Motorola releases 4.4 for Verizon Moto X

Clementine_3 · Nov 19, 2013

Here you go Thom...

krouget · Nov 19, 2013

Congrats to our VZW Moto X brothers/sisters who are getting this update, this is awesome news!

Personally, I think Moto did this on purpose, so as to send a message-- if they can get 4.4 running on their new flagship before OTA Nexus updates and GPE devices, on VZW of all carriers you know something is right.

Looking forward to the GSM releases, which clearly aren't far behind, given all the leaks.

Funnyusername · Nov 19, 2013

Interesting to think that if this update would have included the launcher and dialer maybe we would not be getting this update today.

I like the update. You notice small things that make things much better. I am off Nova for now and going to run stock for the next couple days. Maybe I won't go back. We shall see.

Things I liked right away:

-Location in drop down menu now
-Transparent bar at the bottom. Makes the screen seem larger
-"home" now in settings and allows you to easily pick a launcher
-Tap and pay
-New icons and white theme look nice
-New additions to lock screen are welcomed

alostpacket · Nov 19, 2013

jhawkkw said:
Apparently sideloading the Google Wallet apk from the Nexus 5 enables tap to pay to work on the Moto X if updated to 4.4.

Wait, sideloading? 4.4 was supposed to negate the need for that w/ HCE.

Is VZW blocking the app or something? (T-mobile is part of Isis too, and I hate them equally for that)

Awesome news on the update though, I'm happy for our VZW brothers and sisters (we're a Moto X family right?

)

Funnyusername · Nov 19, 2013

alostpacket said:
Wait, sideloading? 4.4 was supposed to negate the need for that w/ HCE.

Is VZW blocking the app or something? (T-mobile is part of Isis too, and I hate them equally for that)

Awesome news on the update though, I'm happy for our VZW brothers and sisters (we're a Moto X family right? )

I am hearing that maybe Google just needs to push an update to the Wallet app for the "tap to play" feature to work. Because if you side load the .apk from the Nexus 5...the feature will show up on your moto x.

Just wait and see what happens at this point.

jhawkkw · Nov 19, 2013

alostpacket said:
Wait, sideloading? 4.4 was supposed to negate the need for that w/ HCE.

Is VZW blocking the app or something? (T-mobile is part of Isis too, and I hate them equally for that)

Awesome news on the update though, I'm happy for our VZW brothers and sisters (we're a Moto X family right? )

The play store isn't updated to the same version as what comes on the nexus 5. Once the play store gets updated, it shouldn't be necessary.

bjacks12 · Nov 19, 2013

link5645 said:
Ah, gotcha. I just noticed that it doesn't pull in business results. That's pretty strange. It might just be a Nexus 5 exclusive for now.

It's not a Nexus 5 exclusive. It works great on my Nexus 4.

Also, you guys got the OTA before the Nexus 4 :thinking:

Fortunately I'm too impatient and flashed the factory images last week. But I think Motorola may be my next phone in a year or two when I replace my N4.

kingfroman · Nov 19, 2013

Got the update. Some pretty nice features on the update.
So far I've noticed the battery life to drain faster. Hopefully it's just the battery trying to calibrate itself. also noticed you can't add widgets by long pressing the home screen.

dmiller2007 · Nov 19, 2013

kingfroman said:
also noticed you can't add widgets by long pressing the home screen.

I might be wrong, but I'm thinking that feature is part of the Google experience launcher?

Can anyone with the ota confirm if the normal Verizon bloat is there? It's not a big deal to me but I thought that I read somewhere that there wasn't any or there was less?

kingfroman · Nov 20, 2013

dmiller2007 said:
I might be wrong, but I'm thinking that feature is part of the Google experience launcher?

Can anyone with the ota confirm if the normal Verizon bloat is there? It's not a big deal to me but I thought that I read somewhere that there wasn't any or there was less?

yea its still there. has the vz, navigator, verizon tones, nfl mobile, my verizon mobile , caller id name (i think thats verizon)

Funnyusername · Nov 20, 2013

dmiller2007 said:
I might be wrong, but I'm thinking that feature is part of the Google experience launcher?

Can anyone with the ota confirm if the normal Verizon bloat is there? It's not a big deal to me but I thought that I read somewhere that there wasn't any or there was less?

Verizon will keep those apps on their phones forever. I am surprised they even let people "disable" them to be honest.

mplevy · Nov 20, 2013

Funnyusername said:
Verizon will keep those apps on their phones forever. I am surprised they even let people "disable" them to be honest.

If we couldn't disable them, what would be the point of having that feature in the first place?

bcltoys · Nov 20, 2013

It seen's like battery is draining faster

krouget · Nov 20, 2013

bcltoys said:
It seen's like battery is draining faster

Seems like you're the second person to say this. Hopefully it's just you all playing around with the device more than usual.

Any idea as to what may be causing this?

Clementine_3 · Nov 20, 2013

Yeah, I'm not overly worried just yet. I know I did play a lot after the update so figured the battery was going to take a hit. All charged up and ready to see what today brings, now that I should be back to normal-ish use.

JustinHEMI · Nov 20, 2013

Happy for the quick update! Only complaint is that I miss the holo blue notification icons.

Justin

mplevy · Nov 20, 2013

Mine was down to 76% but I had also done the first update, then KitKat after actually doing initial configuration of the thing. Charging now, we'll see how it goes but I'll be playing with it more than normal while I finish getting it set up tonight.

mplevy · Nov 20, 2013

ok, what's the deal with that little top-hat video/game deal? I'm not getting too involved in it at work, I'm up to where the egg falls from the nest onto the bear's nose.

Deleted User · Nov 20, 2013

mplevy said:
ok, what's the deal with that little top-hat video/game deal? I'm not getting too involved in it at work, I'm up to where the egg falls from the nest onto the bear's nose.

I have to say, I enjoyed the hell out of that little cartoon short. Kinda wish there were more of them.

It's just a showcase of the new Moto/Google interactive player.

mplevy · Nov 20, 2013

Yeah, I'm realizing it's just a little cartoon, looks like there will be more to come.

kingfroman · Nov 20, 2013

I fully charged mine now. Seems battery drain is back to normal from jb. It's weird though sometimes the battery charge will go up when I stop using it for awhile.

dmiller2007 · Nov 20, 2013

kingfroman said:
I fully charged mine now. Seems battery drain is back to normal from jb. It's weird though sometimes the battery charge will go up when I stop using it for awhile.

Guess you missed the memo, KitKat introduced the solar charging feature

bcltoys · Nov 20, 2013

Is it normal for the 4g LTE symbal and bars to stay white all the time with jelly bean they would turn blue.

doogald · Nov 20, 2013

bcltoys said:
Is it normal for the 4g LTE symbal and bars to stay white all the time with jelly bean they would turn blue.

Yes, Google changed that in KitKat. The explanation was two fold: first, people never understood the difference between a white and tinted icon. The second was that showing network activity in the status bar icon was using enough CPU that it was worth scrapping.

If you pull down the notification panel and press the settings icon in the upper right, I believe that the WiFi and mobile network icons will be tinted when you are connected to Google services and will also show network activity. (That's the case with KitKat on the Nexus 5; I don't have a Moto X with KitKat to see at the moment.)

krouget · Nov 20, 2013

^^ Right, I was sort of disappointed about that change, until I read the reason as to why they changed it.

I guess all is fair in progress (almost).

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