Well, it seems we have passed the cellular industry's magical 2 year mark and moved into year 3 of it's life, seeing as it was first released into the market July 28, 2015, with rave reviews and high hopes of Marshmallow and the then unknown "Android 7"... And the device has held up well and proven it's worth.
But now that we have passed the mythical 2 year mark, it is likely dead to Moto... the chances of seeing Nougat, or even a future security update, are near zero seeing as there is are G4 and G5 devices out there, not to mention a slew of other newer devices from Lenovo's Moto(rola) or whatever it is now.
I am not going to continue to bash Motonovo, it does nothing constructive... But let's discuss 2 years later...
How has your device held up? Are you still using it as a daily device? Is it still stock? How long will you continue to use it? etc...
For me, my Moto G 2015 2/16 model made a solid year long run as my daily driver, or should I say daily flyer, since it probably made 100+ airplane trips too? I ordered it via Moto Maker within a week of release, and ran stock for a while, rooted stock, then several custom ROM's, before being moved back to stock when it was relegated to the "spare drawer" next to the Nexus 5 (which is still new and has all it's original screen and edge covers still attached, but that's a different story) a little less than year ago, late August if I recall correctly, when I picked up a Moto X Pure edition on a Best Buy Deal of the Day for $250, which overall has been a decent device but not without it's own problems and a learning curve to deal with the battery life.
The G has been used off and on since then as a solid spare device, taking the place of a Huawei Ascend Mate 2 that took dive to the concrete while my son saved a couple paychecks to get an Axon 7 Mini, when a Sammy that had to get repaired, it served a few weeks on the road when my Moto X decided not be nice to me during weekend flashing stints (it's now back to locked and stock BTW), and the few occasions when I just wanted something smaller and easier on battery (the MXPE is a battery hog). I am currently on the lookout for something new, with far better battery life, but in no hurry. So as of now the Moto G sits there, waiting to be used, and occasionally fired up to assist an XDA or other forum user with a question, but otherwise it likely won't see any long term use by members of this household. Happy birthday and thanks for your faithful service, trusty friend.
Well I got mine on December 07, 2015. Its 1 year 7 months 22 days old as of today. The battery is struggling a little to keep up now, especially when I am using Resurrection Remix with a custom kernel.
I unlocked the bootloader and flashed the CM 12.1 snapshot build right after reaching home (I was so eager, I forgot to backup the stock ROM; it was after the 'swipe to wipe' step when the realization stuck me)
Ran CM nightly builds for a while, using CyanDelta to update, then switched to BLISS. The experience was very good, it was (and still is) one of the best ROMs I've used.
But when the maintainer left, I went on and flashed AICP 12.1. Used it for the whole 2 1/2 -4th quarter of 2016 (marshmallow period). Many times have I tried to switch to RR, but couldn't as I liked QS tile pages and RR had them removed and replaced with the AOSP one.
Finally, with the arrival of Resurrection Remix Nougat builds, I found a new daily driver ROM. And to this day, I am continuing to use it (will most likely use it on my future devices too).
The journey so far was very good, and my phone has tolerated me very well. The headphone jack had become loose last year, and now doesn't work entirely. I have a (bad) habit of washing my phone everytime I get back home, and now the headphone jack pins have developed a green coating from oxidation of copper after a few full submersions without cleanup of the jack [emoji14] . The charger port is loose too, it charges slow, the battery % gets lowered if I use it while plugged in. I am planning to replace these two ports along with the battery when I give it to another family member, however the phone is still usable in it's current condition.
I was aiming for Moto G5 plus. However it doesn't have a compass sensor (except the US variant) which I need (for star chart like apps). So maybe Moto G5S Plus can be my next device, except for the 5.5 rumoured screen (I prefer 5-5.2 range). All I hope is that the G5 line gets the same love that G3 has got.
I wonder why many of the people who worked on multiple Moto G devices upto G3 doesn't appear in G4 & G5 forums? The G5 has gotten a decent community support, but the G4 family seems to lag behind. Just curious
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Wow. Can't believe this phone is out for 2 years now.
I don't remember exactly but I think I got it somewhere between 20 to 25 August 2015. I still remember unboxing this great phone. I dropped it in the very first hour of use. Fortunately, nothing happened. The device has held up really well since I dropped it many more times in the following months. No problems faced until now as far hardware is concerned.
As far the software side goes, I stayed on stock for a fair amount of time. I rooted my phone after it recieved the MM update. I rooted it and installed CM13 on March 13, 2016. After that I continued using CM until I came across Resurrection Remix. And after that I kept swinging back and forth between these two ROMs. I knew about XDA and read the respective threads of the ROMs every day but I hadn't signed up to XDA. I signed up on XDA somewhere in September 2016 I guess. I returned back to stock for a while in November since everyone was focused on Nougat ROMs and they weren't all that stable then. Once Nougat ROMs were stable enough, I flashed CM14 and RR N, and again kept switching between them.
Then came the demise of CyanogenMod and rise of LineageOS. I tried a couple of Lineage ROMs but chose to stick with RR as my daily. But it was short-lived since I started using Dirty Unicorns. And since May 2017, I just keep trying new ROMs as they come out and stick with one I like. Right now, I'm on AOSIP, and I have no idea which ROM I'm gonna be trying in few weeks time. It's fun.
The phone held its own after all these days.
It was a great pleasure owning this device even if Motorola had abandoned it.
I bought mine from Amazon on December 22 2015 as a Christmas gift to myself. This phone has served me well through the year and 7 months, although the battery is starting to show signs of age. It's not holding a charge too well any more.
I started off running stock and managed that for about 4 months before unlocking the bootloader and rooting. I mostly ran rooted stock until recently. I have tried the cm and lineage builds, but found the battery life to be subpar. I'm currently running Pure Nexus with Magisk for root access.
I have found the Moto G3 to be a great device. It has done everything I have needed and then some. It will soon be retired to the old smartphone drawer where it will keep my Galaxy S2, HTC One V, and Optimus V company. I'm looking to replace it with the G5 Plus within the couple weeks. Hope to see some of you over on that forum.
(By the way, the other old phones listed are still in working condition, and still almost like new condition.)
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The G has been there w/me since January 2016, was really blown away by its performance (coming from a Galaxy S4 which was bought in 2014).
For the entire 1st year, I ran completely stock. When I heard of it not getting official Nougat, then got unlocked, rooted and LineageOS! It's still a daily driver for me, everything works just perfectly!
I did went stock in between for a few weeks, but I was adorned to Nougat, so got back to LineageOS again in May, and boy, it works like a charm!
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I've mine since a year and a half ago. It blown me away at the very start but after few months the battery started to show that it wasn't as good as the OG G I had. Flashed LOS just to find out the camera didn't work and went back to stock within a day. Right now I'm struggling deciding to flash either Lineage or Resurrection, I have no idea which one should I install but I'm sure I will install the Moto Camera if the stock rom camera doesn't work.
Planning on getting the G5 plus and keep this one as a backup and music player for my bedroom. I'm really liking the results of SoT I see on the internet about the G5 plus and given my normal usage I'm sure I can easily surpass the 6 hours everyone is getting.
