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Awesomeness!
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Received my update a few hours ago. Things are running smooth and I wifi is working for notification delivery.
I sideloaded mine and it works great. Loving the new gestures - flick the wrist!!!
Compass finally fixed!!! :thumbup:
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Windsetter said:
Received my update a few hours ago. Things are running smooth and I wifi is working for notification delivery.
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How can I tell if wifi is working? I have cloudsync set on my phone in android wear.
AMoosa said:
I sideloaded mine and it works great. Loving the new gestures - flick the wrist!!!
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Cool, mind sharing your experience? how-tos and such. Thank you in advance.
Now i have the update too but the battery drain is amazing. It says is the googleplay service. What is happening?
OhellspawnO said:
Now i have the update too but the battery drain is amazing. It says is the googleplay service. What is happening?
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mine too! 8 hours of life instead of average 40 hours per charge!
bozinsky73 said:
mine too! 8 hours of life instead of average 40 hours per charge!
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Can you tell me how you were getting 40 hrs ?just about every day if I unplugged at 8 am I may of had 20 to 30 % left at 11 pm and I've had mine since December
I've always been able to get two days out of mine in fact I'm on the second day and down to about 20% left... Strange that it has just decided to update.
Will keep an eye on it and let you all know how it does.
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Can you tell me how you were getting 40 hrs ?just about every day if I unplugged at 8 am I may of had 20 to 30 % left at 11 pm and I've had mine since December
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Until 5.1.1 update I use to unplug it at 8 am and around midnight it was still as 55/58% of charge.
I use it paired with a Sony z3 with personalized stamina mode (email and whatsapp always on).
Last charge has gone better: unplugged yesterday morning at 9 and actually (close to noon here in Italy) it still has 35% of charge.
I've just uninstalled all of the 3d party apps...
Is there any reason why we must have several threads on the same topic?
Just a friendly reminder folks. XDA requires that you search first, before posting a new thread. This makes things easier for folks to find relevant material more easier.
In this case, there's already a pre-existing thread on the same topic, so I will just close this one.
Cheers!
MD
I just picked up a SW3, and upgraded it to MEC24H. So far, I am pretty happy with it. I'll get a full day out of the battery, and that was with the just got it fingers playing with it more than I normally would.
I've heard some bad things about mwd49b on our watch, my watch keeps asking me to update, should I just avoid the mwd49b update for now and stick with MEC24H?
Thank you!
You can deny the card when ask for upgrade but I do not know if they ask again and again later ?
dersie said:
You can deny the card when ask for upgrade but I do not know if they ask again and again later ?
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Yeah it asks over and over and over lol.
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too bad
I can't use my SW3 since this update. The watch go from 3.5% by hour to 6-8% by hour, so unusable now
I've updated and have perfect battery life, easily 2 days. Yes, I'm a light user, but still......
I'm absolutely happy with the update. GPS is fine, in short everything works as it should.........
The latest update works fine on my watch. I even dirty flashed it, no hard reset. The only problem I have is that the watch would not fully charge when turned off. It will overheat and stop at about 60% charge.
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The update crippled my battery life. I can barely squeeze eight hours with light use...
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Welp no update then for me!
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Welp no update then for me!
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Well I've found the update to be perfect here and same battery life as before. Strange how different people are having different experiences
Noticeably shorter battery life but the watch works much better. If you don't like to charge it every day or (almost) two - don't update but the update itself fixes many problems that occurred right after the update to 6.0
I've updated and my watch lasts almost for two days, I'm happy with the update but I'm waiting for the further fixes, mainly fixes for the battery.
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I just picked up a SW3, and upgraded it to MEC24H. So far, I am pretty happy with it. I'll get a full day out of the battery, and that was with the just got it fingers playing with it more than I normally would.
I've heard some bad things about mwd49b on our watch, my watch keeps asking me to update, should I just avoid the mwd49b update for now and stick with MEC24H?
Thank you!
