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I'm worried about the issues plaguing the device, have the updates and latest software fixed some of the issues? Overheating, screen ripples, draining battery etc?
those production issues have been fixed more than a month ago, if u like the phone, jump on without aby fears, ull love it here
overheating is within acceptable range eith custom kernels, and future releases by nvidia and htc are bound to solve this issue further
battery life has been quite good too, but this is suvjective and depends on ur usage
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KLUVJ said:
those production issues have been fixed more than a month ago, if u like the phone, jump on without aby fears, ull love it here
overheating is within acceptable range eith custom kernels, and future releases by nvidia and htc are bound to solve this issue further
battery life has been quite good too, but this is suvjective and depends on ur usage
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I'm getting a second hand one with full warranty that's been used for the past three months and this is probably one of the first few batches out of the gate so I'm just being careful What about lag and the multi tasking issue? Did HTC fix that or are they still forcing us to accept reloading pages as a new standard for conserving ram and battery?
I haven't used an HTC phone for quite some time now and although Samsung has been really really nice, it's not as satisfying as owning an HTC
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I'm getting a second hand one with full warranty that's been used for the past three months and this is probably one of the first few batches out of the gate so I'm just being careful What about lag and the multi tasking issue? Did HTC fix that or are they still forcing us to accept reloading pages as a new standard for conserving ram and battery?
I haven't used an HTC phone for quite some time now and although Samsung has been really really nice, it's not as satisfying as owning an HTC
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that is a sense issue. currently, all non sense roms dont hace that issue.hopefully, htc will push the new release out with a multitask fix, as they already fixed the live wallpaper issue.
lag is nonexistant on roms, really, blazing fast, i have never seen sense this fast, all due to the viper rom and the faux experimental oc kernel.
all problems are pretty much fixed in roms, and hopefully, htc will step up their game asap and release their 404 update. its been confirmed to drop in the following 2 weeks
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that is a sense issue. currently, all non sense roms dont hace that issue.hopefully, htc will push the new release out with a multitask fix, as they already fixed the live wallpaper issue.
lag is nonexistant on roms, really, blazing fast, i have never seen sense this fast, all due to the viper rom and the faux experimental oc kernel.
all problems are pretty much fixed in roms, and hopefully, htc will step up their game asap and release their 404 update. its been confirmed to drop in the following 2 weeks
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Thank you. One last thing, is the wifi problem related to hardware or just software? I'm referring to the one wherein you press the upper right hand corner of the screen and the wifi signal gets stronger.
You mentioned all problems being fixed on custom roms, what about stock roms?
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Thank you. One last thing, is the wifi problem related to hardware or just software? I'm referring to the one wherein you press the upper right hand corner of the screen and the wifi signal gets stronger.
You mentioned all problems being fixed on custom roms, what about stock roms?
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hardware. and its not really a bad thing too, cant understand why people stress over it. stock currently has pretty good battery life, its just the three dot menu that needs a fix.the very soon to be released 404 update will resolve all that and bring a lot more enhancements to the table.
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hardware. and its not really a bad thing too, cant understand why people stress over it. stock currently has pretty good battery life, its just the three dot menu that needs a fix.the very soon to be released 404 update will resolve all that and bring a lot more enhancements to the table.
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I agree with KLUVJ that this phone is really good except of that one issue i have with push email on the sense email client. However if you do use the gmail app or any other 3rd party app like maildroid, i think you are fine.
I find that the phone overheat a little more than the iphone but within acceptable range. Tried viper rom yesterday and i was amazed! the amount of settings you could do to tweak the phone is just unbelievable.
Hope you can join the group here!
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I agree with KLUVJ that this phone is really good except of that one issue i have with push email on the sense email client. However if you do use the gmail app or any other 3rd party app like maildroid, i think you are fine.
I find that the phone overheat a little more than the iphone but within acceptable range. Tried viper rom yesterday and i was amazed! the amount of settings you could do to tweak the phone is just unbelievable.
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Regarding the wifi issue, are there phones with no problems? I've been reading up and it seems that HTC is accepting units for repair if you do have this issue, correct?
