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Remap your Google Pixel 4 Motion Sense gestures — no root access required nor...
The other day we reported on a way to remap your Pixel 4 Motion Sense gestures using a Magisk module, root access and Tasker. Now the developer of Button Mapper: Remap your keys...
You can make the Google Pixel 4’s display brighter and drain its battery even...
The maximum brightness on this year's Google Pixel 4 is less than what you would expect from a flagship smartphone in late 2019. We have seen many complaints of the display, even at...
With root access the Google Pixel 4 Motion Sense gestures can be remapped
Motion Sense gestures, while cool when showing off the phone (assuming they work) they offer very little functionality to the user. Of course Google has not included all possibilities in the first iteration...
November security patches brings several functional patches to Pixel 4 phones
Alongside the security patches for Android that Google release each month they also release bug fixes and improvements for their Pixel phones. This month, the first after launch, Google has included some decent improvements...
November update brings Pixel 4 90Hz refresh rate to lower lighting conditions
The first update after a Pixel announcement often brings some good bug fixes and improvements to the phones and this year is no different. One of the changes Google seems to have brought...
Google release updated Biometric API to support face unlock and more
With the launch of the Pixel 4 Google seems to have found themselves guilty of a bit of previous short term thinking with their original Biometric API. It simply did not leave them...
Face Unlock all the apps with this new Xposed module
Root access is something that we have no covered much lately here at Ausdroid because we have felt less of a need to have root access. Android is at a point where custom...
Frustrated with Pixel 4’s Motion Sense? Try this tip
If you've read our hands-on preview of the Google Pixel 4 series, you'd be aware that the Motion Sense feature - using the Soli radar sensor - can be a little hit and miss.
It...
The Google Pixel 4 XL gets torn apart, physically this time
Teardowns are fun. We get to see the insides of our devices and see just what makes them tick. Overnight iFixit published their teardown of the Pixel 4 XL, giving it a...
Anxiously waiting for your Google Pixel 4 delivery? Check Startrack, it might work better
Can't wait to get your Google Pixel 4 in your hands? Well, like everyone else, I know the impatience of waiting for a new phone to arrive, especially after you've paid for one! It's...
You’d better brighten your Pixel 4 display as the display will only use 90Hz...
As someone who tends to set their brightness on around 60% and leaves it at that all the time I never thought I'd run into issues caused by this with the operation of the...
LastPass bring Google’s Pixel 4 biometric face unlock support to their beta app
When the Google Pixel 4 was released earlier this week just five, that's right, five apps supported their new biometric face unlock with LastPass making a public promise to bring it soon. For...
Google sending out some Pixel 4 phones in cereal boxes
In a fun move Google are sending out 2000 Pixel 4 phone pre-orders in cereal boxes -- early. With the phone not expected in stores or hands until tomorrow these users are not...
Google Pixel 4 dual exposure controls and Live HDR+ will not be coming to...
At the Made By Google event Google wowed with the new camera app on the Pixel 4. The dual exposure controls and the Live HDR+ in the viewfinder were two features that stood...
Google Pixel 4 supports fast wireless charging on chargers not the Pixel Stand
Last year Google did something unthinkable and made the fast wireless charging on the Pixel 3 proprietary -- that is, they allowed it to fast charge only on chargers that they certified. This...