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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqq46m7q7zv8qe2zqffhhjnj558fdtzjxy7akr0x9ytwa3zc4zhpusn6kqlt nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq7nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgq4m5ht3 8th/9th generation Pixels have 7 years of support from launch. Pixel 4a was launched in August 2020 with 3 years of vendor support. It was end-of-life prior to Android 14 and we provided extended support past end-of-life via a legacy branch based on Android 13. It's now almost 2 years after it stopped receiving driver and firmware patches. Not safe to use anymore.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqq46m7q7zv8qe2zqffhhjnj558fdtzjxy7akr0x9ytwa3zc4zhpusn6kqlt nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq7nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgq4m5ht3 See the device recommendations here:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#recommended-devices

There's a table with support times here:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime

Pixel 4a was end-of-life after August 2023 but we provided extended support and then legacy extended support releases up to January 2025. We no longer provide those since it no longer provides real value and drains our limited resources.

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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqq46m7q7zv8qe2zqffhhjnj558fdtzjxy7akr0x9ytwa3zc4zhpusn6kqlt nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq7nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgq4m5ht3 We could still make updates for the Pixel 4a but the value of backporting partial security patches for the Android Open Source Project while not having driver and firmware patches is increasingly limited, so we stopped doing it. It takes significant time to port backports to the initial release of Android 13 to the Android 13 QPR3 release that it's branched from.

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