My Pixel 8 seems to be stuck thinking that an external monitor is still connected, despite having disconnected it hours ago. My friend let me connect my Pixel 8 to his portable monitor via USB-C to try it out. That worked fine and then I disconnected it. But now, hours later, I still see the external display icon in the top bar and I see "External Display" listed as "on" under "Other devices" in Settings > Connected devices. Beyond this, there are other oddities: I get no sound from my phone when I play videos (because it's trying to play sound on the phantom display?). When I take screenshots, I get two at a time (one of the phone screen, one of the phantom display?). As far as I can tell, there is no way to tell the phone that it's disconnected. Tapping on "External Display" takes me to a screen that lets me change the rotation on the external display and shows its resolution, but there's no control to disconnect. Long pressing, swiping, etc on "External Display" do nothing. I don't see any way to make the phone realize the display is not connected. I've tried a few other things to try to fix it: - Connecting my phone to my PC with a different USB-C cable - Connecting to a monitor of my own with USB-C to DisplayPort (although, the phone doesn't recognize this monitor) - Plugging a USB-C cable in to the phone with nothing on the other end - Unplugging the USB-C cable - Turning airplane mode on and off - Locking/unlocking I haven't tried restarting yet, because it seems crazy that my phone is stuck thinking it's got a display attached when there is literally nothing connected.

Android 14+ allows a QR code scanner to be added to the lock screen (at least on Pixel devices). On a Pixel phone that does not have a SIM and has not yet been connected the the Internet (thus has no Google account), that lock screen QR code reader behaves oddly. When its on-screen button is held down, it just flashes the QR code reader momentarily, and then goes back to the Android lock screen. No QR codes can be read. The phone has been factory reset, and the same issue persists. At this time, adding a SIM or connecting to the Internet is not desired. Is this the expected behaviour, or does the device likely have a problem?