• TheOriginalGregToo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I too was experiencing this. It was laughably bad. I then disabled 5G and all my issues disappeared. 4G is plenty fast enough and in my area has far better coverage. I truly don’t see the point of 5G and the toll it takes on my battery.

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      1 year ago

      5G is slower than 4G 9 times out of 10 for me. I don’t understand wtf AT&T is doing.

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              1 year ago

              For sure, and every network upgrade has been like this in the beginning, but this time it’s been a long time and 5G just isn’t better in anyway. On my personal phone it would cost me $40 more to upgrade the family plan to 5G so there’s no point.

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        1 year ago

        S21 Ultra user here, not in US.

        My experience is the same. 50/20 on 4G and the same area which has 5G also had 18/5 lol

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    1 year ago

    I’m done paying Google to be a beta tester for their experiments. No matter how much I may hate manufacturer skins on top of Android, I’d rather deal with software bugs and quirks than hardware issues.

    My Pixel 6 always had issues switching from Wi-Fi to cellular, often requiring toggling airplane mode to get back data. It will be my last Google handset for a long while. Still deciding what to get next, leaning towards Samsung or OnePlus.

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      1 year ago

      I’m running a Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS and honestly can’t complain about anything. It works pretty flawlessly and battery life is great.

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    1 year ago

    I know this is for the 8 pro but man the modem on the 7 pro was such bullsh… All kinds of issues. So bad that even googles support gave in and offered a refund after 1 year.

    For a while I was considering the 8 pro, but I think their hardware is not close to par with the others yet and the new price is a joke for a pixel.

    Went for something else instead and won’t return to pixel for at least a few years.

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      1 year ago

      I think the modem is the same anyway. At most they may have changed some behaviour with software but it’s still crap.

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        1 year ago

        Overheating in summer (this is the soc not the modem but still), calls dropping constantly, bad call quality, with dual sim people couldn’t call me even though I had full reception. I got a replacement unit, created bug reports, changed providers etc… For me it was a piece of shit at the end of the day, and I’m a pixel fan :D (well was)

        No issues with my pixel 1 or 3, or the iPhone.

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    1 year ago

    I have the P8 pro with 4G. And I barely drop below 40 % during the day. And that with plenty of screen on time.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, I’ve been skipping every last one after my Pixel XL bricked itself. Got a Samsung S9+. Waiting for that good Pixel yet. A compelling reason to give up this phone.

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    1 year ago

    I need to charge my Pixel 7a 2-3 times/day. I’m at 21%. My phone was at 100% 12 hours ago. Only 1h37m screen-on time.

    This is the worst battery life I’ve ever had from a phone. So, I’m not surprised the Pixel 8 is also bad.

    I’m going to sell this phone and get something else. This will be my first time ever selling a phone before running it into the ground; my last phone was a Pixel 3a I got 4 years from.

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      1 year ago

      I thought I’m worse off with my 5 year old Poco F1 which only has a half-day battery and I average a 3 hour SOT each charge session. I am quite surprised that the battery is worse as I expected the Tensor G2 to be more efficient than the SDM845.

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      1 year ago

      Can you try grapheneOS as a last resort? I get almost 2-day battery life on it in my 6a.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t, unfortunately. I need pretty tight Google integration for work. I tried it initially, but it was far too janky for me.