Stock Android - Nav Bar Auto-Hide - Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers

The Nav Bar needs an auto-hide feature. Allowing users to swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring the navigation up when needed. In addition, helping to address burn-in fatigue for P-OLED technology.
I'm sure this is a custom ROM feature, and has been for some time...but the Pixel 2 XL is a perfect candidate to have Android bake the feature into the stock Android experience.
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It is a feature and it is baked in. it's called immersive mode. Google it.
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mrjetpacks said:
The Nav Bar needs an auto-hide feature. Allowing users to swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring the navigation up when needed. In addition, helping to address burn-in fatigue for P-OLED technology.
I'm sure this is a custom ROM feature, and has been for some time...but the Pixel 2 XL is a perfect candidate to have Android bake the feature into the stock Android experience.
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I use custom navbar from the app store. You have to use adb to St it up but don't need root. Couple of videos on YouTube that show you how.

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I use custom navbar from the app store. You have to use adb to St it up but don't need root. Couple of videos on YouTube that show you how.
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Is there a way to do it to the Verizon pixel?

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How i achieved the pixel nav bar with animations (no root)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.damianpiwowarski.navbarapps
Use that app and set the static colour to black
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.axndx.prithvee.pixelnavbar
Then use this app and get the buttons placed correctly.
This isn't perfect and sometimes the nav bar has a mind if it's own but works in most apps
It also has the pixel animations
Also the nav bar has the be locked in the "up" position
Also I'm using cornify free in this pic
When I make this and I see duplicate navigation icons (one from the app and the original from the OOS launcher), I try every setting and no luck...
n1GGaZ said:
When I make this and I see duplicate navigation icons (one from the app and the original from the OOS launcher), I try every setting and no luck...
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Yeah so u can adjust the buttons in the pixel nav bar app. Make them sighly smaller than the oos ones. For me the oxygen os ones are the "outline" and the pixel ones fill in the space.
See this pic. The light gray is oos
My settings
Thanks with moving one over the other it works. But I thinking of rooting my phone not waiting for OOS Oreo update. And make customization a lot easier!
is there any way to achieve Pixel navigation bar with animation on a rooted OnePlus 5T?
marmeak7 said:
is there any way to achieve Pixel navigation bar with animation on a rooted OnePlus 5T?
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Well I had the animation without root. Still using this guide.
Try to use telegram with Navbar, and see what happens when you use the keyboard and try to attach something to the message
Guys, sorry for the request, I'm not very skilled in the programming but I guess it's easy to create a flashable .zip that substitutes only the icons of the OP5t navbar with those of the Pixel, without animations. Would someone do it? It would be a more elegant solution and without the horrible gray edges that you see using the play store app.
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Guys, sorry for the request, I'm not very skilled in the programming but I guess it's easy to create a flashable .zip that substitutes only the icons of the OP5t navbar with those of the Pixel, without animations. Would someone do it? It would be a more elegant solution and without the horrible gray edges that you see using the play store app.
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Its actually really easy t get the pixel navbar.
If you use substratum. Just download awesome navbar and press pixel and install. That's it. For nougat it requires root, if ur on oreo beta it does not. (Only adb)
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Its actually really easy t get the pixel navbar.
If you use substratum. Just download awesome navbar and press pixel and install. That's it. For nougat it requires root, if ur on oreo beta it does not. (Only adb)
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I do not use substratum, I had tried a xposed module that did not work very well, so I had come to the point of wanting a flashable .zip like the old times on Nexus 6p. I will try substratum, thank you very much for the advice!

Hiding navigation bar possible on Android 11?