Lastly, what's the real deal with the battery life? I've read through a gazillion posts with some claiming it sucks and is below the gs3, others are praising it and saying it can beat the iphone 4 and 4s which I say is almost impossible for android. GSMarena rates the battery life of the hox 6 hrs below the GS3 with video playback at a paltry 6hrs only
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I got mine the same way, and it's fine.
It had the wifi "grip of life" issue and a duff speaker, but I got it repaired by HTC and all is well now.
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Regarding the wifi issue, are there phones with no problems? I've been reading up and it seems that HTC is accepting units for repair if you do have this issue, correct?
Lastly, what's the real deal with the battery life? I've read through a gazillion posts with some claiming it sucks and is below the gs3, others are praising it and saying it can beat the iphone 4 and 4s which I say is almost impossible for android. GSMarena rates the battery life of the hox 6 hrs below the GS3 with video playback at a paltry 6hrs only
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There are phones with no problems. But excessive checking for the problem i.e pushing the part between volume and cam with force again and again can actually create the problem. Yes htc is accepting units for repair.
Battery life opinion will be as different as genetic code lol. Here's mine.
Some custom roms give even better battery life than others. My phone lasts a day on full charge with me having made about 30 minutes of calls, lots of whatsapp messages, web-browsing, tweeting, etc.
I get an average of 2 hours 50 minutes of screen on time.
Say you don't touch the phone for 7-8 hours maybe your sleeping or whatever, the battery would have drained only about 2-3%. That's with data/wifi and cell reception on. Incredible Standby Time.
When you do use the phone the battery flies away like crazy . I have to fully charge my phone once a day.
what about the latest batches HT26 and SH27. what is the probability of those models to be defective (hardware issue).
Honestly, if you think we are having issues, you best check out the SGS3 forums lol.
Dude i got my HOX the day it became available in my country, i was well aware of the potential issues and luckily i got a defect free unit.
I used it as a stock device for about 2 weeks and was very impressed with battery life and overall smoothness, honestly you dont need to root a HOX to get the best out of the device, it holds its own pretty well.
I rooted because I am used to the luxury of Titanium Backup, Super User apps that I have purchased and because i dont like to wait for OS updates lol.
Why wait on a carrirer when i know how to do it myself and what Team PkmN was doing with charmeleon ROM was waaaay to tempting to just sit and watch from the side lines and miss out on the action lol, truth be told that ROM was the main reason i took the plunge.
I consider myself a power user and would recommend ViperX and Faux 005 beta 1 kernel, that is if your going to root.
Thank you for the input everyone I appreciate it. I do hope I get one without issues
Hello my friends, I've been a user of this tablet since 2014 and i came to the point that im done with it. So i made this thread because im curious how are you guys out there holding up with yer Notes 10.1 too. Here are my current issues :
Every time i flash something its a time to pray a lot, lots of force closes. Even if i flash a factory image in odin and then flash a rom the odds are of a lot of trouble coming, you wont believe how many times FireFox died today on the same page.
TWRP is a no go for me. I usually can successfully restore a backup on a 1/5 ratio and since a wrongly restored backup ends sealing the death of the current installed rom its easier to just wipe everything and start from the scratch again.
I was in such a shock after rooting my Motorola Droid Turbo, because it didn't blow up or something. The Samsung knoxx software is just troublesome. I didn't wanted to switch to CM13 because of dead camera and some other bugs. But hey that's what has been happening to me, how are yours tab holding up guys? Mine is p601 by the way, maybe the other models are doing better.:silly:
Hmm, probably you just have a defective device?
I have a second hand P600, the WiFi model, been using it for over a year without much hindrance, and I average over 8 hours of screen time over 4 to 5 days of usage. 9 to 10 hours if used for continuous web browsing. The only problem is the WiFi antenna/driver might be buggered somewhere, because like once every couple of months it would completely forget a previously used WiFi point, like literally cannot even see the SSID listed on the WiFi screen, and the only solution is to either change the frequency of the point from 2.4 Ghz to 5 Ghz, and if that didn't work, to completely flash a new ROM. Luckily that only happened once, and just before I flashed a new ROM for unrelated reasons.
