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Moto G (2014) 2nd gen XT1068 Marshmallow OTA Review.

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Android 6.0 OTA For Moto G 2nd gen Finally! Android 6.0 OTA for Moto G 2nd gen has been captured by XDA member. Basically, it's a soak test capture and may have some bugs.  As soon as I found out OTA for Marshmallow has been captured, I flashed stock Android lollipop (because I was using NXROM)  and after that, I just downloaded the OTA and updated my moto to Marshmallow. It took 10 min to install the update but took a long time to boot.  After booting, It was like, the best thing happened to the device. The animation, performance are better and most important there was no touch lag which can be found in some of the custom ROM. Camera app both Google Camera and Moto Camera performs well compared to custom ROM, I found that Camera in custom ROM lag very much when taking photos as I was not able to capture many moments because of that lag :(. I have used CM, nxrom, and stock ROM but I prefer using stock because it is more stable gives better battery life (3hrs of sc

Nexus Experience ROM for Moto G 2014 (Marshmallow)

Nexus Experience ROM for Moto G 2014  Nexus Experience ROM (NX ROM) is one of the best ROM that you can flash on your Moto G. This ROM gives you a Nexus like experience i.e. complete stock android experience with some Cyanogen features. The developer of this ROM uploads stable builds only and are good for daily use. I m using this ROM for some time now, didn't face any issues. Battery life is also pretty good and overall experience is better compared to CM 13 nightly builds. NX ROM is faster, smoother and feels good to use. Also now, you can also install Motorola apps directly from play store. If you want to taste marshmallow but don't want to wait for the official release or to use buggy CM 13 than NX ROM is best option to go. Here are steps that you can follow to install NX ROM. 1. Goto  https://nxrom.us/motog2.html Download the ROM 2. Download opengapps aroma edition or you can use standard Gapps which are provided by  Developer. (Don't ins

Soak Test Released for Moto G 2nd Gen 2014

Soak Test Released for Moto G 2nd Gen 2014 2-3 days ago news flashed online about the release of  Android Marshmallow soak test for Moto G 2nd gen 2014. Release of soak test is for Brazil version of Moto G 2014. Some of  XDA members have ported that soak test to International / Indian version of Moto G 2014. Also unofficial CyanogenMod for Moto G 2014 is also available. It is a Alpha build has few bugs but can be used as daily driver. CyanogenMod Official Nightly build release will start after few days. If you guys want link to unofficial cyanogen build or a guide on How to install please let me know in comment section. (PS: you can google for builds and how to.)

Moto G 2nd Gen working slow?

So, I have been using Moto G 2014 for months now. When Motorola launched Moto G 2nd Gen, it came with Android Kitkat OS. With Android Kitkat, Performance was pretty good, with little to no lag. Android Kitkat worked flawlessly for me, with normal usage. On heavy use, Moto used to lag/hang many times, but considering price and hardware specs this phone is not made for heavy use.  After few months Google released Android Lollipop, everyone was excited about new Android OS with some new features. One major change made by Google in Android Lollipop is ART runtime. ART is new runtime time, that introduced AOT (Ahead of Time compilation) which reduces Memory usage and improves app performance. Because of AOT app size increased, using more internal storage. With this new Android OS, comes a new design called Material design (which I love). Motorola, released android lollipop for Moto G 2nd Gen with few bug fixes. But still some major bugs were not fixed which lead to sudden slowing of d

OpenWrt vs DD-Wrt. Which one to use?

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Why use third party firmware? Nowadays, everyone is using routers in their home and offices. The router, you use are made for home/office purpose, able to manage a handful of devices. Default firmware provided with the router may have limited features which otherwise could be useful if configurable or comes with the bug (which does not get fixed quickly), stranding you to live with it. This also increases security risk for your home network. Imagine a situation, where an outsider is able to connect to your home network and eat your bandwidth or delete data from your home devices or stealing contacts from your phone.  For me, the reason behind using a third party open source firmware is mainly performance, complete control of the network, the new version is made available faster and they can run for days without restarting the router. Installing third party firmware gives you a granular level of control along with business level features, utilizing hardware's max

How to Configure Samba Server on Openwrt

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Below are the steps to Configure Samba in Openwrt This is a setup to configure Samba Server for root user (you need to change some of the steps for using with other users). 1. Update the repositories:     opkg update 2a. Install Samba:       opkg install luci-app-samba shadow-useradd      (If configuring for root user only no need of   shadow-useradd package) 3. Start Samba and have it start at boot:      /etc/init.d/samba enable      /etc/init.d/samba start 4. Enable the user for Samba:      smbpasswd -a root 5. Now open your router's page and goto Service -> Network Share      Here you can set Hostname, Description, Workgroup, and Home-directories to share.           After that you have to add       Name for shared folder.      Path is your storage device mount path.      Allowed users are user who are allowed to access particular shared folder.     Click Save and Apply. 6. Go to Edit template tab and change invalid user from nob

Seagate Backup plus External Desktop Drive Review

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The Seagate Backup Plus Desktop Drive is one of the best USB 3.0 external drive you can buy. In The Box In the Box, you will find Seagate Backup Plus drive along with power adapter (it comes with different sockets plug) and some instruction on using backup plus software for auto backup. Here in India, it comes with 3 Years of warranty. Looks wise Looks wise, on the bottom, it has blue color while all other sides are black. On side and bottom, it has small ventilation holes (BTW they are arranged beautifully)  for heat to dissipate. It is approx. 179 x 117 x 41 mm in size and it weighs 860 grams. It has a 3.5 inch HDD inside and requires external power.  This drive can support up to 8 TB.  The outer case is slightly larger than 3.5 inch Hard Drive. On the front, there is a micro-USB port and power port. What Comes in Drive? Out of the Box, Drives come preformatted in NTFS for Windows also it includes NTFS drives for MAC. There is also Seagat