This is in agreement with 9to5Google’s and official network documentation information, which reports that the update has already started in the Pixels 7, Pro, 7a, Pixel Fold and Pixel 8, and Pixel 8 Pro. Google has now disclosed that this is a partner to ” improve stability and performance” issues of cellular networks which have gone through multiple complaints about dropped calls and unseen SMS missing over the recent few months.
Verizon was the first to put out details concerning the update on its official site, informing all the customers that it “provides better call/data results as well as the fix of major network issues” and finally started rolling the patch out to their Pixel users on April 18. “Google says” it is going to spread the updates with a size of around 7MB “globally into distinct regions and carriers within the next few weeks”.
Local poetics incidents in a row including calls that straightaway did connect to voicemail and texting that did not deliver have also started to pop up among some Pixel users after the security update conducted in April. It is still unclear the real cause of the problem but the fact is that the issue lies in the cellular communication in Google’s latest product (Line of Smartphone).
The fact that these top of the line premium devices are missing calls and messages is by all means not palatable, this especially for a high-end flagship device with the reliability feature built in as supposed to be the expectation. Although permanent solutions might take a longer duration, we are glad that Google gave us a patch pretty fast. However, we can merely speculate, the recent fix may have greatly or completely weed out cellular bugs on all the devices’ versions and all the service providers.
All the years of mooning about the Pixel platform software updaterate, a flaw even Google has agreed with, the search engine simply could not tolerate another mistake that spoils its Pixel reputation, and therefore the most urgent action Google needed to take was to fix the issues immediately after detection.
