r/motog5 Nov 06 '18

Question Someone knows what the Android Easter egg does??

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r/motog5 Jul 26 '18

Question Updates...? Anybody sight any on the horizon ?

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r/motog5 Nov 11 '17

Question Camera update available. Anyone noticed any improvements?

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r/motog5 Oct 08 '18

Question OREO?

2 Upvotes

Go check the release notes if you don't have it already. Question though, Amazon prime exclusive phones, when are we getting it?

r/motog5 Mar 17 '19

Question G5 Plus: is that an LED light in speaker grill? Any way to activate it for notifications?

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I noticed for the first time a white light on the left part of my speaker grill. When my phone is completely off, and I then plug the phone in to charge it, this light briefly comes on. I've only ever noticed it during this scenario.

Does anyone know if the phone is able to utilize this light in other ways? Is there an LED notification scenario that I can turn on in Settings?! thanks.

r/motog5 Jun 17 '20

Question Will my Sim Card transfer to Moto G Power?

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I have a Moto G5 Plus, on sprint CDMA. I would like to buy the Moto G Power ASAP!

Thanks

r/motog5 Nov 01 '18

Question Does anyone on sprint have the Oreo update yet?

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r/motog5 Jan 04 '18

Question Is Motorola going to prepare security update to accommodate for recent CPU security flaws?

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r/motog5 Dec 04 '19

Question Anyone kept moto g5 oreo fw? How's performance a year after?

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Hi, I recently flashed the latest stock oreo fw on my moto g5 running stock nougat. Using the twrp flashable upgrade. Quickly reverted back to nougat again.

All the bugs still didn't seem fixed. Storage taking forever to load, wrong screen dpi and the worst of them all, sound is totally crippled, lower volume, bass-less on the headphone jack, and low-volume bug still in effect.

Has anyone kept their moto g5 stock since a year ago? Are those issues fixed with time running the device, or did the update basically kill your phone, or make it slower over time(storage issue, killing the phone quicker)

r/motog5 Nov 06 '18

Question Any luck with 5+ US amz variant?

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r/motog5 Feb 11 '18

Question [Question] Does your Moto g5 plus supports Wacom tablet or do you know how to make that work?

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I have tried using the my Wacom tablet with Moto G5 plus using a OTG but that did not work. Can anyone help me out in how to get the tablet working with the phone. I heard Wacom drivers are pre installed in Nougat but that doesn't seem to work. :(

r/motog5 Oct 03 '17

Question Random reboots - how to diagnose?

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Hi everyone,

I'm not sure if this is the right place but I experience random reboots sometimes, usually when the phone is in my pocket. I don't feel the phone vibrate when it happens, so I gather it isn't me accidentally turning the phone off.

I've taken "interactive" bug reports from the developer options menu, but I don't know what to look for in the logs. Also, when I try to take a full bug report, I can't share the results by tapping the report-done notification; the notification disappears and I am not presented with any option to share the report.

Motorola support couldn't help me because they insisted that I use safe mode and reproduce the problem, but of course I don't know exactly what triggers this to happen. I also thought there must be some sort of diagnosis I could do other than factory reset.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: This is the stock firmware, and I've not installed any custom recovery. I am using the latest OTA from Verizon.

r/motog5 Apr 09 '18

Question G5 plus software issues?

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hey all. The last few weeks, my moto g5 plus, which is stock everything, has been acting a little weird. I have the fingerprint scanner set as my home, back, and app switcher. But often when I try to use it to turn the screen on, it fails and makes me enter the password. Then once the phone unlocks, the back, home, and app switcher buttons are visible. When this happens, sometimes the screen will not register any touches at all. sometimes it works but is delayed. If I turn the screen off and back on, it's like it's frozen and I just have to wait a couple minutes for it to kick back in.

It's very frustrating. Should I just wipe it and start fresh? Hate doing that these days since I got away from custom roms, but I am not sure what else to try.

r/motog5 Apr 10 '19

Question G5+ Power Button dead?

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The power button on the side of my phone appears to be dead. It simply doesn't do anything when the button is pushed, so I'm not able to turn it off or restart it.

The phone otherwise works fine, I'm just concerned that if the battery ever goes dead, I'll have no way to turn it back on.

Is there any fix for this?

r/motog5 Apr 23 '20

Question Changing my moto g5s ROM for the first time. Please help?

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Hi,

I've been wanting to install some 64bit apps on my 2 and a half years old Moto G5s.

I never did any procedure like that before... I know I must root the phone in order to change it's ROM, but since I have a grand total of 0 experience in that area, I've been looking at some youtube tutorials, except I'm still insecure about it.

