Pixel 3 & Pixel 3 XL |OT| Notch made by Google

[zerohaste]

Hmm. No instant approval on the google store financing is usually a denial, right?

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I got the letter in the mail the sent out and it seems the reason for getting denied is them being "unable to confirm my identity with enough confidence to approve your application at this time".

What in the world does that even mean? Is my SSN they required somehow not enough?

How would someone even proceed from that?

 

[Metanoia Prime]

I got the letter in the mail the sent out and it seems the reason for getting denied is them being "unable to confirm my identity with enough confidence to approve your application at this time".

What in the world does that even mean? Is my SSN they required somehow not enough?

How would someone even proceed from that?

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Just call them and find out. I'm sure you can probably send some sort of proof of identity (a bill, your state ID or driver's license, etc.) if that's truly the only reason listed for denying you.

 

[Megasoum]

Did they remove the option to spam filter specific words in the Android Messages app?

Everytime I get a new voicemail I also get a text message telling me I have a voice mail which is redundant and annoying... The only way I found to fix this online is to setup a spam filter in your Messages app for "Voicemail" so that any messages with that word will get auto-deleted. All the guids online are pointing me to a Spam Filter option in the messages app I am not seeing....

 

[Friend Besto]

Anyone else notice their notification sounds are the same for every app now? I used to have different sounds for FB messenger and whatsapp but now the default popcorn sound plays for everything.

 

[Aeana]

All of a sudden, my Pixel 3's screen has started flickering white after the display goes to sleep and the ambient display starts up. It seems like it's a common issue. Sigh.

 

[signal]

https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_3?hl=en-US

on sale in the us

 

[Deleted member 46103]

https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_3?hl=en-US

on sale in the us

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The pixel 2 is down to $550 as well.

 

[signal]

The pixel 2 is down to $550 as well.

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I'm too poor but tempting just for the camera lol.

 

[Megasoum]

I started noticing issues with the phone calls on my Pixel 3 (not XL).

Apparently my voice is cutting non stop for the person I'm calling but I can hear them just fine. Could be a microphone issue maybe? Anybody heard or seen anything about this issue?

 

[Deleted member 18742]

Going to lose my God damn mind. All of a sudden, I lost the ability to send 160+ character SMS messages to certain contacts on my Pixel 3. Been on support with Google and Verizon for 2+ hours and have not been help at all

 

[Deleted member 20892]

https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_3?hl=en-US

on sale in the us

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i bit

 

[Deleted member 4034]

https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_3?hl=en-US

on sale in the us

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FINALLY the regular 2 goes on sale, while the 3 costs as much as I paid for the 2 at regular price.

 

[Gibbo]

Helping my Wife ask this her behalf. She recently switched from a Galaxy s9 to the pixel xl3; and has been getting really poor performance on battery life. In about 1 hour of light texting, her battery dropped 20% this morning. Also, it seems to take 3 hours for her phone to charge fully - is this a known issue?

 

[signal]

https://www.droid-life.com/2019/02/25/the-pixel-3-is-pissing-me-off/

Anyone with similar stories or is this just isolated bitterness

 

[BoboBrazil]

https://www.droid-life.com/2019/02/25/the-pixel-3-is-pissing-me-off/

Anyone with similar stories or is this just isolated bitterness

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Definitely noticed some stuttering and lag since the February update. Would probably be fixed by a factory reset, but I'll wait until the March update before I do that.

 

[signal]

Definitely noticed some stuttering and lag since the February update. Would probably be fixed by a factory reset, but I'll wait until the March update before I do that.

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Seems like some in agreement here - https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/auqot2/the_pixel_3_is_pissing_me_off_droid_life/

 

[thesoapster]

https://www.droid-life.com/2019/02/25/the-pixel-3-is-pissing-me-off/

Anyone with similar stories or is this just isolated bitterness

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I don't doubt that it's happening to some people, but mine has been fine. The only issue I've had with the Pixel 3 is the occasional full brightness screen flash when there is a notification or I'm unlocking the phone.

 

[Selbran]

https://www.droid-life.com/2019/02/25/the-pixel-3-is-pissing-me-off/

Anyone with similar stories or is this just isolated bitterness

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Probably the same kind of issues people like MKBHD and David Ruddock were complaining about with the Pixel 2 last year. Google can't get software right to save its ass.

