Ah I see the concern there. Fingerprint data isn't handled as much on the software side as it is through the hardware. Android doesn't get access to what's actually scanned, just whether a scan was read and if it matched what the reader was expecting, Scanners are limited to a certain number of entries depending on how much space is available to store fingerprint data, which is why my 256gb phone can only store 4 fingers. It's also why you can't add separate fingers in separate apps, they all use android's API to determine whether a biometric scan was a success or not.
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I've never had a phone that had one mounted anywhere other than the front, so under screen was natural muscle memory progression for me compared to side or back mounted.
I am curious of what you dont trust and why
The wording is a bit weird, but I'll try to explain what's actually happening here;
This is referring to the pixel's under screen fingerprint reader. Since it's an optical reader, it needs light to see what it's reading so it blasts a white circle around the reader. Currently if the screen is off (we'll get back to this in a sec) then it can't turn this circle on to read the finger. Basically there's an "off" and a "black" with oleds, they'll look identical, but If the screen is "off" you won't be able to light up a section. This can occur when the always-on-display is active, but not if it's disabled. From what I gather this leaves the display in an "black" state so it can still light up the reader, even if AOD is disabled
Also totally accidentally sent this when trying to check the MD ob "off", hopefully you haven't checked this message yet lol
While this is the ideal outcome, in reality people are just going to throw their trash in the bushes.
Yeah but it'd be kinda weird if the demo said "Idk man Toastify is aight I guess"
"I bought this before Henry Ford went crazy"
Good to know. I'm on a rooted version of GrapheneOS and was a little hopeful substratum was back. I wonder if crdroids mods could be easily merged
The guy mugging me in the back alley had a gun to my head not to kill me, but to persuade me to give him my wallet.
Nothing in the world could get me to click on that link
Totally off topic, but are you rocking substratum? Stopped working for me long ago and I gave up trying after a while
Would definitely see if this falls under warranty, i had a pixel 7 and it didn't have any of these issues. Something is definitely wrong with your unit
Tradeoff between speed & accuracy vs the amount of fingerprints. The data that would've been required to store a 5th is instead used to have better models of the other 4. Id rather have a faster reader that'll read it right in more angles than an extra fingerprint when I only really use my thumb and index anyway. (Also you can totally train 2 different fingers in one "finger" and it'll recognize both, just worse