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I will not deny that the Pixel 7/7 Pro has a lens that isn't the best with chromatic aberration at the edges. That said, a lot of this is due to the shallow depth of field due to the larger sensor and wide open aperture. When you focus close, the edges of the frame are proportionally a lot further away than the center. That can absolutely magnify existing chromatic aberration issues. If you want to test the quality and sharpness of the lens, the best way is to take a picture of a patterned/textured surface at a long enough distance away that all of it is within the depth of field of the camera. If the issue with with the lens, it should be even more apparent there and then it's RMA time. I tried to test this with my 12 Pro MAX, but the minimum focus distance is so bad that the proportionally smaller sensor didn't show many issues when things were far enough away to be in focus at all. This is why all the flagships use the ultrawide for the macro, but the lack of autofocus on the base 7 UW lens kinda leaves it out for that.
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Your phone camera absolutely has a minimum distance and any photo inside that distance is going to look worse/be unfocused. I worked on some check scanning/photo apps and if you're taking a photo less than 12 inches away you're likely to get a blurry shot.
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Nov 1, 2023 23:06
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Yeah it's definitely a closer shot. Still amazed it's that crappy. Oh well. Glad to know it's normal. Is that poor close performance a trade off for something else that makes it worth it? Or just a limitation of the physical tight space?
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Nov 2, 2023 00:28
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Long shot, but I migrated my wife from her P6Pro to a P8Pro and it's been awful. Something is going on that constantly kills the focused process and I can't seem to find it. The fact that it's always the focused process makes me suspect it's something that came from the migration and not a hardware issue. Best I found for similar stories on Reddit was nuke and start fresh and it'll go away. Or install updates, but I've done all of those and it still is an issue. I'll try that next but a solution that is quicker would be nice.
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Nov 2, 2023 01:46
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FunOne posted:Long shot, but I migrated my wife from her P6Pro to a P8Pro and it's been awful. Something is going on that constantly kills the focused process and I can't seem to find it. The fact that it's always the focused process makes me suspect it's something that came from the migration and not a hardware issue. Pick a specific app you can reproduce this for. Go to Settings, Apps, scroll to your chosen app and check out its App battery usage information. Make sure it's not Restricted.
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Nov 2, 2023 02:03
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BonoMan posted:
It's a tradeoff of having a large sensor and a wide aperture (to let in more light). Think of the plane that's in focus as more of a half spheroid shape as it extends outward from the lens. Everything that intersects with the shape is in focus. Smaller sensors can have a shorter focal distance which allows the depth of field (the plane of the spheroid) to be thicker. As the subject moves further from the camera, the depth of field increases, so more is in focus. For a case like this, what helps is holding the item further away and using the 2x digital zoom to crop in on the sensor.
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Nov 2, 2023 02:39
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Ragingsheep posted:InTune/Company Portal disappears for me from the personal side once the work profile is setup correctly
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Nov 3, 2023 13:02
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Oi. Yeah. They're not doing MDM right, then. The whole point of the Android Work profile is to segregate your work stuff from your personal stuff, so that if/when they need to send the poison pill, it doesn't nuke your whole device. It sounds like the way they're setting it up won't even make the wipe stuff work right, anyway, let alone nuking the whole device. Edit: The way it *should work* - Install InTune Company Portal. Log in with work credentials and ack 2FA. Android Work profile gets set up and makes a Play Store available. Install Outlook. Log in to Outlook. Outlook takes device admin permissions including remote wipe (just for the Android Work profile). Install other apps.
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Nov 3, 2023 14:30
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This is why I use a cheap iphone as a work phone! Nothing work related on the personal phone so that when someone fucks up it doesn't wreck my stuff. I left it as a wifi only device for a long time, I finally put service on it during a promo because I wanted to be available for work stuff while waiting in line for the kid's school stuff and doctor's appointments, but it was pretty good as wifi only and tethered. You could do a cheap android phone too, but it was a bit harder to wrangle something with a long support window until recently.
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Nov 3, 2023 14:33
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Shelter on Fdroid adds the work stuff. I haven't had my work stuff wiped yet but I assume it will work the right way
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Nov 3, 2023 14:58
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Alarbus posted:This is why I use a cheap iphone as a work phone! Nothing work related on the personal phone so that when someone fucks up it doesn't wreck my stuff. I kind of view it as a potential lottery payout as people have very successfully sued for big bucks if work MDM in any way destroys or intercepts private data.
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Nov 3, 2023 15:26
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Alarbus posted:This is why I use a cheap iphone as a work phone! Nothing work related on the personal phone so that when someone fucks up it doesn't wreck my stuff. I hope this is on the company dime, because gently caress providing your own phone for workstuff.
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Nov 3, 2023 17:19
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AlexDeGruven posted:Edit: The way it *should work* - Install InTune Company Portal. Log in with work credentials and ack 2FA. Android Work profile gets set up and makes a Play Store available. Install Outlook. Log in to Outlook. Outlook takes device admin permissions including remote wipe (just for the Android Work profile). Install other apps. 
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Nov 3, 2023 22:35
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This is well above what you are capable of solving if you want to go the intune route for this. All of that is entirely controlled by your IT department, so either they set it up wrong or didn’t set it up at all. Source: I’m usually the guy who sets all that poo poo up
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Nov 3, 2023 22:38
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right, i was just showing how it's busted. there are some times when it would be convenient to have teams but that doesn't tip the scales. if it's ever required i'll make them buy me a phone and plan
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Nov 3, 2023 23:38
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Gotta love competent IT staff. Too bad there's not a lot of that around.
