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[Moto X4 Real Life Review] seedubya:
I have to add the noise cancelling on this thing is incredible. I was at a playground full of screaming kids and my mate called. He couldn't hear the kids. I didn't believe him at first but he could only hear me.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] pizza_pablo:
It would help if folks add their location and carrier. Thanks.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] vitorfrost:
I am using only 1 SIM.

I'm from Brazil, and I'm using Vivo carrier.

Reception is good, but not perfect. I need to keep phone on the upright position or it can lose quality, specially in medium to low signal reception areas.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] mrman56780:
The call quality is great. However sometimes my audio starts getting choppy regardless of signal strength. The person on the other end hears me just fine but they are hard to understand.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Rate this thread to express how you think the Moto X4's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] That's Nobody:
Android One version connects fast. Works well up and down. Moto has its antenna game down.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Moto X4's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] honeker64:
i have a x4 tire very nice piece i do not understand why the android nug for 16.7 gb is this a lot? true dual sim
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] seedubya:
Yes mine system takes about 18g as well.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] That's Nobody:
One bar better signal than my S8 side by side.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] pizza_pablo:
It would be helpful if folks would add their location, carrier and dBm seen, as bars are not directly proportional across different devices.

Thanks.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] vitorfrost:
I do believe all version have Alexia pre installed. But it comes disabled or enabled. This doesn't make any sense, this is too much for a default Android N installation. Motorola apps also aren't that big. Can anyone with Alexia enabled version confirm how much space the system occupy?

Where I live Alexia isn't available. System space is 15GB
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] alfick3:
Something that I thought about here, is it maybe that high because of the dual slots for the new way that updates are done (like the Pixels have, the A and B slots so updates can be more seamless)? I don't have this phone, or the Pixels (so I don't know if the Pixel uses that much space for the system apps), but 15 would be approximately double the normal amount (such as on my N5X uses 7 GB). Like I said, its just a thought, but someone could confirm or deny how much the system apps on a Pixel take up, you could have an answer.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] vitorfrost:
Thanks a lot for the hint!

I will search for more info on it! I will update on what I found
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] alfick3:
You're welcome! I've been watching and reading these forums with the thought of possibly getting an X4 in February or March coming up (been using the N5X since Feb '16 so I'm in the process of researching my next phone and this one looks promising).
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] vitorfrost:
What I have found about system partition is in here: https://source.android.com/devices/...-did-ab-affect-the-2016-pixel-partition-sizes

Yet, in real world scenario, each system partition is taking (4GB + 2GB to the vendor)*2 :(

I have also found that google assistant can take up to 5 GB!

What I can tell you about this phone, that you should know is:

- Front facing camera have fixed focus, and the minimum distance for a good focus is about 45cm from phone! Acceptable from 35cm and beyond. See attached photo.

- Original Motorola Camera app is beta and buggy by now. Can be very slow sometimes.

- Back Facing Camera has pretty low MP for me. As this doesn't have zoom lens, 12MP is too low to make any digital zoom. I am jumping from a Moto X Play with 21MP to the Moto X4 with 12MP. I got used to take pictures away and cropping it with digital zoom, keeping a descent quality. Now this resource is gone.

- Fingerprinting reader has medium speed. Is acceptable. And it is limited to 5 fingers only.

- Screen Brightness is pretty low for a mid high device. It loose lot's of viewing when under the sun, specially compared to moto X Play.

-There is only one speaker on the phone, all the sounds comes from the ear speaker! And the quality of the sound is really bad when loud. I couldn't figure it out what is really happening, but the problem seems to come from something vibrating. I am betting on the IP68 protection barrier on the speaker.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] hugoprh:
Now getting back to the topic of this thread, the cellular strength for this phone is average, but Wifi is weak, from my bedroom, which is the room with the most distance to the router, I get a lot of connection drops, I have to switch Wifi off and use 4G to get a stable connection, compared to Xiaomi Mi A1 that I had before, the X4 is not that great, but I still recommend this phone, the build quality is amazing and great camera, the Mi A1 though, just the camera and screen let's it down, tried with GCam HDR+ port, pictures are not that great on the A1 and screen contrast is a bit low, but if you are on a budget, it's the phone to get for sure.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] crazyates:
Out of curiosity, what version of the OS are you running? The November update just came out, and it was supposed to fix a lot of issues with the Moto Camera.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] vitorfrost:
No OS update yet. But received an update for camera via play store
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] crazyates:
My "Moto Camera 2" is version 7.0.66.6 updated on November 2nd. That was before I got the November Security Update that was supposed to fix some camera issues (firmware and back-end stuff, not APK issues).
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] vitorfrost:
Thanks for the info. My Moto camera has the same version.

