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[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Snickers13:
Привет из России, покупал pixel 3 ebay, пользовался 8 месяцев, в итоге телефон умер под музыку в наушниках. В сервисе сказали cpu rip, замена платы aliexpress 60$ и он будет жить

Mod translation via GT: Greetings from Russia, I bought a pixel 3 ebay, used it for 8 months, as a result, the phone died to the music in the headphones. The service said cpu rip, the replacement of the aliexpress board is $ 60 and it will live

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[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Zilch163:
This exact thing just happened to my phone.

RIP :(
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] ShahriarBijoy:
My pixel 3xl just died this morning all of a sudden! it didn't charge overnight. Just checked my mail and put it down and 5 minutes later the phone became unresponsive and went to Qualcomm recovery mode !!

(QUSB_BULK_CID:xxxx_SN:xxxxxxxx)​
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] hateful_94:
Experienced the same issue. Had a Pixel 3 XL(Verizon variant) with Android 12.0 installed. Before my phone turned into brick it had some weird things going on with sensors, they were failing constantly. And today, in the middle of the day the phone just stopped working. As all of you, I saw that QUSB_BULK_CID:xxxx_SN:xxxxxxxx in Windows Device Manager.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] rbrb12:
Pixel 2XL here which has just succumbed to the QUSB_BULK.

Google Support refused to help and said to send it from Australia to Singapore to be repaired.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] SyncSick:
My Pixel 3 had this same issue about a month ago. I installed as few updates as I was aware.

There's data on the phone, like pictures, I'd like to get off of the internal memory.

Data recovery companies tell me it's a no-can-do, but I won't give up easily. Does anybody have any ideas?
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] dcarvil:
Sorry, I have not seen any reports of anyone recovering data after this occurred. If you synced with google, your photos are available at https://photos.google.com
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] SyncSick:
Unfortunately, I did not sync with Google. Keeping my phone in good condition, I did not expect that kind of backup to be necessary. I didn't realize it could simply brick one day, no warning, no prompting.

I hope to be the first person you hear about who recovers their data after this issue.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] SyncSick:
I've had similar luck with two data recovery companies. If you don't mind updating me, how have things progressed for you since August?
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] SyncSick:
Any updates on your situation? Were you able to recover the info?
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] User.Hemlock:
Just got the same issue, hard brick with QUSB... As much as ACAB, I'm going to see if any of the cops I know have a digital forensics guy who could try to help. I bet if anyone can get data off a "destroyed"/"corrupted" drive, it's the feds lmao
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Grunt9101:
Just registered to post here. Friday December 2nd was at work and was scrolling through discord when out of no where i get an error:

“Your device is corrupt. It can’t be trusted and may not work properly.”​

Then from the boot options i tried restart, phone turned off and never turned on again. No button combinations or charging works, and I can't even get it to to be recognized on my PC at all. Just completely black screen dead phone out of absolutely no where.

Since the phone is over 4 years old I assume i'll be the same google answer with "500 dollars to fix" so I might as well just get a new phone at this point :/
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] H2Owned:
This same thing just happened to my Pixel 3. I'm quite frustrated with Google's strategy for planned obsolescence. Now I need to scurry and find an alternative phone with absolutely no way to recover critical information off of my current phone.

The pixel 3 was a wonderful device up until google decided to force a refresh on Pixel 3 owners. This whole experience makes me incredibly hesitant to purchase another Google phone knowing that I am not allowed to gain full control over the hardware I've bought.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] StefanBC:
****, my wife's Phone has the same issue, but now I know that there is nothing to do....
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] DragonFire1024:
Well I'm going to take a while guess and say stop being short of getting the back off of these things and being able to unplug the battery you might be out of luck. Though I have one of these phones, I had updated my pixel to Android 12 beta a long time ago hoping that doing so would in some way allow the OEM toggle to be flipped. So I guess I got lucky skipping through those OTAs
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] J-Pod:
My Pixel 3 that I bought new from the Google store the month they announced it just did this to me yesterday! Authenticators, cryptowallets, SMS/MMS, and misc other files, all inaccessible! Sure you should have backups, but this happening with zero recourse for file retrieval is absolutely ridiculous.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] digiboule:
Hi everyone.

I signed up for this forum just to tell you not to lose hope. Don't throw out/sell/recycle a bricked phone with your valuable data- here's my story:

I left my Pixel 3 plugged in to a charger overnight back in Dec 2021, and when I picked it up the next morning it was powered off, had a black screen and was totally unresponsive to touches or the side buttons. Connecting it to my laptop I could see it was being reported as USB ID 05c6:9008 Qualcomm, Inc. Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode).

I couldn't connect to it with adb, access the bootloader, or get anything to appear on screen. I lost three weeks of irreplaceable photos of my 3-month-old baby that weren't backed up, among other things. I spent hours searching in vain for a solution, and marinated in anger for a full month before ordering a new phone and doing my best to move on.

