movie in my gallery and clicked "home" it crashed instead. So in my case every random reboot has been related to the Camera/Gallery and since the camera is slow as ever so I'm not super surprised. The worst part is my battery loses about 20% or more when it comes back on like rebooting just sucked a quarter of my battery away. Either way I still love this phone.
I haven't noticed any distortion but I don't ever put volume of any of my devices at full. I feel they aren't intended for that and have blown speakers that way before so I'm always careful.
I love the screen but it could be prettier
The charge port is impossible to plug in, in the dark.
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My random reboots are when I am not doing anything personally with the phone. I notice it because the phone is on the desk next to me and then I notice movement (on the screen) and the phone then reboots.
Well speaking of the devil. My phone was just sitting on my desk and I noticed the boot splash screen, the sucker just randomly rebooted on my for no reason.
I have had at least 2 random reboots within the last 2 days. In both cases I tried wiping the phone but I expect it to happen again.
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msm903 said:
I have had at least 2 random reboots within the last 2 days. In both cases I tried wiping the phone but I expect it to happen again.
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Seems to be a trend.... hopefully LG can find and fix that issue.
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I have has the Thrill for about 1 week now. I have had the device reboot on me once. I loaded Thriller on there and this has not been a reoccurring issue since. All-in-all I love the device, the hardware is awesome and it runs great!!! It was a very good choice of device after 4 years of iPhone.
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I loaded Thriller on there and this has not been a reoccurring issue since.
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Thriller? The video?
I came from an iPhone as well and am very happy. (except for the battery of course)
I have had my Thrill for about 3 weeks now and the only issues are:
- Periodic Bluetooth connectivity loss (LG HBS-700 headset)
- Poor battery life
- Slow camera (but takes better than decent pics for a 5 MP camera)
- Display likes to black out during calls making it difficult to do other things during a call
Other than these I have experienced no other issues and have been extremely happy with this phone. After returning 3 Atrix and 2 Infuse devices, I could not be any happier.
bklynkid said:
I have had my Thrill for about 3 weeks now and the only issues are:
- Periodic Bluetooth connectivity loss (LG HBS-700 headset)
- Poor battery life
- Slow camera (but takes better than decent pics for a 5 MP camera)
- Display likes to black out during calls making it difficult to do other things during a call
Other than these I have experienced no other issues and have been extremely happy with this phone. After returning 3 Atrix and 2 Infuse devices, I could not be any happier.
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- Display likes to black out during calls making it difficult to do other things during a call
That's a feature not a issue.
If you want to do other stuff during a call, just don't move your finger over the sensor on the top right of the phone.
Ive had my LG Thrill 4G since launch day and so far I have
- random reboot
- very very slow camera
- music player skips
- sh!ty battery life.
I was hoping this phone would be a replacement for my iPhone 4 but I comes up short.
3) Random issues with Bluetooth and Sync in my Ford truck. The phone will occasionally tell me that blue tooth encountered an error and wont connect.
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same issue here when i had my first one, so i returned it for a replacement and got my second one, and still the same issue,
so i hope there will be a fix for it soon !!!
i drive BMW 328XI
ive used many other phones and it works with no issues, but sadly not the LG Thrill
Hrm....granted i didnt use my phone mutch at all....1 day 3hrs and I am still at 67%
i have good and bad battery days....just depends on usage
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Battery started out pretty bad. But its getting better as the days go by. Im trying to ne realistic though considering the specs of the phone and the battery capacity I'm no expecting it to last as long as the smaller, slower phone I upgrades from. I've also accepted that no android phone will probably ever have the battery life of a fruit phone so theres no sense in making a comparison there.
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bklynkid said:
I have had my Thrill for about 3 weeks now and the only issues are:
- Periodic Bluetooth connectivity loss (LG HBS-700 headset)
- Poor battery life
- Slow camera (but takes better than decent pics for a 5 MP camera)
- Display likes to black out during calls making it difficult to do other things during a call
Other than these I have experienced no other issues and have been extremely happy with this phone. After returning 3 Atrix and 2 Infuse devices, I could not be any happier.
