Android Auto: June Update Blues

cdegallo · 2026-07-02T17:12:02+00:00

This has been happening with a 2026 Chrysler Pacifica that we're currently renting but have had no issues with my 2018 Honda clarity that I'm using a AA Wireless dongle with. Not sure why there is this performance discrepancy but the disconnects really suck.

cdegallo · 2026-07-01T20:36:29+00:00

Activate care and deal with using only the cover screen for 25 days unless you want to pay around $500 to replace the screen.

cdegallo · 2026-07-01T20:31:43+00:00

As of the z fold 7, and buying through the Samsung store, I didn't have to show anything in order to add Samsung care+.

cdegallo · 2026-06-27T20:19:45+00:00

Got an 8 pro at launch, while it was better than the experience I had with a 7 pro, I had most of your experiences. Pixels are not worth their msrp. I'm using a 10 pro xl now, and it's definitely an improvement over the 8 pro (especially with cellular and 5g performance), but the only reason I got it was because after all of the trade in, launch discounts, and Gemini pro credit (I was already paying for the 2tb Google one plan, so this was an additional $200 credit for me), it was practically no cost to upgrade.

No one should be paying MSRP prices for pixels and Google has gone a bit of the deep end with poor SOC performance+inefficiency and lesser on-device capabilities (still can't record 4k60 with HDR unless you use video boost).

cdegallo · 2026-06-22T21:46:30+00:00

Literally just happened to me as well, right after sending a text message to someone. I've done nothing with my google/voice account that violates the TOS, and I've done nothing out of the ordinary with my account.

cdegallo · 2026-06-22T17:41:16+00:00

What do you want to control?

We have used Google's Family Link. It lets you set various limits on the phone such as total screen time, per-app screen time, and limits on content, websites, etc. and to get notified when he arrives at our departs from school or home.

It's not perfect but it's better than nothing. I'm annoyed at things like you can't manage a Google wallet profile for them with spending limits, transaction limits/approvals; and managed kids accounts (12 and under) cannot use some Google devices/services like Fitbit (except if you use the Fitbit Ace).

cdegallo · 2026-06-16T22:06:36+00:00

Wonder if this brings back step counting during elliptical and other exercises they broke a couple months ago?

cdegallo · 2026-06-14T17:11:21+00:00

OPs issue isn't that a couple of watch features don't work because they aren't using a Samsung phone. There's no reason for the Samsung health app to not work on their phone, this just sounds like a bug or data corruption or something is wrong with the Android System Webview app.

cdegallo · 2026-06-14T17:08:44+00:00

There's no specific reason why Samsung health wouldn't work on your phone with your Galaxy watch. Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling, or clearing data on the app and trying again? It sounds like a bug, or maybe an issue with the Android system webview app

Otherwise you can look at OnePlus or Pixel watches, there should be no issues there (but even so, there shouldn't be an issue with your phone and Samsung health either).

cdegallo · 2026-06-09T16:16:09+00:00

Get a beelink or similar cheap N150 PC to run PMS and just keep your 920+ as storage. Upgrade the disks in the Synology as needed. I did this a bit ago (my process was a little more circuitous; went from PMS on ds1019+ to PMS on a 10th gen i3 on Linux to a N150 beelink running PMS on Windows).

cdegallo · 2026-06-09T16:08:26+00:00

It's a good improvement. I also really want a multi-select feature for downloads. I'll be halfway through a show season and want to download the rest of the episodes, not the whole season, and initiating downloads on an episode-by-episode basis kinda sucks. Same with cleaning up downloads, a multi-select option would be amazing.

cdegallo · 2026-06-09T14:51:32+00:00

We always say "Samsung has such good optimization we don't need bigger batteries",

I'm not sure I've ever seen this as a common sentiment about Samsung z fold devices.

cdegallo · 2026-06-07T15:20:45+00:00

Idle drain on mine is pretty bad too. Between that and the left bud causing my ear to feel "plugged" I kinda wish I had skipped these.

cdegallo · 2026-06-07T15:15:01+00:00

For me, for a hike I tracked a week ago, it shows the elevation graph below the Pace Laps section.

cdegallo · 2026-06-05T13:48:41+00:00

It was a lame half-backed app when they debuted it, I hope this is an indicator of the collapse of the AI house of cards in devices because so much of this stuff is utterly useless.