Regarding the modding part, I've flashed lots of ROMs and kernels, and the only significant problem is from running xluco's kernel, absolutely nothing wrong with that one other than the frequent restart due to some S Pen problem. The device would randomly restart itself at any moment the S Pen is used, and the fix that was provided by him in his thread didn't do much to change this. I suspect each S Pen model is different though, I used the larger type that Samsung provided for the older Note 10 model, it runs smooth under completely stock Lollipop ROM, but crashes the device frequently if I use either Xluco's kernel, or the 4.4.2 Hyperdrive ROM.
TWRP works ok for me, and I have never suffered any app closing issue. Anything more you'd like to ask?
I'm running ZakooZ CM13, customized Valex Kernel flashed via TWRP. This baby flys! No problems with Spen either. Stable and Fast! Oh, the camera works as well!
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Ye i have the same feeling, i was very confused since we don't see many roms wandering around the 2014 forum, its pretty different from my experience with the Galaxy SII for example. I think it all started back when i tried to change the partition to F2FS, had some troubles with SD card too (multiples mount/dismount) all the info i managed to find was to buy a Samsung SD card instead of using another brand. Most of the CM roms worked ok before flashing GAPPS. Anyway i formatted the SD again and tried to flash pcparaamigos rom and for my surprise it did work (I've always been struck on the "extracting system" on some roms), maybe it was an issue related to the SD card slot since im now using the internal partition to flash roms and do backups, gonna need to run more tests, or i got lucky i dunno, sometimes i get the feeling that my device is a living being or something.
I found also hard to find a new replacement for this tablet, one which has better specs overall, not many 10.1+ screen tablets around and gsmarena doesn't tell if they have Pen support or something, just specs.In the end it feels like this tablet have a lot of potential but $am$ung just forgot about its existence.
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I'm running ZakooZ CM13, customized Valex Kernel flashed via TWRP. This baby flys! No problems with Spen either. Stable and Fast! Oh, the camera works as well!
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:fingers-crossed: Gonna take a look at dis!
Not well. I think the device is on it's last legs.
Battery life is beyond terrible, and I even replaced it with a new OEM battery. It was fine for about a week, but it is doing the 30% to 0% within 5 minutes trick again. I wonder if a sensor is out of calibration or is failing? Also, the thing lags beyond belief. Even after a fresh factory reset with no apps installed, it can barely render a webpage without bogging down.
I will end up replacing it; just not sure with what yet. Perhaps a Chromebook that flips between laptop and tablet or another plain 9.7" tablet.
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Not well. I think the device is on it's last legs.
Battery life is beyond terrible, and I even replaced it with a new OEM battery. It was fine for about a week, but it is doing the 30% to 0% within 5 minutes trick again. I wonder if a sensor is out of calibration or is failing? Also, the thing lags beyond belief. Even after a fresh factory reset with no apps installed, it can barely render a webpage without bogging down.
I will end up replacing it; just not sure with what yet. Perhaps a Chromebook that flips between laptop and tablet or another plain 9.7" tablet.
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I had the same issue on the Galaxy SII, a reboot was like 10% of battery per reboot I have my eyes on the Lenovo yoga book or the Yoga Tab 3 Plus, dunno about the projector version, the microcrap surface looks like an interesting device but windows 10 is such a let down. I don't wanna buy another Samsung device because knoxx and update issues.
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Battery life is beyond terrible, and I even replaced it with a new OEM battery. It was fine for about a week, but it is doing the 30% to 0% within 5 minutes trick again. I wonder if a sensor is out of calibration or is failing? Also, the thing lags beyond belief. Even after a fresh factory reset with no apps installed, it can barely render a webpage without bogging down.
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Have you tried battery calibration software? There's this new tweak app released on the Play Store, it's called HEBF Optimizer, has a pretty romantic design and philosophy for that one. Anyways you need to be rooted first, and there's an option within there to calibrate the battery, but make sure you do it while being charged and the battery is at 100% first. Also, perhaps try flashing a new ROM, maybe an AOSP one? I've flashed lots of stuff on my tablet and I've yet to experience any noticeable, prolonged lagging.
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I found also hard to find a new replacement for this tablet, one which has better specs overall, not many 10.1+ screen tablets around and gsmarena doesn't tell if they have Pen support or something, just specs.In the end it feels like this tablet have a lot of potential but $am$ung just forgot about its existence.