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i have had some of the same issues with Thriller, but id rather have those than my device rebooting at random
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TylDurden said:
Thriller? The video?
I came from an iPhone as well and am very happy. (except for the battery of course)
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Thriller is a ROM for this device, try it out you'll like it. look in the Android Development section for installation how to.
I don't know how much longer I can put up with Samsung. I've been with them since the note 1 and it's so bad now. Everything from poor software to faulty hardware. GPS seems like its never worked correctly, no matter what they do. Updates cripple their phones. Their camera has certainly gone backwards in quality since the note 4 camera. The phone is lagging and slow always. Even in safe mode. The battery life is 3 hours at best, which is unacceptable. They force updates now, like Microsoft. They bundle things that you can't remove like facebook and instagram, but make you separately download their media players? That's backwards. The reception is horrible compared to other phones. Wi-Fi drops all the time, even next to my router. It has to warn me every single time I plug in headphones that it could damage my hearing. It has to notify me every single time I open the camera that location is either on or off. Charging is slow. Games shudder and lag no matter what I do. I can remove huge, useless apps like facebook. I can't root because of the locked bootloaders. I can't ever quickly see my new facebook messages because it has to now group multiple notifications and there is no way to turn off the "open chat heads" nonsense. The only thing mine doesn't do is over heat it seems like. That green battery ic9on update with the ultimate new UI completely compromised my Note. T-Mobile won't take it back without paying $50 either.
Samsung seems to have turned their backs on what their actual fans want in favor of being an iClone. Why does every single app and menu have a search bar now? Annoying. The drop down menu and notifications have severely dropped in quality since ICS. Does anyone else feel this way at all? It took me a long time to swallow my pride and get the note 2 way back when. Now I regret that I did. I can't find a way around these issues and no one will help.
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I have a Note 9 on Sprint, and everytime I go to use Waze, or Gmaps, I do not get a GPS lock. Restarting the phone fixes it, but by the next day, the issue crops up again. Anyone else seeing this?
I too have issues GPS, my. device is constantly loosing its fix. It aquires 20+ Sats very fast, then fix within a few seconds (what is absolutely fine), but a few seconds later it loses the fix for a few moments, fix again, lose again, and this then goes on forever...
I now have the device (512 black Exynos ATO) since a week, but I started to observe this behavior since today!
How is the GPS performance of other users?
Had it happen again today. Went to use Waze, and it would not lock on. Installed GPS Test, and it shows no sats, nothing. Restarting the phone does fix it, but it's a pain. May have to contact Samsung/Sprint.
Done a bit of geocaching and it was spot on the whole time. Also used at work , both trouble. US unlocked 512gb
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Note 9 gpsfix lost
I have the sane issue..i have tey many thinks but i havent locate the source of the problem yet
I had similar issues but it turns out the location method is always set to "phone only", changing back to "high accuracy" fixes it.
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GPS signal is lost in Goolge Maps after update N960FXXU2ARJ1
I have a Note 9 since a few weeks now and it worked perfectly until I installed the latest update (N960FXXU2ARJ1), the one with the fix for the photo quality.
Now when i'm using Google Maps or Waze in my car with Android Auto my GPS loses fix. Google Maps constantly says that the GPS signal is lost.
GPS Status or GPS Essentials show 10 to 15 satellites in seconds with a GPS fix. So GPS seems to work fine. Only when driving the signal is lost.
Maybe there's a bug in the update?
Note 9 on ATT, sporadically it will ask me to turn on high accuracy setting and submit random anonymous data, but it keeps asking me, even when I haven't turned the GPS on. When I hit accept it turns the GPS on, I assume it's the weather widget or something like that needing a location.
My actual issue is I already hit accept and don't want to keep hitting accept and on top of that it will sometimes default to battery saver GPS which is useless.
I dont know how to keep it at either high accuracy or phone only when I go to turn on GPS.
Still having the issue....happened yesterday.
