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I remember this from my old S4 - I used to use them for my kids' various after-school sports & whatnot. I don't see that option anymore, but you can use the regular keyboard emojis, and they show up on the calendar. -Phil

Nova Launcher

Textra, fo sho. -Phil

LG G4. It's apparently going to take a while before I stop double-tapping the screen on my 8+, trying to wake it.... -Phil

I did the update this weekend, and now my screen no longer times out, no matter what I have it set to. This is for both the lock screen and the home screen. I need to manually turn the phone off, either by pressing the power button, or using the double-tap-to-sleep feature. Otherwise, the...

Bootloop woes hit my phone yesterday, out of the blue. The Freezer trick wouldn't work, either - it would get past the LG boot screen, then the red Verizon screen, to the "Android is starting, Optimizing X of X app", then it would shut off. -Phil

Re: Removing Emojis from Google Keyboard As a fellow adult, I couldn't agree more. This latest update is horrible, for many reasons... -Phil

I get this, too, whenever I plug a set of speakers into the headphone jack (old school speaker setup at work, LOL). Every time I do this, some sort of Google assistant launches, with the aforementioned female voice, and she either tells me she can't hear what I said (even though I wasn't...

This happened to me as well - haven't used Android Pay since... :( -Phil

Feeling Franky-ish...

Some of LG's widgets (stock music player, for example) don't work with Nova. -Phil

You also need to turn it on, on the phone itself. Try "Settings / Advanced Calling" (that's where it is on my LG G4) -Phil

Well, Chase sent me a new Chip & Pin debit card, so my old one no longer works. And since that old debit card was the only card I had in Android Pay (and the only reason it worked is because it was grandfathered in from the old Google Wallet), and since Chase still isn't a supported bank in...

Like mrmoe110 touched on, above, having to re-enter your PIN / password a second time when any sort of Smart Lock is enabled is a security feature, methinks... Let's say you have a smart watch set up as a Trusted Device, which allows you to bypass entering your PIN / password on your phone, as...