Tonight; a year and a day later, I randomly pulled out the Pixel 3 and plugged it into a charger. It was at 0% battery and flashed an indication of that on the screen. I tried to turn it on and it flashed the 0% indication again. After about 30 seconds I tried to turn it on again. This time I got the colorful google logo and then about 15 seconds later a progress bar below the logo, and then the phone just booted normally like nothing had ever happened. WHAT!?!

All my photos were there and I began pulling stuff off with adb as fast as I could. Today it is identified as USB ID 18d1:4ee7 Google Inc.

I'm overjoyed and so relieved as I never thought I would recover my photos and data.

I have no idea if it will continue working, and in any case my trust in the device is shattered but I'm here sharing my happy ending as a data point for you all deciding what to do. Unfortunately I don't have any actionable advice other to than let it sit for a year.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Mawtin:
Bought brand new from Google Store, taken care of it meticulously. Browsing the web one day, froze and shut down - thought it was the battery because battery life was going down the drain. Tried to reboot, nothing. Plugged into wall outlet - nothing. Took it to a phone repair shop and informed me that it's the motherboard.

Truly disappointed in Google's hardware. Won't be buying another product from them again
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Cubzfan:
My phone bricked almost exactly 1 year ago. Plugged it in New Years Eve night, woke up the next morning to a dead phone. My search for a fix brought me here, I bookmarked and checked back in every few months to see if there was any progress.

This post sparked my interest so I went ahead and plugged in my Pixel 3 this morning, not really expecting anything. Lo and behold I got the charging pic along with a 0% I let it sit for awhile until it got to about 75%. I held in the power button and the Google spun up and a minute later my phone was back. Like above a ran to my computer and copied everything over. I got it all and an hour later the phone is still up and running.

So there is hope!! I suggest everyone give it one last try. It's been about 6 months since the last time I tried. I don't know what was different today, but it worked.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] deadpixel3phone:
My Pixel 3 died last night. Doesnt turn on. No response when i try to charge it. Can't see it when i plug it into my computer, only shows up in Device Manager as QUSB_BULK_CID: numbers. It has never been jailbroken or hacked or anything.

i read somewhere that it could be stuck in some boot loop and letting the battery die will end the loop, so im gonna leave the phone for a few days to let the battery completely die and then try again. if it works, ill let you know
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] dcarvil:
Did you read a few posts above yours? You may have to wait for a year, not a few days.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Cubzfan:
Just wanted to follow up...

After pulling everything off I was playing around with the phone, double checking that I actually got everything. I charged it again overnight and everything was good.

A little over 24 hours later I was in the middle of doing something on it and it bricked again. Just like before there's absolutely nothing. This makes no sense, I have no idea why it randomly worked again after a year, and then bricked itself after a day. I'm just happy I was able to pull the pics off that I thought were lost forever.

I'll let it sit and try again next New Years.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] digiboule:
I'm now in the same boat as Cubzfan.

After the surprising revival in post #283, my pixel 3 is dead again. It is once again reporting as USB ID 05c6:9008 Qualcomm, Inc. Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode).

I picked it up to check the battery level and it didn't respond to touches or button presses, so I plugged it in. Nothing. Connected to a USB cable and found it had re-bricked.

It had been powered on for almost a month. Everything about it seemed normal during that time. It came back to life on December 13th 2022 and died again on January 10th 2023.

I pulled off the most critical things but I'm still annoyed I didn't manage to backup the Message history in the format I wanted, in order to merge it into my current phone. I thought I had a little more time, which in retrospect is silly.

If yours comes back to life for some reason, don't delay!
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Fahadchuzza:
18th January and this exact same thing happened to my perfectly working fine Pixel 3 just like an hour ago.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] anooby:
My wife's Pixel 3XL bricked the same way. Was fine one minute and the next it was gone. Screen went black. This happened right around Sept 2021. Been more than a year. But still does not turn on or show that its charging. But if I plug in to the computer, it shows that the device is plugged in QUSB_BULK_CID:0402_SNXXXXXX. I found this issue posted on one of the Google forums and saw this response from Google.

Google Response:

“This issue occurred due to the natural lifecycle of a memory component. Memory components have a predefined lifecycle based on consumer use cases over time. The recommended solution is an out of warranty repair or replacement - see https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/10227672 to contact our authorized repair vendor”.

