How do I know if my Moto G XT 1034 is standard or LTE?

[Elyra Hauser]

Moto G XT 1034

How to identify if my Moto G is standard as oppose to LTE. I purchased mine in February of this year and my husband purchased his in July of this year. He got the Android update and I did not. I keep waiting, and waiting and I am ready to discontinue my service. Why Motorola skipped me. Does the carrier have any control of the upgrade. My android version is 4.4.2. Can you explain or tell me how to differentiate if maybe my husband got a newer Moto G 2014 or 2015 and I might have gotten a Moto G 2013.

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Moto G XT 1034

Welcome to Android Central! The XT1034 is not LTE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_G_(1st_generation). Yours appears to be the TracFone version, and that one, like the Verizon prepaid Moto G, did not receive Lollipop (and probably won't ever).

You can easily find the model number by going to Settings>About Phone>Model Number, then do a quick search on the web for it. You can find out that way which model your husband has.

 

[fdalbor]

Re: Moto G XT 1034

Be glad they skipped you. My Moto G was upgraded to 5.1 and I would love to go back to 4.4.4 I used to be able to install a lot of my apps to the SD card. Now very few can be installed to the SD card and even those only install part of the app to the card and part to phone memory. I lost about a GB of phone memory. You can't go back neither. My Windows let's you install almost every all to the SD card. My Windows phone is now my main phone and the Moto is just a memory starved backup

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Moto G XT 1034

The SD card has never been intended for app installation on Android devices. Moving an app to SD has only ever moved a portion of an app, not the entire app (at least, on an unrooted phone). This is why it is important to get a phone with as much internal storage as you feel comfortable paying for. Phones with 4-8 GB of internal storage fill up very quickly, and even 16 GB isn't much these days, after you account for how much space the OS and other preinstalled apps take up.