Hello,
I'm experiencing some quality issues with my fingerprint scanner. It works great for a couple of days after the finger profile setup, but then its quality becomes poor: on unlock attempts failures ("Finger did not verify") appear more and more frequently. After several days I can unlock my phone using ~10 attempts. If I resetup the finger profile, it works great again, for a few days. Does anyone experience this problem? Also, when I resetup the profile, its says something about "clearing optimizations". Maybe this "optimizations" are reason of the quality issues?
Am I the only one who has this problem?
No the rest of us just don't bother using fingerprint scanner cause we don't work for the FBI. And our contents aren't considered double top secret.
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Has anyone had this occur?
It's happened twice now and a factory reset fixes it but only temporarily. If the phone is left alone, the second screen will normally dim to roughly half it's brightness on its own. This is normal, however mine stays continually at full brightness and has stopped dimming, again. Also if the proximity sensor is covered by either placing the phone in your pocket or turning it screen down in the table. The screen will completely turn off. Once removed from the pocket or turning it face up, it will normally turn back on. Easily seen by testing this. However, mine has stopped turning off on either example. It stays on constantly no matter what. I have done a factory reset twice before and it fixes the issue but that is getting old. Does anyone have this issue or advice on how to fix this? I would be very grateful. I'm tired of resetting my phone.
Thank you
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No one knows eh? It's a mystery to me as well. Wondering if it's a proximity sensor problem. ?
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Hmm.. I installed a few applications to test the proximity sensor. Turns out it's not working. This in turn prompted me to search of the issue with regards to the proximity sensor malfunctioning. I discovered a couple threads declaring similar problems with the second screen after folks disabled system applications.
My phone is not rooted but I've disabled Instagram and Facebook through the applications settings on the phone. This was dinner sometime shortly before the recent malfunction. These of course on the v10 are system applicants, at least on T-Mobile.
Long story short, the only way to fix it sounds like what I've been doing, factory reset.
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The proximity sensor is definitely not working. It's pretty obvious during a phone call as well. I'm going to utilize LG bridge to back up tomorrow. Then I'll do a factory reset.
There's definitely a connection when disabling system apps through the normal application settings route. Not sure how many are affected by this. But if it ever effects someone else, remember this thread.
I'll post results tomorrow. At this point I'm convinced it's not hardware related and if things return to normal afterwards. That'll confirm my suspicions that there's a bad bug floating around to what degree I'm not sure.
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Has anyone noticed a change in fingerprint speed and accuracy since updating to EMUI 9.1?
The one thing that consistently annoys me about this phone is that the fingerprint reader is quite "picky", only choosing to work for me roughly 75% of the time (I use faceunlock for most things). Some people have said they have noticed an improvement in 9.1, so is this the general feeling or not?
(I'm asking as my Mate 20 Pro is no longer my main device, so it's now not getting used as much as it otherwise would)
Face unlock is the same, still very good. And fingerprint is a little bit faster, but above all it's more reliable now. I've had fewer mismatches since 9.1
I notice fingerprint unlock to be a little faster too, not as fast as the P30 scanner but faster than before. I don't really use it though because face unlock is so ridiculously fast. I just lift my phone off the table and less than a second later it's on the home screen without having to press or swipe anything.
Yeah, as I said, I use faceunlock too; but banking apps etc. all require fingerprint authentication, and that's when it tends not to work... (or at least has done in the past)
That's the 1st thing I noticed after the update to 9.1, fingerprint reader and face unlock much better. These where my biggest frustrations with my phone before the update...
Anyone else having fingerprint reader issues or tips?
I'm using screen protector that comes with it out of the box and on the android version that includes the September security patch.
Haven't tried face unlock as with the pop up camera that seems just weird
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Anyone else having fingerprint reader issues or tips?
I'm using screen protector that comes with it out of the box and on the android version that includes the September security patch.
Haven't tried face unlock as with the pop up camera that seems just weird
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What do you mean by "issues"?
I seem to be having a hard time to get it to work every time. The thumbs seem to be the best. I just deleted and redid the setup on my 3 fingers I have set up...
Same here: regular 7T pro, 10.0.3 and with the screenprotector still on. I regularly see the fingerprint animation at least 3 times, sometimes it doesn't work at all. Very annoying because it unlocking the phone is now very slow.
It seems to help if you press hard first and then lift your finger.
The 7t Pro has a bit difficult to read a new fingerprint, but after a few successful readings the phone will learn the fingerprint better to finally get fast and accurate.
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I have same problem. I must set fingerprint again then unlocking works normally for few days.
Am I the only one that finds it so annoying when it blinds you at night ?
