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by aquasync 507 days ago
Thanks for the info! My pixel has already applied the update unfortunately - any ideas if switching to lineageos is still helpful in that case?

They’re not offering the free battery replacement in Aus otherwise I’d do that - hard to be sure that getting a new battery in a local repair shop wouldn’t be similarly affected by the new limits (presumably some sort of blacklist on serial numbers?).
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sangnoir 507 days ago
Installing Lineage should help battery life. @marcan[1] dissected the new update and puts the blames an overlay in the new kernel that changed the charge voltage.

1. https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/113914172433692339

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chasil 507 days ago
What the hey, let's do it...

Random Google engineer on personal machine trashes Pixel 4a batteries in GPL violation

https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/113914172433692339

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chasil 507 days ago
"So... this was built by a random engineer on their personal machine."

How did this random engineer command that all previous firmware images be taken offline?

Alternate ROMs look much safer right now.

Should this be submitted to HN separately?

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chasil 507 days ago
The new battery behavior is probably just some POSIX userspace process running under Linux, or perhaps some kernel tweak.

The whole of userspace will be replaced when LineageOS reformats all of the partitions.

It is possible that the new battery behavior has been injected into some deeper part of the hardware, but LineageOS is unlikely to make that worse.

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