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rbecker · 2020-11-08 11:52:03+00:00

It was a bug - this time. It's not your phone, you're just using it.

differentView | karma 754 | avg karma 2.37 · | 2017-11-14 13:35:34+00:00

Wasn't that a bug with other phones as well?

Simulacra | karma 2212 | avg karma 0.92 · | 2020-03-17 14:54:44+00:00

This is FARK. There's a bug. It's fixable. No one is going to give up their phone over a bug that is easily fixable. Come onnnn.

helsinki | karma 441 | avg karma 1.97 · | 2023-08-22 21:58:57

Yes, this happened to my phone.

Zetobal | karma 1154 | avg karma 1.24 · | 2024-04-04 12:41:10

Fun times old android phones had the same bug.

sbierwagen | karma 12882 | avg karma 3.77 · | 2017-07-27 01:16:52+00:00

You consented to it, sure. This bug affected millions of phones. It's more like a car manufacturer decided to put a particular explode-y gas tank in a car, because it provided greater performance.

mirsadm | karma 889 | avg karma 2.21 · | 2014-09-15 10:39:10+00:00

Did your phone stop working? It's annoying but your phone is perfectly usable even without the latest Android version.

GBond | karma 1608 | avg karma 4.2 · | 2014-08-05 18:55:47

Sooo... you're upset your phone behaves like a phone?

farnsworth | karma 1394 | avg karma 3.45 · | 2022-10-27 10:00:27

If an app breaks your phone, it's the phone's fault.

alex_c | karma 9040 | avg karma 5.44 · | 2011-03-24 16:58:06+00:00

Nitpick: there's a big difference between an app crashing (which is what this sounds like) and an app crashing your phone (rendering it unusable or forcing a reboot).

vimda | karma 252 | avg karma 4.27 · | 2021-08-03 05:10:58

It seems like the bug was introduced in 2019, so it's presumably phones released since then. Still a problem, but not "all Android phones" bad.

dopamean | karma 6045 | avg karma 4.42 · | 2017-11-14 15:43:13+00:00

Some version of this bug has cropped up on many phones on different carriers all around the world.

bla2 | karma 1888 | avg karma 5.06 · | 2015-01-16 15:03:49

The difference between android and iOS and windows phone is that android has an open bug tracker, making issues like this a lot more visible. Maybe this issue doesn't affect many people, or google determined that it only happens for phones on a certain carrier and can't disclose that publicly. Sure, the bug could have been closed with a friendlier message, but an open bug tracker seems like a good thing to me

mrkramer | karma 2795 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2022-09-04 10:59:42

On the side note I thought Android has very few bugs probably because I don't use my Android phone a lot but I encountered one pretty annoying bug last week and I was unpleasantly surprised.

grishka | karma 11238 | avg karma 3.26 · | 2020-09-01 21:15:01+00:00

Yeah just try using your phone while Google's updating some crap in the background again... Doesn't depend on the newness of the phone either — this happened on every Android phone I've owned since 2011.

collyw | karma 8776 | avg karma 1.06 · | 2014-04-24 10:08:38+00:00

So its all fine because 3 Android phones had a similar problem?

Kaiyou | karma 293 | avg karma 0.46 · | 2019-06-11 14:11:43

It's like that because of the decisions you made (and the apps you installed). My smartphone isn't like that. At all.

bdcravens | karma 20814 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2013-09-03 19:51:51+00:00

I don't think this is an Android issue, but with the carriers, and to a lesser degree, the handset makers.

noisem4ker | karma 1118 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2019-02-01 12:47:53

I have never been bugged since I've set up my phone and disabled the bundled apps I didn't need. Galaxy S7 with Oreo.

jimktrains2 | karma 5467 | avg karma 1.89 · | 2018-04-29 18:46:16+00:00

There are _a lot_ of ui bugs. I easily hit 24 an hour with some products.

I probably hit at least 24 bugs a day on my phone. Apps crashing. Back not working right. Apps popping up and disappearing. Unexpected latency causing wrong things to be clicked on. They're all just papercuts, but there are so many of them.

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