TL;DR
- Android’s long-awaited Battery Health menu has arrived in Android 16 Beta 3, but only for the Pixel 9 series and the Pixel 8a.
- Google has confirmed that older Pixels, including the not-so-old Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, will not receive this feature.
- The decision is due to unspecified “product limitations,” leaving aging device users without means for native battery diagnostics.
Pretty disappointed with Google dropping support of their own products like this.
The cycle of planned obsolescnce continues
Been really happy with support and updates from Graphene. Pretty simple nontechnical installation most users are capable of and no dodgy rooting/unlocking required. All supported officially with pixel line of phones. My banking apps etc all work fine because of this.
I am buying a second hand 6a tomorrow, and was thinking of installing graphene or lineageos on it.
I run 5’s with Lineage. Because they’re so cheap I have 3, one for testing, one as a hot spare.
Still cost less than a new phone.
Yeah the 6a will be my spare to my 7 pro
I’m still rocking my pixel 5 because it works and the battery lasts me a full day if not more. I should probably look at loading graphene onto it.
They literally sold the 8 on the promise of 8 years of support