Broken Google Pixel 3? Google and uBreakiFix are essentially helpless for now
As my wife and I have discovered this week, Google and uBreakiFix simply aren’t ready to service broken Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL devices. Until they are, you might want to be more careful than usual to prevent what happened to us from happening to you…
This week, I got a terrible text message from my wife — the one that all owners of tech dread. Her Pixel 3 XL met concrete and made a bad first impression,
shattering the back glass. The beautiful ‘Not Pink’ glass was now a shell of its former self. We were thankfully well-informed of our options for what to do about this, but it didn’t go so well.
The Google Store
Repair Center page was our first destination, but as of this writing, it doesn’t claim to offer Pixel 3 or 3 XL repairs. Not a good sign. Faced with this, we immediately contacted Google Store Support to find out what to do next. After being given the full runaround, they finally passed us off, saying to contact uBreakiFix.
At the time, Google’s official
out-of-warranty repair support page didn’t list
anyrepair facilities for the Pixel 3, but since, uBreakiFix has been added to the list. They’ve long been partnered with Google, offering
same-day repairs for the original Pixel and Pixel 2 phones. We have a nearby location in New Orleans, so that was the next destination.
We booked a repair appointment online and headed out. Before we arrived, the uBreakiFix store called to inform us that they do not yet offer same-day service, but would still need to assess the damage. After the assessment, they gave us a price of $110 and a promise to call us when the parts were in, likely within two weeks.
Today, three days later, we were instead greeted by a call informing us that uBreakiFix has no idea when the necessary parts will come in. The only Pixel 3 part they could get their hands on is the battery.
