Which one is better, Realme or Motorola?

Friends,Yesterday I bought a new Smartphone from Flipkart through the exchange offer.
I purchased a Motorola G 5G smartphone in lieu of exchanging the Realme 6 phone.
As per specs Motorola seems to be more promising. But many easy features and apps present in Realme 6 are absent in Motorola G 5G.
Which one is better?
Motorola or Realme?

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IMO Motorola is way better than Realme .

1)Realme is far away from pure android and is bloated with unnecessary applications .

2)Motorola has a huge support for custom ROMs , meaning you can get the missing features by flashing a custom ROM . And you'll be surprised with the features you can get with a custom ROM .

Depends on the user.

Realme makes good phones as well & its UI is more feature-rich than stock android, its a good UI. I will personally prefer Samsung's One UI or Oneplus' oxygen OS over stock android any day. OS updates might be better in Moto now, but it was bad a few years back.

Moto G 5G is a decent choice for 21k, has 5G, stock android (so 0 ads or notifications) & overall a decent buy over many other Moto models. Although my 1st preference for most people would be Samsung M51, if size isn't an issue. I think metro cities will start getting 5G maybe next year but widespread adoption is still years away in India. Spectrum auction is yet to be done by the government.

In terms of UI or software features for me, any phone which has ios-wannabe UI without any official custom rom support is a bad phone.

Realme's skin isn't as bad as Oppo & vivo IMO, which tries to copy iOS openly.

omega44-xt said:
Depends on the user.

Realme makes good phones as well & its UI is more feature-rich than stock android, its a good UI. I will personally prefer Samsung's One UI or Oneplus' oxygen OS over stock android any day. OS updates might be better in Moto now, but it was bad a few years back.

Moto G 5G is a decent choice for 21k, has 5G, stock android (so 0 ads or notifications) & overall a decent buy over many other Moto models. Although my 1st preference for most people would be Samsung M51, if size isn't an issue. I think metro cities will start getting 5G maybe next year but widespread adoption is still years away in India. Spectrum auction is yet to be done by the government.

Completely agree your points,bro.
Just a few caveats on Moto G 5G.
The Taskbar Menu on UI(upper portion of screen) is rudimentary compared to that of Realme 6.
In Realme,I could swap Jio 4G or Airtel 4G (both VOLTE support) for 4G Internet data just by the touch of a button which aided the choice. In case of Moto G if you want to switch over sims for 4G data,you need to go to settings--->...--->...

The Realme had a feature of scheduled Bootup and Shutdown of the phone,according to users choice of setting day,time,etc.
That IMPORTANT feature is absent in Moto G 5G phone.

The above 2 features absent in Moto G 5G is really a disappointment for me.

Rest a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G processor with Adreno 619 graphics IS THE DEAL when compared to Realme 6.

if one had to select between samsung's M51 and F62 (both of which are very similar as far as size goes),which would be a better choice?

Is f62 preferable to m51 as its newer and has a more powerful soc?

quicky008 said:
if one had to select between samsung's M51 and F62 (both of which are very similar as far as size goes),which would be a better choice?

Is f62 preferable to m51 as its newer and has a more powerful soc?

F62 has better SoC & 1 extra OS update (as it runs 11 to boot vs 10) but M51 has bit better battery life & camera, have both with my family members & checked them out last weekend.

saintmode said:
1)Realme is far away from pure android and is bloated with unnecessary applications .

Nope.
You can remove the apps not required in Realme. And the ColosOS features are far better than MotoM features.

I've been using ColorOS and never faced any issues with the UI or OS + No UI Ads

. It gives constant updates.

Camera is also excellent plus the Gamer mode.

Can anyone help me in finding an app that can be used as scheduled boot up and shutdown for this Moto G 5G smartphone?

kg11sgbg said:
Can anyone help me in finding an app that can be used as scheduled boot up and shutdown for this Moto G 5G smartphone?

