Nexus 6P Travel Fail... Disappointed

[Slow_S10]

With regard to the OPs post I have occasionally noticed some weirdness when taking pictures with my 6P. I am using the stock camera app which for me does a great job. However occasionally if I am trying to take several pictures in a row and when some or all of them trigger the HDR to kick on (when set to auto) the phone will begin to lag and start being unresponsive. It won't allow me to take any more pictures for 30 seconds or so, and it will sometimes completely freeze up. I have also noticed the same thing happen when trying to take longer burst images too. I assume it is just because the processor trying to process so much all at once that tends to bog it down.

I know in his list of issues the OP didn't tie his phone's freezing issues to taking photos, but I wonder if that is what might be causing his problems also. For me all it has taken to resolve those issues so far has been a few extra moments of patience. But I can definitely appreciate that sometimes those few extra moments are the difference between getting that quick perfect shot and missing something all together.

As far as the fingerprint scanner issues, I have no idea. Honestly mine has been pretty much flawless so far.

 

[PaulQ]

Back in the USA.

I didn't mean for this post to become a discussion on the merits of a carrying a separate camera. So, back to the point and in response to asking me about the figerprint sensor...

I registered my two index and middle fingers (total of 4). When I use a finger, I get the double-buzz that it didn't work and I pass the phone between my two hands trying each of the four fingers. About half of the time, one of them would work. The other half, all failed. The ideal situation is to grab your phone from your pocket with your finger on the sensor so when it your eyes hit the screen, it's already on. This rarely happened. If it did work, there was always a little delay - it is not the "instant on" that people have mentioned in the past.

I went from hot/dry Arizona to cold/wet Spain where the sensor performance degraded dramatically. Morocco had warm days, cold nights, all dry. I think I retrained my fingers in Morocco. Then France was just cold and the sensor continued to perform very poorly. So, you could analyze all that and say maybe it was the weather's effect on my skin. I'm going to go forward the rest of the week and see if the sensor performance improves.

I'll report back in a few days both to let all of you know and leave it to that if someone else reads this thread in the future, they'll know what happened.

 

[LeoRex]

OK... Let me preface this by saying that the FPS on the 6P is an excellent unit. It is fast, accurate and reliable... for most people that is. I've used it in cold and dry and hot and humid and it's dead on. You seem to be having some issues with it, obviously. Now, these issues can either be that there is a problem with the phone, or the problem is you.

Well... not YOU per sea, your fingers.

Now, the phone... The FPS is a capacitive reader. The ridges and valleys of your fingerprint are detected by the FPS and it gets mapped to the stored fingerprint in the phone's security container. If that capacitive plate is messed up, it can't accurately read your finger, you will get a lot of mis-reads.

Now, I know for a fact that some people's fingers just don't work all that well with FPS... my wife, for instance, has always had a hard time with anything that requires her touch. All her phones' touchscreens are a tick less responsive when she uses them. The FPS on her laptop won't read her finger at all. I have a theory that it is related, somehow, to her low iron levels... the way I figure it, it's the iron in our blood that allows our fingers to work with capacitive stuff. But whatever... topic for a different day. So, if you are anemic, or have low iron... well... that COULD be the source.

Now, the first issue is a low easier to fix than the second. How long have you had the 6P?

 

[skyo12]

Few comments since I recently had a 3 day trip to Vancouver, Canada:

- In regards to the FPS; Only time I had issues with this was when I switched cases. I noticed my Spigen case is a bit thicker than normal so I actually had to redo my finger prints with the case on
- I'm on Project Fi so data worked great, and calls worked well. No noticeable drain on battery compared to when I was in the states
- Battery life was consistently decent. Get about 3+ hours of screen time (off charger around 9AM, plugged in the charger around 12AM) while snapping quite a few photos and videos First phone that I didn't have to worry much about the battery throughout the day
- Photo quality is very good... only complaint is the shutter lag with HDR+ (pic from the trip below); I tried Manual Camera previously but I went back to the stock app
- I'm fully stock, unrooted and on Nova Launcher


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[PaulQ]

Here's a follow up on the FPS.... I factory reset. Now the FPS works a LOT better. No idea what a factory reset has to do with the FPS. (anyone?)

As a side note, I love the fact that many apps restore all their settings in Marshmallow. I wish every app had this written in. I'm sure it will become ubiquitous over time.

Camera... still laggy. It's most likely the app I use but I really like it otherwise. All the features. I may just give it up though and go back to Google Camera if it gets to me.

Anyway - FPS issue solved for now.