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my pixel 3 power button flipped out on friday and kept repeatedly pressing itself.
you know what happens if you press the power button rapidly 5+ times... the phone automatically calls 999. (i had this feature specifically turned off but the phone doesnt seem to care).
if it wasn't trying to phone the emergency services the power panel would open and close repeatedly and then get stuck in a reboot loop for about 10 minutes before powering up and if you so much as breathed on the power button repeat the whole thing all over again.
during one of its quieter moments I confirmed i had a recent backup and factory reset it. except it didnt fix it and restoring a phone that reboots every 2 minutes is not fun. also I thought my 2fa accounts stored in GOOGLE authenticator would be backed up... nope. so I am locked out of pretty much every important account I own until i figure out how to reset the 2fa on each.
at one point I turned the phone off and went to the bathroom, came back out to a voice telling me they couldn't free the line until i confirmed it wasn't an emergency. fuuuuuuuuck. the fucking thing turned itself on and called the emergency services. at this point it was going batshit nonstop and I couldn't even hang the calls up when they started because the interface was going mental faster than it could register the touch inputs. taking the sim out obviously did nothing either.
out of desperation I smacked the phone as hard as I could on the table and something unjammed and managed to get it into airplane mode.
got a pixel 6 coming today which is £400 I wasn't planning on spending this month but this has made me realise how central my phone is to literally aspect of my life now so skimping on a handset would be a false economy now.
have to let the battery die on the pixel 3 before I can do anything else with it so it doesn't make any unwanted calls and then I may give it a ceremonial "office space"ing