Stetsed 
Well, yesterday my #googlepixel4a just decided to say "Today is a good die to die", so after having it for nearly 4 years the screen broke in the worst way possible.
Screen is completly black and unresponsive however the rest of the device works fine and I know this because it still gives me a little "thung" when I try to fingerprint it which I know is it saying "Please enter pin code before using fingerprint authentication"
After spending a couple hours(rougly 5-6) on it attempting to access it via anything I could think off, I ran into a roadblock where to access it via anything I need USB debugging enabled(Okay not an issue), but even to plug in a keyboard using #otg I need to click okay on a prompt from what I could find as it didn't register any keypresses so I couldn't use scrcpy to mirror the screen because I can't verify my device for USB debugging.
And replacing the screen would be a 100
So it seems like my old pixel which has served me very well for a very long time has breathed it's last breath, which is very unfortunate as I was planning to replace it with an iPhone 15 anyway after #wwdc because ofcourse apple will almost definetley announce the iPhone 16 which means 15's would have dropped in price.
So guess we call that a forced migration of production infrastructure during an unexpected time period, luckily I was able to pick the new one up this morning after having the pixel die yesterday so I was able to get everything setup again.
I did however lose all my Whatsapp messages because I forgot to setup backups when I was redoing that... so as always remember #BACKUPS BACKUPS BACKUPS, and even if you have them test them to make sure they work. Didn't lose anything valuable as I don't store anything on my phone but this definetley shows to be prepared and make sure you do have backups. #backups #phonerepair #android #iphone
Screen is completly black and unresponsive however the rest of the device works fine and I know this because it still gives me a little "thung" when I try to fingerprint it which I know is it saying "Please enter pin code before using fingerprint authentication"
After spending a couple hours(rougly 5-6) on it attempting to access it via anything I could think off, I ran into a roadblock where to access it via anything I need USB debugging enabled(Okay not an issue), but even to plug in a keyboard using #otg I need to click okay on a prompt from what I could find as it didn't register any keypresses so I couldn't use scrcpy to mirror the screen because I can't verify my device for USB debugging.
And replacing the screen would be a 100
So it seems like my old pixel which has served me very well for a very long time has breathed it's last breath, which is very unfortunate as I was planning to replace it with an iPhone 15 anyway after #wwdc because ofcourse apple will almost definetley announce the iPhone 16 which means 15's would have dropped in price.
So guess we call that a forced migration of production infrastructure during an unexpected time period, luckily I was able to pick the new one up this morning after having the pixel die yesterday so I was able to get everything setup again.
I did however lose all my Whatsapp messages because I forgot to setup backups when I was redoing that... so as always remember #BACKUPS BACKUPS BACKUPS, and even if you have them test them to make sure they work. Didn't lose anything valuable as I don't store anything on my phone but this definetley shows to be prepared and make sure you do have backups. #backups #phonerepair #android #iphone