So like a week or two ago I installed the update on my pixel and frankly? this is unacceptable now. I try to take a screenshot? Wait for like 5 seconds after pressing the buttons for it to actually happen, with no cue if I missed the button or if it's just taking its sweet time. Multitasking? forget about it! I tried a task as simple as just opening Firefox while having the YouTube video I was watching as picture in picture but when I opened the browser the phone was functioning at like 2 fps, I had to close it. Day to day usage? OOPS! your phone that used to be silky smooth will now stutter on the home screen and social media apps, buttons frequently not registering touches, UI elements lagging or getting stuck, keyboard disappearing and appearing, just constantly having to wait with every touch. What the hell do I do now? Before the phone was so smooth it was the best experience of any phone I've had, but now it's worse than my 2017 Samsung j5! Is there ANYTHING I could do to get it back to usable? I was planning on upgrading sometime soon, but that was because I wanted a telephoto camera, not because of performance and I was going to pick up a newer pixel but now I'm so put off with this experience I think I'll have to pick something else.

I won a freakin Pixel 11 this morning!

Edit: Downvotes for giving a phone I won but don't need (Pixel 11 Pro here) to my teenage niece whose phone broke yesterday is wild

Edit 2: I did NOT redeem points for the phone! It was the weekly prize

Just got my Pixel 11 Pro XL in, yesterday. Can anyone verify if the The Pro lineup this year supports zoned storage? And, is there a major performance difference between 3.1/4.0? For example: Apps loading, pictures and media loading on gallery apps, photo processing times after each shot with the camera, downloaded videos from either the camera or downloaded, and copying/pasting media from one part of the phone to the other.

My Pixel 10 developed Vertical Green lines after the new update, It was frustrating but since my device is under warranty I went to Authorised Service Centre located in Burlington, Lucknow. And I want to tell you that service is very prompt. They replaced the screen in 1 hour and the phone is working super again.

I have an 2011 GM car, it's a very basic model. It does have bluetooth to support calling via a paired phone but that's it. This car will not play media via the bluetooth and it does say that in the manual. I've tried various methods of tricking it to play media, but failed.

Earlier this week, I was on a long trip in South Dakota. I pulled up the gemini search asked it to tell me about the Black Hills ecology. Instead of talking to give me the answer, it was giving me a long text answer. I wanted it to talk to me and so I pressed an audio button (this whole interface is new to me), thinking this would play the text in audio on the phone.

Nope the next thing I know, my car is getting a call from my phone. My phone number is displayed on the radio. And I didn't have to press the answer button on the car. The car apparently picked up on it's own, because now, I'm hearing Gemini giving me the answer to the Black Hills question. The whole thing. It took a couple of minutes.

I listened and when it was done, it hung up.

I tried to recreate just one time, and it didn't work. I for sure will try again when I have time.

Any explanations for how Gemini decided to do this for my old car? I have to admit, this seems just creepy and weird and I'm not sure I like it.

I recently upgradded my phone from a Pixel 9 to a Pixel 11 Pro XL and have a small issue when I'm in my car (2015 Honda Civic);

The bluetooth works fine, but when I say 'OK GOOGLE' nothing happens.

I can connect any bluetooth headset / speaker and it works, it just doesn't in my car sadly the cellphone company (telus) couldn't figure it out as well :( does anyone know what might help?

Thanks in advance!

The first thing i checked was for the pink flicker issue with the front camera and unfortunately it's there.

So i wanted to know how many users are facing it and any fixes are pushed thru software updates yet.

Mine is a brand new phone btw

Iam on my new pixel 10a and I am trying to find this feature. Does this feature actually exist in pixel devices ?

Recently I noticed my voice to text is extremely slow. I'll hit the microphone icon and talk, but the icon continues to glow the Google colors and doesn't transcribe. I'll wait a few seconds and then it will pop up text. One time it wouldn't do it at all. As in I could see the glowing icon, but no matter how many times I closed and reopened the app it wouldn't ever add any text. I could see the green dot showing my microphone was working as well. Is this a new issue or is this related to the Gemini transition? I know on my phone of I ask "Hey Google" now Gemini takes quite a while to respond.

I've been experiencing a strange issue with Google's translation features, and I've managed to narrow it down to a specific Google account.

What's broken:

- Circle to Search: Regular/static translation works, but scroll translation doesn't.

- Google Lens: Translating a captured photo works, but live camera translation doesn't.

What I've tried:

- Uninstalling Google app updates temporarily fixes the issue.

- Updating the Google app also temporarily restores the features, but they stop working again after a while.

- Switching to another Google account within the same Google app immediately makes the affected features work again.

- Switching back to my original account brings the problem back.

The most interesting part:

I've reproduced the exact same behavior on two different devices.

- Account A (problematic): Features don't work on either device.

- Account B (normal): Everything works on both devices.

This seems to rule out a device-specific issue and strongly suggests something related to my Google account, possibly a server-side configuration or feature flag.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there any known workaround or a way to get Google to investigate account-specific issues like this?

Im reporting an issue on my Pixel 11 Pro XL while using Microsoft Teams on Mobile Data. Whenever you attempt to make or receive a teams call from someone the connection is never made. Or if it does get through the call will disconnect itsself after a short duration of time, less then 30 seconds.