What is the use of restarting phone everyday?

kg11sgbg said:
Can anyone help me in finding an app that can be used as scheduled boot up and shutdown for this Moto G 5G smartphone?

It would have an inbuilt function to do that How to Schedule Power On And Off in Android (2019)
If not, you can use this Schedule Reboot with PowerBoot for Android, but I would recommend using the 1st method instead.

TheSloth said:
What is the use of restarting phone everyday?

May be he is making his phone sleep everyday and getup at early morning

TheSloth said:
What is the use of restarting phone everyday?

Rebooting and Shutting down MUST be automatic for ME.
I usually switch off my phone at 10:00 p.m. night and switch on at 07:00 a.m on the morning.

I want this procedure to be automated,as was the case for Realme 6 phone.

Zangetsu said:
You can remove the apps not required in Realme

Can you remove
App manager,
File cleaner,
game centre,
game store,
so loop,
Default realme browser,
Default weather app,
smart assistant,
game space ,
heytap cloud,
oppo app store
and many more?

I dont see such useless things on Moto or nokia. Especially that browser, which keeps on coming in notification with shit. All these apps may be used for data theft.

Also, these things cant be removed through ADB method, as Realme has blocked that method.

Also, It has become difficult to root realme devices now. After rooting, UPI apps, FP lock, and 4G network are not working in Realme devices. They have started blocking root access for people as they dont want people to root there phone as after rooting, it will become difficult for them to continue with there dark and shady data theft practice. :twisted:

To be precise I want an app. similar to "SCHEDULED POWER ON AND OFF" for Motorola Moto G 5G smartphone.

Canu you help @Zangetsu and @Æsoteric Positron in this regard?

kg11sgbg said:
To be precise I want an app. similar to "SCHEDULED POWER ON AND OFF" for Motorola Moto G 5G smartphone.

It is an android's inbuilt feature. It has to be present

kg11sgbg said:
To be precise I want an app. similar to "SCHEDULED POWER ON AND OFF" for Motorola Moto G 5G smartphone.

Well, to make myself clear, I have already listed the two of the methods, use the built in feature of android, or use the XDA app I linked to before.

Æsoteric Positron said:
Well, to make myself clear, I have already listed the two of the methods, use the built in feature of android, or use the XDA app I linked to before.

There is no built in feature of Scheduled Startup/Shutdown on this smartphone.

kg11sgbg said:
Rebooting and Shutting down MUST be automatic for ME.
I usually switch off my phone at 10:00 p.m. night and switch on at 07:00 a.m on the morning.

I want this procedure to be automated,as was the case for Realme 6 phone.

You can keep the phone running overnight,i dont think it will deplete your battery all that much.

quicky008 said:
You can keep the phone running overnight,i dont think it will deplete your battery all that much.

Problem is I don't want it so.
I want my phone to be completely shutoff at night(sleep time) and open during morning hrs through whole day.

kg11sgbg said:
Canu you help @Zangetsu and @Æsoteric Positron in this regard?

What is the version of Android ?

This feature is present in every android version by default

Zangetsu said:
What is the version of Android ?

This feature is present in every android version by default

I don't think so.

omega44-xt said:
I don't think so.

Hmm... then Google has added this in some versions of Android.
I saw this in Nougat version

Motorola in theory is a more reliable brand. Atleast they don't fake the Antutu score like RealMe

Link: AnTuTu bans Realme GT for three months over score-boosting allegations

Zangetsu said:
Hmm... then Google has added this in some versions of Android.
I saw this in Nougat version

Not sure if stock android had it, but some custom UIs surely do have it. My S8 running Android 9 doesn't have it, maybe newer Samsung ones have it, not sure.

omega44-xt said:
Not sure if stock android had it, but some custom UIs surely do have it. My S8 running Android 9 doesn't have it, maybe newer Samsung ones have it, not sure.

All android version after eclairs have this feature. Does it use touch wiz or one ui? One ui 2.0 has this feature.

thetechfreak said:
Motorola in theory is a more reliable brand. Atleast they don't fake the Antutu score like RealMe
Link: AnTuTu bans Realme GT for three months over score-boosting allegations

Realme is actually more shady brand. They will provide updates which slow the phone, and often contains bloat.

