[Zenfone 5 General] hutjeflut:
no offence but saying your battery slasts 14 hours is a irrelevant statistic without knowing your brightness gps/wifi/3g usage and quality and what apps you got running.

first things to do with a smartphone is get used to minimal brightness indoors its MORE then enough and better for your eyes and mental health.

secondly delete apps like google + facebook facebook Messenger maps and a few other rotten apples.

that alone are the biggest battery savers you can do on a Phone.

anyway if people post only the time there Phone lasts you need to ignore them as its irrelevant data. after all that could be a Phone addict using 10 hours screen on time in that 14 hours or he could be playing games for 2 hours which is equal to 5 hours browsing the web over wifi.

without al relvant data its just a number we cant use.

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Ok as promised weekend and i did the update so here is my report and findings so far.

To clarify i was on version 1.17 and was rooted so i enabled pro mode (its free) and enabled rootkeeper in supersu.

I then reanabled al things i had disabled in Root App Delete otherwise OTA updates will not work same goes for flashing the full rom as this still works as OTA update.

First update was version 1.18 (big update. so i checked root and i still had it so i went on to the next update smal bugfix version of 1.18 and checked root again which i still had.

Then i got the first kitkat update v2.21.40.11 so i went and installed that. after i went to check root and no root so tried starting tupersu and it said binary missing . i knew this fix which is a simple reboot as i was on kitkat once before.

So a simple reboot fixed that and i now had a working supersu and checked root and tada root was there again.

So i went to the next update which was the aperently magix 2.21.40.39.

After updating to that i checked root and same problem so reboot check root and riit was back so root can and will survive all the way from version 1.14 up to this version of kitkat.

Now my main goal was the battery fixed. opened the file and tada 3168 as a value. Its not perfect but its miled closer then 2048.

Now i went to check all changes and its not all that bad there is however a list of things to do before you can start using your Phone,

You need to update about every app in the play store.

Chrome, camera, google keyboard, sms app, dailer, quickmemo, gallery, and some others all needed a update and would simply not work before being updated.

So do update all ZenUI and google apps as aperently they will not work on kitkat without a update.

After that i just had to fix some preferences as for example google keyboard lost all its settings.

After that i was on 38% battery so plugged it in and directly i noticed charging seemed to take forever (amost 3,5 hours and i was already on 38%).

Normaly my Phone fully charges in just under 4 hours so that might be a negative if your in a hurry but if you charge overnight there should not be a issue.

When full i unplugged it and this is where normaly my head exploded in rage and wel it didnt.

The Phone was stuck on 100% for a whole 7 minutes even. and a hour later i had 88% left which is about my regular record usage (5 min per 1% battery is what i expect normal usage)

So so far all good i will update what will hapen on 1% as there is still about 150 mah missing which is about 15 to 20 minutes screen time so that might be a nice 1% backup for emergencys haha.