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!
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I believe the pixel8 qualifies as the worst phone Iāve ever had hardware wise ā adjusted for its generation.
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Now its workingā¦
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.
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Really? I had one for 2 years. The XL model and thought it the best.
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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.
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I just went to the 10XL and am very happy. A little smaller than the last one, by choice.
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Anything but metric..
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Access battery diagnostics over UART!
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Can i just leave this here?
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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?
I feel like the second thing is more likelyā¦ 
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I think itās probably the second, but i still doubt if itās even real.
I couldnāt find details on how it works or how the power source works.
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Itās real.. Google optogenetics. The laser doesnāt have to shoot very far at all it just has to hit gene-edited neurons to activate them.
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Careful, youāre about to box yourself out of objecting to Clanker.
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Update on phone:
Pixel 9a nfc performance is noticeably superior to the 8, and there appears to be a wider zone of xSeries readability.
Edit: If only there was a way to measure thisā¦ Hmmā¦ Yeah I should shouldnāt I
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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.
Anyways, Iām probably going to wait on thisā¦
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Field meter pro ordered
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