Over the past few months, we’ve fallen short in communicating with you about certain issues that you have been flagging on the forum, such as the long wait times for customer support and the long overdue Android 14 update for the Fairphone 4. We’re truly sorry about that. It was never our intention to leave you in the dark, but rather, to wait till we had something solid to share. However, saying nothing is not the way to go. We want to make this right. So we’re sharing this update to explain wh...
you can’t remove the Google search bar from the Pixel launcher is still crazy to me.
yeah that’s crazy, but it’s relatively easy to fix compared to deep rooted bloat and whatnot in the system. the pixels even have good support for some alt ROMs, that can’t be told about most samsungs, so you are basically forced to use their software
yeah that’s crazy, but it’s relatively easy to fix compared to deep rooted bloat and whatnot in the system. the pixels even have good support for some alt ROMs, that can’t be told about most samsungs, so you are basically forced to use their software
I unbloated the S23 quite quickly, it’s not as bad as I thought it would be.
Pixels have indeed good support for alt ROMS (the grapheneOS support almost made me get one), but the battery issue seem to happen quite often:
https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1jorwd3/battery_megathread_april_2025/mnybfar/