Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today google has started to release its january 2022
security update and patch for pixel devices however if you're on a samsung device such as
an s21 ultra you may have already received it as early as five days ago the rollout will continue
over the next week in phases depending on carrier and device as it's up to your carrier and device
manufacturer to push those updates however if you're on a pixel device and you're not
seeing it over the air you'll just have to keep checking over the next couple of weeks depending
on which device it is now i wasn't seeing it for the 5a so i manually updated it using the android
website that allows you to do that unfortunately to do that you have to erase the device and then
reinstall everything and restore from a backup but you can push the update a little bit early
doing that now if you want to jump to what's new in the january update directly before i talk about
a couple other things you can see all of the time codes or chapters in the description below
now last month with the december update it brought over 100 bug fixes and updates as well as new
features with a pixel feature drop but it fixed a lot of issues on the pixel 6 and 6 pro however
google pulled the update and will include all of those changes and updates in the january patch
together the update is supported on the pixel 3a up to the pixel 6 and 6 pro but the unfortunate
news is at the time of this video google has said that the january update will be rolling out to the
pixel 6 and 6 pro later this month why they're not pushing the update directly to the pixel 6
and 6 pro as it's their flagship devices doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me but apparently
they have some issues where they need to delay it a little bit i wish they'd pushed them to
all devices at once instead of this staggered rollout but there are millions of devices around
the world so i suppose that makes sense now before i cover what's new in the january update i wanted
to cover one thing that was new in the december update that i missed the december update includes
a ton of different features and if you have it on your pixel six or six pro or six pro specifically
with the ultra wide band setup where you can actually identify what's in the general vicinity
using the ultra wide band antenna there's a new toggle for that so if we go into our settings
and then in our settings we go to connected devices scroll down to connection preferences
under connection preferences at the bottom you'll see ultra wideband or uwb you can now toggle this
on or off so if you have the december update you'll have this if you don't you'll have to
wait until the january update where it's included all together now the first thing they fixed has to
do with the framework they fixed an issue that could cause the screen to unlock after a missed
call when no screen lock is set so if you had a missed call come in your screen could unlock even
though you didn't want it to they've also fixed some issues with your networking and general
cellular connections for fixes and improvements just general fixes as well as a fix for an issue
preventing emergency calls in certain conditions where there's some third-party apps installed they
haven't said what third-party apps but as far as that goes they've at least resolved whatever was
causing that now this pertains to all phones so if it pertains to only a few phones i'll mention
that as well now if you're using a pixel stand so you have wireless charging such as the new pixel
stand for the pixel 6 and 6 pro or the older one they've fixed an issue that would prevent
pixel stand setup to start after updating apps in certain conditions since it's for the pixel stand
it pertains to the pixel 4 4 xl 5 6 and 6 pro now they've resolved an issue for the overall
system which was causing an incorrect data usage accounting in the network menu on some networks
so if you have a data saving plan set so maybe data limit here we'll go back data limit if you
have that set sometimes the data reported could be incorrect that has been resolved and that has
to do with everything but the three and three xl they also fixed a number of things with the user
interface in general so the first thing has to do with a black frame that was appearing on your lock
screen when you would dismiss the google assistant so if you had that google assistant overlay here
sometimes when you dismissed it there'd be some odd black frame around the whole thing they've
resolved that issue they've also fixed an issue that caused certain memory leaks in the system ui
under certain conditions that pertains to everything but the pixel 3 and 3xl they also fixed
an issue causing the navigation bar to be hidden when switching the device orientation in certain
conditions and i really wish they'd define the conditions a little bit better as they could be
a bit obscure but this is for all devices as well but the 3 and three xl and they've fixed an issue
for picture in picture windows where they weren't rendering properly in certain apps so that has
been resolved as well now something that seems to be specific to the pixel 6 and 6 pro that they've
resolved has to do with wi-fi that was one of the major issues with the update in december as well
as some others they fixed an issue causing the wi-fi networks to drop under certain conditions
so that has been resolved in this update so those are all of the functional patches in this update
but there's quite a few security updates as well i'll run through them quickly as far as what they
pertain to but if you want the details you can see them on the android security update page
and for the security updates there's quite a few if we scroll through the security update page
and the first one has to do with android runtime there's one update for that there's four framework
updates three kernel component updates one kernel lts update one mediatek framework update five
mediatek components updates eight specific to the pixel security updates eight qualcomm component
one qualcomm closed source component 11 system and one unisoc component update so there's quite
a few security updates not as much as december's update but there are quite a few now as far as the
overall device after using it with the december update battery has been pretty good it seemingly
lasts me through a day on the pixel 6 and 6 pro hopefully it's doing the same for you i haven't
had really many issues with that update and i know some of the issues were with cellular on
the december update but with google fi or project phi it's working just fine i have no issues there
so thankfully i'm not experiencing that but i know quite a few people are however it does seem
i get less reception than some other phones so maybe they'll fix that in the january update
as far as overall battery life like i said it gets me through the day and if we go into battery
you'll see my usage for the past 24 hours while there's a lot of tick-tock and using other social
media as well but typically it gets me through a day without a problem i'll put it on the pixel
stand at night without any issue performance wise it seems about the same as before i really haven't
had any issues i've been using the pixel 6 and 6 or the pixel 6 pro specifically every single
day as a secondary phone as well and it's working great so performance wise it seems to be having
no issues it was a little stuttery when i was restoring the 5a after updating but i typically
expect that the phones are nice and cool they're not getting overly hot and like i said that would
affect performance and overall battery life as well so i'm quite happy with the performance
and battery life and i think this is a pretty good update so if you're wondering if you should update
well once it's available i would definitely update if you want to try it manually you can but i
typically caution against that as unless you know how to flash an android phone manually yourself
i would typically stay away from that and wait for the over-the-air update and hopefully that will be
within days instead of weeks now if you've stuck around until the end i definitely appreciate that
and i wondered if you'd like to see more of these sort of android updates as i'm kind of known for
covering all sorts of devices but mostly apple however the android updates are something that
i use myself and wondered if you'd be interested in maybe one ui with s21 ultra or whatever the
s22 ultra comes out things like that i'd love to hear from you about that in the comments below if
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