Well, personally I dont expect Motorola upgrades beyond Android 6.0 because this phone has accomplished two years. Also we have the fifth generation, the moto C, the moto E4 plus
I´m using unofficial Lineage Os 14.1 and/or Resurrection Remix 5.8.3 with excellent results (rooted and bootloader unlocked). Long life to moto g the third (the last good moto g generation developed by Google).
G4 and current generations are made by Lenovo so i dont have interest on them.
I have purchased this device 2 year's ago.. & still using it as my daily driver with no screen protector or case.. for the first whole year it was on purely stock with no root.. as after nought released i have first flashed Unofficial Cynogenmod by Alberto.. as it was have some bugs so i switched to AOSP extended... after that i have used almost every available Roms on my G3.. & now finally sticked to Official LineageOs 14.1 builds..
& Yes will be using this as my daily driver until it gots some major issues.. till now i didn't got any major issues with my device & really happy with this device... But yes i don't like Lenomoto service regarding to software updates.. anyway's enjoy your G3 & developers please support this device as long as possible...
It really had been 2 years atleast for my device it will be just a week later.
Honestly I got this device after my 10th board exams and this was and is my first device.
I unlocked bootloader the very next day and rooted it.
I tried few roms but went back to the stock for better battery life.
I dont have any case or screen protector till now, I tried few but I didnt liked the overall feel of the device.
During early days BrokenOS was my fav rom, I kept hoping between RR and crdroid too.
Now 2 years have passed and I havent seen stock for many months.
The device is holding up pretty strong, and I plan to use this device for another year.
With battery replacement I wouldnt have any problem using the device further.
And headphone jack also doesnt works, but I have bluetooth headsets though.
Currently I am running latest RR with some further modifications as my perfect setup.
Mine is almost two! bought on September 2015.
Except for 2 little scratches on two edges the phone is still perfect.
The phone is locked and on stock and that's why battery is still perfect.
I'm very happy with the phone and I think the real pity is no upgrade to N.
For sure the device can work very well on MM but Lenovo should have upgraded it at least one time as stated.
I bought one g4 play for my wife and she's very happy too.
Now it's time for 5th gen motog even if I'm impressed also with moto e4: many good featured for a very cheap phone
I got mine in 5 Dec,2015 via flipkart....
i still remember how i searched google phone under 12000 to 15000...and saw results of micromax,lumia and other phones....then one of my college friend who used moto g1 suggested me to buy this......so one fine evening the device came.........
I was skeptical at first about the phones look on the website.......but when i unpacked the box ,i loved its design,its unique hold......
mine was lollipop at first with moto globe boot animation,within a period of 3 or 4 months (i cant remember correctly) the mm update came........as Per GB data cost was very high in india at that time,and i cant afford a wifi..........i went to my college(which has some wifi hotspots) and sat 2 hours for the update.....when the device booted up on marshmallow i wished to see some dramatic change.......but everything was same the bootanimation changed and the settings icon rotates to give system ui tuner.............
i loved my mobile a lot that days.......its camera app was good.......captures quick photos........it is the first mobile for me for capturing selfies.........also i even remerber about a bet with my friends when i said that my moto is water resistant.......they hardly believed it...........so i put my mobile inside a jug for 10 mins and nothing happened............
things changed when google released pixel..........i was blown away with the ok google functionality that time( now its a different story though).....so i searched web,came to know about xda.........rooted my mobile..........installed xposed and android nify............
i was very sure that motorola will release nought then..........but it didnot happened.........so i went for a custom rom........it was unofficial lineage os at first..........then resurrection remix.........i used rr for a month..........then i switched to aosp extended............and finally i settled to unofficial aospa .............
it was a great journey.........though my charging port is damaged........i will change it as soon as possible.........the other parts of the mobile are good........battery backup is nearly 4 hours for moderate use with wifi..........
Now i want some change.........though i recommend motorola to everyone,i will go for oneplus or pixel for my next device........one reason for that is paranoid android team working with that devices,and their rom is amazingly smooth...........the other will be the software update........moto is still good today to give updates but not upto the mark.........i am not at all offended for moto not giving nought,(there are soo many aosp & caf alternatives at xda.)..i am annoyed beacause moto has broke the promise...........
i see a great future for upcoming moto devices..........they have courage and out of the box thinking.......they are the only company that relying on modularity,at the same time they did not fear to ditch the headphone jack........i really wish moto would provide a good battery and nice camera on their phones.....
once a moto fanboy will always be a moto fanboy.......long live motorola.........
hello moto........good afternoon
I bought my phone 1 year and 1 month ago for half of the price with six months warranty.I am using it as my daily driver and its wonderful not because of company but because of devs. I'm on tesla rom with firekernel. All i was disappointed of company not providing ota update of nougat and lesser battery capacity.But i can easily brag of its water resistance.Cause i'm not worried when it rains.It's been beautiful daily with my darling daily.Also i'm going to use it one more year
I bought mine in April last year. Was very proud of buying it, over the likes of Xiaomi and others expecting two years software update.
Among my friends, my was the only to run Marshmallow. Everyone was quite excited when I received the Marshmallow update, many were quite impressed.
Finally a bad day came along. The phone slipped from my hands. The screen shattered with a part of glass breaking into very fine cracks, so fine that it is difficult to read any text through that part of the screen.
Then received the message that this phone will never be upgraded to Nougat. I immediately took to flashing CM 14.1 nightly (no Lineage OS in the beginning of December last year). Then I have flashed a number of ROMs. Currently in RR build.
As of now the usb port has been a bit damaged. It can only be used to charge the device and not connect to PC. The phone might have grown "old" but I will continue to use it for a long time. I also think that the excellent developer support this phone gets will also bring Android O to this device.
hey guys, Im looking to buy this phone (8GB+1GB ver.) and i wanna know, can i use SD as internal storage with 6.0? Because im aware many companies block this feature from their phones.
PS. Do you recomend me this semi new or a visibly used LG G2 (not only cause of the damaged case, but for that common dead tough problem)
I bought mine around Diwali festival 2015, I upgraded from Micromax A60. I jumped from Android 2.1 to 5.1.1, that was like a rebirth for me. Ran full stock for one year warranty period then rooted and installed some roms to experiment with. Came to know new security updates being released so flashed the factory firmware, then the news of CM to Lineage os conversion came, i was eagerly tracking their Jenkins for first osprey build.
Still using this tough boy and still waiting for something that can replace this, had high expectations from one plus five but now the search is still on.
I obtained my XT1540 back in December 2015. Although rooted, I have remained with stock ROM, kernel, and recovery. No regrets as I was very happy with the G3 performance, especially as compared to those $700 Samsung and Apple devices. But I have no idea what my next replacement will be. I would like to stay with a preforming budget model like the G3 that is easy to root.
I used mine on stock 6.0 for a year, and then on LineageOS. If they were to come out with N for the G3, I would not use it - LinOS works too well. Unless I break it I expect that I will use it as daily driver for another year. Nice phone!
I bought XT1540 about a year ago. I just recently unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP. I flashed the Tesla ROM and it was good except video playback didn't work (it played the audio but not the video.) Today I flashed LineageOS 14..1 and loaded the Google Pixel launcher. For my use (phone, text, web browsing), it will be fine for as long as the battery holds out. Although my wife's new Moto G5+ is pretty darn nice!
