[DISCONTINUED] Google Pixel Experience - Optimization Guide

[Hamid Chikh]

THIS IS A SUGGESTED CONFIGURATION FOR GOOGLE DEVICES​

OUT OF SUPPORT/CLOSED​

RECOMMENDED SETTINGS​

To Start With​

- Factory Reset (RECOMMENDED)
- Remove SIM before first boot
- Follow setup OFFLINE (DON'T restore anything during setup)
- Reboot, insert SIM then continue setup online.

System Settings​

- Auto-Rotate: DISABLED
- Notification Bubbles: DISABLED
- Notification History: DISABLED
- Synchronization: DISABLED (turn it off again when not in use).
- Location: DISABLED (turn it off again when not in use).
- Display Resolution: FHD/1080p
- Advanced features: ALL DISABLED
- Motions and Gestures: ALL DISABLED
- Auto download System Update over Wi-Fi: DISABLED
- Bluetooth Scanning (Location services): DISABLED
- Usage & Diagnostics: DISABLED
- Advertising ID: RESET & DELETE
- System Sound/Vibration feedback: OFF
- Network Mode: 4G
- Always On Display (AoD): DISABLED
- Dark Mode: ENABLED
- Trust Agent: DISABLED
- Turn Screen On: DISABLED
- Suggestions/Recommendations: ALL DISABLED
- Gestures/Shortcuts: DISABLED.
- Adaptive Battery: DISABLED
- Adaptive Connectivity: DISABLED.

Google Settings​

- Nearby connections: DISABLED
- Devices: DISABLED
- Nearby Share: DISABLED (turn it off again when not in use).
- Nearby Share Notification: DISABLED
- Location Services: ALL DISABLED

Developer Options:​

- Allow window-level blurs: DISABLED
- Background Check: DISABLED
- Suspend execution of Cached apps: ENABLED
- Animation scale (3 entries) : x0.5
- Logger Buffer Sizes: OFF
- Predictive Back Animations: ON

Camera Settings​

- Turn off location permission for the camera app.
- Face Beautification: DISABLED
- Video Stabilization: DISABLED
- Video Resolution: 4K30
- Social share: DISABLED.
- Google lens suggestions: DISABLED
Advanced
- Show dirty lens warning: DISABLED
- Store videos efficiently: DISABLED

Google Play Store Settings​

- Google Play Protect: DISABLED
- Autoplay: DISABLED
- Auto Update Apps: DISABLED
- App Installation Optimization: DISABLED

Google Chrome Settings​

Settings
- Page Preloading: DISABLED
Chrome Flags
- Smooth Scrolling: ENABLED
- Parallel Downloading: ENABLED

Social Media Apps Settings​

- Theme: AMOLED/DARK
- Autoplay videos: DISABLED
- Log out of all Old sessions.
- Delete old logged in devices.

Spotify Settings​

- Canvas: DISABLED
- Gapless: ENABLED
- Normalize volume: DISABLED
- Device broadcast status: DISABLED
- Spotify connect in the background: DISABLED

Add "Sync" Quick Toggle​

- Download Quick Settings
- Enable it under "System no root"
- Add the tile normally through the edit button

GENERAL FIXES​

Diagnose Your Problem​

- Go to Device care, battery, check your battery usage. If nothing shows, it's battery leak.

Fix Battery Leak (IMPORTANT)​

- Go to Permission Manager, enable "Show system apps" and check for any excess permissions, especially hardware like location, camera or nearby devices.

Fix Battery Calibration​

- Use your phone normally till it dies off automatically.
- Plug it into the charger and leave it charging for 2h while it's still off.
- Turn it on, calibrate the battery then unplug your phone and use it normally until it dies again.
- Plug it into the charger and leave it charging for 2h while it's still off.
- Turn it on, calibrate the battery again and unplug it, enjoy

Fix Google Apps Battery drain​

Go to Settings, Apps. Enable "Show system apps" then look for each of:
- Google Play Store
- Google Services Framework
- Google Play Services
- Android System WebView"
Uninstall Updates, Clear data & Cache, Force Stop, Reboot, update and follow setup.

Fix Camera Experience​

- Wipe Data & Cache, reboot to Safe mode, do it again, then reboot normally.

Fix OLED Burn-in/Ghosting​

- Download LCD Burn-in Wiper
- Disable Auto-brightness & set Brightness to 100%
- Leave on for at least 1 hour

Fix Speaker crackling​

- Download Speaker cleaner
- Set your volume to max
- Put your phone face down & launch

Remove Ads System-Wide​

Go to settings, connections, more connections settings, look for Private DNS.
- dns.adguard-dns.com or dns.adguard.com
- Close all apps then reboot.