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There's a new Huawei tablet, it's called the Huawei Matebook 10, that one has an Android version which comes with a wacom digitizer too.
http://surfaceproartist.com/blog/2016/7/25/huawei-matebook-and-matepen-offer-pleasant-surprise
I haven't checked the device personally so I can't say more, since it looks like not many regions has it available for purchase. There's also the Thinkpad Tablet 2, but that one is aging already and uses only Windows.
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Have you tried battery calibration software? There's this new tweak app released on the Play Store, it's called HEBF Optimizer, has a pretty romantic design and philosophy for that one. Anyways you need to be rooted first, and there's an option within there to calibrate the battery, but make sure you do it while being charged and the battery is at 100% first. Also, perhaps try flashing a new ROM, maybe an AOSP one? I've flashed lots of stuff on my tablet and I've yet to experience any noticeable, prolonged lagging.
There's a new Huawei tablet, it's called the Huawei Matebook 10, that one has an Android version which comes with a wacom digitizer too.
http://surfaceproartist.com/blog/2016/7/25/huawei-matebook-and-matepen-offer-pleasant-surprise
I haven't checked the device personally so I can't say more, since it looks like not many regions has it available for purchase. There's also the Thinkpad Tablet 2, but that one is aging already and uses only Windows.
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That looks pretty neat, a little xpensiv too :crying: The Thinkpad looks okay too maybe if we cant put a win7 there it can shine. I live near Paraguay and we usually find all kinds of electronics in there! Its a buyers paradise, its my last resort if i can't find the model in my region.
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Ye i have the same feeling, i was very confused since we don't see many roms wandering around the 2014 forum, its pretty different from my experience with the Galaxy SII for example. I think it all started back when i tried to change the partition to F2FS, had some troubles with SD card too (multiples mount/dismount) all the info i managed to find was to buy a Samsung SD card instead of using another brand. Most of the CM roms worked ok before flashing GAPPS. Anyway i formatted the SD again and tried to flash pcparaamigos rom and for my surprise it did work (I've always been struck on the "extracting system" on some roms), maybe it was an issue related to the SD card slot since im now using the internal partition to flash roms and do backups, gonna need to run more tests, or i got lucky i dunno, sometimes i get the feeling that my device is a living being or something.
I found also hard to find a new replacement for this tablet, one which has better specs overall, not many 10.1+ screen tablets around and gsmarena doesn't tell if they have Pen support or something, just specs.In the end it feels like this tablet have a lot of potential but $am$ung just forgot about its existence.
:fingers-crossed: Gonna take a look at dis!
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Here's the links ~
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Do you happen to know if we have any S-pen support like Air Commander on CM ROMS?
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Do you happen to know if we have any S-pen support like Air Commander on CM ROMS?
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Not that I'm aware of.
Edit: heres a quote from another site
"S Note, Action Memo, Screen write(Air command) etc do not work(read about touchwiz if you want to know more on this).
Replacement Apps exist in the Google play store that use some of SPen's functionality -
"CM S Pen Add-on (Root)" with "Note Buddy(Spent helper)" give you a functuonality similar to the stock Samsung's "air command"(that popup that show when you detach your pen)."
I use both of these apps and they function great for what I need.
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Not that I'm aware of.
Edit: heres a quote from another site
"S Note, Action Memo, Screen write(Air command) etc do not work(read about touchwiz if you want to know more on this).
Replacement Apps exist in the Google play store that use some of SPen's functionality -
"CM S Pen Add-on (Root)" with "Note Buddy(Spent helper)" give you a functuonality similar to the stock Samsung's "air command"(that popup that show when you detach your pen)."
I use both of these apps and they function great for what I need.
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Thank yo for your help. I'm in a middle of a lot of reading and compiling texts, so this might be my door to the 6.0.1 world
Mine still works pretty fine ... except the touchscreen ... sometimes very randomly it doesn't react to touch any longer only the spen works in those situations.
A quick on off fixes it.
I'm going to replace the battery soon and while i have it open i am going to check the cable.
