Asus Zenfone 5 A500CG (2014) - user opinions and reviews
- AnonD-316406
- PTG
Hi.
I need help because my zenfone battery does not increase though I've charged it for a whole night. it only increased from 6% to 39%. this happen after I upgraded to kitkat 4.4.
I thought maybe it will turns back normal after factory data reset. but it stays the same. Can I just downgrade to JB 4.3?
- AnonD-314524
- 9xH
5200 and 10400 mAh Mi power bank. how do you think each would last with a middle type user? if ever asus won't able to fix the issue, i think i should go for this option.
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- YTc
AnonD-210234, 07 Oct 2014Hi guys, im planning to buy this phone today or tomorrow, may i know the good and the bad s... morehi i want to buy this phone but its true that its battery life is not good and its hot when we see videos using internet so please suggest me another mob. now please.?
- adjsl
- U27
Naveen, 06 Oct 2014Hi, when their is no video calling option means , what is the use of providing the front camera.Can use third party apps like viber , IMO, and skype for vedio calling. IMO is tested well and it works nicely.
- AnonD-314524
- 9xH
Can asus or google still improve this battery issue? Overall it is awesome but the downside is the battery. I want to still hope that there would be a fix and they still working for it.
- AnonD-210234
- PB%
Hi guys,
im planning to buy this phone today or tomorrow, may i know the good and the bad side of this phone? as i read your opinion during updating it to KITKAT, the battery dries so quickly and the phone will get hot that much..is this true? may i know your feedback on this?
- Chimax
- Hkt
Kitkat update just ruined the phone completely... Superb battery consumption and lots of crashes here and there... Hope Asus fixes this as early as possible...
- AnonD-303138
- utN
Any advantage on battery life if I root my zenfone ? Anyone did that ?
- AnonD-303138
- utN
AnonD-295960, 06 Oct 2014Hi
Under File Manager, I could not find RINGTONE AND NOTIFICATION FOLDER
I can find a RING... moreI said use a file manager app to find ringtone folder and notification folder under Internal storage - sdcard. Copy your own MP3 or AAC files to these folders to make them available in selections for sound settings.
- AnonD-314791
- rKQ
AnonD-316185, 06 Oct 2014Abhishek, I usually got battery life of more then 24 hrs with calling, texting, browsing. On m... moreBro
Can u give some tips to boost tge battery life of this phone?
Im using greenify already.
Can u suggest some More tweaks and tips and tricks that could be helpful?
- pushpendu
- j01
I have purchased Asus Zenfone 5 from flipkart. It has hair like scratch/damage on top in corner of right side, which was not noticed initially noticed. When I noticed and contacted to flipkart then they refused to replace the product. They told me, you need to inform about this in 48hrs.
Now, I am facing another problem with this phone related to charging. When I put phone on charging then if it is at 50%... then though I get display of charging but even after 30 min, I find same charging percentage of 50%. Sometime, charging gets reduced even though it is put on charging, like that…40%, 35%..... 20%, 10%...
When I contacted to service center in Delhi then they refuse to avail warranty.
I chased for this phone for more than 1½ months and when it came, then… thus disappointments come.
- AnonD-295960
- d%Y
San, 06 Oct 2014Hi gautam
Open file manager and there is a ringtone folder and notification folder. Ringtone ... moreHi
Under File Manager, I could not find RINGTONE AND NOTIFICATION FOLDER
I can find a RINGTONE FOLDER but in SD card location
Looking for further answers
- AnonD-314939
- uu0
asus india page on facebook is full of complaints on kitkat update.Same problems which i was facing too hot,too slow and faulty ui
- AnonD-314939
- uu0
Than the cause please? Yesterday phone battery temperature went to 49 degrees celcius why how? My usage is always mild.Service Centre Guy formatted the phone and when he tried to re-install the software, the installer software instead of showing my phone serial no.showed 12345ABCD so he was not able to install.
I have screen shots of battery temperature and faulty incall ui.Can u tell me the exact cause why it was working so fine for two months on jelly bean and sucked away in four days on kitkat! Why battery getting so hot, why battery percentag falling so fast and things like faulty incall ui blackening dialler screen for 2-3 minutes.
App data not reading for 5 minutes for a single app.No app ever downloaded from unknown sources,avast and dr web lite virus working on my set.Using same set of application since last two years on sony and now on asus.RAM showing just 356 MB-500 MB free on kitkat even while no new apps were downloaded or task initiated.
User available memory 3.1 GB out of 5 GB and 4.5 GB free in 8GB sd card.Used to keep phone nicely as one could keep himself,always used to praise asus for this phone u can see my last few weeks posting.
Just one question why the world changed to worse after kitkat update.Today i am feeling so low i cant describe,seeing my phone 70 of my friends/relatives have bought this phone.
- deepak
- rKp
AnonD-316185, 06 Oct 2014Abhishek, I usually got battery life of more then 24 hrs with calling, texting, browsing. On m... moreMy battery pack up was not good.only its 7 to 8 hours only .....
- Dodo
- YTE
Hi,
I ordered the Zenfone 5 today... and after ordering i just went through this forum and i really got scared by the feedback and the issues people have reported.. I am not sure whether buying this phone has been a wise decision or not as the features and the specs looked really promising...
Since i have ordered the phone now and cant return it... Can i please get a heads up from the current users regarding the dos and the donts..
Also should i upgrade the os to Kitkat or let it cling onto Jellybean..
I am not a gaming freak, i have basically bought the phone because i needed to access my mails, whatsapp (alot), skype, viber camera seemed good... wifi almost 15-20 hrs a day... and yes i wanted the phone to last atleast for a day...
- AnonD-279813
- 2xx
AnonD-314939, 06 Oct 2014Since kitkat update phone was getting too hot and many problems arose.Tell me what can be the ... moreI just do not believe that software could toast a formatter board.
There is an internal (in chipset) overheat protection, which would shut CPU down, causing a reboot if the temperature got too high, and at the same time the only way software could kill hardware would be by heat so high that the parts got ruined.
That's why I do not believe what they say, and I think any other service centre would raise eyebrows at a diagnosis like that.
OK, the phone could have an issue right out of the factory, and something could later push it over the cliff. But on its own, if there was no quality issue earlier, KitKat could not cause that.
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