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    Where did the text messaging widget go in Android 9 Pie????

    I just discovered that the new version of this app deleted the desktop widgets. ******* Google, always killing off good features for no God dam reason. Gaaaaaaahhhh!
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    Essential phone connects as a USB 2.0 device on some USB 3.0 ports

    What does IPIO mean? Oh, and there's no such thing as USB 2.1. Just saying. >>>VENT<<< The problem came when they gave us two different names for the same thing. USB 3.0 is the same thing as USB 3.1 Gen 1, USB 3.1 is the same thing as USB 3.1 Gen 2. So now there's confusion over that. Plus in...
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    Essential phone connects as a USB 2.0 device on some USB 3.0 ports

    On my custom-built PC based on an Asus Maximus VIII Hero motherboard with a Core i7-6700K CPU, if I connect the Essential Phone to my front USB 3.0 ports then USBDeview shows it as a USB 2.0 device, but on the back ports it shows it as a USB 3.1 device. Shouldn't be possible because all of those...
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    Workaround for Bluetooth Headphones with FM Radio?

    FM radio needs a long piece of wire to act as an antenna, hence the need to have the headset plugged in for the FM radio to work. No headphones? No radio. It's that simple. However, in theory, if you could plug a FM radio dongle into the phone's microUSB port, and if that dongle was designed to...