Apps Alternatives​

- Apps list

 

[reas0n]

What's wrong with Adaptive Battery? AFAIK it just slows down charging through the night when u have alarm turned on.

 

[Hamid Chikh]

What's wrong with Adaptive Battery? AFAIK it just slows down charging through the night when u have alarm turned on.

That's adaptive charging you're describing

 

[devilsshadow]

What kind of battery improvement/screen on time can we expect from these optimizations? I'm currently getting 6-8h of screen time or 40~ hours of standby with 4~ hours of screentime.

 

[Hamid Chikh]

What kind of battery improvement/screen on time can we expect from these optimizations? I'm currently getting 6-8h of screen time or 40~ hours of standby with 4~ hours of screentime.

All kinds actually, from smoother phone to longer battery life.

 

[rydare]

I wouldn't follow this guide, especially since it recommends malware (ccleaner hasn't been good for a looooong time).

There's also no need for draining your battery until the phone turns off multiple times to "calibrate" it, and disabling stuff that many people find useful (like location for Maps)... going through ADB to turn off settings available through the UI is also strange... Seems like snake oil.

 

[Hamid Chikh]

Reserved

 

[Hamid Chikh]

I wouldn't follow this guide, especially since it recommends malware (ccleaner hasn't been good for a looooong time).

There's also no need for draining your battery until the phone turns off multiple times to "calibrate" it, and disabling stuff that many people find useful (like location for Maps)... going through ADB to turn off settings available through the UI is also strange... Seems like snake oil.

Then don't .

 

[bobbarker2]

I wouldn't follow this guide, especially since it recommends malware (ccleaner hasn't been good for a looooong time).

There's also no need for draining your battery until the phone turns off multiple times to "calibrate" it, and disabling stuff that many people find useful (like location for Maps)... going through ADB to turn off settings available through the UI is also strange... Seems like snake oil.

Agreed. CCleaner is garbage malware and most of the tips cripple your device's capabilities. One example from the rec'd settings... Turn off WiFi/Bluetooth scanning/GPS. Sure you'll save battery.. at the expense of losing location results. Also many apps require GPS permissions so this suggestion isn't even really practical.

Battery Calibration Pro? Hasn't been updated since 2017. If you want to know what's going on with your battery get a relevant app like Ampere. And why do we even need to "calibrate" our batteries?

And many of the apps listed in PixelSafe.txt marked as "bloatware" are definitely not safe to uninstall..
com.android.omadm.service
com.google.android.ims
com.google.android.carrier

Good luck using your phone without these.

And if AppControl OP is suggesting to use to uninstall the listed apps is doing so by modifying system partition say goodbye to passing safetynet.

100% do not use anything suggested here lol

 

[nutzfreelance]

Agreed. CCleaner is garbage malware and most of the tips cripple your device's capabilities. One example from the rec'd settings... Turn off WiFi/Bluetooth scanning/GPS. Sure you'll save battery.. at the expense of losing location results. Also many apps require GPS permissions so this suggestion isn't even really practical.

Battery Calibration Pro? Hasn't been updated since 2017. If you want to know what's going on with your battery get a relevant app like Ampere. And why do we even need to "calibrate" our batteries?

And many of the apps listed in PixelSafe.txt marked as "bloatware" are definitely not safe to uninstall..
com.android.omadm.service
com.google.android.ims
com.google.android.carrier

Good luck using your phone without these.

And if AppControl OP is suggesting to use to uninstall the listed apps is doing so by modifying system partition say goodbye to passing safetynet.

100% do not use anything suggested here lol

Im going to call bull**** on you here
Ive had omadm disabled for over 2 months with zero issues

OMA DM server development cooperation in the air, mobile phones and wireless devices to provide remote configuration, configure and update device management (DM) client enables operators and handset manufacturers outbreak system dependencies between DM tight.

if you can explain exactly why something should not be disabled and why it will cause a bootloop or failure to boot great.
if you are just blowing smoke out your ass because you think your phone should wipe your ass for you and everyone else.
then go away you are not helping the discussion.

i also dont think any non opensource app should be used as snake oil to fix issues unless we know exactly how it works.

people should always do their own research on everything, XDA is not for sheep following a guide word for word because they don't understand why things work or don't work

 

[Hamid Chikh]

Agreed. CCleaner is garbage malware and most of the tips cripple your device's capabilities. One example from the rec'd settings... Turn off WiFi/Bluetooth scanning/GPS. Sure you'll save battery.. at the expense of losing location results. Also many apps require GPS permissions so this suggestion isn't even really practical.