Hello. I was wondering if there is a way to hide three button navigation bar on my 8t to use a third party gesture app.
I have root and i did try Magisk Hide Props config method by changing qemu.hw.mainkeys from 0 to 1, but nothing changed. Even after reboot the value stayed at 1, but still have the nav bar..
As far as I know, they changed something in android 11 which makes that impossible.
I tried the same with fluid n.g but it did not work
There a way to do it with adb. Haven't tested on 11 yet
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yeah they removed that ability in Android 11
dr_rick13 said:
yeah they removed that ability in Android 11
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Ah, so root is now the only way
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Yes even the qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 mod on the build.prop doesn't work on OnePlus 8T, I have no idea why. I used MagiskHide Props module.
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Ah, so root is now the only way
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Theoretically root (above method) should work, it works on Pixel phones, but currently still not working on OnePlus 8T.
Don't see the problem why they removed that feature. I would gladly use the gestures on Oneplus, but the problem is that it's blocking some features on different apps where I have to press something down in the corners. I think it's because of the google assistant feature.
Why not use the stock gestures?
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Don't see the problem why they removed that feature. I would gladly use the gestures on Oneplus, but the problem is that it's blocking some features on different apps where I have to press something down in the corners. I think it's because of the google assistant feature.
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leo3949 said:
Why not use the stock gestures?
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Just wrote the reason
Am I the only one who sees the option in the screenshot I posted? There's an option to remove navbar. Not sure why this hasn't been mentioned.
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Am I the only one who sees the option in the screenshot I posted? There's an option to remove navbar. Not sure why this hasn't been mentioned.
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This doesn't mean "removing" the navbar, what you shown is changing the navigation more from navbar to navigation gestures. What people are talking here is to remove the navbar while in navbar mode, so that they can use third party navigation gestures app.
If you ask why, they (and myself too) doesn't like OnePlus' navigation gestures for certain reasons. Personally, I much prefer the old OnePlus 6 style which is swipe up from bottom left/right for "back" action.
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This doesn't mean "removing" the navbar, what you shown is changing the navigation more from navbar to navigation gestures. What people are talking here is to remove the navbar while in navbar mode, so that they can use third party navigation gestures app.
If you ask why, they (and myself too) doesn't like OnePlus' navigation gestures for certain reasons. Personally, I much prefer the old OnePlus 6 style which is swipe up from bottom left/right for "back" action.
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Aka android 9 version. Android 9 also had the two button gesture option. Android 10 introduced this version of it and has been further optimized in Android 11.
Of course this is all stock android versions. Some OEM's modified it like samsung for example. Oneplus isn't responsible for this style as its stock android gesture nav. Maybe in the future oneplus will make there own but there goal is to make OOS as close to aosp as possible while still adding some built-in customization.
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Aka android 9 version. Android 9 also had the two button gesture option. Android 10 introduced this version of it and has been further optimized in Android 11.
Of course this is all stock android versions. Some OEM's modified it like samsung for example. Oneplus isn't responsible for this style as its stock android gesture nav. Maybe in the future oneplus will make there own but there goal is to make OOS as close to aosp as possible while still adding some built-in customization.
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Yeah I don't blame OnePlus for this, and it is Google that removed android's ADB overscan feature to hide navigation bar as well. I just hoped that the root method works in OnePlus (the build.prop edit) because it works well on Pixel phones.
I am using Oneplus's gestures + Fullscreen/Immersive Gestures Magisk module, this gives me almost truly fullscreen experience. I hated the arrow key on the bottom left of the keyboard. So this solves the problem for me. Just thought I'd pitch in.
deepuvijay said:
I am using Oneplus's gestures + Fullscreen/Immersive Gestures Magisk module, this gives me almost truly fullscreen experience. I hated the arrow key on the bottom left of the keyboard. So this solves the problem for me. Just thought I'd pitch in.
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Yeah, I'm doing that aswell. Works okey, but I still pull up assistant from time to time
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zellleonhart said:
This doesn't mean "removing" the navbar, what you shown is changing the navigation more from navbar to navigation gestures. What people are talking here is to remove the navbar while in navbar mode, so that they can use third party navigation gestures app.
If you ask why, they (and myself too) doesn't like OnePlus' navigation gestures for certain reasons. Personally, I much prefer the old OnePlus 6 style which is swipe up from bottom left/right for "back" action.
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What are you talking about? I now have circled the option in the screenshot I have posted this time. I guess it's hard to look around for some of you people. Please don't make me have to post this a third time.
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What are you talking about? I now have circled the option in the screenshot I have posted this time. I guess it's hard to look around for some of you people. Please don't make me have to post this a third time.
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Even though u remove the bottom bar, some apps still consider the empty space there. Check keyboard for example. There is some space and a useless hide arrow on bottom left. I believe OP is looking for a solution to remove that as well(which older versions used to support using overscan). I was looking for a solution to this as well.
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What are you talking about? I now have circled the option in the screenshot I have posted this time. I guess it's hard to look around for some of you people. Please don't make me have to post this a third time.
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You still don't understand, we don't only want to hide that bar, we also want to totally disable the stock gesture so that we can REPLACE with other third party gesture app. On Android 11 the method is to use the 3-button navigation bar AND disable it, so that we can use another third party gesture like Fluid Navigation without the stock one interfering.
If you still don't understand please do not insist you do.
The only person who doesn't understand is you.
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Question From Pixel 4a to Flip 3 - Getting Google Back

