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I guess Motorola decided to join the Slow Down Your Device So You'll Buy The Next Model club. I had a Moto G5s Plus I bought not too long ago. I mainly use it for debugging now.

I mean, can't prove anything, all I can say for certain is their last update, literally, the final one they plan on releasing for that model, made the device so slow it was useless.

So I unlocked it and put LineageOS on it. Not easy, since there's no official build for it. Once I got it working, all the issues with the stock firmware vanished. It runs faster than it ever has.

Now I get greeted with a message when it boots telling me that the device was unlocked and can't be trusted, because, you know, we can all trust cell phone manufacturers to not put a bunch of spyware on our phones.

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  • 4
    You should be able to replace the boot animation and thus remove the "warning". Check XDA.
  • 1
    Actually there's another chance that this update went messy as many other times with other brands, if you look around you'll see that different brands have this "update" problem that hits performance, many times the way to solve it is to try to reset the phone after the latest update
  • 0
    Dont mistake incompetence with malice.
  • 0
    @groxx I'm running Oreo on a 6 year old device and it's more smooth than ever.
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