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I had a terrible experience with the Pixel 3a XL: Within a couple of months the daughter board with the main microphone on it died, so I could only make calls in speaker phone mode or on Bluetooth. Then the USB-C socket degraded to the point where it wouldn't charge or the plug would just fall out. Sometimes it would half connect to the charger and vibrate every five seconds or so until it eventually died. It seemed like the software was pretty reliable, though.

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Did you get either problem fixed? Surely the first one at least should have been covered under the warranty.

On the USB-C, not saying this was your issue but really every USB-C phone I've had I've eventually needed to use a needle or pin and clear junk out of the bottom of the port to keep a good, solid connection. I don't know if that says more about the amount of lint in my pockets or the design of the USB-C port.

I've found a can of clean compressed air to work pretty well for this, with less risk of damaging the contacts than with a sharp object

A toothpick also works fine.

> On the USB-C, not saying this was your issue but really every USB-C phone I've had I've eventually needed to use a needle or pin and clear junk out of the bottom of the port to keep a good, solid connection. I don't know if that says more about the amount of lint in my pockets or the design of the USB-C port.

Me too, but as my only phone with USB-C is my Pixel 3, I assumed it was the fault of the model.

I had an issue with my pixel 2 where something must have shifted in the camera and every photo would blurry on the top half.

Would have been fine to replace it myself but found out that you can not get new replacement parts for the pixel phones and that they are glued up tighter than an iphone with many users reporting that the screen shattered when opening the phone.

Never touching another google product again. While I have had the occasional issue with an Apple product, I have just walked in to the store, they run a few tests and then hand me a replacement on the spot.

I believe you - I have an original Pixel 1 non-XL that I handed down to my kid with a USB-C port that barely works with any cables and even then if you blink at it wrong it disconnects.

FWIW, my 3a XL is working great. I'm might upgrade to a 5a eventually, but only for the water resistance.

My old Pixel runs ok except the camera has completely crapped out randomly while it was in storage. Every time I open the Camera app it immediately crashes and I can’t even turn on the flashlight flash.

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