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Nov 4, 2023 00:10
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Just use Shelter to set up a work profile and set up the corporate stuff entirely in there. If the MDM wants full control, it can have its full control inside the profile.
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AlexDeGruven posted:Oi. Yeah. They're not doing MDM right, then. Note that this is not always true, your company may do mobile application management (MAM), which for some reason requires the company portal app, but you don't touch it, it just provides bits to Microsoft apps needed for MAM functionality. It gives your company the ability to control just the data related to what you have logged into with your corp account that support it which is mostly just Microsoft apps. It is confusing and a support problem, but less invasive than full MDM. Lack of documentation is always a problem. I don't think there is any way for you as a user to tell which method your company uses. The onboarding process in this case should be to install company portal and outlook, then just sign into Outlook with your work account. Dyscrasia fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Nov 4, 2023 |
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Nov 4, 2023 01:17
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Spotify bluetooth broken for anyone else on Android 14?
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Nov 4, 2023 18:22
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FogHelmut posted:Spotify bluetooth broken for anyone else on Android 14? Fine on my Pixel 8 between my phone and car, and gaming headset.
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Nov 4, 2023 19:17
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There seems to be a bunch of WiFi and Bluetooth bugs in Android 14. Incoming patch notes seem to have fixes. https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/release-notes#beta2.2
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Nov 4, 2023 19:33
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My Pixel 8 froze and then crashed on me again today. Any reports of this being common?
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Nov 4, 2023 20:00
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My Pixel 8 had a speck of dust somewhere under the glass cover, so I exchanged it in store at a Best Buy. This apparently counted as returning it, so they canceled the Pixel 7 trade in for $450 and are shipping it back. Very cool lol
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sourdough posted:My Pixel 8 had a speck of dust somewhere under the glass cover, so I exchanged it in store at a Best Buy. This apparently counted as returning it, so they canceled the Pixel 7 trade in for $450 and are shipping it back. Very cool lol Lmao these trade-in programs can be so hosed sometimes. A friend of mine traded their Pixel 4a in on a Samsung A54 through Samsung, since they were offering $150 for it. Upon receipt Samsung claimed that the Pixel 4a wasn't an eligible trade-in device because it was the 4G variant and not the 5G one, which is a completely different device. The "Pixel 4a 5G" wasn't even an option on the trade-in page, just "Pixel 4a." My friend called Samsung about it and they gave them the credit anyway.
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I'm running a pixel 7pro, and this weekend I scratched/chipped my screen. Bad enough that my thumb feels it as I swype. Would a glass screen protector work enough if the digitizer seems good? I can get over the appearance for now. Or should I look at a screen replacement? I don't think I did insurance on it.
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Nov 7, 2023 06:54
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If you do a UV cured screen protector, it may fill in the chip and make it hard to see.
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Nov 7, 2023 13:36
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bull3964 posted:If you do a UV cured screen protector, it may fill in the chip and make it hard to see. That was my hope really. Suggestions on a good one?
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Nov 7, 2023 15:27
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I put this one on my Pixel 7 Pro and it was fine aside from the normal fiddly stuff around doing that type of protector. https://a.co/d/3GpvJXr
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Nov 7, 2023 15:29
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Is T-Mobile holding the security update again this month? I thought I saw a headline that it was released yesterday, but on Mint Mobile I'm not seeing an update for my Pixel 7.
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No one has gotten it yet as far as I can tell. I have an unlocked Pixel 7 that's never seen a SIM and it still isn't pulling the update.
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Nothing for me on an unlocked Pixel 8 in the UK. Thought it was just me.
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Nov 7, 2023 23:41
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Didn't they stop going by the usual schedule after Android 14 dropped?
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Pvt. Parts posted:I hope this is on the company dime, because gently caress providing your own phone for workstuff. Coming back to this, yes a company should be paying for all of it. However, I already had the spare phone laying around, hence using it on wifi, and I paid for cell service on it to further my laziness and because my car has car play but not Android Auto. So yes, I agree I'm doing it wrong, but I know why and no it's not to answer email after hours. My 6pro on the beta track got an update, but the 8pro on release track has not (vzw).
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Nov 8, 2023 00:04
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hooah posted:Is T-Mobile holding the security update again this month? I thought I saw a headline that it was released yesterday, but on Mint Mobile I'm not seeing an update for my Pixel 7. GrapheneOS patch notes mentioned something about the GPU kernel patch being missing for the 11/5 security update so that could be why.
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Regretful Humming posted:Didn't they stop going by the usual schedule after Android 14 dropped? I mean, they did, but the they actually announced the update, posted the OTAs, and said the rollout was starting yesterday.
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Nov 8, 2023 00:46
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So, the interesting thing is, my Pixel Tablet IS pulling down the update. So it seems to be the phones.
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Nov 8, 2023 02:17
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Is the GPS precision on the Pixel 7A really bad for anyone else? Like it'll show mw driving through houses even in the middle of a perfectly clear road without any trees overhead. It's significantly worse then my 5a was
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devicenull posted:Is the GPS precision on the Pixel 7A really bad for anyone else? Like it'll show mw driving through houses even in the middle of a perfectly clear road without any trees overhead. I have a 7 Pro and it was immediately apparent how sluggish and inaccurate the GPS location was compared to the 5 I upgraded from.
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Nov 8, 2023 07:49
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My 7 Pro got the November update like two days ago.
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Just checked, and still not here on a Pixel 6 on Verizon Prepaid. I did have a Google Play update waiting, and it now says it is at October patch level, though. 
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