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Updated to 1.28 on Three UK

I was running the stock 1.26 version and it was perfect. No flickering, very smooth, but the phone kept bugging me for the update, so I updated it. Update went smooth, but now I have that terrible screen flicker, it's by far not as smooth... so if you have no problems with 1.26, don't update. I'll revert to 1.26 and hope that it goes back to being as flawless as it was before.
Edit: Just noticed that wireless connections are much worse as well with this update. At the moment I can only use WiFi and even that doesn't work properly for some reason (i.e. can surf but can't get to beta.swype.com - but I can get there on my desktop using the same WLAN). All borked...

You are one of the only people who has said this about the 1.28 update. Also you can't revert unless you get a new phone with 1.26 as your HBOOT was updated when you installed this update.

Yes, I just noticed that . So until 3 come up with a better update, I'm stuck with this junk Should have stuck to my usual motto: Don't fix it if it ain't broke.

Updated mine on the day I got the phone not noticed any screen flicker at all and I have been looking for it. Dont use Wifi as the 3's 3G is plenty fast enough and I have all you can eat data so can't comment on that. Data connection is FAR more stable than on the ONE S which I swapped it for.

I don't know but this update has royally screwed my phone. Each time the alarm is supposed to go off, the phone reboots (no matter which alarm app I use). I also get reboots for random other apps.
For me it's just a real PITA and at the moment, I would consider the phone unreliable at best. I'll try flashing the 1.28 from Three again but I'm not holding my breath
Just wish I could go back to 1.26.
Edit: I just flashed Energy ROM and the phone still reboots when using Alarm Clock Extreme. It's just sooooooooo annoying!
Isn't there any way to go back to 1.26?
Edit2: After the phone just rebooted, it rebooted again when I was just looking at the notification screen.
Is it a problem with Three UK if the phone has been unlocked? I feel very much inclined to return the phone and get a replacement... phone is unsuable at the moment as a smartphone...
Edit 3: I can't even re-flash it... updater says "can't update this". Oh gosh, Three, please make it fast to the next update.

Android update applied?

I was just wandering around in a store, not using my phone at all. It was in my pocket. The vibrate went off, like there was a notification. I took it out of my pocket and the screen was already on. It had a dialog box that said "Android update applied" and an OK button. I hit OK and the phone went to the home screen and nothing seems different. It didn't reboot or anything, and i had not previously received any notice that there was an update to apply. The whole thing felt unusual.
I had gotten the OTA ICS update a few days ago. Like many, i have had awful battery life, screen running hotter than normal, and wifi hanging. When I saw "Android update applied", I got my hopes up that it would address some of these issues, but its still too soon to tell.
Does anyone know what "Android update applied" actually did to my phone or where it came from? Since it didn't behave like a normal OTA update, I'm not really sure what is going on.

Dodongo said:
I was just wandering around in a store, not using my phone at all. It was in my pocket. The vibrate went off, like there was a notification. I took it out of my pocket and the screen was already on. It had a dialog box that said "Android update applied" and an OK button. I hit OK and the phone went to the home screen and nothing seems different. It didn't reboot or anything, and i had not previously received any notice that there was an update to apply. The whole thing felt unusual.
I had gotten the OTA ICS update a few days ago. Like many, i have had awful battery life, screen running hotter than normal, and wifi hanging. When I saw "Android update applied", I got my hopes up that it would address some of these issues, but its still too soon to tell.
Does anyone know what "Android update applied" actually did to my phone or where it came from? Since it didn't behave like a normal OTA update, I'm not really sure what is going on.
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Either the PRL was updated, or that lawsuit that Google's involved in with Apple about local phone search? The update might've disabled local phone search.

How can i check if the PRL was updated?
I didn't update it (or anything) manually, though.

Anyone having issues with the May update?

My phone was working fine prior to the update. Now since installing it once my phone screen turns off it's basically unresponsive to the power button and fingerprint scanner for about 15-30 seconds before it finally becomes responsive again. Then once I'm in it's fine and the issue starts all over again once it goes to sleep.

Not here. Just flashed the may update. Unlocked, and rooted.

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Not here. Just flashed the may update. Unlocked, and rooted.
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Damn. I'm bone stock and had no issues.. Immediately after the update my screen takes 15 seconds or so to come on after hitting the power button or unlocking with my finger.

Did you flash the update manually or install OTA?
I've experienced similarly weird issues in the past when installing new updates from Google OTA and have since started pushing all of my updates through manually.

NippleSauce said:
Did you flash the update manually or install OTA?
I've experienced similarly weird issues in the past when installing new updates from Google OTA and have since started pushing all of my updates through manually.
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I installed OTA.
I did just notice the issue does not exist if the phone is plugged into the charger. Very weird.

Flashed May update manually, all good. I'd suggest full image flash (without -w flag) if you're facing issues.

