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[Device Reviews and Information] MikusP:
Battery Life

How's everyone finding the battery life so far? I received mine yesterday so this will be my first full day of testing. I took the phone off charge at around 6:30am. It's now 11:35 and I'm at 38% with only 1h 26mins screen on time. Phone idle seems to be eating a lot of battery. Doesn't seem all that impressive so far...!:eek:
[Device Reviews and Information] r_kalar_2:
Let the battery be stable within couple of days and after some charging cycles.
[Device Reviews and Information] MikusP:
Thanks r_kalar_2, I'll report back after a couple of days. Definitely seems like the ROM could do with a fair bit of optimization tho!
[Device Reviews and Information] ghiurtuv:
So any rooting + cwm working methods here?Tomorrow i`ll get my phone too.
[Device Reviews and Information] _noone_:
I notice that my phone doesn't vibrate too. Not for incoming calls, button press, anything.

Did you manage to solve your problem? Or did anyone reply your email?

Vibrate is a really important function to me. More important than having a speaker even as I mostly put my phone on vibrate and use headphones for listening to music/watching movies.

Thanks
[Device Reviews and Information] mkdonald:
Guyz - I don't advise bothering with the "Original Silicon Protective Cover Back Case for Ulefone Be Touch / Be Touch 2 Smartphone" USD $3.99.

I got one from GeekBuying (and believe it's a bona fide Ulefone item) but the sizing overall is just a little too slack and the design of the thin sides especially means the edges are too slack/loose (additionally not helped by the power/vol buttons on left side).

While it'll provide some protection to the matt back (and sides), in my view it adds a style/design rating of -99% and not something you'd want to show in public!

Will be interested to hear of any other cases people have/will find.
[Device Reviews and Information] Carlito Z3:
As the battery is removable, can't we imagine we'll find more powerful batteries soon? as for cameras we can find batterie with more power than the original ones on the bay...
[Device Reviews and Information] Psiufoxx:
THANK YOU for this. It was the only way I suceeded in rooting my Be Touch 2.
[Device Reviews and Information] WearySky:
I got 5:15 of wifi youtube viewing (about 4:15 over 3G, which I did accidentally) out of mine. Where did you buy yours from? There seems to be a wild amount of variation in battery capacity that people are seeing.

Much of the time, any batteries that say they're higher capacity but the same size are not, in fact, higher capacity.
[Device Reviews and Information] rpalmer92:
What's the final verdict on the battery guys? I see a lot of complaining that it's bad and a lot of people saying that theirs is okay. Can we get some actual BBS/GSAM/WakelockDetector stats or something or at least a more in depth explanation as to what is happening in regards to the battery life?

Also, how is the phone in general? Seeing a few posts about the UI being buggy and slow which is not good. I'm considering just going for the Lenovo K3 Note now...
[Device Reviews and Information] _noone_:
Can anyone confirm this phone can vibrate?
[Device Reviews and Information] nardonardi:
certain that vibrates.
[Device Reviews and Information] _noone_:
Hmm that means I have a defective unit then :(
[Device Reviews and Information] tianmi:
I got reply from everbuying after a long waiting, useless though. They just asked me to turn on vibration settings, which obviously I did otherwise I wouldn't email them.

My wife has been using the phone, she doesn't really care about vibration, her phone is silent 24/7 coz the baby.

One day she told me the phone started to vibrate! I tried it, yes indeed, not very strong but you get the vibration when press back/menu key.

What I thought there might be a loss connection? stucked vibrator maybe? Give it a good slap it might comes back to you. Lol[emoji16]
[Device Reviews and Information] MikusP:
Woah! Yeah, I haven't come anywhere remotely close to 5hrs with mine. I'm hoping it is a firmware bug as phone idle seems to be eating an enormous amount of power (FYI I'm coming from a Moto X 2013 which used around 1% in Phone Idle in a day and a half, so that's my current benchmark) I bought it from Gearbest.com. Ridiculously fast shipping and a great service. I'll be bummed if this is a defective battery.