No issues here so far. I'm inside my apartment on the third floor, so sandwiched between apartments. I turned off WiFi to make sure it wasn't using my router. Opened Google Maps and it immediately locked on to me. Right down to what room I'm in.
I still don't know why my gps keeps trying to randomly turn on and asks me to accept or deny, regardless what I choose my GPS turns on without me turning it on.
Same issue here. Losing GPS and the finding a fix again shortly after. Happens in locations with no problem before and changes status rapidly. What's going on?
Looking for this problem in another forums I've discovered that the problem is related with Power Saving Mode in Samsung phones.
Yesterday I disabled the power saving mode and it worked flawlessly through Android Auto, even with the phone at the glove box I had a consistent and precise GPS fix.
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Same issue here. Losing GPS and the finding a fix again shortly after. Happens in locations with no problem before and changes status rapidly. What's going on?
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The answer is easier (and more disappointing) than anyone might guess.
The phone simply, has a mediocre GPS unit.
But it's a PREMIUM DEVICE?
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And? No one cares. OnePlus has been featuring horrible GPS units since forever.
How do you know?! Can I verify?
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Of course, you can verify. Install GPS Test (or any other GPS app from Store) on two or more phones of yours (including the Note 9, duh) and see the results.
Inside your house, outside, in a car.
So other devices have better GPS?
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Only Notebookcheck (from what I saw) features GPS reviews, and they don't check all phones.
My experience. (from the phones I tried, owned, had. DB = Dual-Band GPS.)
Note 4: 5/5 || Always worked superb.
Note 9: 3.75/5 || Bit better signal than the 7 Pro, but puts you off by a street or two in the car. It's nothing good/great.
OnePlus 6T: 2/5 || Horrible. Even on a plain street has difficulties.
OnePlus 7 Pro [DB]: 3.5/5 || Not bad, not good. Has trouble finding you in the streets. Works OK until you enter a place with various roads (like an interchange).
HTC 10: 4.5/5 || Good. Stable, solid. Works great really.
Huawei Mate 10 Pro: 5/5 || Perfect.
Huawei P10 Plus: 4/5 || Had some trouble on foot, but okay-ish.
From what I saw, learned:
- Dual-band does NOT matter. If the module is bad, signal will be bad.
- Car glass can block out a good deal of the signal. Heated glass, heat-reflective glass. Ford, for example, uses both on cars. Does not mean it will like reduce signal by a LOT, but will make it worse.
- Phone cases matter. Even thicc plastic cases can reduce signal.
From what I read lately... the following high-end phones have good GPS modules.
- Pixel 3a: Good, thought not flagship SOC/internals/ram/storage. Only 1 camera.
- Huawei Mate 20 Pro: Great phone, albeit bit dated by now. Huawei updates are erratic, support/warranty is horrible. I had huge fights with them, since my family had 4 flagship Huawei devices. Court was always there, legal actions, threats. It's insanely bad. And now they have the Google problem (US vs China), and the phone is 100% locked down, no unlock possible. Unless you buy at external shops - but then you can't get warranty on them.
- Samsung A70: The horrible in-screen fingerprint reader ruins this otherwise perfectly great device.
GPS signal lost a few weeks ago and I tried everything but no signal. Is there anyone who can help with this topic? Galaxy Note 9 - SM-N960FZBDDBT
My 2 day old, 5a with 5g just overheated. I have no case on it and it wasn't charging at the time. I was in a FBM video call and at about the 30 minute mark, I got the overheating warning. A few minutes later, the phone froze for about 60 seconds and then resumed. The phone was very hot to the touch! Ironically it was propped up against a laptop screen that was in hibernation mode and there is a table fan approximately 8 inches from the device blowing directly at it.
I reported it to Google Support and 1st level was very understanding. 2nd level told me to try some tips that he would send me because I was probably just overusing it. I told him I was using it exactly the same way I used my 2xl, but that didn't seem to make a difference.
I'll keep this updated as I continue to use my new "hot" phone.
Interesting. There's a known issue with recording 4K video, but this is the first time I've heard of an issue just streaming video.
Keep us updated for sure.
