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[Q] Just got AT&T motox,I want to fix a few random thing that seriously bug me.

So, I picked up a moto-x.
I was pretty much happy with 4.2 other than the att contacts/ sms app but I was gonna attempt to find a workaround for that after I got the phone set up.
However, when I finally got the phone just about where I wanted AT&T forced the 4.4 update down my throat. This changed a few more things that I want to fix.
I HATE being forced to use apps I don't want to use. The beauty of the motorola to me is the black/teal (Now white -_-) interface in all the menus including texting and contacts. Now I'm stuck using that garbage from AT&T or google hangouts, neither of which I want anything to do with. I have yet to find a way to disable it without root. I was thinking I could use the app sender to send the original apps from my Electrify M, Would that work?
Since the update, Google keyboard has.... hidden... the enter key. I have to hit shift to see an enter/return key in order to start a new line of text. That is BEYOND horrible. I did some digging on line and came across a thread (which I tried to link..... ) where, what I assume are google employee, are acting if asking for a fix is the same as asking for a new feature. That kind of attitude from google is kind of lame. I do not have an option to disable the smiley key and it seems like others that previously had the option have lost it. I may also try sending swype from my electrify M if it would work. Does anyone know a way to fix that smiley issue?
So, what do you guys think? I really don't want to root my phone, but my phone is a personal thing to me, and having it set up just how I like it means a lot. So would I be better off just rooting back to 4.2/4.3?
Would it be safe to try sending the apps from my USC Electrify M? (Text, people, contacts, swype)
Anyways,
Thanks in advance for any advice, tips ETC

Same Issue

Why not just use a keyboard from the play store... And a messaging app? You don't need root to do that.
Or did I miss something?
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Or use RSDlite and go back to 4.2.2?
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I don't understand? The stock sms app should still be on your phone, keyboards are plentiful in the play store.
Personally I love hangouts and wish more people would quit sms since I'm still on a limited plan.
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best solution I fond with NO root needed in app for SMS called Textra SMS
install > change to default text app > replace Icon with new one the green "T"
and you done
all options inside work great NO ROOT

[Q] ATT addressbook

Motorola Atrix HD
I just bought this phone used. Did a factory reset. Before I had my Consumers Cellular sims card I was using the phone to set it up. My contacts were already in the att address book first time it hit people. Don't have a clue how they got there. I don't like when I use it it takes a few seconds to bring it up. Can I disable this and get a plain old address book?
L.D.

ldj1002 said:
Motorola Atrix HD
I just bought this phone used. Did a factory reset. Before I had my Consumers Cellular sims card I was using the phone to set it up. My contacts were already in the att address book first time it hit people. Don't have a clue how they got there. I don't like when I use it it takes a few seconds to bring it up. Can I disable this and get a plain old address book?
L.D.
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you have to:
-unlock bootloader
-root
-load custom rom cm-11 (kitkat 4.4.2)
you have now a new phone free of att bloatware.

htchd2fix said:
you have to:
-unlock bootloader
-root
-load custom rom cm-11 (kitkat 4.4.2)
you have now a new phone free of att bloatware.
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That is beyond my ability.
Anything simpler?
How did my contacts get there before I inserted sims card?

If you root it which is very easy. There's a tool called myth tools located in here find that. Then you can get titanium backup from the store and freeze the att address book. No need to put a custom rom. You might even be able to just disable the app without root if you go to your apps in settings. Not sure there. Haven't been on stock for over a year.
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deeje00 said:
If you root it which is very easy. There's a tool called myth tools located in here find that. Then you can get titanium backup from the store and freeze the att address book. No need to put a custom rom. You might even be able to just disable the app without root if you go to your apps in settings. Not sure there. Haven't been on stock for over a year.
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What I don't like is when you mash contacts you get the a screen comes up and acts like it is searching for quite a while, then contacts will come up. Is there anything I can do to keep that from happening. My SIL has one just like it and his did that when he first got it. He said after a couple weeks it just stopped and started bringing contacts up as soon as he mashed people. He doen't remember doing anything to change it.

