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A recent Motorola smartphone. Only advantage: it's cheap.

* it's a Tamagochi that keeps crying all day long. "Please set this thing up". "Notification about settings". "Help I shat!"

* Loses connections too often.

* Good old apps, like internet radio silently crash.

* If you happen to listen music over Bluetooth and there's incoming call, it

a) shows you modal windows -- "should setting ______ be set forever?"

b) to turn off Bluetooth speaker, you must notice and click a tiny drop-down menu, and select from "speaker" (which is phone's own loud speaker), "bluetooth" and something else -- basically you gotta guess where is "normal" call with phone at the ear. All this must be done in like 10 seconds of caller's patience.

* Unconfigurable at all. You set it to "don't disturb" and whatsapp/telegram still ring loudly!!! IDK, if this setting changes anything at all. Seems that every app has own overrides.

* tries to add junk stuff like "smart wallpapers" -- and after I found a way to turn it off, showed me "The notification will be shown in 24 hours again."

* wakes up if slightly shaken and shines with the screen -- must put it screen down to avoid bright light randomly shining at night.

Maybe it's the recent Android OS such a pile of accumulated crappy features, like CSS in the wild, that is impossible to sort out... Whoever approved to buy crappy noname smartphones and brand them as Motorola, had no brain.




> IDK, maybe it's just the newer Android OS is such crap

I have a fairly new Pixel (so up to date OS) and none of these problems. Odds are it's something Motorola/Lenovo have messed up.

For better or worse, Android experience depends largely on the specific vendor.


I have a Lenovo tablet and it mercilessly kills background apps, no matter what you do.

I sprung for the extra version with 12Gb RAM as well, so it's just so pointless. It has double the RAM of my Android phone that doesn't do that at all.

So forget about syncthing or anything else you actually want to run all the time in the background. I need to remember to run it manually if I want things to actually be synced.

I could go through the rigmarole of installing a different firmware but it looks really complicated to do, and there are pros and cons of doing that too.


> ...installing a different firmware but it looks really complicated to do...

It depends on whether someone has already created an image for your device.

If so, it's not complicated at all - download a few files, unzip, and type a couple of well-documented commands on a PC while the tablet is plugged in. It took me less than an hour the first time I did it, of which most of the time was spent watching progress bars!

If however your tablet is not in the list of 'supported devices' for the other firmware you'd like to use, I wouldn't try it at all. Likewise if the tablet's bootloader can't be easily unlocked; finding an exploit to crack it can be seriously difficult and time-consuming.

I hope that gives you an idea of how difficult this may or may not be - I hope your device turns out to be in the first category!


This is so interesting, I used to use exclusively Samsung but bought a Motorola phone for travel and the experience was so good I got rid of my main Samsung and bought another Motorola.


Have you had this barrage of notifications on Motorola? My experience with Samsung was mostly good.


Which model is it?


moto g24


That's ultra cheap. $94 phone in my country. I won't be expecting a lot at that point.


Not ultra cheap here, $160 for me, but it was indeed in the cheaper category. "Good" phones were ~2x more expensive.

But the thing is: almost all issues are the screwed UI. Makes me wonder what are we paying for in the phones, how expensive is it to sort the UI out?


Checkout this : https://controld.com/free-dns

I'm using Hagezi DNS Pro configuration.

DNS level ad blocking may help controlling a lot of system baked ads and trackers. Spend 30mins or something turning everything off from settings.

This has helped me on almost every kind of phone I've ever bought - I've mostly bought Chinese ones.




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