 

[Fantastical]

https://www.droid-life.com/2019/02/25/the-pixel-3-is-pissing-me-off/

Anyone with similar stories or is this just isolated bitterness

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Yep I'm going back to iPhone next. I also have the Pixel Stand, and it's a piece of shit. "Ok Google" is somehow worse in the stand and I experienced the issue with the display freezing while in the stand overnight the other day.

 

[SwampBastard]

I don't doubt that it's happening to some people, but mine has been fine. The only issue I've had with the Pixel 3 is the occasional full brightness screen flash when there is a notification or I'm unlocking the phone.

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Same here.

 

[Fantastical]

Am I having memory management issues again? My podcast app keeps getting killed and I have to restart it.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

MS should create an Android fork.

 

[Nude_Tayne]

Anyone else's Pixel 3 battery go to shit recently? I installed a security update yesterday and I think it started after that. Don't know if it's related though.

 

[Metanoia Prime]

I'm a little upset by the RAM situation. The phone seems to kill off apps pretty aggressively, and it's really annoying. Coming from a Note 8, I'm actually a little let down. I miss my Note. :/

Remind me to never ditch Samsung again.

 

[GK86]

I'm a little upset by the RAM situation. The phone seems to kill off apps pretty aggressively, and it's really annoying. Coming from a Note 8, I'm actually a little let down. I miss my Note. :/

Remind me to never ditch Samsung again.

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Turn off Adaptive Battery in the settings.

 

[Metanoia Prime]

Turn off Adaptive Battery in the settings.

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Then my phone will die by 4 pm instead of 6pm.

 

[digitalrelic]

I'm a little upset by the RAM situation. The phone seems to kill off apps pretty aggressively, and it's really annoying. Coming from a Note 8, I'm actually a little let down. I miss my Note. :/

Remind me to never ditch Samsung again.

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Are you up to date with OS updates? The March update fixed the RAM management issues for me.

 

[Metanoia Prime]

Are you up to date with OS updates? The March update fixed the RAM management issues for me.

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Yeah, but no real change here. I usually use a few photo editors, Chrome, IG/FB, and one of those always has to do a total refresh in normal use.

 

[signal]

Any nerds tried this https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/bkg89o/solved_pixel_33xl_performance_issues/

 

[Maynerd]

Any nerds tried this https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/bkg89o/solved_pixel_33xl_performance_issues/

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Just tried it. Seems to work. Thanks for sharing

 

[signal]

Just tried it. Seems to work. Thanks for sharing

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It was posted a few days ago but from the comments it doesn't seem to be only a temporary thing. I guess time will tell!

 

[broflap]

Any nerds tried this https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/bkg89o/solved_pixel_33xl_performance_issues/

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Wow this is great. I reduced the animation to .5 as well(removing it all the way made everything feel faster, but then it affected the animations on lyft and uber maps so I had to put them back on).

 

[signal]

Any nerds tried this https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/bkg89o/solved_pixel_33xl_performance_issues/

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Google to roll out performance fixes for Pixel 3, says Digital Wellbeing isn't to blame

• After a thorough analysis, Google found that Digital Wellbeing wasn't the cause for Pixel 3 slowdowns.
• But during that analysis, Google found unrelated issues that it believes are causing performance issues.
• An upcoming update will include those fixes and improve the performance on Pixel devices.

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[Septimus Prime]

Turning that off improved the performance of my Pixel 2 XL, too, so... I don't know about that, Google.

Also, my 2 XL runs like shit now anyway.

 

[fadedbones]

I started noticing issues with the phone calls on my Pixel 3 (not XL).

Apparently my voice is cutting non stop for the person I'm calling but I can hear them just fine. Could be a microphone issue maybe? Anybody heard or seen anything about this issue?

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Was looking into getting a Pixel 3 if the Xperia 1's size is too much, but this microphone issue is worrying. Any updates? Anyone else experience it?

 

[Megasoum]

Was looking into getting a Pixel 3 if the Xperia 1's size is too much, but this microphone issue is worrying. Any updates? Anyone else experience it?

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For what it's worth, I haven't got that issue again since that post.

 

[fadedbones]

For what it's worth, I haven't got that issue again since that post.

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All's well that ends well then, thanks for the reply!

