Charging problems on Pixel 6a since updating to 2025112101 QPR1

nandohyphen1

Novalissoide You have 3x P6a, what are their cyclecounts

Mine (main daily one) is at 152, my other ones at 83, and the last ones at 107.

Novalissoide did none of them report faulty bad battery and/or was any battery replaced?

None of them reported faulty battery and they all have the original battery (never replaced). They are all in almost brand new condition still.

Novalissoide I wouldn't fully rule out shifting to a different wall outlet in your home just to be thorough. My friend just solved her years long printer problem this way.

I have tried this as well. And still the problem occurs. I really don't know what it could be. My 3ft cable still charges my phone fine, but anything longer doesn't. Even a 4ft won't charge it. Maybe the next update will fix something.

Novalissoide

nandohyphen1 then this narrows down to that precious 3ft cable, if that cable works as expected on all your p6as, what makes it so special? Or do you believe it's merely that it is short enough? Get another short, does that follow that assumtion? Sorry if i've missed you might have already answered this.

nandohyphen1

Novalissoide It's hard to say. I've tried other 2-3ft cables and they all work. Its fine, but its weird that nothing longer works anymore - and inconvenient. I'm still used to using a 6ft cable, and I've yanked my 3ft out of the wall so many times now, since I forget I'm not using the 6ft cable. :)

Novalissoide

So much more easy now this got its own thread.

Novalissoide

nandohyphen1 just did roundup my c-c cables in my home, and only got 3ft or shorter so i can't reproduce 😒

nandohyphen1

@Novalissoide , I do want to thank you big time for taking the time to help. 👍🏻😀 Really appreciate it!!

Novalissoide

nandohyphen1 thanks, your welcome.

Carlos-Anso

Ive got good quality 2 meter leads one with a C the other A on the other end. Both work fine with my 6a

nandohyphen1

Carlos-Anso brookie229 yeah, its super strange that mine still won't charge with anything longer than 3ft. Maybe a future update will fix it? Fingers crossed.

brookie229

My 6a charges just fine on ALL my cables, including two 6 footers that I use the most.

Oh, my bad, however. I'm actually on 2100 not 2101!

nandohyphen1

I had my phone charging and I went to set it down because I was done using it, but I accidentally dropped it on the table (not far, maybe like 5-6 inches). It was plugged into the 6ft cable (still giving me issues) and it stopped charging after falling. I plugged it back in and it started charging again. As a test, I gently dropped it again and it stopped charging. I reproduced this with the 3 foot cable also. I really can't figure this one out!

de0u

nandohyphen1 As suggested two days ago (https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/28267-grapheneos-version-2025112100-released/193), I suspect a repair shop is likely to have an opinion. Has a repair shop been consulted?

nandohyphen1

de0u I suspect a repair shop is likely to have an opinion. Has a repair shop been consulted?

No, I have not yet as I live in a small town with no phone repair shops and I don't go to the city very often. I'll try and go to a repair shop next time I'm in the city if I have a chance. :)

de0u

nandohyphen1 I'll try and go to a repair shop next time I'm in the city if I have a chance.

Until then I suspect it makes sense to treat this as likely an issue with the USB-C hardware. It is very plausible that physical shock can influence the quality of the physical connection, and fairly unlikely that physical shock would influence the behavior of the charger, or the USB-C controller, or the relevant device driver.

And the particular hardware issue I would suspect -- especially since some cleaning of the port resulted in a partial improvement to charging -- is debris/grime in the port.