...also, bringing up CPU info overlay in developer options shows that "media server" never leaves the top 4 processes, and most of the time sits at number 2. And after 15 mins without use the top stats show 14.80/14.84/14.94..! Wondering if its the old media server bug from previous android versions just bundled under "Phone Idle"?
[Device Reviews and Information] MikusP:
Hmm, think I agree with the CM for Ulefone prediction. If they can't even get stock Android 5 Lollipop running smoothly I doubt they can pull off CM or MIUI. Have to wait and see
[Device Reviews and Information] SilverBarrel:
There is another place where you can also calibrate the proximity sensor:

Engineering mode: *#*#3646633#*#*

> Hardware Testing > Sensor > Light/Proximity Sensor > PS Calibration

The first time I used it, I could run the usual calibration right after and was about to publish the solution on my blog, but it does not always work.

At least the Engineer mode confirms that the sensor works fine all the time, so it's indeed a software bug, and other phones with MTK6752 have it (like the Elephone P3000S-64bit on Android 4.4.4). I hope Mediatek will do something about it.
[Device Reviews and Information] Dekay99:
Yes i now hold the phone away from my face to avoud gettig the call on speaker or paused..

..another weird issues
[Device Reviews and Information] guru_shastri:
i kept poking around. the engineering mode does show that the sensor works all the time - but the calibration from there has no influence on the phone.

the calibration from the display menu is the one that works.

its very weird. when i test it using any testing app - nothing happens - until i push the upper right corner of the device, which kicks the sensor back to life.

so on one hand - it seems like a software thing (engineering mode) and on the other hand it looks like a hardware thing (pressure on the corner) which can explain why not all of us are experiencing it.

I'm considering opening the phone and checking the insides..not sure if there's something to be gained from this.

edit: well, after considering the physical option - i sprayed the back of the corner with some electric circuit cleaning spray, that seems to have the trick...
[Device Reviews and Information] tareumlaneuchie:
Just updated the 20150829 Rom using the local update.

So far so good, battery life has improved... a bit.

I can now use the GPS while in my car and at least it stop discharging when connected to my car charger. Install lux lite to override the screen adjustments. I have ordered a spare battery and universal smartphone battery charger from Aliexpress to ensure that I get through those days.
[Device Reviews and Information] brunogalinho:
Well, the difference of price when each one was released is also like night and day :) BT2 between 160-180€; note 3 around 600-700€.
[Device Reviews and Information] rakoOo_17:
hi guys

i will buy a new phone ! But I irresolute between two devices :(

Oneplus one OR Ulefone be touch 2

Give me your advice!!
[Device Reviews and Information] pjayala:
Oneplus
[Device Reviews and Information] AdOS16:
Oneplus One without hesitation

Envoyé de mon A0001 avec XDA Forums
[Device Reviews and Information] maormark:
Sure oneplus
[Device Reviews and Information] AndroidSol:
Hi.please help me.I brick my phone when try to flash this official rom http://www.needrom.com/download/ulefone-be-touch-2/ I thing no installing the driver(Administrator failed).I have W7.The phone start with colour full screen,green and gry.In rest nothing…Thank you
[Device Reviews and Information] gnazio:
What right clicking on the icon and selecting run as administrator?
[Device Reviews and Information] AndroidSol:
View attachment 3480009
[Device Reviews and Information] gnazio:
Are you running it from inside the zip?

If so, try extracting the whole directory to c:\
[Device Reviews and Information] AndroidSol:
No inside the zip....I extract the zip to D:
[Device Reviews and Information] gnazio:
Can you see the SmartPhoneDriver and FeaturePhoneDriver directories in the same directory of Install.bat?

Try adding some echo commands in the .bat files to help debugging.

