Recent content by Matt Casey

I'm very happy with my Pixel 8a.

Adaptive brightness: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/6111557?hl=en#:~:text=To%20set%20your%20screen's%20brightness,level%20and%20move%20the%20slider%20.&text=To%20automatically%20fit%20your%20screen's,while%20adaptive%20brightness%20is%20on. Customize lock screen...

Sounds like at a minimum you should do a factory reset and look hard at your third party apps. If that doesn't help, send it in for repair on warranty. Something's wrong with your device.

Yes, I think I agree that it's best to leave both Bluetooth scsnning and Wifi scanning on, since they don't use that much battery and improve location accuracy. I'm not sure if you did turn Location Services Bluetooth Scanning off, but had the Find My Device using crowd-sourced network settings...

Any recent opinions on whether Wifi scanning for location accuracy appreciably uses battery?

With Pixel 8a, what are the default settings (on or off) for 'Location, Location Services, Bluetooth Scanning' and 'Location, Location Services, Wifi Scanning'?

I did a Factory Reset after Lollipop OTA to Nexus 7 (2012) which greatly improved performance so now it is running at least as good as before on Kit Kat. I'm very satisfied with having a two year old tablet running well with the latest software. The Factory Reset is easy to do and doesn't take...

Yes, I did a Factory Reset after Lollipop OTA to Nexus 7 (2012) which greatly improved performance so now it is running at least as good as before on Kit Kat. I'm very satisfied with having a two year old tablet running well with the latest software. The Factory Reset is easy to do and doesn't...

Hi Tara, Great choice with the Moto G. I'm waiting for availability here in Australia. On my Nexus 7, I have File Manager HD by Rhythm Software installed. Excellent to see and open files - for example I copy PDFs to tablet and use Ezpdf to read. Also, I've copied and pasted my Itunes...

Burning the midnight pixel oil dude!

May be a silly question, but when you say that if you leave the phone off the charge overnight and the battery will typically drop about 20%, do you mean that you are leaving your phone turned on and unplugged overnight, or that even turned off it drops 20% when unplugged? Thanks.

Regarding whether it is safe to leave the phone charging over night, see post #18 by Jerry Hildenbrand in this thread: ( http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/288313-safe-charge-battery-overnight.html ). Jerry seems to be confident that all modern phones will automatically stop charging...

As far as using faster versus slower chargers goes, if the charging rate is at least kept below 1C (2300mA for Nexus 5) and optimally kept below .7C (1610mA for Nexus 5), than according to Battery University there should be no measurable adverse effect on long-term battery capacity from...

As far as using faster versus slower charging goes, for lithium ion batteries if the charging rate is kept below 1C (2300mA for Nexus 5) and even better kept below .7C (1610mA for Nexus 5), than according to Battery University there should be no measurable adverse effect on long-term battery...

According to Anand Tech ( AnandTech | Google Nexus 5 Review ), the Nexus 5 should automatically restrict charging to a maximum of 1500mA. If this is true than even using 2.1A chargers it should not be charging higher than 1500mA. How is it that you determined that it was charging at a rate of...