So I factory reset my phone and side loaded the latest update. All has been good for days. All of a sudden this morning the issue is back.

having issues with finger print scanner and phone taking long time to unlock. Pixel line just ain't good!

mongolx said:
having issues with finger print scanner and phone taking long time to unlock. Pixel line just ain't good!
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I must respectfully disagree. I've had my 3XL since day one, and have not had any issues at all. All OTA updates installed without issue, and this is the best phone I've ever had, and I've had more Android phones that I can list dating back to the Nexus One.

Awesome 4 ya. Reddit and other threads speak 4 them self....

Girlfriends Pixel 2 XL started doing it today after the update as well. Although it stopped after a few hours.

Did anyone receive the google play system update? ive got the main may update but google play system update is still march?. Pixel 3a received them both the same day. Im wondering if this is the cause and it was removed.

I'm having the exact same issue. It started happening in the morning. Unrooted stock. As soon as i lock my device it will turn off. Don't know how to fix that.
Update: chatted with google. And they are sending replacement device

I faced lag on my 2xl couple of weeks ago after the update it seems but i guess it was google doing something in the background perhaps regarding Covid app or something they were trying to do. The random lag stopped in a week or two. So i assume it was google doing something on our phones.

Question Every 3-4 days I must reboot

Ok, so like the title says, every 3-4 days I must reboot my phone.
When I play games, the game icon will show up in the lower right corner, I have everything for the game stuff turned off. I can click on the icon and it will ask me to turn on. I back out and it's gone for a few minutes. Mostly until I swipe back, then it will reappear. I can reboot the phone and it will work fine again for a another 3-4 days.
There are other instances that force me to reboot as well, one happened last night. I was scrolling through a local news app and the touch stopped working. I could not scroll up or down, and swiping back did not work. I had to lock the phone and just as the screen went dark, the phone scrolled in the directions I did and it backed out. This only happened when I hit the lock screen.
Is there a fix for this? Has anyone else experienced this?

My phone is rebooted on two to three occasions a month. Others have it more frequently. I wouldn't even say rebooted. Mine just shuts down at random times like other users so I don't know if there's a fix for this. I'm hoping there will be one within an update soon.
Google's absolutely ****ty disregard for their customers and customer service. I'm not Keen on sending a brand new device over to get a refurbished one that isn't guaranteed to solve the issue and most likely guaranteed to come with different issues that my device doesn't have already.
Does it back up to combat this since I have alarms set for work? In case the phone turns off, I don't want to miss work. I use my Google Home Mini speakers, a backup alarm.

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My phone is rebooted on two to three occasions a month. Others have it more frequently. I wouldn't even say rebooted. Mine just shuts down at random times like other users so I don't know if there's a fix for this. I'm hoping there will be one within an update soon.
Google's absolutely ****ty disregard for their customers and customer service. I'm not Keen on sending a brand new device over to get a refurbished one that isn't guaranteed to solve the issue and most likely guaranteed to come with different issues that my device doesn't have already.
Does it back up to combat this since I have alarms set for work? In case the phone turns off, I don't want to miss work. I use my Google Home Mini speakers, a backup alarm.
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Mine does not reboot or shutdown on it own, not once... I have to reboot every so often to keep it functional.

@thepersona My phone doesn't auto reboot either. I'd say do a backup and run https://flash.android.com/welcome to fully Factory Reset the phone and see if that helps (Mine upgraded just fine, but my parents both failed the Dec update and had random issues requiring the use of the Android Flash Tool).
Like the OP I do have to reboot my phone about every 3-4 days, but I don't attribute that just to Google Android, coders have become lax on how tight they keep their code, and I say that because in Windows 10 and Windows 11 you have to reboot every few days as well or see an increase in weird issues.

card13 said:
@thepersona Mine upgraded just fine, but my parents both failed the Dec update and had random issues requiring the use of the Android Flash Tool).
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Just to clarify this, most carriers prevented the December update from releasing as Google has asked them to prevent it from going through, primarily due to an issue with calls dropping.
I always manually update my phone, however, I noticed the call dropping bug one day for about an hour straight.
But aside from this meaningless info, I agree with what you said: Attempt a factory reset and see what happens. I turn my phone off every night and charge it, so I don't notice any issues similar to what OP has mentioned.

