Recent content by Randy Spear

I have little interest in the duo that ms announced but hopefully we see a traditional flagship come our way from them. They did make nice hardware and I think carriers would give it a go. If you're on Android in Canada, your options are really only Samsung or Google for flagships in the...

Additionally, I notice is only the assistant's mic that doesn't record anything. If I use the chrome mic (which uses the speech to text service), the phone hears it.

I have an older truck with Uconnect that supports Bluetooth but doesn't have Android auto integration. My phone is a Google pixel xl. When I connect to Bluetooth, the truck only listens or plays sounds when the source is set to Bluetooth. I'd like to use Android auto even with the radio on...

Battery life had been horrendous since updating to pie. Tried adaptive battery on and off and restricting the most offending apps. Nothing worked. Google support said I'd need to factory reset. Battery life has been better but not even close to what it was on oreo. I'm currently getting about 4...

I have the original xl. Been on pie for almost 2 weeks now. Battery is really bad. I haven't tried limiting apps yet but that seems like a pretty drastic measure. Really, the only thing I liked about Oreo was the battery improvement.

If you could either organize the app drawer or allow launchers to work 100% with overview, i would have loved this update. My battery life is significantly worse. In the DND settings, there's an option to ask everytime whether you want it turned back on at next alarm, time period, or manually...

Curious to see what others are doing. I'm typically a Nova guy but I love the flow of the gestures (almost as good as bb10 like lol). I'm torn as I really need the app drawer tabs from Nova, the pixel drawer is brutal if you have more than 10 apps on your phone, but lve been waiting for an...

My phone is getting pretty slow... Autorotate and bringing the keyboard up usually freezes the phone. There's a typing lag and the occasional shut down. I've got maybe 75 apps (no games or anything cumbersome). I use Gboard and Nova launcher although I've gone back to the default launcher with...

With ip68 and an 18:9 screen, does that mean the speakers are going to be on the bottom? I've always liked that htc used good quality front facing speakers.

Mod... Sorry, I just realized I posted in the wrong forum. Could someone move to the XL accessories forum please?

I'm looking for a thin tinted transparent (but not clear) phone case for my XL. The clear cases look really weird around the edges. I have a smoke colored one but it's too dark. Any suggestions? Nilliken makes one but it's a month shipping on Amazon and I don't really like their branding on...

Bought my pixel XL with the intent of always having the latest release and not having to root and flash to get the right UI for myself. I completely loathed Oreo so went with the 8.1 Dev preview and now I'm in the final beta release which fixed random restarts and battery draining but the...

Yeah, I've done a factory reset but didn't add apps back one at a time. Although, I don't have a ton of apps to begin with and no games. I was prompted for the 8.1.0 beta last night. I installed and seems to be much better already, no crashes and they've improved on a couple UI annoyances from...

It doesn't freeze on any specific app. It's done it in a bunch; common ones too ( maps, Netflix, messages). Quite often when rotating the screen and using the recents menu. I've looked online and see it's fairly common with pixel XL owners. I thought it might be Nova launcher but there's nothing...

So Oreo is a fail. As designed features are counter productive and the constant freezing and rebooting is driving me nuts. Does anyone have an educated guess as to when an update will be avail?