This is a shitshow. This is how you get people not to trust you and to go out of their way to disable automatic updates. Did Grapheneos also send the update?
I don’t think grapheneos supports devices that old.
LSN-tagged batteries assigned the “debug” profile can see capacity reduced from 3,080 milliamp hours (mAh) to 1,539 mAh.
Two hours on a charge or less
Amazing work there Google. Perfect. No notes.
It’s hard to say why Google is doing this instead of a recall.
Recall: need to spend millions
Push an automatic update that artificially limits the battery to just 1500mah: every phone now become electric waste that lasts only a few hours and surely people would even buy a new Pixel 😉
It seems to have been built by a Google engineer “on their personal machine, not the proper buildsystem.”
How does that even get pushed out as an automatic update?
My wife avoids updating her devices for as long as possible, because “updates only break things”. I think I’ll keep this news to myself, because otherwise I’ll never hear the end of it.
I finally nudged her from a pixel 4a to an 8a for Christmas, so it is on its way to the retirement drawer.
Time to install lineage os on that bad boy