Hi guys, and thank you for all of the informative posts in this forum. I recently traded my 4a for a Flip 3, and find myself really missing so many elements of the pure Android 11 experience. Any advice on how to get a little functionality back?
- Multitasking pane behavior: the window switcher button automatically flips to the previous app instead of just bringing up the app tray. Additionally, my beloved Screenshot and Select tray buttons are gone - I just started getting used to using the picture copy functionality.
- Dialer: I installed the Google Phone app and have it set as my default calling app, but incoming calls still don't have the Decline / Screen / Accept red/blue/green buttons.
- Settings shade menu: I'd like the brightness control to appear at the very top of the pulldown. Really, I just want stock Android everywhere.
- App tray: flick up to get to your apps, but then have to flick sideways to page through them? Ridiculous.
Any advice would be appreciated. I hate the idea of bloating my phone with a ton of apps to customize the experience, but it seems like there's no way to run a stock Android launcher in place of OneUI.
You could try Good Lock on Galaxy store.
www.androidauthority.com/samsung-good-lock-1079882/
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- Dialer: I installed the Google Phone app and have it set as my default calling app, but incoming calls still don't have the Decline / Screen / Accept red/blue/green buttons.
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Only works on Pixel phones: exclusive feature.
Don't want to come across as a jack ass but sounds like you need to switch back to pixel phones. Or like one other person said try good luck from Samsung store.
highmileage said:
Hi guys, and thank you for all of the informative posts in this forum. I recently traded my 4a for a Flip 3, and find myself really missing so many elements of the pure Android 11 experience. Any advice on how to get a little functionality back?
- Multitasking pane behavior: the window switcher button automatically flips to the previous app instead of just bringing up the app tray. Additionally, my beloved Screenshot and Select tray buttons are gone - I just started getting used to using the picture copy functionality.
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Give some of the Samsung features a try. You are talking the difference of a single click to return to the previous app and there are only about 10 ways to take a screenshot, ranging from gestures to keys.
highmileage said:
- Dialer: I installed the Google Phone app and have it set as my default calling app, but incoming calls still don't have the Decline / Screen / Accept red/blue/green buttons.
- App tray: flick up to get to your apps, but then have to flick sideways to page through them? Ridiculous.
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There are 1000 custom apps for this stuff, but you only need one of each. Once you find ones you are satisfied with, it's not incredibly hard to hide the stock ones away and forget they exist
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- Settings shade menu: I'd like the brightness control to appear at the very top of the pulldown. Really, I just want stock Android everywhere.
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Pull down your notification bar. Now pull it down all the way. Hit the three dots in the upper right. Click quick panel layout. Slide the option to do this to the enabled state.
highmileage said:
Any advice would be appreciated. I hate the idea of bloating my phone with a ton of apps to customize the experience, but it seems like there's no way to run a stock Android launcher in place of OneUI.
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If you want a truly stock experience, unlock the bootloader and build a generic version. Samsung hands you all the tools and instructions.
As for advice, I suggest actually trying the phone before trying to make it a Pixel. It isn't. It never will be. If you prefer Pixel, stick with Pixel.

