Google confirms its battery health feature won't come to older Pixel phones. Find out which devices will get it and which ones miss out.

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.
        • nosebleed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          6·
          1 个月前

          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.

          • 7empest@beehaw.orgEnglish
            0·
            1 个月前

            I am buying a second hand 6a tomorrow, and was thinking of installing graphene or lineageos on it.

            • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              1·
              1 个月前

              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.

    • fayoh@sopuli.xyz
      English
      7·
      1 个月前

      I bought the 8 pro in part for the promise of 7 years of updates. 😕

      I understand not everything can come to old phones, maybe it depends on a battery management system feature that is missing in the 8 hw? Otherwise I’m disappointed for sure.

      Edit: the missing hw was already in the comments… Read all comments before saying something 🤦‍♂️

      • limerod@reddthat.comOPMEnglish
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        1 个月前

        Maybe, google should’ve included the necessary hardware if it was going to bring the feature to pixel down the line. 7 yrs of updates with missing features does not inspire confidence in them.

        • HejMedDig@feddit.dkEnglish
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          1 个月前

          So you would like them to put hardware into a model, made before they decided to add said hardware? So how about any new hardware added in the next Pixel, should they also have put that into previous Pixels?

          Software updates will always have hardware limitations

          • limerod@reddthat.comOPMEnglish
            1·
            1 个月前

            Pixel 8 did not get the multi model Gemini update simply because it lacked the additional RAM needed for the LLM. Its the same with this feature. They brought battery health and charge counter in android 14.

            They could’ve bought this to pixel phones if google did not skimp on the hardware.

            Software updates will always have hardware limitations

            I know but, since they were going to work on this feature and had starting with android 14. It does not make sense to skimp on it for a year old hardware. Same with the RAM limitation on the pixel 8.