yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Device Reviews and Information] suspect008:
Im about to order a one too. camera certainly looks pretty good. and your input is highly appreciated and valuble. thank you for that first. and also do all of us some more favor, please include your comment on following points,

1. some more camera pics in low light and normal indoor conditions.

2. mobile signal strength, wifi strength compared to your other mobile.

3. and another most importantly, music quality through a good headset and normal speaker strength for ringing.

4. I found some chinese devices have very low earpiece volume. how's it on the g6?

5. And of course how about the battery time.

thank you again and we all are very grateful for your info I think.
[Device Reviews and Information] HonZuna:
Storage

Hi i would like to ask some owner about storage, in some videos i saw that phone have split memory to 1GB and 5GB this can be really big problem for apps and so on.

Thanks you for answer.
[Device Reviews and Information] suspect008:
have you received it yet? except rhri3 you are the only one who has this. your shares will be highly appreciated.
[Device Reviews and Information] happy_ever:
I saw 1949deal has sold it at the cheapest price at $149.99 now. http: //goo.gl/FN5htd , hope you can have a right choice about the order.:D
[Device Reviews and Information] millanche:
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Ok, are we going to get some answers?
[Device Reviews and Information] happy_ever:
you can ask their customer service, they will help you!
[Device Reviews and Information] rhri3:
1. i'll make the pictures later.

2. mobile (only 3G, no LTE) and wifi signal strength are excellent. I don't see any problems here. I previously also owned a chinese phone, and compared to the previous one I don't see any differences.

3. yes, this could be a problem I think. I have my ringing volume set to 70% to be able to hear the ringing normally. But the preset ringtones are also very "ambiental" or I don't know how to call it. If I set a classic ring-ring I think the volume could be set to lower. I don't use my phone for listening to music, so I can't tell you about the quality. I do listen to podcasts and the volume compared to my old phone is 10 times better. I get to listen to it on only 10% of the volume and it's already loud enough.

4. as i said, earpiece volume is surprisingly high.

5. battery life surprised me so far. at first it was dead in less than a day, but obviously the battery was gaining autonomy at the beginning. now the battery lasts about a day and a half (but I turn on/off my wifi and data connection when I don't need it).

hope it helps...

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Yes this is right. The storage is divided to: 1,14GB and 4,94GB. There is always an option to store your apps to SD card.

And one more thing, the OTG is working properly. When I connected a flash drive it immediately recognized it and showed it's content. I'm still waiting for the cable to see if the printer option works.

Did anyone already try putting MIUI on it? I would love to hear from some more advanced users if they tried doing anything "extra"!
[Device Reviews and Information] reza.b:
blackview crown vs elephone g6

hi .i want to buy elephone g6 but i like blackview crown too .i dont know which is better :confused:.

can anyone help me?:)
[Device Reviews and Information] rhri3:
I tried to listen to some music. It is pretty pleasant to listen to. Overall volume is LOUD (at 70% I couldn't increase the volume anymore). The bass notes are OK, I wouldn't say that trebles are high... It also has an Audio Enhacer for earphones or Volume booster for speakers option in the Audio profiles. I tried it with or without the enhancer for earphones and there is also some improvement in sound. That is my opinion, but as I said I can't say that I'm an expert in listening to music.
[Device Reviews and Information] suspect008:
thank you very much rhri3. Im gonna choose g6 now. thats enough details for me.your inputs were so valuble. Please share if you got any root method working with this and any defects you find. thank you.
[Device Reviews and Information] fennec91:
Hi, could you tell me if someone try to use gravitybox under xposed?

