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Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on the buggy battery update

Google has thrown the Pixel 4a under the bus with a recent battery performance program, and now there's no way to get off.

To add insult to injury, Google wiped the older firmware as part of the update process, so there’s no official way to go back to the previous version. And if you were thinking about rolling back to an older version to fix things, Google just shut that door by pulling the download links for previous firmware. Someone on Reddit noticed that the only Android image you can get for the Pixel 4a is the new update that Google forced everyone to install in order to tackle unidentified battery issues (via 9to5Google).

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