Like I said I haven't been stock in forever.
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motoX moto voice / google now problem

Hello,
Recently i noticed problem with my moto X,
When i use touchless controll with ok google now, whats the weather, i dont have any feedback
do i need jacket - no feedback just search
do i need umbrella - same
and when i say show me the weather it gives me wrong weather location
even my location settings are on to highest accuracy and i also set up my home and work location
that all seems to be working fine when i swipe home button to google now, i get cards with right weather on my current location
i tryed to delete chache and uninstall and install updates and still not working, i flashed to stock before but it thinks i am in portland,me
Only thing which works is when i say whats the weather in eg. Belegrade, it will give me right info
and one more thing - my wife is using moto G and with ok google everywhere she also get same problem with voice command.
her phone was brought new, for europe never been to america before and mine moto x was 2nd hand from verizon.
both phones have latest 4.4.4 and latest app updates.
i posted screenshots in attachments.
if someone could help me, thanks in advance

Problems with XT1058 LP Update

Hi guys this are the problems that i noticed after the update. This thread is specially for XT1058 but they could be in any builds too
why we dont have the full material launcher ?
sometimes my moto voice starts up without/with any command even in pocket.
moto voice's resposiveness is less than KK one. ----> this happens because of custom launch phrase.
and my phone does not go into sleep mode even after passing of time set in settings .
does anyone have this problems ??
David schuster told that there were some bugs in final release and they're planning updates for them.

rjcrystal199 said:
Hi guys this are the problems that i noticed after the update. This thread is specially for XT1058 but they could be in any builds too
why we dont have the full material launcher ?
sometimes my moto voice starts up without any command even in phone mode.
moto voice's resposiveness is less than KK one. but more functionality is added (i Call it Jarvis )
and my phone does not go into sleep mode even after passing of time set in settings .
does anyone have this problems ??
David schuster told that there were some bugs in final release and they're planning updates for them.
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Not sure what you mean about the launcher. The Moto X has always has a slightly modified launcher. You can download the Google Launcher from the store.
I did have the same issue with the phone not going to sleep. I rebooted and have not had the problem since, though I can't say for sure yet that it won't happen again.

I'll tell you what problems I faced.
- 1st fresh install, complete sbf: after 24 hs of using it without problems, the phone freezed, rebooted and after the bootanimation bum! black screen. It was on because if I held power button I can see the power off banner. After many reboots getting the same results, I decided to factory reset. And just in case, I reflashed Boot and System.
- 2nd fresh install: I'm getting the static noise bug on moto voice, WiFi toggle dissapears sometimes...
I don't want to keep playing this with a joke rom. I wish I stayed on KK.
CM here I go...

I took an OTA and no problem since. Has it ever occurred to you that you cause the problems you described by not following the general practice? Why sbf? Why not OTA?
Kustaa said:
I'll tell you what problems I faced.
- 1st fresh install, complete sbf: after 24 hs of using it without problems, the phone freezed, rebooted and after the bootanimation bum! black screen. It was on because if I held power button I can see the power off banner. After many reboots getting the same results, I decided to factory reset. And just in case, I reflashed Boot and System.
- 2nd fresh install: I'm getting the static noise bug on moto voice, WiFi toggle dissapears sometimes...
I don't want to keep playing this with a joke rom. I wish I stayed on KK.
CM here I go...
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duchski said:
I took an OTA and no problem since. Has it ever occurred to you that you cause the problems you described by not following the general practice? Why sbf? Why not OTA?
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Well I own a Movistar 1058 so I flashed retail Brazil for 1058 (it works for every 1058 latam).
I also flashed manually (mfastboot). I think it's 'cleaner' than RSD (and by the way I've never used RSD). Besides I have always used mfastboot to flash stock KK after using custom roms and never had a problem. So I discard the method to be the culprit. Aaand, I've seen others reporting same issues too.

Hello,
I've updated to 5.1 recently and made Factory Reset.
Problems:
1) Google GMail app does not support Exchange Account - for some reason Lolipop has separate application for exchange accounts -_- which is worthless because GMail should support it by default, thats very annoying for me, i dont want to use extra apps.
2) Sometimes BACK button doesnt work when i finish scrolling through Facebook app and i am forced to minimize the app and then restore it again.
3) Sometimes, especially after i unplug the phone from the charger, my screen doent want to go to sleep, it just literally sucks my battery life, only thing that helps this bug is a restart
Those are 3 major things that annoy me after update.
Is it only me with the Exchange problem or everybody else got this thing messed up ? I was really hoping to setup exchange on my Gmail app after the update....

