Hey everyone!
Quick preamble: I’m going to be posting a proper bug report. In the spirit of GrapheneOS and this community (privacy) my details will be kind of generic here. Phone is a modern a-series Pixel.
Is anyone having notably more bugs in the last few days or so?
A few examples:
Fingerprint flickering on touch with erratic behaviour, the boot options after holding the side button do not register presses properly making it difficult to even reboot. I was stuck in this cycle for a few minutes. Fix on reboot.
Switching profiles lockscreen bug, when switching back to the owner profile, the home screen with app icons is displayed in the background of the lock screen for a few seconds, before switching back to the proper lock screen background.
Certain notifications, if timed just right while the screen shuts off, persist on the lock screen until they naturally fade.
Now that I’m typing these, they all seem to be related to the lockscreen in some way. Using default launcher.
So, anyone else experienced an uptick in bugginess lately? I read through the recent release notes and didn’t see any obvious indicators, but I’m not certain.
Would like to hear from other GrapheneOS users!
Also, if you want to take your privacy and security seriously, please consider switching to GrapheneOS if you haven’t already and are able to. It’s the best we’ve got right now as far as privacy and security in a mobile OS goes.
Cheers!
Good to know. I was noticing stuttering and slowdown type issues since the update
Praise the privacy gods! And the GrapheneOS devs too hehe
I hope this fixes the majority of recent issues. Thanks for the link.
no problem!
This explains some things. Yay fixes!
Ahh so it’s not just me! Glad a fix is on the way, I’ve been having a bunch of performance issues since the last update.
About the only thing I’ve noticed is sometimes I’ll tap the display but it doesn’t light up. I had this issue on my 6a. It’s more frequent on my 10a. Pressing the power button turns on the display. A reboot temporarily fixing the problem.
My dad has a 6a running GrapheneOS and hasn’t mentioned this happening to him.
Switching profiles lockscreen bug, when switching back to the owner profile, the home screen with app icons is displayed in the background of the lock screen for a few seconds, before switching back to the proper lock screen background.
For me it also “blocks” input to the homescreen… I don’t know if is the OS thought as I can freely pull down the notification thingy and click everywhere. Lawnchair bug…?
I’ve been having some problems as well lately. For example sometimes I just can’t take a Screenshot or more general performance drops
This is happening currently, might explain some of the behavior: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76359803
Oh mah gawd yesterday I had a sneaking suspicion about Android 17 QPR 1 because of how Google is fucking everyone using AOSP over. But the devs seemed confident (if not frustrated) in their implementation, and I’m not a security researcher.
If this is actually the cause of so many issues, that’s a relief to know but also really sad because it’s something the devs are gonna have to contend with until god knows when…
IT feels kinda laggy and badly responding at Times since the Last update. Rebooted a few Times already
Agreed! By the way, if you’re using a non-stock launcher, maybe try checking if stock fixes any of that for you. I noticed with Lawnchair 16 (stable and nightly) that I had real issues with app switching being buggy.
Obviously use whatever launcher you want, but it’s a troubleshooting step!
Thanks for pointong Out. I’m on the stock launcher. There has been a new Update a few hours ago and it seems to be fixed
Haven’t ever had anything like this on my Pixel running Graphene. Seems more like some odd corruption of OS files than an implementation bug in the OS’s code itself to me.
This reminds me that I’ve yet to set up complete backup of my phone.
It’s not Halloween yet please don’t mention OS corruption 👻
Using what for full phone backup?
I use Synology Drive for much of my stuff which backs up to my (really old) NAS. I also use cryptomator for some things. I also do a lot of manual backups because I made the habit and some things just aren’t easy or necessary to automate.
For the record, I know Synology sucks but I bought this NAS before they started pulling that BS about third party drives and removing codecs etc. I keep the NAS offline, tailscale only (sorry not doing Headscale). And for anyone in the same boat about the codecs, there’s a Github project I helped a tiny bit on which patches back in the old codecs and prevents synology from updating over it. If you want the link lemme know!
Edit: while I’m on the tangent of Synology I want to add that somebody came up with a script to activate many of the features which require device registration. All of it can be done offline and with no external scripts. Here it is!
I haven’t been having any bugs lately. What kind of phone do you have?
A modern a-series Pixel. How about you?
Pixel 7a