EDIT:

on which OS are you trying?

try putting REM followed by a space before lines from 5 to 9, like

REM for /f...

and add a new line with simply

set osrecognized=1

EDIT2:

BTW, I think that to use Flashtool, you have to install the USB VCOM Driver
[Device Reviews and Information] AndroidSol:
Now see...the phone it work I thing so.......screen is black/green,hear the volume buttons sounds , vibrate the down 3 buttons....It was down/broken the screen???Now when I made the flash?
[Device Reviews and Information] gnazio:
I'd try flashing again.
[Device Reviews and Information] AndroidSol:
I tried 4,5 times...in 1 hour...
[Device Reviews and Information] gnazio:
Sorry, I don't know what else you can do...

So is the phone turning on and making sound but nothing is shown on display?
[Device Reviews and Information] AndroidSol:
yes...sometimes green/gray/black like this....see the photo
[Device Reviews and Information] Guerreiro_BR:
One plus 2
[Device Reviews and Information] tareumlaneuchie:
How can you get the battery to last a single day? Do you even turn on the phone ;)
[Device Reviews and Information] brunogalinho:
LOL

to be precise, it wont last me a full day (24h) :P.

When I wake up, I take it from the charger and when I go to bed, I put it to charge again. At that time it usually has 30-35% battery remaining.

During the day, I do not use intensively...some sms, 2-3 calls, some minutes of web surfing, but always about 30-40 min using it as a hotspot.

Yesterday I made manual update for 29/08, and we'll see....
[Device Reviews and Information] gnazio:
I've never seen such a thing before.

Did you installed unofficial rom before the problem started?
[Device Reviews and Information] gorol2014:
there was a problem with the proximity sensor, make out phone glued tip of the sensor. the problem disappeared,works stably
[Device Reviews and Information] vanist_19:
please have any denveloper that can help more than fifty users of ulefone be touch 2 ??

after flash cm 12.1 rom we lost back key and touch screen are very very very laggy...........are more than fifty people in this situation, i already tried format everything on sp flashtools and restore a backup with NVRAM files etc.... and i have no sucess, problem persists.... anyone could help us? any idea?
[Device Reviews and Information] login_oberon:
Do not understand, how to fix the proximity sensor?
[Device Reviews and Information] guru_shastri:
glued what? the rubber part to the sensor? the sensor to the board?
[Device Reviews and Information] AndroidSol:
no....it was 11/8/2015 rom before flash with 2/7/2015
[Device Reviews and Information] gorol2014:
During assembly the rubber part of the phone is disconnected from the sensor on the board, there is a gap, the sensor begins to not work properly. I gluid rubber part.
[Device Reviews and Information] guru_shastri:
I Suspected that might be the problem.

Thanks for the help - I'll try it later on and report back.
[Device Reviews and Information] olyt74:
BATTERY!

Helo! Very quickly the battery is exhausted.

Is there any solution? Help

ROM:CRYSTALROM

I tried to upgrade the factory upgrade, but it does not work.

Tell that right?
[Device Reviews and Information] thierry77c:
In official ROM for mine, without flash and root, baterry shutdown very fast but stand a long time between 4 and 1% (nom battery saving). Calibrate with suggestion ulefone do nothing someone has an idea?

Envoyé de mon Be Touch 2 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Device Reviews and Information] seanjmc:
Died

My ulefone betouch 2 dual SIM just died today. It felt hot towards the camera, I though nothing of it, now it does not work at all.

I've only had it for a week and a half!:crying:

Any ideas?
[Device Reviews and Information] rfve:
Hi there ,

Do it have video call on 3g or 4g?

I cant find my phone ?
[Device Reviews and Information] condor_123:
Could you try to make a movie during this activity and post it?

Thanks
[Device Reviews and Information] gorol2014:
disassembly see on youtube: Ulefone be touch от Gearbest!
[Device Reviews and Information] ladis.sk:
please have any denveloper that can help more than fifty users of ulefone be touch 2 ??

after flash cm 12.1 rom we lost back key and touch screen are very very very laggy...........are more than fifty people in this situation, i already tried format everything on sp flashtools and restore a backup with NVRAM files etc.... and i have no sucess, problem persists.... anyone could help us? any idea?
[Device Reviews and Information] gnazio:
I hope it's not the same and that I'm totally wrong, but the fact about the back key this reminds me of the problem some people had with JiaYu G4S and G5S roms.

