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Also ruining Moto brand and reputation by dropping support for their devices. Moto G used to get two years worth of Android updates, meanwhile the G3 is just a
by provemewrong 10y ago
Also ruining Moto brand and reputation by dropping support for their devices. Moto G used to get two years worth of Android updates, meanwhile the G3 is just a year old and isn't getting Nougat. Their Moto G4 Play has the same SoC and is getting the update, so it's just Lenovo doing this instead of, say Qualcomm dropping the support.
- subway 10y agoG3 and G4 do not use the same SoC. G3 has an MSM8916, while G4 has an MSM8952. Nougat's CTS requires either OpenGL ES 3.1 or Vulkan support. MSM8916 supports neither.
- deovferreira 10y agoThis is not true. See https://source.android.com/compatibility/android-cdd.html https://source.android.com/compatibility/android-cdd.html. Particularly, the ending paragraph in 3.3.1 which says that you must export ES 3.1 symbols for linking purposes but their implementation is only compulsory up to the level for which the device declares support. The following section 3.3.1.1 also mentions that Vulkan libraries and symbols must be present for linking purposes but may report zero VulkanPhysicalDevices. Additionally, there are several qualcomm releases for 8916 nougat (LA.BR.1.2.9-01310-8x16.0).
- provemewrong 10y agoG4 Plus has MSM8952. G4 Play and G3 both have MSM8916, and Nougat was announced for G4 Play.