[jsnell]

The Moto G is roughly as useful as a brick at this point. Some update they pushed last summer broke the memory management, such that apps would be randomly killed and immediately restarted even with relatively huge amounts of free memory. This is a very widespread issue with hundreds of complaints on Motorola's support forum, and it's just not getting fixed.

So no. Motorola are not doing a fine job with this. Just a shame that they're still able to coast by on the good reviews, from before they broke the otherwise excellent phone.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Yes. This is very annoying. Apparently this is fixed in 5.0.1 according to the few Gen2 Moto G users who got the Lollipop update. Hopefully it will deployed to everyone else sometime this month.

It would seem that the problem is due to overly aggressive memory management that was never properly adjusted for 1GiB RAM. One would hope that the popularity of the G and other small memory Android devices would help push for more efficient memory usage rather than requiring 2GiB+ for a decent experience. For starters, it would be nice if more of the core system was implemented in native code (ART doesn't count).