Android 13 Update on Pixel Phone

Cameras
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Okay, uninstalling the app made the headphones work properly. I will now reinstall the app and check to see if the live audio will work on my doorbell and v3 cameras.

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Nope. Still no live audio on doorbell and v3 cameras. Even after deleting the cameras, uninstalling the app, reinstalling the app and adding the cameras.

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I have a 4a/5g that got Android 13. I have the V1 and V2 doorbells. Both seem to have audio on live feed.
Granted the V1 doorbell is plagued with firmware bugs, but I have done all the workarounds to get it limping. I am not running any beta firmware. I am running the production 2.33.1 (162) android app.
I did have to turn OFF "Enable Hardware Decoderā€ in the App settings to fix some bugs I mentioned at the top of this thread.

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@carverofchoice @spamoni - Thank you, it indeed works on my Pixel 6 pro (AT&T * FirstNet) smartphone.

Best to check before the jump, Once you upgrade to Android 13 you cannot downgrade back to 12

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Not easy to downgrade at least (might be able to force flash and overwrite everything from scratch in some complicated wayā€¦but definitely not OTA). Itā€™s been fairly stable. There will likely be some minor bugs to work out since itā€™s so new, but I think that overall it should be fine. It was in Beta long enough that most developers should have the important stuff worked out.

Edit: looks like it is possible, but you have to bypass the Anti Rollback mechanism on your phone, install Android SDK Platform Tools on a PC (and ADB and Fastboot binary), enable USB debugging and OEM unlocking, unlock bootloader, download a special flash tool, etcā€¦but technically possibleā€¦

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I totally understand. That is why I did my Pixel 5 first

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According to this article there is No Downgrading back to Android 12 due to an ā€œe-fuseā€ being set. e-fuses are write onceā€¦

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Yeah, I read that, though there are others explaining that it is indeed still possible to undo.

Several people have done it already and proven it. As I said, you have to bypass the Anti Rollback mechanism on your phone, among other things. Itā€™s just an e-fuse, not a physical one, so there are going to be ways to undo that.

Google INTENDED to make it impossible to roll back, but itā€™s only not possible to rollback through OTA. You can still do it manually including by modifying the bootloader.img file.

Iā€™m sure a lot of that is beyond the technical capabilities of at least 70% of the population, but it is indeed possible to do as many people have documented. Just canā€™t do a normal OTA rollback.

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