Mine is from July 12th of last year and boy it was such a great year! I LOVE this phone!!! Never had a phone which can hold up to the latest and greatest for so long. I'm getting instant updates to the latest versions of Android (via LineageOS) and all the cool ROMs soon or later get ported to the osprey. Like Paranoid Android - it's now available and it even is updated to 7.2.3!
The battery was some disappointment when I got the phone. It didn't make it through half of my day. I don't know whether it was the stock ROM fault or I just expected too much as a battery life, but now on Lineage OS, RessurectionRemix and MIUI 8 the battery life is pretty great!
I'm going to keep my osprey. At least for one more year! I love it!
I ordered mine on 29th & received it on 30th July 2015.
Replaced the device with a new one a day later as the original one's power button felt a but flush compared to my OG Moto G. Turns out it was pretty much by design. It has been my primary driver since then.
I really appreciate its camera (in daylight) & the well deserved IPX7 rating. It must have survived more than a dozen falls of varying heights, including a couple of 'throws' while trying to do 'chop-chop' for flashlight .
Now that I have gotten so used to it, esp. the IPX7 part, which neither G4 nor G5 has, I am going keep this one running as long as I can.
I finally bought a case & a tempered glass protector around 4 months back to make sure it lasts a bit more, externally, at least.
Still running stock as pretty much every custom ROM for osprey I have tried since last CM 11 snapshot has felt very half-cooked. Stock ROM has slowed down & battery life has dropped as well, unfortunately. Patiently waiting for lost101's Identity Crisis ROM for osprey. Fingers crossed
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So it is coming on two years that this phone has been out, which means that a lot of people will have upgrades available. Who plans on upgrading to a new phone and what are you looking at getting?
At this time, I'm sticking with this phone. CM11 is giving me all I need. The phone still works well, and if I were to get a new phone, I'd have to purchase it at full price, lest I lose my unlimited data.
So, no moving to a new phone, nor do I have a reason to. Just because this phone is two years old doesn't mean it's no longer good. As long as you have an unlocked bootloader, this phone will continue to work well, especially with CM11 pumping out nightlies like crazy.
Lol, I just moved to the Razr HD from the Droid 3. I was using a Galaxy S2 HD LTE while I was stationed in Korea a few months back and the Razr is by far a superior phone to both. I'm the one that likes to tinker, so I like these older phones. I got the wife a Moto X a while back and that phone runs great. Far better battery life than my Maxx and has all the cool little functions, the coolest being the Active Display. The new Moto X looks great too but I'm sticking to the Razr. I just need basic functionality, the most important being the wifi hotspot which my iPad Air is always tethered to. Both the Moto X and Razr were purchased off contract, the Moto X was purchased off the Motorola website and the Razr through Amazon used. I am really enjoying this phone so far and was extremely happy that I was able to unlock the bootloader. Just need to wait for the unlock to be available for the Moto X and the world will be perfect! Yeah, I know about the China middleman but would prefer not to go that route. So bottom line, don't care about the new phones... Quite happy with my Razr running VZW 4.4.2 and ART Runtime. But if I was to look for a new phone, that new Moto X looks really good.
Edit: back to dalvik, phone was running stupid with art enabled on the drive to the mall and back. Couldn't run any music player Bluetooth'd to the car without the music being choppy. Don't know if it is a Bluetooth issue or art issue but didn't happen again on a short drive after switching back to dalvik. Oh well, I can run xposed again, so all is not lost!!!
I lost mine and still got another one. Had mine for one year, plan on sticking to this one for at least one more, or until something a lot better comes around.
With cm11 on it, it does everything I need to, with headroom. Dont care about new phones, at least for now.
Maybe can consider if they release a good phone with earth-shattering battery life, but I really dont see it happening so soon..
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iBolski said:
Just because this phone is two years old doesn't mean it's no longer good.
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Let's put it this way - I'm getting at least 1.5 days of battery if not more. This morning, I'm at 77% with over 13 hours not charging. I've received and sent texts, played a game or two of Madden Mobile, read email, made and received phone calls. Battery life on my non-maxx RAZR HD is awesome under CM11 with Xposed modules Greenify, Unbound and AppOpsXposed. Never got this under stock.
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iBolski said:
Let's put it this way - I'm getting at least 1.5 days of battery if not more. This morning, I'm at 77% with over 13 hours not charging. I've received and sent texts, played a game or two of Madden Mobile, read email, made and received phone calls. Battery life on my non-maxx RAZR HD is awesome under CM11 with Xposed modules Greenify, Unbound and AppOpsXposed. Never got this under stock.
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I agree, greenify and unbounce are amazing apps. The fact that notifications are still available while hibernated with greenify is awesome. Well worth the extra few bucks!! With unbounce, I'm running the old version before he went all fancy with the ui because it became too much. Just want something simple that does the job on its own like greenify. I unfortunately bricked my phone when I accidentally flashed a RAZR M ROM. I was so pissed that night that I literally went to the Best Buy page and ordered a Droid Maxx. I also ordered a new motherboard that night so now I have the RAZR Maxx HD as a backup. I plan on switching in between the two often!!
All of the new phones are going the way of obnoxious.
Screen too big, 4.7 is just right
No microSD slot, 8GB (ugh if ya haveta 16GB) base is fine...let me add my 64GB
No MHL, I want to connect an MHL to HDMI adapter and watch the movie(s) I loaded on my 64GB card on the hotel's LCD TV when I travel
No Miracast, would be much better than MHL port
No 3300maH+ battery, I like the juice time I have with my Franken XT925. The newer processing power would only greatly increase the runtime available
Too thin, The RAZR MAXX HD is just about right, just needs to be a little more sculpted like the Moto X
No Car Dock, I like an easy way to connect the charger to the phone while in the car...oh oh and I have a GPS if I want it
So basically there needs to be Generation 1 Moto X with the 805+ processor, 3300maH+ battery, microSD slot, removable back with replaceable battery (if design needed, I'm okay with putting the SD and SIM back inside with battery), 8GB onboard storage and 4GB RAM to keep up with OS upgrades for at LEAST 2 years.
not until may next year, i do want a new phone due to specs and such. android L snapdragon 810 deserve a wait and see reviews/prices of devices.
cm11 runs fine with me, just the random crash but i get 4 hours of screentime easy.
basically ill upgrade to 3000+mah 32/64GB + microSD S810 phone with 1080p/QHD under $650 USD. sony z4, lg g4 and htc m9 are on the shortlist due to their nice phones, but if sammy gets their act together with the ui in the s6 (comeon, just root, unlock bootloader and we're set with stock android L) and i might consider them. the s810 will support all lte bands so unlocked is a must. i pay $10 USD every 2 months for 100 min/texts/mb and that's all i need, no contract.
I'm looking at getting the Galaxy S5. I'm sick of Motorola being so restrictive with their bootloaders. Custom ROMs are the reason that I want an Android phone.
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I'm looking at getting the Galaxy S5. I'm sick of Motorola being so restrictive with their bootloaders. Custom ROMs are the reason that I want an Android phone.
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You think Samsung on VZW is any better? On Verizon right now, the M8 is probably the best bang-for-buck if you want a non-dev model that can be modded.
