well. let's Moto

ahhh there we go

I spent the day setting up my Moto G Play (2024), as well as organizing tool component drawers, and other things of "to do".

Phone is nice. Identical to last phone, minus warped screen

Also I think this is Qualcomm inside

This setup includes transferring all relevant media from old phone, to x2600 (laptop), and then over to this phone. Also put a few select items from laptop onto this device

~bartender, coffee if I may

rav3ndust

I like the Moto G Play devices. I still have an old one from 2016 sitting in my backpack that used to be my main. These days I'm rocking the z3 play from 2019, still getting updated through (de-googled) lineageOS.

Looks like your model indeed sports a qualcomm sm6225 snapdragon. My moto z3 play rocks a qualcomm snapdragon 636. Not the most powerful by 2024 standards, but I barely use my phone aside from the occasional firefox browsing/music on the go, and of course, placing calls (do people still do that with phones anymore?). :-)

Hope you're well, ~tffb, and enjoy your labor day!

tffb

hey rav3ndust, yea it's a good phone, a bit snappier than the Moto G 5G, as there was always some lag with that particular unit. The Play is limited to 4G LTE, but that isn't a bad thing imo. I find 5G/4G speeds in comparison to be negligible and whatever investment went into building out the infrastructure for the "cell towers" was a waste of money on the part of the carriers, imo. It's their money, they can burn it for all I care.

I thought of either Lineage or calyxOS for the G Play, though the latter might only be for Pixel phones.

stay well, RD

rav3ndust

The Play is limited to 4G LTE, but that isn't a bad thing imo.

Completely understand what you mean here. In my neck of the woods, 5G is barely a thing yet, so I haven't been able to be arsed to care about having a phone that supports it. The z3 Play can do 5G with a snap-on module, but I don't care enough about it to try it out.

Gotta admit the main thing that keeps me coming back to Moto devices (aside from a good majority of them being supported by Lineage) is the 'chop-chop' action for turning on the flashlight. Once I got used to that, turning on the display and pulling down the notification shade to tap the flashlight button felt like a big chore on other devices.

I thought of either Lineage or calyxOS for the G Play, though the latter might only be for Pixel phones.

Calyx does support a handful of moto devices, but you are correct in that it is mostly the Pixel line and a few Fairphone devices. If I ever wind up with a Pixel again, I'll probably flash Calyx or Graphene on it. I don't see me getting a new phone until the one I have finally bites the dust, however, so that should be a long while to come.

wolfinthewoods

I read that

as a few 'secret' items

from your laptop

and was like

'hmmm, what does tffb not want us to know...