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I tried a bunch but now just use the stock messenger app. Textra is very customizeable, but ultimately offered me nothing I really needed over stock, Google's allo doesn't seem to have any particularly unique selling point and Google's track record of sticking with new apps is appalling (let's...

try another messaging app. There are plenty that will allow you to do custom notifications

An slightly odd analogy. Technology moves on. What was once new and unique goes on to become the norm, a part of general culture. Society adjusts incrementally until the next new thing comes along and is accepted. And so on. What did we do before electric windows in cars, for example? Well, we...

I find Nova sometimes does slow screen re-draws, but no reboots for me yet. Certainly Nova is not as fast and smooth as Pixel Launcher, which is hardly surprising, but it's plenty fast enough for me.

Sounds like you're describing a mid-range phone! The Nexus One felt like a first step... and it was in a way, except Google never really found its phone-mojo with the Nexus line. IMO there's still nothing in the Pixel to suggest Google will find its phone-mojo. Until it actually gets a...

Inclined to agree... with the right (very high-end) equipment, some people might be able to tell the difference between, for example, a Cirrus and Burr Brown DAC. For the vast majority of people, the biggest factor in subjective sound quality by far is going to be the quality/characteristics of...

I've been through every single help article and set of instructions known to man and I checked every other Smart Lock option is working yet have not been able to get a trusted voice to work, which is why I'm asking this community. Google Assistant is working fine when the phone's unlocked, but...

No idea why, but every option I can find to enable me to use the OK Google command when the phone is locked seems to be inactive and grayed out. Is there some mystery setting somewhere that needs to be active for it to work? I can "OK Google" fine when the phone is unlocked, just not when it's...

I'm sorta with the OP, although I've only had the Pixel a week or so. I needed to buy a new phone because the digitizer on my Z3 Compact was starting to die, and I was debating between the S7 and Pixel (sorry Sony, but your cameras still suck and your new X Compact is lame compared to the old Z...

took me a while to find it... it's buried two menus deep. You have to "edit" the contact, then from the edit screen hit the three-dot menu in the top right to "set ringtone"

One mod that'll make me return to Pixel Launcher? Easy -- let us remove that weather/date widget from the top-right of the home screen.

glue i would not trust to be strong enough, and my one attempt at looping through existing hols in the case caused the case to bulge at that point -- I guess there's no air gap between the phone and case in that particular... erm... case!

bearing in mind that it's good to leave ~10% free storage space and that the Android OS takes about 8GB I ended up going for the 128GB because with apps, offline maps, music, and photos (I like to keep local copies for those offline times) I'd otherwise max things out within six months. Fine if...

I'd just use an automation app like Tasker or Macrodroid to play an alert when the battery's at a certain charge. Not sure if the notification light works by default that way on the Pixel... on my Sony phone the light pulsed green when the charge reached 90%

Just wait until you load up some of those janky Android apps on your buttery new Pixel -- that'll slow everything down! I've always thought the iPhone was buttery smooth, too. And I'm jealous of the fact that Apple's stringent developer rules means far fewer janky apps -- honestly, 90% of the...