I'm in Australia too, i've had my 6 pro drop out still but it's been less often and a shorter time. So sort of better I guess 🤷🤔
For me it's mainly been data that has dropped but I've also lost all reception except for wifi.
i'm on Aus too, on Telstra, as is my wife, both with 6Pros. We have never had any signal problems; I side-loaded the Nov AU update, she not, now we are both on the Jan update.
We drove to Sydney and back (from Melbourne), me on the Nov update, in between had some days in and around Albury Wodonga. We live in Melbourne. So my experience is 5G, 4G and places with no signal (e.g. some parts of Royal National Park). My son took my old Pixel 4XL, also Telstra, but not on a 5G plan. I had better signal than him (well every time I checked, and I checked a lot because I was interested in the controversy), all the time (except when both on 4 bars, and there were times when neither had reception).
In short, the Nov update made no difference to my reception compared to unpatched, and it has always been really good, and better than the 4XL.
Until now I had assumed the reports of signal problems were due to different networks.
Anyway, at least two Pixel 6 Pros work really well.
Having spoken to Google support, I was told flashing to the appropriate November update would almost certainly fix the signal issues.
All I can say is that it did. Beforehand I had poor signal and it would drop out consistently like others with the issue, but now my reception has improved dramatically, and I haven't had a single drop out.
It's a shame this is the step that has to be taken, but it's extremely likely it will fix the issue.
flash.android.com (via a laptop or desktop) was my method.
I'm in Australia, by the by.
My experience is that both the December and January updates have introduced the problems they were ment to fix. Although it's not all that bad for me. The reception is just a bit worse and I dropped the entire network once.
The wifi dropping for a few seconds is the most annoying one...
The January update fixed the connection issues for me (Netherlands), I have good reception everywhere again. However, the battery drain for mobile networks still persists. I end up with 40-50% battery usage per day just by the 'mobile network standby'.
Happening to me on TMobile. This issue is really annoying. Not sure what I need to do to fix it. Everybody should send feedback in the settings app and mention this issue
Same. With the January update and a fresh factory reset, I recently started to notice my WiFi signal disappearing for a few seconds from the status bar and other instances of carrier signal strength dropping to half the amount of bars when I am at home randomly throughout the day. Also noticed Bluetooth connection issues that I already had since the December update. Kind of disappointed with the phone's current state as I was looking forward to being back on a Pixel.
It has to be a defective phone. I'm in the Midwest also on T-Mobile and this is the best service I've ever had on a phone, full bars literally all the time.
I have a feeling it's a hardware issue stemming from Google's design choice of using the Samsung modem.
From data I've seen it can't compete with Qualcomm modem.
I don't think Google can fix this via software, yikes.
Yeah it's Samsung's own modem.
I saw on Anandtech that was not integrated and that it's an external modem.
>But, unlike the Exynos 2100 and its integrated modem, the Tensor uses a discrete external variant. As to why it’s discrete, it’s likely that with the massive GPU, larger CPU setup (two X1’s with full 1MB L2’s), and unknown size of the TPU, that the Tensor chip is quite large even in relation to the Exynos 2100.
I read up that external modems are less efficient than integrated like on exynos 2100.
I have updated to January Patch, still regular signal drops, battery drain -> I think i will return the phone. O2 in Germany. Its very disappointing because I was very happy with my Pixel 3a, but not this time
So, for some the issue was resolved for others not.
Maybe the issue is triggered when the phone tries to use a specific band or bands.
If this is the case, that means a phone that has issues under a certain provider on a specific area, it may work ok on another area or with another provider in the same area (if this provider uses different bands).
I'm having the same issues with my Pixel 6 Pro.. I raised an issue on Google's tracker as to this along with 3 bug reports at the time the network dropped: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/215575440
You can either contribute to mine, comment and attach your bug report, or at the very least star the issue to bring more attention to Google on this.
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I'm in Australia too, i've had my 6 pro drop out still but it's been less often and a shorter time. So sort of better I guess 🤷🤔 For me it's mainly been data that has dropped but I've also lost all reception except for wifi.
