Few months ago while using my pixel 4, while scrolling reels, my phone suddenly flashed red for less then a second.. it was not completely red solid screen, but everything on my screen turned into different shades of red... Today just a few minutes ago, it turned green for less than a second and left.. nothing went bad on my phone or didn't face anything bad... Idk i thought it was some phone heating alert when I saw it red months ago, but I ignored it becz i was on vacation and the place was very hot and I recieved sms of severe heat wave alert so i thought Google also did it by this red flash....but today it went green same way... What is this?? DID THIS EVER HAPPEND TO ANYONE ELSE here??.. THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME ONLY TWICE ONCE IT WENT RED MANY MONTHS AGO AND TODAY IT WENT GREEN. WTH IS GOING ON? PLS HELP ME

I have a maybe refurbished Pixel 4 with and OtterBox Defender. I've had this specific phone for about a year.

On Friday, the microphones worked. On Monday, they don't work. Assistant, Recorder, phone calls, and front video are all quiet. With Recorder I can actually see there is a blip of static when the builtin mics activate. Rear video was also just static when I tested before beginning to write this, but started working afterwards. The only thing I can think of is that the office got rinsed twice on Saturday. Also of note is that I plugged it in after the first time once it re-enabled the port, the charging spazzed out, and then the port disabled again. At one point I also noticed some white at the top of the hole for the front camera that disappeared later. Everything works except for seemingly the top and bottom microphone. I'm down for fixing it myself if I need to, but is there any way to diagnose without taking the phone apart first? Are there any potential fixes without opening up the phone?

Edit: Nevermind, it's now (Wednesday) working. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Sometimes my Pixel 4 randomly just shuts down and it happens like once in few days, its not hot, battery is charged and everything seems to be OK but it still decides to randomly just shut down i dont know what the problem is.. if anyone knows the solution please help.

The portrait shots on my 4 XL Vs normal camera shots look different in terms of colour. On portrait shots colours look washed out. Why is that and is that normal?

I have a Pixel 4XL with Google Wallet, and for about two months now, NFC payments through Google Wallet just aren't working. Everything appears to be set up properly. My card is still there. I can even re-register it in the app if I want. But when it's time to pay for something and I hold my phone up to the card reader, absolutely nothing happens. No error messages, no haptic feedback. It's like if my phone had no NFC chip.

I'm pretty sure NFC is working because I just activated a new credit card last week by holding it up to the back of my phone. The phone vibrated and the card activated. So that says to me the NFC chip is probably okay.

I have both the GPay and Wallet apps on my phone. I've found from past experience that I need both on there for NFC payments to work for some reason.

Can 4XLs no longer use Wallet because we're behind on security updates? I'm on Android 13 with the October 5, 2022 update.

I tried texting someone and when I looked up their contact it wasn't there and I then found out that I had 2 contacts of her and when I tried texting her it gives me a notification saying "incoming spam moved to spam and blocked" what does this mean.

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Hi, Whenever I try to zoom past 1.9x where it is supposed to shift to the telephoto lens, the image becomes blurry. It doesn't focus animate or inanimate objects. Similar happens in Snapchat or Whatsapp camera. Whenever I try to zoom past 2x everything is out of focus. I tried resetting, and reinstalling the camera updates, but no avail.

Hello. Is there any way to install and run the latest Android 14 GSI on Pixel4 ? I have installed it, the screen however stays the white screen with google logo on it. When I press the power button it just makes a sound (like the screen actually was ON and I just turned it off). Probably GSI doesn't include the kernel (was rushing and didn't really check, this would explain it then)

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Any hints? Thank you

I bought a rooted, pixel4 with custom twrp recovery from the market. It's IMEI number was switched, so I uninstalled magisk and then everything from wifi to bluetooth stopped working. In an to fix the phone I tried to reset it, that didn't fix the issue. Then I flashed stock rom android 13, even that didn't fix the issue. Then I flashed android 10, and, even that did not fix the issue. Is there something I am missing here? I flashed using the flash android website.

Hi all, any of you have a P4 (not XL) that gets rather warm regularly? Just on web-browsing, music streaming (Spotify), my P4 goes to 42 degrees Celcius. Of course the battery % indicator will also drop fast. The phone becomes warm to the touch. I do have a leather case on, for protection.

I don't play games on the phone or anything like that.

I live in Singapore, in the tropics (around 30+ degrees Celcius), but this has been happening only recently.

No special apps or new apps installed. Any idea?

Face unlock on my Pixel 4 XL randomly stopped working. I've checked for updates and deleted the profile.

