Nougat on the Moto G4

[Dave Rice]

My G4 has just started downloading Nougat.

Have to say I’m pleasantly surprised it has been released so quickly.

The G4 may not be the best looking phone I’ve ever owned, but it’s definitely the most practical and value for money.

[PlaneMan]

Mum has the plus, that got it on Sunday.  :good:

[Richard]

Not certain that is what it is but My G4 is also getting something bigger than all the other updates have been so far, it says that it has 17 minutes left with 30% done.

[The Duke]

Girl got hers a few days ago.

Richard the update will be readily larger. The monthly patches are about 30mb, this one is a whole os update, so I’d imagine about 1gb, I’m speculating, but just letting you kine it’s normal.

And it will take longer to install. Sadly my girls left fro work so can’t ask her how long. After download, I’d recon about 15mins, plus the initialisation time is about right.

Thankfully 7.0+ doesn’t make you wait for all the Apps to initialise aswell. As that historically took an age,and you couldn’t use the os while it was doing it. So you’d be tricked into thinking it was done, only to wait upto another ten mins.

[Dave Rice]

15 mins sounds about right.

[Richard]

I am not sure how long it took in the end but those figures sound about right. The windscreen man came this afternoon vice tomorrow. They phoned first and I was happy to clear things away from tomorrow.

The EE derived over WiFi speed might have made a small difference to download speeds. I have not seen that much that is new on the phone; though (wishful thinking gland kicks in) it might be just a little faster and slicker now. As I am still learning what it can do and how it can do it, I am a terrible judge of performance.

[Dave Rice]

A bit slicker and a big change to the notifications; they are now grouped which cuts down the clutter.

You can now run 2 apps side by side, which may be useful on a tablet but on the phone it’s a bit small.

[Richard]

Dave Rice wrote:

You can now run 2 apps side by side, which may be useful on a tablet but on the phone it’s a bit small.

I will need the never to be announced magnifier option for the side by side double application game. Getting one to be readable can be something of a challenge!

But thank you for that clarification, I will keep on trying it out.

[The Duke]

Mostly under the hood tweaks, you should get a ‘speed bump’ smoother transitions and scrolling, and you should she better battery management.

Doze finally works excellent under 7+, my phone will now only loose a percent overnight. When ever your phone is lay still for an extended time it goes into a ‘sleep’ state, hence the term Doze they used it works well.

But overall it’s just a fixed 6.0. I’ve found over the years android finally gets good, then they make a big switch and it turns to dog mess, 2-4 (there was no 3 on phones) was bad, 5 fixed 4, then 6 was again an overhaul that looked good but was bug ridden, point updates ironed then out, 7 seems to be a mature 6.

Think my Nexus 6p is 7.1.2 my Pixel 7 .1.1 path ironed out the day one ‘quirks’, that day one 7.0 had.

All that said Richard, it’s a good update to get being a mid cycle. Wait till you get 8.0 in 12 months, it will have a bag fill of fleas attached lol.

I’m thinking of trying the 8.0 pre release on my Nexus next week.

[Dave Rice]

Battery life was good before, now it’s incredible.

[JayCeeDee]

I’m glad to see that the G4 is much loved and appreciated for its’ reliability.

I’m changing over to Sky Mobile in June – I thought the contract was up in April, but it’s June. I’ve been 90% happy with the Z3Compact, but it is still on May’16’s security patch. I still don’t know – after much chasing of both –  whether that’s Sony or EE, but I’ll be ditching them both. If I have a problem with the Z3 after I’ve unlocked it, my current fave to replace it  is the G5 or the G5Plus. Both come with Nougat from the get go.

My current 4.6″ screen is  fine – it seemed a little bit large after the Nokia N8, but I soon got used to it. The 5″ screen on the G5 or the 5.2″ on the Plus should be easy to acclimatise to.

I like the Sky plan because you can use up to 5 sims off the same plan, which for me being already on Sky TV, will cost £10 for u/l calls, u/l texts plus 1Gig data ( unused data rolls over for three years ) so the wife’s PAYG ( ~£20 per quarter ) can do just that – Go. I’ll get her a newer feature phone ( not Smart ) and her old one ( or the N8 ) will get a sim and go into the car as an emergency phone.

Sky do seem to have done a lot of work looking to see what customers actually wanted, as opposed to designing a system they all had to conform to. They’ve gone for many options rather than multiple restricted plans. A pleasant change for the better.

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