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Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone

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On 2026-08-14 17:06, micky wrote:
> I've been reluctant to say what phone it is because so often some people
> online will chime in that the poster made a mistake, bougth the wrong
> thing.  It's one thing to give advice in advance, but another to rain on
> someone's parade when he just bought something.  We'll see if anyone
> here is nasty like that.

Nono. I don't criticise people for their choices :-)

> 
> It's a Motorola Moto G Stylus 2025.   Reconditioned or whatever Amazon
> calls it.  A year old or so so the battery could be a year old.
> Accubattery offers to rate it, but you have to run the battery down to
> 10% first and I hate doin that.   I think the battery was at 35% when it
> came out of the plain white box they had it in
> 

Refurbished. It is 300€ new, here.
I have bought refurbished things here, I'm happy. A printer, a computer 
display... just not tried Amazon for this.

> 8GB Ram, 128GB, which is less than the last phone but everything has
> been copied in and it only used 40%. I can go another 10 years before I
> use another 40%.  To get it with 256GB would have been another $200!
> 

...

> 
> Also good that they have a user guide for my very model online, 116
> pages.  I couldn't find or didn't feel the need for one for the previous
> phones but this one is confusing. It even has what I think is a strange
> way to turn the phone off, Vol up and Power at the same time.  Will take
> two hands. ;-(   That's what the user guide says to do but there is also
> a power button symbol at the bottom of the windowshade.  That requires 4
> steps instead of what I'm used to, two
>


I think it can be adjusted. In mine, the power button displays a quick 
menu with 4 options: emergency, lock, power down, reboot.

> In settings it says
>     Flip or DND  Flip the phone over to enable Do Not Disturb
> 
> But it doesn't say if the setting is on or off.  You have to tap to see.
> Prior phones had two ways of phrasing things like this, one that meant
> on and one that meant off


If you activate the feature, when you put the phone face down on a table 
it goes to DND mode.

If you have a folding case, it does not detect the table. Instead, put 
the phone flat on the table, open, then close by folding the phone side 
over the cover.

I think it can be made to beep or vibrate when activating DND.

> Smame probllem for  Pick up to Silence.
> They were both Off and that's fine, but you have to tap to see and if it
> gets changed by a gremlin or your 10-year old, it doesn't change what it
> shows. --- Not all settings are mysterious like these two.  So many to
> check, three hours in and have barely gotten started.
> 
> I thought I had Maestro on my old phone, or maybe I just read about it,
> but I had it on this oone and it announced it was installing 12 apps. I
> couldnt' figure out hwo to stop it.  I wrote down the names of 10 and
> found 9 of them.  7 or 8 were games, plus job hunter, and it won't kill
> me to have 3 more apps I never use, but it's annoying.  I disable
> Maestro so it won't do this again. 

There is an app in new Motorolas that, based on your profile, installs 
apps that it thinks you may like. You have to be careful with the 
wording, be careful to just read the offering and not install anything 
you really do not want. I don't really know the name of the tool.

> 
> Changed launcher and new one has distracting advertising
> 
> It does have an SD slot, a sim slot,and e-sim, as Frank told me.  It has
> wireless charging, which I might not use.   I bought a case with a door
> over the lenses.  I never damaged the earlier phones' lenses but I do
> put it in my pocket. May slow me down when i want to take a fleeting
> shot.
> 
> Keeps saying it's an AT&T phone but the Amazon ad warned about that.
> 
> Only 128GB storage.  Cost USD $182.50.  If I'd waited 3 days, the price
> went down 2 dollars.
> 
> Anyhow, I used to have about 215 apps, and now it says I have 320.  How
> did that happen.   I don't want that.
> 

Maybe internal apps?

> More later maybe.


-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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  Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-08-14 15:45 +0000
  Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-14 19:59 +0200
    Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-08-14 14:18 -0400
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    Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2026-08-14 18:59 +0000
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      Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-08-14 21:26 -0400
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  Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-08-14 21:38 -0400
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      Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-08-15 10:31 -0400
    Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-08-15 19:36 +0200
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