Every Android app update on Pixel 4 XL renames device to "Intel Apollo Lake Chromebook"

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Update to 8.10.0.21721 (ad4e8e6a) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.10.0.21765 (2a5a7cd1) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.10.0.21816 (6d83db3d) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.10.0.21860 (8fda0538) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.10.0.21914 (9a7e4096) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.11.0.21947 (51e74b5a) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.11.0.21963 (cb7ae975) reset the name to “Intel Apollo Lake Chromebook”.

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Update to 8.11.0.22093 (8e0f54d6) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.11.0.22166 (a1b8a7fb) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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I couldn’t even tell you what happens on 8.12.0.22456 (2a97bfe9), since the app crashes immediately on launch, even after clearing cache and restarting. I’m reluctant to clear all app data, because then I will need to reconfigure all my customizations and redownload all my locally synced content. So maybe the next version will be stable…

EDIT: I take it back. Plex Web shows my Pixel 4 XL as having been online (so I guess the app doesn’t crash before communicating with the server), and it retained the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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There were a few app updates since my last comment here, and up to 8.12.0.22657 (3794daa3), the name “Pixel 4 XL” has been preserved.

Interestingly, the Android app stopped crashing when I updated the Trakt plugin to 1.3.3 using the Unsupported App Store and cleared its cache (which I did to try to get it to work again), but that’s seemingly orthogonal to the present issue.

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Update to 8.12.0.22681 (14656cc2) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.12.1.22702 (73b01953) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.12.2.22740 (52b93755) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.12.2.22745 (987e79c0) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.12.3.22784 (c7ada931) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.13.0.22830 (c7e43cda) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.13.0.22880 (abefdd9e) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”.

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Update to 8.15.0.23855 (1139686d) and every update since 8.13.0.22880 (abefdd9e) preserved the name “Pixel 4 XL”. As it’s been nearly 2 months of updates without a recurrence of this problem, I’m going to regard it as resolved.

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Yeah!