Many first-gen Google Pixel users have suddenly stopped receiving texts after updating to Oreo

There's a nasty messaging bug running rampant on 2016 Google Pixel devices, and it may have something to do with Android 8.0 Oreo.

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Worrying number of Nexus 6 owners are encouraged to ‘update’ from Android 7.1.1 to 7.0

There’s apparently no end in sight for nagging software issues on Google’s original Nexus 6, now plagued by a bug switching Android 7.1.1 with 7.0.

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Apple reduces incidence of iPhone 6 and 6s shutdowns with iOS 10.2.1 stability improvements

If you still experience random iPhone 6 or 6s shutdowns, Apple's recently released iOS 10.2.1 may fix the problem or at least limit its impact.

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Google Pixel root achieved, Bluetooth pairing issues widely reported

It’s a classic good news/bad news scenario today for early adopters of “made by Google” Pixel phones, or just hardcore Android purists who want to see the two Nexus replacements succeed both with their “kind” and mainstream mobile consumers.The latter group probably doesn’t care as much about

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Google fixes ancient Android Marshmallow memory leak, promises swift update

Memory leaks are regrettably nothing new for even vanilla Android builds, with Google’s software engineers struggling to quash a widespread system bug of this nature in Lollipop pretty much since 5.0 debuted.The issue, or rather multiple similar issues uniting and disguising as one, carried over into version 5.1, then were ultimately kinda sorta fixed, but returned with a bang in Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Once again, online reports flagging ...

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