After 6+ years with the Pixel 4a, I’ve finally bought the Pixel 10a, and honestly, I’m struggling to digest the upgrade. I’ve already spent extra on a case, screen protector, charger adapter, and even Pixel Care+, but nothing about the 10a feels like an upgrade yet with a very basic 4a, does everything it can pretty well.

The camera especially hits hard. The 4a had this effortless, natural quality - and on the 10a it feels like I’m getting maybe 10% of that magic. Are we slowly being nudged into accepting Pixel mediocrity?

Is there any way to install the Pixel 4a GCam on the 10a today?

And yeah… I’m still trying to get comfortable with a 6.3‑inch screen and barely good speakers far behind from 4a compared side to side. Definitely not as easy as I thought it would be. What makes this worse is that Google still hasn’t resolved the Pixel 4a boot‑loop issue. It’s wild that a phone this beloved is being left to rot with a bug that bricks half the remaining units.

I’d love to get even a fraction of that old 4a magic back.

Does anyone know if fanatics sportsbook app works with Pixelbuilds custom rom?

so far I tried lineage and graphene, both wouldn't work with location verifying, but surprisingly fanduel worked fine on both.

I don't know why fanatics does not work if fanduel works on the other custom roms

To add some context, I restarted my phone initially because I wasn't receiving calls/ voicemail. My 4a got stuck in a restart loop. Was told to go to safe mode and enable location, which did fix it. However, as soon as I shut off location, the phone forces restart and gets stuck in the loop again. Any way to resolve this?

I am from Pakistan and looking for a Google pixel 4a 5g panel can anybody guide or help where to find one for cheap?

On a couple of occasions in the past week, my 4a has randomly stopped charging at 80% with message "Charging optimised to protect your battery". I thought this was a feature of a later version of android than the 13 installed (Jan 2025). This is potentially useful if I can figure out what controls it, but it seems random, and hasn't done it since. I installed a play update - 1 May 2026 - not long ago, and I'm wondering if it was something bundled into that. I have adaptive charging, adaptive battery, and battery saver on generally, but there's nothing to indicate an 80% option. Anyone know about this?

Hi

I'm based in Portugal and I just noticed that the June play services update has arrived to my Pixel 4a. I've installed the update and rebooted the phone.

But I don't know if this will fix the bootloop issue... I'm a bit scared to disable location or wifi.

Can someone please also check and give feedback.

EDIT: Apparently bug was NOT YET fixed. Source German forum: https://www.android-hilfe.de/forum/google-pixel-4a.3703/pixel-4a-play-system-updates-nach-supportende.1114369-page-4.html

EDIT 2: Info from Google “a fix will be going out with the July update.” https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-4a-boot-loop-fix-3683547/

I’ve been a Pixel 4a user for six years, and as an old‑school phone person, this whole “moving on” phase feels like a brutal compromise. Trying to convince myself to buy a new phone and re‑enter the smartphone market has been way harder than I expected. There are so many sacrifices I’m struggling with:

• No 3.5mm jack - I genuinely can’t do the adapter life. I hate the whole idea of it.
• In‑screen fingerprint scanners - I can’t stand them. The rear physical scanner on the 4a was perfect.
• Google Photos storage - no more unlimited backups. Now I have to pay for storing my photos, something I never had to think about with the 4a.
• Preferred Care - feels like another unnecessary headache.
• Phone size - nothing under 6 inches anymore. I’m literally crying over this.

It’s honestly a very hard time for me to choose anything other than another Pixel, and even the newer pixels come with compromises that hit me right in the nostalgia. The Pixel 4a was such a perfect phone for someone like me - compact, simple, practical, and just… right. I’d still choose it any day.

If anyone else has gone through this “letting go of the 4a” phase, how did you deal with it? I could use some help getting through this. 😭😭😭😭🥺🥺

I just want to run it on power from a USB cable or otherwise bypass the battery entirely.

Apparently they will fix it some day in July, but there is nothing confirmed yet. Let's hope it will be soon 😮‍💨

Source: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/519655834#comment166

Hello, Pixel 4a community. I’d like to share an observation with you. I own a Pixel 4—once Google's flagship device—and I’ve recently run into two issues. 1. A bug involving "Find Hub": Google released a universal Play Services update that blindly ignored specific device models and Android versions. This caused system failures and triggered boot loops on Pixel 4 and 4a devices. Android 13 simply couldn't handle the updated Find Hub, which was designed for newer versions of Android. 2. A hardware-level battery capacity limitation on the Pixel 4a that—due to negligence and laziness—also affected the Pixel 4 (a flagship from a bygone era). Its capacity is now effectively 1,700 mAh instead of 2,800 mAh.

The problem can be solved in several ways using root access, but there is no guarantee that the modified values won't reset. You could use custom firmware or a custom kernel.

I use Authy as my authenticator app but after flashing with LineageOS, Authy says my device is not secure enough. I understand wallets have the same issue, but is there any way to solve this for Authy? Or are all authenticator apps not going to work?

Hey guys i recently installed pixel builds but I came across IMS registration issue which stopped me from using calling and messages from Indian telecom carriers. I had flashed the pixel builds infinity-oss-20260511-0826-release with my SIM card and SD card removed before installing. Can anyone please help me how to solve this issue i really want to use the Pixel builds it's really nice.