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Since accepting the update on my SW3 GPS has become unusable for any long-term tasks. It might last 20 or 30 minutes returning (relatively) accurate values but then accuracy shoots out to 64m or more and renders it useless for any serious application. I have two watches and they've both started doing the same thing. Personally I'd stick with version 5 for now until they fix it.
Interestingly enough yesterday my battery life restored close to normal after about a week of horrible drain. I did not do anything to the watch...
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What do you guys think of the huge improvements!
https://9to5google.com/2018/04/02/google-pixel-april-18-functional-updates/
Looks very promising for me!
Thrillofit said:
What do you guys think of the huge improvements!
https://9to5google.com/2018/04/02/google-pixel-april-18-functional-updates/
Looks very promising for me!
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Nice! Can't wait for my favourite rom AquariOS to be updated
Thrillofit said:
What do you guys think of the huge improvements!
https://9to5google.com/2018/04/02/google-pixel-april-18-functional-updates/
Looks very promising for me!
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Multi touch didn't get fixed! ???
All sounds good to go on this badboy Pixel XL 2! Let's Rock!!
denism81 said:
Multi touch didn't get fixed!
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Whats wrong with multi touch? I installed a multitouch testing app on mine and it registers 10 fingers with no issues at all when I move them around and games work perfectly?
Hi all,
Quite noob on Pixel 2 XL, just rooted it with Magisk one month ago; so I'm still on February image.
How can I update to April image without losing anything, please? (Already downloaded the image, btw)
(Directly or with Skipsoft tollkit)
Thanks a lot!
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Hi all,
Quite noob on Pixel 2 XL, just rooted it with Magisk one month ago; so I'm still on February image.
How can I update to April image without losing anything, please? (Already downloaded the image, btw)
(Directly or with Skipsoft tollkit)
Thanks a lot!
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Just follow the guide: https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-xl/how-to/guide-unlock-flash-root-pixel-2-xl-t3702418
1. Download the image and adb, twrp image and magisk zip
2. Flash the image without the -w parameter
3. Temporarily boot into twrp, flash the magisk zip and you're done, takes 5 minutes
Can someone say if this fixed the proximity sensor issue during calls?
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is the verizon pixel 2 xl bootloader unlockable? on april?
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Can someone say if this fixed the proximity sensor issue during calls?
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What kind of issue? Screen not turning off when covered or screen not turning on when uncovered? Either way, I was on a call earlier and it turned on and off fine.
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Screen not turning back on when you take the phone away from your ear during a call
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I think it's too early to tell the impact of most of those changes in my usage so far. Fingerprint sensor response has improved for me.
The biggest thing I was looking forward to was all the mentions of battery life improvements. Unfortunately battery life doesn't appear to be any better but so far doesn't appear to be any worse. The February and March updates really hurt battery life.
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Screen not turning back on when you take the phone away from your ear during a call
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No issue for me. I don't think that's a software issue. I think it's a hardware issue. The same thing happened on my Nexus 5X
I am on my second day of the April security patch and my battery life has gotten much worse. I got it launch day and I have always gotten 5-6 hours SoT for 18 hours off charge and still have 30% battery left. Yesterday I got 3.5 SoT for 18 hours and was at 4% when I plugged it in. I never had any adverse effect of battery life with the monthly patches until now. I havent factory reset since I bought the phone.
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is the verizon pixel 2 xl bootloader unlockable? on april?
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No. But we still see teaser posts that some whiz just discovered something that Google and Verizon simply don't know.
It's locked down tight on VZN models.
Have people been able to use the tethering module through magisk on the April update?
for me the initial install of April the battery life was better than March by far, but the next few days definitely doesn't seem much better, so pretty scary how quick the fall off was for the battery life fall off when looking the the battery stats pages. Touch responsiveness is much better, and generally the phone now feels like it should have been from the beginning.
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I am on my second day of the April security patch and my battery life has gotten much worse. I got it launch day and I have always gotten 5-6 hours SoT for 18 hours off charge and still have 30% battery left. Yesterday I got 3.5 SoT for 18 hours and was at 4% when I plugged it in. I never had any adverse effect of battery life with the monthly patches until now. I havent factory reset since I bought the phone.