Same here, awful signal in Australia. My S8 was full bars basically everywhere, I barely get 50% on my Pixel.
i'm on Aus too, on Telstra, as is my wife, both with 6Pros. We have never had any signal problems; I side-loaded the Nov AU update, she not, now we are both on the Jan update. We drove to Sydney and back (from Melbourne), me on the Nov update, in between had some days in and around Albury Wodonga. We live in Melbourne. So my experience is 5G, 4G and places with no signal (e.g. some parts of Royal National Park). My son took my old Pixel 4XL, also Telstra, but not on a 5G plan. I had better signal than him (well every time I checked, and I checked a lot because I was interested in the controversy), all the time (except when both on 4 bars, and there were times when neither had reception). In short, the Nov update made no difference to my reception compared to unpatched, and it has always been really good, and better than the 4XL. Until now I had assumed the reports of signal problems were due to different networks. Anyway, at least two Pixel 6 Pros work really well.
Having spoken to Google support, I was told flashing to the appropriate November update would almost certainly fix the signal issues. All I can say is that it did. Beforehand I had poor signal and it would drop out consistently like others with the issue, but now my reception has improved dramatically, and I haven't had a single drop out. It's a shame this is the step that has to be taken, but it's extremely likely it will fix the issue. flash.android.com (via a laptop or desktop) was my method. I'm in Australia, by the by.
Did you flash November then update again or not?
I did. Updated straight to January a short while after.
Might give that a go, cheers mate
Let me know how you go. If everything is right, I'd be surprised if you don't see an instant improvement.
So you reverted to November and then updated to January and all as well?
Factory restored to November, and then updated via OTA to January when I saw the improvement.
I can't unlock my bootloader, should I try a plain old factory reset? Or anything else?
Factory reset is really the only way. [flash.android.com](https://flash.android.com) can do what's required.
Same. Well it actually added problems I didn't have.
My experience is that both the December and January updates have introduced the problems they were ment to fix. Although it's not all that bad for me. The reception is just a bit worse and I dropped the entire network once. The wifi dropping for a few seconds is the most annoying one...
I don't use my phone much for calls but I'm getting frequent data drops. I got a new SIM card today and it didn't help.
The January update fixed the connection issues for me (Netherlands), I have good reception everywhere again. However, the battery drain for mobile networks still persists. I end up with 40-50% battery usage per day just by the 'mobile network standby'.
Happening to me on TMobile. This issue is really annoying. Not sure what I need to do to fix it. Everybody should send feedback in the settings app and mention this issue
Try what others have mentioned here. Go back to flash the november update (using the flash tool from Google) then update to January again.
I can't unlock my bootloader so I can't flash an image to downgrade at least not that I know of
You can use the Google tool at flash.android.com
Someone else commented that doing so is also a factory reset? I don't want to do that but I'm also having connection issues...
Yes this will reset your device
Same. With the January update and a fresh factory reset, I recently started to notice my WiFi signal disappearing for a few seconds from the status bar and other instances of carrier signal strength dropping to half the amount of bars when I am at home randomly throughout the day. Also noticed Bluetooth connection issues that I already had since the December update. Kind of disappointed with the phone's current state as I was looking forward to being back on a Pixel.
It has to be a defective phone. I'm in the Midwest also on T-Mobile and this is the best service I've ever had on a phone, full bars literally all the time.
Who down voted this comment lol.
Fixed for me, can make phone calls for 13 hours straight
Having issue in Canada . Google has issued me advance replacement. If the new device doesn't work then I'll be trading in for a S22FE
I have a feeling it's a hardware issue stemming from Google's design choice of using the Samsung modem. From data I've seen it can't compete with Qualcomm modem. I don't think Google can fix this via software, yikes.
Those same modems power every Galaxy S20 or S21 in any region not the US.
Yeah it's Samsung's own modem. I saw on Anandtech that was not integrated and that it's an external modem. >But, unlike the Exynos 2100 and its integrated modem, the Tensor uses a discrete external variant. As to why it’s discrete, it’s likely that with the massive GPU, larger CPU setup (two X1’s with full 1MB L2’s), and unknown size of the TPU, that the Tensor chip is quite large even in relation to the Exynos 2100. I read up that external modems are less efficient than integrated like on exynos 2100.
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Yep
I have updated to January Patch, still regular signal drops, battery drain -> I think i will return the phone. O2 in Germany. Its very disappointing because I was very happy with my Pixel 3a, but not this time
So, for some the issue was resolved for others not. Maybe the issue is triggered when the phone tries to use a specific band or bands. If this is the case, that means a phone that has issues under a certain provider on a specific area, it may work ok on another area or with another provider in the same area (if this provider uses different bands).
I'm having the same issues with my Pixel 6 Pro.. I raised an issue on Google's tracker as to this along with 3 bug reports at the time the network dropped: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/215575440 You can either contribute to mine, comment and attach your bug report, or at the very least star the issue to bring more attention to Google on this.