Google Pixel phones reportedly freezing for minutes at a time

[Alphe]

Oh gosh, this is terrible, oh wait for an update to fix the bugs.........

oh gosh, this is android OS btw. no updates till next product launch

If it is hardware then good luck amigos!

Not true. Pixel is the first of all Android phones to get updates and I've already had at least one major update.

 

[JW0914]

I'd encourage anyone with the know how to look into the proximity sensor, as Google still hasn't managed to fix it's sensitivity issue on the Nexus 6, resulting in the exact same behavior as being experienced on Pixel devices, except the screen stays black and only a hard reset will fix it.

There was an XDA user that released a patch for the Nexus 6 on Lollipop that maxed out the proximity sensor's sensitivity, however it was never updated for Nougat and Google still hasn't bothered to fix the code or employ the same tactic the aforementioned dev on XDA did.

Due to the fact the proximity sensor's code has still not been patched by Google to fully eliminate the issue as of 7.0.0 [NBD91U; 12/16], there's a good chance Google devs didn't bother to properly address the issue on the Pixels either.

 

[JW0914]

@wastedkill @Mr Dude @Kenrick If one takes the perspective hiccups should never occur within a device's firmware, one may want to adjust their perspective to match reality. It doesn't matter what device or OS/Firmware one is using, there will always be bugs that pop up, some minor, some moderate, and some critical. To believe bugs should not occur demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of reality and the complexities involved with software, hardware, and how both interact and communicate with the other, coupled with a lack of basic factual information.

In regards to google devices, there's not a single other manufactured device that offers better support or the breadth of capabilities and customizations a google manufactured device offers... that's simply irrefutable. The only other manufactured devices that would even come close are Samsung devices; with that being said, their devices are a catch 22, as Samsung will gladly allow you to unlock the bootloader of their devices upon request, however once a user does so, they are no longer able to receive OTAs (that's on top of Tizen, and the massive amount of bloatware - my problem with bloatware isn't the fact it's been pre-installed, it's the fact it hogs resources that most don't want hogged by the bloatware).