My Pixel 6 Pro commited suicide this week
My Pixel 6 Pro commited suicide this week
Woke up on Monday and my Pixel 6 Pro wasnt quite fitting in the case while i was checking news while having coffee on the morning. Pushed it in and it didnt seem to fit right. Took the case off to find it had turned itself into a spicy pillow and was splitting along the side. Was 1 month inside warranty, messaged support who told me it was wear and tear initially. I made it quite clear i wasnt accepting that and there wasnt even any way that internal adhesive failing would be wear and tear, never mind battery expansion. They agreed to replace it with a refurb as a goodwill gesture, how very nice of them. I upgraded the same day to a S23 Ultra and have sold the refurb to a reseller.
That's one spicy pillow!
26Let's be honest, the Google Nexus was their peak and it's been downhill since then.
21The Nexus 5 was their peak.
The Nexus 6 created the term "phablet", and then they had the 5X which was a great disappointment, and the updated phablet, the 6P.
Pretty much everything leading up to the 5 was better than what came before it, each release felt like movement in the right direction. Then we got the 5, and it was golden.
Then the 6 came out and everyone was confused, and the 5X/6P just made things worse...
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Googles warranties are the worst. I bought a pixel 7a, and within 5 weeks it died. They would not fix it or return it because it was outside the 30 days, but they did have a year manufacturer warranty. However, when an authorized repair shop I took it in noticed a small little scratch where the case snapped on, they wouldn't honor it. Don't ever get a warranty from Google for anything, they're awful.
18My brother brought 3 of these for his family & they have had nothing but issues with them. If they aren't overheating, they are rebooting for no apparent reason.
16Bought the budget version, pixel 6a. I have nothing but good experience with it. It is the best phone I've had, never again spending money on flag ship phones. This shit cost me about $250, and it feels, looks good and faster than my previous bloatware s10 - which cost me $1100 brand new, the battery and the camera was shit, had it for 3 years, couldn't stand having it another year.
In a couple of years I'll by a new low budget phone. You don't need a flag ship phone trust me, if it's not for the camera, but then I'd buy an iPhone.
16Yeah the 6a seems to be the darling of the last few releases. Mine is pretty much perfect. No wireless charging is mildly annoying, but in the end, meh. It's the right size, lasts long enough, and doesn't give me problems
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Touch wood. Never had a reboot with my 6pro
12All of my pixel devices have been incredibly solid - I went from OG pixel XL, to a pixel 5 (eventually had some battery challenges, but that just meant I had to charge more frequently) and then to p6 pro, and it has been great.
I'm looking forward to the p8 pro.
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The nexus was great. The pixel one was okay, I skipped the two and four. I really liked the 3 and 5. We had 2 & 3 of those respectively in the household. Both 6s were lemons. One spontaneously cracked from the inside, the other was just insanely crash prone traded it for a discount on the 7. So far I like the 7 but I think the 5 or nexus was my favorite not sure.
12So you're basically saying that Pixels are the Star Trek of phones, every other one is decent :P
8The nexus 6P was amazing...for about 6 months. Then it bricked itself, and I was bounced between my provider, Google, and Huawei who all basically told me to get fucked, talk to someone else. Have avoided Google phones like the plague since then.
6Google gave me a free pixel XL because they knew the 6p was a piece of shit. Additionally, I'm sure Huawei sent all my info to the CCP
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Pixel 6 Pro was not a fantastic phone, though battery issues like that are usually caused by overheating. Prolonged use of a phone in hot conditions will cause frequent overheating and rapid degrading of the batteries. Examples of this are putting them in car dashboards in the hot sun, or charging them in the sun.
9I use it as my navigation on my motorcycle. It's shut itself off multiple times on me when I'm in stop-and-go traffic and the air stops cooling it enough. I've also had it go into overheat mode trying to film my wife playing in a sports competition. At least the bluetooth more or less works finally.
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Oh God, I have the exact same phone and now I'm hoping I don't look up from sipping coffee to a ballooning backbone!
6It was 23 months old, last month of warranty thankfully. Couple of weeks later and it would have been a total loss. I pretty much exclusively wireless charged during which i noticed it would sometimes get very warm. Ironically the primary method of charging being wireless was at least in part to prevent damage to the port with repeated cable insertion.
3I recall hearing something about strain on one side of the battery increasing if you only recharge it wirelessly, but I'm not sure how correct that is. I've been hesitant to use a wireless charger for awhile because of that.
Have you found that phones in the past were getting clogged, scratched or mangled somehow from the cable insertion? I had a Samsung A50 lose its entire screen as it gradually turned purple over the course of 2 weeks. One morning the whole screen turned purple and then pixel death propagated like concentric circles in a lake while skipping rocks.
It was terrible. I lost my ability to log into my phone the usual way and ahve yet to recover the data on it. Got a Samsung S10 for a quick replacement which the screen broke on one drop... The Pixel has been great so far though. Hope you got a replacement. What are you using now?
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It seems to be hit or miss. My wife and I have both had Nexus 6p, Pixel OG XL, Pixel 3a, and are currently using release day Pixel 6s. We haven't had any issues with ours.
5Dang my wife just gave up her pixel 2. It was lasting forever it actually still works fine just the battery doesn't last very long. She's got a pixel 7 now. The guy at Koodo had never even seen a pixel 2 lol.
