Helpless Google, a developer solves the problem

Helpless Google, a developer solves the problem


If you have any problems when scrolling on your pixel phone, know that you are not alone. And if Google has never identified the concern, a surfer put his finger on it.

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Google pixels are excellent phones with long -term update promises, but they are also mobiles often struck with more or less annoying bugs. One of them could fortunately be resolved soon thanks to someone’s work … absolutely not linked to Google.

The bug has affected many versions of Android for at least a year and affects content scrolling on the screen. And the explanation is stupid as a choice, explains Android Authority.

Bandwidth problems

As many Internet users have pointed out on Google forums, many pixel phones suffer from a slight delay when scrolling with the screen if the application in the foreground has a little too much content to display. At least three discussion threads sometimes going up until April 2024 report the problem, regardless of the Android version used. If Google has recognized the problem well, no solution had been proposed … So far.

A developer named Sultan Alsawaf, known for his alternative core manufacturing work for Android, has finally identified the root of the bug. It would be stupidly a bad allocation of the bandwidth by the system.

Credit: Chloé Pertuis for Fandroid

More precisely, it is the Tensor processor that uses the bad function (BTSDEV-> LOCK instead of BTSDEV-> MUTEX_LOCK), allowing several processes to claim bandwidth simultaneously where a more strict order should be normally established.

No news from Google

In addition to identifying the problem, Sultan Alsawaf has submitted its corrective to Google, embarking on other small fixes concerning the calculation of the available bandwidth. But for the moment, no signal on the Google side seems to indicate that the company will deploy this fix.

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The correction was proposed 15 days ago and discussions on the forums dedicated to the Android bug still seem to have stalled. The most frustrated Internet users can well flash the alternative nucleus proposed by Sultan Alsawaf, but this requires good technical knowledge and has significant risks.

So let’s hope that Google finally decides to correct the problem now that the solution has been offered to them turnkey.


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