I’ve moved from the Google Pixel 4A, which had an excellent fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone, to the 7A.
I won’t sugarcoat it: in my experience the fingerprint sensor, now an optical sensor on the front of the phone, is near useless. It fails to read my finger/thumb print basically ~95% of the time, which means it can’t be used for any account that may lock the user out following ‘x’ unsuccessful login attempts.
I really don’t get why they shipped the feature with the phone given how unacceptably bad it is to use.
Is this a common opinion shared amongst 7A users? Is there something wrong with my phone, or am I missing something? I’d welcome any advice, as I would quite like to get this working reliably.
Idk about this phone specifically, but a common ducktape fix for shitty fingerprint sensors is to scan one finger onto multiple finger scan spots, even all 5 available. That should improve accuracy.
This fixed almost all of my issues on the p7. I scanned my thumb 3x. Usually works now.
This did the trick for me as well. Scanned each thumb twice. Now I rarely, if ever, run into an issue.
I’m using just the regular 7, but I had issues with mine to start too. I’m also using a glass protector. I found a post saying to enable screen protector mode. This is found in display settings, seen below.
Solved most of my issues with print detection immediately. My biggest gripe now is only being able to add 4 prints, which is just stupid to me.
Never knew about that setting, and immediately seems to have improved things for me. Hopefully that lasts. Thanks!
I have the exact same problem moving from the 3a to the 6a. Why did they do this? The back sensor was so good!!
Amen. #rip 3a, you were the best