Tsiqara said:
Hello,
I've updated to 5.1 recently and made Factory Reset.
Problems:
1) Google GMail app does not support Exchange Account - for some reason Lolipop has separate application for exchange accounts -_- which is worthless because GMail should support it by default, thats very annoying for me, i dont want to use extra apps.
2) Sometimes BACK button doesnt work when i finish scrolling through Facebook app and i am forced to minimize the app and then restore it again.
3) Sometimes, especially after i unplug the phone from the charger, my screen doent want to go to sleep, it just literally sucks my battery life, only thing that helps this bug is a restart
Those are 3 major things that annoy me after update.
Is it only me with the Exchange problem or everybody else got this thing messed up ? I was really hoping to setup exchange on my Gmail app after the update....
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I don't have any of those issues. Do you have the latest version of Gmail from the Play Store?

DarkWolffe said:
I don't have any of those issues. Do you have the latest version of Gmail from the Play Store?
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Yes, all apps and google services updated

How about the DEVICE PROTECTION feature? I can't seem to find it.

Tsiqara said:
Yes, all apps and google services updated
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Huh, that's really weird. So if you go to Gmail, open the drawer and tap the small arrow on the righthand side next to your Gmail account and tap Add account, you can't set a new one up?

I will never buy an ATT device again. i dont understand why they dont allow changing network mode manually, they even have blocked *#*#4636#*#* i've already rooted it. does anyone know which root app allows me to change network type.

rjcrystal199 said:
I will never buy an ATT device again. i dont understand why they dont allow changing network mode manually, they even have blocked *#*#4636#*#* i've already rooted it. does anyone know which root app allows me to change network type.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapbase.LTEswitcher
No root, one Google search, less than two minutes.

Whoa this is exactly what i was looking for i tried others but they did not work so i asked

If you're not into touchless control then get CM. You can't go wrong there.. latest updates and highly stable in my case.
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bushako said:
If you're not into touchless control then get CM. You can't go wrong there.. latest updates and highly stable in my case.
Sent from my Moto X using Tapatalk
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Many of us can't flash new ROMs because of locked bootloaders.

Google TTS distortion Moto X AT&T 5.1
I updated to 5.1 on XT1058 AT&T variant of Moto X 1st gen on 7/7/15.
When I have Moto read aloud my text messages the audio output is highly distorted. When I listen to podcasts I have no distortion. If I go to settings/language & input/Text-to-speech output/ and press Listen to an example it is distorted.
In the past with KitKat 4.4.4 I was able to uninstall the latest version of Google TTS which resolved the problem. With the 5.1, neither the current version of Google TTS dated 7/8 nor uninstalling the current version work to solve the issue.
Does anyone have this issue?
Has anyone found a solution?

I tired listening to a tts example it was very clear, my tts version is 3.4.6.1819666.arm you can try it with other tts engine. There are some engines available on play store

What drives me nuts is the stutter I get when swiping away my recent apps. But no other issues so far for me.

TTS woes
rjcrystal199 said:
I tired listening to a tts example it was very clear, my tts version is 3.4.6.1819666.arm you can try it with other tts engine. There are some engines available on play store
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I am using the same version of TTS as yours. I tried Ivona TTS, but there is no way to force the use of Ivona over Google TTS in every instance. It's a known issue with trying to use other TTS engines as the default engine. You end up with 3 different characters speaking/reading to you.
Thanks for checking your TTS

DarkWolffe said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapbase.LTEswitcher
No root, one Google search, less than two minutes.
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Thanks for the link, that cleared out some things for me, but I've noticed that app looses it's settings after the reboot, is there a way to fix my option (Default is LTE/GSM, but i want it to be GSM - Auto), theres a lot of other buttons that i hardly understand what do they do
Thanks

Removing proprietary apps

I'm looking to strip out the proprietary bloatware that came preinstalled on my device (already got rid of a bunch of amazon stuff via the ADB), and I'm wondering how much of the moto crap I can get rid of too without losing my ability to get automatic security updates. Right now I'm looking at Moto, Moto Actions, Moto App launcher, Moto Display, and Motorola Notifications. I'm looking at going to a different launcher, and I'm just trying to work out which of these apps is essential for the phone to continue functioning properly. If it's safe to do, I would also appreciate some help finding those package names so I can nuke them via ADB as well.