Question How to swap navbar buttons via Magisk or any other way

Longtime xda user but have been out of the modding scene for many many years now, so forgive me if my question is stupid. Just got the P7P and put magisk etc on it. I don't like gesture navigation, and I am surprised that google doesn't allow nav bar button customization, which is something that has existed on various android implementations for as long as android has been around. Is there a magisk module that can do this on the latest 12/22 firmware? All google search results return with very old posts, and at this time I don't know how to recover from a bootloop if I do take a chance on flashing something.
Something that I had personally suggest is the Navigation Bar (9.0 +) module for Magisk, you can find it on Github.
Here's a link: Navigation Bar (9.0+)
There are many more methods but you can mention me anytime if this doesn't works.
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Check out AOSP mod. It allows configuration for the nav buttons. It is a good replacement for Gravitybox.
After years of 3 button nav, I switched to gestures. It took a few days to get used to it. Now it is built into my flabby muscle memory.
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Longtime xda user but have been out of the modding scene for many many years now, so forgive me if my question is stupid. Just got the P7P and put magisk etc on it. I don't like gesture navigation, and I am surprised that google doesn't allow nav bar button customization, which is something that has existed on various android implementations for as long as android has been around. Is there a magisk module that can do this on the latest 12/22 firmware? All google search results return with very old posts, and at this time I don't know how to recover from a bootloop if I do take a chance on flashing something.
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swieder711 said:
Check out AOSP mod. It allows configuration for the nav buttons. It is a good replacement for Gravitybox.
After years of 3 button nav, I switched to gestures. It took a few days to get used to it. Now it is built into my flabby muscle memory.
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How do you deal with the back gesture that is the same gesture to open side panels in lots of apps?
dr.wtf said:
How do you deal with the back gesture that is the same gesture to open side panels in lots of apps?
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I use just the right side for back. The left swipe opens the side panel
swieder711 said:
I use just the right side for back. The left swipe opens the side panel
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Panels can be on both sides
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How do you deal with the back gesture that is the same gesture to open side panels in lots of apps?
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Using Gestures, love it. Was a hardcore Navbar user.
Don't seem to have any issue with gestures and side panels.
Any specific app you are referring to?
I am using viber, skytube, k-9 mail, nextcloud, Mixplorer. Just to mention a few where I constantly use side panels and weird stuff happens when trying to open it due to the functional overlap
dr.wtf said:
I am using viber, skytube, k-9 mail, nextcloud, Mixplorer. Just to mention a few where I constantly use side panels and weird stuff happens when trying to open it due to the functional overlap
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Even dophin browser with bookmarks tab..Is there a mod for non root users that give the option to invert nav buttons?
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Something that I had personally suggest is the Navigation Bar (9.0 +) module for Magisk, you can find it on Github.
Here's a link: Navigation Bar (9.0+)
There are many more methods but you can mention me anytime if this doesn't works.
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Hey there mate. How are you supposed to use this module ? Wasn't able to find any guide or documentation for it. Do I need to write something in Termux ?
Fytdyh said:
Hey there mate. How are you supposed to use this module ? Wasn't able to find any guide or documentation for it. Do I need to write something in Termux ?
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It's a magisk module, installed like any other magisk module.
I use vivid navigation gestures with aospmods.
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It's a magisk module, installed like any other magisk module.
I use vivid navigation gestures with aospmods.
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Thought this module would allow me to customize the navigation bar. Like change the navigation bar icons to look like Samsung or Xperia or Nexus. Was i wrong ? Is there a more suitable module for this ?

