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Incessant Excess posted:I noticed that when I cover the right speaker on the bottom of my Pixel 6 Pro I can hear almost nothing but when I cover the left speaker it makes no difference at all. Has anyone else noticed this? Is the left opening only decorative? Probably microphone is my guess.
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hooah posted:Man, I feel like I've gotten far more light scratches on my Pixel 5 than any previous phone. No idea what I could be doing differently in the last 18 months compared to the rest of my smartphone life. Glad it's not just me. This thing is a magnet for shallow hairline scratches.
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Incessant Excess posted:I noticed that when I cover the right speaker on the bottom of my Pixel 6 Pro I can hear almost nothing but when I cover the left speaker it makes no difference at all. Has anyone else noticed this? Is the left opening only decorative? One side is a microphone. The second speaker is in your earpiece.
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Dec 15, 2021 13:37
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So proud of you guys for not stringing him along letting him think one of his speakers is broken...
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Dec 15, 2021 15:44
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I actually know of no phone where the second opening is anything other than decorative/used for microphone. Even the iPhone does it.
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Dec 15, 2021 16:10
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Is it designers that can't stand asymmetry? Lots of cars now have fake double exhausts, where only one is actually connected to the engine.
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Dec 15, 2021 16:41
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gently caress asymmetry. Ever see those cars driving around with one off center stripe? gently caress those people too
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bull3964 posted:I actually know of no phone where the second opening is anything other than decorative/used for microphone. Even the iPhone does it. I'm pretty sure my iPhone 3g was like this.
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Dec 15, 2021 18:00
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codo27 posted:gently caress asymmetry. Ever see those cars driving around with one off center stripe? gently caress those people too
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Dec 15, 2021 18:35
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butt dickus posted:and what's with the steering wheel all off to one side who comes up with this poo poo TBF when Toyota first started to put their odometers off center to the driver it pissed me off. Now I like it. Buy a Prius.
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Dec 15, 2021 18:44
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codo27 posted:gently caress asymmetry. Ever see those cars driving around with one off center stripe? gently caress those people too 
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Dec 15, 2021 19:06
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Well theres no saving a big pile of ford like that regardless
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Dec 15, 2021 19:21
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Ahh, the venerable Escort GT (LOL). My grandma had one that looked just like that, but with red accents. She drove it for 12 years and only put 6k miles on it.
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Dec 15, 2021 20:01
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So my current phone is acting stupid and also going to be dropped from my provider's network soon, and the Pixel 5a is about the closes to what I want, but still on the large side. Is there really anything comparable under six inches? At first glance my best options seem to be finding a used 4a, or going to an iPhone, and I'm really not keen on migrating to a new ecosystem.
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Dec 15, 2021 21:10
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Lurkman posted:So my current phone is acting stupid and also going to be dropped from my provider's network soon, and the Pixel 5a is about the closes to what I want, but still on the large side. Is there really anything comparable under six inches? At first glance my best options seem to be finding a used 4a, or going to an iPhone, and I'm really not keen on migrating to a new ecosystem. The Pixel 5 is still really nice and is a small phone, it's just not a great value when the 4a, 5a, and 6 exist, unless you can find it on super sale
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Dec 15, 2021 21:25
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Does anyone have a suggestion for a screen protector for a pixel 6 Pro? The one I ordered from Amazon that said tempered glass and thumbprint was plastic and the thumb part was the only part that sticks to the screen and makes it look really bad. It's trash.
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Dec 15, 2021 21:26
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There's also the Asus ZenFone 8 which is about the same size as the Pixel 5 with higher spec internals. https://www.theverge.com/22431051/asus-zenfone-8-review You are just trading camera quality and unclear update policy for the specs with compared to the Pixel.
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edit: actually there's a thread for this.
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Dec 15, 2021 23:00
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Wife's Google stand 2 arrived. It's nice, smaller than expected and smaller than the stand 1. Hard to be impressed by 23w wireless charging now though since my wireless charger is 45w and half the cost. (30w max on the Find X3 Pro)
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Hands on with the Oppo foldable. https://youtu.be/_VAlGmtfDN0
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bull3964 posted:Hands on with the Oppo foldable. There's something funny about how if I want a phone with a smaller screen it has to be a foldable with a huge inside screen. And honestly, I'm kind of okay with it if that's what's needed to get a one-handable flagship in the future.
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Coxswain Balls posted:There's something funny about how if I want a phone with a smaller screen it has to be a foldable with a huge inside screen. And honestly, I'm kind of okay with it if that's what's needed to get a one-handable flagship in the future. https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-2 This isn't some flagship.. but its actually on android 11 and somewhat decent! Its very small.. edit to avoid double post: Any truth to this Android Central headline? December Pixel 6 update reportedly kills cell signal for many users Do they have a big enough readership to even say 'many users'? I've had them in my feedly since the wild west modding days, but I don't pay too much attention to them. I'm on a SixelPro and have not seen the update as of yet. deong fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Dec 16, 2021 |
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Dec 16, 2021 04:18
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It's Android Central, so 'many' probably means a handful of reddit users doing unscientific reports. Seems perfectly fine to me after the update. Just checked and 460mbps on T-Mobile in my living room.
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bull3964 posted:It's Android Central, so 'many' probably means a handful of reddit users doing unscientific reports. That's what I assumed ha. I keep smashin that check for updates and I've not gotten it yet. I don't feel like side loading it.. but maybe.
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Dec 16, 2021 07:09
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T Mobile, when will you give my pixel 6 pro the update?
