I have a moto G with republic wireless and I love the phone, but sometimes it makes me scratch my head. It will be charging and working for a while, then all of a sudden shut down and restart. When it restarts it wont go to the lock screen if its plugged in, only a white charging screen. So I then have to unplug, turn off the phone, and restart again.
Now, it also freezes, more frequently now then at first. But its not like I have anymore apps than I originally did. It usually freezes when in chrome browsing reddit (ie r/pcmr) but will also freeze in other apps or even just the home screen.
So is this normal and just something I should get used to? And if not is there something I can do to help? I clean cache etc.
I have noticed a reduction of performance on my Moto G as well. Getting kind of tired of it hanging for 10 seconds the watching the homescreen slowly load up. Looking to upgrade soon to an LG G3. First going to look at some custom roms soon.
I am typing this comment on my moto g and these statements could not be further from my experience with the phone which I have owner since December. For OP, which storage model do you have. If you 8gb your might be running low on storage which is why your phone is so slow and shutting down. As for your charger problems, I would suggest experimenting with random other micro USB chargers. The stock USB cable caused many problems on my phone like erratic touchscreen. Lastly, the stock launcher for the moto g is pretty bad. I had pretty bad launcher redraws until I switched to smart launcher and since my phone has been fine. Not rooted.
Running the 16gb version with 6.3 gigs left of free space. I might try grabbing another charger and I will look at smart launcher.
Hey recently I turned off my Moto G and restarted it which helped a little and problems persisted once in a while. I decided to run my Moto G in ART instead of Delvik. So far so good. I used to not be able to type on TekSynsicate without typing in notes then pasting but now I am able to type just fine. You can get ART by going to Developer options ( if you don't have it inabled just go to settings then About Phone. Then tap Build number 5 times) go to Select Runtime and set it to ART. The phone will automatically handle the rest.
My Moto G seems okay, the only problem I'm having is that the audio jack seems to make audio crackle or even disconnect when the jack is nudged slightly. Sometimes my music stops and when I hit play it comes out the speakers, kind of embarrassing. I'm going to see my providers about it for a fix.
I guess that's what you get for buying cheap.
My Moto G has been working great since December 2013 even with the amount of abuse I give the phone. I have an otterbox case that covers the ports when not in use. I mainly used a right angle connect when I hook it up to a surround or my car radio and a straight connector when its in my pocket.
Ever bent the jack while it was in your pocket? I had a BB Torch 9800 with the headphone jack on the right side of the device and that did not even last 6 months. I had to constantly hurry rig it by placing small sheets of paper so it could make proper contact(which I don't reccomend because it got worse). Hopefully it can be resolved.
I have the same phone, and with the same service
^_^ High five ^_^
Anywho, ART really helped for me too. Since then, I get no crashes at all.
What also helped me more performance-wise was disabling the stock apps like all the motorolla crap that you don't need. Google device manager is all you really need to replace most of it if you still want the functionality, and it's better anyway.
Another thing I do is occasionally close the cached applications in recent applications. Still don't know if this does much, but whatever.
The main thing that helped was switching to ART.
One thing that bothered me was the audio jack. It's just with one pair of headphones, but still whenever I insert them it will think I said "okay google" for some, very strange reason.
Other than that, yeah. ART. Love it.