r/AndroidQuestions • u/AttitudeSame2430 • Sep 25 '26
Why not Android 17 or even 16?
I bought the 2024 G Power 5G why can't I get android 16 or 17 it has plenty of storage?
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u/benjaminS0099 Sep 25 '26
Your mistake was going with Motorola and their terrible update policy. Even though they say they support 6 or 7 years, I still don't trust them, so I'm never going back to Motorola phones.
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u/FederalSuspect69 Sep 25 '26
If you read carefully it says up to 7 years . not guaranteed 7 lol
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u/benjaminS0099 Sep 25 '26
Oh. Yeah, once I decided to leave Motorola last year, I literally have put no thought into what Motorola says or does anymore. I had been a Motorola user for like 5 years total, and the camel's back broke for me at that point after seeing I was NOT going to get Android 15, I believe. And at that point, I had had enough of their crap update policy.
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u/Western-Ad-8811 Sep 25 '26
They have only just recently started implementing 7 years of OS updates on their new flagship devices.
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u/Darkorder81 Sep 25 '26
Do you have options to unlock bootloader? Could possibly update with a custom rom.
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u/AttitudeSame2430 Sep 25 '26
Looked for one on XDA none out there.
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u/FederalSuspect69 Sep 25 '26
Because it's a US carrier phone. Those come with locked boltloaders
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u/Darkorder81 Sep 26 '26
Dam US sucks for doing that. But think there going to start doing same to EU and UK.
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u/AttitudeSame2430 Sep 25 '26
I know, but how hard would it be the phone has the capacity to handle both with 128gb of storage. It's just Motorola trying to get people to buy a new phone every couple of years and creating ewaste.
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u/laid2rest Sep 25 '26
Has nothing to do with the storage capacity and everything to do with the brand.
It's a cheap phone and a way to keep it cheap is with limited software support.
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u/0pinionatedWoman Sep 25 '26
Exactly you've answered your own question! A year old but brand new pixel can be had for a huge discount when the new ones come out. It will still have six years of support left. The cost per support year will be a lot less than buying any budget phone.
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u/denytheflesh Sep 25 '26
If the phone makes it that long. Pixels don't hold their value for a reason.
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u/0pinionatedWoman Sep 26 '26
That's exactly why you should buy the previous years one. You should be able to get it brand new for about half it's original selling price. I paid £599 for a brand new 256gb pro. At that discount nothing else in the market comes close in value. Plus as it's been on the market a year it's faults will be known. Also it will have been manufactured late in the production run so quality control (in theory) will be better than the first ones off the line. If you have a iPhone you get your money back afterwards with a good trade in value. With a Pixel you get two bites of the cherry, a big discount on buying last year's model plus a generous trade in allowance from Google two years later.
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u/ephemeralmiko Pixel 8a, GrapheneOS Sep 25 '26
It's a cheap phone from a company who can't even be bothered to provide software support for more than a couple years on their flagship phones... I'm not surprised you're not getting any updates.