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Android 8.0.0 Oreo, which ships on all carrier branded and retail unlocked variants of the Moto E5 Play, does not overly consume the 16GB eMMC storage. The /system partition itself is of the ext4 filesystem and is formatted at about 2.34 GB in size. The /userdata partition -- which uses the...

For the dollar, yes it is a truly excellent device. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 427 brings a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU clocking at 1.4GHz, with an independent Adreno 308 GPU for graphics processing. The 2GB RAM is sufficient for everyday tasks and some gaming. The main (rear) camera is 13.0mp which...

IMS Registration can indicate "Not Registered" for any number of reasons -- defective or missing UICC (SIM card), corrupt radio firmware, mismatched hardware blobs due to incompatible ROM, etc. The primary cause, however, is simply a non-provisioned device & carrier. If you are using a Sprint...

It is also noteworthy that the Cricket branded Moto E5 Cruise is not supported by Motorola's bootloader unlocking site. Hence, rooting, flashing custom ROMs and installing a custom recovery are not possible on the Moto E5 Cruise.

Yes, the stock Android 8.0.0 Oreo OS, which ships on all Moto E5 variants including the Moto E5 Play, E5 Cruise, E5 LTE, and E5 Plus, is basically a pure vanilla Android build with little bloatware. Moreover, OTA updates/security patches have been frequent and consistent since the device's...

On another note, because maximum/minimum charging current is governed by the Kernel in boot.img, try reflashing your stock boot image or a custom kernel and see if that fixes the problem.

The easiest method I've found is booting into fastboot mode, connecting to PC with suitable micro USB syncing cable, (ensuring proper USB drivers are installed), opening a command window in your adb/fastboot directory and entering: fastboot erase carrier. This nukes the activation screen in its...