I have had a pixel 8 for a year and I never had any of the issues you describe. Hopefully you just had a lemon and the new one will work fine for you.

Several reboots on the first day is what I see too because the phone is updating itself to the latest version and patches.

Soon it will be stable.

I used a non standard keyboard a long time ago and while it did deliver, the most important thing I learned is that non standard things tend to disappear and the time spent learning it was wasted.

The pixel 7 and 8 I use never have those problems. I suspect the culprit is your network signal, not your phone. Do you have a reliable provider and are you in a location where the signal travels well?

I work on an irregular schedule, so I want to keep track to make sure I get enough sleep. It doesn’t have to be super accurate, just a number of hours elapsed, to decide if I go back to sleep.

Satirical, but it’s actually my plan b, until something automatically does it. So upvoted lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just get a case

I wonder why glass back is so popular,

They are being hyped up by marketing because people easily fall for it. Even you:

Then I bought my $800 glass back Xiaomi 13T Pro in January

It works the same as with cigarettes: people think it’s cool. Most don’t care about the rest. Easy money for the suppliers.

Good for you for calling them out on their bullshit. Anyone else with a history of dropping their phones from their pockets (and yet buying a flashy glass back (and refusing to protect it with a case (and referring to it as a condom))) will benefit from reading about your awakening and they might go for something different.

Just remember, if you fell for this one, you might fall for another marketing gimmick unless you pay more attention.

I also use Boost because of one nice feature: it highlights new comments in a different color.

I had to turn that feature on in the settings, and it’s very convenient when revisiting an active post.

I found mine by typing “power bar with timer” in amazon.com

There are many different models and I picked this one , and it works fine: https://www.amazon.com/DEWENWILS-Mechanical-Overload-Protection-Aquarium/dp/B08K313Z9L/

I bought a power bar with a timer on it, so I can leave my headset, laptop, old phone plugged in without overcharging them.

I set an alarm at 7 am, no sound, no vibration. It activates adaptive charging without waking me up

I got the pixel 8. If you plan to keep your phone for 7 years, you might as well get the one that is overpowered now, because in a few years it will perform better than anything else you can buy now.

My Pixel 7 battery lasts all day. (From 8am to 11pm typically )

I usually spend a solid 6 hours a day on the phone with a Bluetooth headset, and I also listen to mp3s that are stored on my phone for a couple of hours. I text, email, use Lemmy and the web regularly, play on lichess.org, but I never stream videos or do video calls.

Around 11pm, the battery is below 20%. If I spend more time on the phone than usual, then I have to recharge around 7 or 8pm to make sure I still have enough power through the evening. Audio calling with an app like Skype, WhatsApp, WeChat, or Zoom uses more battery than with a regular phone call.

On an off day, with no more than 2 or 3 hours on the phone, my battery is still at 45% at 11pm, sometimes even almost 60. I feel I could skip charging it overnight if I had 2 off days in a row.

Recently I upgraded to a pixel 8, and the battery life is the same, even though I have twice as much memory, and I turned on most of the bells and whistles to test them out.

My 6-month old pixel 7 is now used by an elderly person who just texts occasionally, makes short calls and checks the newsfeed/weather. The battery now lasts at least 2 days, probably more.

Thank you for this information! 🙏

I looked at Graphene OS and I am interested, but how can I find out if it will run on my old Samsung Galaxy S7?

Your Samsung calendar app seems to defeat the purpose of an online calendar. I use the Google calendar and everything is syncing across all devices.

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The watch doesn’t sync Alarms with my phone? I couldn’t believe it when you mentioned it but a quick google search confirms it: “Alarms set on your phone will no longer sync with your watch. According to Google support, the watch alarms are now supposed to be separate from those on your phone. It’s a curious design choice, but that’s how alarms on the Pixel Watch function for now. Jun 27, 2023”

That seems to defeat the purpose of the Watch.

Ah thank you, that fits exactly what happens

Same. I would love to make a live wallpaper that would move very slowly, just a pixel shift per few minutes, so it would not eat up the battery, and no one would see it move, but every once in a while during the day, it would be different). If it was timed to loop over 24 hours, it could be a sun rising and setting followed by a moon overnight.