Battery Calibration Pro? Hasn't been updated since 2017. If you want to know what's going on with your battery get a relevant app like Ampere. And why do we even need to "calibrate" our batteries?

And many of the apps listed in PixelSafe.txt marked as "bloatware" are definitely not safe to uninstall..
com.android.omadm.service
com.google.android.ims
com.google.android.carrier

Good luck using your phone without these.

And if AppControl OP is suggesting to use to uninstall the listed apps is doing so by modifying system partition say goodbye to passing safetynet.

100% do not use anything suggested here lol

PLEASE, READ OP CAREFULLY BEFORE COMMENTING. THANK YOU​

- CCleaner does the job, also, uninstalling it right after you're done using it is a key step.
- Doesn't matter when has it been updated, it does the job.
- I actually have a pixel 6, and those apps listed are ALREADY UNINSTALLED for me, and i'm running fine as you can see .
- Bootloader locked, no root, and you're worried about system partitions ? And safetynet too ?
- OMADM was shipped disabled for me, i never needed to take it out.
- Literally NO ONE forced you to do what i said, all of those are suggestions, feel free to do, or not do them.
- You don't like my suggestions ? Skip them, go away, don't come posting nonsense, please, i want to keep my thread clean of bull****.
- 100% nobody asked your opinion.

 

[Hamid Chikh]

Im going to call bull**** on you here
Ive had omadm disabled for over 2 months with zero issues

OMA DM server development cooperation in the air, mobile phones and wireless devices to provide remote configuration, configure and update device management (DM) client enables operators and handset manufacturers outbreak system dependencies between DM tight.

if you can explain exactly why something should not be disabled and why it will cause a bootloop or failure to boot great.
if you are just blowing smoke out your ass because you think your phone should wipe your ass for you and everyone else.
then go away you are not helping the discussion.

i also dont think any non opensource app should be used as snake oil to fix issues unless we know exactly how it works.

people should always do their own research on everything, XDA is not for sheep following a guide word for word because they don't understand why things work or don't work

As i already stated in the past post, those apps are already uninstalled on my phone and i don't have any problem. Everything is working as intended, but with less heat, faster charging and better battery life

 

[bobbarker2]

OMA DM and it's associated apps are frozen out of the box (for my carrier anyway). Can't speak for all carriers.

Lol I just copy/pasted from where I saw in the txt to uninstall com.google.android.ims and
com.google.android.carrier.. my bad if I included one that can be removed "safely".

Though how would it be beneficial to battery life to remove a frozen system app?

You missed my point. There are apps in the txt that should never be removed or even be suggested to be removed because without them, you no longer have a phone.

This entire battery optimization guide is full of bad advice at best and changes that will break your phone. What's the point of having a phone with amazing battering life but no functionality?

Don't believe me than go ahead and disable/remove com.google.android.ims and the other ims services. See how well sms/mms/telephony work through an IP network.

 

[bobbarker2]

Literally NO ONE forced you to do what i said, all of those are suggestions, feel free to do, or not do them. You don't like my suggestions ? Skip them, go away, don't come posting nonsense, please, i want to keep my thread clean of bull****.

XDA is a community with lots of people who don't have in-depth knowledge of Android. Some people may not know better.

So as a community, we also want to stop the spread of bad information. You can't post a guide for better battery life and then say "but no one look into them or question them they work 100%". That's not how things work.

And with that not wasting more time on this thread. Best of luck!

 

[Naphtaline]

To everyone coming here, please, if you don't have serious issues with your battery, never ever drain it to 0. And over all, never ever try to start a phone with a 0% battery.
A battery is always better at 40-60%, not more, not less (you can find a lot of battery care articles on the web explaining why).

This calibration method is probably a way to solve a problem after flashing your phone with a custom ROM and after that, you see wrong battery percentage (like if your phone switch off before 3% remaining).

But please note that draining your battery to 0 will decrease its capacity permanently (and it can be by a huge amount if you insist to much). Also charging it to 100% everyday can decrease your battery life faster.

In an everyday use of your phone, it's better by a huge amount to charge your phone as often as you can and unplug it around 60-80%. You will see a difference after years.

Do you know why a new phone is around 50-60% battery when you buy it and switch it on for the first time ? Now you know

 

[Strephon Alkhalikoi]

XDA is a community with lots of people who don't have in-depth knowledge of Android. Some people may not know better.

So as a community, we also want to stop the spread of bad information. You can't post a guide for better battery life and then say "but no one look into them or question them they work 100%". That's not how things work.

And with that not wasting more time on this thread. Best of luck!

