Hi all,

I have had Crucial 2TB external SSD for a while and have been able to successfully use it with my MacBook Pro and iPhone. But it is not being recognized by my Pixel 9 Pro. It asks me to format the drive everytime I connect and nothing shows up in the files app. It is in exFAT format from the start. I tried chatting with google support and they were not helpful at all.

I saw a lot of people having same issues with older Pixels. Have yet to see someone posting about this for Pixel 9s. And even for older Pixels, I didn't see any resolution for this perticular issue. If anyone can help that would be great.

Thanks.

The fact that there is no forward gesture blows my fucking mind. Who needs a back gesture on both sides of the screen? I just got a Pixel and from what I can see people have been screaming about this for years. Having to go into a fucking settings menu on a browser or reverting to the antiquated 3 button mode at the bottom of the screen is embarrassing. Does anyone have any legit reason why this hasnt been implemented?

I've already spoken with Google support who said it needs to be sent back for repair but I'm wondering what would cause this issue.

I've tried a SIM card that definitely works and a factory reset.

The weird thing is, it can still send and receive text messages over the mobile network so it feels like a software bug.

Not too bothered since it's an old phone but just curious if anyone knows more about this?

So recently my pixel 6 has started to become slower and more unresponsive where the touchscreen would sometimes not work and would sometimes take a bit to start working again or I would have to reset the phone. Also pressing the power button would sometimes not do anything or it would take forever to turn the screen on. It was sort of like it hanged for a bit, but still worked because if I held the power button I would still get the vibration from Gemini. About a day ago the touch screen just suddenly became unresponsive, but the phone still worked, though it still persisted with its slow performance. Then I noticed that the bottom right corner of the screen was slightly elevated. I heard that it could possibly be an inflated battery so I took a small look but it seems fine. Now the right side of the screen easily lifts off. I'm not sure what could be the issue. I bought this phone through best buy in 2022 so it's warranty has run out. Does anyone have any idea what the issue could be.

I recently got a Pixel 8a, and I would love to start shooting RAW photos. I'm using Lightroom, and I'd love to know what tips anyone has for achieving a realistic look, and maximum detail. If someone could please help me in the comments, that would be great! :-)

So I'm having an issue with the speaker up near the front camera, it's unusually quiet and I'm having a hard time hearing people on the other end. Putting it on speaker works fine but yeah any help or advice would be appreciated. Side note: this is a brand new phone I only got it a couple of days ago after having my old one sent away for a faulty screen

Hello guys,

This is my second Pixel Buds Pro which started to whistling from the right earbud. I tried everything to clean it, but nothing, and of course the sound is a bit different from the right side when ANC is on.

I bored of this problem sadly, so I think I buy a new pair of earbuds. I'm thinking about the Pixel Buds Pro 2, does anyone have this problem with the new version? Or should I look for another brand eg. Sony, Bose?

Btw my phone is a Pixel 7 Pro.

Thank you for your help!

I will share my story first. I had a Xiaomi mi 9 se for 4 years. Then I decided to look at new phones, I didn't want to look at any iPhones, android is a bit better for me then iOS, also my budget was 600 euro. I immediately rejected all Chinese phones as I wanted at least 4 years of updates and they had only 2. So I had a choice between Pixel or Samsung. Budget samsungs also have about 3 years of updates, and I didn't have money for the S series. If I had more money I would buy s23.

So there was a sale on Amazon and I got my Pixel for around 430 euros.

What is your story? Why pixel?

Extremely frustrating. I selected to switch back to Google assistant because it can actually set tasks without me needing to unlock my phone.

Every time I select Google assistant as my default, after a few minutes, it will just switch back to Gemini. as you can see

Needs a fix with the next update

You can have a car charger and this shit will hit you with the "Connect, not charging" like just fucking charge my iPhone 5s/6+/6s/7+/8 are NOT this picky

Great feature to use in phone calls and watching videos in other languages, but English is my primary language, so captioning for this is disabled, yet when watching a video with English audio, it still captions it. This is on a Pixel 8 running Android 15.

