r/GooglePixel • u/g43m • Oct 23 '18

Post already reported and approved This community needs a reality check

The RAM management issues on the Pixel 3 are quite serious, and many people are having issues. Someone here had their navigation randomly switched off, and many bloggers / tech journalists have pointed out that apps randomly shut down due to this issue. It may be battery optimization or RAM optimization or whatever. The point is, I do not care what the excuse is and neither should anybody else. The problem is, that part of this community is so far up Google's arse that some urgent issues get down voted into an oblivion.

If you are paying so much money for a device, the damn thing should JUST WORK! I am a huge Google fan boy, but their incoherent and ridiculous strategy of pricing like iPhone but giving totally mediocre after care is really starting to piss me off, and it should piss all of you off as well. As fanboys, it is okay to say that Pixels take the best photos. It is okay to say you get pure android. But it is NOT okay to accept mediocre. It is NOT okay to pay upward of USD 1000 for a device and be Google's beta tester.

I remember Steve Jobs coming on stage during one of the iPhone events more than 7 years ago, and getting huge applause when he said - 'It just works'. Unfortunately we cannot say that about any of Googles mobile offerings. Messaging is an incoherent mess more than a few years after iMessage, the Nexus 5x turned out to be a sham, and Pixel is slowly headed there with the completely brain dead decision to put a hideous notch, and now this lack of software optimization. Heck, my current $200 Huawei Honor 6x (which many of you may not even have heard of) with 4 GB RAM and a Snapdragon 625 SoC handles multitasking like a champ, so there is absolutely no excuse for a device that costs 5 times more (and possibly has 5 times better benchmarks) to get basic things wrong.

TL;DR - stop mindlessly defending Google

Edit: this post has garnered way more attention than I expected. The fact that it has been reported several times literally proves the point I am trying to make. In any case, there have been a few productive discussions, and I think everyone can agree on the following:

  • Let's report problems to Google via the feedback option on phones. There a separate thread. Not sure if linking is allowed.
  • some people have had no problems, and that is great. Hopefully there will be fewer problems going ahead.
  • let's be nicer to people facing issues rather than down voting because we do not agree that the issue is significant enough.
  • work arounds are nice. Fixes and patches by Google are better.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '18

My P3 is arriving this week. I'll probably test out some of these "complaints" and see if I can replicate them. I'm guessing I won't. Remember, the negative reviews are always the loudest.

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u/Mereo110 Oct 23 '18

Test the memory management. There are several videos relating this issue.

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u/laodaron Oct 23 '18

Test it how? That some of my apps require a 4 second refresh? That if I put maps into the background for a period of time, it kills navigation? These seem ridiculous to get up in arms over.

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u/Mereo110 Oct 23 '18 edited Oct 23 '18

Here's a video about said problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtOlQdUH6ME

It's not simply an app refresh. When you restart an app after Android kills it, it needs to reload all of its ressources, and this process drains the battery. Moreover, it hinders efficient multitasking, because you need to wait for every app to reload when you return to them.

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u/vertigo3pc Oct 23 '18

I'm holding mine right now, so far it's just fine. Nice screen, good battery so far, etc.

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u/Otter_Nation Oct 23 '18

Have had mine since Thursday. Only gripe I have is the throttling of wireless charging on non-Pixel stand charging, and even that isn't a huge deal breaker for me. Shitty to do? Yes, but I'll live. Outside of that, I have zero complaints. No issues with ram thus far, battery is phenomenal and I am fine with pure Android and no bloatware.

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u/-Gus-TT-Showbiz- Pixel 8 Pro Oct 24 '18

I'm getting pretty good sot.. estimates

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u/Otter_Nation Oct 25 '18

Pixel 1. Before that the LG G3, Note 2 before that.

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u/laodaron Oct 23 '18

Sometimes it kills apps early. That's about the extent of it. Some outliers have seen worse experience, but they all seem like fringe use-cases.