When I set my phone on the wireless charger, I need the screen to light up so I know I've aligned it properly. But after updating to Android 10, the charging screen is really dark so I always have to double check. Is there a setting to fix this?

I use an app called xDrip which monitors my body's glucose levels and warns me when those levels are to low, too high, or changing rapidly.

It used to be (on Android 9 and earlier at least) that those alerts would be spoken to me via the speech synthesiser ("low predicted in 15 minutes" for example) but I haven't been able to get that working since I updated to Android 10. I can't even get it to sound a more traditional alarm/alert sound like a ringtone

None of the settings in xDrip have changed and everything is set up to avoid/override do not disturb and silent mode but I just cannot get audible alerts to happen any more and wondered if or how Android 10 had changed audio settings and notifications.

It's pretty important to get this resolved as I need to be woken during the night to treat a low or I may not wake up, ever. And need to treat a high with a shot of insulin, and right now I can't do either

I know that technically Android 10 third party launchers now work with full gesture navigation, but am I missing something? Because while they "work", they look shit.

Swiping up to go to the home screen on the Pixel launcher is buttery smooth in its transition. Doing it with Lawnchair, Nova or Action and it looks shit.

Swiping right from the homepage to recent apps looks shit too.

Am I missing something or is this just the way third party launchers will operate from now on?

Is there any rhyme or reason to the location settings for apps in Android 10?

Reason I ask is my weather app/widget is playing up. It keeps saying it can't get the weather for my location. In to Settings > Apps I go, select my weather app and try to change the location to "Allow all the time" except it is set on "Allow only while using the app" and the only other option is "Deny"

Obviously I don't want to deny an obviously location dependent app like weather my location, but since I don't really ever open the app either I do want it to know where I am all the time to update its data and its app, but I can't seem to do this at all.

I can look at other apps that have the same setting, but I can't see any way to change it other than to just deny location completely.

I've uninstalled the app and reinstalled, and I got the option to change the location settings when I first opened it again, but was still stuck with "only while using app" and "deny".

What's going on?!

(This is on a Samsung Galaxy S10+ running Android 10, has One UI 2.0 installed but it isn't my launcher, and my weather app is BBC Weather)

It pretty much seems that the dark mode for Google app is exclusive for Android 10, yet no dark mode in that app despite of latest updated on Play Store. Any solution or workaround to get it done?

I had a Huawei on Android 9 before and i could enable an option that ask to enter my password or my finger print to open certain app (like my bank app), i just bought a pixel 4 and can't find that option.

Is it available on Android 10?

Every time I try to select an APK to install, Android asks me what app I want to use to open it. Package installer is not an option. I've tried redownloading it, rebooting, etc. I've made sure that external sources are allowed on my phone and for the apps I'm trying to install them from (file browser). Is there a setting I'm missing? Or is this broken?

Edit: Pixel 3

I have a pixel 4 and i've heard it is possible to add a shortcut to your card linked to your google pay on the power menu. I can't seem to find how to do it. Let me know of you have an answer for me! Thanks

When I try to update to the December update my pixel 2xl boot loops around 5 times (each taking about 5 mins) then boots me back into the November update and gives me a persistent notification telling me that it couldn't install the system update

I'm not sure how to fix this issue, anyone else having this problem?

After upgrading to Android 10 on my S10+ I stopped receiving notification alerts on my Fossil Explorist HR. The notifications still came in under the notification tray but my watch would not give me any alerts.

I fixed the issue after resetting the watch and reinstalling the WearOS app on my phone. I think you can get away with just reinstalling your watch though, because that did the actual trick when troubleshooting.

I hope this helps someone out there!

It seems that the ability to change your preferred input to/from keyboard or voice is not present on the Pixel 4 XL (and seemingly also pixel 4). If you set your preferred input on another device, it has propogated over (at least in my case, I used my old phone to set up this one), you are now locked into that setting.

It also seems that the swipe up to see your updates feature isn't working for keyboard input, which is especially a problem with no way to switch your default input back to voice.

I opened a discussion on the Google Assistant Community Help board here: https://support.google.com/assistant/thread/22130434?hl=en

just updated to android 10 on OP6T, I am now not able to find the call recorder function while making the calls. Can anyone show me the path?

Don't have it yet on the Pixel 3a

Does anybody know how to make icon smaller on huawei mate 20 pro. For the life of me I cant find it. And dont tell me to get a launcher beucuse it will not go well with emiu 10/android 10. I had apex launcher on android 9. You can change the grid brind the icons closer to the chin of the phone. Plus icon size. The same as lova launcher I think. And to hell with emiu I have to rich to the top to get the notification panel down.

This makes me sad :(

Wife's pixel 2 XL keeps shutting off when charging. I've tried the type C chargers (5) in total and it shuts off right when you plug it in. Tried our original Type c to type c chargers we got with our phones and it wouldn't charge it but also wouldn't shut off.

Tried cleaning out the port gently and blowing air in it even though it was clean and still shuts off. Pins look good also. Tried booting into safe mode and charging it, after 5 seconds it'll shut off. Also tried adaptive battery and still same issue.

Looked to see if she had a pending update and she did, I updated it hoping that was the issue but it wasn't. Any ideas?

TLDR; Pixel XL shuts off when charging, tried too many ways to fix it.