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  • Any tips for fingerprint sensor on pixel 7?

ve3jlg

You’re probably right, but this is a design defect of the reader. Never happened with the 5a.

Although I’ve saved my thumb three times and am down to a 10-20% hit rate on the sensor capturing my finger. At this point, I may as well disable it and move 100% to pin.

Not sure if folks have had better luck with other fingers or maybe I just have a lemon

      Haha, thought, I am the only one...in my case (Pixel 6) the hit rate is...hmmm...I would say 5 % and some days it works never. And I registered different fingers and tried a lot. At the moment I decided to delete the fingerprint and went back to passphrase. That's less comfortable but a not working fingerprint reader is worse.
      Maybe my fingerprints are illegible, because I work a lot with wood and stuff and I am a rock climber?

        applesbana I still have a Pixel 3aXL and the fingerprint reader on that is fast and reliable. My wife's 5a is the same.

          9 months later

          malatoi

          Just to let you know: Since I have a new and different screen protector the hit rate is at first try, I would say, 70 % but at least it works after the second or third try. That's ok for me. ;)

            17 days later

            It's gross but unless you have a better solution, just lick your finger and try it again. Don't have overly dry hands. Walk around with some cake so you can have your fingers lightly moist whenever you need to unlock your phone

              N3rdTek Walk around with some cake so you can have your fingers lightly moist whenever you need to unlock your phone.

              Best suggestion all week for any issue!!!

                  de0u Big Waisted Beauties RISE UP!
                  fr tho, anytime I get more than two or three invalid attempts, I lick my finger wipe the excess on my shirt or pants and it pretty much works 98% of time.
                  The 2% is when I forget that I turned all sensors off, and the FPS is well.... A fingerprint sensor

                  I dare someone to defy me, this works with screen protectors and without. Except privacy screen protectors I have yet to find anything that works on my P7 AND also allows the FPS in ANY capacity.
                  But I've recently found a good way to counter that, I just make sure to have p*rn playing on my phone at all times max volume so no one will want to look at it.

                    I might be fooling myself but if you turn off all three animation in developer options, it seems that the fingerprint reader of my pixel 6 works A LOT better. Also, no screen protector and sensibility turned off

                    Hi all,
                    I've recently replaced my screen and am having fingerprint sensor errors. I've tried the repairer here: https://pixelrepair.withgoogle.com/ but it tries to force a complete OS reinstall, and when I cancel out of that and try to use the fingerprint calibration tool, it will not connect to my phone.

                    Any ideas on how I can get my fingerprint reader working again? Thanks!