Pixel phone owners are dealing with a new charging headache

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PhoneArena
PhoneArena
Phonearena team
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• 4h ago

Picture this: you leave your Pixel phone on the wireless charging pad overnight but, to your surprise, wake up to a red battery indicator. You reposition it on the charging pad, and it confirms “charging,” but then you come back only to find the battery percentage has gone down instead of up. This is the mildly frustrating situation that many Pixel owners find themselves in after the big Google update this week. Charging…or is it? Several Pixel owners have complained on the Google support...

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TuGa121
TuGa121
Arena Master
• 3h ago

"The support specialist I contacted wasn't very helpful. They want to blame my case (which I had already removed) or my charger (which still works with other phones)."


It’s issue after issue after issue. 2026 is not a good year for Google at all, that’s for sure. Those Google support specialists are on a different level lol, blaming a case that’s not even on the phone lol.


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meanestgenius
meanestgenius
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• 2h ago

Googles Pixels are going to end the year as a buggy & beta mess, and Google is to blame. This is what happens when a company doesn't care about QC, they only care about using the end user as their product.

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TuGa121
TuGa121
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• 2h ago
↵meanestgenius said:

Googles Pixels are going to end the year as a buggy & beta mess, and Google is to blame. This is what happens when a company doesn't care about QC, they only care about using the end user as their product.

It has become the norm for Google Pixel phones to suffer from these issues every single year. This year, they have officially broken all records for bugs, glitches and technical problems. Their so-called "stable" releases are consistently worse than Apple’s developer betas. I can guarantee this just based on the articles posted here on PhoneArena, and I can only imagine how many other issues aren't even being reported.

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meanestgenius
meanestgenius
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• 1h ago
↵TuGa121 said:

It has become the norm for Google Pixel phones to suffer from these issues every single year. This year, they have officially broken all records for bugs, glitches and technical problems. Their so-called "stable" releases are consistently worse than Apple’s developer betas. I can guarantee this just based on the articles posted here on PhoneArena, and I can only imagine how many other issues aren't even being reported.

I've been saying for the longest time now that Googles Pixels are the buggiest smartphones out today, and that the end users are simply beta testers for Googles forever beta Pixels. Google uses the end user to beta test features for real Android OEM's, while they happily use Pixels as a gateway to the end users personal data.

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TuGa121
TuGa121
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• 11m ago
↵meanestgenius said:

I've been saying for the longest time now that Googles Pixels are the buggiest smartphones out today, and that the end users are simply beta testers for Googles forever beta Pixels. Google uses the end user to beta test features for real Android OEM's, while they happily use Pixels as a gateway to the end users personal data.

Agreed 💯. There isn't a single device on the market with as many bugs as these Pixel phones.

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