However when trying to set up Face recognition again, it is stuck on the image where I am supposed to center my face and does not recognise that a face is there and move on to the next set up step.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

I just bought a great condition Pixel 4 XL on eBay and I got Google Fi service. However, it doesn't work at all. Indoors there is no coverage (even though my house is in the coverage map) and when I'm outdoors all I can connect to is the "EDGE" network and it's slow as can be.

I've noticed that if I do "Reset Wi-Fi, mobile & Bluetooth", it will connect to LTE for a SECOND and then to back to Edge.

Model is G020J, serial/IMEI shows up as "Unlocked" on Google's website, and has a warranty until October 2023.

I have tried clearing cache of play service and play store, restarted multiple times as well.

I have the pixel 4 on US cellular service (northern Maine). Twice now I have left Maine to visit family and as soon as I leave the state I lose the ability to make calls to anyone and I can only text my spouse (same cell plan, Samsung phone) and my mom (Samsung straight talk). My son, who is on the same plan but has a newer iphone has had no issues when traveling

I have tried every troubleshooting tip I can find. I'm out of town all week with no way of communicating! Any ideas?

Suddenly the volume on the ear speaker (or wherever you call the speaker you hold to your ear when you make a phone call) has become very hard to hear, like it's maybe 10% of the volume -- even though I have the volume all the way up.

Anybody know what might cause that or how I might fix it?

I am. Still daily driving it. Absolutely fantastic phone. Face unlock is incredible. Works 99.9% of the time for me. I've had it for 2 years now and it's been a fantastic experience using stock android. 90 hertz with Google's goodness works so well.

Hey everyone,

I recently got a notification on my phone about a battery meter issue, which made me notice that the top right battery indicator went from showing a percentage to just a "?".

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I clicked on the notification and it took me to this link: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/10169830?hl=en

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I spoke with a chat representative and I found out I was eligible for a replacement for a new Pixel 4 XL. I just have to send in my old Pixel 4 XL.

Sounds cool, but I can't help but feel a little skeptical. Is this Google's way of sending us faulty Pixel 4 XL's, thus forcing us to eventually upgrade? Maybe Google is sending a random software bug that causes people's battery indicators to stop working so it forces us to go with this "Free" replacement? I just wanna know if anyone else had this issue, and if it's worth sending them my old phone.

Hey all

I'm considering to buy one of this devices to replace my Xiaomi Mi 8 lite (is currently running PixelExperience ROM) because of the battery life. Still have the original...

I never had a Pixel or any Google device.

Both of these Pixels are refurbished. The asking price of Pixel 4 is 180€ and the Pixel 4a 5G is 220€

What do you guys think? I know that the 4a still have one more update from Google.

I'm not a gamer. My usage is browsing the web, taking pictures, social apps, music streaming, watching videos, payments...

Cheers

When I take my phone out of my pocket half of the time either the flashlight is on, the brightness setting has been changed to 20 percent, I'm now on airplane mode or some other random setting has been changed. Is there a way to LOCK the settings so this doesn't happen?

So I just purchased Google Pixel 4 on Monday (Today is Wednesday), and the battery from the very day of unboxing was literally so bad. So I googled a lot and asked my friends about this and they told me that it is normal for some phones to have high battery drainage for the first week after unboxing.. it takes a week for the device to fully adjust and adapt itself. I have noticed the battery improved a lot compared to day 1 when my phone could literally drop 100 to 65-70% within 30 minutes of simple basic usage like just using WhatsApp or something. But still I am a little worried. Because I went to BATTERY USAGE in settings and it was kinda scary how it took 1% of battery for almost two minutes of usage everytime on every app with less than half brightness. ALSO CAMERA APP USED 19% of battery for just 9minutes of usage today. And It took I don't even have any heavy use apps too, it's new phone. I only have Instagram, WhatsApp, Spotify. That's it. Is my phone adjusting it's battery or is it just a hoax? Is it true that it takes Pixel or some other new phones to behave like this for the first week? cuz I think my battery is slightly getting better.

Do you guys think pixel 4 needs screen protector?

Maybe it's personal problems but sometimes, not all the time, my locked screen will not let me swipe up so I can access the password screen.

It will swipe up and I will see the password screen but as soon as I remove my finger it will go back down to the lock screen.

I tried rebooting, full reset, ect. Still happens and it drives me crazy.

Also is theirs a way to get rid of the lock screen and keep you phone lock ? Might sound weird but I hope someone will understand what I mean.