Mine's still doin ok. On a 1 - 10 scale I'd say mines operating at a 7. The only issue I've ever had is with the battery. After the original battery failed competely I replaced it with an aftermarket one. It was a great improvement over the original battery, but it also brought its own set of issues. Many of the aftermarket batteries for these don't handle heavy loads well, leading to a sudden shutdown. I've reduced my CPU output to remedy this so now it rarely shutsdown under heavier loads. Other than that, I still love mine. No twrp issues, no problems when I flash anything (which I do regularly). Currently running OrionOS Marshmallow, which is a great ROM. All in all, still a great tablet that I have subjected to heavy daily use since it was new and continue to use heavily every single day.
Mine is still fine. I think a lot of the problems come from not using a case with a rigid back. Pressure on the Note's back could lead to the loosening of the connection of the cables running across the battery(display, backlight, touchscreen, usb).
And the plugs of most aftermarket batteries seemingly don't fit properly. So you'd have to reuse the original battery's plug by soldering it to the wires of the new battery. Probably the pins of the plugs can be unpinned with a needle (that works with DIL plugs) and the pins of the new battery fit into the old plug.
Then there's the thing with the bubbles under the screen. This seems to be caused by strong pressure on the capacitive buttons or comes from the closed lid of certain cases, i don't have that problem myself(my Note is from Nov '13).
Hi, I just got a new HTC 10, but I've encountered an issue with it - the wifi signal reception is a pure clown fiesta. My room is fairly far from the router, but even then I managed to get near perfect connection with my ~5 year old Samsung. With my new phone, I can't even open google play most of the time. Same router, nothing changed there
I've googled it up a bit, and some people suggested to force the 2.4Ghz band, but it's already the one I'm on. Do you guys have any other idea what to do?
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Hi, I just got a new HTC 10, but I've encountered an issue with it - the wifi signal reception is a pure clown fiesta. My room is fairly far from the router, but even then I managed to get near perfect connection with my ~5 year old Samsung. With my new phone, I can't even open google play most of the time. Same router, nothing changed there
I've googled it up a bit, and some people suggested to force the 2.4Ghz band, but it's already the one I'm on. Do you guys have any other idea what to do?
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Can't give feedback on 2.4 but i am on 5 Ghz and that is working fine. It still could perform better in my opinion but it is surely fast enough everywhere in the house to have a solid stable connection.
Did you try 5 Ghz ?
I'm not sure if my router allows that. Tbh I couldn't even find the band settings in the wifi settings - I'm on stock Oreo update :/
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I'm not sure if my router allows that. Tbh I couldn't even find the band settings in the wifi settings - I'm on stock Oreo update :/
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Well the 10 isn't very well known by its awesome Wi-Fi reception, it has been a discussion from the beginning but as far as i can see it it should be more than fine in standard conditions.
Another possibility is that it can be better on nougat than oreo but with an S-ON device it involves downgrading firmware by a pretty complicated tutorial (at least if you don't know anything about flashing, fastboot commands, basic android flashing)
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Well the 10 isn't very well known by its awesome Wi-Fi reception, it has been a discussion from the beginning but as far as i can see it it should be more than fine in standard conditions.
Another possibility is that it can be better on nougat than oreo but with an S-ON device it involves downgrading firmware by a pretty complicated tutorial (at least if you don't know anything about flashing, fastboot commands, basic android flashing)
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Well I've played around with the phone for a bit and found out a different problem - the battery is absolutely pathetic. With data/location on I get under 1 hour of SoT, which is waaaayy less than what I get with my current 5 year old 2600mAh device.
So I figured I'd actually try some of the custom ROM as people seem to like it - is there any 'easy tutorial' out there how to do the whole thing step by step? I've seen some tutorials how to do root, or how to flash, how to install stuff, but never quite all together... Even though I'm very anti-technical type, it seems like it's a last possibility since with this battery, the phone is borderline useless to me
You can find some info here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66714156&postcount=2
The first 2 video's explain basically how to unlock the bootloader and how to flash TWRP recovery. But check for updated files, the ones used in the video may be outdated by now.
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You can find some info here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66714156&postcount=2
The first 2 video's explain basically how to unlock the bootloader and how to flash TWRP recovery. But check for updated files, the ones used in the video may be outdated by now.
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So if I understood it correctly... I must follow these three steps (unlock bootloader, Root the device, install TWRP recovery and "S off"), and after that I just download and install the things that people share on the forums, such as this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ht...lineageos-16-1-unofficial-builds-pme-t3851614 ?
