A while back I was barely able to afford a Moto G Stylus with 2 Walmart gift cards. I'm not going into all the other problems here. I've been trying to minimize googoo's nasty presence with No Root Firewall. I'm sure that has something to do with it but I blame mostly googoo. I had been averaging probably 3 to 5 crashes a day, some of them what are called soft boots, I believe. By this I mean shorter times off and less harm done, I suppose. Lately it's been getting worse. Yesterday I followed advice to disable googoo play services, and gladly. Those creeps couldn't stand it. Even with the phone off wifi (no regular service at all) I was bombarded with their messages to enable. It's a wonder I'm not as cratered as the Moon after all that. This morning I reluctantly gave in and enabled their tired crap just to be able to use the thing. It has crashed plenty, sometimes for many minutes, and it almost feels lucky when it comes on again. Also, my open tabs were destroyed more than once. Luckily, I have them bookmarked, but it's still annoying at a minimum. I can't really afford another phone right now and I'm not sure I would get it if I could. Please help.
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Crashy phone
- Thread starter Rgarner
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maybe a factory reset is in order
fastboot mode is only used to open fastboot commands on your pc. are you sure you are in fastboot mode vs recovery mode? what options are in the menu?
I'm pretty sure it's fastboot. It's got the android apparently prepped for surgery. I think part of the problem may be that the volume and power buttons are on the same side of the phone. Isn't there a secret combo move involving both of them that plagues a phone with fastboot? Maybe it mistakenly assumed I was gunning for that. I assure you I was not. Also, instead of being a normal power button that sticks out, this thing is actually concave. That makes it harder to operate. I don't know why Motorola would do such a stupid thing, but why would they make a phone that doesn't open, either? The options are start, restart bootloader, recovery mode, power off, bootloader logs, and barcodes.
yep that's the fastboot. the only thing that might help would be to select recovery mode where you can do a wipe cache operation. and then from recovery you can reboot the phone.
its cache which is where temp files go.....no important data will ever be stored there. the only way to lose data is if you wipe data or factory reset the device.
here is some info on cache:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/clear-cache-android/