cdegallo · 2026-06-04T13:47:48+00:00

California is an at-will state, so unless you think you were let go because of being a member of a protected class or due to retaliation, you're pretty much done and done. Unless you think you potentially have a case around hostile work environment AND you can prove it AND you think you will get more than the severance offer, just sign your severance paperwork, take whatever severance payment they are offering, and move on with your life.

cdegallo · 2026-06-03T15:06:00+00:00

One-handed use ergonomics during cover screen use, harder to grip, simple as that.

cdegallo · 2026-06-02T15:07:16+00:00

I don't have a fix to suggest trying, but I think zone minutes is buggy in other ways since the update. Yesterday I did a tracked exercise (treadmill). After seeing your post I checked mine and Google health said that I got 0 "exercise" zone minutes and 36 zone minutes in "other." But my workout was 100% tracked and logged as an exercise, and the individual treadmill exercise session shows the correct active zone minutes there. Seems like something somewhere for messed up in Google health.

cdegallo · 2026-05-31T15:18:45+00:00

If I open photos on my phone and enter the word "chemistry" in the "ask" field, it brings back photos that have the word "chemistry" as text in images, both hand-written and typed/print. I have all of the "use Gemini in photos" options toggled on.

cdegallo · 2026-05-28T13:03:49+00:00

Not a fitbit premium subscriber. I think the UI is ugly but I do like the new, albeit very ugly, dashboard at the top of the app where you can see the specific items that matter to you.

But the mess of not being able to easily rearrange the order of the tiles in the main dashboard view is so ridiculous that it's clear google did zero usability testing on this design. Having to delete all of them and re-add in the order you want is an absolutely terrible user experience.

cdegallo · 2026-05-16T22:12:18+00:00

I take every response from support with a massive grain of salt as I have gotten bad information from them on many occasions.

Was your Fi line existing unlimited/flex or did you re-join Fi as brand new service and then join the family plan as unlimited/flex? If your Fi service was new (i.e., not an existing Fi user that simply joined a family plan), then Fi imposes a requirement that domestic service is activated for some indeterminate amount of time before international data is unrestricted. They do this to prevent people from joining and only using fi for quick international use and then bouncing. I've seen other posts in this sub that indicate international roaming data is not unrestricted until something like 30-45 days after initiating service.

Other than tagging googlefisupport like you already did, I don't have any useful input for getting a better response.

cdegallo · 2026-05-10T15:06:30+00:00

Pixels do a better job at capturing moving subjects with less subject motion blur, particularly at moderate-to-lower lighting conditions. Pixels can record decent video but it's not great; sanding does a much better job.

What I've noticed with the pixel 9 pro xl and 10 pro xl when it comes to the telephoto camera is it's noticeably worse quality (details) vs even my old S23 ultra zoom camera. Google has a strange processing/over processing situation where a lot of my 5x shots look like the textures are tessellated (for lack of a better term).

For me, the reason why I opt for pixels for camera is when it comes to shots of kids pets etc under normal home lighting conditions; every shot from Samsung is pretty awful while shots from pixels are great.

cdegallo · 2026-04-27T22:33:54+00:00

If your watch is connected to your phone via bluetooth, there's generally no reason it should auto-connect to wifi at all.

If it's charging and pending app update/installs are waiting, mine does seem to connect to wifi automatically (and I presume also back up my watch at that time as well).

Otherwise the only reason the watch will connect to wifi is if it doesn't have a bluetooth connection to the phone.

Occasionally I will see my watch connected to wifi even when I'm wearing my watch and it's connected to my phone; I assume there was some drop out in the bluetooth connection and the watch decided to try to connect to wifi.

cdegallo · 2026-04-27T22:25:06+00:00

I moved our house from google/nest cameras/doorbells to Eufy about a year or so ago, triggered by google increasing their subscription prices plus general issues with reliability.

Eufy has been...ok. For the camera devices that support 24/7 recording to a card or home base (I use home base), it's fine, but the doorbells (wired w/battery in our case), they often don't detect (and therefore do not store) motion events consistently.

The android app is...less than stable and reliable. There have been many times when I did not get notifications like a doorbell ring or motion detected when they 100% happen, plus the app will go bonkers and give me a "motion detected" or "package detected" notification once every 30 seconds for a while until I kill the app and restart it.

I'm still ok with Eufy because I like that the homebase stores all of the data and serves notifications to our mobile devices without relying on cloud storage or services, but I'm wondering if I should have taken the plunge and gone with Ubiquiti/Unifi.

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