Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 2 posts:

• "Happy Cakeday, r/GooglePixelC! Today you're 6" by u/AutoModerator
• "Anyone ever figure out the backlight issue?" by u/C0rdt

I had the typical issue where the backlight randomly stopped working. At first it would come back on and work for a while but eventually over the next week or sl it stopped entirely.
I could factory reset the device by shining a bright light at the screen to navigate there, and the display would work again during the wipe/reinstall process but once the actual system powered up it would go dark again.

So anyway I decided to try and remove the display from the case and mess with the ribbon cable or something just for kicks. But at some point during the process of heating the panel and trying to rip it off with a suction cup, the device lifted from the metal table I had it sitting on (the magnets really help with this lol) and at the same time the suction cup came loose and the device snapped back against the table hard.
After that I gave up on trying to disassemble it and powered it on one more time, lo and behold the display works! And it has worked ever since.

I guess what I am wondering is does anyone know what actually causes this issue? If not, does my experience with heat and/or shock somehow fixing the issue give any hints as to what it might be?

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 1 posts:

• "Happy Cakeday, r/GooglePixelC! Today you're 5" by u/AutoModerator

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "The perfect sticker came a week late. Who remembers #y2kbug" by u/indycrosstrek18
• "I got my pixel C real cheap online. Received it yesterday. But I'm having a major issue rooting it! Does any know a guide that I can use please! I've rooted so many phones and I don't know why I'm having so much trouble." by u/Marcocracy
• "Laggy Pixel C?" by u/Heavy_Messing1
• "Has Pixel C been purposedly broken by Google Play Services?" by u/blacklight86
• "Still worth it in 2020?" by u/casiburro
• "Pixel C battery issues" by u/XiosSabre
• "Battery not charging" by u/crmaki
• "Pixel C Keyboard symbols key suddenly changed function" by u/webb2800
• "Touchscreen unresponsive - can you unlock OEM (developer mode) without a touchscreen (with a mouse and adapter) ?" by u/Nohant
• "Password not working" by u/TheXenoPixel

UPDATE

I have bought a USB to USB C adapter and I could use a USB mouse directly without relying on the unresponsive touchscreen, this allowed me to:

• unlock developer mode
• enable OEM unlock
• install a custom recovery (TWRP)
• install LineageOS 17.1

Sadly touchscreen is still unresponsive... It's a shame since everything else works fine.

One could bet that the issue relies in the screen itself but I will not replace it. Guess I am kinda forced to look for a new tablet.

Thanks again for your help !

ORIGINAL POST

TL;DR

I am looking for a confirmation that you can indeed plug a USB mouse (with a USB to USB-C adapter) into your Pixel C and that it works without further manipulation in order to work around a touchscreen unresponsiveness issue.

Longer version:

Hello there,

Quite similar to this post my touchscreen went unresponsive a week ago. Rebooting fixed the issue only one time, I rebooted countless times since then and I could not get to work again.

According to the previous post, the issue could be software related, that would be neat, I would just need to install another Android distribution and check if this works (my current pick is LineageOS).

But, unlike this post, I can't flash my stock Android since OEM is not unlocked. In order to unlock it, you have to go into the settings and click the build number 7 times, but to do so, you need a responsive touchscreen...

Now, I've seen that you can plug a USB mouse to your Pixel C, does it work out of the box (in a plug and play manner) with a USB to USB-C adapter?

If so, I just need to buy a adapter and not a new tablet. Luckily so, because I like my Pixel C very much and I wouldn't know what a good replacement could be, but I digress that's the matter for another thread...

Thanks in advance for you help !

additionnal informations:

• Bootloader version: Google_Smaug.7900.121.0
• Android verison: Android 8.1.0 (can't verify it but I patched to the last OTA update some months ago)

EDIT

My main concern is a yes/no question and have already been answered at the time of this edit, but if you have any success (or horror) story on installing a custom android distribution on a Google Pixel, feel free to share!

(knowing that installing a custom android distribution is at my own expense, but I can't really go worse on my daily tablet usage than my current situation)

I've had a Pixel C since early 2016. It has been done its job amazingly for years, until a few months ago, when the touchscreen started experiencing some of the glitches later reported by many users on the web.

At first, I thought it was an intermittent hardware issue and dismissed it, but over time the device started to experience more and more of these display "ghost touches". They'd shortly go away on device reboot, sometimes the device would be usable for a few minutes, but then always become nearly unusable at some point. It's like the display gets some random touch inputs that get in the way of your interaction.

I've got some time lately to wipe the stock Android image and install LineageOS 17.1. The touch interface from the custom recovery image didn't experience any issues, although I used it for more than an hour in a row. Weird, right?

The problem is that the touchscreen issues came back within 1-2 minutes after I installed the latest GApps zip. Again, weird.

Nevermind, it could just be a malicious correlation drawn from my side. So I wiped the device again, flashed the LineageOS image again, this time without installing the GApps, and decided to give it a ride. I used the fresh OS image without the GApps for 2-3 hours, tapping around, playing with settings, installing some APKs, even playing media, all without issues. Ok, the whole thing could have been a huge glitch, I thought. Maybe I could try and install the GApps again, because without Google Services I can't even use an alternative browser nor sign in to many of the apps I use. So I rebooted into TWRP recovery, flashed the GApps and rebooted.

And there you go. Before even going through the first two Google setup forms, the glitches were back. After the fourth coincidence, I can't believe the hardware glitch story anymore, and I strongly suspect that at some point Google purposely pushed an update to break these devices - or maybe they didn't do it on purpose, but they didn't bother to fix anything.

