Motorola Moto Z Gamepad working?

Turnspit · 08-07-2018, 04:33 PM #1

Cheers everyone!

I didn't find any information regarding this question...

Does anybody know if the Gamepad Mod for the Moto Z series is working with Dolphin?

Thanks! Smile

**mbc07** · (This post was last modified: 08-07-2018, 09:53 PM by mbc07.)

AFAICT Motorola still ships their Moto Z line with a 32-bit Android version (even through the hardware on the phones is fully 64-bit capable) so regardless if it works or not you can't install Dolphin anyway...

Also, moved to Android.

Guilherme · 08-07-2018, 10:18 PM #3

Motorola must be kiding if ship a SD 820/4GB of RAM with 32-bit OS. But I think it would be not hard to find a 64-bit kernel for this phone, I heard even the Moto G5S Plus (SD 625/3GB of RAM) has a 64-bit custom kernel.

Turnspit · 08-07-2018, 10:56 PM #4

The Z3 should (although I couldn't confirm it so far) run on a 64bit OS though.

Whatnoww · 08-07-2018, 11:02 PM #5

I didn't even know Qualcomm still shipped 32bit drivers.

Grey1213 · 08-08-2018, 01:10 AM #6

(08-07-2018, 09:52 PM)mbc07 Wrote: AFAICT Motorola still ships their Moto Z line with a 32-bit Android version (even through the hardware on the phones is fully 64-bit capable) so regardless if it works or not you can't install Dolphin anyway...

Also, moved to Android.

It should be their low end devices only that only have low power cores, like some other OEMs. The flagship devices and other devices with high power cores should still be 64bit.

Nintonito · 08-08-2018, 03:17 AM #7

(08-07-2018, 09:52 PM)mbc07 Wrote: AFAICT Motorola still ships their Moto Z line with a 32-bit Android version (even through the hardware on the phones is fully 64-bit capable) so regardless if it works or not you can't install Dolphin anyway...

Also, moved to Android.

The Moto z/Z2 play are 32bit, but the higher end Z/Z Force/Z2 Force are 64bit. In additional, all Moto Z3 models are 64bit.

**JonnyH** · 08-08-2018, 03:30 AM #8

(08-07-2018, 11:02 PM)Whatnoww Wrote: I didn't even know Qualcomm still shipped 32bit drivers.

The way android (and most OSs) work with 64bit is they ship *both* the 32 and 64bit usermode drivers on device - the 32bit versions are required to run any 32bit apps, and nobody is willing to drop backwards compatibility (and even today not all new apps have 64bit binaries).

That's one of the reasons why low-end phones often don't have 64bit support actually - it pretty much doubles the size of all the binaries on the system, so less flash space is left for the user.

Turnspit · 08-09-2018, 05:27 PM #9

Nintonito is right, I just contacted the Motorola support and got the following official statement:

Moto Z / Moto Z2 Force / Moto Z3 Play - 64bit

Moto Z Play / Moto Z2 Play - 32 bit