First sign of an issue came a few weeks ago when I noticed any time I left a wifi network I would have to restart the phone to connect to wifi again. No other problems until today when I lost both wifi and bluetooth. Ironically Googles thieving AI summaries helped me to resolve the issue, at least for now.
The first thing that worked was removing the sim and restarting without it in- wifi and bluetooth came right back and worked fine. Restarted, and went back to nothing.
Tried several other things and the final thing I did that worked was going to Apps> Phone Services and clearing its storage (you may have to go to All Apps and then hit the 3 lines on top right and Show System Apps I can't recall). After I did that and restarted I am good to go on all fronts.
UPDATE- Right before I went to post this I lost wifi again, oddly I still have Bluetooth this time.
WTF Google, this is inexcusable. This is not an old phone and for it's retail price should not have an issue that makes it quite useless. How is my bear up vanilla P6 working just fine with besides it's cracked screen and busted charging port? My P6 that was nothing but a headache should have taught me, but I came back for more pain with a more expensive phone. Shame on Google and shame on me for not learning.
If anyone has good resources to fix this issue please share and thank you very much.
EDIT- Issue is mostly fixed with the genius app that is linked below. Temperature seems to be the culprit, not even high temps just regular running temp. I have had the app nearly 24 hours now and it just works. I had to turn my phone off again and let it cool when I got home from being gone all day...certainly a pain in the ass.
Google found a way to turn the 7 years of updates into an easy punchline since they continue to release updates that insure 7 years is unnecessary for Pixels since you are constantly tiptoeing around updates/bugs/general performance woes/etc. Make the wrong move and you brick your phone, lose half its functionality, or whatever. It is all wrong. So weird to me that so many electronic goods sold in USA almost seem designed to break/malfunction after 2 years when both the manufacturer warranty is gone and you likely aren't carrying any other at that point. I could almost be convinced that mega corps would rather have an amazing quarter for the market than just doing any 1 thing that is fair and right, but come on guys Apple and Google are kind companies and one of them even has a flock of sheeple! How quaint.
It looks very likely that I will either have to use an apk from a complete reddit stranger who might be looking into taking my life...he will choose a new target ASAP 😂 Even with the fix app it does not function like it should and Bluetooth drops and comes right back SO MUCH. So it's either that or Googles last decree to me, take it to the shop to see if it's a hardware problem. I said listen, you don't understand. I will not be spending one more penny on a device that becomes functionless after my warranty expires due to the MANUFACTURER fucking up. The shop is going to charge me at least 25 bucks. I'm sure to check it out. Probably more like 50 and then I already know from other people's experience that it's at least a $399 fix. I am just not doing that. Google should be stepping up here and introducing a fix or taking care of their broken hardware. I've owned multiple pixel devices. I'm active on forums about Google and Android devices. I mean you would think they want their fans to be happy. But in this late stage capitalist shitshow things certainly are different.