Before 2014 ended, we said that Motorola would be rolling out Lollipop for the 1st gen Moto G. Weeks of waiting are over, well at least, we don’t have to wait for long as Motorola recently mentioned that the software update will arrive in the “upcoming weeks”. This is good news for owners of the first Moto G especially since the 2nd-gen was the first smartphone to officially get Android 5.0 Lollipop last year.
We all know how such updates come from manufacturers and mobile carriers and more often than not, it can be frustrating. But the past week, some Moto G users have been getting notifications about the upcoming update. Here is the message from Motorola:
As with other similar upgrades, the Android 5.0 Lollipop will bring most features of the sweet mobile OS like Material Design elements, better battery life, new notifications screen, and enhanced phone performance. Android Lollipop on the Moto G will also allow automatic encryption and SELinux enforcing for all applications.
The Android 5.0 Lollipop on the first gen Moto G should be the same as what the Moto G with 4G in Brazil, Moto G in India, Moto X Pure Edition, and Nexus 6 received. Looks like the Motorola Lollipop updates announced last month are almost ready.
VIA: SlashGear
How often are we going to hear this?
I bought my Moto G 4G back in (very) early December 2014 and remember seeing articles like this back then.
It’s now, nearly 3 months later.
“please ensure that you have the latest version of Motorola Update Services.”
This too has been floating around for a while.
However, everytime I visit the Google Play app store, it tells me that this is “installed,” (it isn’t) and that it’s “incompatible,” with all of my devices?
I’m hoping that this will become “compatible,” in preparation for the rollout.
I’m in the UK, I’d be interested to hear of anybody who actually has Lollipop OTA on their MOTO G.
I’m beginning to wonder whether it’ll ever happen! :O)
I don’t think it will,
I have the Moto g 2013 sim unlocked, I live in the UK.
I’ve wated about 3-4 months now, I’m thinking about rooting the dam thing and flashing it on.
If you check the MOTO site, it says that the devices are due an update “pending carrier support.”
There’s an awful lot of stuff out there claiming that the 1st Gen and all its variants are due the update, actually it seems to claim that for all of Motorola’s phones, even the MOTO E! :O))
I’m pretty OK with tech stuff, but I’d never risk rooting the phone or anything.
It all looks too involved to me. :O)
I’m pretty pleased with KitKat, given that a number of similar phones are still running Jelly Bean.
However, I’ve been hearing this “it’s only a few weeks away,” routine since I bought the phone in December and it’s becoming a bit tiresome.
Where I come from a “few,” means 3 weeks, that is, not months! :O))
If it is carrier up date more testing to be done by carriers? At&t T-Mobile this is an unlock device.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Is this another mean joke…
It is available to Moto G’s in India but I heard it’s so buggy that many complained and wanted to restore to KitKat.
Moto G (1st gen, dual sim, 3g) in Brazil: I have Android 5 for more than a month now. Not buggy, not slower. However, I don’t see much difference (thus advantages) over the previous version. However, I didn’t really look much into it either. One day it just offered the update, which went through smoothly. I did not have to check any motorola software. I would have been alerted anyway, if there was a newer version of the APP.
Its only coming coming coming and coming… He he.. Motorola promised to be the first to give the latest android updates.. But failed for moto g 1st gen.. Top of it.. Google sold motorola to lenovo.. What’s the future of the buyers… OMG!!! Unexpected.. Just keep waiting.. Waiting waiting.. Only fake promises and Fake expectations and of course a good strategy to sell the products.. No matter if the update is given or not.. Promises are meant to be broken.
I still haven’t received it on Verizon: May 6th. 🙁