If you disable notification for some bloatware apps like browser, it gets automatically enabled, and shows adverts and some not good content in notifications.

The last update which they gave, i.e. realmeUI 1.0, had so many bugs. It was not at all optimised, and using even whatsapp was pain, as it hanged a lot. The battery consumption also increased.they did not made any bug fix patch etc. And left us like that. I could not use custom rom, as it does not support fp lock and 4G network. This happened because realme has given broken source code.

Ngl, realme is the shittiest brand I have ever seen. Once the phone is sold, customer doesn't have any value.

Instead nokia or moto doesn't do all this, and they have high quality roms. So they are more reliable.

Afterall, realme is nothing but another oppo or vivo.

Zangetsu said:
What is the version of Android ?

This feature is present in every android version by default

Android 10

RumbaMon19 said:
Can you remove
App manager,
File cleaner,
game centre,
game store,
so loop,
Default realme browser,
Default weather app,
smart assistant,
game space ,
heytap cloud,
oppo app store
and many more?

I tried removing them but got this error as its blocked by OEM (so only option is to root and uninstall)
Failure[Delete failed Internal Error]

I was able to remove the following:
Youtube Music
ORoaming

Also, I saw the feature to power on/off at specific time in additional settings in Android 10 version of Realme

Zangetsu said:
ORoaming

I tried removing it and succesfully got removed, but after a update, it came back, and now uninstallable

RumbaMon19 said:
Instead nokia or moto doesn't do all this, and they have high quality roms. So they are more reliable.

Afterall, realme is nothing but another oppo or vivo.

The new phones of Nokia look great and have clean Android on them. Great cameras and worth checking out

Link: Nokia 5.4 and Nokia 3.4 launched in India: price and specifications revealed. - Nokia Tips

thetechfreak said:
The new phones of Nokia look great and have clean Android on them. Great cameras and worth checking out

Link: Nokia 5.4 and Nokia 3.4 launched in India: price and specifications revealed. - Nokia Tips

The screen resolution is bad. People who have been using even 10K phones would be having 1080p screen and after getting used to such resolution, Nokia's phone doesn't look appealing, especially at that price tags. If both the phones were listed for 2k less then it could be interesting.

thetechfreak said:
The new phones of Nokia look great and have clean Android on them. Great cameras and worth checking out

Link: Nokia 5.4 and Nokia 3.4 launched in India: price and specifications revealed. - Nokia Tips

TheSloth said:
The screen resolution is bad. People who have been using even 10K phones would be having 1080p screen and after getting used to such resolution, Nokia's phone doesn't look appealing, especially at that price tags. If both the phones were listed for 2k less then it could be interesting.

Yupp, also they are using a dated processor. Sd662 is pretty old now.but for those who want privacy and cleanliness at budget, it is a good choice.

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kg11sgbg said:
Rebooting and Shutting down MUST be automatic for ME.
I usually switch off my phone at 10:00 p.m. night and switch on at 07:00 a.m on the morning.

I want this procedure to be automated,as was the case for Realme 6 phone.

You shouldn't shutdown your phone at night , try putting it on to Do Not Disturb Mode . If youre thinking that the phone needs rest as our body

, youre wrong .Turning your phone on and off every day will result in wear and tear of the phone parts and motherboard .Most of the electronics like home router , PC(Usually), Refrigerator are meant to be ALWAYS ON . I rarely shutdown my laptop (once every month) , and FYI , been using it past 8 years . Except few issues with battery . So theres no reason to switch your phone on and off .If not DND , try aeroplane mode .

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RumbaMon19 said:
All android version after eclairs have this feature. Does it use touch wiz or one ui? One ui 2.0 has this feature.

Realme is actually more shady brand. They will provide updates which slow the phone, and often contains bloat.