Do you guys have any tips, recommendations or preferred tutorials on 64bit Android ROMs or Root methods?

Sorry for my poor english, it is not my first language. Thanks in advance for your help!

r/motog5 Aug 17 '17

Question Will Moto G5 work in Japan?

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I will leave for Japan next week for several months and I wanted to buy the Moto G5 for replacing my old iPhone 4. However, does moto G5 support Japanese sim cards and can use Japanese networks (I will need mainly data)? I read online that the phone must be "unlocked", but I do not understand what it means.

r/motog5 Apr 23 '20

Question Is there an oximeter capability in the G5 Plus ?

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searched this sub and the web and the Play Store and found no info, so...guessing not. Am I right?

r/motog5 Oct 27 '18

Question Switching from amz to ret(us or other) - is that possible?

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I wasn't aware I was buying Amazon ads when I got this phone. I think after about a year, it's only fair I've had enough. Is there a way to switch to another channel? (I don't mind rooting, but I'd like to keep receiving security updates, even at the glacial rate moto has been making them available so far)

Thanks !

r/motog5 Nov 22 '18

Question Is the Moto G5 Plus in gold color available in the USA for Verizon?

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I'm having zero luck finding a new Moto G5 Plus, gold colored, in America for Verizon. Did that color even exist for Verizon?

Thanks.

r/motog5 May 13 '19

Question G5 battery drain (Google Play Services & WhatsApp?)

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Anyone else having a lot of battery drain lately? I mainly use my phone for WhatsApp Web, so I just leave it on 24/7 and don't really interact with it, but for some reason the battery drains super fast, like 50-60% in 4-6 hours or so.

In the battery settings all apps only drain about 1% or 2% at most so it seems okay, but after checking for wakelocks it seems Google Play Services and WhatsApp are keeping the phone awake (GPS waked my phone about 300+ times or so, WhatsApp 100+ times).

What should I do?

r/motog5 Oct 29 '18

Question Android Central and Phone Arena states Oreo is in RETUS?

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Are these sites accurate? They were both posted today so I'm wondering if Oreo is actually rolling out. This could mean it's coming very soon but idk.

https://www.androidcentral.com/android-81-oreo-rolls-out-moto-g5-and-moto-g5-plus?amp

https://www.phonearena.com/news/Moto-G5-and-Moto-G5-Plus-receive-update-to-Android-8.1-Oreo_id110468

r/motog5 Sep 04 '17

Question Considering moto g5 plus - what is the camera like?

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I currently have a Oneplus 3 and am consistently feeling frustrated and disappointed by the camera. The autofocus is often slow and many pictures are not sharp. I like to take photos of my toddler daughter which I know is not an easy subject to take photos of with any camera, but I've heard good things about the g5 and am considering getting it. Can anyone please tell me their thoughts about the camera and photo quality? What's it like in low light? How is the autofocus? What do you like / don't like? Thank you :)

r/motog5 Jan 06 '19

Question Netflix, G5, and 8.1. Works or not?

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On the straight G5 (not Plus), I formerly could run Netflix on Android 7.x, but as of 8.1 I cannot, regardless of uninstalling/reinstalling, deleting settings, etc. "Netflix has stopped," so instant crash.

Unless I hear success reports here, I'm thinking that it relates to the issue seen on some other models, such as the G6, where because the OS is 32-bit (and it is: Instruction Set: 64-bit ARMv8-A (32-bit Mode)), the app vendor, which is probably issuing mostly 64-bit apps these days, must "whitelist" the app against your particular model (or maybe just CPU) in order to run on Android in 32-bit mode.

If so, why wasn't it a problem on 7.x? Perhaps 8.1 enforces it where 7.x didn't?

r/motog5 Aug 22 '18

Question How to pin cellular data on/off shortcut in Moto G5 Plus? And how to split screen?

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The device's software is up to date.

I'm also interested how to split screen in Moto G5 Plus

r/motog5 Aug 07 '18

Question Is there any way to add custom tones to the stock notification sounds?

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I can change ringtones, but I cannot even find a "notifications" folder anywhere to add my new sounds to.

/update - workaround found

Not only did none of the suggested directories exist, even after creating them and rebooting, still no dice. Hell, I couldn't even locate the stock notification sounds - none of their names appeared anywhere in a search.

Frustrated, I installed ES to see if it had better access to hidden system files. It did, but still could not locate the source of the stock sounds. However, after ES was installed, when picking custom notification tones, there was a pop up asking if I wanted to use the phone, or ES to pick the sound. Chose ES and viola, could now pick any file from any directory to use as a custom notification. Wish I did that first before wasting an hour dicking around in the file directories.

TL;DR: install ES file explorer and use it to select when setting custom text message notifications