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Android 6.0 Marshmallow for Motorola Moto X Play

Motorola released the Moto X Play flagship with pre-loaded Android 5.1.1 Lollipop OS with minimal changes to stock Material UI. Now Google is going to unveil Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system on 29th September. Obviously Moto X Play is in the Marshmallow upgrade list with top priority. So Motorola may start the intial rollout of Marshmallow update to Moto X Play in the end of October. But some users may have to wait until November to taste Marshmallow. Motorola may start the rollout first in the US and other North American countries. Users of Play edition in Middle East, India and European countries may receive the Android 6.0 update in November or December. Full details about rollout dates will be revealed in coming days.

1. DO NOT DISTURB

Through Do Not Disturb, users can set different silent modes according to their need. Users can access Do Not Disturb feature in Quick Settings toggles directly from the Marshmallow home screen. In that three modes will appear : Total Silence, Alarms Only and Priority only. Users can set any mode for a few hours. More customization will be available for Do Not Disturb through the More Settings button at the bottom. Google may improve Do Not Disturb feature in the next updates. This is a updated version of priority notification of Lollipop.

2.APPS PERMISSIONS

This Feature of Android M has been speculating for many days and now the full details revealed. With Android M users can use individual permissions to allow or deny apps. Google has simplified the permissions feature in Android M. In Android M, permission request will appear when the app requires that particular permission and not at the time of installation. For Example, Whatsapp will request one time permission request to use mic, when we tap on record voice message icon. So users can decide to give permission to use it or not while using apps. When users want to change or view the permission setting for any app later, they can do that in the Settings. So android m is giving full control over apps to users through permissions. This is a noble feature of Android M. Google may further develop this feature in future android versions.

3.NEW VOLLUME CONTTROL

Google improved the volume controls in Marshmallow better than Lollipop. So when user click on volume up or down buttons, a volume settings box will appear on screen. This box let users to change media volume, ring volume and alarm volume independently. To set in vibrate user have to tap on the Bell icon in this screen. So Android 6.0 Marshmallow volume controls are much better than Android 5.0 Lollipop. In Marshmallow there is no need to go into Settings menu to change volume controls independently. As said above the customized Volume control screen will appear as soon as user touches Volume up or down buttons. Actually Windows Phone adapted this setting a few generations ago and now Android got this.

4.DOZE

In Android M, the tech giant introduced a new battery saving function named as Doze. With motion sensors, Doze recognizes automatically position of device and usage of device. So Doze recognizes whether the user asleep or kept in a table and saves battery according to the needs. In Doze mode also, alarms will work and priority notifications will appear. According to Burke, they have tested two Nexus 9 devices, one running on Android M preview and one running on Lollipop. The device running on Android M preview gives two times more standby time than the device running on Lollipop. Android M also supports new USB Type-C ports which allow greater amperage and fast charge the device. Users can also charge other device with these USB Type-C ports. Android M will manage better these ports. As Moto X series don’t have these ports, this feature of Android M is useless for Moto X users.

5.GOOGLE NOW ON TAP

Android 6.0 Marshmallow brought new app menu design which deviates from previous Android version. Upto Android Lollipop all Android versions feature horizontally scrollable app menu. But in Marshmallow Google introduced vertical app menu. The App Menu appears much smooth and fast than previous app menus. Search bar also comes with new app menu. So users can type in the search bar at the top of app menu to find required app. Users can easily find the required with search function in the new app menu. The Marshmallow app menu also provides the list of recent of on the top of the menu. So users can easily launch recently used apps. Google may improve this new app menu in the next update to Marshmallow.

Please note that they are not numbered according to priority

one disadvantage is that it uses more storage than lollipop now we only have about 10Gb free out of 16Gb.

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