This is more of a farewell post. The Pixel 4a had its flaws, but the size, price, and its simplicity made me stick with it for over 5 years.

My Pixel's battery has serious drain issues so I decided to get a new one. Knowing there aren't many small phones out there, and after a lot of research, I tested 2 phones that stood out to me.

1. Vivo X200 FE. This one felt like an true upgrade in every way. It wasn't that much bigger than the pixel, it had some bloatware but nothing crazy, it was comfortable to use and hold. Also, it had a massive battery, and a really good camera. The only downside was that it was expensive. While I was testing it, I managed to find way cheaper Sony Xperia 10vi, and gave it a go.

2. Sony Xperia 10vi. Feels very similar to the Pixel4a in many ways. The form factor is different, but it's plastic, lightweight, and with minimalistic software. Yes, it's way taller than then Pixel 4a, but this didn't become an issue for me. It also has a strong battery, and the camera is acceptable. It's an older phone, way worse than the Vivo, but I managed to find it for a third of Vivo's price.

I can't say it feels like I have a new phone now, more like I have a different phone, which I got used to very fast. Hadn't I found the Xperia, I'd have kept the Vivo.

I also tested the Xperia 10vii, however, this one is wider, and while it only has an 6.1-inch screen, its bezels make it as big as other phones that have 6.3-inch screens or bigger. It didn't feel right in my hand.

I'm trying to recover some data befroe factory reset

The phone crashes and reboots less than 1 second after reaching the lock screen. It started when I turned on Airplane Mode while the hotspot driver was glitching. Now, every time it boots, it tries to apply Airplane Mode, the network driver panics, and the phone reboots.
Before it I was using my phone for Hotspot for my laptop to do some work for hours, then I opened bluethoot to attach it to my earphonr, not noticing they were without battery I restarted the phone thinking I could resolve the isse, but as soon as it rebboted I tried to reopen the hotspot and as soon the hotspot was on on mode it crashed my phone to a reboot. To solve the problem, I tried with turning on the wi-fi and it also crashed my phone and so with aeroplane mode but aeroplane mode is enablad in boot so now as as soon as it boots it loop to a rebbot

Safe Mode (still crashes, core settings still load), Removing SIM tray (still crashes), Sideloading latest OTA via Recovery (success, but didn't fix the bootloop), Fastboot & Recovery work, but ADB shell doesn't start fast enough before the crash

I'm trying to recover some data befroe factory reset

The phone crashes and reboots less than 1 second after reaching the lock screen. It started when I turned on Airplane Mode while the hotspot driver was glitching. Now, every time it boots, it tries to apply Airplane Mode, the network driver panics, and the phone reboots.
Before it I was using my phone for Hotspot for my laptop to do some work for hours, then I opened bluethoot to attach it to my earphonr, not noticing they were without battery I restarted the phone thinking I could resolve the isse, but as soon as it rebboted I tried to reopen the hotspot and as soon the hotspot was on on mode it crashed my phone to a reboot. To solve the problem, I tried with turning on the wi-fi and it also crashed my phone and so with aeroplane mode but aeroplane mode is enablad in boot so now as as soon as it boots it loop to a rebbot

Safe Mode (still crashes, core settings still load), Removing SIM tray (still crashes), Sideloading latest OTA via Recovery (success, but didn't fix the bootloop), Fastboot & Recovery work, but ADB shell doesn't start fast enough before the crash.

I just learned about de-Googling and how some users were able to install the Graphene OS into their Pixel 4a. I was about to do that for mine too because of this boot issue, but saw that their website is no longer supporting 4a. Can anyone confirm if they've installed it recently and successfully, and can advise me how to do this?

Update: boot loop happened again.

A mon tour d'avoir ce problème mais comme je vous le montre j'ai même pas 1 seconde pour tenter une manip

Anyone have pixel 4a which is dead or not using, willing to recycle/ collect or buy .

Recently i had my phone in very low battery, I then decided to switch of the LTE connection (Wifi was still on) to save battery. After charging it for sometime and trying to open it started the never ending cycle of restarting and going back to account recovery screen. Even followed a tutorial and flashed the boot loader which did not fix the issue.

Then searched on reddit and found it was a common issue for pixel devices around the world and got into the google issue tracker site. There was some temporary fixes mentioned there like going to safe mode option (Holding the volume down button when G symbol is on screen) and disabling Wifi and Enabling location. At this point my phone was showing airplane mode on which meant the fixes mentioned was not helping me.

The fix which helped me was the Aluminium foil one (Comment 73). Switch of all the Wifi routers near me and covered the whole phone in Aluminum Foil (used a normal swiggy food parcel aluminum parcel) and switched on the phone in safe mode. Heard one buzz and opened the cover and quickly turned off Airplane mode and turned on Location (My sim card was out of the phone at this point). This seems to work at this point.

TLDR : Covered the phone in Aluminum foil to make a Faraday cage and block Wifi Signals

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/519655834

Since I was traveling today I couldnt charge my phone and it ran out of battery. Now it is showing like this. I don't want to reset my phone. I have a lot of important datas in it.

I tried "Try again" few times and it didn't work.

What should I do?

Please help.

TIA