evilcookies98,
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So my phone can in fact get android 14. Is it worth the headache? I’m about to have to go through?

amir,

@evilcookies98 Definitely grab Android 14.

ratking,

@evilcookies98 14 is pretty nice actually, i run the betas

evilcookies98,
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@ratking i’m having a weird talkback issue, and I have confirmed it as a talkback issue because it doesn’t happen with prudence. My double taps are behaving in the weirdest manner possible. In order to get a double tap to register, I have to hold in for a second or so on the second tap.

ratking,

@evilcookies98 Hmmm, i havent' seen that happen for mine before on both my devices so i'm not fully sure

evilcookies98,
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@ratking i’m thinking it’s something I’ve changed, but I don’t know how I changed it or where it is to fix it. I know there’s nothing wrong with the device because as I said, another screen reader doesn’t do that. Talk back itself didn’t even do that while I was setting it up yesterday.

spacedragon,

@evilcookies98 @ratking One reason I went away from android. All dependent on carrier and region. And here everything is too late. Also Google does not sell their phones here. But Apple has a better update policy than all of them anyway, and it is releasing on a global scale, not regionally or whenever the carrier decides to wake up and approve it. Updates should be global, not depend on stupid things like that. Not to mention, I was$upposed to receive security updates every 6 months, I received them once a year.

ratking,

@spacedragon @evilcookies98 I disagree with you there, a lot.

spacedragon,

@ratking @evilcookies98 in my own personal opinion, Android sucks. I have somehow, no problems with Apple for now. Except killing my own language switcher, but that amuses me more than annoying me for some odd reason. Maybe I should upgrade my phone too. It'll be fun.

spacedragon,

@ratking @evilcookies98 Also having seeing AI and it scanning all my books for free? I take this any day. I'm a student, I need the tools.

evilcookies98,
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@spacedragon @ratking I get basically the same functionality with the lookout app. My only slight gripe with that app is that the product identification is limited to food. I’m hoping they expand it very soon.

ratking,

@evilcookies98 @spacedragon It's always possible

jamminjerry,

@ratking @evilcookies98 I wonder if she could go to apps, find talkback in the list, and tell it remove user data, and hopefully that would fix it? it would put all her settings back to default, but it should at least fix the issue she is having.

evilcookies98,
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@jamminjerry @ratking i’m so clueless as to what I did, so that’s not a bad idea.

ppatel,
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@evilcookies98 Headache? Why? It's worth it.

evilcookies98,
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@ppatel I thought I would have to use the flash method because Mr. Update didn't wanna show up

ppatel,
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@evilcookies98 It's rare to have that situation these days. It may take a bit to show up but show up it does, especially on Pixel devices.

evilcookies98,
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@ppatel it showed up after I’ve went through all the headache to unlock the stupid boot loader because the flash tool didn’t wanna run without it. That could’ve been the fault of my crummy computer.

khronos,

@evilcookies98 What phone do you have

spaciath,
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@evilcookies98 I think it's worth it, yeah. I did the update the hour it came out.

evilcookies98,
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@spaciath it’s not showing in my over the air menu, so I’m going to have to do it the long and slightly frightening way. I want to get it done while I’m still in the mood to install updates.

dhamlinmusic,

@evilcookies98 Been on it for weeks and its good, you get separate ring and notification volumes, and you can change the shortcuts on the lock screen, and those are the highlights from what I can tell.

evilcookies98,
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@dhamlinmusic i’m nervous about having to use the flashing tool. That’s the main thing. I’ve never done that before and it kind of freaks me out a little.

dhamlinmusic,

@evilcookies98 The what?

evilcookies98,
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@dhamlinmusic the thing you have to use to update?

dhamlinmusic,

@evilcookies98 No idea what you're talking about, I update OTA through the phone settings like most people.

evilcookies98,
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@dhamlinmusic I don’t have that option. I know the phone gets it because I illiterately just looked it up.

dhamlinmusic,

@evilcookies98 Huh, what carrier/country? Cause should just be Settings|System|System Update

evilcookies98,
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@dhamlinmusic phone came straight from Google

dhamlinmusic,

@evilcookies98 Yeah so the above should be what you do, flashing the update is something people on the Pixel subreddit do because you can get them before they roll out through a carrier or because its faster, but definitely not required, once the phone is active on your carrier it should start looking for updates.

evilcookies98,
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@dhamlinmusic if it’s carrier dependent I’ll never get anything.

dhamlinmusic,

@evilcookies98 DOWNLOADS via wifi if it can, but the carriers approve the rollout because of network compatibility concerns, all the US carriers have rolled it out at this point.

evilcookies98,
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@dhamlinmusic my carrier isn’t one of the big ones.

dhamlinmusic,

@evilcookies98 So every US carrier is on one of the 3 big networks, there are actually only 3 cell service providers in  US.

evilcookies98,
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@dhamlinmusic true, but the little sub carriers, like to not give squat.

dhamlinmusic,

@evilcookies98 Yeah this does not matter with them, it is just the network level that is concerned, Tmobile was the last to approve A14 for rollout which meant Mint/Fi/TMobile all got the update together last week.

evilcookies98,
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@dhamlinmusic tell that to my carrier that doesn’t even let security updates go through for three months

dhamlinmusic,

@evilcookies98 That sounds like a tmobile thing, they have done that a lot but either way you should not have to flash the updates and I have no idea why anything would suggest that.

evilcookies98,
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@dhamlinmusic let’s put it this way, my carrier is so bad the government uses it for their free phone plans

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