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I absolutely despise it when people say "should have known better" when companies mess up. Not everyone is going to spend weeks researching obscure information before buying a phone.
Ah yes, but it is the job of you, the consumer, to make sure you educate yourself about the products you buy. As the manufacturer, it's not my job to tell you anything about my product; except what I am legally responsible for divulging. It's your fault dear consumer, you didn't do your due diligence. Now, let me sell you another. /S
It's like when I got a Moto G4 just to realise it didn't have a compass
Wait, not every phone has compass hardware?
That's what I thought too.
I would have never even thought of checking that. That's very surprising.
Sounds like OP was aware the 5a had a known higher failure rate, ignored the reports and bought one anyway. Just doing a search for Pixel 5a comes up with results about motherboard failures. I've never seen that while searching for phones, so it must have been a significant issue with the 5a.
Someone looking for flashable phones is going to run into these results while choosing a device. I know everything about the phones I have - it's part of choosing a device.
I wouldn't buy a 5a knowing there's a higher-than-usual failure rate.
I should've known better when I flashed a phone and bricked it by not following proper procedure - I knew the risk and ignored it, like OP.
Uh, no. I had no idea that the phone had issues. You are the kind of person I'm alluding to in the post.