[G 2014 General] akay193:
Okay so we've come from Kitkat to Lollipop and from Lollipop to Marshmallow now.Motorola has been very good compared to other manufacturers for pushing OTA updates.

Many people are wondering "is Marshamllow really a worthy update from Lollipop?"

I flashed 6.0 Marshmallow on my Moto G 2014 (don't ask procedure it sucks) and here's a short review of my first day with it!

Here are some good things...

Battery Life And Doze

One of if not the most important aspects of any smartphone,battery life

Well,I haven't used it for more than 24 hours so far but what I'm seeing is a a rather improved battery life.

It's not tested yet properly but I can get a screenshot however

(Check an sudden steep but small decline in battery life graph. Due to Doze?)

Now On Tap

This feature was one of the most awaited features of Marshmallow.It instantly reads the text in that particular window and give you more information about it.

Okay so here's an issue I faced.While opening Instagram icon,it never opened Instagram link in Instagram app instead,opened it in browser reason? I have no idea.

This feature is still new and I see space for a ton of improvement.(*tsk tsk* Ignore Justin Beiber part though :D )

System UI Tuner

Me being a Cyanogenmod user got pretty much disappointed with this feature.It had very limited scope compared to Cyanogenmod (obviously) but hey,that's a cool

feature for normal users.Long press on settings icon in quick settings header (it will start spinning and will give you a toast notification saying system UI tuner

is now activated).You can bring up percentage display in battery icon and choose what you want and what you don't want to see in status bar (alarm icon,gps icon,

clock,etc).It has a demo mode (not sure how/why would anyone use it) too.

Storage

You can now merge your SD card with your internal storage which gives you infinite space.Yes,it can store your apps and data too! Basically your SD card works like

internal memory.You must format your card if you want to merge it.You also have an option to keep them seperate if you wish.Window which shows your Storage and USB

it cleaned up and now is minimalistic.It shows you how much space your Android OS has taken up.

App Permissions

It will ask for your permission every time an app tries to access your mobile's data (camera,microphone,gallery,contacts,etc).This can be also used to turn off/deny permissions of a specific thing to a specific app.

Small But Sweet Things

Animations

Marshmallow has smooth animations and transitions all over it.For example,opening an app gives much much better animation effect compared to Lollipop.

It might eat some of your battery life but I don't think it will hurt battery that much.

Do Not Distrub Tab And Volume Settings

In Marshmallow,you get much much better volume settings than Lollipop.Do not disturb mode is separately moved to quick settings and you can control whole volume panel

i.e phone sound,media sound and alarm sound after expanding it (*cough* Cyanogenmod *cough*)

Automatic Rules

You can add a task for volume settings.It can be either event oriented or time oriented.This is similar to Lollipop but now you can add more than one events (very nifty).

Lockscreen Shortcuts

Lockscreen shortcut now has Google Now activation by swiping from left (was Dialer in Lollipop) and Camera by swiping from right.

FM Radio

Now you can listen to radio even if you don't have headphones (not sure if this was there in Lollipop,I don't use it much anyway).

Google Cookie/Easter Egg

Now you can play with two or more players in that "game" (C'mon who plays it?)

So,is it really a worthy upgrade?

Well,what I think is you should definitely get it if you can upgrade easily (XT1068 to XT1069 and stuff) or if you now what you're doing while converting your

XT1068 to XT1069 (trust me this proccess sucks).I think Marshmallow is what Lollipop should've been (I stole this from XDA News section, LOL).

I'm not gonna shift to any other ROM so soon now :D