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Usually by the end of the day im left with about 15 -20%. Now im to 15% around 5 or 6PM. Battery definitely draining much faster
My battery life has gotten stupidly better. First day was close to 5 hours SOT with 50% battery left at 20 hours off charger(normally would have been 2-3 hour SOT pre April patch). Right now I'm at 2 hours SOT at 75% battery left with 11 hours off charger. Most of my SOT is games(Clash Royale, Final Fantasy Pocket Edition) so it's not like my usage is lite. Though personally I feel as if the patch has gotten my battery life back to how it was at launch before the first patch. I'm thinking some of those carrier optimizations were for Project Fi as that's what I have.
Has anyone updated their 2 XL with the March release of TWRP since the April update hasn't been released? Any issues?
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Has anyone updated their 2 XL with the March release of TWRP since the April update hasn't been released? Any issues?
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Most twrp users did that the day the Google April update came out. As always, there are always going to be some users that have issues for whatever reason. However, from the majority of things I've read, most users, including myself, have had little to no issues with using twrp :good:
Hello all,
Can Android P DP3 be used as a daily driver on the Pixel XL?
yup, I'm using it for a couple of days and there is no any noticable problem.
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yup, I'm using it for a couple of days and there is no any noticable problem.
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How is the battery performing?
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How is the battery performing?
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Battery is very good. But I would recommend you do a factory reset after flashing it. It's always good to do a factory reset when coming from an android version to another version for better results in general.
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How is the battery performing?
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I get about 5 hours SOT, a slight improvement to 8.1 which is not bad for DP3!
Also most of the app crashes and incompatibilities that I had with DP2 are gone or resolved after resp. app updates.
Enjoy the half gestures of DP3
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I get about 5 hours SOT, a slight improvement to 8.1 which is not bad for DP3!
Also most of the app crashes and incompatibilities that I had with DP2 are gone or resolved after resp. app updates.
Enjoy the half gestures of DP3
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5 hours SOT!!!
That's insane. How much you used to get in 8.1?
Mine barely gives 3.5-4 hours
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Battery is very good. But I would recommend you do a factory reset after flashing it. It's always good to do a factory reset when coming from an android version to another version for better results in general.
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Thanks for that Yousvel, will keep that in mind.
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How is the battery performing?
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It's really good, when I'm in the office, from 11 to 7, using the phone for calls and messages at the end of my workday, I'm still having 75-85%. About SOT, as I'm using the phone on almost full brightness every time, at least 90%, I'm getting 4-4.5 hours.
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It's really good, when I'm in the office, from 11 to 7, using the phone for calls and messages at the end of my workday, I'm still having 75-85%. About SOT, as I'm using the phone on almost full brightness every time, at least 90%, I'm getting 4-4.5 hours.
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You guys are getting good SOTs, mine here goes down max 3.5 hours with same usage.
On DP3 it's fantastic but I seem to have a strange performance bug where the phone locks up for a few seconds. It gets worse over time with restarts fixing it.
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On DP3 it's fantastic but I seem to have a strange performance bug where the phone locks up for a few seconds. It gets worse over time with restarts fixing it.
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This one's new now. Is it happening randomly or after some tasks are performed?
And is fast charging working properly?
dasabhishek187 said:
This one's new now. Is it happening randomly or after some tasks are performed?
And is fast charging working properly?
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It's really odd. For the first few days it was fine then suddenly it happened. As for fast charging I haven't actually looked (battery life has been much better). The lock ups have something to with with the UX but I haven't been able to pin-point it.
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It's really odd. For the first few days it was fine then suddenly it happened. As for fast charging I haven't actually looked (battery life has been much better). The lock ups have something to with with the UX but I haven't been able to pin-point it.
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Hope DP 4 comes soon with more stability.
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Hope DP 4 comes soon with more stability.
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My thought (hope) exactly
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My thought (hope) exactly
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How much SOT are you getting?
