3rd Gen Moto G - Unbearably Slow

KatieManning

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Boxing Day of 2015 I upgraded my 1st gen Moto G for the 3rd gen, and by God was it the worst mistake I've ever made in my entire life. I don't know if I even had the phone for a month before it started slowing down. As of today it runs like a desktop running Windows 95. If I want to unlock my phone and load an app, it's going to take at LEAST five minutes. No exaggeration, five full minutes. 300 seconds. And that's assuming the entire system doesn't freeze up, which it will do three times out of five I try to load anything, ever.

I've scored the internet for months and NOTHING works. Clearing the cache doesn't work, wiping the cache partition doesn't work, nothing. Even resetting to factory settings doesn't work. If there's any improvement at all, it's very minor, and lasts less than a day. My father's six-year-old flip phone works better than this piece of garbage. I've deleted almost all the apps from my phone, and moved the rest to my SD card to clear space, still nothing. I have absolutely no idea what to do except go back to the mall and throw the phone directly at the person who scammed me into buying this crap.
 
Looks like you clearly got a lemon (hardware defect) or your phone's software is really jacked up. I have used a Moto G3 on Marshmallow briefly for a couple of weeks and it no way felt the same as you describe here. If a factory reset hasn't helped I guess you can perform a full firmware wipe as a last resort before reaching out to Moto Support (warranty claim provided its still in warranty).
 
Hello Katie, welcome to the forums. As stated above this phone shouldn't behave like that, it's a good phone so either you have a bad unit or there's something wrong in your software.

You could try booting into safe mode to rule out any conflict with a third party app. Also, unmount your SD card, restart the phone and see if it makes any difference.
 
I do not think he got a lemon, these phones are just like that. Got the same problem, and many others as well!
 
Hello Katie, welcome to the forums. As stated above this phone shouldn't behave like that, it's a good phone so either you have a bad unit or there's something wrong in your software.

You could try booting into safe mode to rule out any conflict with a third party app. Also, unmount your SD card, restart the phone and see if it makes any difference.

I was wondering about the sd card also.
 
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What SD card are you using?

After the factory reset, are you restoring from a backup or truly starting fresh?

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