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Upgrade system on Pixel (3) to next Android version near the end of official support?

Started Oct 10, 2021 | Discussions thread
OP atigun Contributing Member • Posts: 854
Re: Upgrade system on Pixel (3) to next Android version near the end of official support?

vv50 wrote:

atigun wrote:

As I understand, major upgrades of the system cannot be reversed once done.

a factory reset will bring the OS in pixel 3 back to the version it came with (9)

Also is the end of support date an absolute date or does it refer to release date for major releases of the system?

there is no guaranteed android updates, that's verbatim from https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en#zippy=%2Cpixel-phones

Thanks for the reply. If one take that page by word one would be stuck with whatever state Android 12 has at the end of this month. I do notice the wording "No guaranteed security updates after... " (emphasis by me), so it makes one wonder if practice could deviate from what is guaranteed. Otherwise it seems risky, considering that Android 11 that came on my phone works pretty well, and 12 would not go far in added security updates.

Mine came as an open item with Android 11, and was supposed to have been subjected to a fresh factory reset (and it behaved as that was the case when I received it). That and other information I have seen indicates that a factory reset will not change current Android version. (Do you have a Pixel 3 that you have reset so that you are talking from experience?) If it is sent it back to 9, and google refuses to provide updates post October that could be just as bad or even worse.

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