If you disable notification for some bloatware apps like browser, it gets automatically enabled, and shows adverts and some not good content in notifications.

The last update which they gave, i.e. realmeUI 1.0, had so many bugs. It was not at all optimised, and using even whatsapp was pain, as it hanged a lot. The battery consumption also increased.they did not made any bug fix patch etc. And left us like that. I could not use custom rom, as it does not support fp lock and 4G network. This happened because realme has given broken source code.

Ngl, realme is the shittiest brand I have ever seen. Once the phone is sold, customer doesn't have any value.

Instead nokia or moto doesn't do all this, and they have high quality roms. So they are more reliable.

Afterall, realme is nothing but another oppo or vivo.

Very True . The very reason I prefer pure android over bloated OS .

Some people have been recommending to delete the system apps using ADB . I tried that in my VIVO phone , to my surprise my phone performance actually got slower than it should instead have become faster .

You can always find more features in Custom ROMs than in RealMe Rom @kg11sgbg

^^ I also cleaned various apps from my Vivo phone via ADB and it didn't get slower. Maybe you deleted some system dependant package by mistake.

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thetechfreak said:
^^ I also cleaned various apps from my Vivo phone via ADB and it didn't get slower. Maybe you deleted some system dependant package by mistake.

Nope . I deleted some shady apps like VIVO Store , Calendar , Notes , Chinese Keyboard ... Bla Bla ..
I experienced the same issue with SONY XPERIA E Long time ago . So I concluded that , Stock Android > Bloatware UI .

saintmode said:
Very True . The very reason I prefer pure android over bloated OS .

Some people have been recommending to delete the system apps using ADB . I tried that in my VIVO phone , to my surprise my phone performance actually got slower than it should instead have become faster .

You can always find more features in Custom ROMs than in RealMe Rom @kg11sgbg

thetechfreak said:
^^ I also cleaned various apps from my Vivo phone via ADB and it didn't get slower. Maybe you deleted some system dependant package by mistake.

Deleted browser, now the network rate meter is vanished from not. Bar. Pretty common with Vivo.

saintmode said:
You shouldn't shutdown your phone at night , try putting it on to Do Not Disturb Mode . If youre thinking that the phone needs rest as our body , youre wrong .Turning your phone on and off every day will result in wear and tear of the phone parts and motherboard .Most of the electronics like home router , PC(Usually), Refrigerator are meant to be ALWAYS ON . I rarely shutdown my laptop (once every month) , and FYI , been using it past 8 years . Except few issues with battery . So theres no reason to switch your phone on and off .If not DND , try aeroplane mode .

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kg11sgbg said:

Its true . You are doing more damage to your phone's life by frequently turning it on and off . Same goes for router , PCs , Refrigerators and almost all electronics .

Sleep Mode > Shut Down .

RumbaMon19 said:
I tried removing it and succesfully got removed, but after a update, it came back, and now uninstallable

Strange. I am on latest version of Stock ROM and ORoaming removed successfully.
You can install custom ROM. And I think the finger print issue is resolved. If you read this thread for LineageOS ROM the FP is working

*forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-11-...-realme-x2-pro-rmx1931-cn-unofficial.4177291/

So far I am happy with the Stock ROM as I don't do rooting now a days.

saintmode said:
Turning your phone on and off every day will result in wear and tear of the phone parts and motherboard .

I don't think so.
Turning on/off won't wear off the motherboard. For Refrigerator they should be ON (24X7) otherwise the food will decay. Even the AC setup for Server rooms to keep the server cool (24X7). But Routers can be switched off. In fact I have seen our cable operator fiber switches going kaput sometimes due to constant load from users accessing internet and after a restart they work fine.

Personally, I don't download stuff at night and keep the router off when I sleep. And switch it ON whenever needed. The router won't face any issues but its the Adaptor which faces constant wear and tear if used continuously ( I still remember my 8 bit console adapter going kaput due to excessive video games addiction during child hood days, bought so many adapters back then

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saintmode said:
Its true . You are doing more damage to your phone's life by frequently turning it on and off . Same goes for router , PCs , Refrigerators and almost all electronics .

