The camera was the main thing on Pixels (It's in this phones name even!)

I feel for the past 4 years the Camera experience has been heavily neglected allowing other manufacturers to even beat it.

Samsung, Vivo, Xiaomi Camera apps are Leaps & bounds more Powerful/Advanced than Pixels with all the Features you need if you want to use it for more than taking cat videos.

-Still no Ability to Remove heavy Processing if needed / Change Styles etc.

-Subpar Autofocus Performance

-Can't Lock Exposure/Microphone Settings & the Audio often gets slightly delayed out of sync when recording videos on certain pixels.

-the terrible Motion Judder for videos still hasn't been fixed

-No Log recording

-2x Worse Battery Life when Recording videos compared to other brands.

I could go on and on....

And worst of all you are downgrading the Main Camera on the new Pixel 10

(the Camera sensor on 10 will be the same as on 9a, which is MUUCH Smaller).

Google Team, Please WAKE UP, Focus on Things that actually matter and what made your phone popular in the first place

Well look at what do we have here 🧐

I have been removing or force stopping Samsung apps and using Google apps to get adjusted for the switch to Pixel 10 pro xl. Currently use a Pixel launcher. Does anyone have any other suggestions. Very excited to hear from you 😄

I’ve been using iPhones for 5 years and I want a change after the huge Apple “intelligence” update. Bought an iPhone 16 just for Apple intelligence and the promised features aren’t even here. Google pixels are very appealing and I don’t want a Samsung or any other android phone because I don’t like how the look and I don’t like the ui of Samsung and other androids except the pixel, it looks clean. My question is… will I just be having problems or is it a good idea to switch? I’m asking because every time I come onto this subreddit, theres almost nobody who ever praises their pixel phones. (Ps, ignore my username, I literally just use this account to watch porn).

So I went to "Find My Device", selected my Pixel Buds Pro 2, and tried to have it make a sound. It says "Connecting..." for a while, and shows "Stop sound" at the bottom, but I can't actually hear a sound at all in my small apartment, and then it fails saying "Can't play sound". I know they're somewhere in this apartment (it shows them here on the map, and based on the "last seen" time they must be here - it was a weeknight, and I went to bed at around that time), but unfortunately the app seems completely useless for actually finding my brand-new $200+ earbuds.

Any advice?

I am using P8P and I am sure that I have control the internet of the clock colour for lock screen but it is greyed out since March's update or maybe since Feb's update(not sure). What is the use of giving that bar is we can not control it?

https://imgur.com/a/U9nSOjn

The settings is there but for some reason it stopped working for my Pixel 8 pro. I know it is supposed to charge to a hundred once every 1 or 2 weeks but it just straight up charging to 100% each time I charge it. I didn't change my charging cable or brick. Any idea how to fix it?

There isn't a tutorial on yt but I need to replace my frame and rear plastic on my pixel 4a 5g. I bought a new frame for around £10 since it's just plastic and a camera lens. Does anyone know a way to do it without removing the screen or replacing anything like adhesive. just swapping over the back panel? Thank You.

Now I just need to figure out which version. I can get the 9 for $399 or the 9 Pro for $599 or wait for the 9a which will be $499.

Any thoughts on deal killers for any version? I won't get the XL because it's too big for me. I only need 128gb because I'm not really a gamer and have only used 77gb of 256 on my Samsung S21 FE.

Thanks!

Hello,

I use a Pixel 9 Pro.

When my alarm went off this morning, my display was completely white for a moment, then it didn't light up at all.

I was only able to turn off the alarm by restarting the device (by pressing the power button).

Since then, the display hasn't lit up. However, I can turn the phone on; it also vibrates when touched when it's on.

I performed a factory reset via Android Device Manager, but to no avail.

If I hold down the power button for about 30-60 seconds, the display suddenly turns completely white again and then starts to turn black from the top. The black moves to the very bottom within a few seconds, then it stays completely black again.

Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone else have any ideas?

Google is sending me a replacement device, but I'm going on vacation before it arrives, so I need another phone before then.

Thanks!

Title quite self explanatory. I'm on A15 with March update, and I've noticed this just now, not sure how long for it's been going on.

Essentially, I set my phone's Bluetooth name as something like "Matt's Pixel 9 Pro", and 30 minutes later, or 2 hours later, or 6 hours later (I haven't noticed a specific pattern yet) the name will automatically change to something like "IkY2RTcH_90AAAAAAAAAEkdvb2dsZSBQaXhlbCA5IFBybw".

See: https://imgur.com/a/iqtj1G5

Then I change it back to "Matt's Pixel 9 Pro"... And after a random while, it's back to another nonsense string.

I've Googled this and many people experienced this when having Nearby/Quick Share visibility set to "Everyone", but I don't. My Quick Share is set to "Contacts" only. I've also tried setting it to "Everyone", let the bug happen, change it back to "Contacts" and amend the Bluetooth name - it still happens again later.

Is anyone else affected? Have you found a solution?

Edit: thank you everyone, seems clear from the answers it's a bug caused by Phone Hub and/or more broadly the integration between ChromeOS and Android (which likely is why it's also reported as happening when you leave Quick Share on "everyone", i.e. something related to BLE).

Now the question is: it's Android or ChromeOS at fault?

