Remember at the end of last week when we told you
that Motorola had started their soak test of Android
5.0 Lollipop update?
We also told you that Motorola had published a few pages detailing this release
for both the 2014 Moto X and the 2014 Moto G. Well, it seems like they didn’t
pull those pages down fast enough, because Google still has a cache of them up
right now.
Details
of Moto G / Moto X update to Android Lollipop
The page in particular that I’m talking about is
the release notes of the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the 2014 Moto X. We will link to this
at the bottom of this article, but we wanted to talk about a few specific
changes. One of the first things Motorola tells us is that we will not be able
to downgrade to a previous version of Android once this update has been
installed. There might be some hack that lets people who prefer to tinker with
their smartphone do this, but as of right now there will not be an official way
to downgrade.
This means, if you prefer to root your device,
install a custom recovery, or use anything else like Xposed, then you might not want
to take this update until those things have been released for Android 5.0 and
your device. The other things that Motorola has included in these release notes
talk about Material
Design, Notifications, Interruption
Configuration, Downtime Settings (aka Do Not Disturb Mode), Recent Apps, and
the difference between Moto
Display and
Ambient Display. They even make a note about the inclusion of a flashlight
toggle right in the Quick Settings panel.
I wish these release notes went into a little
more detail about Android 5.0. Most of the things listed here were things we
already knew about. The changelog for Android 5.0 includes over 100,000
commits, so it would be interesting to see a full list somewhere.
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