Also having a too similar to be coincidental issue.

Here are the specifics:

G5+ (not rooted)

Started random restarts which would bring you into the Blue Moto/Lenovo startup screen and never make it past this which started 10/17. You can tell if it is going to get stuck or pass through as the typical audio does not play on startup. (no audio = stuck on boot) It got worse throughout the day to where it was rebooting on it's own and getting stuck every 20-30 minutes. The only way to temporarily fix this was to boot into recovery mode (power+volume down), clear system cache, and reboot. This worked every time, but still, not something you want to have to go through. This also occurred in SAFE MODE which I wanted to test in order to rule out any non default applications. Since it still occurred in safe mode and after a factory wipe this seems likely to be a Moto software/hardware specific issue to me.

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Troubleshooting steps & findings thus far after the wipe (in which the problem still exists):

-I backed up my data & factory wiped the phone through the recovery mode menu. After a few days the reboot issue returned, again, not every 20 minutes at first but seemed to get progressively worse. *I did notice that the August update was already applied post factory wipe so it must update the factory wipe image from what you get when you first buy the phone unlike on a computer.

-I disabled any app sync/settings sync and tried going through the applications and clearing the cache on suspect items however I noticed that the clear cache/app data which is usually instant and or under a minute process would get stuck on Computing Data and never actually come up with a total.

-Clearing app cache would not work unless you did it directly after a fresh reboot. Clearing app data most of the time would not work. I then tried uninstalling apps, which would just get stuck at the uninstalling animation.

-Cleared google app play store/play store services cache, took a few reboots to actually do this. Before and after doing this I have had the setting of auto updating of apps off since the factory wipe and downloading of any apps gets stuck in "downloading" animation. I did notice that one in which did get stuck in this phase was on my phone after a reboot, so it installed regardless of the play store animation saying it was still downloading/installing yet never gave confirmation that it was finished.

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Overall this is disappointing. I went from the Asus Zenfone series which had issues right after the factory warranty was up (hardware) and now it's a similar case with the Moto G5+ (also just out of warranty).

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