{"id":1238309,"date":"2025-03-10T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238309"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:18:04","slug":"google-pixel-4as-painful-update-was-due-to-battery-overheating-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238309","title":{"rendered":"Google Pixel 4a\u2019s painful \u201cupdate\u201d was due to battery overheating risk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google didn’t explain exactly why it shipped a mandatory software update to the Pixel 4a<\/a>, an Android phone from 2020, earlier this year. The nature of that update, which gave some models all but unusable battery life<\/a>, provided some clues, as did later software analysis. But now, Australian authorities have provided a more concrete answer: battery overheating and fire risk.<\/p>\n

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Product Safety arm issued a recall for the Pixel 4a<\/a> late last week. The reason, the commission said, is that Google’s firmware update and battery changes served to “mitigate the risk of overheating” because “an overheating battery could pose a risk of fire and\/or burns to a user.”<\/p>\n

Product Safety Recall notice, with red border and triangle symbol, asking consumers \"Do you own this product?\" with an image of a Google Pixel 4a.
\n Do you own this product?
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\n ACCC Product Safety<\/p>\n

In the US and elsewhere, Google’s messaging did not use the term “recall.” Google stated on its “Pixel 4a Battery Performance Program<\/a>” page that “certain” Pixel 4a models “require a software update to improve the stability of their battery\u2019s performance,” which also “reduces available battery capacity and impacts charging performance.” Google said it is still safe to charge a Pixel 4a.<\/p>\n

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