No OS update:

Android version 7.1.1

NPW26.4

Security update: 2017, September, 01
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] zkhmcknol:
Much better 4G reception than my old phone
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] olive23:
Cell reception is bad on this phone it drains my battery fast on 4G. The only solution I have for my phone is to switch to 3g it seems to work I guess.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] christopher68369:
generally every single Motorola smartphone has always been excellent compared to Samsung, apple, and lg. I always got a bar or 2 more than most devices ive had. I usually still have service even when coworker next to me keeps getting into no service spots with sprint. from what I understand is the x4 has two separate partitions. one with what your using, then when you get updates it will download and install into system b, and once restart you reboot the x4 reboots into system b. this way if their is something wrong with the update you don't restart and either get bootloops or brick. people have had that issue in the past. honestly I was disappointed with the x4. the old moto x, moto x2, and moto x pure were quite superb with decent specs and the moto assistant was 3 times more responsive and helpful than the alexa bull****. of course that was when google had acquired Motorola. now im kind of thinking of trying the one plus 6 or waiting for the pixel 3. I extremely hated Samsung touchwiz, htc sense ui, and didn't really like lg roms. but seeing oneplus 6 unboxing it seems to be near clean stock android. may have to give it a go
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Proper etiquette aside (hint: don't use speakerphone while doing your "business" in a public bathroom), rate this thread to express how you think the Moto X4's speakerphone performs. A higher rating indicates that you love it: it's loud and it's clear.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] That's Nobody:
The speaker is front facing. That's better than most phones alone. It's plenty loud. It's a smooth mono (not stereo) sound, so it's NOT tinny at all. In fact it has some rich depth. You can wash dishes and hear whatever you're listening.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] vitorfrost:
Doesn't it sound bad when the sound has more intensity? To me, it sounds as a blown speaker.

It is loud, but even the ringtone comes bad. Only for me? I noticed this problem when choosing the ringtone on the first time. I have only 4 days of use till now.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] pietpietersen:
i've never set the speaker on loudest because i'm afraid to blow them,

they seem to have the ability to go REALLY loud as even having them in MIDDLE VOLUME CAPACITY is plenty loud for me

i think the tones (or bass?) sounded a bit weird at first,

but i got used to it and love the speakers now!!!

I'm slightly disappointed beceause a lot of websites reported this phone had stereo speakers,

but from what i reecently gathered this phone probably has mono speakers?

i'm sure there's better speakers out there, but these sound pretty good i think
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] vitorfrost:
It can't be stereo as it only have one output for sound! Maybe a concept version had another speaker, but configuration changed on the final product.

After some time, the speaker got better to me, pretty crazy. Like a speaker burn to get a better bass :D
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] pranavo07:
My moto x4 speaker sound gets slow suddenly

I used only 20 days of buying .Earlier sounds louder but now get decreased by 25 to 30℅ when I playing media files............. I don't know how to fix it
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] douglasfneves:
I got mine last week and couldn't stand the speakers. I thought it was an issue with my device and returned it to get a new one... I really hope the second unit doesn't have the same problem, although to be honest after reading your comment I am not so positive about it anymore.

Should have saved some more money and gotten that iPhone 8...
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] Ritesh Mhatre:
Moto X4 Speaker Sound is Very Low Compared to Its Siblings...?
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] Bocskay:
Playing a ringtone is good, but the first 0,5sec very low - even if the volume set to max
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] Locklear308:
Almost all Motorola phone have this dumb problem. I found a fix for the Moto x pure using cm back in the day. I'll need to search my old posts from basically there is a etc folder that you delete (with root) and after rebooting the problem is gone. Made the Moto x pure actually usable. Until I realized the battery was a complete joke. (Like 3-4 hours usage Max)
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] pietpietersen:
looking back, I feel the quality of this speaker should have been better for the Price.

but w/e. I just ordered an Anker Soundcore Nano. This tiny thing is really cheap (€15 incl. shipping) ,

supposedly only weighs 80grams & will beat the built in speaker from even the most expensive phone today by far.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] murrty:
The speaker is kind of quiet compared to the G4 Plus. The Notification/Alarm ascending ringtone is annoying but can be disabled:

Modify the file

/system/vendor/etc/audio_ext_spkr.conf

under the "ring" and "media" sub-groups, modify the "attenuation" param from the default value to

0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0

.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] rename_nick:
I get cracking sound when turn on loudest volume in a call. Who is get it? And is it normal?
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] MotoX4:
Grandpa is 100 years old (honestly) and being a man who still wants to keep with the times, the Moto X4 is his first smartphone. The speakerphone was the selling point since he is a bit hard of hearing (understandably) and he needed a phone that could be as loud as he needed it to be. The normal speakers at MAX volume are almost enough for him to hear it on his own, but the speakerphone pushes it to where he needs it.

