hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today the Android March 2020 update came out
along with a feature drop for the Google pixel devices now this is out - all
supported Google pixel devices starting with the Google pixel - 2 XL and going
all the way to the 4 and 4 XL it's also available usually for the essential
phones the same day and then Samsung and other manufacturers will roll it out to
their own devices soon now there's a feature drop that goes along with this
so I'm going to go over all the new features and then go over all the
updates along with the security bulletins and things like that
now I had to sideload this so this was about 1 and a half to 2 gigabytes
because it wasn't showing up but you'll see it says up-to-date version 10 March
5th 2020 so this is completely up to date even though it's not March 5th yet
and that's how they do it and here is the build number you'll see on my pixel
4 XL it's QQ - a dot two zero zero three zero five dot zero zero three and in
this particular update is a huge amount of security updates fixes improvements
all sorts of things so let's start with the first one and the first one has to
do with something they actually showed in the Android 11 preview and that is if
you're playing something playing a song here so let me start this song if I'm
playing this song there's now a new gesture on the pixel 4 and for Excel to
pause the song now it doesn't seem to work completely for me it worked on
Android 11 but it's not working here and you do have to turn it on in gestures so
you'll see as I bring my hand close it's not turning the song off but if I go
into the features and gestures here you'll see that I have gestures
available to pause music and so if I go into this it's turned on and you just
bring your hand close by tapping to resume it or pause it and again like I
said it's not really working properly but it is something that's there so I'm
not sure why that's not working but it's not at this time now the next thing
they've updated is car crash detection it rolls out for the pixel for in
Australia in the UK it's also in the United States so if you go into the
personal safety app here you'll see that you can turn on car crash detection so
it will turn it on you can say try a demo and then
says see and hear what happens when your phone detects a car crash make sure your
volume is up so you'll see we'll turn it up a little bit we'll hit start and it
says detected and then you can hit I'm okay or 911 Oh crash minor crash so it's
kind of neat it's a nice safety feature and if you want to use it it's there so
that's nice that they've added it now if you use google duo there's some new
effects that they've added for AR or augmented reality so let's go into duo
and if we go into duo here you'll see will go here and now we have some
effects and I can have a little cat sitting on my head we've got scooby-doo
you've got a little phone here so there's some new effects here as well
all sorts of things that you can add and it tracks your face really well they're
kind of goofy but they work pretty well and they're there if you want to use
them so those have been added now they've also updated the forward-facing
camera on the pixel 4 & 4 XL and what they've done is added depth to it so
apparently it has better depth if I take a selfie here you'll see it takes a
second to process and now there's some depth in the background so they've
improved this made it a lot better and it should be working even better than it
was before now if you're on a pixel 2 in to excel there's good news you get live
captions so if you're using video and watching video you can enable live
captioning so that's a new feature and then they've added new emoji from the
Unicode 12.1 release so that means if we go into messages you'll see I have a few
here but you have a pilot a fireman an astronaut and then you have all sorts of
different genders and things there's a hundred and sixty nine new emoji so
they've added that they've added jobs and all sorts of things so those are
added I'll link Unicode in the description if you want to check them
all out but there are a ton of new emoji that's brought them up to speed there
will be more new emoji the second half of the year but this brings them up to
the first half to match up with Unicode 12.1 now if you're using google pay and
the wallet you can enable a quick press of the home button to bring up your
cards so if you press and hold you'll have access to your cards your credit
cards and any other card you add so maybe you want to add
cards such as Starbucks or maybe you want to even add a pass for say a flight
that you're taking you can actually take a picture of it and add it to the wallet
now as well so you have all of these different options and you just press and
hold the power button you do have to enable that as well though now a lot of
people love dark modes so if we go into our settings go to display in styles and
go to dark theme we'll tap on that and we can turn it on until sunrise now or
turn it off until sunset we have scheduling options now and this
was something we saw with the Android 11 preview preview as well but they've
brought it here to Android 10 with the latest pixel update and then there's
also new automation rules for Wi-Fi networks and this allows you to
basically set a rule so we'll go back here we'll go to rules and what we can
do is add a rule and then we can automatically have it change to say Do
Not Disturb or set the phone to silent based off the Wi-Fi network that you're
connecting to so that's a feature they've added so you can just add a
network say set to set the vibrate set to ring or whatever based off not only
location but based off your Wi-Fi network now there's a feature that
hasn't fully rolled out yet for the pixel feature drum and that is a not
only a long press for an icon but a firm press so if you firm press sort of like
3d touch on iOS you've got new tasks but if I firm press it really doesn't do
anything different you can long press and get the same results so there's
supposedly something else coming out that's going to be a firm press and
finally for the feature drop the pixel for and for excel screens that are set
to use adaptive brightness and I'm currently on manual because I don't want
it to go brighter when I'm under these bright lights for this video but under
manual if you have this on automatic instead what it will do is actually go
super-bright now if you're outside in direct sunlight so it should make the
screen even easier to see so that'll be really nice for some of those that were
experiencing kind of a dim screen on the floor and for excel now that's it for
