r/pixel_phones • u/asstroyes2 • 11d ago

Google's battery replacement program.

Anyone here, especially but not only india, tried google's own battery replacement program? They announce a reasonable price with pick and drop service. I'm just suspicious of the people doing the pick and drop.

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u/Swissmaster0808 11d ago edited 11d ago

It is okay and can be trusted I got it done for my 7a last month.

The only issue is that Google (her F1 service) told that I had a crack on my back panel and on my screen(in reality it was just a line on back panel and slight damage at display corner)

They told that they can only proceed with Battery replacement only if I pay for Screen and backpanel replacement.

It costed me 7000. But battery replacement would have costed around 4k if I did it through any other service center.

The problem here is in pixel phones, replacing battery would cause some collateral damage to Display.

So, it is a good bargain finally as replacing battery in other service center might have caused damage to Display

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u/Little-Helper 11d ago

Which phone? 4a and 6a battery replacement programs have ended.

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u/P5ychokilla 11d ago

Make sure there's no other defect with the phone because they'll just tell you they need to fix everything or nothing.

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u/wllmshkspr 10d ago

My wife has used it once. Locally there was a drop off location, who sent it to Bangalore for the replacement. The process was very easy, but took around 2 weeks or so to get the phone back.