Blaze@lemmy.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 5 months agoAre you excited about the upcoming Pixel 9, or have you given up on Google hardware?message-squaremessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down16
arrow-up146arrow-down1message-squareAre you excited about the upcoming Pixel 9, or have you given up on Google hardware?Blaze@lemmy.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square75fedilink
minus-squareGestrid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months ago except for the two times it got stuck in a boot loop until the battery died. Did the emergency shut-off (holding down the volume down and power buttons at the same time) not work?
minus-squarehydrospanner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoNope. And even if it did, it was restarting itself anyway.
minus-squareskuzz@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoIt’s a glitch where the buttons break down mechanically, so it just thinks the user is holding the power button constantly, so as soon as it is off, it’ll turn back on.
minus-squareGestrid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoAh, ok, so it was a mechanical failure, not a software glitch.
Did the emergency shut-off (holding down the volume down and power buttons at the same time) not work?
Nope.
And even if it did, it was restarting itself anyway.
It’s a glitch where the buttons break down mechanically, so it just thinks the user is holding the power button constantly, so as soon as it is off, it’ll turn back on.
Ah, ok, so it was a mechanical failure, not a software glitch.