Hello
from the current update at november, i got only 5 hours maximum of usage at my device, before, it was 7 hours maximum.
does someone else saw these battery drain on these update?
my device is without root and with stock.
thank you
i noticed wi-fi scanning was switched back on mine. Worth checking yours too. That is a crazy battery drainer!
you mean open wifi search? actualy it was open but these is what you mean?
I7210I said:
you mean open wifi search? actualy it was open but these is what you mean?
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Wifi scanner for location
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Wifi scanner for location
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these was off, only the notification for open wifi was on.
any other option for battery drain? is it only by me?
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I7210I said:
these was off, only the notification for open wifi was on.
any other option for battery drain? is it only by me?
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Try to factory reset as a last resort.
Try to root and solve by those means maybe?
Disable all syncing (unnecessary) crap and apps/system apps you don't use.
No extra drain here. I haven't done 7 hours in a long time but it is nearly 13 months old.
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so after 13 months the battery is dead??it's not nexus 6P with battery problems..also, mine is 11 months
i don't need root for now so i guess it won't help me, factory reset maybe can help but i'm try to avoid it now...
sync is disable now for crap and yet..at the email field there is two syncs Gmail and edison email, is it make the problem?
and i understand from you guys that the november update isn't make something with the battery?
I wouldn't say 5 hours SOT is dead. Dead is off the charger it lasts only 5 hours. I still get through a 16 hour day fine with 4 hours SOT and 20% left. I'm just saying I haven't gotten 7 hours SOT in a long time. What matters is getting from morning to night without needing to do a top off. And there's nothing wrong with charging during a drive back home from work. Also, I did a factory reset in October as it's something I've been doing yearly with my phones. It helps somewhat (my "Full charge lasts about" estimates have gone up 2-4 hours) but it's not going to make miracles and turn the battery to day-1 level. For me, I do it to clear up things.
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so after 13 months the battery is dead??it's not nexus 6P with battery problems..also, mine is 11 months
i don't need root for now so i guess it won't help me, factory reset maybe can help but i'm try to avoid it now...
sync is disable now for crap and yet..at the email field there is two syncs Gmail and edison email, is it make the problem?
and i understand from you guys that the november update isn't make something with the battery?
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i see, so my question is how long SOT you got now, i had 7hrs and now in that upfate it went down.
yes i can use the device for full day without problem but it is interest what was change in november update to the SOT
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I7210I said:
i see, so my question is how long SOT you got now, i had 7hrs and now in that upfate it went down.
yes i can use the device for full day without problem but it is interest what was change in november update to the SOT
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Maybe downgrade to oct build instead?
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Maybe downgrade to oct build instead?
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i will try to,
but looks like it's only my problem isn't it?
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i will try to,
but looks like it's only my problem isn't it?
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I don't see why you wouldn't, it's not like the nov update is a huge thing
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I don't see why you wouldn't, it's not like the nov update is a huge thing
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ithibk they told they was fix something at the battery
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ithibk they told they was fix something at the battery
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Look at the changelog, there's no such "fix"
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/
maybe i will try to do factory reset and than will see with the current version cause otherwise i can't avoid the notification up there..
what is the normal percent for 1 hour? 10?
I7210I said:
what is the normal percent for 1 hour? 10?
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I have all from 9-14 %/hour on screen drain
mwatson said:
i noticed wi-fi scanning was switched back on mine. Worth checking yours too. That is a crazy battery drainer!
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My battery also dropped significantly, like OP, after the November update (from 6.5 SOT down to 4 SOT). I noticed my wi-fi scanning was enabled though after the patch. I will disable that. Hopefully that does the trick!
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My battery also dropped significantly, like OP, after the November update (from 6.5 SOT down to 4 SOT). I noticed my wi-fi scanning was enabled though after the patch. I will disable that. Hopefully that does the trick!
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Here is another battery drainer to check. Pull down your notification shade and look for "nearby" if it's not there hit the edit button and add it to your quick toggles. Make sure it is off as that will be constantly looking for local advertising crap to serve up to you which costs you in battery life.