Murena

Reader supplied reviews for Murena Average rating 8.6 from 16 review(s) What are your thoughts on Murena? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 1.19.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 1.17 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-12-08 Votes: 40 I installed 1.17t evert on Motorola Moto G6 plus. I've upgraded from Android 9, which has the latest security updates on May 2020. So far, I'm very glad of /e/ OS. It work very stable and I have new Android experience - still learning new features of Android 13. The apps provided by Murena are quite good. I haven't tested the map yet much, but shows my home well and finds the route to my work. I've got some difficulties during loading bootloader image, but after few attempts and phone restarts it finally got loaded. Then other steps started to look much more easy than the very beginning. They should also make some movies how to install stuff, because reading the instructions and doing it first time is a bit difficult. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 1.17 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-12-01 Votes: 59 As I understood it, everything started a couple of years ago with the FOSS operation system /e/OS, and the objective to bring privacy to Android smart phones. After the release of version 1.0 in may 2022, they started establishing the trademark "Murena" in order to offer and sell smart phones with pre-installed /e/OS. In october 2021, I bought a refurbished Gigaset GS290 (which at that time was one of the mainstream /e/OS-supported phone modells), downloaded /e/OS v0.18 and installed it using the Android tools adb and fastboot. That proved to be way more difficult than expected, probably because I was new to Android, and I learned A LOT about Android and its administration-tools before it eventually started working. Since then I installed all updates, and a few apps (e.g. the privacy oriented proton-email-client), and can confirm that /e/OS runs well and reliable on the GigaSet GS290. I'm using it every day and I'm very satisfied with it, hence, I can recommend e/OS/ and rate it here with a "10". Many thanks to the /e/OS-team who provided this innovative smart phone OS. Today, I read the bitter comments from a user below (2023-11-11), and can only recommend him or her to become member of the /e/OS-community and to publish the description of the issues there to create awareness of such things. Sounds like a hacking attack. Would also be interesting to learn which apps precisely he or she installed, when/before the trouble began. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 1.15 Rating: 2 Date: 2023-11-11 Votes: 0 I live in Sweden and ordered a murena one on the web. I was attracted by the fact that it was preinstalled with the lineage os in the "e" flavour. Customer support was there but could not offer even flattering (that they could make money out of) minor services. I was asking for a wallet case and even pointed them at someone that could make one. But no,no, no service. The non working app kept to be just that (non working) so they seem not to be knowledgeable. I used it for about half a year. I installed whatsapp and a security app. Whatsapp worked fine but the security app did only work partly. There was always problems with notifications. They arrived too late or not at all. I have stopped using it september 2023 as it had strange virus-like behaviuour. I put up with it for a time but when someone was running a full-fledged remote desktop on the phone just after a major system update I had enough of it. Calls were often cut off after a short time. I do not know why. Possibly because of inferiour hardware or some kind of "big brother" virus-like problem or worse. It also had "false notifications" and system settings that were changed often in the middle of phone calls. I do not think anyone would like such a virus-laden phone. If you like to make enemies out of your friends and confidantes, then it is a phone that I would highly recommend, otherwise not. Not so pleased. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 16 reader reviews of Murena...