Hi,
I am going to buy a Moto G, but unfortunately the google play edition is sold out right now and I have to get a regular moto g or wait for a couple of weeks. So I'm asking which version of moto g is better and is it worth it to wait for a couple of weeks to get the google play edition?
As far as I know, there isn't really much of a difference.
I would say get the normal Moto G.
There are some pros and cons.
To keep it short, GPE uses ext4 and the G uses f2fs filesystem where it has been reported that f2fs should be faster.
This would be the main reason why i would decide to get the G.
You can remove unwanted system apps but the firmware is already very close to stock.
Just Google for some reviews. Here is e.g. one site which compares G and GPE.
Here and also in other Threads on XDA you can also find some opinions to that topic.
Get the Moto G XT1032 ( international version )
You'll be able to choose between stock or gpe since its the same phone
neper_27182 said:
Hi,
I am going to buy a Moto G, but unfortunately the google play edition is sold out right now and I have to get a regular moto g or wait for a couple of weeks. So I'm asking which version of moto g is better and is it worth it to wait for a couple of weeks to get the google play edition?
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Are you in the us? Becuase if you are in the us and on t-mobile the gpe will not work
I actually prefer the non gpe version, better camera options and more ROM choice.
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I am wondering, seeing that the Moto G is already quite close to AOSP (minus the Moto addons, some of which seem actually somewhat useful), how would we go about petitioning Moto to add a Google Play Edition?
Moto G / Moto X has already been pictured in the "Google Play Edition" image that google released some days ago.
As for Moto X, there's somehow confirmed a Google Play Edition is coming: http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4579278/google-play-edition-moto-x-announced-coming-soon - not sure about Moto G tho'.
A Google Play edition of the X seems absolutely pointless, it's not much different to stock Android as it is, and the only things that make it worth having would be removed.
I think a gpe would remove more than it added really. Pointless!
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Except thtat GPE devices generally get updates almost as fast as the Nexus line!
yea I highly doubt GPE for either Moto's, Google would just go through more trouble re-advertising and it might be easier to have Motorola handle all orders than Google oversee everything twice.
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Except thtat GPE devices generally get updates almost as fast as the Nexus line!
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To be fair the Moto x had the update to 4.4 before gpe's
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The moto x might also be about the only piece of hardware Google has any significant margin on...
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I've posted this on Reddit, but I want to know the opinion of the new Moto G community.
Here goes:
I have my very loved HTC One X (International) with me at the moment. I've been happy with it after a year and a half.
My phone has the HOX wifi fault. And the battery life barely gives me 2-3 hours screen on time. I've tried underclocking, flashed custom roms, kernels, etc. But the battery still doesn't last me within the day. Not even until noon.
But I've been reading pretty good stuff about the Moto G and it's hardcore battery life.
I know that somehow I'm downgrading. I'll miss the slightly larger screen though. Also, I don't care about the camera, because I have my Canon EOS M with me which I can copy pictures to the phone via USB OTG.
Would it be worth it if I sell my HOX and get that one? Or do you have a phone to recommend me? I'm planning to get a Pebble smartwatch too if ever.
P.S. I'll be able to sell my hox for like $220-ish here in the Philippines. My cousin is in the US at the moment for the holiday season. So I have my way to get that phone.
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monchee said:
Would it be worth it if I sell my HOX and get that one? Or do you have a phone to recommend me?
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Get a Moto G, it's really good.
Before I bought the Moto g I had the opportunity to buy a used One X. Same price I thought "get the newer Google Device".. Now having the moto g I am very happy with that! Get the Moto g.
The only thing that isn't good is the cam..
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Zurko said:
Before I bought the Moto g I had the opportunity to buy a used One X. Same price I thought "get the newer Google Device".. Now having the moto g I am very happy with that! Get the Moto g.
The only thing that isn't good is the cam..
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Few day's after getting Moto G, I got as gift Sony Xperia Z1, and as I prefer Moto G, the Z1 is still in box and I think I will not use it (too big, too heavy etc) at all, but as it's a gift, I also can't sell it.
