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I tried to send a text message using my voice from the home screen with "OK Google". This worked very well; my Nexus 5 sent the text message out. But I don't see my outgoing text message anywhere. I'm using Textra for my SMS app. The outgoing message is not in Textra and it's not in Google...

I've got Nexus 5 with KitKat. I'd like to set different ringtones for different people when I get a text message. I know how to do this with phone calls, but the the default SMS app (Hangouts) doesn't seem to support this. Is there some sort of work-around or app that well let me do this? If...

I have Nexus 5 with Kitkat. For text messages I'm using the default app - Hangouts. I want to send texts using my voice and have the phone convert what I say to text. But I can't figure out how to do this in the hangout app. I can send a text if I start with OK Google on the home screen, but...

I have a Nexus 5 with KitKat. How do I add a homescreen shortcut to a website? I switched from an iphone and this was pretty easy but I can't figure it out on kitkat. I found a couple pre-kitkat examples showing how to do this, but they don't work for kitkat.

When I'm on my Nexus 5 home screen the phone should be listening for "OK Google", but it doesn't. I'm running snapdragon batteryguru. Could this have turned off this feature? Any way I can see what batteryguru has turned off?

I have Google maps running on my Nexus 7 (original version, not latest). Frequently while I'm driving Google maps will not update the map, so it gets blurry or even disappears. It will also not reroute. I do have a network connection, I tested by going to a web page. This doesn't happen all...