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Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess

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Some Google 's Pixel 4a phones are experiencing drastically reduced battery life after an uncommon update for an end-of-life phone.

Google did not explain why only certain devices were affected, but Hector Martin , of Asahi Linux on Apple silicon, has some guesses.

He says the update's binary kernel seems to have been built by a Google engineer "on their personal machine, not the proper buildsystem".

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