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.