Any thoughts?

last december i bought my pixel 7 and about half a year later, while i was on the bus, i noticed a huge crack on the kamera glass, a little later i realized it made my 0.7x cam look blurry, so i tried to peel it off on that side. after that my 0.7 looked even weirder so i stopped using it and put off repairing it bcs that was during finals and i have driving school which is really expensive so i couldnt really afford getting it repaired. now recently, my camera fell display down from a table onto a stone floor. i thought only my screen protector took some damage, but turns out my camera glass cracked even more and my camera now shows a black dot on my photos. i took more of the glass off thinking that would fix it. spoiler warning it didnt. now i wanna send my phone to the google repair services to have it fixed but im worried about costs and just generally about the safety of my phone. do any of you guys have experience with that? preferably people from germany, but if you have anything to share, please do. i appreciate any advice i can get. i have now started a repair request with packaging from google(so theyre sending me something to put my phone into and send it to them first) and im planning to record any flaws my phone has as of now. any more advice maybe? something i should pay attention to?

When I share on the app there's a row of suggested ppl right below the pic. One of these contacts I deleted and blocked over 6 months ago but she still comes up. I also never share anything through drive so that's kinda useless

Gemini is lacking in all things helpful that Google assistant had going for it. Any insight when they're going to start making this thing more usable?

All it allows me to do is block the source. Any other topic I can block by individual name or sports team or whatever.

Greetings. I’m helping my friend lock down her google accounts. She’s on a pixel phone.

He made security keys, passkeys, and had access to the revovery method. Her timeline was logging and there was a geofence on it to send him an alert whenever she left her house. He’s also set her phone to back-up in real-time, photos text messages locations.. etc. There was also an email forward in gmail for her banking alerts.

He was doing this from a device called “Linux computer”. There was no option in “find lost device” to erase Linux computer (darn!). I just logged it out and revoked the passkey for it.

My question is, when I was adjusting all these security settings for her, from my home computer. Whenever I needed sensitive settings shed get an alert on her phone to confirm I was authorized to do this. How could he have been bypassing that? For instance he made those backup security codes to sign in without 2FA or a password (we deleted them) but she never got the “confirm this was you” alert on her phone. He’d been accessing these accounts for months. When we were locking it down it showed that “Linux computer” had last logged in 6hrs prior. Tryna see if I missed something.

So far it’s been a week and no unknown devices have showed up in login activity, so I believe it’s successfully secured.

She also thinks her phone is in a “kid mode” or something. I’m an iPhone user, idk how to fix that on a pixel other than factory reset. Would that take care of it?

In settings, I have Google Assistant set to respond to "hey Google". However, if I happen to use Gemini for something, then it overrides my default setting and turns into the default. How do I keep this from happening?

If I go into Settings > Gemini Settings > Digital assistants from Google Choose between Gemini and Google Assistant and select Google Assistant a dialogue appears for me to confirm. I tap "Ok" and then it closes like normal. If I go back to the settings Gemini is still selected and if I say "Hey Google" it's Gemini.

Does this happen to anyone else? Am I doing something wrong?

Hi all,

I just upgraded from Pixel 8 to 9 Pro. Completed the app transfer process when setting up my new phone. Also made sure to log in to my regularly used apps. Before I factory reset the Pixel 8 to send it back for trade in, is there anything else I should do? I thought when I upgraded from the 7 to the 8 there was some stuff that asked me to confirm verification on the old phone.

Hey there! First post here, 2 weeks on since got my first Google phone, the Pixel 9 Pro!

I have been waiting to try out Head Tracking with Spatial Audio on my Sony WH1000XM5, via Apple Music. But it was disappointing to see that the feature doesn't seem available on this series of Pixel.

Here's a Google support article that doesn't mention our device:

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/12967594?hl=en

Also a review article mentions it:

https://www.loudnwireless.com/blog/pixel-9-pro-x-review-dont-be-fooled-by-gimmicks-with-sound-test

Does Head Tracking show up on the Pixel Buds? What was the experience with previous Pixel models? Did Apple Music mention Dolby Atmos on it?

It's a weird feature omission.

I have a old wireless charger stand that has been work with my pixel 7, the watch...now it doesn't work with the 9pro. I tested it this morning with both phones, no case on. The 7 will charge fine but the 9pro will stop charging after a few seconds. Both are on Android 15. Does anyone know what might be the issue witht the 9pro? I really hope I dont have to replace the stand...the buds and the watch are charging fine.

Ironically Google finally make a weather app that's usable, and now with 15 to update the widgets broken ..

https://i.postimg.cc/tJxWKYW0/Screenshot-20241110-101030.png

Hello. My Pixel 8 is getting random ads and opens Chrome in random websites. I've tried to clean up my cache and disallow pop ups. I've ran and antivirus but still getting this random full screen ads and Chrome opens in random pages.

