This Reddit User's Pixel 6a Reportedly Caught Fire, After Google's Update - What You Need To Know

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A small much than a period aft Google released an update to forestall nan Pixel 6a from overheating and perchance catching fire, a Reddit personification reports that it's happened again.

Last month, Google issued a package update that purposefully constricted nan 6a's charging capacity and performance. 

Over nan weekend, a Reddit personification posted a somewhat harrowing account of really they were woken up that greeting by a horrible smell and large noise. Their Pixel 6a, little than 2 feet from their face, was connected fire. The occurrence dispersed to their sheets, nan personification said, and damaged their AC unit. The personification besides complained astir their pharynx hurting nan remainder of nan time because they had inhaled toxic smoke. They also shared photos of nan severely charred device.

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The telephone was connected a third-party 45W accelerated charger.

According to later updates, nan personification did person nan update to forestall overheating but did not person their artillery replaced (they weren't adjacent to a walk-in repair shop). They besides explained that nan email from Google wasn't urgent capable and only encouraged them to "consider" a artillery replacement for a "performance update." 

In that aforesaid post, different personification reported their Pixel getting very basking erstwhile charging aft nan update erstwhile it didn't before. 

It's not conscionable nan Pixel 6a that's having artillery issues. The Pixel 4a had battery capacity problems that were truthful bad Google offered financial compensation to affected customers, and nan 7a had truthful galore battery swelling problems that nan institution instituted a typical extended repair program.

I recovered several different reports from different users saying their 6a devices besides caught connected fire, and plentifulness of reports of overheating.

If you person a Pixel 6a, you tin use Google's tool to cheque your eligibility for a artillery replacement aliases compensation. Affected users tin get a free artillery replacement positive $100 rate aliases a $150 in installments to nan Google Store towards nan acquisition of a caller device. 

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If you're still utilizing your 6a without a artillery replacement, it's astir apt a bully thought to complaint it pinch a slow charger and make judge it's not excessively adjacent to your furniture while charging overnight. 

I've reached retired to Google to inquire why Pixel 6a devices are apparently still having issues contempt nan personification having nan caller update and will update pinch its response.

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