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You think Samsung on VZW is any better? On Verizon right now, the M8 is probably the best bang-for-buck if you want a non-dev model that can be modded.
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After looking into it some more, I realized that it was being restricted by Verizon. Honestly, I'm going to wait for the Nexus 6
Droid Turbo or the corresponding GSM variant are starting to look real good.
Really liking the new Nexus 6 and the Droid Turbo, but...
Without a procedure for unlocking the phone, I'm not buying the Turbo. Without the Xposed Framework being updated to work with 5.0, I'm not buying the Nexus 6. I've become too dependent on root and Xposed (among other things root is good for) to go back to a locked down phone without rooting capabilities and no Xposed support. Also I'd much prefer the 5.2" screen to the 6" screen. Not ready to jump that high (yet...)
I am hoping a dev works his/her magic and figures out a way to unlock that bad boy Turbo before long. I've become so heavily dependent on Xposed to make this phone do every single thing I want it to that the RAM and processing power are sadly just not enough. And with the Turbo on 4.4.4, I could block (freeze, disable, whatever) the updates so as to not be bothered with 5.0 until Xposed is updated to run on it.
...plus I think the KitKat Moto built for this phone was half-a$$ thrown together, and the update did nothing to correct anything (made things worse from my own perspective). I may have to take the plunge into the world of Cyanogen or another custom ROM.
EDIT: Switched over to the new DirtyUnicorns ROM for my phone and everything is head and shoulders better than before - won't be updating to a new phone for a long long time now.
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It's been a roller-coaster trying to get good performance out of the XT926 and XT907. My wife and I picked them up about 6 months after they came out, and I've been following CM for most of that time. When my 907 died, she picked up a galaxy s6 edge. I kept the 926.
CM11 was great at first. Fast and snappy but missing some features and small issues. No big deal.
CM11 became bloated and slow leading up to the transition to LP. Battery life went down the drain. The phone was slower than dirt.
CM12 seemed great at first, but quickly deteriorated after a month or so of nightlies. I suffered through this for way too long before beginning the hunt for something new.
Dirty Unicorns 9.7 seemed like an improvement right after the first bootup but quickly revealed serious performance issues. I understand some older versions of Dirty Unicorns were great.
CM11 is still being maintained unofficially! Rejoice. Buttery smooth so far. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Wish I'd bothered to look back at CM11 sooner... I wonder at what point in the last 6 months the unofficial updates were able to get it running well, again. I think I'll have this phone for quite a while longer.
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It's been a roller-coaster trying to get good performance out of the XT926 and XT907. My wife and I picked them up about 6 months after they came out, and I've been following CM for most of that time. When my 907 died, she picked up a galaxy s6 edge. I kept the 926.
CM11 was great at first. Fast and snappy but missing some features and small issues. No big deal.
CM11 became bloated and slow leading up to the transition to LP. Battery life went down the drain. The phone was slower than dirt.
CM12 seemed great at first, but quickly deteriorated after a month or so of nightlies. I suffered through this for way too long before beginning the hunt for something new.
Dirty Unicorns 9.7 seemed like an improvement right after the first bootup but quickly revealed serious performance issues. I understand some older versions of Dirty Unicorns were great.
CM11 is still being maintained unofficially! Rejoice. Buttery smooth so far. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Wish I'd bothered to look back at CM11 sooner... I wonder at what point in the last 6 months the unofficial updates were able to get it running well, again. I think I'll have this phone for quite a while longer.
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I may be on a jbbl, but its gotten smoother since 12.1 kernel commits started coming in. At least thats my perception of things based off of my experience. And you nailed it right on the head with 12, thats why i downgraded to 11
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Has anyone looked at the "Marshmallow" update for the XT926? Google pulls it up and there are a ridiculous number of surveys to fill out but ultimately it says to look around on xda dev.....yet I see nothing Marshmallow related here for our, now legacy, devices.
Just curious how everyone is enjoying their Moto X Pure Editions since they've been out for a little over a year now. I've left mine stock the entire time I've had it which is something new for me. As far as the phone itself is concerned I really like it. Love the screen, the size, shape, etc. However, really looking to get something else or rooting as I've had a ton of software issues. Apps not responding the way they should or crashing repeatedly . This is the first phone I've had that's actually acted this way so kind of turned off by it.
Stock here, 11 months of use, 2 updates (5 to 6.0 and the last security update) never a issue.
Just one time, the screen shows a rare horizontal lines, 1 reboot and back to normal.
The heat you ask? Yes, in chrome and YouTube, the heat is an "add on" not specified in the manual...
Great phone, but my next one is a OnePlus 3, not a Lenovorola
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Screen cracked on first one and had to play endless games with the repair department, including reporting fraud on my credit card. Both speaker grills are working on their second time falling out. Screen and glass coating are better than average on the replacement. I like the LTE bands, high res screen, and the ability to use a big microSD card. The lack of software support is the worst I've seen of an OEM phone. I had to switch to CM13 but there's nobody there who can completely fix the drivers - VoLTE breakup, proximity sensor bugs, speaker fade-out bug, no WiFi calling, poor low light camera performance, etc. I don't see myself trusting Lenovo again for many years to come.
Stock Style
Kept it still in stock. No major issues. Been using the phone with the stock Moto Screen cover plastic still in place (all moto phone have nice plastic screen guard which I never peel. Use it heavily for 3-4 days post unboxing and remove the logo, which has now dried due to screen heat, with a coin). Waiting with finger crossed for Andorid 7.
Camera app and camera as hardware was real disappointment. unlike G4 plus camera app, this phone camera app is very basic in nature. Also the camera is not comparable with other phone's of this budget. Otherwise this was an awesome deal.
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Stock here, 11 months of use, 2 updates (5 to 6.0 and the last security update) never a issue.
Just one time, the screen shows a rare horizontal lines, 1 reboot and back to normal.
The heat you ask? Yes, in chrome and YouTube, the heat is an "add on" not specified in the manual...
Great phone, but my next one is a OnePlus 3, not a Lenovorola
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Much the same experience for me. Very happy with the phone for the price (I paid UK £300 in December 2015). Still amazed at the sound quality from the speakers. Fast charging too.
I also had the horizontal lines problem about a month ago - thought the phone had died but a reboot solved it. Has only happened once.
Issues ? For me :
would like wireless charging
wish Lenovo were better with updates
maybe a bit too big - but that's my problem , not the phone's - I wanted a big display.
Bought it approx. 2 months ago (15th July, 2016) and really enjoying it all over except the display, my display is bit warmish when compared to other phone and also has a slight bleeding in left corner. I wish it had AMOLED display as the previous series. Camera gives really good pics so happy with it. Would like to know if anyone else has the same display concern as mine.
Stock rooted EU Style at 6.0.1 - so far there are no issues with the phone
Picked it up on the Prime Day sale.
It does the job and is better than my previous phone, a Nexus 4.
Minor gripes. If it gets the update to Nougat I'll be happy with what I paid for it.
It will soon be my girlfriends phone and I'm getting an iPhone 7 or Pixel X. That iPhone is just a screamer. Fast, and good looking. Would be my first Apple product.