Also do you (or anyone) have experience with some of the custom roms? Does the battery get significantly better? Right now I lose more than 1% per 1 minute of watching video on youtube which is a bummer
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So if I understood it correctly... I must follow these three steps (unlock bootloader, Root the device, install TWRP recovery and "S off"), and after that I just download and install the things that people share on the forums, such as this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ht...lineageos-16-1-unofficial-builds-pme-t3851614 ?
Also do you (or anyone) have experience with some of the custom roms? Does the battery get significantly better? Right now I lose more than 1% per 1 minute of watching video on youtube which is a bummer
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No, only this
Unlock the bootloader
Flash TWRP
You do not need S-OFF specifically and you do not root the device, you give root access to the running OS ! Don't mix that up. A custom rom has root access 99% of the time.
Do NOT expect wonders to your battery, if you get less than 1 hour screen on time either the battery is bad or you have a massive drain on an app. The OS won't likely improve this behavior. So dont get your hopes up that it will be 2 or even 3 hours after flashing just a custom rom.
Getting more battery life is a combination of running the proper custom rom and a custom kernel with usually the according app to customize it. Don't expect it all to be good with one press on a button, this is all pretty advanced.
Hmm I don't really see any app draining it... As for the battery, the phone was apparently checked sometime in 2016 and left in the box ever since... I know it's rather specific technical question, but do you suppose it's possible that the battery degraded so much from just sitting in the box?
Well yes everything at this point can be a possibility, i see many reports lately about bad batteries. I must say mines still oke, i get around 4 hours SOT and it get's me through the day easily without charging it.
In my opinion, 1 hour SOT or less is pretty sure a bad battery and a custom rom and kernel might stretch that but 4 hours you will never reach.
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Hmm I don't really see any app draining it... As for the battery, the phone was apparently checked sometime in 2016 and left in the box ever since... I know it's rather specific technical question, but do you suppose it's possible that the battery degraded so much from just sitting in the box?
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wifi works well at my home on 5ghz and 2.4ghz
usually just use 4g though outside of home network, since im now on unlimited data plan
accubattery is a pretty sweet app.
says my battery is at 77%, which seems about right. I can also get around 3.5-4.5 hours SOT on Nougat crdroid.
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wifi works well at my home on 5ghz and 2.4ghz
usually just use 4g though outside of home network, since im now on unlimited data plan
accubattery is a pretty sweet app.
says my battery is at 77%, which seems about right. I can also get around 3.5-4.5 hours SOT on Nougat crdroid.
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Yeah I was warned that battery life is a poor on Oreo update, but I couldn't quite figure out how to avoid the update when setting up the device... Yeah I actually got Accubattery myself, it shows that 1/3 of the battery is gonezo (2,069 MaH out of 3,000) straight out of box so it explains a lot.
I figured I'd try my luck with some of the custom ROM, but since I've never done it before I'm afraid I'm just going to brick my device... Still worth trying I guess :silly:
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Yeah I was warned that battery life is a poor on Oreo update, but I couldn't quite figure out how to avoid the update when setting up the device... Yeah I actually got Accubattery myself, it shows that 1/3 of the battery is gonezo (2,069 MaH out of 3,000) straight out of box so it explains a lot.
I figured I'd try my luck with some of the custom ROM, but since I've never done it before I'm afraid I'm just going to brick my device... Still worth trying I guess :silly:
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Nah, bricking is more on an ruu or messing with the aboot.img
Flashing a rom you should be fine. But I understand man.
I'm on AOSP N and getting decent battery with 77% battery, and this is from 80% charge. It's rare I charge above 80%
I've had my phone since release day.
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Yeah I was warned that battery life is a poor on Oreo update, but I couldn't quite figure out how to avoid the update when setting up the device... Yeah I actually got Accubattery myself, it shows that 1/3 of the battery is gonezo (2,069 MaH out of 3,000) straight out of box so it explains a lot.
I figured I'd try my luck with some of the custom ROM, but since I've never done it before I'm afraid I'm just going to brick my device... Still worth trying I guess :silly:
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WiFi is nothing to write home about, I gave up on 5ghz and use 2.4ghz as it reaches farther (more stable from 40ft distance to router).