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Weird, this happend to my pixel 6 2 days ago! I bought a battery and some adhesive, and fixed it for £20
4This just happened to my pixel 5, it was on so I shut it off, been too spooked to turn it on again
2Yeah this phone is one of the worst I've had in a while outside the camera.
Seriously considering switching back to an iPhone or a one plus phone.
I think 3 pixels all with varying degrees of issues is enough for me. I won't be giving Google any more chances for a few years.
2Personally in that avoidance period w Samsung. Pixels were the best androids I’ve had, but each seemed to end up with some weird hardware glitch.
Apple and iOS has plenty of shortcomings, but it feels more consistent and reliable (though not as good as they once were)
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I loved my Pixel 6 Pro. Really. It was so much better than the One Plus 8 Pro I had before and which I am currently write this on.
...because the Pixel started to flicker greenish with full power when the display was low. Really nice to get your retina burned out in bed like that.
It took me a week to even get a repair ticket open with them as it was sending me to the wrong country page and then back to the main page when correcting that...even the support agent couldn't fix that initially.
Now we will wait and see if they repair it.
1Samsung is known for their spicy pillows. You see that mrwhosetheboss video where he shows all the Samsungs he’s ever had puffed up, despite the numerous other phones subject to the same conditions not doing that.
1That sux
1As an Apple fanboy, I’ll poor one out for the excellent phone.
Cheers, companion!
-2Pixel is a terrible phone and I will die on that hill.
-9Wife and I have one. Hers 6, mine 7.
They are great. No problems at all.
They charge great, last, and support all the new stuff and get all the latest updates.
They don't come with a pile of bloat ware, camera's work great.
Not sure what people are bitching about.
23I have a 6 Pro.
The brightness adjustment sucks, basically 50% of the slider does nothing. Also randomly dims at top brightness and won't let me go back to max brightness manually.
Fingerprint sensor is complete and total shit. I maybe get 10% success rate unlocking phone, while app fingerprint unlock is at 80% success.
Google disabled the HDMI out for no reason other than they want you to use Chromecast.
Battery is good and wireless charging is good with a branded Google wireless charger, pathetic with any aftermarket wireless charger.
Not major issues but the brightness and fingerprint issues are an annoyance several times a day and it just builds up, you know?
I get all the updates and the Google specific features are great. Camera is fine. Works well with Mint Mobile. I get good 5G in my area where I didn't get good reception on my last phone with same service.
I would probably go back to OnePlus or try NothingPhone, wouldn't do a Pixel again.
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Pixels have been great phones for me. The Pixel 6 Pro was an absolute piece of shit and I haven't been back since.
18I think I had the first one. Battery life was absolutely garbage and wouldn't last a day. Google was constantly trying to hoover up my data, even after I turned off location tracking if found it was still saving where I was moving. I turned off automatic updates until one day I decided to update my phone and it fucked it up to the point where it was functionally bricked. Also the UI makes me think that they are trying really hard to be an iPhone but with enhanced privacy violations.
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I got a Pixel 6 as a work phone thinking that the vanilla Android experience on the Android developers own device would be great.
Feel like my OnePlus One was a better device.
3The Pixel phones haven't been 'vanilla Android' for a while now. The Pixel launcher is just a way for Google for more easily serve ads and paid 'news' stories to you. The only thing I really like about my Pixel 6 Pro is the camera, otherwise it is an over-priced piece of hardware.
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Man, I had the Nexus One, Nexus 4 and 2 consecutive Nexus 5's (first one took a swim in the toilet, still worked, just started to lose signal regularly).
Was exceedingly happy with all 3 phones. Especially the 5, which was a 250€ phone with top of the line features (including NFC, 10 years ago!)
The next Nexus was shit and then Google decided to go with the Pixel brand, because people wouldn't accept Nexus phones to be so goddamn expensive while having far more limited features than the Nexus models used to have.
And I've looked at almost all Pixel models since and was not impressed by even a single one of them.
Man, I wish someone would bring out a modern equivalent to the Nexus 5, a phone loaded with every current and on the horizon tech, for 250-300€.
3My 4a has been great. The 2xl was pretty ok. But looking at reports on others it seems like it depends on the model.
2The Pixel 3A is the best phone I've ever had, and I'm sad to be switching to a different company with my next phone. Being said, I've heard about the problems with newer Pixels, so I suppose I'm not too bummed out about switching. Still, gonna miss Call Screening.
2My 3A has been amazing. Still works ok. Only considering an update because I want the security updates and don't want to fuck around with Lineage again.
2I loved my 3a so much. I upgrade to p7p and it's fine, really good. But the 3a was just such a good experience and feels so good in the hand. Miss you bb.
1Might I recommend pixel experience roms?
Edit: I use it for my 4a and thought the 3a would be much the same but it looks like it's deprecated, my apologies for getting your hopes up.
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I miss the Nexus line. I had the 5 as my phone and the 7 as an ereader/tablet and it was the peak of mobile technology for me.
2I like that a controversial opinion in the same instance as the topic being mentioned is actually thought over and not insta-downvoted because everyone wants their echo chamber
1While I do agree with you to some extent. I've been pretty happy with mine so far.
I still don't like the way you have to "backup" everything locally though. They're forcing you to use their cloud service for that with no other first-party option (yes I know ADB is one, but that's depreciated and could go away at any point in time.)
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