Pixel 7 and Pixel 8 collection house owners are having to take care of a number of community points and all of it appears to have began when the month-to-month replace for March 2024 was put in. The replace was pushed out by Google in the course of the first week of final month to exterminate earlier bugs and to make the suitable Pixel fashions extra steady. The complaints vary from the non-receipt of messages and dropped calls to different issues that can sound acquainted to Pixel customers.
For instance, on Reddit, one affected Pixel consumer stated that he has been turning on and off Airplane mode each two hours to assist his handset keep related to his wi-fi supplier. This was a trick that many Pixel 6 collection customers (together with this author) had to make use of due to Google’s determination to pack its Pixels with Samsung’s Exynos modem chips as an alternative of what many contemplate to be the superior Qualcomm Snapdragon modem chips utilized by flagship telephones made by Apple and Samsung. The Pixel 7 and Pixel 8 fashions each use the Exynos 5300 5G modem chip.
The Samsung Exynos 5300 modem chip is used on the Pixel 7 and Pixel 8 strains
One other Redditor with the username ShadoutMapes87 wrote that he and his spouse each use a Pixel 7 Professional on the Verizon community and their calls have been going straight to voicemail. Their messages additionally do not arrive in a well timed method and as he explains, “All of the sudden I’ll obtain a notification for 4 voicemails all indicating that my cellphone did not ring, and textual content responses for 10+ people/teams from a earlier two to a few hours interval through which I obtained no texts. This has occurred persistently for the previous 7-10 days.”
What’s much more attention-grabbing is that he says he hears by phrase of mouth that different Verizon prospects he is aware of with iPhones and Galaxy fashions will not be having these points.
The lately launched April 2024 replace didn’t repair these issues which aren’t minor ones. Pixel customers will most likely have to attend to see if the Might replace brings aid. Alternatively, contemplating the severity of shedding community connectivity, maybe Google will ship out a mid-cycle replace.