While JiaYu started releasing beta KitKat roms, they were doing it for G4S but many people with G5S was using the same rom as the hw were almost the same (same soc, different display and battery).

On the 3rd beta rom, some G4S owners were lucky if everything was ok, the problem was only that they couldn't go back to any previous KitKat or JellyBean rom. In this case the touchscreen become uncalibrated, but going back again to the 3rd beta was ok.

For other G4S owners - it turned out G4S shipped with two if not three different touchscreen (AUO/LG 5/LG 10 touches) - and G5S owner using G4S roms, the touchscreen became uncalibrated in any case or even totally unresponsive, not only reverting but even with that rom.

The only solution was a new rom from JiaYu after all the people facing the problem started complaining.

G5S owner had to wait even more, for the final KitKat rom.

From what I can understand and remember thay changed something like the TS drivers (something not suitable for more unluckies G4S and G5S users), something that was not provided and/or touched by the previous rom. I never fully got the real technical reason (no official explanation).

I fear that you are in the same situation: that rom overwrote something in the firmware which the stock rom doesn't replace, with the difference that with JiaYu it was a JiaYu's fault, which they repaired, but in that case...I wish you luck as it seems that they are only about the new Paris model and are not releasing updates.

JiaYu was used to release a lot of version (I think about 10 in 6 months for G4S), at least until the roms are stable enough

If it's not a similar case, why flashing back the official rom doesn't solve?

P.S.

I remember that someone with G5S said he solved replacing the touchscreen, but I can't say if that is true.

The strange thing to me is...do touchscreens contain components directly affected by a flash? Like own firmware?
[Device Reviews and Information] jlev:
Are the potential Paris purchasers aware of this thread?
[Device Reviews and Information] gnazio:
Looking at the blog and fb, ulefone seems fully committed on Paris and it seems that they are not taking care about BT2, or maybe they can't.

That's what I mean.

I hope that the way I wrote is not misleading, my English is not good.

I don't know if they are going to provide a better support for Paris.
[Device Reviews and Information] jlev:
I bought the BT2 based on Ulefone's engagement with customers of the original Be Touch. I assume Ulefone is aware that just jettisoning an entire product will be suicide for their company.

Ulefone have committed to one update per month for the Ulefone 2, plus CyanogenMod. Both of these are fair commitments, and if they keep them then the BT2 will possibly become one of the best value phones on the market.

I think most important thing to do is keep uploading bugs to http://ulefans.com/bugreporter/

Also, a better battery (even if we have to order it online separately) would be a welcome addition to Ulefone's flagship Be Touch 2.

PS your English is fine : ) Have confidence, brother!
[Device Reviews and Information] gnazio:
I hope so.

OK, but the last OTA is 20150811 (BTW, who knows why there is no OTA for 20150829, rerported as official on needrom???) and it seems they are lacking resources in term of competent developers.

I don't think that there will be a fully working CyanogenMod is they are not going to release sources. Maybe for that you should look at P8000.

I should see someone interested in buying the phone from me in minutes, but yesterday it made 3h10m with screen and still 20% on battery, which I think is considered quite normal today, isn't it? Even if there are too many evidences that they used the same battery of the Be Touch (1).

Also I have no lag, it's very fluid, the screen is very nice, so I'm feeling sorry for selling it after few weeks.

Thanks!
[Device Reviews and Information] guru_shastri:
tried cleaning the sensor. worked for a few hours, then it stopped.

tried gluing the rubber to the sensor. worked for a few hours - then it stopped.

its still not working stably...damn this thing.
[Device Reviews and Information] AdOS16:
The same, With Bug after flashing 20151108, Video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL_xEzbeGWg
[Device Reviews and Information] mclarenmp4:
I've read all 143 pages of this thread and I'm surprised at how many seem to be having issues with their phone.

I've had mine for over a month now and surprisingly I have had very few issues with it.

