Android phones, apps and tablets

Do Google make their own USB C headphone adapter? I'd imagine theirs works.

Surely, one should be included in the box with the phone. Oppo include one in theirs.

one should be included in the box with the phone

For the 1% of people who use wired headphones? They're not even shipping chargers these days as so many of them get put in a drawer and never used.

For the 1% of people who use wired headphones?

I have no idea why anybody would choose to use wired headphones if they had a choice. It's like the people who said they'd never ditch cassettes to use CDs.

no idea why anybody would choose to use wired headphones

In this context, agreed. There's an argument for them in the audiophile thread (bluetooth audio uses lossy compression), but out and about with your phone that's irrelevant.

I often use wired as it is one less thing to charge, it's one less thing with rechargeable battery in that will end the products usability early and the wired buds are only one thing to lose not two

one less thing with rechargeable battery in that will end the products usability early

That's a laudable sentiment, but the battery will probably last longer than the strain relief on the jack plug 🙂

Makes sense. I guess I just like the lack of cables to the point it overrides those negatives. I'm also a pretty reliable device chargerer. Battery anxiety is real.

I used to be dead against wireless headphones as well, but I'm a total convert now.
a bonus of the pixel 6 and pixel buds is that both have wireless charging and you can wirelessly charge the headphones by placing them on the back of the phone if you need to.
(doesn't apply to the A series though sadly)

I have never worn out a jack on a phone and I generally run my phones 3-4 years, so don't see that as an issue. Often the phone has needed replacing as the battery life has got so bad. I also hate that phones and other devices now don't make it easy to change the battery.

my pixel 3 power button flipped out on friday and kept repeatedly pressing itself.

you know what happens if you press the power button rapidly 5+ times... the phone automatically calls 999. (i had this feature specifically turned off but the phone doesnt seem to care).

if it wasn't trying to phone the emergency services the power panel would open and close repeatedly and then get stuck in a reboot loop for about 10 minutes before powering up and if you so much as breathed on the power button repeat the whole thing all over again.

during one of its quieter moments I confirmed i had a recent backup and factory reset it. except it didnt fix it and restoring a phone that reboots every 2 minutes is not fun. also I thought my 2fa accounts stored in GOOGLE authenticator would be backed up... nope. so I am locked out of pretty much every important account I own until i figure out how to reset the 2fa on each.

at one point I turned the phone off and went to the bathroom, came back out to a voice telling me they couldn't free the line until i confirmed it wasn't an emergency. fuuuuuuuuck. the fucking thing turned itself on and called the emergency services. at this point it was going batshit nonstop and I couldn't even hang the calls up when they started because the interface was going mental faster than it could register the touch inputs. taking the sim out obviously did nothing either.

out of desperation I smacked the phone as hard as I could on the table and something unjammed and managed to get it into airplane mode.

got a pixel 6 coming today which is £400 I wasn't planning on spending this month but this has made me realise how central my phone is to literally aspect of my life now so skimping on a handset would be a false economy now.

have to let the battery die on the pixel 3 before I can do anything else with it so it doesn't make any unwanted calls and then I may give it a ceremonial "office space"ing

The power button on mind went too but it wasn't anywhere near that bad, reset and turning off doublepress for camera stuff and it's working well as my work phone.

pixel 6 arrived. it's fucking gigantic... it's the american truck of phones, pointlessly huge.

I'd forgotten just how bad the default settings are on phones too. like every single thing is setup to be an annoyance rather than a help.

finally back to where I was before it fucked up on friday afternoon, £400 lighter, feels like whole weekend wasted as it's used up all my mental energy stressing over this that I've not had the headspace to get anything else I wanted done.

Send it back and get 6a. It doesn't get any smaller or lighterbb

I'm fine with my big boy now, and I still use the 3 for work so have a continuing direct comparison. Fingerprint scanner is better than it used to be but still worse than the 3 though.

Obviously you should've gone phoneless until the 7 came out though.

I feel like the fingerprint reader in my 6 has got better since android 13, anyone else notice this? or is it just me

Mine seems less shit.

There were definitely fingerprint scanner updates in the latest A13 service pack

My trade in was also a disappointment. £102-£137 estimate. Swollen battery found on inspection. £0 credit and no return of device.

There was no outward sign of a swollen battery but it was a piece of crap so I guess it's possible. Potentially a very effective scam by the company that does the trade in inspection though. Impossible to prove otherwise and you can't get the device back. I'd have been better off selling it for repairs on eBay.

Why didn't they return it, not safe to send?

Mine has now been marked as received slightly outside of the 14 day period that they are meant to be sent back in although it was delivered in the 14 days according to Royal Mail so we shall see what happens there. The high trade-in values did make me dubious and nothing yet has alleviated that.

Yeh swollen battery is unsafe for shipping. I'd read this in the terms and conditions before I sent mine in so no surprise there. But somewhat skeptical phone actually had this issue and the cynic in me thinks it's a very easy way to write off the high estimate trade in value to zero.

Let us know how yours goes, hope it's a successful one!

I think the 14 days limit only applies to the price quotation they gave, not as a limit to accept the phone at all.

Yes, my concern is they'd use it to chip at the price.

Couple of Pixel 4a for sells

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/380015/#comment16694511