Hello!

I had a Pixel 5A I was running [another OS] on for some time before one day after it rebooted for a update it never came back up, and I couldn't even get it to go into recovery. I was able to get a replacement device under warranty, which is my current Pixel 6A.

The issue is that I've been having similar issues on GrapheneOS. I've now had to factory reset it three times because GrapheneOS eventually ends up in a bootloop where it goes to the google logo, then the graphene logo, and then it reboots. This seems to happen after either updates, or when apps start to crash in a loop and I reboot the phone. I've seen a couple other people reporting similar bootloop issues with even vanilla android, which makes me think either this is a common hardware issue among pixels, or there is a firmware/software issue in the recent builds of Android.

Anyone else have similar issues?


mod note: removed mention of an Android OS that has been hostile towards GrapheneOS

    izaic sorry, your post was caught by the auto moderator because it mentioned an OS that's hostile towards GrapheneOS.

    For this to happen twice across different OSes, I wonder if you do anything to the OS after installing? Like changing permissions of system apps? If it were one device I'd suspect a hardware issue.

    Not many people have these issues. The ones who do have either made unsupported modifications to the OS, changed system apps' permissions, or have a hardware problem.

      izaic I've now had to factory reset it three times because GrapheneOS eventually ends up in a bootloop where it goes to the google logo, then the graphene logo, and then it reboots. This seems to happen after either updates, or when apps start to crash in a loop and I reboot the phone.

      I think this is uncommon. Is there any pattern to which apps are crashing repeatedly?

      izaic which makes me think either this is a common hardware issue among pixels, or there is a firmware/software issue in the recent builds of Android.

      My guess is that it's a hardware issue, the hardware is slowly failing and you won't be able to recover at some point. Goes without saying that your data should be fully backed up in case that happens, and I would advise to try and migrate to a new supported device if you can.

      other8026 Haven't done anything to the system apps. I install google maps, organic maps, waze, discord, spotify, fennec, bitwarden, newpipe, and a handful of other common apps. After a while I get crashes when I go to open an app, such as discord. Infact, just as I was typing this I actually went to go open Discord and it said "Discord has crashed" and the icon for discord disapeared and became some kind of bland icon... Then the device immediately showed "Rebooting" as if I told it to restart with the power button shortcut for example, and then it restarted into a wiped grapheneOS (with only my wallpaper and a couple other preferences I set, but none of my apps anymore) which I'm assuming is some kind of safe mode?

      I factory reset it last night because it had locked up in a bootloop, so this should be a fresh grapheneOS unless perhaps the partition has gone corrupt somehow.

      I suppose I have to warranty this Pixel as well. Starting to sound like something is wrong with the hardware... Perhaps google RMA replacement devices are ones that came in with issues like this and they figured were working again?

      other8026 I don't intend to use it because google will track everything I do, but is there an easy way to reinstall stock android so I can RMA with it stock?

      I found the google web flashing tool and will reflash to stock android. Going to RMA this device.