Did you install also mobile uncle? Thanks

"Envoyé depuis mon CUBOT ONE avec Tapatalk"
[Device Reviews and Information] reza.b:
i have a question. the ram is 1 GB and is it enough? i want to install many games and apps
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
http://www.gizchina.com/2014/11/07/elephone-ota-updates-coming-lollipop-will-come-asap/

Sounds like we will see Lollipop for our Elephones. Let's hope this is true :)

btw. Post #1 is also now updated with an Unboxing video.
[Device Reviews and Information] arsalan_elec:
Great News!

i ordered a G6 and tomorrow il get it from the post office. i hope to have Lollipop on it soon.
[Device Reviews and Information] arsalan_elec:
i received the phone and the quality is realy good! i like it specially the metalic frame ,i dont know if it is metal or plastic with high quality metalic color.(the only thing is the quality of the camera we should not expect more quality for this price)

i have a question , is the dispay OGS ? some where writes it has OGS some where not!
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Ye I also really like it. But I think the frame is just plastic. The display is OGS IPS HD. Also the viewing angles are really good, only OGS provide such a good viewing angle. I have inserted a full review video now in post 1.
[Device Reviews and Information] suspect008:
hey s7yler, Ive been following your reviews for some time. and thank you. you are doing a great help to us.

about g6, can you post some camera samples like your previous reviews. in different light conditions(indoor outdoor(from a window would be enough), low light with flash and without flash.

And Ive noticed ram gets filled up pretty quickly once you were opening and testing apps. do you get any laggy feeling due to not having enough ram free in time?

and another thing about is storage, I saw only 303mb free from yours. can you please share about how much it had consumed in stock state? cuz 1GB for apps is ridiculous with a 6592 processor. certainly we need to play some high end games with this kinda processor. and can you move apps to external storage?

thank you very much.
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Hi, thanks for the kind words. I will see if I can do some new camera samples, and post them later.

Regarding the RAM, I didn't notice any lag. And I could run some of the games with highest graphic settings. So I don't really see it as a problem.

The storage was a little low maybe, because I have installed Modern Combat 5, Asphalt 8 and Dead Trigger 2. All these 3 games takes up a lot of the phone storage (also some in the internal). (can be fixed if I just used a SD card also - then game data will be save on that, but I don't use any in the video). And also I have installed a bunch of test tools and Youtube, Antutu, Compass, Google Plus, Google Music Player, Root Explorer, Google Translate and WiFi Analyzer.

The 1GB on the internal for apps is stock, I think it is like this on most China phones. But I believe it could be changed with a hack. So we need to modify the partitions, but have to look more into this first. I actually show some high-end 3D games in my review. Moving apps to external depends on the apps I think, some apps don't allow to be moved, and there might be some restrictions also in KitKat with this.
[Device Reviews and Information] suspect008:
thank you for your quick reply, thats a relief to hear, I was straight forward to buy this until I watch your review video. you said camera is on okay side but not great. and when I saw ram management for just 4 5 apps getting pretty high. maybe its because they were just opened and closed. and I by storage I wanted to know about how much free storage you had when you just got the phone. like 600mb out of 1gb?

and if this is not asking too much, would you kindly post cam samples today. cuz you know its 11.11, lot of deals are flying around. Im planing to buy this for my gf on merimobiles and they offer a 20$ discount and some aliexpress sellers. otherwise everywhere it costs 149$. thank you.
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Well, it depends on what you compare with. Still for me the camera is still only ok and not great. Here are some different samples. Some got better than others. The last picture is with the front camera.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125441883@N06/sets/72157648832106098/

When it was new out of the box I got 1.08GB free of the 1.14GB internal. And the rest 4.94GB on the phone storage partition.
[Device Reviews and Information] suspect008:
thank you soo much for those cam samples. I never thought You could do it today. again many thanks for that. still I cannot decide weather to go for this or redmi 1s.

What would be your choice if its compared with redmi 1s? Im leaning towards 1s because of camera and sound quality. I yet not have found anything to beat redmi at 150$.

