I and a friend of mine also experienced this. I believen it started after the “final” update but Theres no way to know. Needless to say i wont every buy or recommend a google device ever again.
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criticon@lemmy.ca 10 months agoMy wife’s pixel 3a became so slow to the point of being useless. I tried to restore it but it was still very slow. It started happening after a software update after the pixel 5 came out 🤷
sepiroth154@feddit.nl 10 months ago
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The plausible deniability is the most frustrating bit.
But Pixels are also known for being the most open source of all Android phones, are they not? If you flash it to the final available version of GrapheneOS, does it perform more as expected?
sepiroth154@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I wish I thought of this before getting rid of the phone…
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Custom ROMs on the 3a still perform quite well. There is also a WIP mainline Linux port for the 3a that will hopefully extend the life of it for many more years to come.
TetraVega@lemmings.world 10 months ago
I’ve got an old Thinkpad that works great. I’m guessing if I ever connect it to the Internet again it’ll mysteriously brick