Used to like the phone, now I'm extremely indifferent about it. I haven't had any hardware problems, but the lack of software support is extremely disappointing. The camera takes OK pictures, the battery rarely provides more than 2.5 hours SOT, and from what I can tell every custom ROM for this phone blows chunks (I've tried all the popular ones, but the CM base sucks). I've had sporadic issues with cell service, which I believe are software related, and to top it off, my phone somehow nuked itself while I was on vacation in June (I was able to get it back but I lost a bunch of stuff and had to re-setup my phone while on vacation)
I was at Disney world all day, battery died about an hour before I left the park. I got in the car, plugged it into the car charger, and while it was coming up to the battery screen it went haywire and rebooted. Then the charging screen came up and I shrugged it off. About 30 minutes later I tried to turn it back on, and it just bootlooped endlessly. So I had to pull out my laptop, use the slow hotel wifi and download the firmware, then use fastboot to re-flash everything. Luckily I use Google photos to back up pics, so I didn't lose any of the vacation photos.
For the first time in years I'm considering an iPhone. Never had to deal with this kind of crap with my old iPhone 5.
Love my Style, changed 2 screens on it, been stock since I purchased it brand new, not through choice, can't root this phone at all, I've tried every combination possible but the remote server times out requesting the token I'd so I've given up any hope of rooting it.
Apart from that the phone has been flawless, the odd heating up with certain apps which I can put up with.
Not really impressed with the way Moto/Lenovo have treated this supposed flagship in terms of updates and still no solid word from the company if our device will get nougat. It probably will get it but I would have bought a pixel xl by then.
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No major issues really (bar the obvious update void). Still love the fact that the phone is smaller than my friend's iphone 6 plus, yet the screen is larger.
First phone I've ever owned that still does not have a single scratch on the screen even though it has been naked since day one, got the phone October 17th. In fact there are very few marks on the phone overall and I've dropped it from knee height onto the road a couple of times.
I often think about wanting a new phone (only because I have G.A.S (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) but then I realise that anything I get won't really do anything that this one doesn't already do.
Waiting patiently for Nougat!
I bought the Style with extreme enthusiasm since it ran "stock" android and had an SDcard slot. My initial impressions were hopeful... it was a little laggy but other than that, it was okay, and the speakers, OH GOD the speakers. But after a month or two of using it and unlocking the bootloader, it was obvious that there were some serious issues with the phone. Lenovo/Motorola obviously didn't know what they were doing when they made the stock ROM for the device. It was always laggy for me and there were other issues as well. After tons of attempts to find an AOSP or stock rom that fixed these issues... i gave up. I just accepted that TruPureX was the best i was going to get. It made me miss my LG G2 and HTC M8. Anyways after a little under a year i did a lot of thinking and eventually made the decision that i was tired of feeling the need to flash custom firmwares, bootloaders, recoveries, etc. just to get my phone to function in the manner that I feel it should. I ended up buying a (very expensive) iPhone 6S Plus. I understand that people will most likely bash this decision and i respect your views, so respect mine. I still believe android as an OS is superior, but the OEMs just can't properly implement it into their devices in the way that Apple can. I don't regret my decision and now i have amazing battery life and everything "just works". Which isn't something i've been able to say about an android phone. I'm not advising anyone to do what i did, i respect all technology as well as your views, i'm just sharing my experience. Owning this phone annoyed my so much i switched sides (at least for a while).
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I bought the Style with extreme enthusiasm since it ran "stock" android and had an SDcard slot. My initial impressions were hopeful... it was a little laggy but other than that, it was okay, and the speakers, OH GOD the speakers. But after a month or two of using it and unlocking the bootloader, it was obvious that there were some serious issues with the phone. Lenovo/Motorola obviously didn't know what they were doing when they made the stock ROM for the device. It was always laggy for me and there were other issues as well. After tons of attempts to find an AOSP or stock rom that fixed these issues... i gave up. I just accepted that TruPureX was the best i was going to get. It made me miss my LG G2 and HTC M8. Anyways after a little under a year i did a lot of thinking and eventually made the decision that i was tired of feeling the need to flash custom firmwares, bootloaders, recoveries, etc. just to get my phone to function in the manner that I feel it should. I ended up buying a (very expensive) iPhone 6S Plus. I understand that people will most likely bash this decision and i respect your views, so respect mine. I still believe android as an OS is superior, but the OEMs just can't properly implement it into their devices in the way that Apple can. I don't regret my decision and now i have amazing battery life and everything "just works". Which isn't something i've been able to say about an android phone. I'm not advising anyone to do what i did, i respect all technology as well as your views, i'm just sharing my experience. Owning this phone annoyed my so much i switched sides (at least for a while).
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Used to like the phone, now I'm extremely indifferent about it. I haven't had any hardware problems, but the lack of software support is extremely disappointing. The camera takes OK pictures, the battery rarely provides more than 2.5 hours SOT, and from what I can tell every custom ROM for this phone blows chunks (I've tried all the popular ones, but the CM base sucks). I've had sporadic issues with cell service, which I believe are software related, and to top it off, my phone somehow nuked itself while I was on vacation in June (I was able to get it back but I lost a bunch of stuff and had to re-setup my phone while on vacation)
I was at Disney world all day, battery died about an hour before I left the park. I got in the car, plugged it into the car charger, and while it was coming up to the battery screen it went haywire and rebooted. Then the charging screen came up and I shrugged it off. About 30 minutes later I tried to turn it back on, and it just bootlooped endlessly. So I had to pull out my laptop, use the slow hotel wifi and download the firmware, then use fastboot to re-flash everything. Luckily I use Google photos to back up pics, so I didn't lose any of the vacation photos.
For the first time in years I'm considering an iPhone. Never had to deal with this kind of crap with my old iPhone 5.
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Sounds like we have similar experiences. I've never owned an Iphone but have had multiple Ipods and Ipads. I think I've grown out of the flashing game myself. I look at all the roms available for the Pure and I'm just not impressed at all. I've come from a long line of Android devices that have all had excellent development and this one has been a bust. I have also been thinking about going with an Iphone but I'm pretty terrified of getting away from the Android environment lol. I'm just to a point in my life where I want my phone to function flawlessly the majority of the time. I wasn't impressed at all with my Galaxy S5 so that's kind of turned me away from Samsung in general. I really liked my HTC devices so I may give them another look in the near future if I don't end up giving Apple the go ahead.
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Sounds like we have similar experiences. I've never owned an Iphone but have had multiple Ipods and Ipads. I think I've grown out of the flashing game myself. I look at all the roms available for the Pure and I'm just not impressed at all. I've come from a long line of Android devices that have all had excellent development and this one has been a bust. I have also been thinking about going with an Iphone but I'm pretty terrified of getting away from the Android environment lol. I'm just to a point in my life where I want my phone to function flawlessly the majority of the time. I wasn't impressed at all with my Galaxy S5 so that's kind of turned me away from Samsung in general. I really liked my HTC devices so I may give them another look in the near future if I don't end up giving Apple the go ahead.
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Yes our experiences are indeed very similar. The phone i was most impressed with was my HTC M8. The battery life that it gave with the "small" battery was amazing at that time, but my 6S+ has a similar battery, bigger screen and more powerful processor and it somehow manages to demolish the M8s battery life. I find it extremely impressive. I'm a college student and i just decided i didn't have the time to keep flashing things, etc. The only thing that i hate about iOS is the fact that you have no access to the file system. I may jailbreak and fix some things but for now i'm trying it unmodified. At least on ios you're guaranteed good software support for a good while.