How can we ever trust and buy a Google device. I was one of their biggest advocates. Had owned every Google phone since the beginning. Very disappointed in Google.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] pksg2k2:
No sir pixel 6 will serve the purpuse
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] jgelderloos:
This just happened to me today as well. Any recommendations on a new budget phone (around $300). I don't want to get stuck like a problem like this again but I really like stock android and dislike other manufactures bloatware.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] magnetz:
Same happened to my pixel 3 XL today. Woke up and it was dead, same message if I plug in to PC.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] romansanch:
Seems like the phone just needs to be completely out of battery to get out of the bad boot. To achieve this try removing the battery or draining it. Hold the power button when you think it's drained or the battery is disconnected. Then recharge and you should be able to boot normal. I'm going to try it out and post the results. A good way to drain battery is to leave the phone in a cold place.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] pplllllc1:
did it work ?
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] alyse_is_a_loser:
Just had the exact same thing happen to me today. I have a pixel 4 that was working perfectly fine before I went to sleep, woke up and it wouldn't turn on. Google support basically told me there was nothing I could do and gave me 20% off a new phone. Took it in to get it fixed and was told that it was either a battery issue or a charging port issue and that it would be over $100 to repair and take over 2 weeks to get the parts. I'm just cutting my losses and getting a samsung phone.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] crayoneater:
This issue happened to me a couple days ago, and I came across this thread. I happen to work at Google, so I spoke to some Pixel engineers.

They ran some debugging tool and one of them has actually seen this exact issue before. It's a failure in the flash memory chip. They sent a device just like mine to Micron, a couple months ago, and the result was that the UFS is failing to initialise, likely due to having exhausted its natural lifetime of write cycles. The phone gets stuck in QDL mode because it's waiting for a broken chip to give a "wake" signal that will never come. So they can't even firehose it out if they wanted because the device simply cannot read anymore.

Only Micron would have the tools to pull the data, but even if they did, it's encrypted with the PIN number PLUS the secret key in the Titan security chip, the latter of which can't be extracted. So RIP in peace.

Phone flash memory chips are cheap because manufacturers expect you to replace device every 2-3 years and only lightly use storage. A high quality microSD card has much better write endurance. Alternatively, the less storage you use, the more free space is available to take hits and avoid total catastrophic failure. All drives actually hide some space from you in anticipation of blocks wearing out (kind of like EV batteries) - but setting a limit for yourself will give you a bigger runway, and also force you to improve backup discipline.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] pplllllc1:
thank you for your reply it made the issue more clear, how do you explain the fact that some users got their phones back to boot after some time (quite a lot of time actually i think a year) ?
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] crayoneater:
No idea, sorry. Just sharing what happened to my own personal phone.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] 78372:
Have anyone faced this with any other pixel devices like Pixel 2, 2XL, 3A, 3AXL?
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] fjusdado:
One more Pixel 3 (my girlfriends) doing the same, suddenly, out for a walk, and stopped working, and not coming back to life...

Ridiculous, and a clear message from Google for NOT buying other of their phones again. I mean, 4 years I know that is good time for a phone, but sudden death, and checking and seeing that is more common than what I expected, is ridiculous.

Will wait to see if we can recover all what is inside (which is the biggest problem overall), but definitely, all doubts of whether buy a Pixel7 or not, are clear now.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Allen-R:
while I'm still not sure what the problem is on mine (no power but nothing on Device manager either no matter what I do)...

in terms of Data Recovery... F U C K

(in my case... is there still some hope that the flash memory could be recovered by peeps like DriveSavers or other much-more-local data-recovery services?)
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] dcarvil:
Yes, other Pixel models have had the same issue, models both older and newer than the Pixel 3.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] 78372:
Pixel 2 as well? Damn, I was thinking of getting one
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] dcarvil:
Yes, I believe I saw reports of the same problem with a Pixel 2. You can search the Pixel 2 forums to be sure.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] mcwups1:
So, no fix? I had the same issue happen to me. I'm on Pixel 7 Pro now, but I still have this old phone and has the same issue as everyone here. Computer recognizes it, has the same name in Computer Manager.

No one came up with a way to force this thing to take a stock rom or anything?
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] tallen9871:
It seems safe to assume this will never go anywhere, especially with Google (and a few auxiliary sources) suggesting it's not a fixable issue - but for anyone else watching this thread...

I just experienced this with a Pixel 5a that is barely over a year old.

The device was actively being used (browsing Amazon) when the screen froze for several seconds, then went black. The usual button-holding procedures did nothing, so I left it for the night, and the next morning randomly got the regular recovery mode to appear, and rebooted normally from there. Roughly 24 hours later it did the exact same thing again, and I have yet to wake it up a second time. I see the same QUSB_BULK_CID device when connected to a windows PC as others have reported.

For what it's worth, the storage on this particular device has taken a real beating, being completely filled up and emptied numerous times in the (short) time it was in operation. That would track with the suggestion that this could be traced back to physical degradation of the storage hardware.

Perhaps we're seeing a subset of Pixel devices with subpar storage chips, much like the knockoff flash drives that tend to fail much quicker than reputable brands?
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Nate K:
Regiestered just to drop a line and let y'all know that the same thing happened to my pixel 3xl today (3/20/23). Overnight, it bricked and nothing I've tried brought it back.

