My Nexus 5X decided to crap out today. I managed to nurse it back to health with a hot air rework station, but I get the feeling I may be in the market for a new phone soon...
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I heard Google are pretty good about out of warranty replacements on that model. I think they give out pixels or pixel 2s.
I wonder if they'll care that I took it apart and blasted it with 380°C air to make it (temporarily?) work again. 
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Only one way to find out
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If it's working after cooling off - it'll probably be fine for another year or two. There's also bootloader/recovery on XDA that does something with little cores (not initialize them? Because PLLs or something), which magically makes n5x work. I went for a pixel2 (non XL)
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Nope, it just died again. I went with 425°C this time and it's up again, let's see if it lasts any longer. I tried that special recovery thing but it was crashing too, so I'm not sure my root cause is the same.
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