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I often think about wanting a new phone (only because I have G.A.S (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) but then I realise that anything I get won't really do anything that this one doesn't already do.
Waiting patiently for Nougat!
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This. Exactly this.
A couple of white spots on my LCD. Not a huge deal.
LCD cracked- without cracking the glass, which is a first for me.
It took a ton of work to get the battery where I needed it.
Development is dildos. ONE (brilliant) stock rom, and its developer left. All the AOSP roms have issues.
I can't believe with only 3 unlocked phones on Verizon, we don't have an abundant choice of roms. Ridiculous.
Had mine since Christmas eve. I replaced the battery thinking it was dying, turns out I just use a lot of battery-consuming apps. Aside from that, hardware has been top-knotch. No issues with software (still running Lolipop), but I rooted the day I got it and disabled updates because I heard the MM update was having tons of issues and causing pops in the speakers and battery drains, etc. and never got around to going MM.
Convinced 2 friends to get Moto X pures as well, and they both love it.
I've had the Pure since November 2015: rooted and spent most of the time on stock. Right now, I'm running Dirty Unicorns 10.6 official, which has the September 2016 update. My overall impression is: 5.5 out of 10 (10 being the best). It's a decent, middle-of-the-road phone.
PROS
Unlocked (no carrier BS)
Bright screen
Two speakers with decent sound
CDMA and GSM antennas
Decent call quality
Motomaker configured to taste
CONS
So-so battery life. My LG G3 lasted about 48 hours after full charge. My MXP lasts about 18 hours.
So-so camera. Forget about low light pictures. (Missing my LG G3 camera...)
Mediocre level of enthusiasm about the phone, i.e., it took a long time to get decent cases/screen protectors, ROM development is OK but there are more devs for other phones
Lack of Android updates from Motorola. (I prefer stock due to stability and battery life.)
Heavier than a comparable Samsung Galaxy phone for it's size.
No "wow" feature to the phone: everything is just meh.
why is it nobody mentioned about its ram.. ram management on mm is so poor. i get 600 to 800 sometimes 500 ram free with no other apps installed. pure stock no root.vthats why its so laggy at times... bought it last month for $260 with 32gb on best buy.. i thought it was a deal but cant help notice the lag sometimes. i have a lg g pro 2 3 gb ram with snapdragon 800 on 2014 model... i get 1500 free ram so why is moto x pure on 2015 model only gets 600 to 800 free ram with 3gb phone. will motorola lenovo can still fix this great phone ?
After loving my Moto X and Moto X 2014, I gave the Moto X 2015 a try. On stock It lags a good amount, battery life is below average, sound is loud but quality is bad, also when I receive notifications the sound lags in the middle of it, and the phone ran extremely hot just using social apps or playing light games.
CM13 was the only rom to bring this phone back to life for me. I underclocked the cpu and gpu because of heat and battery power increased dramatically. Notification sounds sound normal and even when underclocked, the phone is still snappy on CM13.
My gf have a Samsung Galaxy s6 with apps I use plus more and her phone didn't nearly get as hot as mines with also better battery life than I was on stock.
Hello guys, I want to know your personal opinion here.
Since this device is 2 years old and the support from Google is ending, do you think that the Nexus 5X will be kept alive like the Nexus 5 (which is very supported till now on XDA)?
Sure, the 5X has some errors&mistakes, but I believe that the community is strong enough to keep up the developement for our "Ne5xie"
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Big thanks to @argraur , @BeansTown106 & and other devs for making cool, frequently updated ROMs
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Owned it for a year and five months. Under Nougat it had poor memory management kicking the apps aggressively out of background. In August, the device is rendered near useless by the Oreo update, and a couple of weeks ago it bootlooped. What a piece of junk. This was my third extremely poor device made by LG.
Yeah, Oreo is not very N5X friendly, probably ROM bakers can do a miracle
Have you tried any of those bootloop fixes?
I agree, N5X isn't the most reliable device.
I use since begin, 15month ago, ABC-ROMs. Nougat and Oreo. I use it ~6h/d: browser, mail, messenger, navigation. No games, no GApps. All working flawless. I guess, there will be ABC- or other AOSP-updates still for years. The bottleneck is the solder: if my phone dies, I'll not repair it nor buy another Nexus/Pixel. If not, I'll keep it still 1.5year.
@rp158 Which phone will you buy after your N5X fails?
I'll stay in the Nexus line (Pixel)...
BQ Aquarios, Moto G or X, any Android One
Kinda funny... any of them is available in my country ?
just got an update: 8.1 DP2
seems very stable & smooth ?
It'll never have the support the Nexus 5 had, it's got too many issues. At GZR, we've had several maintainers for the device, the last one had to stop when his 5x bootlooped and died. We have a new maintainer. My 5x is still doing fine after almost 2 years, but I don't use it as a DD and I don't let it get hot. It's mostly used for Chromecast and ROM testing and I won't fix or replace it when it dies. The Nexus 6 was the last great Nexus IMO.
weird, I'm using it daily for gaming for almost 2yrs with no problems... I hope my Nex never dies ?
So, after those 2 days using DP2 I only noticed a camera bug... sometimes I open snapchat(or camera) and it just says "Unable to start the camera" or something like that.
It works again after restarting....
I don't see why not. It's a powerful device (at least for people not playing heavy games like me, though I suppose heavy games can be played on the N5X) and I don't think it's going to go away soon.
Yeah, I use the Magisk module for thermal throttling (profile extreme v4) and I can play any of the heavy games flawlessly.
Hi all. I'm looking at a used 64gb N6P (slightly used for almost 1yr) ONLY FOR $170. original complete package. No bootloop issues (YET)
Well, I'm open for suggestions. I will use the phone as my daily driver. I'm also into rooting & custom ROMS. As for my observation, angler devs will still hold up the device for years. :fingers-crossed:
BTW, I'm coming from 32gb N6 shamu.
What do you think guys? Is it a good upgrade? Or should I buy a current $200 budget phone instead?
Thank you, and sorry if this question is old.
I also had N6 32gb shamu and just bought second hand N6P angler month ago with battery issues, i replaced the batter myself and using abc rom + elemental x with dazed 6p edition 3.1 profile. Its pretty fast and when I'm at home battery is usually at %50-60. I'm not a power user but I must say i switched for the finger print scanner and i miss N6s large screen and it was event faster too in the other hand N6P has great camera compared to N6 specially selfie one is awesome + phone feels more premium with metal back. Overall I'm happy that switched and planing to use this phone at least 1 more year.
I have literally owned 10 Nexus 6P's. Every time I try to upgrade I keep wanting my 6P again. This phone is perfect AND you get the added ability of not really needing to be TOO careful with it. A replacement is $5-600 cheaper than trying to replace a newer phone. I work on cars, so being able to not care about the phone as much when using the flash light is a plus for me. Plus its fast.
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Hi all. I'm looking at a used 64gb N6P (slightly used for almost 1yr) ONLY FOR $170. original complete package. No bootloop issues (YET)
Well, I'm open for suggestions. I will use the phone as my daily driver. I'm also into rooting & custom ROMS. As for my observation, angler devs will still hold up the device for years. :fingers-crossed:
What do you think guys? Is it a good upgrade? Or should I buy a current $200 budget phone instead?
