This month is the final month of guaranteed major and security updates, and we already know Android 14 won’t land in the Pixel 4a (though it will in the Pixel 4a 5G as it has guaranteed updates until November).

So for those of you who own that phone, what do you plan to do with it? Are you going to keep using it for a couple more years without the updates? Install a custom ROM (which one?)? Or are you maybe planning to get a new phone (a Pixel?)?

If you still own an older Pixel phone, how are you keeping it alive?

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    1 year ago

    Install a rom that continues to receive updates

    Disclaimer: I’m a 15 year iPhone owner, so I don’t have practical experience with this, but this is the angle I’d be researching, were in your situation. Or considering an iPhone, lol, Apple is still updating 10 year old phones. Of course, I don’t expect this crowd to take that last comment seriously ;)

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            1 year ago

            Most of the services I use are on the web anyway, so the platform doesn’t block me from doing much.

            I’d like a little more root access for advanced automation, but the built in tools are getting better all the time.

            That said, I like the effort that app developers put into their products, and I prefer the hardware design. Personal preference type stuff.