The OP isn't going to love me at all. I just know I'm going to get a "nobody asked for your opinion" comment from him. He's right, nobody did ask my opinion, but that doesn't mean I'm not allowed to give it anyway. So, while I thank the OP for his enthusiasm and his attempts to provide something useful for Pixel 6 owners, I strongly advise caution in following these tweaks.

Out of the OP's list, the only things I could agree with would as follows: advertising ID, always on display, system dark mode, animation scale, and systemwide removal of ads. That last one however, I use Blokada for as I feel it's more effective.

OP should explain his reasoning behind each and every one of these changes in this list, so the people he is trying to help can understand his reasoning here. I've been mucking around the guts of Android devices since Android 2.1 and even I would like to know why he chose these things. I'd like to know because most of them seem to cripple the functions of the unit, i.e. negatively impact the Google experience. For example, gestures - gesture navigation - he says to disable. Why?

Some of these tweaks have little to no effect, could actually do more harm than good, or have better options available.

• Battery Calibration - Totally unnecessary and only serves to waste battery charge cycles, which you do NOT want to do with a battery trapped in an aluminum frame between two slabs of glass. Battery calibration apps are unnecessary as the only thing they do is delete batterystats.bin, which Android automatically does upon removing the unit from a charger. This has been a known fact since around 2012.
• Apps lag using CCleaner - Ignoring CCleaner's reputation since its purchase by Avast, lag from apps on a Pixel 6 is debatable. In any event, SDMaid I feel is a better option than CCleaner, especially as it functions quite nicely for debloating.
• Fix OLED Burn-in/Ghosting - The disable gestures tweak could accelerate burn-in along the bottom of the display as the device would have to revert to the 3-dot navigation option. Any burn-in the screen does acquire would have to be rather light in order for an app to fix it, but so long as the wear is light an app will work. I have seen some very extreme examples of burn-in on an OLED screen, and no app would help those.

And then there is the bloatware section. Why in the hell is it that everyone and their mother still recommends deleting apps from the system partition instead of disabling them? Seriously, in the early days of Android it made sense. Now, it's only a waste of time, especially on a device whose system partitions are set to read-only in the first place. Using SDMaid or Titanium Backup and freezing, i.e. disabling, apps is far less likely to cause problems. If I recall correctly, the freezing function does not require root access to work.

My thoughts...take them as you will. Most of this stuff I won't bother with, and the things I do bother with I've already done.

 

[vandyman]

I use the following :
Nova launcher pro
Appdash pro
SD Maid pro
Adaway
Modules - systemless and safety net V2.

 

[Hamid Chikh]

Updated Google Pixel debloat list:​

- Added overlays

 

[Notor1ouS-]

i smell snake oil.

 

[Ricardo_G]

From the author of ​

Complete Samsung OneUI Optimization​

GENERAL BATTERY/PERFORMANCE SETTINGS​

To Start With​

- Factory Reset.

Settings App​

- Adaptive Battery: DISABLED.
- Synchronization: DISABLED (turn it off again when not in use).
- Location: DISABLED (turn it off again when not in use).
- Advanced features/Gestures: DISABLED
- Bluetooth Scanning (Location services): DISABLED
- Usage & Diagnostics: DISABLED
- Advertising ID: DELETE
- Sound/Vibration feedback: ALL OFF
- Network Mode: 4G
- Always On Display (AoD): DISABLED
- System-Wide Dark Mode: ENABLED

Google Settings​

- Nearby connections: DISABLED
- Devices: DISABLED
- Nearby Share: DISABLED (turn it off again when not in use).
- Emergency Location Service: DISABLED

Developer Options:​

- Background Check: DISABLED
- Suspend execution of Cached apps (under dev options): ENABLED
- Animation scale (3 entries) : x0.5

Home Screen​

- Apply dark black Amoled Wallpaper
- Apply dark theme to Wallpaper

GENERAL BATTERY/PERFORMANCE FIXES​

Battery Calibration (Method #1)​

- Fully charge your phone, then use it normally till it turns off automatically.
- Wait a few minutes, try to turn it on again, to make sure it's really dead.
- Plug it into the charger and leave it charging for 2h while it's still off.
- Unplug it, turn it on, use it normally it dies again
- Wait a few minutes, try to turn it on again, to make sure it's really dead.
- Plug it into the charger and leave it charging for 2h while it's still off.
- Unplug it, turn it on, and you're done! Enjoy.

Battery Calibration (Method #2)​

- Download Battery Calibration Pro
- Fully charge your phone
- Calibrate
- Restart
- Unplug your phone
Other calibration methods can be found here

Fix General Battery Drain​

- Go to Permission Manager, check for any excess permissions, like location, camera or nearby devices.

