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

Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by jaymzcampbell on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:28PM (#25040732)

I bought a second hand Pixel 2XL and was initially thrilled until I tried plugging it in and realised it was immediately turning itself off - hard and fast. A quick search came across multiple large threads which never had a single reliable "it's because of X" reason - all sort of cargo cult solutions posted but really the device charging port seems to be somewhat fried but no official acknowledgement that's the case from Google.

* https://support.google.com/pixelphone/forum/AAAAb4-OgUsBZo6t...?

* https://support.google.com/pixelphone/forum/AAAAb4-OgUs4rkbD...

In the end I ended up returning the CEX (2nd hand store) phone to Google who then sent a new device to me. Though I was glad to get it sorted in that way (and do love the device itself - when it works, it works great) it really put me off ever wanting to buy new their hardware fresh. Just seems to have way too many problems.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/cm9dt9/cex_bou...

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Re:Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budge... by discreditable on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:44PM (#25040875)

Google's tech support had my wife factory reset her Pixel 2 for charging problems. Big surprise it did not fix it. We ended up trading in for credit to upgrade to a Pixel 3a, which she still has.

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