I have went through all the photos. agreed with you, its just okay. not enough exposure I guess. those outside garden photos lack some sharpening and light. if its bright day, certainly camera isn't upto par with redmi. so what would be your opinion compared to redmi 1s?
[Device Reviews and Information] arsalan_elec:
the Design friend! redmi is a rough phone, heavy and thick. in other hand G6 is not look like other 140$-150$ phones it looks much more...
[Device Reviews and Information] suspect008:
very much agreed, perfomance - g6 would top 1s. but Im more concerned of camera quality for general photography. just mixed thoughts about how would g6 perform in general day to day photography. cuz I have read almost every camera reviews on g6 and it acts differently in different occasions. some posted it takes good photos, but some are little dark or lacking contrast and poor color production.

http://www.gizmochina.com/2014/11/11/elephone-g6-vs-doogee-dg900-in-depth-comparison/

look in that its not good photos either.
[Device Reviews and Information] rhri3:
That's great news! I was hoping that Elephone brand would be a bit more responsive than other chinese brands, especially with all the hype around G6 phone. I think it is one of the bestselling phones in the last 2 months, and that means more users=more support=more updates=happy user :)

As soon as you have a way to add more internal space for apps, please let us know it would be helpfull for all of us.

And one more question. I have a SD card installed and the phone is not using any of the 4,94 GB of internal phone storage. If I move the apps to SD card they get moved to the SD card and I would rather see them moved on internal phone storage.
[Device Reviews and Information] Raulz0r:
Tomorrow most likely I will order my Elephone G6, I just have some last minute concerns, are there any bugs with the phone I should know of ?
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Post #1 updated with a new Comparison video between the G4, G5 and G6. :)
[Device Reviews and Information] Maestro Davinci:
How does the phone feel after a few weeks of usage?

Hey guys

Thanks a lot for your thoughts on this unique phone. I am in India right now and I ordered one from ebay a week ago (I am using a note 3 at the moment, but I like to change phones every few months and this one caught my eye and also opened me up to the Chinese market), it was supposed to be delivered on the 21st but they haven't even shipped it yet; ebay said that "the courier hasn't picked it up". Anyway, on paper, this cell phone just seems to be a dream, how do you guys feel after using it? Earlier I was thinking to get the Wiio Wi5 but I liked the design on G6 better. I also like the on-screen fun the G6 offers. I looked around and no one in India has reviewed this phone yet which makes me wonder if people have even received it. Like seriously, not a single word written or a video shot, just seems odd. Anyway, I wanted to ask you guys (who bought this phone) about the behaviour of this device. How is it faring a month or two down the line? Any concerns?

Special thanks to s7yler, your review on youtube was quite informative.
[Device Reviews and Information] rhri3:
The only thing worrying me after one month is the battery life. After it hits 50% the battery drains really fast (even with wifi and data usage off) and shuts down. I switched to ART instead of Dalvik in developers mode which was supposed to extend battery but I didn't notice anything special. Is there any fix likely to be made to enhance battery?
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Have you Location service enabled in the Settings? it uses a lot of extra power. Or try to install the app called Greenify it can suspend all background apps when you don't use the phone, and that way save some power.
[Device Reviews and Information] honzikd:
NFC

Hello all!

I have a question I'd like to ask: Do you have the NFC settings enabled in the menu? Are you able to use the NFC functionality with this phone? If so, could you advise, what version of ROM you have installed? MTK6592 platform includes MT6605 NFC communication, which should be well supported nowadays.

The reason why I'm asking - tried two versions of the stock ROM - with both of them, the NFC settings do not appear in the Settings menu, neiter I'm able to use NFC with any of apps available on Google Play. I've developed my custom ROM (as I was not satisfied with volume levels, especially with volume of the handset speaker) - but, I'm still unable to make NFC working.

What I've tried already:

Decompiled the stock Settings.apk to check if the NFC settings option is included in the app - all OK there

Checked the libraries included in the stock ROM - all OK, the modules for NFC are there.

Decompiled the Nfc.apk shipped with stock ROM - no problem found there.

Tried to port the libraries, Nfc.apk and other NFC related stuff from ROMs for simmilar phones running MTK6592 chipset (THL T100S, Jiayau G4S, some other Elephones etc) and compile them into my custom ROM - all without success.

All other stuff, like: fingerprint reader, sensors, cameras, GSM radio etc. is working flawlesly, I especially like the display of the device, just the NFC is causing me headaches.. :)

Any hint will be greatly appreciated!
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Where do you see that it should have NFC support?

