Comment by nickjj

7 hours ago

> The latest phone reviews have been eyebrow raising.

It's eyebrow raising for me in other ways.

I have a Pixel 9a and it's been quite good with really solid battery life. It's barely 6 months old and I got it new straight from Google.

A few days ago I noticed the battery started to drain much faster than usual. I also noticed at the same time Google is pushing the 10a.

Nothing changed on my end. I barely use the phone in my day to day. In 10 hours today I sent 3 text messages with Whatsapp and lost 60% of my battery in that time frame. Up until a few days ago, 60% would last me 3 days.

I find it weirdly coincidental that the battery life went from amazing to worse than a 5 year old device I had prior to this just as they are releasing new phones. I've powered it down and given it a full discharge / charge too. It's still draining at an alarming rate.

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kingstnap  1 hour ago

Probably just some broken code that got shipped.

Battery life, RAM usage, Performance, all suffer immensely from being leaky abstractions instead of creating hard faults.

  • b112  3 minutes ago

    "Just"?

    The entire point of his statement, is that the broken code is on purpose.

kace91  7 hours ago

Yup, I’ve heard of that “bug” from personal friends so you’re not imagining things.

  • nickjj  7 hours ago

    Did it happen to them in the last few days? Did it self fix itself?

    I wish there were better options for phones. It's absolutely crazy to me that a phone can be perfectly working one day and then it starts getting issues like this out of the blue.

    It makes it completely undependable. All I want is a phone I can trust traveling with where I'm not going to wake up the next day and then the phone starts draining 3-4x faster than it normally does.

    There hasn't even been a system update for almost 3 weeks, so it wasn't an update that busted things.

    • kace91  6 hours ago

      I had the conversation yesterday, unexplained battery drain as of then unresolved.

      They mentioned people complaining on Reddit about battery drain since the last update, but I haven’t personally seen the threads so take it with a grain of salt.