Google Pixel 6a

Been using the phone alot for the past day. Few things about it bother me. Phone gets really hot while charging, I was video calling for about an hr on it and it also got seriously hot especially on the left side. The phone generally heats up even with casual use browsing the net etc. I know these tensor chips are known to get hot but this seems abit excessive. Seems this is a common thing with the 6a and the other 6 models since they all share the same processor.

The battery life is abit sketchy compared to my old Xiaomi 11 and it takes bloody ages to charge to. June 2023 security patch applied. Anyone else experience these issues ? In saying this the phone hasn't shown any over heating warnings and shut itself down, it performs really well, it just gets uncomfortably hot.

My 6 Pro was also very hot when I first got it. Was told it was normal and would right itself in a few days. And it did.

Charged my 6a to 100% last night, woke up this morning to find I had 56% battery left.... In battery usage it said "phone idle" had consumed 47% of my battery as I slept. Not sure what is going on here ?

Some times the health and activity trackers don't sleep.

From day one I did all the system updates to bring it up to latest security patch.

Do you have a link to that charger you got ? I'm using a Xiaomi 33w charger on mine and it takes a good 1.5 hrs to charge.

1.5hrs is about right. It will only take a max of 18w.

I factory reset my 6a, hasn't made a difference unfortunately. 10 minutes into a video call and the back and side of the phone is burning hot. The phone sat idle on the table here for the past hour and it lost 4% battery as it sat here with no interaction from me. Last night it lost over 50% of the battery sitting on a table. "Phone idle" is using massive amounts of battery and no one knows how to fix it. The phone was physically warm to the touch when I picked it up this morning after sitting on a table all night. I'm sort of giving up on it now, Google support are telling me to send bug reports and run the phone is test mode, all of which I have done with no real outcome. I need a reliable phone and I'm putting my sim back into my old trusty Xiaomi, never had any issues like this with any of the 5 Xiaomis I have had over the years. I'll hang onto the 6a and keep an eye online to see if any further updates solve the problem. Failing that I may send it off to google for them to take a look at it under warranty,

Maybe I got a dud

Update: Randomly disabling stuff on the phone to discover the source of the battery drain. There is an app called "Adaptive Connectivity" which was constantly sapping in the background. I disabled the app under system apps setting and now my battery is not draining over night anymore..... This app was supposedly added to the android 13 update. I now have normal battery life and have advised the above to google support. The phone still gets hot but runs cooler when disabling 5G and just using it on 4G which is fast enough data wise for what I use it for anyways. At least the phone is usable for me now.

You would think google themselves who invented the OS could get it right on their own phones. How is it that Samsung get android so finely tuned without issues ?

Samsung invented exploding phones and made a very good job of it... The proliferated the idea across the globe...

Yes they hardly ever burn the faces off their customers these days... & they didn't just bar one phone from flights... they were wholesale banned from most airlines. Also, they come with so much bloatware, I refuse to use one.

When I try to buy this phone off the Vodafone site, it makes me type my phone number in and then sends a verification code to my phone. Then it asks me to put in a date for when I want to switch to Vodafone. Is there anyway of buying this at €199 and bypass the whole switching over to Vodafone?