If you cant sell it, give it as a gift to me, i will sell it and give you 40% of the price
Thanks for the tips! I'll be selling my HOX soon. Hopefully before Christmas.
Only phone I recommend over the moto g is the nexus 5
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Hi. The moto g is the way to go so far the battery experience is much better than the nexus 4 the phone I used have and the nexus 4 is a beauty. 50 gigas in Google drive and I have run all the apps that I did in my nexus excepting a couple like gravity box and touch control (gravity box works OK in 4.3 but it doesn't in 4.4.2) the others work flawlessly. I have no experience with pebble but I have a sony smartwatch 2 and it works nicely with the moto g. So my advice based on my experience get the moto g. Besides those kind guys who are developing are working hard to allows to have those tweaks we love.
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sorry to bring up an old thread but to the op
How are you finding the Moto G in relation to the one X?
My one x has the wifi fault and a horrid battery life and the black screen of death and so I definately need a new device until upgrade time
Would you recommend a Moto G?
Thanks
enrique097 said:
Hi. The moto g is the way to go so far the battery experience is much better than the nexus 4 the phone I used have and the nexus 4 is a beauty. 50 gigas in Google drive and I have run all the apps that I did in my nexus excepting a couple like gravity box and touch control (gravity box works OK in 4.3 but it doesn't in 4.4.2) the others work flawlessly. I have no experience with pebble but I have a sony smartwatch 2 and it works nicely with the moto g. So my advice based on my experience get the moto g. Besides those kind guys who are developing are working hard to allows to have those tweaks we love.
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Do you know there are two versions of gravitybox, one for jellybean and one for kitkat
Yadash said:
sorry to bring up an old thread but to the op
How are you finding the Moto G in relation to the one X?
My one x has the wifi fault and a horrid battery life and the black screen of death and so I definately need a new device until upgrade time
Would you recommend a Moto G?
Thanks
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I also have the wifi fault with my HOX, and battery life was very terrible. I had to do lots of tweaks that compromises the performance of the phone to get more juice, but still has bad battery life.
I'm glad that I was able to sell my HOX for $220+ here in the Philippines, and got myself the Moto G plus a shell that my cousin will be bringing home from the US. Can't wait to get it!
I wasn't able to buy me a Pebble though. The $89 sale at Best Buy was done. Although They announced the Pebble Steel which IMO looks great and I'll try to save for that instead.
I hope I didn't make a bad choice. Battery life is really on my priority list, that's why I didn't try to save up for the Nexus 5.
I really really can't wait!
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I got the Moto G after my One X stopped working. My research suggested that the One X, Nexus 4 and the Moto G were quite similar. In practise, it was similar to the One X, the differences that I've noticed:
The screen size is slightly smaller but not by much. You have quite large bezzels at the top and bottom - there is less screen space because there are no hardware buttons at the bottom as there were on the One X which I find annoying.
It seems to be a bit slower than the One X. Transitioning between apps can be a bit delayed at times.
The camera is significantly worse, but I prefer the camera app.
Battery life may be a bit better (I'm not sure to be honest). However, this may be because I am comparing to a one+ year old phone, and I had a problem with the wifi draining battery (but only with a particular router).
I also switched to CyanogenMod eventually, so the comparison may be slightly inaccurate.
For this price (and anything significantly higher), I would definitely recommend the phone.
Hi, I'm plannig to buy a normal Moto G, and I'm wondering if I'll be able to make it a GPE Moto G?
I'm sorry if this question have been asked, but I searched and nothing clear.
Miqueas111 said:
Hi, I'm plannig to buy a normal Moto G, and I'm wondering if I'll be able to make it a GPE Moto G?
I'm sorry if this question have been asked, but I searched and nothing clear.
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Not at this moment. GPe Moto G doesn't even have factory images.
I hope we can achieve that soon, anyway, I guess I'm gonna buy it. It's a great device for being that cheap price.
Miqueas111 said:
I hope we can achieve that soon, anyway, I guess I'm gonna buy it. It's a great device for being that cheap price.
