Black screen out of nowhere despite full charge

randaniel

Hello everyone,
I've been using Graphen OS on my Pixel 8a for a few months now, and so far it's been running smoothly for the most part.
This morning, I unplugged my phone from the charger and it was charged to 80% (as desired). I used it for a while, then put it aside, and when I wanted to use it again about an hour later, the screen was off. The phone won't start up, and there is no response when I connect a charger. Pressing the power and volume down buttons also produces no response.
Nothing happened to the device between normal use and its current state; it didn't fall off the table, and the charge level must be at least 75%. When I connect the device to my laptop, there is also no response.
I have no idea how to get the device to respond in any way. Does anyone have any idea what could have happened or how I can at least get the phone to respond in some way?
I would appreciate any ideas.
Daniel

Elgoog

randaniel in the last day or so, I've been having the same problem on a Pixel tablet when I return to the owner profile from a secondary profile. My fix has been to power off andvrestart., which is obviously not ideal.

dQnn

randaniel This happened to me as well, when I completely drained the battery and it refused to boot up. Fortunately, doing "hard reboot" (holding power button for >1 minute) solved it.

Actually, now that I remember, it was even more weird. I for sure thought my 8a got bricked because even after full charge, every time I unlocked the screen it would just shutdown.

I am getting tired of all these problems with GOS these days and all they do is blame it on pixel hardware which solves nothing for us. I had my pixel 6 stuck in bootloop after just a year (sadly, it's still bricked), hardware issue they said.

Even after disastrous events from pixel and how totally unreliable pixels are, I only buy it for GOS.

randaniel

Elgoog
Unfortunately, the device does not respond to the power + volume restart. My Pixel 8a has been unresponsive for over a week now. Even when I plug it back into the charger, absolutely nothing happens; the device doesn't even get warm.

randaniel

dQnn
Unfortunately, holding down the power button for 1-2 minutes does not produce any response. I find it a little difficult to complain about the developers who provide this OS free of charge, but after 6 months, holding a cell phone in my hands that has suddenly stopped working is extremely frustrating. Since there is no response even when connected to a computer, I have no idea what else I can do except buy a new device (on which I would of course not install GOS again).

de0u

randaniel It sounds as if your Pixel 8a suddenly went from working to completely and utterly not working. Obviously that's a catastrophic outcome and completely unwelcome.

Unfortunately, this does happen (out of the blue) to a small fraction of devices made by any manufacturer, regardless of which OS is running. Here are a couple of examples online of sudden dramatic Pixel failures, which do not appear to be reports from GrapheneOS users:

Here is a semi-recent somewhat-similar event with a Samsung device:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS21/comments/uqnbv6/s21_black_screen_of_death_usual_solutions_not/