Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the android 11 april 2021 update is now available
for all supported pixel devices as well as android one devices and many samsung devices as
well although it's up to your manufacturer to push that out so you may be seeing it already if you're
on a different manufactured android device or it may be some time but it's up to your manufacturer
now if you have a pixel it's supported on pixel 3 pixel 3a pixel 4 pixel 4a pixel 4a 5g pixel 5
and all the xl variants of those phones you can see all the build numbers here and if we take a
look at the build number on this device which is the pixel 5 we'll wait for it to come back around
and you'll see it says 11 rq2a.210405.005 and that's on the pixel 5 it may be different for you
but i also have android 12 on the pixel 4 axl since i've been using that has some bugs it's
an early developer preview but right now it's got some bugs but has some interesting changes
in it that i covered in a separate video and if you'd like to see more of those videos
i post those regularly so make sure you're subscribed and also hit that notification bell
if you'd like to be notified i call cover android and ios as well now as far as the overall size
of this update well it's fairly small so if we go and take a look at one of my screenshots from this
it was 15.19 megabytes on the pixel 5. so it's fairly small but has a very important update if
you're on a pixel 5 for example i'll talk about that in just a moment but something else google
announced today is new experiments it's sort of like a feature drop but not really a feature drop
it works on any device that supports augmented reality and it's web xr experiments experiment
experiments.with google.com i'll link it in the description but it talks about what it is
you've got different things like flume sodar measure up you can measure using your camera
picturescape and more so we'll go into flume for example and it gives you an idea of what
it is now since this is a desk it's a little bit hard to get this to recognize but you can
play around with this on any augmented reality area and just try it out for yourself so it's
pretty interesting these different things they've included but i'll link those in the description
now as far as what's changed or what's been fixed the first thing has to do with the pixel 4 a5g and
pixel 5. and that is improvements for camera quality in certain third-party apps now google
doesn't say what third-party apps those are but it is available and should fix any issues you
were having hopefully it wasn't bothering any issues you were having i think the stock camera
app is probably my favorite since it seems to take the best photos but if you have a third party app
and we're having issues it should be resolved now the next thing they've fixed is on all supported
pixel devices so that has to do with connectivity if you were having issues with connectivity what
they've fixed is issues causing certain devices to appear offline when you're using a vpn or when
you're connected to a vpn that's on everything from the pixel 3 and 3xl up to the pixel 5. so
that should be resolved in this one now the next one is big for the pixel 5 and 4a 5g and they've
given it some performance optimizations for certain graphic intensive apps and games however
a nantech for example has said performance has essentially doubled on the pixel 5. so as far as
that goes we can take a look at 3d mark and you'll see i scored 1663 with wildlife on 3dmark and this
seems to be higher than most people based on what it says here your score versus this model 99 your
score is better than 99 of scores for the pixel 5. so they've really increased performance if you're
running this update i'd say it's essential as far as that part goes so that's been resolved in this
particular update now the next thing they've fixed has to do with the system overall and it's for the
pixel 4 through the pixel 5. so 4 4a 4a 5g 5 and the xl variants they've fixed an issue causing
certain devices to freeze on the google logo during startup so if you're booting up and you've
got the g in the center and it just wouldn't continue to boot you'd have to restart a couple
times so that should be resolved and the final fix that they have is a fix for missing home screen
grid settings in certain devices and that covers the pixel 3 3xl 3a 3axl 4 4xl and 4a so if you
were having issues where you would go to styles and wallpapers maybe go to grid and some of the
options just weren't there on those devices they should be present now so those are all the fixes
that they have in this update but they've also fixed a bunch of or patched a bunch of security
issues and let me run down those quickly they've patched 11 framework issues three media framework
eight system updates one google play system update two kernel updates one mediatek component three
qualcomm components and 12 qualcomm closed source components all of those things have been patched
in this update as far as security goes so you want to make sure you're updated and that leads me to
should you install this update well i would say absolutely unless you're doing something custom
install this not only will it give you better performance on the 5 for example or the 4a
5g it will also give you better security and optimize things like your camera again in the 5
and the 4a 5g so all of those things are patched and i definitely recommend installing this now as
far as performance and the little time that i've used it i haven't noticed any slowdowns other than
that quick stutter that you saw right there but maybe it's still doing something in the background
as far as processing but overall it seems to be very fast compared to what it was before
it's incredibly fast when you're in games for example and it seems to
be really improved compared to what we had before with this processor on the pixel 5.
so i'm looking forward to using this a little bit more and seeing how its battery is as well but
let's take a quick look at what battery was like on the march update so if we go into battery here
we'll go to battery usage we'll give it just a moment and it says it has
a one day and five hours left and it said three days ago is when i fully charged it and this is a
phone i don't use a hundred percent of the time it's more of a secondary phone that i use for
emergency and business so it's been working really well i haven't had any
crashes no app issues nothing like that so i use it for social media quite a bit
and for google news and all sorts of things it seems to work really well and of course i use it
for the camera because this is a phenomenal camera so overall i think it's a great update i'm glad to
see that they made the performance what it should have been when it launched hopefully it's better
for you as well but let me know your experience in the comments below now if you'd like to get
your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time