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The answer isn't actually simple. If you want a phone that will keep getting security updates, then an emphatic no. They are still pushing monthlies right now, but as the Android P dev preview is out and the Nexus line is no longer scheduled for any support, when the Pixel 3 drops in October, I suspect the security updates for the 6p will be dead.
So, once that happens, whatever version of most remaining updated custom ROMs are out there will likely be it. There may be the odd one who tries to kludge Android 9 onto the 6p, but when you also factor in the processor's age, it's very near EOL.
However, if you're OK with effectively staying on Oreo, for the price, it's still a good phone with a good camera. You just won't get a lot of custom ROM dev for much longer. Even in the 8 months since I was regularly using my 6p, development has dried up significantly. There are really only 3 or 4 options other than keeping it stock and doing my own customization.
I recently used an Xperia XZ Premium for about 8 months and had so many hardware failures, that I finally gave up and came back to my 6p. Aside from the noticeable performance difference with the 810 processor and a GB less of RAM, I'm actually happier using the 6p because it's better than the Xperia Xperience ever was, but that's personal preference. All I really do is use the factory image, TWRP, Magisk and then install Viper, SE Linux control and Pixel mods and the phone works the way I want.
I suspect I'll try to suck another 4 months out of the 6p then buy a Pixel 3. It'll be pricy, but stock Android, fast regular updates and a killer camera are all important to me.
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The answer isn't actually simple. If you want a phone that will keep getting security updates, then an emphatic no. They are still pushing monthlies right now, but as the Android P dev preview is out and the Nexus line is no longer scheduled for any support, when the Pixel 3 drops in October, I suspect the security updates for the 6p will be dead.
So, once that happens, whatever version of most remaining updated custom ROMs are out there will likely be it. There may be the odd one who tries to kludge Android 9 onto the 6p, but when you also factor in the processor's age, it's very near EOL.
However, if you're OK with effectively staying on Oreo, for the price, it's still a good phone with a good camera. You just won't get a lot of custom ROM dev for much longer. Even in the 8 months since I was regularly using my 6p, development has dried up significantly. There are really only 3 or 4 options other than keeping it stock and doing my own customization.
I recently used an Xperia XZ Premium for about 8 months and had so many hardware failures, that I finally gave up and came back to my 6p. Aside from the noticeable performance difference with the 810 processor and a GB less of RAM, I'm actually happier using the 6p because it's better than the Xperia Xperience ever was, but that's personal preference. All I really do is use the factory image, TWRP, Magisk and then install Viper, SE Linux control and Pixel mods and the phone works the way I want.
I suspect I'll try to suck another 4 months out of the 6p then buy a Pixel 3. It'll be pricy, but stock Android, fast regular updates and a killer camera are all important to me.
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Thank you for the response. Right, I think I can keep my shamu for a while. Maybe I'll wait for the budget pixel 3. :fingers-crossed:
Guys im wondering the same thing. I actually just got a Nexus 6P 64gb for less than 200$. I have no battery issues whatsoever but i am worried about the bootloop issues. Do you guys think i should switch phones( I still can) because of that potential issue or is the issue isolated? I mean literally every G4 eventually gets bootloop, is the Nexus 6P the same?
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I have literally owned 10 Nexus 6P's. Every time I try to upgrade I keep wanting my 6P again. This phone is perfect AND you get the added ability of not really needing to be TOO careful with it. A replacement is $5-600 cheaper than trying to replace a newer phone. I work on cars, so being able to not care about the phone as much when using the flash light is a plus for me. Plus its fast.
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Did any of those 6P's get the bootloop problem? And for how long have you tested a Nexus 6P?
Just a casual discussion thread about kenzo.
I won this beast in March 2016. Redmi India Facebook page hosted a contest on the day they launched this phone in India and I won it. It was unbelievable at that time. Sadly I was sent the 2gb/16gb version. Less sadly, it didn't cost me a single penny.
I have been using this beast since then. I had been using Redmi 2 before I got it. But the new bootloader unlock policy was pretty daunting and I kept using miui for the first two months.
When I finally unlocked it, I flashed the leaked factory 5.1 lollipop rom. It was rock stable and served me for almost a year. Then i shifted to Nos Nougat and in January 2018 i shifted to Nos Oreo. After almost 8 months, I'm back to Nougat because I realized Nougat was much more stable.
Battery has declined to 79 percent of its original capacity and is somewhere around 3100 mAh now. (checked using Accubattery app). I'm still pretty happy with the battery backup. Internal storage(16gb) is the only frustrating thing about this phone.
I was really tempted to buy Note 5 Pro or Zenfone Max Pro M1 but now i think i'll hold off till February for the Note 6(pro).
Kenzo is beast of a device and if I wasn't burdened with 16gn storage, I would probably use it for another full year.
What's your experience with kenzo?
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this year i see other phones but i see my pocket and... hahah
really i think:
my phone is for little apps/ClashRoyale/Navigate/Play music/Pay with QR Codes.
and this phone had good battery... good hardware, at this moment 3gb device is very good for me (but my next device i try to buy with 4gb or 6gb) with a new Qualcomm 6xx again.
today... i dont need other phone (but is a good moment to resell this in my country).
in other words i buy my next phone in the last quarter of 2019. (Xiaomi again).
im very happy with this device.
I own my beast from October 2016 and boi its my first personal new phone and I will never sell it. Lollipop was what it came with but soon installed and marmsallow 8.1.1.0 if remember. Then I after 4months of miui I unlocked bootloader and got into the world of custom roms. I tried AOSiP nougat first 7.1.1 and it was the best back then and gave me 10hrs sot always if anyone wants to know it was 31/1/2017 build of AOSiP. Then came Oreo 8.0 which was worse than 7.1.1 and then 8.1 in December 2017 with pixel experience. I love my redmi very much but I am planning to get the essential phone but as I said never sell this kenzo.
Using mine since October 2016 and still loving it. Was tempted by Redmi note 5 pro but only because of camera otherwise my phone satisfies all needs. Will use it until it stops working or screen gets cracked. Then I will buy the latest Redmi phone with dual camera.
Gonna change the battery and use it till it dies on me
I will use it till I get into college. Probably next year.
I got this beast in about August of 2016, rooted as soon as warranty expired. Then I was actually waiting for MIUI nougat for this and after I got tired I installed nos, I didn't really like it, and tried RR, was really happy with it and then shifted to oreo rr later. Now using havoc pie, pretty smooth. I know there are many new devices right now and My parents wouldn't really mind buying me new one. But I just love my phone. It beautiful and it never lets me down. So I'm gonna keep it for a long time. How much? Tbh I don't know.
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I own my beast from October 2016 and boi its my first personal new phone and I will never sell it. Lollipop was what it came with but soon installed and marmsallow 8.1.1.0 if remember. Then I after 4months of miui I unlocked bootloader and got into the world of custom roms. I tried AOSiP nougat first 7.1.1 and it was the best back then and gave me 10hrs sot always if anyone wants to know it was 31/1/2017 build of AOSiP. Then came Oreo 8.0 which was worse than 7.1.1 and then 8.1 in December 2017 with pixel experience. I love my redmi very much but I am planning to get the essential phone but as I said never sell this kenzo.