 

[Deleted member 27751]

Anyone noticed weird animation lag in Android Q? It has gotten really sluggish with playing out swapping animations using full gesture to the point of lagging windows when swapping or minimising. I've done the above steps with no difference, restarted, tried checking with diagnostics nothing. Any ideas? Also noticed Google Assistant just doesn't work on occasions, and requires unlocking for things like playing music despite giving clearance.

Also, unrelated note but Google Home Mini is shit. The audio is atrocious suddenly with a very crappy hollow bass and it keeps dimming in audio when playing music as if we'd asked it something.

 

[Armadilo]

Jesus my pixel 3 has begun the usual Android glitching and freezing at random times, stuff that I would experience in my old cheap android phones,

 

[Maynerd]

Jesus my pixel 3 has begun the usual Android glitching and freezing at random times, stuff that I would experience in my old cheap android phones,

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I've seen this recently on my 3XL

 

[BoboBrazil]

Have you tried factory resetting? Performance was really bad for me, but after clean installing the July update it's running rock solid.

Jesus my pixel 3 has begun the usual Android glitching and freezing at random times, stuff that I would experience in my old cheap android phones,

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I've seen this recently on my 3XL

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[Kanhir]

Anyone else's battery life gone to shit on Android Q? Really hoping the next beta fixes this.

 

[BoboBrazil]

Anyone else's battery life gone to shit on Android Q? Really hoping the next beta fixes this.

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My battery has been shit on Pie and Q betas. Currently at 40% with 1 hour and 48 minutes of sot.

 

[Maynerd]

Have you tried factory resetting? Performance was really bad for me, but after clean installing the July update it's running rock solid.

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I have not, i'll watch how it performs over the next week and if it is occurring more, I'll try that.

 

[Deleted member 27751]

Okay so it just seems Pixel is going to shit then? I can't for the life of me figure out the issue, everything is going slow and clunky with terrible lag between swapping apps. This is worse than the bloated phones of the earlier days.

 

[Kanhir]

Okay so it just seems Pixel is going to shit then? I can't for the life of me figure out the issue, everything is going slow and clunky with terrible lag between swapping apps. This is worse than the bloated phones of the earlier days.

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I mean, you're using an unoptimised beta. Same reason my battery life is shit right now.

The first release candidate is in theory due today, so maybe this'll fix your issues.
If not, people on r/android_beta have reported performance improvements after a phone wipe.

 

[BarrBarr]

Hey Guys, I've just started having a couple really bad issues with my Pixel 3 XL. I was hoping that maybe someone here would have some advice on what I should do. Yesterday I tried to connect my phone to my Laptop, for some reason the laptop doesn't see my phone and the phone doesn't receive any charge from the laptop. Also if the phone goes to sleep while plugged into the laptop the phone shuts off. If I press the power button, nothing happens and the phone will only turn back on when I remove the USBC cable from it. I've tried to look up this issue and I haven't had any luck.

I'm using a XPS laptop, and my phone has no issues when I connect it to the mains.

 

[Kanhir]

Hey Guys, I've just started having a couple really bad issues with my Pixel 3 XL. I was hoping that maybe someone here would have some advice on what I should do. Yesterday I tried to connect my phone to my Laptop, for some reason the laptop doesn't see my phone and the phone doesn't receive any charge from the laptop. Also if the phone goes to sleep while plugged into the laptop the phone shuts off. If I press the power button, nothing happens and the phone will only turn back on when I remove the USBC cable from it. I've tried to look up this issue and I haven't had any luck.

I'm using a XPS laptop, and my phone has no issues when I connect it to the mains.

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Bad cable, maybe? Have you tried with other USB-C cables?

 

[BarrBarr]

Bad cable, maybe? Have you tried with other USB-C cables?

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Yeah I have tried multiple cables, and I have called google support, they gave me a bunch of trouble shooting options that I had already tried. I have just installed an android USB driver on my computer that they suggested and it still hasn't fixed the issue. Besides that I have rebooted the phone in safe mode, turned off USB debugging from developer options, updated my computer software, I have tried cleaning my phones port. Nothing has worked, I just hope that I don't have to go through my warranty, because I don't have a back up phone at the moment.

 

[Fantastical]

It seems like at least my Pixel 3 is experiencing very similar issues with memory management that it did at launch. Simple things like playing a podcast, opening chrome and then opening a couple tabs will kill my podcasting app.

Plus it's been sluggish.