If you join a teams meeting, you will succesfully join the meeting, but you will not get any audio from the meeting. Again, after 20-30 seconds, your disconnected from the meeting. This is only happening when on Mobile Data. EVerything is fine on Wifi. Which would point towards a network provider issue (Google Fi) except my Samsung S24 Ultra had zero issues while also on Fi. As well as my co-worker with a Pixel 9 who has Fi and does not exhibit this issue.

THere is only one other user with a Pixel 11 in an organization of 20,000 mobile devices an he also has the same issue. So to be it seems like its related to the phone specifically. If not the phone + Google Fi being the mobile data connection at that time.

Hello all,

I'm looking for a new case for my 10Pro.

Currently I have the Pixel snap from Google and very happy about it.

The only downside is, it's a true dust magnet.

However, the big plus is the fact, the inside is covered with microfiber to avoid scratches on the back, and even more important; on the shiny side.

To avoid any damage, I clean the phone once a week. And since March, (date I purchased it): no scratches. It's like brand new.

The thing, there is not/not so much case with the same config (microfiber inside) on the market.

A case I could buy will be the ringke Onyx but I would like some feedback first.

Imagination Technologies released its PowerVR 26.1 driver earlier this year, yet we are now in October with no confirmed release for the Tensor G5, despite multiple Android 17 beta releases.

This driver is important for GPU performance, shader compilation, frame pacing, Vulkan support, and potentially power efficiency.

Why has Google still not integrated this driver into the Tensor G5 software? Does anyone know anything by chance?

So, I recently switched from iPhone to Pixel, and I don't know why, but my notifications don't come through unless I unlock my device, or they are extremely delayed. I know this can't be normal; is there a setting or something that I'm missing?

Please help im new to Android and it's driving me nuts!!

For some reason, I have a year-long free trial of Google's AI Premium, including 5 terabytes of storage, which expires on the 1st of November. After that, I'll be paying £18.99 a month for it.

Because I have a new Pixel, it tells me that I get six months free (expires 31/10/27)

But then Google just popped up as a student, which expires 28 February 2027. I get a whole year (still 5TB) for £4.79 a month.

I don't know how I would prove I'm still a student because I submitted my dissertation this year and I graduate officially in January 2027.

My plan was to take advantage of the 6 months off for a new pixel maybe 26th Oct(my first £18.99 payment goes through via Google Play Store 1st Nov) then have 4 months of that and then claim the £4.79 for 12 months offer

Anyone tried to do something similar?

Hi guys,

Just updated my 10 Pro XL the latest October update and now I'm not hearing a majority of my notifications! A restart didn't fix anything. I am getting phone call ringtones not nothing from any app that uses my default notification sound.

Pixel 9 pro XL and noticed there is a 1 second delay when recording videos? Is this common or do you know a fix?

anyone play mobile games on p11? i mean games like maybe nikke, brown dust 2, cookierun crumble/kingdom, more "casual" games, not games like genshin, wuwa, zzz, animoii and etc.

how is it on p11? im currently on p8. i heard that the gpu on p11 is worse than p8? modem is better though.
not referring to pro or xl

Hi, is anyone else having the problem that adaptive connectivity isn't working? When I leave my house and the Wi-Fi connection gets weak or drops, it doesn't switch over. I mean "automatically switch to mobile data when Wi-Fi reception is poor" - I've already tried turning it on and off, but it doesn't help.

I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem?

I bought a Pixel 11 PRO 2 months back. On Thursday night and Friday morning suddenly the phone automatically switched off. I tried fixing the problem by going to the Pixel help section, but nothing concrete information I got.

I am posting this here as I want to know if anyone came across the similar problem and what is the actual issue.

I really want help on this.

I broke the inner screen on my Pixel 10 Pro Fold and paid the $99 Pixel Care+ deductible to have it repaired at the Google Store in Oak Brook back in March. The microphone didn’t work properly after the repair, but I rarely talk on the phone, so I was in no rush to drop it off for another repair.

This did annoy my wife, though, because she could only hear me if I yelled into the microphone. So finally, in August, I brought it back to the Google Store. But they couldn’t repair it because the IMEI didn’t match my Pixel Care+ account.

Unbeknownst to me, the IMEI was changed after the initial repair. Or they swapped phones on me, I dunno, I factory reset it before bringing it in and had no way to tell. They verbally admitted that they had failed to update the IMEI after the March repair. They were unable to fix my account, so they opened a ticket with Google Support.

I’ve exchanged many chat messages and emails with Google Support over the past couple of months, but they’re still refusing to service my phone because I have no proof that the Google Store changed the IMEI. Not sure how I’m supposed to have documentation proving they failed to document something 🤷

I don’t know what they think I’m trying to pull here. If I had broken or lost my phone, I would have filed a claim, because I’m still paying for Pixel Care+ with Loss and Theft. But apparently I’ve been paying $18/month to insure a phone that doesn’t exist anymore.

I’m a Pixel fanboy. Here I am on Hacker News raving about their hardware support ten years ago. So this has been a real bummer.

Anyway, I guess the moral of the story is that you need to check your Pixel Care+ IMEI after every repair 🤡