Mine also got better it seems, meaning less not unlocks. It's just different than a button that I'm used to.
Regarding the light at night, I believe it needs it to read your fingerprint. You can disable the ring... Maybe that helps (if you can find out)
My fingerprint NEVER works on the first try. Sometime the 2nd and 3rd as well. I've registered both my pointer fingers TWICE each. I have had numerous Android devices including the G7 Power and never had this issue before. Anyone else having the same problem?
I've had the g7 optimo and now the g power 2020. Both have the fastest responding fingerprint sensors I've used. Sounds like you might have a hardware issue.
Yep!! Came from a G7, worked every single time. Now with the G it's hit and miss but only when opening the phone, haven't noticed it having issues with other apps.
What I've found to work out great, I use either pointer finger to unlock, more the right than left. So what I do is scan the right finger 3 times, and the left 2. That way each reading gets a different part of the finger and has a better chance at reading it. Hope that helps
Btw, I've done it on all my devices that have a fingerprint and it's always worked
It's my slowest smartphone talking about of fingerprint, and yes, you need to register your fingerprint very, but very accurately if you want a better unlock response. I needed to delete my fingerprints twice and then I did it again but without back protector and cleaning throughly my fingers, now the unlock accuracy it's better and don't need to try two or three times, but the time till the phone it's completely unlocked it's toooo long.
I would say to set up the fingerprints again. And pay close attention to scanning your entire fingertip slowly.
I have issues if my fingers get a little wet, like from condensation from a glass, or sweaty.
I've had the pixel 6 for about 2 months now and I thought I'd share my thoughts on some of the quirks of the device.
As many of you have experienced, the fingerprint scanner is not great. It's slow and dithers far too often. I've tried registering the same finger more than once but that's not helped.
Another quirk of this device, and it might be a consequence of the December update, is that almost all of the pictures and videos I took the other day were not orientated correctly. Most were upside down.
Another unfortunate side effect of the December update is the poor network signal. It also disconnects randomly. Whilst on the subject of networks and signal, I can't seem to be able to easily disable 5G. It's not very widely available here, it wastes battery and 4g is plenty fast.
The phone is not as buttery smooth as I expected. There's been lots of occasion when it would hang for about a second. Usually when typing.
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I've had the pixel 6 for about 2 months now and I thought I'd share my thoughts on some of the quirks of the device.
Whilst on the subject of networks and signal, I can't seem to be able to easily disable 5G. It's not very widely available here, it wastes battery and 4g is plenty fast.
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Is it possible to disable 5G on AT&T?
Bought an unlocked 256G pixel 6, looking to disable 5G to get longer battery life. However I am not seeing the "Preferred network" option under SIMS. Is there a secret handshake?
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Yea fingerprint scanner can be non responsive on the lock screen even with the fingerprint image there to touch. Tap the screen, swipe up that gets it going but a lot of the time it feels like a multistep puzzle to get the phone awake.
AND there's always a big fingerprint smudge in the middle lower part of the screen!
Photos (compared to my pixel 2) seem brighter and noisier and I'm not all convinced any better.
Maybe because I'm running ProtonAOSP (w/December update) but I haven't noticed any of these issues. For sure on-screen fingerprint scanners suck compared to the ones on the back of the old Pixels but the on screen scanner in the Pixel 6 doesn't seem any worse to me than the one in my Mi 9 or OnePlus 9. I've noticed no issues at all with network signal and I do have an option to turn of 5G. And the phone is definitely buttery smooth for me.
Maybe give ProtonAOSP a try?
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Maybe because I'm running ProtonAOSP (w/December update) but I haven't noticed any of these issues. For sure on-screen fingerprint scanners suck compared to the ones on the back of the old Pixels but the on screen scanner in the Pixel 6 doesn't seem any worse to me than the one in my Mi 9 or OnePlus 9. I've noticed no issues at all with network signal and I do have an option to turn of 5G. And the phone is definitely buttery smooth for me.
Maybe give ProtonAOSP a try?
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Do you experience jitter scrolling/typing?
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Yea fingerprint scanner can be non responsive on the lock screen even with the fingerprint image there to touch. Tap the screen, swipe up that gets it going but a lot of the time it feels like a multistep puzzle to get the phone awake.
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So I'm not alone. This is what made me go back to the November build. It's so annoying. Hope it will be fixed soon.
However the Pixel 6 is almost perfect now. I usually get it off the charger at 80%. By the time it hits 20% I am getting 5hrs SOT straight. Maybe because I'm mostly on wifi these days, but still this is the best I have experienced on an Android.