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Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone

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On 2026-08-14 20:18, micky wrote:
> In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:59:00 +0200, "Carlos E.
> R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> 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 :-)
> 
> I wasn't thinking of you.  People in the past.

Yep, this is Usenet, there are all kinds.

>>
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> I bought my last laptop from them.  They have a big selection.
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Do you have a Motorola?   Pressing my power button alone does almost
> nothing when the screen is on and only brings up the lock screen when
> the screen is off.  The user guide says Powr and Vol up and that does
> bring up Emergency, Off, or Restart.   -- The previou sphone had 4
> choices and I can't remember what the 4th one was.

It takes a long press in mine. It also has the fingerprint sensor, which 
is handy.

> 
> So it works as intended but takes two hands this way.  Good thing I'm
> not riding a bicycle when i do this.
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Thanks.
>>
>>> 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.
> 
> I didn't say yes to anything when Maestro started downloading, and it
> was proud of itself and gave its name.
> 
>>>
>>> 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?
> 
> That would be more understandable and acceptable, but almost 100 of
> them!

Maybe they distributed how they do things in more apps. Dunno.

> 
>>> More later maybe.


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

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New-to-me Motoroloa phone micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-08-14 11:06 -0400
  Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-08-14 17:43 +0200
  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
      Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-14 20:33 +0200
        Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jmj@energokod.gda.pl> - 2026-08-14 21:05 +0200
          Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-14 21:30 +0200
      Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-08-15 10:07 +0100
        Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-08-15 15:18 -0400
          Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-08-16 01:19 +0100
            Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-08-15 19:29 -0800
    Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2026-08-14 18:59 +0000
      Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-14 21:33 +0200
      Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-08-14 21:26 -0400
        Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2026-08-15 03:54 +0000
  Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-08-14 21:38 -0400
    Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-08-15 12:02 +0200
      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
      Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2026-08-15 15:07 -0400
  Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-08-15 09:48 +0100
    Re: New-to-me Motoroloa phone Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-08-15 19:38 -0800

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