I have not tried the video recording at 4K...but I have been streaming YouTube videos and no overheating for me. YMMV
I have experienced the overheating issue while using video recording at 60 fps 4k. The phone didn't seem warm at all though so here's hoping it's just a software fix Google can implement.
If anyone can reliably reproduce the error, would you want to run some testing to see if the option for "Store videos efficiently
Use H.265/HEVC format" makes it better or worse?
I only had a heat issue when I first started my 5a, and it was installing all my apps in the background. Building the cache is notorious for its CPU use, so I can't say I'm surprised by overheating then. I've done a couple 5 minute 4k 60 videos without overheating since then.
I noticed the same thing today on my new Pixel 5a. Wasn't doing anything other than participating in a Whatsapp video call and browsing text messages.
I do have a Spigen case but the ambient temperature was low 70's inside.
This could be concerning...
luciferin said:
If anyone can reliably reproduce the error, would you want to run some testing to see if the option for "Store videos efficiently
Use H.265/HEVC format" makes it better or worse?
I only had a heat issue when I first started my 5a, and it was installing all my apps in the background. Building the cache is notorious for its CPU use, so I can't say I'm surprised by overheating then. I've done a couple 5 minute 4k 60 videos without overheating since then.
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I had a similar heat issue when setting up my phone the first time as well. It was when I was just going through the setup, and transferring everything from old phone to the new one. I, unlike you, have never experienced the heat build up, that occured with this phone, on any other phone in my many years of flashing ROMs and setting up phones (unless I was flashing it multiple times due to issues). So, this post does leave me a bit concerned....
I hope once I get my case that this doesn't start occurring for me.
I have experienced the video camera causing the over heating. It appears that any app using built in video recorder will produce the heat. Google camera, Duo, … Zoom. I did a little searching before checking here on xda.
Google admits that the issue is with the 60 bpf 4k recording that is the cause. And of course they do not have a fix available at this time.
I was hoping to find a way to lower the setting to 30 bpf but I cannot locate a way to change the setting. Can anyone help with that please? Or is it possible to install a different camera from the play store with custom video settings, and set that as default for all video?
Edit: I use the system wide dark mode, so I didn't see the camera drop down arrow which opens the settings popup. Open the camera, select video mode, touch the drop down arrow at the very top center of screen. The default setting for Frames/Sec is Auto. The other 2 options are 30 bfs and 60 bfs. Select 30 bfs. Touch outside the popup to dismiss.
I left the resolution at Full HD which is the default. Most users report the issue is while using 60 bfs at 4k.
My wife, who is traveling in another section of the country, also reports over heating. She was not actively using any app when the heating issue occurred. After rebooting the device she saw that the WebEx Meet app was attempting to connect in the background. A persistent silent notification was displayed in the notification tray. This app was one of many that she had transferred from her old device to her 5a during the initial setup process. I told her to uninstall that app. Then review all apps and remove any not needed. Probably should do the same as I have not looked at which of them may also be outdated and needlessly using system resources.
Grr, time for an update. I've had the overheat warnings every few days, but no noticeable effects from it. Until today!
I was in a long video call, maybe an hour or so and got the warning. Shortly after that, the phone shutdown. It was not charging at the time, battery was at 51%
I contacted support and they listened to my complaint and asked all the same questions as last time... except for the new question to confirm that I bought it from the US Google Store (I did of course, but not sure why they would ask that). They said a specialist will contact me via email within 2 days.
Having this issue as well. Shut down the phone for 10m and still got the issue when I powered on.
Crazy
I had a 5a for about 2 wks. I was in Facebook video chat for about 15min when overheated and dropped internet connection. I was holding phone in hand parked in car 80 degree day. I had one day left to return it, so I rma'd it. No way to report hardware problem as reason for return. Charged me $35 restocking fee. I loved the phone, but they need to solve this. If they fix it, I may buy again.
The phone overheating at all is unacceptable. I've never even personally seen/felt a phone "overheat". That's crazy.
Obviously some kind of defect that google will ignore for 1 year as per protocol.