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I think Motorola 4.4.2 version is better anyways, the additons they made are non intrusive and actually, kinda useful.
Good to know, man, I'm buying the device in this week.
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hi all
i wanna know what it the best in terms of receiving updates Google Play Edition or Motorola Edition??
There seems to be more custom ROMs for the normal Motorola edition than the GPE
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There seems to be more custom ROMs for the normal Motorola edition than the GPE
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There's less need for a custom rom when it runs stock Android. But the GPE is also getting Cyanogenmod support so there's no worry there either.
i think Moto G Motorola roms will work fine on Moto G Google Play Edition right?
My theory:
Google purposely made a GPE edition of the Moto G because they knew that they would sell Motorola and wanted to guarantee their customers updates.
Because when Motorola is sold and Google no longer owns it, Google can't give it direct updates. But with the GPE, Google can give it updates.
So yeah. I believe the GPE Moto G will be supported longer.
But of course I could be wrong. Buy whichever, I really doubt it matters in the long run. Like a previous poster said they will both be officially supported by cyanogenmod.
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pisherthefisher said:
My theory:
Google purposely made a GPE edition of the moto g because they knew that they would sell Motorola and wanted to guarantee their customers updates, because when Motorola is sold and google no longer owns it, google can't give it updates. But with the GPE, Google can give it updates.
So yeah. I believe the GPE moto g will be supported longer.
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Only 10% of the customer would update their phones with roms based on gpe updates! So gpe support ain't such a sure thing
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jaspreet997 said:
Only 10% of the customer would update their phones with roms based on gpe updates! So gpe support ain't such a sure thing
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I don't mean that google cares about the people who bought a moto g from moto. They just want to sell the moto g themselves, even after they sell Motorola, as a low cost device with stock android that still receives their updates.
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pisherthefisher said:
I don't mean that google cares about the people who bought a moto g from moto. They just want to sell the moto g themselves, even after they sell Motorola, as a low cost device with stock android that still receives their updates.
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Ah well that make more sense although Google doesn't really care about sales profit from hardware selling! Or they would have been selling it all over the world!
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bozzykid said:
There's less need for a custom rom when it runs stock Android. But the GPE is also getting Cyanogenmod support so there's no worry there either.
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I disagree. Stock Android, while being my top choice over other UI options such as Sense or Touchwiz etc, is made better by most custom ROMs due to the tweaking and customization options that are added, which could be something as simple as changing the shortcuts on the quick toggles page, to complete over clock/under volt access. You are right about CM11 though which is awesome news.
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Motorola edition has slow motion camara (love that feature) everything else it's almost stock android
For me:
1. Cm11
2. Gpe
3. Stock moto
But With gpe awesome battery life with >8h Display on Time..
Android-CM11
thanks every body
i wanna ask also about update in future Moto G Motorola Edition will be best or Moto G GPE?
mido_fedo said:
thanks every body
i wanna ask also about update in future Moto G Motorola Edition will be best or Moto G GPE?
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I imagine both will receive unofficial updates via CyanogenMod well after its officially dropped so either
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mido_fedo said:
hi all
i wanna know what it the best in terms of receiving updates Google Play Edition or Motorola Edition??
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Hardware is the same so if you unlock your bootloader you can switch between them and decide for yourself. Also Moto added some useful stuff to the stock android like battery optimization, faster file system and they are pushing updates with user reported problems and requests.
I prefer this over the gpe edition by far, however I would buy the gpe from any other handset, this is the exception. My colleague reached 6 days uptime with 2 hrs screen time and 2 hrs talk time with wifi, 3g and bt always on.
Also there is faux's kernel which lets you tweak the stock rom on the low level part.
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It appears from the specs that the Google Play Edition does not support 1700 Mhz. So no 3G on Tmobile except in the limited refarmed areas. Also no 3G on Wind Canada. Since one of the advantages of an unlocked phones is the flexibility to switch carriers, this factor limits that ability on the GPE phones.
ok guys i will buy Moto G GPE
any suggestions??
