Australia’s regulatory agency has recalled the Pixel 4a over a battery overheating risk. This is the first time we’re learning why Google rushed out the Pixel 4a’s Battery Performance Program update, ...

The Pixel 4a’s battery program made some batteries worse, and now Google has scrapped older updates. You either get a new device or replace your battery. Editorial Note: Talk Android may contain ...

In announcing the Pixel 4a Battery Performance Program in January, Google was vague about why it was releasing the update, but an Australian “Project Safety Recall” has now confirmed it’s to “mitigate ...

The big picture: Google unexpectedly released a firmware update for the Pixel 4a smartphone earlier this year. Many users reported that the update made their devices unreliable or even unusable, ...

Google didn’t explain exactly why it shipped a mandatory software update to the Pixel 4a, an Android phone from 2020, earlier this year. The nature of that update, which gave some models all but ...

A recall notice from an Australian safety regulator has confirmed the reasons behind the unexpected Pixel 4A update. A recall notice from an Australian safety regulator has confirmed the reasons ...

WTF?! A few years after discontinuing the device, Google unexpectedly released one more update for the Pixel 4a budget phone. While the company anticipated a "shorter" battery life after the update, ...

A Reddit user spotted that the only available Android image for Pixel 4A phones is this month’s mandatory update Google issued to address unspecified battery problems, reports 9to5Google. That’s ...

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The Pixel 4a is among Google's oldest smartphones still in circulation today. It may not have the latest hardware today, but ...