Recent content by JasW

Well, I'm pretty sure I didn't imagine it. Nor was I confusing it with the ambient settings for photos displayed on the Chromecast.

There is absolutely a setting for it, but for the life of me I can't remember where. I received a new 3XL the other day after an RMA of my first one. On that now deceased phone, I had increased the Photo Frame rate change on my Pixel Stand from its current one minute or whatever it is to 10...

I've had the same problem on my 3XL, seemingly worse, though. Since the update, I drop ~7% an hour with just moderate use. I don't know what it was before, but certainly nothing even approaching that kind of drain. I have adaptive battery on, and the phone reports "apps are running normally /...

Ditto. I'd been using Nova for ages. You lose out on too much now by not using the Pixel Launcher. Nova needs to catch up, and they failed starting with Oreo. How nice it is to have a dark screen Google Feed on my 3XL! Among many, many other things...

I noticed this when I upgraded my old 1 XL to Pie, and now that I have the 3 XL, it's painfully obvious. And it's become a pain! Apparently, Pie now requires apps that use their own proprietary notification sound -- think Life360, ESPN, and the like -- to have a notification sound selection...

The site design is pure cancer. I get the need for ads, but this is way over the top. This used to be a user friendly site that I frequented regularly, but I mostly avoid it now. Between the ad cancer and the unnecessarily ubiquitous, highly unhelpful, and generally snooty "ambassadors" or...

Thanks. You're a charmer.

That was a rhetorical question. I am the only one, at least in this thread! Seriously, if one is that peeved at the notch, why not consider the Pixel 3? Even if you're coming from the Pixel 2XL, its 6" display is really not all that much bigger than the 5.5" display on the Pixel 3.

Am I the only one with a Pixel XL who had been thinking about the Pixel 3XL, but then realized that the Pixel 3 might be fine because it has same screen size as the Pixel XL?

Not sitting well on my phone since updating a couple of days ago. It's regularly getting hot, it has spontaneously rebooted a couple of times, and I just noticed that over half the battery drained in only 5 hours. None of these things were present prior to the March security patch.

According to this guy on Reddit, a Google rep confirmed that the Pixel 2 launcher will be available on all Pixel devices when 8.1 rolls out. I use Nova, and simply have it set up as a much better and more functional physical facsimile of the Pixel launcher, so no doubt Iwill continue that with...

I haven't had a random reboot since installing the update, although my reboots were (at least in part) due to a hardware error. I'm wondering if the update fixed whatever was causing the hardware error. I'd initiated an RMA and just received my replacement today. I think I might wait a few days...

Oddly enough, I'm supposed to be getting my replacement Pixel XL today, after receiving the October update last night. There's a part of me that thinks the update will fix whatever triggered the hardware error causing (some? all? of) my random reboots. I had three in the car on the way home...

It's not a complete fix. My random reboot issue and that of a number others who submitted bug reports was a Sense Key : Hardware Error that for some reason kicked in after the Oreo update. I got an RMA, and my replacement phone arrives tomorrow. The only way you'll know whether this might be the...

If you had the Sense Key: Hardware Error bug, that should take care of the problem. But that is just one of three bugs that are causing reboots. Aside from the hardware error, there is a virtually identical but mysterious one that is apparently not reproducible and results in random soft...