I've only had my 5a 3 days so far but mine has yet to overheat. And I'm a heavy user. Now my OnePlus n10 after the android 11 update would overheat multiple times a day, sometimes when just sending a text. When it was on Android 10 it never overheated.
Im starting to have those issues too. I cant record for more than 1 minute sometimes
Was this solved in the new update? I havent updated due to root, so just wondering.
Thanks
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Was this solved in the new update? I havent updated due to root, so just wondering.
Thanks
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No, I still can't record for over about 30 seconds to a minute
Unfortunately no... I'm still getting the overheating after the update.
This happened to me initially, like one user mentioned, when I got the phone and it was building the cache. More recently this happened to me while on a Caribbean vacation to Anguilla; was using the phone for pictures outside. It never got hot enough for a general overheat error, just always warning me that the camera was too hot and flash was disabled, or at one point camera was too hot when I was taking video and said the video could be unstable. I was filming in 1080/60. Switched to 1080/30 and it was ok. I have a Spigen Tough Armor case, so I wasn't surprised at that.
UPDATE: The phone finally died. I had been receiving the overheating issue about once a week since the beginning. Google support didn't care. Now, while I'm travelling in a foreign country, the phone died.
I called support and they said as a 1 time deal, they will replace it free of charge. However they only ship to the US and I have to send back this one in 14 days. That is an issue because mail from here takes months sometimes to reach the states. I"m not due back in the states until this summer.
WORST part: the password safe app that I use on my phone unlocks with my fingerprint. Never requires the actual password, so SHAME ON ME, I forgot that password. I have the password app on my laptop and it has current info, but I can't access it because I don't remember the actual password. :-(
PSA: use your actual password from time to time to ensure you don't forget key passwords!
I've been scouring the web trying to find *current* info about the overheating issue, but all I'm finding is stuff from last year. Nothing new about whether it was ever fixed by a software path, or if current inventory has a hardware fix, or if Google just ignored it as they often do. I'd like to know if I buy a new Pixel 5a today, directly from Google, if it still may have the problem. I'd be grateful for any info, thanks!
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I've been scouring the web trying to find *current* info about the overheating issue, but all I'm finding is stuff from last year. Nothing new about whether it was ever fixed by a software path, or if current inventory has a hardware fix, or if Google just ignored it as they often do. I'd like to know if I buy a new Pixel 5a today, directly from Google, if it still may have the problem. I'd be grateful for any info, thanks!
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I don't play games and I don't use 4k video on my camera. For me phone is great didn't get worm once, but that is just my use, pictures, fullHD video, chat, video calls, phonecalls and browsing and watching videos.
I meet this problem when I take photos or video ([email protected]).
I have had issues by simply using Android Auto in my vehicle in less than 10 minutes of use. I have also experienced the overheating when recording videos even though I have followed all of the tips in Google's support email.
If I'm using Android Auto, I have to keep the phone in front of an AC vent in my car - otherwise all radios shut off within 1-2 minutes, followed a few minutes later by an overheat message (at that point it's already throttled so bad that the phone is completely unusable anyway).
Any teleconference app that uses the front camera causes it to shut down all radios about 1-2 minutes before popping up the overheat message with no warning before turning off radios (Zoom, Mychart, CVS Minute Clinic, Teladoc, even a Facebook Messenger video call). Drove me crazy trying to do a telemedicine appointment with my doctor, he finally called me instead.
Even just trying to do a phone call with Google Maps running during the call makes this damn thing overheat. Taking it out of the case (Spigen Slimarmor) seems to delay it by about a minute.
Honestly, if Fi didn't require me to keep it active for 120 days to keep the discount I got on it, I would have run the damn thing under an 18 wheeler by now. The only benefits over my old OP8T are the camera app and the physical size. That's it. Luckily I still have it, so once I hit that 120 days, I'm going back to the 8T.
Has anyone tried alternate ROMs to see if they handle the overheating issue any better? I'm especially interested in LineageOS. I imagine some kernel changes to scheduling and clocks could handle things better for this processor.