Motorola. F2fs, more update at least until now, more optimizations. And not only. I don't see the sense to buy a gpe in this specifically case.
Rom? Is pratically already a gpe in this sense.
So....
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Motorola. F2fs, more update at least until now, more optimizations. And not only. I don't see the sense to buy a gpe in this specifically case.
Rom? Is pratically already a gpe in this sense.
So....
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but i think GPE will receive update faster than original Moto G especially after lenovo purchase Motorola and became Motorola not google company
The Motorola firmware is much more optimised. ATM it is better in overall performance. You can thank F2FS for that.
Moto firmware is too laggy.
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Straight from Motorola's blog:
https://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2016/10/n-is-for-nougat-android-70-is-coming-to.html?m=1
The time has come my friends
chibichuba said:
Straight from Motorola's blog:
https://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2016/10/n-is-for-nougat-android-70-is-coming-to.html?m=1
The time has come my friends
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Well, it's nice to get an official word on this, still no timeframe given but that is to be expected.
I find the list interesting...
Moto G (4th Gen)
Moto G Plus (4th Gen)
Moto G Play (4th Gen)
Moto X Pure Edition (3rd Gen)
Moto X Style
Moto X Play
Moto X Force
Droid Turbo 2
Droid Maxx 2
Moto Z
Moto Z Droid
Moto Z Force Droid
Moto Z Play
Moto Z Play Droid
Nexus 6
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Noticeably missing are the Moto G 2015 (3rd Gen) and all Moto E models.
Glad to finally see official announcement. Let's hope we get invited to the soak test.
Good stuff....and now we wait.
This is the announcement i've been waiting for. Now i'll pull the trigger and buy a Moto X Pure.
don't get me wrong. it is good to see an official announcement from Motorola but I'm pretty sure we will see the updates in the phones until next year.
Motorola is not what is used to be when it comes to software updates.
I just bought the Moto X Pure. I am glad to hear that it will get upgraded to 7.0.
Good news ...
Omg!
I check 5 times a day, now it's finally coming!
yeii i just read the news and i came too to confirm im so glad, can wait for the udpate
I bought this phone about a month ago and this just made the purchase so much sweeter.
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Well, it's nice to get an official word on this, still no timeframe given but that is to be expected.
I find the list interesting...
Noticeably missing are the Moto G 2015 (3rd Gen) and all Moto E models.
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gskelter said:
don't get me wrong. it is good to see an official announcement from Motorola but I'm pretty sure we will see the updates in the phones until next year.
Motorola is not what is used to be when it comes to software updates.
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I also want to point out that the post says "Starting in Q4 with Moto Z and Moto G (4)", which is now. They would probably roll down the list in device age - with some optimism, I would say we would get the update at the latest Q2 of 2017
I say in December just like with marshmallow
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I say in December just like with marshmallow
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Updates have been pretty much every quarter... Hard to say if we will get 6.0.1 and/or a simple security update this quarter or a full N release... My money is on a simple MM update and N toward end of 1st quarter of 2017.
We will get rumors of a beta, figure it will be 45-60 days after that barring any real issues.
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I don't really think they will go for 6.0.1 it'll be easier to just release n on there part especially with the employee cuts they made
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I don't really think they will go for 6.0.1 it'll be easier to just release n on there part especially with the employee cuts they made
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Unless it's almost done anyway... Guess we just wait and see.
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Will we get 7.1 if it's later on or will we just be stuck on 7.0? I hope it's 7.1 because that has the Google Assistant build in like the new Pixel phone.
xuser said:
Will we get 7.1 if it's later on or will we just be stuck on 7.0? I hope it's 7.1 because that has the Google Assistant build in like the new Pixel phone.
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Nobody can answer this... Hopefully we will get 7.1 at a later time.
We possibly will later on though as of google assistant it'll we probably replace google now and available for all devices running nougat
Regarding to Moto X Pure Edition (3rd Gen). How do I know if I have 3rd gen pure?