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Would the same thing also be true for my Nexus 5x then on 7.1? If I disable ambient display will I see a significant boost in battery/better doze?

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hey check out Textra. It's a texting app meant to replace your stock sms app, not a keyboard, but it does have iphone style emoji available. You have to go into the settings though and change it from android style to iphone style

I've experimented with this a little bit and have found that turning off location history but leaving Google Now on makes a huge difference with battery. So you won't get the types of Google Now cards that location history provides but you'll still be able to use Now on Tap and most of the...

Ok so this isn't a perfect solution, but if you get yourself "weather timeline" from the play store and then add the persistent weather notification, you'll have access to weather from your lock screen. The only caveat is that you'll have to swipe down once in order to see more than just the...

You can crop, add filters, and do simple photo tweaks (brightness, color, etc.) with Google Photos

I pretty much cycle my phone between volume all the way up or all the way down to vibrate only. When I don't want to be disturbed I put it in airplane mode, which has the added benefit of saving battery over priority or none (and alarms still work). When I take it out of airplane mode I get all...

I've been using weather timeline and instead of having a widget I have the ongoing notification (which is very much like a widget in the notification shade). I've found this to be a pretty nice system, better than a widget. Updates are reliable and app is great. Edit: actually weather timeline...

Sounds like a bug with the Galaxy S4 unfortunately, and that sounds annoying.

I don't know which version of android you're using but that's not true. Maybe your phone has some kind of issue, but in 5.0.1 you most certainly can swipe heads-up notifications away and they also will timeout and hide on their own. https://youtu.be/r5KnKcdgCRU?t=22s

The 5.1 update is just not ready for your make/model of phone then. But that's the only real solution to your issue. Until then you're just have to either wait for the notification to disappear if you want it to stay or swipe it away. Hopefully the update will come out soon though, it's very...

You're probably on 5.0 then. Hopefully you get a 5.1 update because that's when they added that feature

On 5.1 you can swipe the notification upwards and the notification will stay in your dropdown list, or swipe it sideways and it will go away completely

It's most likely a hardware issue if you did a factory reset, and not all that uncommon with the Nexus 5 (happened to my friend's). LG fixed it though so you may want to contact them. Oh, first try disabling trusted face on smart unlock if you have that on. That always makes my front camera crash

Honestly the most reliable solution would be to get a Google Voice number and text using Hangouts with that number. Works on phone and computer and through wifi/data. I've used mightytext/pushbullet/ airdroid, but they just aren't reliable and still require your phone to have a cell network...