Thoughts on 4.4 Kit Kat on the Moto X

[nyry]

Hey all! I received my moto x yesterday and it is still on 4.2.2. Everything is running well on it, battery life is alright so far. My questions are to the people that updated to Kit Kat:
Do you notice a performance difference?
Difference in battery life?
Anything that does better? Worse?
Is it worth updating to?

I heard of many complaints pertaining to bugs and glitches that have been attributed to the update, so I'm just wondering if its worth it

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[drvier8]

My battery life got a lot worse after updating.

 

[John Doe40]

Is it worth updating to?

Well, some features in some apps won't work without KitKat, like for example the latest Touchless Control update, so it's really up to you if you want them or not...

 

[JRDroid]

The update breakes Google Now's hotword detection (since Touchless Control has the mic flagged as in use). That is the biggest issue I have the 4.4. Other than that, I totally think 4.4 is worth it.

 

[Ry]

Battery is the same for me.

 

[Pollster]

Battery is the same for me. I think the transparent nav and notification bars are beauty. The only thing I don't like is how 4.4 has video playback issues.Double twist still hasn't recovered.

 

[cwbcpa]

I updated right away so I don't know about the difference. I will say that my battery life is great and everything works perfectly. No issues after a week anyway.

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[ShoelerDroid]

Same if not better battery life. Love everything about the update.

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[Ryan Pacheco]

I love how the phone almost looks AOSPish, regardless of the carrier.

 

[imurrx]

I'm getting better battery performance.

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[UJ95x]

I love how the phone almost looks AOSPish, regardless of the carrier.

It might as well be. Just a few tweaks for their awesome features

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[Scott Capodice]

I dont care for the wifi indicator being white. I liked that before it was white and then turned blue when you had connection. They could still do this, just make it a darker gray and then when locked it's white. I just know that I've tried to do a search after I thought I connected and it was not connected yet.

 

[mawells787]

I dont care for the wifi indicator being white. I liked that before it was white and then turned blue when you had connection. They could still do this, just make it a darker gray and then when locked it's white. I just know that I've tried to do a search after I thought I connected and it was not connected yet.

It was actually done to save battery/ CPU cycles.

Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-engineer-tells-why-KitKat-hides-connectivity_id49452

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[androidatic]

I can't compare battery life since I updated as soon as I got the phone. I can tell you that on my first full day with it, I was at 14 1/2 hours, 4 hours 31 minutes of screen time and still at 23%. That is the best battery that I have EVER had on ANY smartphone that I've owned.

 

[anon(883913)]

I dont care for the wifi indicator being white. I liked that before it was white and then turned blue when you had connection. They could still do this, just make it a darker gray and then when locked it's white. I just know that I've tried to do a search after I thought I connected and it was not connected yet.

When you go into the quick toggles (two fingers down from the notification bar) it will show the Wifi symbol as orange if it is connected but no internet while it will show white when connected and internet available.

 

[imurrx]

I was in a weekend conference last week and I had used my phone quite a bit. 9 hours off charge and 5.5 hours on screen time. Wi-Fi on but Bluetooth off. The screen was dim and 15 second turnoff. I only used 55% of the batter.

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[UJ95x]

I was in a weekend conference last week and I had used my phone quite a bit. 9 hours off charge and 5.5 hours on screen time. Wi-Fi on but Bluetooth off. The screen was dim and 15 second turnoff. I only used 55% of the batter.

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unless you have screenshots, I can't believe that. You'd get almost 10 hours if it used all of the battery, no phone can get that without an extended battery, let alone a Moto X

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[cappy718]

It was actually done to save battery/ CPU cycles.

Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-engineer-tells-why-KitKat-hides-connectivity_id49452

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I must have missed that story or didn't have a kitkat device at the time so I didn't care... Lol thanks for the info!

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[jaleesag88]

I was in a weekend conference last week and I had used my phone quite a bit. 9 hours off charge and 5.5 hours on screen time. Wi-Fi on but Bluetooth off. The screen was dim and 15 second turnoff. I only used 55% of the batter.

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I'm lucky if I get 12 hours of moderate usage. Mostly on WiFi, dim screen, and nowhere near 5.5 hours of screen time. I wish I would've gotten screenshots of my battery today.

 

[DS1331]

I'm not upgrading for a while I'm very happy with the phone on 4.2.2. everything works perfect I love the blue status icons and everything else with the phone

Q10, HTC One, Nexus 7, Moto X