Google addresses January Pixel storage bug with a short lived decision –

Google has issued a repair for the storage bug affecting Pixel units following the January Google Play System replace. The difficulty is stopping many Pixel house owners from accessing the inner storage on their telephones.

In keeping with Google, the bug can lead to “a number of apps crashing, screenshots not saving, and exterior storage working inconsistently.” The corporate says the difficulty is extra prevalent in units utilizing a number of consumer accounts or work profiles.

“We’re engaged on a repair for the foundation system replace challenge, and we are going to replace this thread when we’ve got extra particulars,” Google wrote in a group publish. “We’re sorry for the inconvenience this has induced, and we respect your persistence,” the corporate added.

Within the meantime, the Pixel maker has recommended a number of steps to revive storage performance to affected Pixel units with out inflicting information loss. Should you’re keen to check out these steps, you have to be comfy putting in and utilizing some developer instruments. You’ll additionally want a Home windows, MacOS, or Linux pc to finish the duty. Keep in mind, the duty is a bit sophisticated, however ought to repair the issue for you earlier than Google rolls out a extra everlasting repair.

Steps to recuperate storage performance on Pixel telephones

1. Allow ‘Developer choices’ inside Settings in your Pixel telephone by:

• Navigating to Settings > About telephone > Construct quantity
• Tapping the Construct Quantity possibility seven occasions till you see the message ‘You at the moment are a developer!’ This allows Developer choices in your system
• Go to Settings > System > Developer choices
• Beneath Developer choices, allow USB debugging

2. Join your Pixel telephone to your pc by way of USB-C cable.

• If the system reveals “Charging this system by way of USB,” faucet for extra choices and set it to “File Switch”

3. Click on right here to obtain Android’s folder of Platform Instruments to your pc, which incorporates the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) software.

4. After unzipping the downloaded folder, open your terminal/command immediate.

5. Inside Terminal/Command immediate:

• Change your working listing to the platform instruments listing you simply extracted the instruments to.
• Sort “./adb units” (“adb units” in Home windows) and press the Enter key.
  If the consequence inside Terminal lists your telephone as “Unauthorized,” — your Pixel telephone is probably going prompting you to permit USB debugging. Faucet Permit and retry this step in order that your telephone is listed as a “system” inside the Terminal
• Enter the next instructions in your Terminal, urgent the Enter key after every line:
  “./adb uninstall com.google.android.media.swcodec”
  “./adb uninstall com.google.android.media”

6. Disconnect your Pixel telephone out of your pc

7. Restart your Pixel telephone (your system would possibly disconnect from the community, that is OK)

• On Pixel 5a and earlier: Press your telephone’s Energy button for about 30 seconds, or till your telephone restarts
• On Pixel 6 and later, together with Fold: Press and maintain the Energy and Quantity up buttons on the similar time till your telephone restarts

8. Return your telephone and pc to their earlier settings:

• Flip off USB debugging
• Go to Settings and scroll to the System part (on Android 8 and above, go to Settings > System)
• Faucet Developer Choices.
• Faucet the button to toggle developer choices Off. USB Debugging is included within the Developer Choices

9. Cease advert”:

• Sort “./adb kill-server” in your Terminal window and press the Enter key. Exit the Terminal software.