The phone has no NFC, and no NFC chip, so that will be impossible for you.
[Device Reviews and Information] honzikd:
Shame on me, you are obviously right. I was automatically supposing the MTK6592 comes with MT6605 by default.. Anyway, many thanks!
[Device Reviews and Information] rhri3:
I disabled screen wake up with double tap and gestures. And in developers mode I limited the number of apps runing in backround to 2. The GPS was never turned on. Maybe the battery life is a bit longer now. If any of you has any other advice...
[Device Reviews and Information] rhri3:
Is it possible to improve the audio settings, internal storage assignment which are in honzikd's custom ROM by accessing Engineering mode *#*#3646633#*#* and Test mode *#*#33#*#* ? I don't feel like doing the custom recovery and reinstalling ROMs and it would be a lot easier if I could just reenter new values?
[Device Reviews and Information] honzikd:
Without "repartioning" the internal storage, you woun't be able to resize the internal storage... But, you can increase the audio settings in Engineer Mode: go to Hardware Testing > Audio > Normal (for the handset) > and check the value of "SPH" here. Set that to something near to 155 - I've tested that value extensively. Same process for increasing the output volume of the phone speaker at the back - Hardware Testing > Audio > LoudSpeaker - here you can fiddle with many settings, basically: SPH is for the in-call settings, media for music and videos etc..
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
No need to improve any audio settings on the G6. Sound from the earpiece is clear and loud already on mine.
[Device Reviews and Information] honzikd:
I was personally facing quite low volume from the earpiece - the SPH volume level was set to 119 (out of 160) on my device with Stock ROM...

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But definitelly, I'd recommend to install my custom ROM. Or wait a little while, I'm working on Android L skinned ROM (Google Home launcher etc..) + some more tweaks - just to try to reduce power consumption a little..
[Device Reviews and Information] crirus:
battery!

Hello

I got my G6 about two weeks ago and I have a few concerns. One thing is that when I tap on closed screen to open, sometimes (4 so far) it lit a bit and remains almost black. I could close it with power button and use screen unlock gesture to reopen the screen.

Second, today battery was at around 50% after a day and 5 hours, then all of the sudden the phone died with empty battery while browsing facebook. I plugged it in and in 20 minutes it went back to 50% then took some hours to get to full. As if that 50% was actually 0% .

Any hints?

Thanks
[Device Reviews and Information] rhri3:
As said before... At beginning the battery life was short, after a few charges it will get a bit longer. Then also try all the tips that are described in the previous posts (ART mode, disable GPS, Wifi), 2D rendering, etc.

Aha, so the internal storage can only be made available by a ROM? Thanks for the tips about setting volumes. It was very helpfull. I changed the ringing volumes and media volume on the earphones. That is cool.

Anything new about this? :)
[Device Reviews and Information] crirus:
For me it's not about batery life, it's about completely misreading of the battery.

Today it say 85% after 28 hours on battery. I bet it will just shut down again in a few hours.
[Device Reviews and Information] pardalos:
Hi!!

I am thinking of buying this phone but i want to know if anyone has tested the gps. Does it has a weak signal or something ?
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
no it is equal to most other China MTK6592 phones, here my results

https://plus.google.com/photos/+s7yler/albums/6082344424713190177
[Device Reviews and Information] rhri3:
Has anyone tried the honzikd's patch to resize primary partition LINK? is it safe and can I expect any trouble with the phone after doing this? Which app (CWM recovery?) do I use to backup all files on my phone and can I also backup the apps I have installed?

Please advise...

And about the battery, someone wrote something about JIAYU G4 3000 mA battery which could fit into G6. It would be great if a better battery worked with this phone.
[Device Reviews and Information] DmT1:
I have this phone and I'm not happy with it. I would advise against buying it.