Question Pill on bottom

I'm lazy and yes I did look around. Anyone have a recommendation on removing the pill at the bottom of the screen. I just don't like it there. On stock rooted may.
I have Fullscreen/Immersive Gesture Tweaks Magisk module installed and one of its options does exactly this.
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avid_droid said:
I'm lazy and yes I did look around. Anyone have a recommendation on removing the pill at the bottom of the screen. I just don't like it there. On stock rooted may.
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What Pill?
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What Pill?
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Well it is hardly a pill, the thin horizontal line at the bottom of the home screens. Indicator when scrolling through home screens.
There is also a Substratum theme (FSIM) version of the Fullscreen/Immersive Gesture Tweaks Magisk module mentioned above (same developer) which I use to get rid of it.
+1 on @siavash79's thread [MOD][Xposed+Magisk][Pre-Release] AOSP Mods - System modifications for AOSP-based Android 12+.
avid_droid said:
I'm lazy and yes I did look around. Anyone have a recommendation on removing the pill at the bottom of the screen. I just don't like it there. On stock rooted may.
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Not certain this works on android 13 but I used to use this to hide the navbar and enable gestures before it became the norm
Fluid Navigation Gestures - Apps on Google Play
Get the fluid navigation gestures of the future!
play.google.com
andy242 said:
Not certain this works on android 13 but I used to use this to hide the navbar and enable gestures before it became the norm
Fluid Navigation Gestures - Apps on Google Play
Get the fluid navigation gestures of the future!
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This used to be awesome, but hasn't been updated since 2019...
aosp mods with vivid navigation gestures
Thanks everyone. I will try the aforementioned and the ones linked above
Aosp mods with lsposed zygisk worked perfectly. I remember using this mod a while ago. Glad to see it's still being updated. Thanks y'all
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I'm lazy and yes I did look around. Anyone have a recommendation on removing the pill at the bottom of the screen. I just don't like it there. On stock rooted may.
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AOSP Mods can get rid of it
Google want to have a word with themselves, you shouldn't need a mod, you should just be able to turn it off.
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Google want to have a word with themselves, you shouldn't need a mod, you should just be able to turn it off.
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That's the ying and Yang of Google. BY default they offer little in customisation but then they also make it easy to root your phone and add custom mods. Samsung are the opposite, they offer loads of customisation but it's a pia to root
Angeloras said:
I have Fullscreen/Immersive Gesture Tweaks Magisk module installed and one of its options does exactly this.
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Just an FYI, but it seems that if you use the systemless hosts module, then you cannot use that Fullscreen module by DanGLES3. This is because it prevents your apps that require root access from seeing that they have root access. Basically, it messes up your superuser permissions and screws with the Magisk pathways. I was trying to check what it did, however, I cannot explore any root directories due to my file explorer's superuser permissions now being ignored lol.
So, while this option works great and doesn't require LSposed, it prevents you from doing anything else with your root access =(.
The only way to resolve the problems is by wiping your phone, re-imaging and starting over =P.
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That's the ying and Yang of Google. BY default they offer little in customisation but then they also make it easy to root your phone and add custom mods. Samsung are the opposite, they offer loads of customisation but it's a pia to root
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Which is all very good i am sure but what purpose does the gesture line actually serve, why is it even there to start with is the question and not well it is easy to root your phone crack on and sort it yourself. Googles logic of it being there is baffling.
Lets be honest Google are now pushing the Pixel as a mainstream phone and it is probably bought mainly on the strength of its photographic capabilities, It isn't just the plaything of the inquisitive like the Nexus was. I bet the amount of Pixels that get rooted compared to sold is miniscule.
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I bet the amount of Pixels that get rooted compared to sold is miniscule.
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I would say that's true and has always been true of every phone. Otherwise, there would be millions and millions of XDA members. The Modding community is a microcosm of overall phone owners
But, why not have the pill? What is the argument against it?
Takes up space with something that useless for some.

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