I used to get up to 3hrs expected SOT (70%health) on the original battery per Accubattery, device was new, but sat on a shelf for a couple of years.
With new battery, expected SOT went to 4.5 hrs (100% health). It was worth the pain of opening it up and changing it (I also had to change the charge port, was causing ‘otg_default’ and ‘ohio_wakelock’ wakelocks eating into Sleep mode and reducing SOT indirectly.)
Check wakelocks with Betterbatterystats app, maybe you have similar issue.
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WiFi is nothing to write home about, I gave up on 5ghz and use 2.4ghz as it reaches farther (more stable from 40ft distance to router).
I used to get up to 3hrs expected SOT (70%health) on the original battery per Accubattery, device was new, but sat on a shelf for a couple of years.
With new battery, expected SOT went to 4.5 hrs (100% health). It was worth the pain of opening it up and changing it (I also had to change the charge port, was causing ‘otg_default’ and ‘ohio_wakelock’ wakelocks eating into Sleep mode and reducing SOT indirectly.)
Check wakelocks with Betterbatterystats app, maybe you have similar issue.
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Just curious, but do you have a link for the battery that you bought? I'm thinking of buying one but with all the ching brands to choose from I'm afraid I'm going to pick one that's going to explode and burn my house down with me in it :silly:
LK255 said:
Just curious, but do you have a link for the battery that you bought? I'm thinking of buying one but with all the ching brands to choose from I'm afraid I'm going to pick one that's going to explode and burn my house down with me in it :silly:
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It's all eBay stuff I buy, sometimes it's not perfect...
Anyway, I bought from "battery_expert" seller out of New Jersey, and got lucky.
Link:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-ship-NE...000mAh-/173462237898?du=1&txnId=1952246227007
I have a P3XL that's roughly 1 year old. It's seriously slow and laggy and stutters like none other. If i'm in Chrome and browsing reddit, it can crash from having a long page of images open. Using simultaneous apps like Spotify and Instagram kills the phone. I was using flashlight and making a call at the same time and it crashed.
I originally used stock, that was the same. Switched to Havoc OS and it's pretty much the same. I can only guess this is from poor RAM management. Battery life is crap now too. Doesn't last me till 6:00PM on a low usage day.
Any ROM suggestions? Or is there something here i'm missing? 4GB should be enough... the P2XL was absolutely fine but this is atrocious. I frequently want to toss this device across the room.
You may have a bad battery which is causing voltage/amperage problems and glitching. If you've already done a fresh clean install of the factory OS and still have issues that'd be my next guess.
Did you regularly run it below 20% or until dead?
Yeah I gotta say that sounds a battery issue or something else going on. I've been running stock Android 9 rooted with Kira kernel for about half a year now and although there is still a lot of reloading (especially when using chrome or internet browsers with lot of tabs open) it's still snappy and reloads quick. I've never had anything crash.
Unfortunately I have no clue how to test a battery for proper amperage. I know 2 ways to get an estimate on capacity with accubattery and extracting it from a bug report but I don't know if that will help with identify it or not.
It sounds almost identical to the same issue I had with my LG V20 which was a bad battery that would randomly shut down with around 15-25% capacity left when it got that low and when I changed the battery it fixed it
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You may have a bad battery which is causing voltage/amperage problems and glitching. If you've already done a fresh clean install of the factory OS and still have issues that'd be my next guess.
Did you regularly run it below 20% or until dead?
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I guess it could be a bad battery causing voltage issues. I have done a fresh clean install of factory OS, and still have issues. I would say i'm average when it comes to running it below 20%. I don't do that often, but sometimes it does. I rarely let it die completely.
Best scenario would be to go through Google Support?
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Yeah I gotta say that sounds a battery issue or something else going on. I've been running stock Android 9 rooted with Kira kernel for about half a year now and although there is still a lot of reloading (especially when using chrome or internet browsers with lot of tabs open) it's still snappy and reloads quick. I've never had anything crash.
Unfortunately I have no clue how to test a battery for proper amperage. I know 2 ways to get an estimate on capacity with accubattery and extracting it from a bug report but I don't know if that will help with identify it or not.
