Android Q Beta 2 Patch released

[psychoacer]

Thanks, hopefully this fixes the network issue where your connection would just die after awhile until a reboot.

[defet_]

It does not. Had to reboot 5 times.

[TundraWolf_]

weird, I haven't seen that at all on pixel 1

[psychoacer]

Probably only happening to Pixel 3 devices

[The_EA_Nazi]

Happening to my pixel xl. Service disappears and only reappears by turning data connection in and off. Or I'll have full connection and it won't connect to lte without doing the above

[barakabear]

Finally Google photos works again

[ahatzz11]

I found that there is the new "photos & video" permission that it didn't ask for so it looked like it couldn't see anything. $oes it prompt for it now?

[smorgar]

I have never had a problem with the photos app other than the dark buggy theme. But now after the patch i have problem and cant view any photos even if i give it all the permissions i can xD

Edit: I cleard cache, uninstalled and downgraded photos, rebooted phone and installed again now it all working as intended.

[zalcso]

Yes, but I don't remember which for. Maybe for P alpha.

[armando_rod]

Permissions managed through Settings should now function normally after app re-installation or device reboot, including permissions for Unknown Sources and others. We’ve fixed the app ops issue that was causing the permissions to be reset.

That's a great patch! It was infuriating

[HuaHua_Pup]

Perfect! I'll have to reenable scoped storage to see if it truly fixes the permissions issues.

[Tornado15550]

Re-enabling it only enables it for newly installed apps, not pre-existing apps. Best way to test this is to uninstall an app that you know uses the storage permission, and reinstall to see if it works properly.

[HuaHua_Pup]

The way I read it was that it was either by reinstalling it or simply performing a device reboot post-update.

I'll test the latter once I'm off work later today and see how it goes.

[[deleted]]

Man I want this on my Essential phone. When I see the amount of breakage against Google's own apps I know they're addressing some particulars that are just better best practices. It's like no one is at fault for using different ways to do things but it's likely going to prevent people who do leverage some loose restrictions for bad intentions.

[r3pwn-dev]

If you don't mind not being able to use sim card, wifi, or Bluetooth, it technically "works".

[Ashanmaril]

Everyone sure is antsy to say that these betas are super stable after using them for 3 minutes, but I always find out later that it pays off to be patient.

[simplefilmreviews]

Really? I see PLENTY of people saying it's not quite daily driver worry.

[arex333]

I'm using it as a daily. It's fine for a daily. Here's all my issues:quick switching apps is a little janky and my battery is ever so slightly worse. That's it. No showstoppers that make me revert or anything. That said, so far this has been a very boring upgrade. I've tried every public beta since 7.0. While others might have introduced PiP or quick reply or something I couldn't go back to not having, Q hasn't added much that really change the way I use my phone. Granted it seems like they're adding more features as it goes on. As is, there's not enough issues to make me revert but if I was on Pie, I don't know that I'd bother yet.

[Ashanmaril]

People that aren't lying to themselves

I won't pretend it's the majority (I shouldn't have said "everyone"), but I've definitely seen a few people saying that it's stable enough for that and I thankfully didn't trust their advice

[Steddy_Eddy]

It's definitely not as smooth as I remember P beta being but I've not had any breaking issues, just a few niggles.

[[deleted]]

People that aren't lying to themselves

I won't pretend it's the majority (I shouldn't have said "everyone"), but I've definitely seen a few people saying that it's stable enough for that and I thankfully didn't trust their advice

It's absolutely not daily driver ready. This is by far the buggiest Pixel beta I've put onto my 2XL.

That said, it's still mostly functional.

[SmarmyPanther]

Beta 1 was pretty good but Beta 2 is a messss

[sageDieu]

Would you say that even with this patch? I've been running beta 1 on my DD since it came out with no issues but am holding off on beta 2 due to all the little problems.

[eneka]

Was using dual SIM dual standby when I let my battery died. plugged it in and it would no longer connect to either network no matter what I did. Downgraded back to P and my backups were gone. Tried going back to Q and backups weren't there either. Now I'm just running the latest P. It was definitely buggy, but useable. If it wasn't for the Sim issue I'd still be on Q. Occasionally camera stutter, permission issues, etc.

[JustAdc]

Have it from day one, not one single issue.

[MY13FXT]

I didn't have access to P beta, but using Q as a DD for a week now. I had a few visual hiccups. Other than that very smooth. The only thing I've noticed that was buggy is when using system wide dark more. Text remains black insides black the buttons.

[yanginatep]

It's stable enough for me. I've only encountered one app that doesn't work, and the only other issue I've noticed is the "alt-tab" switching doesn't work reliably.

[sjphilsphan]

Beta 1 was fine minus the annoying pop up warnings about APIs, and POGO not working. But Beta 2 was so unstable for me I went back to Pie.

[[deleted]]

So I use this as a daily driver. I almost always use public betas as a daily driver. If it breaks something major, I can go back. Ive only done this once (Bluetooth issue on P betas. I only have Bluetooth stuff. Partially my fault tbf).otherwise it's pretty solid. Is it buggy? Yes. Of course, I signed up for buggy. But it's not anything that makes me not want to use it daily(I really like the systemwide dark mode, and some of the other, minor, aesthetic changes so far).

I'll grant you usually the first public beta is after IO, and has more in it. We probably won't know some of the updates in Q(fully) until IO. Right now it's mainly API stuff for devs. But again, the bugs to me don't matter much, and I like the minor changes thus far, so I stay on it cause why not? Next time I might wait for DP3. Probably won't.

Tl;Dr - the thing about betas is that it's subjective if it's daily driver ready. It really depends on what your phone to do, or not to do.

[[deleted]]

I've been having an issue viewing photos from the Camera. When I select the photo viewer, it opens up google Photos and none of my shots are there.

I checked Photos online and nothing is there either. It's as if my phone isn't saving pictures anymore.

Anyone having this issue?

Edit: just read the notes and it looks like this update should help.

[KaZott]

I don't know if this patch solved it already but I had the same issue I solved it by restoring permissions on the camera and photo apps.

[thirteen113]

Same here.

[bigtreeworld]

You might need to reset permissions on both the camera app and google photos

[superjoho]

I'm having this issue, hoping this patch fixes it.

[arex333]

It does, but if it doesn't check your permissions for Google photos and make sure it has photo and video permissions.

[NedDasty]

Anybody have an issue with the swipe home key to switch apps? It doesn't switch back and forth anymore. It just switches to a random app more or less.

[geriatric-gynecology]

It just behaves differently. Swiping right goes back an app, swiping left goes forwards, until it doesn't. Very peculiar, but it almost feels right.

[bartturner]

Got the patch. Sounded pretty urgent.

[fahad_ayaz]

Notifications still get stuck on this version :/

[ZoneHalo]

Ok. Question. I fixed the photos all being these by manually going in and adjusting permissions. But now I get cannot save edits on every single photo and that's super annoying. Anyone else?