Replacement OEM Pixel batteries are duds

Andor

I've bought OEM replacement P7P batteries precisely identical to the manufacturer-installed battery. I've been through two replacements in just a couple months. They either have inadequate connector metallics (which renders a battery error symbol) or it putts out after a few weeks.
This recent batch of three were all fully comped by the seller just due to AMZ shipping issues, but the first replacement just suddenly went into infinite repeat power cycles after a month of use after installation.

Upon initial installation, the battery was already charged to 50 percent, so I fully charged it with the 30-watt wall adapter and let it stay plugged in for a few hours more, then fully depleted it to shut-down, then kept it plugged in since, except for days out with it. A few weeks later, it's unreliable, and two days later, it's constantly rebooting.
The interesting thing there is that when I paused the GOS bootloader screen, it was stable until I let it continue as usual.

What the butt?!

This one, I'll just try the battery manual's installation care advice of depleting the battery three times with extra charge time (even though "that's outdated advice"), then I'll keep it plugged in.

n3t_admin

Andor AMZ shipping issues

OEM batteries aren't sold on Amazon. You are buying Chinese fakes.

grayway2

Andor OEM battery for your Pixel : https://www.ifixit.com/products/google-pixel-7-pro-battery-genuine?variant=39983429845095

Sigismund

Maybe look for a more legitimate source to get batteries?

Andor

n3t_admin
Can you prove your claim?

DeletedUser396

Andor

n3t_admin Andor AMZ shipping issues

OEM batteries aren't sold on Amazon. You are buying Chinese fakes.

Andor n3t_admin
Can you prove your claim?

if you read your own post back again, you prove their claim yourself.

I veiw cheap OEM batteries from amazon akin to Chinese fire crackers...

troika

grayway2 https://s.taobao.com/search?commend=all&ie=utf8&initiative_id=tbindexz_20170306&page=1&preLoadOrigin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.taobao.com&q=pixel9%E7%94%B5%E6%B1%A0&search_type=item&sourceId=tb.index&spm=a21bo.jianhua%2Fa.search_manual.0&ssid=s5-e&tab=all
The vast majority are less than $10

Andor

grayway2
Compare the product image on that ifixit page to that of the identical one I bought in Amazon:

Notice the same printed text stating Sunwoda Electronic Co. and that the model number and all the registration and code numbers all match identically all the way down except for the last two lines of the hashtag numbers, which probably don't indicate a phony knockoff since Sunwoda is shown in both as the manufacturer.
Clearly, the ifixit and Amazon sellers source their batteries from the same supplier or the supplier's distributor. They're the same battery.
Only difference is that I paid half that of ifixit by using Amazon.
Even AliExpress has the same ones with the same labels, and for only $6.

raccoondad

Andor I can confirm as a past technician, amazon batteries suck. You probably bought a cheap unreliable battery.

I would remove it and buy a real battery from ifixit. You don't want a cheap battery

spammerofspam

Andor Even if real ones are sold on Amazon, due to inventory comingling, it's not guaranteed that you get a real one when you order from Amazon. If even just one seller has fakes, and they get tossed in the same bin as the real ones in the warehouse, you're not guaranteed to get a real one.

It's one of the reasons lots of people won't buy things like batteries from Amazon.

n3t_admin

Andor of course.

Google has an (exclusive) partnership with iFixit. They have never sold parts outside of iFixit afaik. Maybe mobilesentrix or something, but nothing B2C.

Andor

raccoondad
Have you replaced the P7P battery to see 18 months of reliability from a replacement?

grayway2

troika Non guenine battery can be as good as original but personally, I would rather pay more for the OEM part unless the phone is not valuable or I do know the quality of the battery before buying.

Andor

DeletedUser396
Wrong. My experience is not certain proof of unauthentic batteries.
My experience is not proof of your claim of such.
Prove that there's an identifiable distinction between an ifixit battery and the identical batteries sold by various sellers on Amazon, or AliExpress, or eBay.
The batteries are identical to the original.

Andor

spammerofspam
You want a photo of my replacement batteries that are labelled identically to the Amazon and ifixit product page images and identical to the original battery?

n3t_admin

Andor Even AliExpress has the same ones with the same labels, and for only $6.

Oh my gosh, did you ever consider that those labels are fake?! This is so common for replacement batteries, it's not even funny anymore.

The batteries you bought are cheap knockoffs, please buy OEM batteries from iFixit and stop complaining. It's not anyone's fault you decide to save a buck.
The text alone in those Amazon listings gives it 100% away as a knockoff. And you honestly expect a $6 battery to be as good as an OEM? What the actual...

spammerofspam

Andor I think you're in the best position to prove is they're real or not. Buy an iFixIt battery that's guaranteed to be real, and compare it to the ones from Amazon. Check the labels, weigh them, etc.

Additionally, even if the ones you're buying are real, how can you be sure they're not used?

The reality is that none of us can reasonably prove that your batteries are fake or used. However, if you're having horrible luck with the cheap batteries from Amazon, why are you not at least open to the possibility that you need to buy them somewhere else and maybe the ones you're buying are fake, used, or maybe just old? Why argue so that you can keep buying batteries that don't work? None of us care of you want to buy bad batteries. In fact, I've got some bad batteries I can sell you if you want some more.