Is Your Pixel 3 Bricked Yet?
There’s an uptick in bricked Pixel 3 units this previous week, with many homeowners heading to Google’s personal Concern Tracker web site to report their telephones inoperable. Thoughts you, these experiences seem up to now again to June, however I do know from first-hand expertise that the issue is older than that. My spouse’s personal Pixel 3 bricked itself for no obvious cause final 12 months, however fortunately for her, she’s married to me who was capable of get her on one thing else.
In response to customers, as soon as the telephone goes black display screen, there’s no getting it again. The one factor the telephone will show is a particular EDL message, which is brief for Emergency Obtain mode. It’s a Qualcomm-developed restoration mode, however even that gained’t save your Pixel 3. Naturally, Google assist isn’t a lot assist, with the principle suggestion being that customers accumulating and ship in a bug report. Pardon the laughter, however a bug report is hard to generate when your telephone is a brick.
What’s more likely to occur?
For those who’re trying to us for solutions, you in all probability gained’t like what we have now to say. As it’s possible you’ll or might not know, class motion lawsuits have yielded constructive outcomes for a lot of shoppers, however they take a protracted, very long time to manifest. Not solely that, however most individuals solely get sums of about $12. That doesn’t appear well worth the hassle to me. We’ll maintain you posted if Google responds to those experiences, as extra media websites proceed to select up the story.
From our viewpoint, it’s generally troublesome to see when there’s an actual downside, as we’re linked to many experiences of comparable points for all sorts of telephones. Everybody needs their explicit downside checked out, however within the case of the Pixel 3, it seems that one thing may be very a lot fallacious. The Pixel 3 lineup was launched practically 3 years in the past. By now, all warranties for the {hardware} have gone away, so I’m not completely positive how Google intends to deal with the problem. Pixel 3 gross sales, so far as we all know, weren’t very excessive. We will all take consolation in figuring out that there aren’t tens of millions of individuals working into this situation, although, we’re dissatisfied even this group of customers are having a foul time.
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