the feature drop but there are a ton of fixes and improvements as well so let's
go over those now as far as the fixes and improvements I'll mention all of
them but if they're specific to a device I'll say
the device specifically otherwise it pertains to all the devices that are
supported by this update so the first one is in apps there's a fix for certain
app overlay elements stuck on the home screen so if you had overlays not
showing properly that should be fixed now in audio you can now disable now
playing for music when you're playing it on a cast device so maybe you're playing
music on a device you're casting to it will now have the ability to disable now
playing if you want to do that they've also fixed static noise during
audio capture so maybe you're using your phone to record audio in a classroom if
there was static that should now be fixed and specific to the pixel for not
the for Excel there's improvements to the bottom speaker driver so if you have
a four in the bottom speaker wasn't working well it should be better now for
all devices again there's improvements for Bluetooth connectivity with specific
or certain fitness tracking devices so if you're having issues maybe with a
Fitbit or something like that it should be better there's also quite a few
improvements to cameras on not just the pixel form for Excel but other devices
as well the first one is improvements to
autofocus in the camera so if you're using the camera on your phone on any
pixel device the autofocus should be improved if that supports this update
then on the pixel 4 and for excel there's a fix for the camera crashing
that when switching to video mode so if you're switching from say camera to
video it should fix that there's also a fix for cameras auto white balance in
certain scenarios so that's specific to the pixel 4 and 4x elegant and if it
wasn't auto white balancing properly it should be improved now when it comes to
connectivity using USB specifically on the pixel 4 and for excel it fixes an
issue with unrecognized UX USB accessories so those should be fixed and
then they've improved face unlock on the pixel 4 and 4 XL as well and it's only
issues where it gets stuck so the first one is they fixed an issue or get stuck
on the lockscreen after the device is unlocked with a face so maybe unlocks
and it's stuck on the lockscreen now we'll go to the home screen properly and
they they've also fixed an issue for incorrect text translation in settings
so maybe you have face unlock settings turn on the
might not have shown the proper translation in those settings that
should be improved as well now as far as motion sense on the pixel foreign for
excel they've improved visual feedback for motion sense gestures so again if I
go in I'll just play this here and with this song playing if I move my hand it
should go to the next song now my motion gestures are not working the alarm
worked fine this morning when I swipe my hand in front of it but for some reason
the most motion that gestures are not working properly on this device
hopefully they fix that as well or improves in the future now there are a
lot of fixes to the system that you can't see behind the scenes to kernel
updates and things like that but I'll talk more about that with the security
updates but there's actual fixes to the system kernel as well so there's three
fixes for that they're basically specific for each pixel device so
there's fixes for the two and two XL three a three a Exile three XL three
four for itself now there's also improvements to the
overall system user interface so switching with gesture navigation so the
animation switching between things they've actually improved the animation
and then they've also clarified the dark-themed helper text in settings so
they've changed it in settings where we go to display and again to the dark
theme there's different text here so it's just a little bit more clear so all
these little tweaks they're really fixing a lot of things now they've also
fixed with telephony unda scible location access notifications after an
emergency call so specifically you'd have to place an emergency call with
your dialer and it's fixed issues with that they've also fixed a few video
issues for all of the devices this one in particular though is for the pixel
three XL 3 3 a 3 a XL when you're doing video playback in certain apps when
using picture and picture mode so not on this device but if you have a pixel 3 3
a those devices it should be fixed in they've also improved 4k video playback
on all of the devices they've also fixed corrupted video playback in certain apps
after locking the screen and then they've also fixed Wi-Fi so lost Wi-Fi
network configurations I actually had that happen on my pixel 4x oh I think in
the last version the Wi-Fi connection just disappeared
and now it's fixed and those are all of the different fixes and improvements
with this update so lots of different things and then finally there are a ton
of security patches as well and I'll just run down through these pretty
quickly now as far as the framework there are four different security
patches there's seven patches to the media framework 24 to system one to the
Google Play system updates 28 kernel components have been it's patched
security-wise FPC components there's six of those
there's one mediatek component 12 qualcomm components and then 42 Qualcomm
closed source security components all of those patches are in the updates on this
current March 20 2016 5 seen since maybe Android 10 was released so lots of
things in there now battery overall there's no mention of changes to that
and this device usually does pretty well I can get through a day on battery and
you'll see my battery here let me get into the usage there my battery here I
haven't used it a ton today I've been busy recording other videos and then
speed and performance I've never had an issue on the pixel 4 or 4 XL I find I
only have to reboot it rarely and in fact this has not been rebooted since I
did the Android 11 update and then flashed it back to the pixel security
updates so that was last week or so when I did that so it's been on I haven't
rebooted it and it's been doing really well so in general it's working well I'm
looking forward to more updates like this and all of those features are great
to see added to the pixel lineup so let me know if you had that already added I
actually had to sideload the update like I said but if you have the pixel feature
drop let me know all of those things should be there except maybe a couple
that the firm press for example there's just nothing really there other than
that it should be updated now if you found anything else new let me know in
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