My only suggestion is that you root and move away from Motorola's stock ROM. Motorola has a software glitch in their stock ROM, which causes the volume to sometimes (at random) not to properly function (you'll have your volume on MAX, but for unknown reasons, it will be quiet sometimes when you take or make a call). Motorola has patched, unpatched, and repatched this issue (meaning they've fixed it with an update, then broke it again, then fixed it again) and this seems to be a pattern with them. As a result, I found using a different ROM (not the stock ROM) resolves this issue once and for all. ;)

That said, obviously, the speaker is good enough for a 100-year-old, senior, Grandpa to hear. I think that speaks for itself. :)
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] Knuxyl:
Coming from a Moto Z2 Force and Axon 7, these speakers are terrible. They are the quality we had 10 years ago. I managed to solve this problem with VIPER4Android FX. Turning on extra loud (up to +6) and speaker optimization seemed to fix any complaints I had. Speakers sound great, but if you push them they can start cracking. I think I found the perfect balance. Idk how people are saying it can be too loud, mine was too quiet.

In short, speakers are terrible without software modifications. Then they are just fine.
[Moto X4 Real Life Review] johanaprabu:
How to edit? I tried but it revert back to same old values?
[General Topics] caHarkness:
While working on an Android app for the company I work for, we have run into a very weird situation where the app doesn't work as expected. One of our paying subscribers reports seeing a black screen when opening our app on his Android, even though we have successfully tested our app on the same model of phone. We suspect the problem stems from other software running on his phone, what could it be?

Here are a couple things to consider:

1. To my best knowledge, the "black" screen is actually a dark gray color that is used within our app. This tells me that maybe a view is not rendering correctly, or possibly transparency is not working correctly.

2. We were informed that our latest version of the app in the Google Play Store was working momentarily, but then ceased to work (i.e. the dark gray screen). We don't have enough info to know how long it took for this behavior to start happening, but we cannot recreate this issue at all.

3. We have other customers using the same model of phone, but not calling up complaining about the issue. We don't think it's affecting others, but we do have evidence in our logs that suggests the users are using the app and making all the API calls that the app would normally make.

4. An older version of our app DOES work for them. There were a lot of changes to the build system that we made, including taking out hard references to the package name from the manifest and putting them in the gradle build system. I couldn't imagine anything I changed in code would affect this user except some of the manifest changes.

(example: com.company.app.activities was refactored to .activities in the manifest)

My questions to you are: Do you know of any apps that can interfere with another? Have you seen this or heard of this before? Are there any tricks for me, as a developer, to resolve this issue? (perhaps it's a problem with my AndroidManifest.xml or a dependency in my build.gradle file)

Thank you so much for your help! Even though this is affecting one customer, we're hoping that we can identify this problem and solve it so others facing this problem can learn from this post.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] faeArai:
So I had an unlocked H8 with LOS. As I wanted to install EMUI, I put the proper restore Update.app into the dload folder and started Huawei's recovery. Everything went well, I formated data and wanted to install the EMUI 4.1 ROM using the same method.

Unfortunately my H8 is bootlooping and there is now way into erecovery nor any other recovery. It simply reboots on every single known vol up or down key pressing combination. The only thing I can go to is fastboot mode when holding down vol down and plugging in usb wire. But, it says frd locked and I can't install nor boot twrp. It's simply gone and reboots all the time.

Any hints? I can't even turn it off.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] faeArai:
I wanted to give away that phone that's the reason. Last time I did it this way, I could flash the EMUI 4.1 since it's signed. But not this time.

Interesting part is, that although fastboot says frd locked, I still get the "phone unlocked" warning on every reboot. dload method isn't working, as it simply keeps rebooting.

It's my hardest brick so far I ever encountered :)
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] fred98:
the same thing happened to me.....on my phone lock/unlocked frp and bootloader were tweaked for some reason(I mean that what was written wasn't the reality) so how did I fix it? I kept on to flash rollback package many times and I tried to unlock/relock bootloader again, at the end the phone let me to flash the firmware, I didn't know how but the phone allowed me to flash things throw recovery(using dload method). At the begin I only could access to erecovery and fastboot. I suppose that I broke system and data partition and while I looked/unlocked the bootloader, the wipe fixed the partition table. Sorry I'm tired and I know that my English sucks, I hope you understand what I have written. :) :)
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] faeArai:
How did you enter erecovery as this isn't working for me.... What did you flash over fastboot?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Saeem:
Have you tried flashing the firmware separately using adb on computer?

