Comment on Hundreds complain about failing mobile phone service since 3G switched off
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My phone doesn’t receive half of its incoming calls. I actually narrowed it down to the VoLTE keepalive packets being transmitted with a MAC address of 00:00:00:00:00:00 when on CLAT (which is Telstra default) on all Google Pixels. The connection silently dies, there is no return UDP route, so the phone won’t ring.
I reported it to Google, but they don’t give a shit. I guess the million or so people with a pixel can just deal with it.
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 day ago
<sarcasm> Have you tried buying a new Pixel, and throwing your old one into landfill?</sarcasm>
BuT tHe PiXeL iS a PrEmIuM pHoNe, LiKe ThE iPhOnE!
Google will always treat their users as the product, no matter how much you pay for their hardware.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I replicated the same problem on the newer pixel.
Salvo@aussie.zone 22 hours ago
It is a shame that there are no other premium Android Phones that are just a handheld internet communicator. Samsungs are so full of corruptive “I want to be iPhone” bloatware that they make the Chinese phones look appealing, the Chinese phones are so full of nationalist spyware that they make Linux Phones look like a valid option (even though they are also manufactured by Chinese companies) Xperia is also full of their proprietary software, Nokia is probably the best of a bad bunch.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
They’re all too bloated. I would not purchase a handset unless I could install GrapheneOS or LineageOS on it.