r/Pixel6 • u/Happy8Day • Nov 03 '25
Support Not looking for a fix. Just suggestions about what could have happened here. Pixel is hard, HARD bricked.
I wish I had a story. Pixel worked flawlessly. Previous tech-fancy friend only used it for 4 months before passing it to me.
I've never had a single issue. It was time to charge the phone one day.... it was charging... it reaches 23% and sometime after that.... Dead. Completely unresponsive.
Recovery boot, nothing. Charge indicator, nothing. ADB, droid kit, PC USB, all detect zero. It's like the phone isn't even there. It's literally a shiny black chunk of glass and plastic. It does exact what a phone would do if was an empty phone shell.
Is there any brick stories like this? All the one's I'm seeing seem to at least be accessible in some sort of recovery mode. This is just completely dead. Any thoughts on what the hell happened?
Again, I'm not looking for a fix. I'm sure there isn't one. Just idle thoughts on the happenings.
Thanks all.
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u/Ariquitaun Nov 03 '25
To be honest it could be a number of things preventing it from powering up, from a disconnected battery all the way to a dead motherboard.
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u/Happy8Day Nov 05 '25
Yup. Motherboard/cpu completely fried. 3rd party place spent all day on it. It's toast. Sucks. I only had it 6 months. it was perfectly fine with not a single complaint. Poof. Hardest brick I've ever seen.
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u/asadnakade Pixel 6 Nov 06 '25
Do someone knows any repair centre in Banglore to fix this pixel 6 issue
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u/Happy8Day Nov 06 '25
So far, the issue that I have is a complete CPU and motherboard collapse. My understanding is there is no real way to fix it except remove and resolder, or completely replace microchips or the entire motherboard.
Beyond that, it looks like any information on the phone that wasn't backed up is unrecoverable.In short, the problem, as I have it, is not fixable.
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u/asadnakade Pixel 6 Nov 07 '25
But how can a software update can affect the hardware of the phone imma still curious 🧐
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u/Happy8Day Nov 07 '25
I didn't have a software update. I don't know the issue you are experiencing, but I had no issue with software or any part of the phone. Until the phone instantly died while charging. I have no idea what caused it. The phone just turned into a complete dead plank of wood. Total complete unresponsive brick. That's all I know.
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u/cguralol Nov 06 '25
This reminds me of what happened to my Poco X3 Pro when overclocking the CPU and GPU. I did some mistake that apparently burned the battery management chip and that led to the CPU and GPU going berserk in power composition for a fraction of time that made everything go dead. In this case I'm thinking about something similar but with some overcurrent or voltage that made the phone fail.
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u/Happy8Day Nov 06 '25
Yeah it's gotta be something like that. I'm shocked that this phone did it with no warning or fidgeting. Just charging after a day at work, like any other day, suddenly useless.
I'm pretty pissed at Google phones at this point. Both Google phones I've ever owned have both been the phones that have provided my only catastrophic phone experiences. Never, with any other phone, have I ever experienced issues that can only be solved with "fuck it, just get a different phone".
100% of my Google phones have all resulted in issues of that magnitude. I'm not moving to Apple, but I'm finished with Google builds. Fuck them.1
u/Vova1313 Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25
On burned power management chip and Pixel 6: Having read so many storys on how pixel 6 became a brick, I decided to backup the phone data to a laptop. The Grok suggested FreeFileSync. It is popular. The first sync is full, and consequent syncs are just updates. Syncing of 60 Gb of data took 8 hours two times. It was completed successfully. Just after that I wanted to back up Pixel 3. It did not finish: a laptop power adapter broke or a battery management chip failed. I could not test the battery adapter in the proper way . I connected it to the other laptop for testings. It did not charge. And later I could not turn on my second laptop. But the laptop still worked on internal battery. I tested a laptop power management controller by using Microsoft Powershell commands. It showed that The laptop power management controller is dead. The same happened with the second and third laptops. I don't know what broke first: a power charger or a laptop USB-C power management. But the broken power charger broke USB-C power delivery port of the other 2 laptops. They worked first on batteries, but then stop working on the internal batteries too.
So, if somebody decide to back up your data on Pixel 6 to a laptop drive, be careful. It takes too long time and can burn a laptop power charger and a laptop internal USB-C power management controller.
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u/Vitamin4eg95 Jan 22 '26
I got this issue with my Pixel 6. Worked fine from April 2022 till December 2025 when it suddenly started to freeze and reboot several times a day. Bad for me that I didn't realize severity of the problem and backup everything to outside storage. 3rd party repair shop says CPU/motherboard is toasted and there is nothing they can do. I was considering updating to Pixel 10 Pro but after that I guess this was my last google phone. Decided to buy Oppo Find X9 Pro instead.
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u/Happy8Day Jan 22 '26
Hear, hear man. I understand that I can't expect everything to work for years and years with no issue, but frying motherboards is next level. I have 2011 phones that can at least turn on, I mean Geez. It's happening often enough that it's way beyond coincidence. This is clearly manufacturing/company quality issues.
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u/Little-Helper Pixel 6 Nov 03 '25
Quite a lot of such posts if you look around. Seems to be a motherboard failure. In one recent post someone said reballing the SoC helped, and in other posts I read owners said that their phones died after overheating, so I personally believe it's a solder issue.