The storage-related challenge that originally appeared to have an effect on solely Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro house owners, turned out to be an enormous one with disastrous penalties certainly. Triggered after updating to the newest Android 14 software program, which was launched early October for Pixel telephones, the software program appeared to lock customers out of their telephone’s native storage, rendering them unusable. While some customers may nonetheless get to their homescreens, others weren’t as fortunate, because the Android 14 replace put their telephones into a continuing reboot loop (generally often called a bootloop). Now, greater than a month later, Google has began rolling out a patch that it claims will repair the difficulty, however it’s not as straightforward because it appears.
As per ArsTechnica, the bug which may nearly be termed as ‘ransomware’ will solely save the primary set of customers who can nonetheless activate and entry their smartphones. Such customers will not less than be capable to obtain and set up the newest safety patch and be capable to get well the native knowledge saved on their telephones, which till now was not accessible due to the bug. However, this isn’t the case for these whose handsets are in a bootloop as such a tool will have to be erased utterly and up to date with the newest firmware to keep away from going again into such a state as soon as once more. This additionally signifies that customers affected by the bootloop won’t be able to get well their native knowledge, which will likely be misplaced eternally.
The safety replace patch notes that the storage bug challenge impacts a lot of telephones together with the Pixel 6, Pixel 6a, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, and even Google’s newest Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro smartphones.
As per the report, the identical bug-ridden Android 14 replace was nonetheless being seeded by Google till a number of days in the past, which is unusual as a result of Google normally pulls the plug on problematic updates. And that is normally the explanation for staggered roll out for all updates.
The storage bug certainly will go away lots of Pixel house owners livid about how the model has left them stranded, with Google themselves unable to discover a viable answer to the issue they helped create. And all of it factors to the truth that smartphone knowledge backups are vital particularly should you occur to retailer lots of knowledge off the cloud and bodily in your smartphone and even should you simply favor to have issues that approach.
