On Wednesday, Google started rolling out a second December 2025 update for Pixel phones, with factory and OTA images now available for manual install.
What we know of this out-of-cycle update comes from Verizon. There are three fixes for the Pixel 8-10 series:
- Battery drain: Faster than normal battery depletion.
- Touch unresponsive: Intermittent touch failures observed specifically on Pixel 10.
- Cached content access: Inaccessibility of locally stored content (e.g., offline media, maps) after upgrading from Android 14 or earlier directly to Android 16.
The changelog was released by the US carrier on Wednesday. As of Friday, Google has not released any information on its end, but did post the factory and OTA images this afternoon. Each regional and carrier variant that was released earlier this month sees a new build. This does seem to be an update for all users.
- Global: BP4A.251205.006.E1
- Japan: BP4A.251205.006.C2
- EMEA: BP4A.251205.006.A4
This lets you manually sideload if you haven’t received the on-device OTA, which comes in at around 25 MB.
The update does not appear to be fully rolled out yet as of Friday afternoon. More people in the past two days have received it, including unlocked phones, but our Google Fi/T-Mobile devices are still lacking it.
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