Fix Apps Lag​

- Download CCleaner
- Give it all permissions required
- Delete all apps caches
- Go to apps and Force stop all apps
- Uninstall CCleaner then reboot.

Fix Google Apps Battery drain​

Go to Settings, Apps. Enable "show system apps" then look for each of:
"Google Play Store", "Google Services Framework", "Google Play Services", "Chrome", "WebView" & "Google App".
- Clear data & cache
- Uninstall Updates
- Force Stop
- Reboot, let them update and follow setup.
- Turn Sync Off
- Auto Update Apps: DISABLED

Fix Camera Experience​

- Wipe Data & Cache of Camera app, reboot to Safe mode, do it again, then reboot normally.

Fix Spotify Battery Drain​

- Under Spotify settings, turn off "Spotify connect in the background" (This won't stop background music playing).

Remove Ads System-Wide​

Go to settings, connections, more connections settings, look for Private DNS.
- Set: dns.adguard.com as custom dns & save.
- Close all apps then reboot.

Fix Slow App Install Time​

Under General Google Play Store settings
- "App Install Optimisation": DISABLED

Fix OLED Burn-in/Ghosting​

- Download LCD Burn-in Wiper
- Disable Auto-brightness
- Set Brightness to 100%
- Launch a 2 hours session

Fix Speaker Crackling​

- Download Speaker cleaner
- Set your volume to max
- Put your phone face down

Fix Google Chrome​

- Page Preloading: DISABLED
Chrome Flags
- QUIC protocol: ENABLED
- Smooth Scrolling: ENABLED
- Parallel Downloading: ENABLED
- Auto Dark Mode for Web Content: ENABLED

Fix Reddit​

- Theme: AMOLED
- Autoplay videos: OFF

REMOVE BLOATWARE​

You're gonna need:
- ADB AppControl (Windows)
- Samsung USB Drivers
- Latest presets attached at the bottom of this post
- You have to enable USB debugging and "Always authorise" on your phone

In AppControl
- Load "PixelSafe"
- Take a look at all what's going to be removed then unselect apps & features you need.
- Apply Uninstall while checking "delete data & cache".
- Restart your phone.

Important Notes
- Uncheck features and apps you need.
- You can always go to "Uninstall" section in AC, search and restore the features you need.
- Keep in mind that deleted apps stay in the phone and will all be restored after factory reset.
- Restore all apps before updating your phone

ADB OPTIMISATIONS​

#BACKUP FIRST​

- adb devices
- adb shell settings list global > global_stock.txt
- adb shell settings list system > system_stock.txt
- adb shell settings list secure > secure_stock.txt
If you want to check parameter's state, replace "put" with "get" and remove value.
Ex: For "animator_duration_scale"
- adb shell settings get global animator_duration_scale

Change Refresh rate​

- adb shell settings put system peak_refresh_rate 90.0
- adb shell settings put system min_refresh_rate 60.0

Change Animation scale​

- adb shell settings put global window_animation_scale 0.35
- adb shell settings put global transition_animation_scale 0.35
- adb shell settings put global animator_duration_scale 0.35

Enable Suspend execution of cached apps​

- adb shell settings put global cached_apps_freezer enabled

Change Adaptive Brightness Bias (1 = Brighter, -1 = Darker)​

- adb shell settings put system screen_auto_brightness_adj 1

Disable Gestures​

- adb shell settings put secure double_tap_to_wake 0
- adb shell settings put secure wake_gesture_enabled 0
- adb shell settings put secure camera_double_twist_to_flip_enabled 0
- adb shell settings put secure volume_hush_gesture 0
- adb shell settings put secure hush_gesture_used 0
- adb shell settings put secure silence_gesture 0
- adb shell settings put secure skip_gesture 0

Disable Sound Effects on Interaction​

- adb shell settings put system sound_effects_enabled 0

Disable Haptic Feedback​

- adb shell settings put system haptic_feedback_enabled 0
- adb shell settings put system haptic_feedback_intensity 0

Disable Screen Saver​

- adb shell settings put secure screensaver_enabled 0
- adb shell settings put secure screensaver_activate_on_sleep 0
- adb shell settings put secure screensaver_activate_on_dock 0

Enable Hidden Wifi/Data Toggle​

- adb shell settings put global settings_provider_model false
- adb shell settings put secure sysui_qs_tiles "wifi,cell,$(settings get secure sysui_qs_tiles)"

Stay tuned, more is coming ...

#I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED TO YOUR DEVICE​

Bravissimo !
thanks a lot my friend !!!