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Lurkman posted:So my current phone is acting stupid and also going to be dropped from my provider's network soon, and the Pixel 5a is about the closes to what I want, but still on the large side. Is there really anything comparable under six inches? At first glance my best options seem to be finding a used 4a, or going to an iPhone, and I'm really not keen on migrating to a new ecosystem. Best Buy has been throwing open box Pixel 4a 4Gs on bestbuy.com occasionally. I ordered a barely blue one in "excellent" condition for $287 plus tax earlier this week. you have to scroll down and open up the Buying Options section to see if there are any available, which wasn't clear to me when i was checking a month ago. nothing on there this morning, but it may be worth a look before you order something else i didn't even want to buy a new phone (and especially not a massive phone), but it seemed easier than loving around getting a battery replacement for my pixel 2 without an alternate phone on hand
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Any way to stop the screen on my Pixel 6 Pro from seemingly waking for loving nothing? I'll have the phone sitting on my desk, black screen, and then it flips on for (????????). I'm guessing maybe there was an update to the Weather widget or something idiotic like that but it's profoundly distracting. For clarity this is still the white-on-black (i.e. shows time & notification icon but not the normal display with wallpaper and full notifications stuff).
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I'm having weird screen things with my Pixel 4a. Sometimes it will look like it stays on, but will go to the lock screen when I pick it up (showing whatever was on the screen for everyone to see). Sometimes it will go to the lock screen, but will keep showing the keyboard (usually when I was typing in Discord). I've also had YouTube go to picture-in-picture when not playing a video and often I will press the power button with the video playing and it will continue to play audio with the screen off until I try to unlock the phone (I don't pay for premium).
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stratego posted:T Mobile, when will you give my pixel 6 pro the update?
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Not to open a can of worms but it blows my mind that a phone with a 6" screen is considered a "mini" these days.  My Pixel 3A is getting really weird lag all over the place. The oddest is when I am on a phone call and have to press numbers, like to enter my social security number before the bank connects the call or whatever. I'm not kidding when I say that I will press a number and there is a literal 4 second lag to when the number is actually pressed. It messes me up all the time because I have no idea what I pressed and I wait so long the automated menu usually times out! It's driving me nuts, even though the rest of the phone is fairly lag-free. I don't understand how the phone can run Playstation 1 games at 60 fps but it can't handle pressing a touch tone button. Anyway I recently dug out my old Droid Mini and I just couldn't get over how much I love(d) that phone. It was the absolute perfect size to me. If I were to look for a new phone today, is it possible to get one the size of the Droid Mini? I don't care if it's some no-name questionably fly-by-night company, I can't stand not being able to reach the top left of the screen with one hand (I remember audibly yelling "YES!!!" when Apple had that commercial making fun of phones where you couldn't reach everything with your thumb. I think it was the iPhone 5 ad?). I don't even care if it's not going to get updates; I'll install Lineage on the drat thing if I have to. My only requirements would be: fairly reasonable RAM/CPU, 64gb of storage minimum, rear fingerprint reader, and rootable. Does this exist? I know it's not going to be a major manufacturer, but considering you can get Android devices in almost every ridiculous configuration imaginable, I was hoping something like this existed somewhere.
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1st gen iPhone SE
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hooah posted:Man, I feel like I've gotten far more light scratches on my Pixel 5 than any previous phone. No idea what I could be doing differently in the last 18 months compared to the rest of my smartphone life. I had the same experience.
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sarcastx posted:Any way to stop the screen on my Pixel 6 Pro from seemingly waking for loving nothing? I have every setting on my phone possible for the screen to never turn on unless I literally press the power button or fingerprint reader, and I remember every single app behaved properly and my screen never woke up, except for Snapchat. It took me a while to figure out what was doing it. It drove me nuts. I even had the settings specifically in the app to "never wake screen" and that piece of poo poo app still did so I uninstalled it and never used it again and it completely went away. I've never had that issue again. So maybe it's Snapchat if you have that installed. hooah posted:Man, I feel like I've gotten far more light scratches on my Pixel 5 than any previous phone. No idea what I could be doing differently in the last 18 months compared to the rest of my smartphone life. The OLED Switch (which owns by the way) is like this. I handled it like a surgeon and I still have these feint scratches all over the screen. It sucks but not all screen material is equal. I've never really had it with anything else either. sourdough posted:1st gen iPhone SE I would but the only thing I hate more than not being able to reach the top left part of my screen is Apple's operating systems!!
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One handed mode exists as a setting which may help.
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withoutclass posted:One handed mode exists as a setting which may help. It helps visualize what a suitable phone size is. With the high resolution screens today are capable of, you can just hold it closer to face if you feel you need a bigger apparent display.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:
Switch OLED, while the screen is made of glass, has a plastic anti shattering film on the top layer. So, it's best to put a tempered glass screen protector over it.
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Is there any way to make the screen turn on immediately when you unlock it? The most recent update to Android 12 makes it slowly dissolve in, and it's annoying.
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Maigius posted:Is there any way to make the screen turn on immediately when you unlock it? The most recent update to Android 12 makes it slowly dissolve in, and it's annoying. I'm not 100% sure if turning off animations would stop that or not, but I assume it would. That said, doing that breaks AOD, so my professional advice is 
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Did anyone else's color scheme get hosed up with a recent update? I used GrapheneOS but my friend using a stock Pixel 3a just got one and it turned their color scheme into some disgusting green mint color.
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cage-free egghead posted:Did anyone else's color scheme get hosed up with a recent update? I used GrapheneOS but my friend using a stock Pixel 3a just got one and it turned their color scheme into some disgusting green mint color. Doesn't 12 base its theme on the color of your wallpaper? Not sure if it can be changed or not, but I recall reading that somewhere.
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