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==Add pictures suggestion== :since the article states "While there is widespread speculation about a battery manufacturing fault", I suggest adding pics from "https://old.reddit.com/r/Pixel4a/comments/1hxyp6z/certainly_seems_battery_defectrelated_vs_planned/" as further motivation for such speculation. :Google doesn't normally require such special "box for defective lithium ion batteries" to mail-in phones for repairs (some users said in the comments this might just be good practice and business as usual when sending phones for repair but it's really not), so the reasoning for doing it this time around seems clear enough to me and would add very strong evidence to this speculation. :Samsung sent out a very similar box (https://www.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Note-7-return-kit.png) when the note 7 thing happened. :I'd also maybe add a seventh point in "Criticism by Community" about users reporting their battery percentage indicator stop working entirely, and in point 3. imo it should be made more clear that a payoneer account with full personal info (including social security number) must be created by the user (potential security/privacy issue), I know there's already the "account fees" part but in the way it's written it's not clear the user has to make a proper account in the first place. :Maybe I should've made this edit myself, but english isn't my native language, I don't think i'm very good at writing formally in cases like this, and just didn't feel comfortable messing with other people's excellent work. :Wow, I was not aware of the pics from the first one. In that case, whether this is actually a battery fault or just planned obsolescence still seems to be anyone's game at this point. Neither look good for Google. I'll reword that paragraph then to be more neutral. :As for the percentage indicator, I read a lot of people saying it stopped working, then started working again, which to me indicates that the indicator just paused while the battery drained under the newly implemented limit. I don't find that noteworthy enough to include, I guess. :Thank you for your suggestions, I'll get to editing soon. [[User:ZenithHelix|ZenithHelix]] ([[User talk:ZenithHelix|talk]]) 18:32, 19 January 2025 (UTC) ::I implemented the edits. [[User:ZenithHelix|ZenithHelix]] ([[User talk:ZenithHelix|talk]]) 19:59, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
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