Sell your Pixel 4a 5G for cash

One storage size, so wear is the only variable. Light wear you cannot see from arm's length pays $20. Wear you can see but cannot feel with a fingernail is $17. A cracked one is $4. The quote tool at the top of this page gives you the exact number for yours.

Take the case off and hold the phone under a strong light, camera side up. Tilt it slowly. A hairline in the lens glass catches the light as a bright line and then vanishes as you keep tilting, which is why looking at it straight on tells you nothing.

Then run the phone's own test. Open the camera, take a shot on the main lens, switch to the wide lens and take another. Look at both at full size. A crack usually shows as a soft streak or a flare in the same place every time, and a chip shows as a permanent blurred patch.

If you find one, grade the phone Faulty. If the glass is clean, forget it and grade on wear.

Because the rule is about glass, not about which piece of glass. Any crack or chip anywhere on the phone means Faulty, and the covers over those two lenses are as much part of the outside of the phone as the screen and the back are. It reads harsh until you see what we see on the bench, which is that cracked lens glass lets dust into the camera module and the phone never photographs properly again. Grading it honestly at the quote stage costs you nothing extra. Hiding it just means we both have the conversation later.

Brand New is sealed, never switched on. Flawless has no marks on it at all. Good has light wear you would not see from arm's length. Average has light wear you can see but cannot feel when you drag a fingernail over it. Fair has heavy wear you can feel, and still no cracks and no chips. Faulty means a crack, a chip, or a part that no longer works.

Most Pixel 4a 5G phones coming through are Average or Fair. Plastic scuffs easily and hides it well, so trust the fingernail rather than your eyes.

Yes, and it still pays. A cracked Pixel 4a 5G is $4. Select Faulty at the quote step and that is the figure you are paid. We buy broken phones every day, so nothing about this is unusual. The only thing that goes wrong is a cracked phone described as an undamaged one.

Feel the back. The Pixel 4a 5G is plastic and warms up in your hand. The Pixel 5 is metal under a coating and stays cool. Two more tells: the Pixel 4a 5G has a headphone jack on the top edge and the Pixel 5 has none, and oddly the 4a 5G is the larger phone at 6.2 inches to the Pixel 5's 6.0. If yours has no jack, our sell your Pixel 5 page carries its own prices.

Settings, About phone, Model tells you. All three appear in Google's own Pixel 4a 5G safety and regulatory manual and they are the same phone built for different regions. Every one of them prices identically on this page.

No. Android phones have no battery percentage rule here at all. We do not ask for a figure, we do not send you to look one up, and a Pixel 4a 5G that needs charging twice a day grades exactly the same as one that does not. Battery only enters the picture if the phone stops working because of it, meaning it powers off by itself or refuses to charge. That is a fault, and faults are Faulty.

It does, because this is an OLED screen and burn-in is Faulty. Find a dim room, turn the brightness right up and open a plain white image full screen. Look for a faint permanent ghost of the status bar or the navigation buttons. Then do the same with a mid gray image, which shows uneven wear sooner. One dead pixel is not burn-in. Color that shifts as you tilt the phone is not burn-in either. A shape that stays put while you scroll is.

Not for cash, no. With no power we cannot test the phone and we cannot clear your data from it, and we are not going to price something we cannot open. What we can do is take it off your hands for nothing: send it on a free label and we recycle it properly with a Department of Defense grade wipe first. If you would rather keep it, we post it back free.

Not until it is. Anything sitting on an installment plan or a lease counts as being under a financial obligation, and we do not purchase devices under financial obligations. Clear the balance with your carrier first and the phone quotes here like any other.

Both are a no from us, whatever the condition. Factory reset protection keeps a phone tied to the Google account it was signed in to, and we cannot get past that, nor should we be able to. Anything reported lost or stolen, blacklisted or carrier blocked is the same answer. Take the account off and factory reset before you post it and the first of those never comes up.

Remove the Google account first, under Settings, Passwords and accounts. Then go to Settings, System, Reset options, Erase all data. That order matters, because removing the account is what turns factory reset protection off. Your photos, messages and saved passwords are erased and they cannot be recovered. There is a step by step version on our erase your device page. We run our own wipe when it arrives regardless.

Check both, then decide. What a carrier gives you is credit against your bill, paid out monthly over two or three years and dependent on staying with them. What we give you is cash, once, the day the phone passes inspection, with no strings after that. Our number is on this page before you hand anything over, which is the part worth comparing.

Four options at checkout. A gift card is emailed and comes out about 3 percent ahead because the brands top it up. PayPal is instant and PayPal takes 2.99 percent. A bank transfer lands in 2 to 4 days, a check in 3 to 5. All of them leave the same day your phone clears inspection. Brand New sealed phones are the one exception and go out by PayPal only.