Beta 4 arrived

[eric002]

Re: Q Beta 4

All righty so in beta four, for Android Auto, they got a big smoother but still crashes quite frequently. Just submitted a bug log to this tractor. Honestly shocked that it's still happening in beta 4 though considering this is close to production but just very frustrating!

 

[strikeIII]

so glad to hear that! So here's a weird very frustrating issue with my phone ever since beta One. I cannot get Android Auto to work on my car still. It loads and it starting to work smoother but still crashes on my 2018 Accord sports 2.0t. Literally, everything else on my 3XL works beautiful! I was thinking of calling Google customer service in addition to the issue tracker.

Maybe try a factory reset or safe mode and see if Android Auto works.

 

[eric002]

Yeah, black-on-black looked funny to me after a while. I hope the gray stays. I wouldn't mind having some other dark gray stuff as well. Maybe the black email went away cuz they're going to come back with gray. That'd be cool.

You know honestly, the black on black in beta 3 when we were able to force override the black mode, it look cool for thebGoogle search bar widget, but yeah grey on black look stealthy for sure!

 

[eric002]

Maybe try a factory reset or safe mode and see if Android Auto works.

Safe mode disables all third party Play store applications though. Android Auto is technically a third party Play store application. That's the part I can't figure out because the issue stems from the fact that my phone is forced to reboot. Google developers at Beta said it was a low memory issue which would make sense, but I don't understand why it would be a little memory issue with Android Auto directly on my phone has always worked beautifully.

 

[htcrazy]

Re: Q Beta 4

Are 3rd party wallpapers still being stretched or did they finally fix it?

 

[eric002]

Re: Q Beta 4

Are 3rd party wallpapers still being stretched or did they finally fix it?

You know , I don't think so! I tried YouTube and landscape mode then when directly to my home screen and it was fine. I'm going to conduct some more testing but I think it's fixed finally!

Quick update, tried a puzzle game that I have on my phone that only works in landscape mode, then directly went to the home screen and wallpaper was fine.

 

[htcrazy]

Re: Q Beta 4

You know , I don't think so! I tried YouTube and landscape mode then when directly to my home screen and it was fine. I'm going to conduct some more testing but I think it's fixed finally!

Quick update, tried a puzzle game that I have on my phone that only works in landscape mode, then directly went to the home screen and wallpaper was fine.

Thank you. I went back to Pie for that and other reasons. I'm going to try beta 4. No one is reporting any serious issues yet.

 

[eric002]

Re: Q Beta 4

Thank you. I went back to Pie for that and other reasons. I'm going to try beta 4. No one is reporting any serious issues yet.

oh no problem whatsoever! Yeah the wallpaper stretching and beta 3 was a bit annoying I just quote unquote dealt with it and I'm patient but it was very annoying. So far everything smooth yesterday smoother in faster and beta 4.

 

[eric002]

so in beta 4 for Android messages, it looks like RCS feature is back but I can't get it to verify my phone number. Has anyone tried this again yet?

 

[cbreze]

Has anyone else had all their notification tones changed? Trying to get it sorted out now. I wonder if we got some new ones with this update because the ones they changed to I’ve never heard before. I had a bunch of personal ringtone set for certain contacts and they all went to something called ringtone 51 or some other number. And then when you look for it there is no ringtone 51 because obviously they don’t go by numbers they go by names. Lol all notifications totally borked. looks like I have an evening project to do.

 

[eric002]

I will say this much, Android messages notification tones can finally be changed! Beta 3 broke that.

 

[mustang7757]

So I factory reset and now screenshots are working. So could have been a glitch in my phone. Now just gotta login to everything again.

Glad to hear it's back working.

 

[mustang7757]

also can swipe left or right for your notifications on the notifications panel

 

[eric002]

also can swipe left or right for your notifications on the notifications panel

Yep, noticed that as well. To me, it's not a big deal but still nice to have.

Glad to hear it's back working.

So glad to hear that it's back working for you.

 

[mustang7757]

Yep, noticed that as well. To me, it's not a big deal but still nice to have. So glad to hear that it's back working for you.

For me was a pain because I had to remember which way to swipe before , I would snooze things or have option to do other things with that notifications when all I wanted to just swipe it away

 

[anon(10092459)]

Mine failed to load, dumped to recovery mode, so I ended up with a factory reset. But once that was done, it's been running great. Thankful I wasn't running this on my main Pixel.

 

[ptkelly]

so in beta 4 for Android messages, it looks like RCS feature is back but I can't get it to verify my phone number. Has anyone tried this again yet?

Eric, my "chat features" screen is quite different. It doesn't have anything about verifying the phone number. Could that be something your service provider adds? Below "Show typing indicators" I have two other items: Resend mesgs if undelivered & Auto-download files....

 

[htcrazy]

I opted back into the beta after leaving beta 3. I have the accessibility menu turned on with the little man figure in lower right hand corner. Now in beta 4, if I select recent apps there is no clear all button on the left. However, if I swipe up from the home button and then swipe the open apps to the right, the clear all button is there. Strange, but not a problem.

 

[ptkelly]

Dark Mode. I never used the Override flag because I routinely turn my phone off when I got to sleep and that meant resetting it every morning and it wasn't worth the trouble. With Android Q beta 4 I'm fairly happy. GMail and Maps doesn't have a dark mode but Phone, Camera, Photos, Kindle EReader, Settings, Calendar, Google Keep, Contacts, Messages, Manual Camera, and Snapseed are all in dark mode. Not perfect but it's getting there.

 

[mustang7757]

Mine failed to load, dumped to recovery mode, so I ended up with a factory reset. But once that was done, it's been running great. Thankful I wasn't running this on my main Pixel.

Wow wonder why that happened.