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 homeowners from accessing the inner storage on their telephones.

In accordance with Google, the bug may end up in “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 person accounts or work profiles.

“We’re engaged on a repair for the basis system replace problem, and we are going to replace this thread when we have now extra particulars,” Google wrote in a neighborhood put up. “We’re sorry for the inconvenience this has induced, and we recognize your endurance,” the corporate added.

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

Steps to get better 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 are actually a developer!’ This allows Developer choices in your system
• Go to Settings > System > Developer choices
• Underneath Developer choices, allow USB debugging

2. Join your Pixel telephone to your laptop through USB-C cable.

• If the system exhibits “Charging this system through 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 laptop, 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 outcome inside Terminal lists your telephone as “Unauthorized,” — your Pixel telephone is probably going prompting you to permit USB debugging. Faucet Enable and retry this step in order that your telephone is listed as a “system” throughout 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 laptop

7. Restart your Pixel telephone (your system may 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 laptop 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.