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Pixel 3a, battery update - worth it? (self.googlepixel)
submitted 1 year ago by tamal3 to c/googlepixel
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Hi all,

I've had a 3a for some years now, and I like almost everything about the phone (though I sincerely wish they'd used more durable glass, holy canoli). However, the battery has started to fail, and I was wondering if it's worth replacing? It would cost about 80 USD to have it professionally replaced.

I know the device is no longer supported by Google, but I was thinking of running GrapheneOS instead of Android, anyway.

Any thoughts or insights? I'm far from a genius when it comes to cell phones, so I'd appreciate anything you have to say.

Thanks!

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[–] amenotef 2 points 1 year ago

I wanted to do this with my Pixel 2 (currently my mother's phone). But the Pixel 2 is so hard to replace than in this case I decided to not do it. In the PIxel 4 (my wife's phone) I did it and it improved a bit because the previous battery was staying at 1% for like 40 minutes so there was something wrong with it (I always blamed the NFC charger I used with that phone).