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Motorola Android XT390 2.3

A colleague of mine gave me the task of speaking ill of this phone because lives complaining that not working right. I tried to help him, but I couldn't find how to solve some of the problems of the Motorola XT390.

The specs don't look like a bad phone. Logical that the characteristics are low, but this is not a smartphone for very complex applications or games, just for simple tasks like browser, Facebook, Twitter, SMS and calls.

The design is beautiful: four touch keys on the bottom for home, menu, back and search. On the side there is a microUSB connector for charging the phone. Boot delay between 1 to 2 minutes showing the screen in figure above.

 

Volume keys on the side complement the typical design of a Android phone.

On the back there is a 3.1 Mpixel camera without flash. Nothing too amazing, but no leaves something to be desired considering that the phone is already a bit old.

The Home is not the traditional Android 2.3, but one specifically designed for this smartphone. According to my colleague, the big problem is that the functions are slow too much.

But like I said, the hardware specifications are not bad. The CPU is a single core of 800 MHz with 512 MB RAM. I've seen far worse phones work much better, IE, It seems to me that there was some defect in the build of Android. Motorola's fault, certainly.

Trish by ROOT for this phone but not found. Also looked for other firmwares but there doesn't seem to be any support from Motorola or community interest. Look at this phone costs about $ 500 and has already been sold by R$800 ~ 900 sometime ago.

 

One good thing of this phone is the dual SIM, very common in Chinese mobile but not so common in smartphones from major brands.

Vejá only in the photo below as the standard Android interface has been heavily modified. Maybe that's why we have software problems.

In the picture below we see the android status bar. There was a bad choice on color combination, because you can hardly see the signal bars of the two carriers and the “G” and “W” data connection.

The camera is there, nothing to complain, Although it also has been remodeled. The original Android software is not so.

One of the complaints contained in this phone is that the program that sends or receives messages SMS crashes often. From what I've seen on the internet, This happens when there is no free space in 512 MB rom that the phone has. I checked that and there were over 100 MB free, Yet the problem persisted.

I suggested that the phone was erased to factory settings, What did the application of SMS to come back to work normally, Although and slowdowns continue. My colleague decided not to install no other software on the phone to prevent any other problem or additional slowness will appear. Doesn't seem advantageous to have an Android phone if you can't install applications and games from the Market.

It seems, by my evaluation, It wasn't supposed to be a cell phone so bad. There was clearly a failure of Motorola in not compile an Android that most suited to the specifications of the phone. My ZTE V880 had only 256 MB of memory and 600 MHz CPU and it worked much better, Although with its typical failures and fought.

On the back of the phone have the 1400mAh battery and the location to place the two chips. Battery specifications are low but the phone lasts 1 to 2 days with moderate use. It seems, the Motorola Android build was good at least with regard to the expenditure of battery.

Anyone who wants to check the specifications of the phone and other reviews of users can follow this link GSM arena.

 

The Motorola XT390 me proves two things: that good not necessarily specifications a good phone and you can perfectly spend more than $ 500 on a phone fully half bomb.

That's why I advocate, for a long time, Chinese cellular models of lesser-known brand like great options to acquire a good Smartphone. For the same price of XT390 you could buy a good model of ZOPO, JIAYU, THL, ZTE, CUBOT or LENOVO, and still have a phone with larger screen, CPU best, more RAM and ROM and a updated and efficient Android.

Of course there's still the problem of guarantee, Although I prefer to perfectly risk $ 200 when buying a JIAYU G3 than give $ 500 on a phone only reasonable in a shop here in Brazil, Despite being safer.

I leave the link below the Sub Shop proving the high price of XT390. It is my opinion and my colleague who uses the phone for more than a year that it's not worth buying this phone, but there's always someone who likes branded products, It's not even?

http://www.submarino.com.br/produto/111016638/smartphone-motorola-xt390-motosmart-dual-chip-cinza?epar=googlepla&opn=GOOGLESEARCH&WT.mc_id=googleshopping&epar=GOOGLEPLA&opn=GOOGLESEARCH&WT.mc_id=googlepla&gclid=COKC_cmZlLUCFQyDnQodgkEASw

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8 comments

  1. Ricardo pass me your Facebook so I know which applications you removel for improving this Masturbation which is the XT 390

  2. I own a xt390, but I've solved all his problems when I got root on it, when uninstalled multiple applications of system that came from manufactures and useless applications that just ate the memory ram, and uninstalled the application of original message, and put the HANDCENT SMS, and my troubles are over, because using heavy applications and multiple games on it installed without catching anything.
    the phone is perfect, and with an immense speed, not to mention that I install the applications on the memory card with the application LINK2SD, I don't have to complain about him, It seems until other phone.

  3. Samuel Junior

    About the SMS crashes, I'm going to let this tip:
    http://www.suportepublico.com/2012/08/dica-solucao-para-motorola-spice-key.html

    I had already done this before reading this article, but returned to fight. And the partial solution that made it so far and it worked is as follows.
    Go in the menu Set (gear icon) > Language and keyboard > Multitouch Keyboard

    From there go on the last option under “Clean words learned”, Click and it will ask if you really want to delete the learned words, Click “OK”.

    There were over 3 1000 words “learned”. What I cleaned, stopped to lock. Then I recommend you make this a 1 Once a month (hadn't done before, I already have the XT 316 There are more than 1 year).

    So, I suppose the problem is locking in this software which memorizes the most overused words in SMS and I do not know how to disable it. All of a sudden, If the inactivate or even uninstall solve the problem, and may trigger the functions off the link posted.

  4. My wife bought one of these and we have the same problems… gigantic blunder from motorola. Congratulations on clear and objective text.

    • Without doubt, This article was a request from a colleague of mine who was extremely dissatisfied with the phone.

  5. facebook.com/eletronpc

    I also have a, I am a dealer and a customer gave pq waged to make and receive calls, I sent support and only reinstalled the software, the problem sanou. the biggest problem of this model is the lack of internal memory and apps not fixed can move. Maybe a root would change, and the quality of this smart. A hug, great text.

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