Moto G: Unusable 😭
Motorola's Moto G is a mid range phone according to wikipedia, they made 3 generations of it, one came out in 2013, other in 2014 and you guessed it! the last one came out in 2015, honestly i dont really get the need to release a new gen every year (im looking at you apple).
I have the wonderful luck to have the FIRST one, which surprisingly released with android 4 and it updated up to 5???? pretty interesting because usually i see android phones only get one version of support.
this phone was made with a direct collab with google so its pretty stock aside from some moto stuff, like for example moto assist and alert.
alert seems to be some app that lets you share your location with family and friends and to emergency call someone
assist is an app which lets you do some stuff to help you out, basically just, yknow, ASSIST you. for example you can set the time when you go to sleep so that the phone automatically goes into dnd, it has a driving mode, meeting mode and a home detector (it detects if you arrive home
a nitpick i have with this phone (which is an even bigger issue when you count in what im gonna say after this) is that there is no inbuilt file manager, now this would be usually fine right? just install zarchiver and itll be alright, WELL
WHEN I TRY TO ADD A GOOGLE PLAY ACCOUNT ONTO THIS DAMMNED DEVICE, IT GETS STUCK ON THE LAST SCREEN. IN THE LAST SCREEN WHERE IT ASKS YOU TO BACKUP THE PHONE, NO MATTER WHICH OPTION I PRESS IT GETS STUCK FOREVER IN IT.
IVE TRIED WAITING FOR A VERY LONG TIME, AND IT NEVER WORKS.
you know, maybe if this actually worked id actually use this as my main! it runs very smooth and i can prob run all the stuff i need, if it WORKED.
the keyboard feels very nice, it vibrates when you touch it and it really feels like you're typing!
as i mentioned before this thing runs smooth, however that comes at a cost...................................................
this phone's first bootup after it drains all its battery is so slow it makes sneopards' vodaphone 858 smart look fast.
p.s. also this thing is so old that in the chromes "bookmarks" widget preview it shows PICASA .
Rescue Story
this phone used to be owned by one of my cousins, it was left alone in a box full of other old phones, this poor things backcase is completly mutilated by the times its been opened. When i opened it up it had a 4gb card, i have no idea if it still works because i havent tested it yet.
i then plugged it in and it showed this screen, and then i patiently waited for it to charge
when i first got it i charged it and it had a very cool bootanim, i couldnt record it but heres a vid i found (youtube.com)
it had a pattern lock, however i didnt know it and it seems nobody else remembered it, so i just had to reset it back to 0. the recovery is super weird tho, you gotta first navigate thru motos own proprietary recovery to then find the actual android recovery, motos recovery had volume up to confirm for some reason??? why??? this confused me so much.
i then reset it and thank god it didnt ask me for a google account during setup or else i couldnt have gotten this thing to work.
one interesting this is wikipedia says this goes up to Android 5.1.1, while mine has only Android 5.1
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