I agree entirely with that sentiment. With this absurd abandonment of the 4a, the constant reports of owners not being able to dial 911, and my 4a randomly deciding one day to go into “emergency mode” and begin calling 911 on its own (while the phone was in my hand, I was just checking email, finger was nowhere near the power button to activate “emergency mode”), and the fact that the feature gap between Android and iOS is becoming narrower and narrower, I am seriously considering going back to iPhone 🙄
It will take days or weeks for the rollout to complete. If you want it before then, you can download the OTAs and sideload them from here: developers.google.com/android/ota
Hasn’t Android had a thing for a while where it gives update priority to people who manually check for updates? Like, my phone (7a) didn’t say an update was available, but then I clicked the “Check for update” button, and now it said Android 14 is available.
So I don’t think anyone who really wants the update soon needs to sideload the OTA, just check for an update and you’ll probably get it.
I always do that. I think I only waited once, it notified me like 4 days later. But when I go into the settings and manually search for the update, it always gives me the update as soon as it’s announced.
I got my phone unlocked directly from Google, but I think it might still get held back based on my network. I’m not sure what the current state of this is. Historically at least, yes, it’s been a clusterfuck with US networks.
Just reporting in. Pixel 7 on T-Mobile and nothing yet. I tried that trick by turning off the SIM and checked over Wi-Fi too and nothing. I’ll get it when I get it, no big deal.
I tried sideloading an update several times earlier this year and just had a lot of problems. It kept failing half way through and I got annoyed and gave up. Back in the Cyanogenmod days I would flash updates almost every week. I’ve just reached a point where I don’t feel like messing with all that shit anymore. So I’ll wait. lol
Anyone by chance have the build number for the stable version?
I’m going to assume I didn’t get silently updated from the beta to stable (especially since it’s only now getting late over here, and OTAs normally only auto-install for me around 2AM), but I’d like to check just to be sure.
Ah, thanks! I am definitely not on that build yet then, looks like I’ll just wait for the OTA (or I suppose I could sideload it, but its not that big of a deal).
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