Android 9 Pie... Do you like it?

[Citizen Coyote]

Ah, gotcha. That makes sense.

 

[mikezmac]

Holy Awesome Battery life! My battery life is awesome today! Did an erase install to Pie yesterday and my battery life is amazing today! 71% at 5pm with moderate use including youtube/texting/emails and some surfing w/ chrome

 

[mikezmac]

anyone have a new chrome tab open every time they try to use the search bar or swipe left for news

Not me

 

[mikezmac]

Long press the Bluetooth button in quick settings and it will take you directly there. I believe all the buttons in quick settings are tap for on/off and long press for other options/settings now.

Yes, very nice! Almost all stock android apps have long press functionality. The lines of ios and android are blurring.

 

[DJM626]

Not liking the brightness maybe it didn't change to many but even with a light background I have to keep my original pixel almost up to 100 percent. This has to effect the battery in some way .

Also not liking the location settings that you have to have them on at one level or off completely. Turn them off and you lose your weather, Google feed doesn't update etc. While others are reporting good battery life mine plain sucks! This was after a reset was performed. Oreo was the best in terms of battery and performance for me that's for sure

 

[Mike Dee]

Not liking the brightness maybe it didn't change to many but even with a light background I have to keep my original pixel almost up to 100 percent. This has to effect the battery in some way .

Also not liking the location settings that you have to have them on at one level or off completely. Turn them off and you lose your weather, Google feed doesn't update etc. While others are reporting good battery life mine plain sucks! This was after a reset was performed. Oreo was the best in terms of battery and performance for me that's for sure

Only the brightness numbers are different

 

[DJM626]

That is what I hear but it still sucks that I have to keep the brightness up to 100 in order to comfortably read or see anything . Another thing that I noticed in not only pie but in Oreo as well is under developer options you have a choice as of to how many processes you want to run in the background . Even if you select one process or two, no matter what the setting always changes to standard limit. It's never kept my setting of one or two processes

 

[dyastrab]

I agree. Why limit the brightness?. This morning, the sun was out and I had to crank up to nearly 100% to see. Never had to go so high before.

 

[Mike Dee]

I agree. Why limit the brightness?. This morning, the sun was out and I had to crank up to nearly 100% to see. Never had to go so high before.

The brightness is not limited. The number scale is different

 

[DJM626]

The number scale may be different but the battery drain when you have to max out your brightness becomes an issue as with any other phone no matter what anyone else may think or say

 

[DJM626]

I used to be able to go less then half and have it plenty bright for me while it sipped the battery slowly. I'm not finding that the case with pie. The higher the brightness the faster the battery drain

 

[Mike Dee]

The number scale may be different but the battery drain when you have to max out your brightness becomes an issue as with any other phone no matter what anyone else may think or say

Max is max regardless of the number. If you are increasing the brightness because it's not bright enough you were doing the same thing before but at a different number.

 

[DJM626]

I hear ya Mike, but I was able to see at the half way to less then half way point with Oreo. With Pie its almost impossible to view unless the brightness is 90% or higher. That's the difference

 

[MoChewy]

I've filed a bug report after 2 hour chat with Pixel support. The outgoing text sound in messages is in-op

 

[dyastrab]

I hear ya Mike, but I was able to see at the half way to less then half way point with Oreo. With Pie its almost impossible to view unless the brightness is 90% or higher. That's the difference

Thanks. That was the point I was trying to make.

It seems like the screen could be made brighter before the upgrade to Pie limited it.

 

[Mike Dee]

Thanks. That was the point I was trying to make.

It seems like the screen could be made brighter before the upgrade to Pie limited it.

The Max brightness has not changed

 

[Rukbat]

To get back to the original question, I'm getting used to it. But if I ever find the person responsible for hiding the list of paired Bluetooth devices, I'm moving to northern Alaska in the winter and using him or her as a tire chain.

Some of the rest of it seems to be pretty nice. And I think that I'm getting better battery life than I did on Oreo. (I never installed the betas.)

As for the brightness, tell the assistant to set brightness to 15%. That's not 15% on the bar in the notification pulldown, but it's more than bright enough for me indoors. The bar position no longer indicates the brightness, that's all. We'll have to get used to 15% being about mid-scale. (I don't know who came up with that change - there was really no reason for it.)

 

[mobilereboot]

Pie seems to eat more battery than Oreo. Yesterday afternoon, my phone started getting pretty hot for no apparent reason, and killing all apps didn't fix it. I rebooted the phone, and that seemed to take care of whatever the offending process was.

Pixel 2 XL

 

[DJM626]

I've been having that on numerous occasions as well. I also have a lot of apps that need to update such as my banking app that doesn't work at all along with a lot of poor response in opening apps . I'm thinking this may be a contribution factor to my poor battery performance

 

[cbreze]

The number scale may be different but the battery drain when you have to max out your brightness becomes an issue as with any other phone no matter what anyone else may think or say

With Oreo my brightness was good at 45%. Now it's the same intensity but needs to be 85%. Kinda weird but I see no battery degradation because of it. As others have said it's only the way it's scaled. Overall battery usage is slightly better I think. Maybe some difference with either or both if you're on the OG pixel?