After the death of a samsung phone (water got into the power button, refused to boot), I got my pixel4a and made the jump to grapheneOS. I loved it.
When security updates stopped coming, I grabbed myself a nice pixel8. A few months ago, my screen started flickering green, so I replaced the display with the help of iFixit.
Today, my power button stopped working once more. This is not easily repairable like the display, and my pixel8 has some bonus problems; battery life is declining enough where it has to be trickle charged in the evenings on a qi charger, and the USB port is coming loose enough where I canāt charge the phone while using it for watching a video or whatever without the cable coming out.
Sighā¦ So I just ordered a pixel9a they are $400 right now, and they come with a fat battery and an ip68 rating, while keeping all other specs more or less the same. It also has a good few years of support.
Side note:
Thanks hammy for the extra stickers, I get to use another one on my new phone
Oof. I wanted the eight but needed a phone in a hurry so I went with the 7a. No issues like you are experiencing. Just typical Graphene funk. Hopefully the 9 works out better!
All I did was take a hot shower with it sitting on the table next to the showerā¦
Screw this phone, the battery is garbage anyways. Guess I have a simless burner now.
Edit to keep this dense:
Iām confident it was an electrical or mechanical issue because it wasnāt working even in the bootloader, and a reboot, an update, and a second reboot didnāt fix it. Thereās a decent chance that I didnāt re-seal the screen perfectly, and it certainly got wet a couple of times (rain), so itās possible corrosion is to blame. If that is the case, then who knows how long that will last anyways.
Oh well, at least this doesnāt financially damage me too much.
This is just the normal 8, and Iām coming close to the 2 year mark. Also this is just the bad outweighing the good. For the record I do think it is a great phone, at least after installing grapheneOS, but Iāve just had a ton of issues all things considered.
Do you think a subdermal laser would penetrate the skin enough to project a little? Or would it get completely diffused by the skin and just look kinda like an LED?
This might be the food poisoning talking, but Iām pondering the idea of getting two xGlows for the middle of my forearms. And maybe then another two for R2 and L2.
So initially two easy to hide glowies, then two more in a more visible spot.