Problems that I have:

* the biggest is that battery drops 1% per minute when looking at the screen or browsing menus ... no games or background tasks, just browsing through menus with wifi, data, gps off leads to battery drain 1% per minute. Overall, my other 5 inch chinese smartphone with 2000 mAh and 4 cores ( with older android and larger - full HD - resolution) last for much longer, I am suspecting that the G6 has a fake number on its battery and is not really 2250 mAh.

* volume is not configured correctly. When listening through the speaker and lowering volume to one notch before mute there is no sound at all and two notches before mute the sound is distorted.

* I have access to large studio speakers and when compared to another Chinese smartphone, this one sounds horrible. The mp3 tracks do not sound the way they should. Even when listening through small speakers and even with FM radio - one can hear the difference even when somebody is just talking.

* 13 MP camera - oh really? The sensor is 8 MP ... pictures do not look good because colors are way off.

* with default brightness setting the phone is not usable. I mean come on - somebody designed a phone with very bad battery and put the brightness (on auto setting) to very high values on every level? And the front buttons are like led torches in your eyes. Like anyone with half a brain could configure the button and display brightness to half the brightness they have and save battery.

I would like to conclude that yes this phone is cheap, but I still would still like to get my money back. Also, beware of fake reviews on Chinese sites and the fact that they delete negative reviews.

And one last thing. Picture attached from their own website. It appears this phone has a "SOMATOLOGICAL DESIGN".

As English is not my native language, can someone explain what that means? Dictionary says that: "stomatology

The branch of medicine that deals with the mouth and its diseases and disorders."
[Device Reviews and Information] crirus:
Hi

I have this phone myself since three months, and my unit is fine

The battery percent is crap, I removed from status to avoid getting obsessed, it wont drop all the way to 0 at same speed. My phone is mildly used and last for about a day and half. I wath including video for about 30 minutes maybe, overall.

Audio is crap at low level, and not very good on higher volume, but it's a ultra small/flat device small speaker. Get headphones

I keep brightness to lowest possible all the time, is more than enough. Dark background.

For under $120 is a good piece, honestly.

Regards
[Device Reviews and Information] DmT1:
The sound is bad with headphones and when connecting to speakers. This is even when compared to other Chinese devices. I don't blame the small speaker, I was trying to point out, that the device has software problems, when lowering the volume to lower levels the sound stops completely or becomes distorted depending on the volume level.

So does your magnetometer/compass work? Mine seems to be having a hard time finding north. Maybe this sensor is fake?

How is your display holding up? I can see already one tiny break in the glass near the ear speaker after 1,5 weeks of use (just holding it in my pocket & careful use, no dropping etc). Can't imagine it will survive 2-3 months.
[Device Reviews and Information] crirus:
My sound still work just below the mute, its not very good indeed, but I dont ask much about that on phone. Display is fine so far, the one thing I noticed, a soft bug, sometimes, rarely it wont open screen on tapping, just slighty lit and nothimg else. The one trick to resolve it is to use gesture on screen.

Never tested compass, will try

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Compass works fine, was confused at first, then after few phone flipping and rotations it holds position north fine
[Device Reviews and Information] gcapoccia:
The GPS section s very good, I'm living in Italy and you can get at least 6/8 satellites with a really good signal.
[Device Reviews and Information] geniotre:
Hi. My problem is battery. I have the kitkat rom of dic 2014. Only two hours of screen active. I would like to know if there are roms with an increase of duration. For example miui rom??? The battery is also not calibrated. The percentage stopped at 53% and then the telephone died. Anyone can help me?? Thanks
[Device Reviews and Information] DmT1:
After using for some months the phone shut down for good (showing a lot of error messages before going dark). No indication of the reason also (did not drop it before or something like that).

Pressing power button does not make the phone turn on. When connected to the charger only the charging led works. No logo or boot process ... PC does not recognize the device when connected. As some internal part malfunctioned.

So when you use this phone, then back up frequently.

Also the battery capacity is fake and other numbers may also be fake, so my recommendation would be to not buy any elephone phones, ever.

Also, this is my second chinese smartphone in two years and I must say that it seems much more practical to buy a west orientated used smartphone and new battery, for the same cost, than to experiment with these things.