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Comment by DanFeldman | Hacker News Reader

I'm on my third Nexus 5x. The first Boot-looped thanksgiving 6 months after I bought it, the 2nd boot-looped during christmas the next year. The third has stayed steady, I've just avoided all holidays.

I bought a pixel (2nd hand, dumb mistake) and then it bricked itself within 3 months. Went back to my repaired Nexus 5x.

Google's hardware is awful and their support is an opaque cloud of pretty UIs and unhelpful people.

Should have gotten a 1+

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Just to add my data point --

I've had every Nexus and Pixel starting with the Galaxy Nexus.

Never had an issue with any of them until my most recent Pixel 2 XL where some cables stopped charging the device. One quick open chat on the Google store and I had a replacement sent immediately for free.

Was the 5x thing Google's fault or LG's? I blamed LG and I won't buy another one of their phones for awhile.

I was going to put up with my 5x until the pixel 3 came out, but it became unbearably slow to use as of this spring. So I bought the Motorola x4 under the Android one banner and I couldn't be happier. I think I paid $150 for it after getting $100 for my 5x. The battery life lasts all day and I can use Snapchat on the phone. I regret not upgrading to a "budget" phone earlier.

Yikes, I did pretty much this. Went from two 5x's (I really love the form factor) to a used pixel one. So far it hasn't bricked - is that a known issue like the 5x bootloop?

I found plenty of reports of similar issues on google groups and reddit/r/android. Phone Calling functionality would stop working, screen would glitch out, and then force a restart. At some point it just didn't wake up. Poor guy.

I have a small set of Nexus 5x phones that I manage, and 50% of them have bootlooped.

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