For this you just need to extract the Update.app using the firmware extractor for huawei. Then flash them individually using adb commands in cmd.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] faeArai:
I can't access any state that would allow to do adb.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] fred98:
sorry. I'll try to explain better, however on Huawei/honor devices there are not one but two recoveries, so one is the normal recovery flashed in recovery partition, the second one is the Huawei recovery that is flashed in recovery2 partition, so if you didn't touch recovery2 partition, your erecovery is still there, now, if you press VOL+ VOL- and POWER it will reboot to recovery2 and it starts to flash something from dload in your sd card, so in my opinion you should do this things, first try this method to flash rollback package(this is the transition package from 7 to 6 and you will find it on honor site) if this is still not working try locking and unlocking again your bootloader(I hope this fix partitions of your device) then try to enter recovery and do a wipe and then boot your device, if this doesn't work flash rollback package(now it would work) and then flash an emui 4 full firmware image, always using dload method. trust me... I did the same... and it worked for me. let me know if it works for you :) :good:
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Numerics:
I ran into this issue not that long ago. What you have to do is relock your bootloader using ADB. The ADB commands and instructions can be found in this thread.

Just a FYI, do not use the links to the software listed in that thread as it is a little outdated. The method still works but the software will probably not work. Just be sure to get the most recent/appropriate version of SuperSU and TWRP via their official threads (This is if you want to re-root). There are Honor 8 specific TWRP files if I remember correctly, so be sure to check around the Honor 8 forums for the correct files.

A quick summary of what I did:

1) Power your phone off and then boot into fastboot by holding Vol down + Power; as soon as it boots up, plug your phone into your combuter via your usb cord.

2) With ADB running, type:

fastboot oem relock [COLOR="LightBlue"]################[/COLOR]

NOTE: The '#' should be replaced with your unique unlock code that you obtained to unlock your bootloader.

3) Wait for it to format and reset your phone and go through the setup. BE SURE TO BYPASS all google registration; skip everything you can to get into the phone itself. If you do register, it will reactivate FRP and you'll have to start over again.

4) Turn on USB Debugging and every other setting that enables developer administrative navigation and control just to be safe. USB Debugging being the most important one, though.

5) Restart your phone and boot into fastboot again using Vol down + Power.

6) Unlock your phone again with:

fastboot oem unlock [COLOR="LightBlue"]################[/COLOR]

7) Once the command is entered, it'll reset your phone once more and - as stated before - bypass/skip all google (FRP) registration.

8) Enable developer options and USB debugging again and make sure that OEM Unlocked is checked and grayed out.

9) Reboot into fastboot mode to confirm that FRP is disabled and you should be able to install TWRP now via ADB.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] faeArai:
[MENTION=4411099]Numerics[/MENTION] thanks. The thing is, that I can't boot anything. I can't even go into eRecovery. Nor can I flash a stock EMUI 4.1. It just boot loops all the time and I can only access fastboot.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] xynewageyx:
If you can flash twrp..........Install los or other Rom ..................Go back to stock.......you must flash b360 ober adb...... because los is 7.1...............if you on b360 you can usw the rollback for emui 4.1........,..............sry for bad english
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] faeArai:
I can easily go to fastboot. But I can't flash anything. I extracted the img from the update.app but can't flash. It simply says that it's not permitted.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Numerics:
With my method, you don't need to flash anything. Just relock your bootloader via adb in fastboot mode and let it reset. Unless I'm not understanding your issue entirely. :(
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] faeArai:
[MENTION=4411099]Numerics[/MENTION] as I said, in won't boot anything as it is constantly boot looping. There is no way to access any kind of recovery nor erecovery. There is no boot into Android. The only thing accessible right now is fast boot (which is not ADB). But even in fast boot I can't do anything als operations are not permitted.

after boot looping and starting fast boot mode, I can see a "Android reboot reason" section saying:

AP_S_PANIC

data is invalid

There is still a lineageos installed on system as firmware but as I tried to get rid of it by going back to stock EMUI, I guess Huawei's rollback did something wrong and killed recovery (although I did it in the past successfully).

I tried to run HiSuite to recover my phone, but it just says, that my phone is not supported.

Speaking of this, Huawei messed up with that whole fastboot locking bull****.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Numerics:
No, I know ADB isn't Fastboot. What I'm trying to say is that you should be able to still run ADB via CMD on Windows when you're in fastboot mode to relock your bootloader with the directions I gave in my previous post. It'll force-restore your phone to a non-bricked/vanilla state. At least that is how I fixed mine.

Like... You can't even try using the 'fastboot oem relock ################' function via the ADB console while in fastboot?