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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:

(Do you have a Pixel 3 that you have reset so that you are talking from experience?)

the refurbished pixel 3 from google store which they reset before selling it was on android 9

It might never have been upgraded as some refurbished items might never have been sold, or the Google store might have routines to reset the device beyond that of a normal factory reset invoked by a user. They could have just re-flashed the device with original software.

I am finding plenty of links though a search that indicates that the Android version is kept. When the system is upgraded, the old system version is not kept on the device. That would take too much of the device memory. So if a reset was to revert the system version it would have to download it.

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