Damn, I replaced the battery a few weeks back with an ifixit kit too. I was hoping to get a few more years out of it...
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] wozzukes:
My Pixel 3 has also met this fate. Went to bed on 3/20 and everything was fine. Woke up 3/21 realizing my alarm never went off. Picked up the phone and it's completely unresponsive and dead. I get the same QUSB_BULK_CID device as others when plugging it in to a PC. I had notifications on my watch up through 4:15am, so something happened to it between 4:15am and 6:15am when my alarm was supposed to go off.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] fjusdado:
Since you have the ifixit kit, can you see if removing the battery and reinstalling the battery helps???? Some people here hinted that might be due to the phone entering in a continuous loop and that is fixed in some cases after months of not using it once the battery goes to 0. So it would be great to know whether if you unplug and replug the battery, helps to at least start it once to get the photos that the phone contains...

Thanks!!!
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Nate K:
Absolutely. I'll do this over the next few days and report back.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Fahadchuzza:
Tried removing the battery but it didn't work sadly. just got a Pixel 7 to replace the poor pixel 3.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] tomlouie:
I had the exact same experience on my Pixel 5a yesterday. I was browsing the web at 80% batt when it just froze and eventually shutdown. Tried every button holding trick, plugged it into AC charger, nothing. Then I plugged it into my laptop USB port, and the laptop made the "you plugged in a USB device noise". I waited a couple of hours, and I was able to boot up the phone just fine.

Except 24 hrs later, it went dead again. And when plugged into the laptop, it shows up as QUSB_BULK_CID.

Argh.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] NsbikesAndroid:
i know that i will never trust google phones
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] mikado7:
OG Pixel XL, had it from new for 3 years, just died like that, while browsing facebook. It was lagging and working slow seconds before it died. No updates. At least I had a backup of my photos, but it's outrageous for smartphone to die like that. I wanted to update to Pixel 7, but now, I'm not so sure to trust a Pixel. Don't know if it was a software issue, or flash degradation.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] yizhen:
I use a Pixel 4XL and I also encountered this problem today. It happened suddenly and now I have lost trust in Google. They don't provide any 9008 data packages so I can't recover my phone and I've lost all my data.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Newspaper2333:
yep, pixel 2 and pixel 2 xl got same problem :(
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Newspaper2333:
maybe you can try just take it apart with tutorial in ifixit and disconnect the battery and replug it again?
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] VelcroCannon:
My two teenagers both had Pixel 3s and both phones died of this fate this month!!! My wife and I use Pixel 3 XLs, so I guess we're sitting on time bombs.

This sucks. Never buying a Pixel phone again :(
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] Dheerajvirgo:
did you got your phone fixed? what was the issue? my redmi note 10 is going through same
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] josevu:
f google, same thing happened to my wife pixel 3 xl, my pixel 4 xl cannot recognize the battery level, will never buy google things again
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] bdubbin16:
Pixel 4XL here... was hoping there was some sort of solution. I had plugged my phone in before it crashed. It was at about 60%... checked a few hours later and it was bricked with it showing up in Device Manager as stated in the thread subject.

If nothing happened when I plugged it into a PC I'd say, okay - it's dead... but because the PC recognizes it's not totally totaled I figure we collectively should be able to get these things out of dead mode (recognizing they're not just plain dead!) and be useful phones again.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] AustraliaX:
Does anyone know f I'd able to keep all my files and data after I replaced the the motherboard? I plugged in my Pixel 4 XL to a PC but I could not see anything pop up in the device manager. Though the PC did play the usual chime when a USB device is plugged in. I am planning to replace the motherboard as replacing the battery did not help.

Thank you in advance.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] cyang812:
I met this issue two years ago, my pixel 3 phone suddenly can't boot up. And I got it fixed in Shenzhen Huaqianbei where you can find anything related to electrical devices. I didn't lost any data after it got repaired. Four month later, the repaired phone suddenly bricked again during the night, and I got fixed one more time at the same store I went to with the same price. However, it dead again in 6 month and I left Shenzhen and can't fix it now. I deeply believe there is a way to fix it and without any data lost as what I did before.
[Google Pixel 3 Questions & Answers] oburt:
This just happened to me as well. Pixel 3, originally bought in 2018 so we had a decent run but still very frustrating for it to brick without warning. No relation to any update or any action, it was just sitting on the table when I went to use it and it was black and completely unresponsive. Checked the device status by connecting to my PC by USB and saw the same Other Device > QUSB.... designation, so assume it is the same issue as everyone else here. The only upside is thanks to this thread I didn't have to hesitate wondering if I should spend much time or effort trying to resurrect it and immediately went ahead shopping for a new phone.