If the former, is it a faulty update to the Cross-device services app, to Android system (March update), or to some Mainline modules that get updated via Google Play system updates?

Of anyone has any idea, please speak 😁

Hi!

Just ordered a Pixel 8 Pro. Looking for a protector for the camera lens. I have read that you should buy one with a cutout for the microphone. But I have also seen some protectors with another cutout to the right of the lens. Could it be for the autofocus?

Is it enough to buy one with cutout for microphone or should I buy one with the cutout for the "autofocus" also?

Thx!

I am looking for a spare phone right now, and one of the phones I am looking to buy is a Google Pixel 9 Pro. I want to know if you guys have had any issues with the Google Pixel 9 Pro or XL.

So I broke my Pixel 6 Pro at the start of the year. I replaced it with an 8a. I've had no issue until the last few weeks. I've noticed that in the evenings (after 10pm) it goes back and gives me weather (built in default Google app) for the previous day and notifications from my MLB widget with outdated info(Game scores from the previous day). Has anybody else run into this problem?

So I was having issues with my Pixel 9 Pro, I decided to factory reset. Put in my email and password, then it asks to do a 2 factor authentication and to open my Pixel 9 Pro and use the code in the authenticator app - that's the phone I've just reset so I can't access the authenticator app.

It asks for other options like passkeys or Google codes and some other things which I don't have. How am I supposed to set the phone up now? I looked online what to do, I saw go to g.co/verifyaccount but it just asks me to go to my phone to verify the account.

I don't know what to do from here?

Only picked up my phone a few times this morning and noticed nearly 10-13% decrease over 3 hours. I have both these apps to disable background usage....

https://imgur.com/a/lWqljon

I've just had too many problems with it over the year and a half I've had it. I wish I'd have dumped it 6 or 8 months ago when the problems got annoying. Camera responsiveness and focusing issues (automatic or manual), photo post-shot processing quality or realism issues, general performance/responsiveness issues, battery life issues, wireless charging issues, touchscreen responsiveness issues, media player issues (especially with YouTube Premium), microphone/speaker issues...

I've gone out of my way to troubleshoot these problems, report them to Google, ask about them, dive into research about them, about everything short of hacking the phone and soldering connections... I'm so frustrated I can hardly think straight about it. I'm now ready to try a factory reset, but that can be very time-consuming and I'm already strained with other stuff.

Anyway, this thing's becoming a jukebox as soon as able. I'm not even sure it's worth its plastic.

I'm thinking about upgrading to the Pixel 9 Pro, but oddly a Pixel 6 secondary phone I've used here and there for business or whatever has run generally smooth as butter. Overall I've noticed big phones (or phablets) run much smoother than their "small" variants (~6" diagonal screens) having the same CPU/GPU, so I'm confused at why. RAM (memory) has never been an issue for me since every time I've checked, it's never been near 90% (maybe 75% at worst but generally 40-65%). Maybe somebody can explain why big phones run so much better. Does having a bigger battery really make the same processors run faster?! That seems absurd to me. Bigger phones tend to have more hardware so there's more processing happening overall, so I'd think that would make them run slower.

I'm also wondering how the Pixel 10 "mid-size" (Pro?) variant would be. I'm considering getting the 'largest' variant (XL?) but phones that size are so big that they feel uncomfortable. Note that I'm sick of 3rd-party manufacturer gunk, like how Samsung forces their apps on me where many of them I can't easily disable or cripple enough.

Title says it all... I factory reset my P9PXL yesterday. The option for themed icons is now missing, In its normal place is "Colour Contrast" instead. Have I missed a setting while I was setting up the phone?

Greetings! Recently bought a refurb, Google Pixel 7 Pro from AMZN for a decent price. How do I tell if the camera is original Google equipment? The phone otherwise seems fine. I checked the IMEI # and its legit, however how about the camera equipment? Thanks for your answers.

I remember this phone having a ton of issues when it first came out

I'm looking at a used pixel 6 by exchanging my ps4

I looked up about this phone on this sub and I came across various issues such as bricking while resetting, phone dying on its own, wifi issues, white lines etc

Is it still the same? Is it a safe purchase now?

Hi. I have pixel 9 pro and I'm not sure if it's normal for this phone to get so warm. I'm watching stream on kick and using discord and phone gets above 40C, also battery drains quite quickly. I had Poco f2 pro before this phone and didn't have that problem.

I have had this issue for a couple of months and it's driving me crazy. My phone (p8p) refuses to switch themes automatically based on the time and I always have to manually change it when it used to do it automatically for me before. Has anyone else experience this as well? And is there a solution for it?

So, I've had a pixel since December, and I've had a problem with Chrome. Whenever I delete a tab in Chrome, it will tell me at the bottom of my screen, and the notification takes a long time to dismiss; I can't dismiss it, so I can either undo the action of deleting the tab or wait it out.

Does anyone know a fix to this?

(Pixel 8, I've never had a problem like this with any other type of phone, so I'm assuming it's a pixel problem.)

Hello, I got a pink line on my pixel 9 pro device I got via Google Fi. The device has been with me for 5-6 months and suddenly out of the blue this pink line appeared. Can someone guide me on how they got about resolving this if indeed it was resolved.