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because i only found dead links..or if you have file
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i planned to use it till it ded. probably have to change the battery too..
It was love at first sight for me, I read about this device on one of my local news site, and I just couldn't resist, its price and design was perfect, and still is. The 4000mAh battery, the fingerprint sensor was a big deal for me. The development for this phone was amazing, and still is, even after 2,5 years. I hope Kenzo development will still be active, good to see some new devs around here and for now
I repaired mine some days ago and looks like brand new Ordered back cover and screen from Ebay, swapped the motherboard and the other parts into the new one and it rocks just like in its golden age.
Until the phone can't accept new android version of course ?
Still a nice phone although already 2 years old, then the development still strong too until now, that's what i like from this device
battery? i've changed 1 times bcoz the first one is getting worse after i playing the phone but with charging, and always charging at night..
fingerprint? yeah i remember i changed that bcos the first quarter of oreo development for kenzo and some ported miui nougat rom, the supported fingerprint only fpc, but shortly after that, the goodix patch came up wtf ?
emmc? willing to change that too if only the rom development still going up
so i haven't any reason to change for now, really happy to have kenzo
(although sometimes want poco f1, but not for now ?)
I will definitely keep using it untill next android version comes up
When I bought my Kate, I thought it will be just a temporary device until I find something better for the price - better specs, better camera, same price as the phones are getting cheaper with time.
Since 2017 january this is my primary device and until here on XDA I see that there are still developers who build usable and fast roms for this phone (or something happens and my device ends up in pieces) I'm not even thinking about changing it... maybe I surprise myself with a new phone for my graduation next year, but this will be a Xiaomi device with snapdragon too, who knows, maybe a new Redmi note or a Poco.
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I will definitely keep using it untill next android version comes up
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LOL, I said exactly the same when nougat rolled out ages ago and still using this with pie (I'm not laughing on you, I'm laughing on myself and the situation )
Love my RN3 (Kate) but its time as a daily driver is officially over - I just bought the Honor 10 last night, so...
I have been on NOS since Oreo but all of a sudden my camera and bluetooth started having trouble and crashing A LOT.. I can't reflash my daily driver all the time so onwards and upwards I guess!
Will totally keep my RN3 for games cause battery life and general fluidity are still ace. Might load it up with Pie down the line and keep it as a secondary.
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Love my RN3 (Kate) but its time as a daily driver is officially over - I just bought the Honor 10 last night, so...
I have been on NOS since Oreo but all of a sudden my camera and bluetooth started having trouble and crashing A LOT.. I can't reflash my daily driver all the time so onwards and upwards I guess!
Will totally keep my RN3 for games cause battery life and general fluidity are still ace. Might load it up with Pie down the line and keep it as a secondary.
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Actually it'll work best on Nougat because of the simple fact that our devs had lot of blobs from Mi Max which had the same chip and got official miui nougat. Oreo is also good but it'll never be as stable as nougat.
I got kenzo in august 2016 I believe, before I had Nokia X, one of the first Nokia phones to come with android. So this year I moved to whyred (RN5).
My experience with Kenzo (3/32GB) was great, best phone I ever had, best community and one of the best custom rom support. After I installed gcam, the phone value and awesomeness grew even bigger.
Of course I've also had issues, my phone came with goodix fingerprint, we all know how all the newest roms had problems with this sensor and most weren't supporting it from the start, but as I said above the community was and still is great and some people found solutions very fast.
In december 2016, I dropped my phone on asphalt. This was the result https://imgur.com/L1rPzis
I was so angry with the situation, my beautiful phone, with an ugly crack on it's screen. Luckily the digitizer wasn't damaged and the screen worked.
After a while some yellow spots started appearing in the upper left corner down to middle, but only when the phone was hot and it was noticeable on grey and white backgrounds.
I took a picture of the screen while phone was warm https://imgur.com/RG9qAaa Even the MI logo from the back came off https://imgur.com/mMxbtMH
So I used it like this until June this year, after I got RN5, I didn't used it much. But I also didn't want the phone to die in this horrible state, so guess what I did, ordered a display with frame and silver back like original from aliexpress. I will also order a new battery from my country for like 10 dollars. My phone battery also is around 3100 mAh according to accubattery.
Also power button and volume up register twice sometimes, because those plastic claps from the frame broke and back cover doesn't attach all the way, that's why I bought screen with frame, also easier to move parts from one frame to another.
Maybe next week the parts arrive, I could post an update maybe. I want to keep this phone as long as I can because it's legendary.
Saicoth said:
I got kenzo in august 2016 I believe, before I had Nokia X, one of the first Nokia phones to come with android. So this year I moved to whyred (RN5).
My experience with Kenzo (3/32GB) was great, best phone I ever had, best community and one of the best custom rom support. After I installed gcam, the phone value and awesomeness grew even bigger.
Of course I've also had issues, my phone came with goodix fingerprint, we all know how all the newest roms had problems with this sensor and most weren't supporting it from the start, but as I said above the community was and still is great and some people found solutions very fast.
In december 2016, I dropped my phone on asphalt. This was the result https://imgur.com/L1rPzis
I was so angry with the situation, my beautiful phone, with an ugly crack on it's screen. Luckily the digitizer wasn't damaged and the screen worked.
After a while some yellow spots started appearing in the upper left corner down to middle, but only when the phone was hot and it was noticeable on grey and white backgrounds.
I took a picture of the screen while phone was warm https://imgur.com/RG9qAaa Even the MI logo from the back came off https://imgur.com/mMxbtMH
So I used it like this until June this year, after I got RN5, I didn't used it much. But I also didn't want the phone to die in this horrible state, so guess what I did, ordered a display with frame and silver back like original from aliexpress. I will also order a new battery from my country for like 10 dollars. My phone battery also is around 3100 mAh according to accubattery.
Also power button and volume up register twice sometimes, because those plastic claps from the frame broke and back cover doesn't attach all the way, that's why I bought screen with frame, also easier to move parts from one frame to another.
Maybe next week the parts arrive, I could post an update maybe. I want to keep this phone as long as I can because it's legendary.
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Do you have link where you ordered battery?
armo1111 said:
Do you have link where you ordered battery?
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I haven't ordered yet, but the store is in Romania, if it helps I'll provide you with link http://www.magazingsm.ro/acumulator-xiaomi-original-438
Or you could try ordering one of these
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/400...8.0&pvid=92baf464-8d42-4024-982e-e42b27f53e9d
Although no guarantees that the capacity is 4000 mAh.
Saicoth said:
I haven't ordered yet, but the store is in Romania, if it helps I'll provide you with link http://www.magazingsm.ro/acumulator-xiaomi-original-438
Or you could try ordering one of these
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/400...8.0&pvid=92baf464-8d42-4024-982e-e42b27f53e9d
Although no guarantees that the capacity is 4000 mAh.
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Thanks man.
using from 21 sept 2016
2 times replace battery,, fake battery 1st. . .3rd party then
1 time replace screen,, brick after drop it
**has plan to upgrade but confused between Poco or 2nd hand V30
even my Kenzo still good to go