Motorola Moto G - new budget smartphone champion?

twist3d0n3 said:
My setup is in my sig. Auto brightness with custom thresholds, intellidemand governor, fiops scheduler, and a few other tweaks.
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thanks.

phone is for wife as her nexus 5 was stolen on friday, should be arriving any second now.

want to keep it stock as possible so i don't need to constantly update stuff she hates having to set stuff up again after doing clean flashes.

going to just root it and stick with stock UK retail firmware.

will make sure i install the hard to get rid of cerberus version this time around as well as applock to lock all security apps and settings.
 
stock had pretty crazy battery life from what i remember, so you'll get on fine with that. might be an idea just using faux123's stock-optimised kernel as that does have some nice features.
 
twist3d0n3 said:
stock had pretty crazy battery life from what i remember, so you'll get on fine with that. might be an idea just using faux123's stock-optimised kernel as that does have some nice features.
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phone is going to be just used for crap like facebook, bluetooth to car, etc.

cannot be bothered having to update kernels and that all the time since it is the wifes phone.

think i'll just stick with stock, thanks for all your help though.

if it was my phone then i would flash faux123 since francisco franco isn't supporting the device, i have franco kernel on my nexus 5.
 
omg why is it so hard to unlock the bootloader, root and flash stock firmware to this phone?

modaco actually has the easiest, user friendly guides and methods.

tried the XDA fastboot method and it was just stuck hanging for a response from the phone on the first file of many which all had to be pushed one at a time.

downloading the all in one simple way of doing it on modaco.

after that i shall need to unlock the bootloader for rooting, again the easiest guide is on modaco.

i'm so glad theirs toolkits which do all of the above for you with 1 simple click for my nexus 5.

not a huge problem but i imagine it would be impossible for anyone i know in real life to do any of this on a moto g, it's a lot harder.

taking an hour to download the files i need, phone arrived a little while ago, so just charging it up and waiting for downloads to complete.
 
Difficult? I had the GPE version which didn't even require me to register the phone as bootloader unlocked. Then flashed the UK retail rom to get the better file system, then rom of choice. Only took about 20 mins in total

Just be glad you don't have to s-off like on an HTC ^^
 
twist3d0n3 said:
Difficult? I had the GPE version which didn't even require me to register the phone as bootloader unlocked. Then flashed the UK retail rom to get the better file system, then rom of choice. Only took about 20 mins in total

Just be glad you don't have to s-off like on an HTC ^^
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what method did you use?

i'm currently downloading an all in one from modaco which does everything for you to flash UK Retail ROM.

that should take 5 mins to do.

after that i shall follow a simple swedish guide on unlocking bootloader (posted on modaco) and rooting the phone which may take 10-30 mins to get through hard to tell when it's on paper and doing it practically.

with my slow internet it will probably take over an hour if the files i need to download are large.

http://www.swedroid.se/forum/showthread.php?t=106595

that's the guide i'm going to follow after flashing the all in one to get to UK retail.


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all in one method to get to stock UK retail took about a minute to do after downloading the file - simples, all you have to do is right click a file and run as administrator

this is the all in one

http://www.modaco.com/topic/366786-how-to-flash-to-the-standard-uk-rom/


now to follow the swedish guide


damn phone needs to update it's firmware the all in one flashes an old version of stock retail UK firmware, currently updating to newest one on the phone. need to wait for that to complete before following swedish guide.
 
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Psycho Sonny said:
omg why is it so hard to unlock the bootloader, root and flash stock firmware to this phone?

modaco actually has the easiest, user friendly guides and methods.

tried the XDA fastboot method and it was just stuck hanging for a response from the phone on the first file of many which all had to be pushed one at a time.

downloading the all in one simple way of doing it on modaco.

after that i shall need to unlock the bootloader for rooting, again the easiest guide is on modaco.

i'm so glad theirs toolkits which do all of the above for you with 1 simple click for my nexus 5.

not a huge problem but i imagine it would be impossible for anyone i know in real life to do any of this on a moto g, it's a lot harder.

taking an hour to download the files i need, phone arrived a little while ago, so just charging it up and waiting for downloads to complete.
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I used this guide for the unlocking of bootloader / rooting. He puts on a custom recovery at the end of the video . I haven't done that. But it was simple to follow and I got it all done in 30 mins or less witha few repeated viewings of certain sections of the video

 
i've managed to do it all now.

it was a PITA especially flashing a custom recovery as it kept on coming up with a partition size error (which apparently means nothing and is ok after some extensive reading).

why the morons cannot find a way to write this into guides or fix the error from appearing is beyond me.

i'm now on stock UK firmware and updated to latest version (so no third party carrier bloat).

unlocked the bootloader.

flashed TWRP recovery.

installed and updated superSU.

waiting for all the apps to update before flashing hidden version of cerberus.
 
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That would probably be cause Motorola format the internal storage in f2fs, which is a more efficient filesystem but some recoveries don't support it. Was it ClockworkMod that didn't work? 4ext recovery would work ok, and I think it's generally considered the best custom recovery.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
what have you done specifically to get so much battery life?

or is that on stock?

i'm going to just stick it on auto brightness and leave everything on tbh, bluetooth, wifi, gps, data, etc so no need to mess about.
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My completely standard G (received the bug fix update a week or so ago) will easily last 3 days whilst having the screen on for 4hrs and 3.5hrs internet radio use.
 
djferrick said:
how does TWRP differ from CWM ?
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CWM is clockwork mod and TWRP is team win recovery project. TWRP is basically a different GUI and mainly touchscreen if not all touchscreen (which is harder to control over using volume and power IMO).

i actually prefer CWM but it came up with errors so i flashed TWRP which also gave an error so i decided to reboot and it worked.

since TWRP was the last recover i flashed that's the one which is installed.

wish I had rebooted after i got the error on CWM and it would have been fine.

apparently the error comes up and it's flashed fine regardless so for further use to anyone, if you get an error about partition when flashing a recovery it's fine and has worked.

you need to boot into recovery though before you reboot back into the system after flashing a recovery for it to install properly.
 
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