It sounds almost identical to the same issue I had with my LG V20 which was a bad battery that would randomly shut down with around 15-25% capacity left when it got that low and when I changed the battery it fixed it
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Yeah, mine is crashing hard. Hard enough that it's one of the poorest performance phones i've ever had. And that's saying a lot lol.
I'll try to use accubattery today to see what I get. It doesn't shut down at 15% thankfully.
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Yeah, mine is crashing hard. Hard enough that it's one of the poorest performance phones i've ever had. And that's saying a lot lol.
I'll try to use accubattery today to see what I get. It doesn't shut down at 15% thankfully.
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My V20 wouldn't always die at those ranges but it happened pretty frequently. Do you notice a difference with it plugged in?
I would definitely start from scratch if you really want to troubleshoot this. Backup everything then flash a stock system image from Google with the wipe all command and start from there and see. If it still does it then it is most likely a hardware issue.
Sounds more like a cache problem to me.....dodgy nand chip. Needs to be replaced no matter whats causing it. If you cant get rid of it after trying everything including swapping the active boot slot from a to be or vise versa
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Sounds more like a cache problem to me.....dodgy nand chip. Needs to be replaced no matter whats causing it. If you cant get rid of it after trying everything including swapping the active boot slot from a to be or vise versa
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Thanks for the suggestions and information. I'll try this. Thanks everyone else!
Hi everyone,
In the last two months, Asus finally pushed the OTA update for Android 12 to my device. In the weeks after, the phone suffered increasingly terrible battery life. So, I factory reset and the battery life became acceptable again.
Unfortunately, Asus' OS itself is now experiencing problems. Apps constantly crash and no third-party launchers work correctly, either. I'm regularly missing texts and phone calls nowadays, and I'm getting fed up.
Instead of waiting for Asus' next update—and especially instead of rolling back to A11—I am considering LineageOS.
I previously installed LOS on my OnePlus 3 years ago and really liked the experience. Of course, I'm not sure if the same could be said for LOS on a Zenfone. I've heard certain things from Asus, like the stock camera app, do not play well with alternative op systems.
I'm wondering if anybody here has experience with LineageOS on an Asus phone—or, more specifically, the Zenfone 8. Any insights would be appreciated.
Hi,
i stumbled into your post by coincidence. I was looking for a solution for the problem i will mention below.
I installed lineage 18.1 for MicroG on my Zenfone 8 for a couple of weeks, now. My experience so far:
- MicroG is working fine, allowing me to use my banking apps with no problems
- The Aurora store woks without any problem
- Signal is working fine. I read some people having issue with it on LOS
- So, Pretty much everything is working fine so far, EXCEPT:
- Indeed, the camera is reaaally slow (more than 1 sec), and if opened with the power button on the lockscreen, it works, but then it makes it impossible to unlock the phone
- But the main issue which kept me busy so far is the cellular radio battery drain: more than 30%...
I don't think it's due to my operator, as i tested 2 different ones, and went to a zone with à 100% signal quality, and nothing changed.
So, if any other people are experiencing the same (or other issues), do not hesistate to post.
Thanks for your reply. Is the cellular radio battery drain due to a radio app you're using, or is it something with the phone itself? I do not use my particular device to listen to the radio, so I'm wondering if that bullet can be dodged.
Camera slugging is a bummer, though.
Hi Josipeen,
no, actually and unfortunately, the cellular radio drain is due to the mobile network. And it happens even when no sim card is inserted. So i would say it's a software problem. But i still haven't found the cause.
I just realized you mentionned LOS19. I'm using 18.1.
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I just realized you mentionned LOS19. I'm using 18.1.
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I was wondering if an update to 19 would resolve the issue – thanks for the update.
On a related note, battery drain is the reason I'm here in the first place. It's often my biggest gripe with today's tech. I'm considering a device with less performance, but better battery life, to resolve this very issue – like the Nokia XR20. Sigh....
I was wondering if an update to 19 would resolve the issue
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Yeah, that would be nice.
On a related note, battery drain is the reason I'm here in the first place
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That was an important factor for me too, together with privacy for me. The Nokia XR20 looks like a good option, even though i doubt that lineage is already available for it.