Android 12 Beta 4 Features, Bugs, and Fixes.

[Kizzy Catwoman]

Cool, Cool fair enough.. Sounds good to me though nonetheless. Good find..

I saw it on the HowToMen YouTube channel. His video on Android apps that may soon go viral

 

[eric002]

I saw it on the HowToMen YouTube channel. His video on Android apps that may soon go viral

Yeah, I follow his channel as well. Sometimes though, I just skip right though most of the video, because I don't care about all of the apps or features he's talking about though.

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

I think beta 4 is much more stable than 3 and 3.1 ever were.

 

[eric002]

I think beta 4 is much more stable than 3 and 3.1 ever were.

Yeah, the BT performance, app performance, battery life, etc, everything seems to be good so far.

 

[jhilker]

I think beta 4 is much more stable than 3 and 3.1 ever were.

I agree, things overall seem so much more stable. Still occasionally having issues with my Pixel Buds 2, but assistant does work on them from time to time.

 

[eric002]

I agree, things overall seem so much more stable. Still occasionally having issues with my Pixel Buds 2, but assistant does work on them from time to time.

Still, very sorry to hear that. Yeah, things seem much more stable performance wise in connection wise.

 

[Deleted member 2609113]

I agree, things overall seem so much more stable. Still occasionally having issues with my Pixel Buds 2, but assistant does work on them from time to time.

I agree overall, however there is one major security bug..VPNs not working, even Google Fi/1 VPN doesn't work. Hopefully this is fixed in 4.1. How this snuck through Google is beyond me. Many beta testers have rolled back to Beta 3 because of this flaw.

 

[cbreze]

This new icon pack works with 3rd party launchers and changes with your wallpaper in Android 12. Also has widgets that change too.
Sweet,being a third party launcher enthusiast I will be checking this out. Good find Kizzy, thanks for the post
Pix material you icon pack and widgets by PashaPuma Design. £1.39 but worth it for theming and has more variety than stock themed apps. Over 2000 icons.

Can't get the link from Play store for some reason.

Be checking this out, thanks

 

[cbreze]

Finally found the fix for my google assistant failing. Did a hard reset previously, what a pain. So it failed again, always first thing in the morning when I actually want to use it. Anyway did some web searching and found this is a known problem since June. The fix as described by google is to find google app in settings and clear all info. Was nervous to do this the last time and only cleared cache which did nothing. This time I cleared “all data”. Did the trick and assistant is back and running like a well oiled machine again.
So just passing this info along as I can’t believe I’m the only one with this recurring issue. (4a)

 

[jhilker]

Finally found the fix for my google assistant failing. Did a hard reset previously, what a pain. So it failed again, always first thing in the morning when I actually want to use it. Anyway did some web searching and found this is a known problem since June. The fix as described by google is to find google app in settings and clear all info. Was nervous to do this the last time and only cleared cache which did nothing. This time I cleared “all data”. Did the trick and assistant is back and running like a well oiled machine again.
So just passing this info along as I can’t believe I’m the only one with this recurring issue. (4a)

Thanks for the tip! I'll see if this fixes my Assistant issues on my Buds.

 

[jhilker]

Finally found the fix for my google assistant failing. Did a hard reset previously, what a pain. So it failed again, always first thing in the morning when I actually want to use it. Anyway did some web searching and found this is a known problem since June. The fix as described by google is to find google app in settings and clear all info. Was nervous to do this the last time and only cleared cache which did nothing. This time I cleared “all data”. Did the trick and assistant is back and running like a well oiled machine again.
So just passing this info along as I can’t believe I’m the only one with this recurring issue. (4a)

Good try, but my assistant is still hit or miss with my Buds. Sometimes if I long press 2 or 3 times, it'll finally read me my notifications, but I usually have to pause what I'm listening to, and then long press.

 

[cbreze]

Good try, but my assistant is still hit or miss with my Buds. Sometimes if I long press 2 or 3 times, it'll finally read me my notifications, but I usually have to pause what I'm listening to, and then long press.

It sounds like we might have different issues. When I would try to call the assistant it would say just a minute and then the fail pop-up would appear and it wouldn’t work at all for anything. Sorry it didn’t work for you.

 

[eric002]

Okay, so what I am now starting to realize with material you auto-theming is that if you have different wallpapers on your lock screen, and your home screen, the material you color selection in the pixel launcher settings sometimes gets messed up. Meaning before I had two different Android 12 themed wallpapers on my lock screen and my home screen. I didn't have that many great color selections. I just changed my lock screen and my home screen to the same wallpaper and I got much better auto theming color selection choices. Check it out.

 

[eric002]

Just thought I'd share with everyone what type of feedback I gave to Google just now with the Android 12 Beta 4 feedback survey!

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

Just thought I'd share with everyone what type of feedback I gave to Google just now with the Android 12 Beta 4 feedback survey!

Good feedback.

 

[eric002]

Good feedback.

hehe, thanks a bunch! Also, if you use the always on lock screen, i just realized again that if you flip your phone face down and for the the AOD off, you can save a crap ton of battery power.. Check it out!

 

[john_v]

hehe, thanks a bunch! Also, if you use the always on lock screen, i just realized again that if you flip your phone face down and for the the AOD off, you can save a crap ton of battery power.. Check it out!

Mines set so that when I flip it goes on Do Not Disturb

 

[eric002]

Mines set so that when I flip it goes on Do Not Disturb

Yeah, I hear ya. I have that setting turned off.

 

[Kizzy Catwoman]

I reset my phone. Just needed to do a reinstall. Good news finally got the dynamic theming on gboard.

 

[jhilker]

I'm wondering if a reset is what it's gonna take for me to get my Pixel Buds to play nicely with Assistant?