I've also checked my apps and I don't find anything suspicious, how can I solve this?

A couple of years ago I switched from a Pixel 2 to a iPhone but I am realy acing to go back but there are a couple of things I am wondering that I have not been able to find propper answers on the net about so I am curious if anyone has any insight to these things.

- Audible can't cast to Sonos with a sleep timer, without a sleep timer it works (tested on my old pixel 2) but I heard that maybe you can ask the google assistant to stop playing after X time with newer pixel / android. This was the core reason I switched to iPhone from Pixel 2.

- The iOS has learned my habits so when I am about to go to bed and open up the Audbile app it automatically connects to the Sonos system airplay without me doing anything is there anything similar in Android ?

- Is there something like apple "live activity" while cycling. Basically it reads my heart rate from the watch and displays it with heart rate zones live on the iPhone display. Asuming I buy a pixel watch as well.

Just got the phone this morning, and oddly, it feels small. Have both a P7 and lately been on P7P. I wanted to go back to the smaller form factor like the P7, but the P9P feels super small to me.

Don't get me wrong, its really nice, but even compared to my P7, it looks smaller.

Wondering if I should get the P9P XL instead.

My P9PXL started acting odd a couple of days ago, it will randomly freeze/stutter for no apparent reason. I've had it for almost a month now and it was working flawlessly during that time.

I'm on AP3A.241105.008, this thing started happening 2 days ago while I was still on the previous build (installed the current one hoping it will solve the problem - it did not).

What actually happens is that the phone works perfectly fine for several hours, counting from the last boot (anywhere from 16 to 24 hours). Then it will start acting up and keep displaying pop-ups saying that various processes aren't responding (mostly system and System UI).

Most of the time I can recover from this without needing a reset, but on three occasions the phone became completely unresponsive so I had to hold down power button until it restarted.

I am rooted, so I thought it might be due to customizations I'm using (Iconify + xposed), turned these off but the issue is still there.

Fortunately there are no artifacts/glitches when that happens, which makes me feel a tad better hoping it's not a hardware issue. Looking at logs I can't see anything specific apart from the below which doesn't tell me what the problem is (storage?):

11-10 14:47:03.083 0 0 I trusty : qfs-srv: 267: before tz_app_cmd_handler 0

11-10 14:47:03.083 0 0 I trusty : 99989.366:E:[SG_ERR] 0x00140001 0xa84776dc 266

11-10 14:47:03.083 0 0 I trusty : 99989.366:E:[SG_ERR] 0x00140002 0xa846b7a4 336

11-10 14:47:03.083 0 0 I trusty : qfs-osal: 1140: sg_spi_closeqfs-srv: 269: after tz_app_cmd_handler 0

Is anyone else having similar problem with their P9PXL?

Thanks!

letzten dezember habe ich mir ein google pixel 7 gekauft, bei dem erstmal auf unbekannte weise das glas über der kamera zersprungen ist. aus angst, dass das glas meine kamera zerkratzen könnte, habe ich die eine Hälfte entfernt(über weitwinkel) jtz ist mir mein handy diesmal vom tisch auf steinboden gefallen, panzerglas hat risse nicht so dramatisch, aber meine kamera hat einen jetzt komischen punkt auf den bildern. Ich dachte es liegt am zersprungenen kamera glas und hab es entfernt mit der intention es reparieren zu lassen sobald ich wieder zuhause bin(ich war 1 woche weg) mir ist während dieser woche dann aufgefallen, dass meine kamera locker sitzt. ich bin gerade erst aus dem abi raus, konnte mir mit meinem minijob geld bisher keine reperatur leisten, weil ich nebenbei noch fahrschule mache. jetzt muss es aber glaub ich unbedingt sein, bevor die Schäden zu teuer werden. ich würde mein handy am liebsten an google schicken, da die sich ja mit dem handy am besten auskennen werden. könnt ihr mir da tipps geben wie ich das am besten machen kann und wie eure erfahrungen da so waren? am liebsten mit schaden und was ihr zahlen musstet, das macht mir nämlich im moment am meisten bange.....

Hello,

I bought the Pixel Buds Pro 2 and am actually very satisfied with the sound. Only high tones somehow hurt my ears, especially with hi hats in rap songs it's really unpleasant. Is it just me or have you also experienced this?

Thank you very much!

I used to use the create link option to share photos but now for some reason it takes forever to complete if at all

Anyone else having this issue?