Moto G4 / G4 Plus

I updated my G4 the other day to 7.0 nothing anymore beneficial to me really.
One thing I have noticed is when you use the camera the brightness does not change. Before if I opened the camera the brightness would automatically increase whether it was dull or bright. None of my settings have changed and still have automatic brightness selected. I really liked this feature but cannot seem to see if it was affected in the update, has this happened to anyone else?

autosuggested wrote: »

Hey folks, just a heads up: the OTA Android N update bricked my Moto G4 earlier today.

It seems to be affecting a few others as well. No idea why yet, but thankfully it's still under warranty. Motorola support told me to send it over to the UK for a warranty repair / replacement.

Hopefully this won't affect you, but just in case...

Unfortunately I can't post a URL because of my low post count, but you can find the issue over on the Motorola / Lenovo Moto G4 forum as well. Here's what I posted there.

Hi,

Same issue here: received notification of an available OTA system update (Android Nougat) on my Moto G4 this morning. Download went fine, but soon after I kicked off the installation process, my phone was bricked. Won't turn on, won't charge, won't even factory reset. White notification LED blinks continuously, which usually indicates a dead battery (less than 5% charge), but battery was at 97% when I started the update. Left the phone charging from the wall charger for a few hours to no avail.

Had an online chat with Motorola support who tried to bring me through the standard troubleshooting steps (force reboot, charge, external factory reset, etc.) but it didn't fix the issue.

The phone is roughly nine months old, so it's still under warranty. After the troubleshooting steps failed I was directed to send it into the nearest Motorola service centre for a warranty repair / replacement. I'm in Ireland so that means posting it over to the UK.

RIP my Moto G4.

Better​ for it to happen now than in 4 months time.

Updated to Nougat aswell and its after making my phone extremely sluggish at times, windows and apps crashing

Is there different versions of Nougat or what ??

I'm on 6.0.1 and I'm starting to get a lot of issues with my G4

Anyone else finding the phone running extra slow ?
It's also dropping my Wi-Fi connection - a lot !

This all seems to have come out of the blue. Should I do a reset and hope it improves or is it facing a slow death ?

Phone is only about a year old too. Wife has a G3 which is still as good as when she got it so its very annoying that mine is starting to have problems

beauf wrote: »

Well other than the ghost touch, which seem to be slowly getting worse.

Same here, noticing the ghost touch happening much more frequently. Updated the g4 to nougat, and haven't noticed any other differences really. Not sure if the increased frequency of ghost touch is because of updating or if it was increasing anyway.

G4 plus is still running marshmallow and I think I'm going to leave it that way. I have noticed it becoming more sluggish, but I think that's down to the space maybe? I have the SD card set as external, but I might format it and set it as part of the internal memory to see if that helps.

After a new phone for the Mrs and she has decided it has to be white so is there anywhere I can get a 4th gen Moto G in white?

Has to be in Brick's n mortar as I need it for Friday.

upgraded to Nougat, no issues so far.

Was there ever a root for it as read up that there was some rooting issues with it?

dahat wrote: »

After a new phone for the Mrs and she has decided it has to be white so is there anywhere I can get a 4th gen Moto G in white?

Has to be in Brick's n mortar as I need it for Friday.

Try Argos?

t0mm13b wrote: »

upgraded to Nougat, no issues so far.

Was there ever a root for it as read up that there was some rooting issues with it?

Am leaving this here for the linky to root Nougat, Root Nougat

The reported issues with Nougat is apparently with NPJ25.93-11.

FWIW, the current firmware installed for retgb channel on mine is at NPJ25.93-14.

Moto G5 now available in Argos https://m.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/6842176/Trail/searchtext>Moto.htm

The 3gb ram and 2 sim version is available on Amazon for preorder works out cheaper than the Argos version

Do any of you folks have a Moto G4 with dual sim? I'm considering getting one from EuGlobalCentral because it's a 3GB RAM version. But it's also dual sim.

I was wondering if the second sim icon is always visible on the status bar even if you don't have the sim inserted in the second slot?

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

I have the g4 plus dual sim and that doesn't show icon for second sim.

Thank you for the swift reply, Tom. That's great then. The second icon always being there even though I'm not using it would bother the hell out of me.