What in the name of F

I gotta violently swing my effing phone like a lunitic (because it does NOT work as smoothly as folks say) just to turn my flashlight on?

8 points

Loved it on my Moto X 2014, not sure how you’re doing it wrong. double chop, small movement, around 30 degrees. Hold the phone flat against your palm, like you’re shaking hands with it.

Works a little too well sometimes and it turned on when I was running with my phone in my pocket.

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I just flicked it with my wrist back and forth once. Just a quick direct shake.

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I had one and it worked lol. Surprisingly never went off accidentally as well

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I picked a cheap phone on purpose, but I don’t know how I’ll be able to go back to a phone that doesn’t have the chop to activate the flashlight gesture. It works everytime for me, and it’s a pretty easy gesture. I’ve never had it go off accidentally either. Same goes for the double twist for the camera.

The guestures have been such a pleasant surprise for my budget tier device.

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I was the same when I got off my moto. I missed that feature. I think I still have a muscle memory

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I had to use a Huawei for some time, and I never realized how much I rely on the gestures. And how much I hate bloated custom ROMs. You can say about moto as a company whatever you want, their cameras are trash, but the custom ROM is, apart from it containing gapps, perfect.

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I remember my old moto. It was a moto g and there was ALWAYS something they cheaped out on, like not putting in an NFC chip or in the case of the Moto G4, not putting in a compass for some reason. Which caused most navigation apps to have a stroke.

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You may have gotten a lemon, I’ve had the G60s and now Edge 2022 and both work fine

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Even my G5S had the features and it worked perfectly. Same with my current Edge 20 ofc.

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5 points

Sounds like a literal skill issue to me…

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