Poll + general discussion: who got Android 10 Update on their FP3 & first impressions

KPN user here , and still no update here yett

The July security update is included in your Android 10 upgrade download.

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Android 10 also has security patchlevel of July. And I’ve seen some (french) user posting a screenshow of their updater that didn’t say anything about Android 10.
But if the buildnumber is A.0033 and the download size larger than 1 GB it is Android 10 even if the updater doesn’t say so.

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You’re right, I’m now on Android 10!

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Get a grasp of the concept of ergonomics. That was easy. SCNR

I noticed that there is a slightly different font with the update. It’s a bit thicker now.


this is the old one:

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I just switch of my SIM and then I can update over WiFi.

I tried this, too. I even removed my sim card, but there’s still no update.

Maybe, that’s why.
So, you might have to be a bit patient; which might be a good thing, as first small glitches might be straightend out, before you get your update.

Edit:
If you have access to another SIM card from another provider switching cards (just for the update) might do the trick.

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I am on Vodafone UK. I checked for the update and it said I was up to date, even though I’ve had no updates since February. I switched to my second sim for data (on the EE network) and checked again and there was the Android 10 update immediately available. It is downloading now over wifi. So there is clearly a continuing problem with updating with a Vodafone sim active for data.

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The immovable date thing is so weird. I am on Nova now and I don’t like it but better than that!

Not being able to remove, or even move the date bar is annoying indeed. The name of the day haven’t even got a capital letter, and the shadowing of the text looks wierd. Hope it gets fixed on the next update!

Except for a few security improvements, there is technically nothing extraordinary about the operating system in android 10. The main new features are the user interface, especially the dark theme, and a few (IMHO) gimmicks in a few apps like a new date bar on the top of the screen with a small wheather icone. How can we erase this bar ?
We can’t get rid of the google search bar and we can’t get rid of the top date bar either. Unless installing another launcher.
What’s the next good idea from google for reducing the freely usable space on the home screen ? I saw other comments about this topic in this forum. But if somebody has a solution, without installing another launcher, She/He will get my undying gratitude.
All in all, nothing will change in my life with Android 10.

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If you don’t like the launcher, installing a different launcher is the Android solution. That’s why it’s so easy to install a different one, and that’s why tons of different launchers are available.

With Android 9, even uninstalling com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox, which is way more intrusive than just installing something else, left an empty defunct box in the stock launcher … Home customization.

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EDIT
This issue is fixed. Thanks to the operators!

I wanted to try to install the update manually following these instructions. But each time I click the “Windows 10” link at the bottom of the page, a “Page not found” site will open and say:

“oops You’re not authorized to access this page”

Wtf? I’m definitely logged in to my personal FP account, having access to all my personal data. So why can’t I open this page?

Thank you so much! It was quite frustrating because I really want to get dark mode.
I’m using Bouygues (french provider) and the update wouldn’t show up. Other Bouygues users told me that they got the update so I tried your trick. I took my wife’s SIM card. She uses SFR (other french provider) and the update showed up.
Thanks again.

Except for a few security improvements, there is technically nothing extraordinary about the operating system in android 10.

Well, if you have been trying in vain for weeks and months to connect your phone to your car audio system in order to be able to phone while keeping your hands on the steering wheel, and now at last there is a solution for this - I would call it a technical improvement.

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Is it really related to Android 10 and not the car itself though? I connected my FP3 with Android 9 over bluetooth on 5 different cars from 5 different constructors and it always worked.

@Sideness It is. Although this issue will only appear with certain car audio systems (e.g. Ford, Toyota), the cause is on FP’s side as they have committed in another thread. And it is reported to be fixed in this update.

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Only issue I have is the location of the clock on the top bar.

No space between network operator and time plus said operator being three leads to it looking very odd :yum:

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There’s a strong difference of the behavior of Google Translate’s tap-to-translate feature in Android 9 and 10, and this is going to keep me from upgrading for now. On Android 9, there’s a bubble that appears suggesting the translation just after one copies some text. On Android 10, one has a persistent notification that one needs to use to manually make the bubble appear or disappear; it sucks.