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The article discusses the issues with Google’s Pixel 4a battery update. The update has caused drastically reduced battery life for many users, with some experiencing only two hours of charge. Google has offered three options for affected users: a battery replacement, $50, or $100 in Google Store credit. However, the update has been criticized for its lack of transparency and the inconvenience it has caused. Additionally, the update was built on a personal machine, not the proper build system, and has led to confusion and frustration among users.
This really is just an ad for a third party OS, isn’t it?
And flashing a new OS to a phone isn’t even that difficult to do.
After 16 years of iPhones I switched to a Pixel 9 two days ago so I could run GrapheneOS. It took me ten minutes to install. Shit’s remakably easy to do. Assuming your phone isn’t carrier locked, of course.
Do you still need a computer to do it?
I managed to flash an IPhone to an older version of the OS back in the day, it took a few hours, most of which was finding the image and working out what to do.
No, there’s a web installer than is run entirely on device.
That sounds like the level of difficulty I can be bothered to deal with.
Can’t run graphene on a pixel 4a.
Are you sure about that? There are builds for it on their site: https://grapheneos.org/releases#sunfish
Sorry I think I’m a generation ahead? Whenever Google stops updates graphene discontinues support.
Not quite. Graphene provides ‘legacy extended support’ which means they’ll patch any vulnerabilities they become aware of for the OS, but because they don’t have baseband source they won’t be able to address any vulnerabilities in the baseband unless Google releases an update.
The most recent release of grapheneos for 4a is less than a week old.
You just saved me some trouble, lol
I might be won’t actually, double check.
I didn’t say it could, just that it’s easy to do (assuming your hardware is supported of course).