2019-06-17, 8:38 AM

Just echoing whats already been said about the launcher replacement. I found that disabling all the Moto apps and replacing the Moto launcher with Nova made a small difference. The lagging issue is not as bad now. I do find the phone takes a long while to warm up from cold... like an old car. For instance when it has been idle a locked for a few hours when I unlock and tap the first app it takes an age (5 seconds +) to respond and actually start to launch the app. Once the first app has launched and I continue to use the phone it becomes more usable. Its almost as if the background processes running are using most of the phones resources to just keep the thing alive and when required to service an interactive request it then has to work hard to realocate resources.

Its a shame there is no app similiar to Windows Task Manager that can monitor processor and memory usage to identify those processes that are hogging resource.

On the subject of battery life I have a noticed a significant difference in battery life. Under the old OS i would get 2-3 days of use under nominal use, but with the Pie update I'm lucky to get 1 day. I have also noticed that getting a full charge back into the phone is a real struggle now. Prior to Pie I could get the phone charged from almost empty using the Moto fast charger in under an hour, now using the same charger the same level takes 3 hours +. Unless I leave the phone overnight now I rarely get above 80% day-to-day. Another reason that makes me suspect that basic OS background processes are draining the phone constantly.

Good to see this thread keep going. The more people that post will increase visibilbilty on this issue.

Lets raise the profile here and on social media. Hopefully someone will react or at very least people will see how blinkered and nonchalant Moto/Lenovo are about this issue.