(Original title: Fingerprint recognition is slow, can not be charged, the so-called "biggest design innovation" Android 12 also overturned)
Android 12 is the biggest design change in Android history.
During the Android 12 test, Google used such a sentence to satisfy the public's appetite, and people were looking forward to the implementation experience of the new system.
However, from the official version of the system launched in October last year to today, the actual performance of Android 12 makes this sentence seem ironic, and the system has exposed various problems one after another.
Google is not on the way to fix the bug or launch a new version of the optimization bug, and even once stopped pushing updates, even the Pixel 6 series has also been affected, and the reputation has declined.
Android 12 bugs are too many, Google paused the update
From the perspective of Android 12's features and design changes, it is indeed very innovative, the new version of the Material You design language almost from the beginning to the end of the transformation of the phone, from desktop widgets, icons, to calculators and other system applications, all look new, let people have a feeling of a new phone.
Mishaal Rahman, former editor-in-chief of the XDA forum that has been following Android for many years, even said that Android 12 is the biggest system update since Android 5.0, and the interface and features have changed dramatically.
But perhaps it is precisely because the functions and interface have changed too much, and there are too many tasks that need to be done, Android 12 has been buggy since it was launched, and the Pixel 6 series, as the first mobile phone with this system pre-installed, is in the hardest hit area.
For example, the fingerprint recognition speed is very slow, the voice assistant frequently crashes, the phone drops, etc., and other Pixel models have also encountered many problems after upgrading Android 12, charging is slow or even unable to charge, GIF diagrams are not displayed, etc.
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Pixel 6 has been complained of slow fingerprint recognition . Image courtesy of TechRadar
In the past, when the new Android system was first released, it more or less encountered some problems, such as when Android 11 was launched, the upgraded Pixel 4L and Pixel 4a image performance dropped by about 10%, and finally it was solved by the system firmware update.
This time Android 12 system problems, the repair process is longer than ever, last December Google launched an incremental repair firmware, designed to fix dozens of bugs such as slow fingerprint recognition.
Before the users who have been plagued by bugs have time to finish, some people find that the repair firmware itself is also problematic, and at the same time as solving the bug, there are new bugs and fall into a loop. In the end, Google could only temporarily withdraw the update and said that it would pause the push system update for a period of time to focus on fixing the bug.
More and more chain reactions are emerging.
The first is the Pixel 6 series, which was originally Google's turnaround, betting on AI's new self-developed chip Tensor, a unique design, all show that Google is full of confidence in this flagship phone, and its initial release was also well received.
Who did not expect that the Android system this old teammate dropped the chain at a critical moment, the constant emergence of bugs is gradually killing the patience of the machine owners, the well-known blogger MKBHD also said on Twitter that because of the system update problem, he withdrew the recommendation of the Pixel 6 Pro machine.
This Twitter quickly won thousands of retweets and comments, and obviously there are not a few people who share the same views as MKBHD, which is not easy to say how much impact the sales of the Pixel 6 series will be for the time being, but the word of mouth has indeed declined.
In addition to Google and Pixel users, android phone manufacturers have also been affected, and the android 12 bug is like a cell that is constantly dividing and proliferating, entering more and more people's mobile phones.
Mobile phone manufacturers are also not happy
In the past, Android mobile phone manufacturers updated the underlying Android system too slow has been criticized, Google has solved this problem through the Project Treble mechanism, so that other mobile phone manufacturers and chip manufacturers to undertake a part of the underlying portable work, accelerate the adaptation efficiency of other customized Android systems, the actual effect is also good.
Before the Android 12 system testing, Samsung, OnePlus and other manufacturers opened the synchronization test, after the release of the official version, there are many manufacturers to follow up, the customized system of the Android underlying version updated to the latest Android 12, but at the same time a variety of bugs incidentally have also been inherited.
According to foreign media sammobile, after Samsung launched the Android 12 update of Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Galaxy Z Fold 3, there are constantly users who claim to encounter bugs, such as unsuccessful updates, mobile phone bricks, abnormal screen flickering, phone performance degradation, camera applications can not start, etc. Samsung also urgently stopped the system update push.
When upgrading to Android 12, the one-plus oxygen OS international version system also encountered problems such as the disappearance of the camera app, the abnormal display of the screen refresh rate, and the same is also the suspension of push updates. The number of Android phone manufacturers and users affected by the bug is still increasing.
The original bug on Android 12, Google has not been fixed, and most of the mobile phone manufacturers such as Samsung and OnePlus have their own customized UI systems, and the combination of the two adaptation workload is not small, and it may cause new bugs.
OnePlus also said that while merging ColorOS and Oxygen OS, it also integrates the features of Android 12, and the upgrade workload is not small.
In this way, the most injured is the first time to try the upgrade of the user, if only the screen display and other issues are okay, you can rely on the fallback system to solve, Samsung has even tried to let users return to the previous beta system of the temporary way.
For those users whose phones are bricked due to OTA updates, it is not so simple to solve, even if the phone can be repaired eventually, but the data in it is difficult to save.
Android 12 dragged the mobile phone manufacturers behind, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 will be priced to 7599 yuan, obviously hoping to promote the popularity of folding screen mobile phones through a lower price, but it is not a good software experience, pulling down the product experience.
On the one hand, the public opinion pressure of users, on the other hand, Google can not launch a stable Android 12 system, Android mobile phone manufacturers push the official version of Android 12 speed naturally slowed down.
Under the trend of customized systems, how many people care about the new Android system?
Android 12 bugs and Google stop pushing updates, obviously will affect people's motivation to update the system, if it is not factory pre-installed Android 12, many users may wait for the official stable version after the release of the update, Android 12 update rate and update speed will only decline.
Android's fragmentation problem is almost unsolvable.
Now in order to highlight the competitiveness of their own products, mobile phone manufacturers are developing faster and faster customized UI systems based on Android systems.
Custom systems and native Android staggered time updates are almost inevitable, after all, both contain a lot of functional changes, Android models are many, the workload is not small, and everyone's needs for system upgrades are inconsistent.
This may not be entirely a bad thing for users.
The connection between the mobile phone manufacturer customization system and Android itself is becoming less and less obvious, such as the most important update of Android 12, The Material You design language, in addition to Google, there is basically no mobile phone manufacturers to use it all.
Each family has a corresponding design style and even a design system, which is not much different from the native Android.
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In terms of functions, mobile phone manufacturers have two major channels, retail stores and user forums, with extensive online and offline coverage, mobile phone manufacturers can more easily obtain user needs, and the speed of various customized functions is also faster.
Products such as folding screen mobile phones are also launched by mobile phone manufacturers first, and functions such as dual-column display and multi-App split screen are also launched by manufacturers such as Samsung, and Google only added this feature in the recent Android 12L system.
Even the industry-level functions of privacy and anti-deception, Android mobile phone manufacturers are also involved, and the upgrade of the native Android system is more like pulling up the level of the entire industry, and in some areas mobile phone manufacturers are still going faster.
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In this way, the average user's perception of the large version of Android update is not as good as the mobile phone manufacturer's custom system update, and people pay more attention to the large-scale iterative update of the customized version system rather than the Android bottom layer.
The underlying Android system updates are a bit slower, which is not so unacceptable to people, especially for big version updates like Android 12, which have a lot of bugs.
Staggered time updates are made precisely to ensure system stability. （APPSO）