Update: did more research. Stripped out everything aside from the moto app launcher that I replaced with Evie. Only reason it's still installed is the fact that I can't work out the actual APK name.

ghost55 said:
Update: did more research. Stripped out everything aside from the moto app launcher that I replaced with Evie. Only reason it's still installed is the fact that I can't work out the actual APK name.
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all of my previously rooted phones had threads where there was a list of "safe to remove apps". why does this list not exist for our moto x4? who is your provider ghost55?

xxTECRAxx said:
all of my previously rooted phones had threads where there was a list of "safe to remove apps". why does this list not exist for our moto x4? who is your provider ghost55?
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AT&T, but I got it unlocked from amazon. I ended up using the ADB to remove all of the amazon crap as well as almost all of the moto proprietary stuff, (I only left the launcher I think) and it's been fine so far.

ghost55 said:
AT&T, but I got it unlocked from amazon. I ended up using the ADB to remove all of the amazon crap as well as almost all of the moto proprietary stuff, (I only left the launcher I think) and it's been fine so far.
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So why bother keeping the launcher if you went with another? I'm about to remove em all too but I'm on Google Fi's Android One version. I don't think I need any of Motorola's bloatware and I hate the idea of excess apps taking my space, RAM, and battery EVER.
I am surprised there's no one else chiming in on what's needed to o keep her functional. I like lean and mean
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Oh ya, there's an app for that. APK inspector I think it's called. I don't have it currently installed but I have 2 in my play library. Report back on it later

Found 63 apps with Moto in it's name. I believe the launcher is com.motorola.launcher3

xxTECRAxx said:
Found 63 apps with Moto in it's name. I believe the launcher is com.motorola.launcher3
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Thanks. Guess I'll ADB in and nuke that too when I have the chance.

I know Outlook is not specifically 'proprietary', however, its something I don't use and have not found a way to remove the app.
Anyone else have success in removing Outlook?

ghost55 said:
I'm looking to strip out the proprietary bloatware that came preinstalled on my device (already got rid of a bunch of amazon stuff via the ADB), and I'm wondering how much of the moto crap I can get rid of too without losing my ability to get automatic security updates. Right now I'm looking at Moto, Moto Actions, Moto App launcher, Moto Display, and Motorola Notifications. I'm looking at going to a different launcher, and I'm just trying to work out which of these apps is essential for the phone to continue functioning properly. If it's safe to do, I would also appreciate some help finding those package names so I can nuke them via ADB as well.
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Awesome info! So one can remove preinstalled bloatware on Amazon Exclusive phones via adb commands?
Question of the day, will this affect future updates?

xxTECRAxx said:
Found 63 apps with Moto in it's name. I believe the launcher is com.motorola.launcher3
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wait so we can uninstall all this stuff with no negative consequence ?
or wait , i think removing everything that says motorola that will screw up the system bc a lot of that stuff looks necessary ?
thanks !
and for noobs this is how to remove using adb , https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/amp/
edit: found all these amazon files and tried to remove them all however 4 were failure not sure why don't really care
package:com.amazon.clouddrive.photos
package:com.amazon.widgets
package:com.amazon.mp3
package:com.amazon.now
package:com.amazon.dee.app
package:com.amazon.drive
package:com.amazon.avod.thirdpartyclient
package:com.amazon.mShop.android
package:com.amazon.device.information.provider
package:com.amazon.phoenix
package:com.amazon.alphafirstrun
package:com.amazon.kindle
failure ,
package:com.amazon.widgets
package:com.amazon.device.information.provider
package:com.amazon.phoenix
package:com.amazon.alphafirstrun