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I think it may be a hardware failure. I've had it plugged into the original pixel charger it came with for two days now and still nothing. No normal boot loading screen, even with a hard restart, etc. Just to try, I even took a head gun and warmed the whole device up quite a bit just to see if it would help some solder contacts or other connection points, as a last ditch effort. Still nothing. We'll see what it does in a few days time, but I've already assumed this 5a is toast after only ~16 months of use.

The 5a is old, it's unsupported and missing almost all our major new features anyway. The Pixel 9a is on the way and likely will discount the previous generations too. 8a is the cheapest device that has every security feature and is supported for a long time too. The 6a is the cheapest currently supported device and is the second-soonest to be unsupported (July 2027).