• Polar
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    9 months ago

    Lmao 2 years?

    My ex back in like… 2015? Bought a Motorola phone. It PROMISED the next version of Android, aka, 1 singular update. It never got it.

    Everyone was so pissed, Motorola made an announcement that it was going to stick to their word, and then over a year went by and I think they released a beta to a certain country, and then never actually fully released it.

    So they didn’t even give 1 year of updates that they promised on all of the marketing material. Good luck with 2.

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      9 months ago

      Haha this happened to me almost verbatim except it was an LG phone.

      Big “we already got their money, fuck 'em” energy. Made me decide to aggressively avoid all LG products going forward.

      Best part was there was a bug in the version of their Android I was stuck with that would cause the phone to randomly shut off if charging overnight. I think I eventually installed a custom ROM which fixed it.

      • Polar
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        9 months ago

        My LG G3 was my last LG phone. Not to mention how many phone models had boot looping issues because of crappy solder? And they took multiple years to switch to a better solder lol.

        I also installed a custom ROM on mine to make it usable.

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      9 months ago

      Hell, I dealt with that all the way back in 2010/2011 with the Cliq XT. It was supposed to get Android 1.6, and Moto kept stringing everyone along until after Android 2.0 came out, when they quietly stopped saying an update would come. Worst part is, IIRC the Cliq (same exact phone hardware wise, except with a physical keyboard) received the promised update.

      Ever since then, I’ve sworn off Moto aside from the Z2 Force which I managed to get new for like $250, and even that one became my rooted plaything until the charging port fried itself last year.

      Moto, aside from the brief time they were part of Google, has always been awful about software updates, unfortunately.