Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budget unwisely

Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by thaumasiotes on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:54PM (#25040418)

I got a Pixel in the hopes of running LineageOS.

No dice; I was never able to get the Pixel's USB port to do anything other than draw power from my computer. Apparently this wasn't even an unusual problem.

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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by milleramp on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:19AM (#25043018)

There are 2 flavors of pixel phones the Verizon and Google, both are carrier unlocked but the Verizon has a locked bootloader. There are work arounds for some of the devices but last time I checked none for the pixel 2xl. If your buying a used one for Lineage good idea to check.

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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by kinjba11 on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:05PM (#25040508)

I have experienced a flaky connection for an iPhone as well - plug it in and Catalina would spin endlessly, and when it did manage to connect, it'd fail soon after. Yet other devices were fine. Sometimes QA can't catch every failure, assuming it was hardware and not software.

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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by thaumasiotes on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:24PM (#25040682)

I believe it was software. I got different behavior depending on (a) which USB port I tried to connect it to (OK, that looks like hardware), but also (b) what mode the phone was booted into.

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