Sleep Mode > Shut Down .

I don't think so as well, the part that you damage phones by turning it on & off. Many manufacturers even recommend restarting phones once a week, my S8 bought in US has a US Samsung app which gives me a notification every week. I have personally observed cases where restarting a router solved random internet connection drops (cheap TP link routers after 2 years). Also in PCs, a miner's GPUs fail in 2-3 years at times, there are many posts online on the same whereas a gamer who isn't using their GPU 24x7 can at times get the GPU to last even 10 years in some rare cases (most people upgrade before that).

Although I can agree that most electronics are made to be run 24x7.

Again reverted back to stock ROM settings of Motorola Moto G 5G after performing a successful OEM Bootloader unlock and successful Rooting(Magisk) of Moto G 5G.
Problem was,Yono(SBI),My Jio,etc., some apps declined to open due to rooting.

Now after unrooting and locking back the bootloader,everything seems to be fine as beginning.
Even the warranty condition by Motorola is preserved. No issues.

Wait.. you are supposed to turn off your routers every day?

ariftwister said:
Wait.. you are supposed to turn off your routers every day?

If you are the only one using it and not downloading anything overnight.

So I guess everyone remembers Realme using fake antutu scores. Now they were caught using iPhone as their own phone in some event

Link: Realme caught using iPhone to demonstrate game streaming during Narzo 30A launch

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kg11sgbg said:
Problem was,Yono(SBI),My Jio,etc., some apps declined to open due to rooting.

You need to enable Magisk Hide.
My Jio not opening on rooted phone is stupid. It is a glorified recharge app and nothing else IMO.

thetechfreak said:
So I guess everyone remembers Realme using fake antutu scores. Now they were caught using iPhone as their own phone in some event

Link: Realme caught using iPhone to demonstrate game streaming during Narzo 30A launch

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iPhone Level game play is not expected from even 40-50k devices, why would one expect it from 8k device.

Zangetsu said:
If you are the only one using it and not downloading anything overnight.

No, i meant if switch off everyday would increase its life.

ariftwister said:
No, i meant if switch off everyday would increase its life.

I think yes as electronic items dissipate heat in the process and need cooling off period to prevent wear & tear due to heat.
Its same like you switch off your FAN/TV/Washing machine etc when not in use

Zangetsu said:
I think yes as electronic items dissipate heat in the process and need cooling off period to prevent wear & tear due to heat.
Its same like you switch off your FAN/TV/Washing machine etc when not in use

its a good practice but I rarely do it out of laziness.. Modern routers dont get hot really, and can sustain years without turning off. Although during thunderstorms its mandatory to disconnect everything, i lost a router because of it once.

RumbaMon19 said:
iPhone Level game play is not expected from even 40-50k devices, why would one expect it from 8k device.

Mostly a fail of their marketing team. If someone still gets their phones after these multiple botches, hats off to them

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SaiyanGoku said:
You need to enable Magisk Hide.
My Jio not opening on rooted phone is stupid. It is a glorified recharge app and nothing else IMO.

Magisk Hide was already enabled.

kg11sgbg said:
Magisk Hide was already enabled.

Did you add those apps in the list then?

SaiyanGoku said:
Did you add those apps in the list then?

Why should I add?
In case of Root, a grant access pop-up notification will come up.
Moreover Yono by SBI app shall never work in rooted phones. That is the one I use mostly often.
Read somewhere, that in case of Motorola Moto G 5G rooting, OTA updates might be hampered(simply inaccessible). So, I just unrooted and Reverted back to Factory settings BY OEM BOOTLOADER LOCKING also.

Gone are the days when Magisk would properly hide root. Android has fundamentally changed. Its too bad, one cant root the phone and avail banking apps. Citibank app refuses to work with root, as do most UPI apps.