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My phone is rebooted on two to three occasions a month. Others have it more frequently. I wouldn't even say rebooted. Mine just shuts down at random times like other users so I don't know if there's a fix for this. I'm hoping there will be one within an update soon.
Google's absolutely ****ty disregard for their customers and customer service. I'm not Keen on sending a brand new device over to get a refurbished one that isn't guaranteed to solve the issue and most likely guaranteed to come with different issues that my device doesn't have already.
Does it back up to combat this since I have alarms set for work? In case the phone turns off, I don't want to miss work. I use my Google Home Mini speakers, a backup alarm.
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Yeah mine did that it would randomly restart once a week no matter what I was doing but I did a factory reset and it hasn't happened since!

wilpang said:
Yeah mine did that it would randomly restart once a week no matter what I was doing but I did a factory reset and it hasn't happened since!
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In your case, was it just a restart? Because mine literally powers off It doesn't reboot again. It shuts down in the middle of the night and I wouldn't know until I wake up when using my phone to figure out it won't turn on. I almost missed work on several occasions because of this lol

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In your case, was it just a restart? Because mine literally powers off It doesn't reboot again. It shuts down in the middle of the night and I wouldn't know until I wake up when using my phone to figure out it won't turn on. I almost missed work on several occasions because of this lol
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Yeah I was lucky and it was only once a week which was tolerable!
Something is definitely not right, hopefully is not a dodgy app but that would be preferable than something unfixable.

Ok guys you are missing my point and question. I DO NOT have the random reboots most have, but I have other issues that no one seem to have. Example, I listen to Spotify over night, I fall asleep to music, but 2 days ago it would randomly pause. At first I thought it was do not disturb that I just turned on, on my watch. It was not. Then I thought I may have been hitting my watch, I took it off and it still paused. I rebooted my phone and it's been fine since, no random pauses. Another example is, I play a game but I have the game dashboard turned off, but there times where the icon will pop up in the lower right. When I go into the settings for it, it shows it's off. When I go back to the game the icon is gone for a few minutes then it reappears. The only way for me to get it to stop showing for a few days is to reboot my phone.
I know you shouldn't have to reboot your phone every few days, and by few I mean sometimes it's 3-4 times a week. That tells me something is wrong.

Are you on the November or December update?
If November, I would try the December one.
Rooted or not rooted?
Either way, I would try a factory refresh and don't restore your apps from backup. Manually install only your most critical apps and see if you have the problem. Even better would be not install any additional apps at all and see if the problem happens. If it doesn't happen, install another small group of your most important apps and test again for long enough. Etc.
If you try thre update and/or factory reset, you could try restoring your cloud backup as normal and see if you have any problems still, but if you do, be prepared to factory reset and try like I mentioned in the above paragraph.
Until you can narrow down if the phone has this problem on the December update before you even change settings and add your favorite apps, then you won't know if it's the phone itself (possibly hardware problem), an app you have installed, a problem particular to a combination of factors including if you're on the November update, or what.
Good luck! Please let us know what happens.

I can tell you that until I updated to the December update I had the kinds of issues you had, where my P6P would malfunction (scrolling, just freezing) and I had to reboot the device. That was the first 6 weeks of using it. But when I updated to the December build, the issues for the most part went away. Hopefully you are on November and can update to December or wait until the January update drops. But I can say that I almost considered returning the phone due to the bugs until the December update resolved everything and it was like a new phone!
Good luck.

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I can tell you that until I updated to the December update I had the kinds of issues you had, where my P6P would malfunction (scrolling, just freezing) and I had to reboot the device. That was the first 6 weeks of using it. But when I updated to the December build, the issues for the most part went away. Hopefully you are on November and can update to December or wait until the January update drops. But I can say that I almost considered returning the phone due to the bugs until the December update resolved everything and it was like a new phone!
Good luck.
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Awesome!!! This is the kind of news I like to hear..... Just waiting for att to send it through. I checked this morning as my work Verizon Samsung phone got an update.

Question Ul Glitches

Had the fold since the 22nd and really loving it. Few things bugging me. Anyone else experiencing UI Glitches from time to time? Examples are the app tray displaying blank which I had to restart the phone to resolve. Outlook app the mail box panel empty even after a closed the app fully was still blank. Scrolling through twitter and often the display flickers at the bottom? Any other users finding things like this? Hoping for a early update from Samsung to flush any ealry bugs

I am holding it since 23rd and it has absolutely been a godsent device
No issues. No hiccups. 256 gb version.
Maybe an update will resolve the issue for you.

Can't say that I'm experiencing these issues.

A hear most to a fresh install not using smart switch which I did. Maybe the time saving was not worth it? do you still use a backup or literally re install everything

I did use Smart Switch and no glitches. It works flawlessly for me.

There is a OneUI update in the Samsung store I noticed.

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There is a OneUI update in the Samsung store I noticed.
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Checked the galaxy store just says installed no update

Haven't experienced the issues you've mentioned at all. I've had the ZF4 since Aug. 23.

Chrome beta has a glitch on the tabs, mentioned it right from the start. Sure its just teathing issues with the new chipset. USA have had a firmware (pre launch, not checked if its ahead or in line with European launch firmware) so sure something will be along soon, as the security updates are over a month old too.