Asus Zenfone 5 A500CG (2014) - user opinions and reviews
- AnonD-279813
- 2xx
AnonD-314791, 05 Oct 2014Haha.
Sure. Ill buy a battery pack soon.
How ironic is it?
A phone with higher specs is... moreone of things that I found turned on was under Wifi, settings, Advanced Wi-Fi - Scanning always available
This scans for networks all the time even when wifi is switched off. Turn that off.
Another thing that is burning battery is GPS - seems Google Play Services polls the GPS every couple of seconds, even when you are doing nothing with the phone, which drains battery.
Turn the Location off. Then on again, and you would be asked to give permission to Google to report your location even when no apps are using it - this burns both data and GPS - so tap on disagree.
Another thing worth trying - under Settings, Google (in accounts) tap on Ads and opt out of interest based ads, then reset advertising ID.
Finally, settings and apps installed before upgrade to KK could have effect both on battery and the stability of the system.
I do recommend, if you are facing severe issues, to do a factory restore from recovery menu, and reload the apps.
- AnonD-316028
- GFk
I upgraded my zen5 to kitkat firmware 3days ago. So far so good.
- adjsl
- U27
AnonD-303138, 06 Oct 2014Hi I upgraded my zenfone5 to kit Kat few days back OTA and was having issues like black scree... moreThe same is here. but battery drainage is going fast.If i check on reasons to consume battery ,it is only android system more than 40 % battery consumes and if you check running apps their are lots of unnecessary apps are running in background.One apps contact is always running even i have make synch off in every places but still contact apps running every time but before kitkat i never seen this apps to run in backgroung????. second one is Google play services with more than 3 process. smart card and input devices like apps running in background .
- Subha
- KAe
AnonD-302492, 05 Oct 2014i have this problem too.after installing kitkat i did a full wipe and now i cant set up a new ... moreuse once sim other than airtel. then u can use the previous one..
- AnonD-303138
- uvr
Hi
I upgraded my zenfone5 to kit Kat few days back OTA and was having issues like black screen after the calls, some settings like lockscreen could not be changed etc. So I did a full factory reset (pressing power and vol up and selecting factory reset ) then 're downloaded and installed all apps again.
Now the settings lockscreen etc is fine. No black screen so far and performance has improved very much. GPS lock is quite fast and stock camera also fast.
Battery life - I am yet to come to a conclusion - but I agree with tomazz. Standby improved but working reduced.
Overall happy with zenfone5 except battery. Bought a Xiaomi 10400mAh battery bank for Rs999 to help.
- San
- uvr
AnonD-295960, 05 Oct 2014Hi
I cannot select all the available tones to select as Ring Tones or Alarm Tones
Issue... moreHi gautam
Open file manager and there is a ringtone folder and notification folder. Ringtone folder has tones for calls and notification has tones for alarm, calendar, sms etc. Copy the tones you want in each of these folder and then you can select the tones in sound settings.
- BRAVO06
- vxf
AnonD-295960, 05 Oct 2014You cannot resolve it. It will not support Video callinghi! i'm planning to buy zenfone5 soon. is that all the disadvantage of the phone?
for me in mid-range phone,the specs will do i mean it's good
but i want to know what else the disadvantage of the phone so i won't expect to much..
cause it's cheaper than other smart phone..
hope to hear from you guys
- Abhishek
- aku
After kitkat update my battery performance has been improved.
As yesterday i run hd video for 2 hours and it taken only 5-6% .
And i have luckily no problem in zenfone after kitkat update.As many guys stated below.
- AnonD-315948
- RNC
asus zenfone is a good mobile than other high grand such as samsung like a S5 and Note 3, HTC one, Sony Xperia z, because of zenfone are interesting to me, theprice is so very good, the performance are very tiptop,just ugrade perfomance video HD during record to make sure no have a lagging, just i want said, only the main of problem of zenfone is ONLY BATTERY PERFORMANCE is not so good...as i hope, for the next future, ASUS may give our customers average performance, PLEASE BE UPGRADE YOUR BATTERY PERFORMANCE!!!!!!! and for the kitkat update last time, is so good, but, update time to time to fixing the bugs..OK, however, I LOVE ASUS BRAND SO MUCH< ESPECIALLY ASUS ZENFONE 5. THANK YOU FOR ASUS
- AnonD-295960
- d%Y
Hi
I cannot select all the available tones to select as Ring Tones or Alarm Tones
Issue is that there are some tones which I can set only for Alarms and some tones I can set only as Ringtones
For Example, There is a tone BIG EASY under ALARMS. I cannot select this tone, BIG EASY, as RINGTONE either for SIM1 or SIM2.
Similar, there are tones FLUTE SAMBA OR STEEL DRUMS AFRICA. I cannot select these tones, FLUTE SAMBA OR STEEL DRUMS AFRICA as tones for ALARMS
What I am looking is to select any tone available in the phone, for either for SIM RINGTONE or ALARMS TONE
Hope I am able to make my point clear.
- AnonD-295960
- d%Y
josemon, 05 Oct 2014The smart view "s view" does not work using flipcover after the updation to kitkatSame Here. Did you tried to contact Asus Support Centre. If yes, what is their response
- AnonD-295960
- d%Y
zengurl, 05 Oct 2014Why zenfone 6 doesn't support fb video calls? Why? How to solve dis problem?You cannot resolve it. It will not support Video calling
- AnonD-288293
- uuk
AnonD-279813, 05 Oct 2014I just realise how lucky I am not to have any of the problems the rest of the guys have :(@Tomazz I'm not facing any major issues after updating to kitkat as well. Heating and battery is the only issues which I have. Both of which depends on what I do with the phone. Graphic demanding Games heat the phone up. I'm still not sure how much kitkat update has affected my battery performance. I haven't really tested it. As of now I think it's pretty much the same. Probably android l update with art runtime might help us :-)
- fire13
- 7Xg
i am on my 3rd day of using asus zenfone 5 and still confuse on some functions so far the fast draining battery is observed well i do understand it there are lots of applications running which consumes battery life even from the original phone features.....hoping i will not face any problem ahead and i dont wanna upgrade to kitkat simply because a lot of problems i heard about that version , a friend of my have a lenovo phone with some good features loses the quality of performance on its camera plus the jelly bean version cant be back even how she tried the methods of recovery
- AnonD-314791
- rKQ
AnonD-279813, 05 Oct 2014I must agree that although standby time has improved somewhat with KitKat, the usage battery t... moreHaha.
Sure. Ill buy a battery pack soon.
How ironic is it?
A phone with higher specs is giving more battery back up than a phone with comparitively lower specs.
I.e. with the same battery capacity.
Anyways..
I meant to askwhat are the optimum setting or apps to tweak my battery and optimize it.
Like.. i want to know how do you manage to get your battery backup.
- shane
- Kg%
i tried to open my mobile network but its not working,what i need to do to use 3g please help
- AnonD-302492
- T4x
AnonD-279813, 04 Oct 2014Performance is better, battery life better in test, but for "real life" experience I... morei have this problem too.after installing kitkat i did a full wipe and now i cant set up a new apn. even changing the slots from 1 to 2 none of them cases works.
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