Has any of you guys gone through such issues already? I consider myself quite tech-savvy, so I don't mind wiping the device and installing Ubuntu Touch or Arch Linux, or any other Linux distro, if it could at least make the device usable again, but the reports I've read so far mention major issues with camera, Bluetooth interface or sound. Since I'm planning to still use this device as a daily driver at least at home (the hardware still works great despite its age), I don't feel like going for a half-baked solution. Has any of you guys tried installing Linux on the device? But, most importantly, is anyone aware of any unannounced "planned obsolescence" program on Google's side for these devices? This device still feels premium in 2020, and with 3GB of RAM and an octa-core NVidia it can still be used smoothly in many applications, I feel that it's unfair to toss it away just because Google doesn't care for it anymore.

The tablet has been working fine, although it is sluggish at times when battery is low. The table runs stock android supplied by google.

Today I plugged in to charge with the keyboard attached for charging. Sometime later I went to check and the tablet had shutdown and the battery was showing 0%. Now after additional charging the battery never seems to go above 0%. As soon as I disconnect the charger it shuts down.

Has anyone seen/heard of anything like this? Did my battery just give up the ghost?

Im planning on buying a brand new pixel c for 115 dllrs on ebay. Is it worth it? are the ROMs easy to install? thx

This just happened and I don't know why. I have a pattern to unlock my pixel c and it just stopped working for some reason. When I restart the pixel c and it asks for my password it works then, but when I actually try to unlock it the pass doesn't work. How can I fix this?

The post on page 2 on 67% battery level really helped me. Pixel feels brand new after flashing this custom ROM.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel-c/help/laggy-pixel-c-updates-t3773877/page2

Hi all,

I've had my pixel c for years now and never really had any major issues with it, but all of a sudden the '...' key on my pixel keyboard has stopped working like it used to. Before, I could press it to bring up the virtual keyboard which was really useful for getting to various symbols and extra characters. Now it just brings up the emoji keyboard. It seems to be tied with the setting 'emoji with physical keyboard' in the virtual keyboard advanced settings, although disabling this just stops the '...' button from doing anything. I'm on the UK keyboard with the UK layout setting - always have been.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated, thanks

So I just got the Sennheiser momentum 3 wireless headphones and my pixel C can't find them, when using the app that goes with the headphones, or without it in Bluetooth settings, the headphones won't show up. I have another set of Bluetooth headphones that can connect without any problems.

Dose anyone have any suggestions?

As far as I am aware Bluetooth is backwoods compatible so I don't think the version should be causing this issue. But I could be wrong.

Thinking about buying one but it's so old and I'm worried about performance. Does it still perform well? Many old tablets perform very badly now.

Edit: Any idea on what the official accessories are and where I can still get them?

I flahsed twrp-3.3.1-0-dragon.img into my Pixel C. Wiped everything. When I tried to use sideload to install ROM, I noticed the error message

Failed to unmount '/system' (Device or resource busy)

I tried different versions of TWRP but keep getting this error. And I can't install any ROM now. Anyone knows the solution? Many thanks!

Hey guys I bought a Pixel C yesterday ! But I knew tha Pixel C will no longer recieve official support from Google. I wanna know which ROM provides best experience for Pixel C in 2019 ? I use this tablet for PDF&EPUB reading, movies and photo editing with Snapseed. Wanna have good battery life and fluency.

Edit: Thanks guys! I decided to try LineageOS.

Did anyone here catch the surface Neo? The first thing I thought was “dang, this looks like a evolved Google pixel C”

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20889000/microsoft-surface-neo-windows-10x-hands-on-features-price-photos-release-date

Any thoughts?

Long time lurker here.

Just want to say that my Pixel C is still working. I still haven't figured out what to do with my tablet ever since I purchased it, but now it's my daughter(4)'s gaming tablet. She's having fun with all those Dr. Panda games (got them free during sale), occasional finger drawings, and I hope she'll soon start playing those coding games I just installed for her.

Hope I didn't jinx it. I'll buy a much lighter tablet next time though - Pixel C is just too heavy to use as reading tablet on the go.

I loved my Pixel C tablet but the touchscreen has simply stopped working. It's in perfect condition, hasn't been near water or dropped at all. Hard reset didn't work and UbreakIFix can't do anything about it as they don't have parts. Sooooo do I concede and try to recycle? Keep and use with a mouse??? Tablet is barely 2 years old, so mad given the price I paid.

I only use it for Netflix/streaming. Recommend a fire tablet instead? Not looking to pay near what I paid for this.

So disappointed in Google for their lack of support with this product!

Thought it would be good for watching YouTube/netflix. I also tried finding the keyboard but there weren't many places that were still selling those. Anyone here know where I can find one?

ps-I got the pixel c on eBay!

Android 10 launches today on supported platforms and, of course, the Pixel C is not supported...

Hello,from where can i buy an screen for google pixel c?

I've been running the latest (last?) June build on my rooted Pixel C, but just now got a notification for a security update. Has anyone else gotten this, installed it, and could comment on any changes?

I've had a pixel C and I'm having some issues with my display, so I'm trying to see if I can get it fixed by google (since they are the manufacturer) but when I go to their website, I only see Pixel Phone supports. Does anyone know a channel I can contact them and hopefully get this fixed. Or am I screwed since the model is now discontinued?

I have finally got to a point where this lovely device is not an every day carry. I have the keyboard, all original packaging and the original UK charger, although I could change this for a Pixel 2 US charger if required. How much are they going for, I don't want to over charge, but it's in mint condition!