SaiyanGoku said:
You need to enable Magisk Hide.
My Jio not opening on rooted phone is stupid. It is a glorified recharge app and nothing else IMO.

haven't they added upi part also in that?

vidhubhushan said:
haven't they added upi part also in that?

paytm upi works in a rooted phone.

ariftwister said:
paytm upi works in a rooted phone.

its their call. another company's may be different.

What about OTA updates,if Moto G 5G is rooted?
Read somewhere,that in rooted Moto G 5G smartphones,OTA does not work.
@SaiyanGoku
@Nerevarine
@vidhubhushan
@ariftwister

What are your points regarding the OTA issue?
Means,Rooted phone is better.

kg11sgbg said:
What about OTA updates,if Moto G 5G is rooted?
Read somewhere,that in rooted Moto G 5G smartphones,OTA does not work.
@SaiyanGoku
@Nerevarine
@vidhubhushan
@ariftwister

What are your points regarding the OTA issue?
Means,Rooted phone is better.

no idea dear as i have not rooted any phone till now but i think if it doesn't update then in that case you can update it manually using some app like magisk or something.
i haven't tried rooting as i haven't felt any need to do something like that.

I also saw that rooting this device with Magisk is a good experience. Only problem is that when booting up,the Moto logo is not displayed but OEM unlocked is displayed,where you have to press the power button again for proper starting.
Simply the Moto G 5G starts in Bootloader mode.
I find that to be awful.

kg11sgbg said:
There is no built in feature of Scheduled Startup/Shutdown on this smartphone.

then use this app that I also listed Schedule Reboot with PowerBoot for Android

kg11sgbg said:
Friends,Yesterday I bought a new Smartphone from Flipkart through the exchange offer.
I purchased a Motorola G 5G smartphone in lieu of exchanging the Realme 6 phone.
As per specs Motorola seems to be more promising. But many easy features and apps present in Realme 6 are absent in Motorola G 5G.
Which one is better?
Motorola or Realme?

In my experience Realme has better features, price and resale value as compared to motorola but the software on motorola is almost stock android which makes it feel speedier. Given an option to choose beween them, I'd go with realme as it has many features that I use and motorola is not most bang for the buck.

imcj said:
In my experience Realme has better features, price and resale value as compared to motorola but the software on motorola is almost stock android which makes it feel speedier. Given an option to choose beween them, I'd go with realme as it has many features that I use and motorola is not most bang for the buck.

Moto has higher resale value. Resale value mostly depend upon brand value. Moto has higher brand value. Realme is just one of those market spammers. Also, Realme has nagware like some not-good notifications. Realme 's UI RUI is not optimized in budget entries. Moto gives its customer better value over specs.

kg11sgbg said:
What about OTA updates,if Moto G 5G is rooted?
Read somewhere,that in rooted Moto G 5G smartphones,OTA does not work.
@SaiyanGoku
@Nerevarine
@vidhubhushan
@ariftwister

What are your points regarding the OTA issue?
Means,Rooted phone is better.

You should never update via OTA after rooting, because if you have unlocked your bootloader, then doing OTA will brick your phone.

ariftwister said:
You should never update via OTA after rooting, because if you have unlocked your bootloader, then doing OTA will brick your phone.

This is the reason I had reverted back to locking of OEM bootloader and unrooting the phone.

T

If you want great camera, Realme is good. For all the other features, Motorola is better. However, choosing a good processor is really important.

Tusharma said:
If you want great camera, Realme is good. For all the other features, Motorola is better. However, choosing a good processor is really important.

Not true. Moto has better Post processing than realme.

Tusharma said:
If you want great camera, Realme is good. For all the other features, Motorola is better. However, choosing a good processor is really important.

Motorola has much better processor than Realme.

T

kg11sgbg said:
Motorola has much better processor than Realme.

But sometimes, Realme smartphones can have good processors as well. For instance, Realme 8 with Helio G95 processor.

Tusharma said:
But sometimes, Realme smartphones can have good processors as well. For instance, Realme 8 with Helio G95 processor.

That remains good for a year. After a year there will be intense slow down in performance.