I find that I wear out the charging port before the battery. I don't even plug it in that much either.

But non-tech people aren't buying Faiphones, but whatever they're pushing at the Verizon store.

I had a Fold 3, and while I loved the form factor, the battery was shit.

The screen got broken, and I decided to upgrade to a Fold 6 so far I'm very impressed. I took it off the charger in my car at 100% on Wednesday night around 10pm, and put it back on the charger at 11:30pm Friday with 15% left.

48 hours with moderate usage (including some gaming and YouTube) is pretty good.

I guess the answer to at least one of those is no. Last time I tried a battery replacement, I broke the screen either during assembly or disassembly. I build my own desktop PCs, and have fixed laptop monitors and drives, but every time I attempt hardware repair on something phone-ish, I make it worse (even going back to when I owned an OpenMoko).

Sorry, no way I am going back to Samsung. I had the A71 and it was a TERRIBLE smart phone. I switched to the Pixel 6 and it was night and day.

I just need to get off my ass and install Graphene.

You haven't had to touch the screen on a Samsung phone since like the S6, every model after that opens from the back.

Your pixel 5 didn't just mysteriously die? There was a wave of them dying. Mine was part of the crossfire.

I loved the pixel 5 too, for like 3 years then mysteriously croaked.

Currently on the pixel 6 which is pretty good.

try a magnetic charger. it may look a bit off leaving the usb-c part plugged into the phone, but there's way less wear or lint

it's well worth it and quite easy with the WebUSB installer

The Pixel line is comparable to the Samsung S line, you got a budget phone before

Or wireless, I've used both for years

Can confirm my pixel 6a battery went to dogshit this week. Almost feels like it's more the update than anything with the battery.... but I guess I'll be learning to switch battery and finally going back to lineageos

Magnetic USB cables are usually dogshit though. They are not defined in the USB spec, so it's the wild west out there.

Yeah so?... They still managed to break it because battery replacement in a phone is not as easy as pop off the panel and replace.

I've had my Pixel 5 since around the time the 6 came out. The battery life isn't great, but I can get by just fine. Maybe Samsung phone batteries are better, but before this I had a Samsung Galaxy. The battery on that was no better. I know this is anecdotal, but I don't plan to switch when my 5 croaks.

Yeah they sent a communication to pixel 6a owners saying that they will force an update that will reduce battery usage.
In case you did not know, Google is providing a 100$ check, or 150$ discount on their store for 6a owners.

Yup, got my 100$ yesterday -it is anti-lawsuit stuff but will cover the cost of fixing a new battery

Funny enough, I had the complete opposite experience. I didn’t necessarily use Samsung then either, but I would get the phone that was normally rated the best or highly reviewed. I think i came from an LG to the first pixel phone. Pixel was the first phone to ever give me issues. Felt it vibrate one day in my pocket and I looked at it a few min later and it was in permanent boot loop. Tried a lot of things, but my one regret was forgetting to turn on developer options with the usb so essentially the phone was bricked. I couldn't access it or do anything, everytbing was lost and support was no help and told me they couldn't replace it. Last time I used them. I also wasn't a fan of how hard they tried copying an iPhone at the time. Since them I've mostly used a Samsung either the Note and now the higher end galaxies and love them. Only thing I dislike is their own line of apps for everything that I disable immediately.

I just upgraded to the 9 and assume it's scraping every bit of data it can from me. I will do it this weekend.

My 6a is over 3 years old and still strong. I had no Samsung battery that lasted under a year and a half.

GrapheneOS though.