I had been using the July rom with root access and apart from poor battery and wifi disconnects on low wifi signals, it was working fine.

Because my phone was rooted it wouldn't update to the August rom so I backed up my current rom, flashed the July rom, updated to the August update and then installed from local source the 29/08 update. I then rooted and reloaded TWRP. I then restored my data and have been running the phone like this for the last few days.

My opinion is that this phone is great, the updates have sorted the wifi and battery issues I was having. I've had the phone on for 10 hours and I have 70% charge remaining and I've used it in my car with bluetooth and general usage.

I am using nova launcher & cm locker and the scroll speed is fluid and fast. In fact everyone I have shown the phone to has wanted one.

Anyhoo just wanted to let people know that it's not all doom and gloom with this phone, hopefully we will see more updates from Ulefone that continue to optimise the OS.
[Device Reviews and Information] gnazio:
In fact, after yesterday I'm a little bit sorry about the fact that I sold it this morning.

Time to move on now...waiting for the price of mi4c...

Good luck to everyone!
[Device Reviews and Information] Nox001:
batery drain

I've read trough some of the posts and problems you guys are having and i'm a total noob when it comes to flashing, rooting etc. Anyway i've bought this phone and it was all ok for the first week than one night i went to sleep with like around 40% battery and in the morning the phone was off. I pluged it in and i saw the battery died. Didnt think much of it at the time but than i started to get these wierd drains during the day as well! I could watch battery discharge like 1% every 10 sec. And i couldnt stop it. Even if i reset the phone after it came back it still discharge the same way. It had go to 0% so i could charge it back up. And this was random. Fine for few days than it happened again. Than i started to wonder if i have some apps that are messing with the battery. I did a factory reset deleted every app and the problem was still there. Than i thought it was the battery so i ordered a replacement "original" for 7eur and just this morning i found my phone died again overnight from 60% to zero! I dont know much about these things but 2 batteries not working i would think its the phones fault? Oh and sometimes when i pluged it in, the battery went down a few % before it started charging back up. I pluged it in at like 40% went to get coffee and after 5 min I came back it was down to 35% before it started charging back up. (screen off in standby mode, nothing running in bg) I updated it once in august and i cant remember if this started happening before or after but i know it was around the same time. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Other than that the phone is running w/o any obvious problems. It does get laggy sometimes after a while most noticable in drop down menu but a restart fixes that and it doesn't happen that much. If i could just figure out the battery problem i'd be happy! :) Oh and sorry about my english and grammar :)
[Device Reviews and Information] mclarenmp4:
Your battery needs calibrated. You need to let it discharge completely. You then need to keep the phone switched off and charge it to 100%. Disconnect the charger, pull the battery out the phone, reinsert it and plug in the charger again. You will see that even though it said 100%, when you reconnect it will be reduced to 90 or 80%. Keep the phone off and let it charge to 100%. Again disconnect the charger, pull the battery, reseat the battery and charge again.

Repeat this process until the battery is 100% after repeating the process several times.
[Device Reviews and Information] Nox001:
Thx man i'll try it and see if it fixes my prob.
[Device Reviews and Information] Nox001:
Hmm i charged it to 100% did as u said but it was still on 100% when i plugged it back in. So i guess thats not the problem? well it was worth a try.
[Device Reviews and Information] rukud:
there might be calibration problems with your phone, but this rom has serious battery drain. To calibrate it you should use it until the phone shuts down and then charge it to 100% while the phone is off.

The phone loses at least 30% battery overnight. Once it reaches 20%, the battery drains 1% every 20 seconds. I calibrated the battery many times and didn't have this problem with the July rom. I have no background apps beside Calendar, Email and Whatsapp.

According to the Ulefone customer support they are aware of this and had the same problems in their tests. They sent test roms to some users and I guess the 29/08 rom is one of them. (it helped nothing for me).

They told me that they are planning to release a rom at the end of this week, but in their message it sounded as if they didn't solve the battery problem yet.
[Device Reviews and Information] wallahboy:
I used this phone over a month now (with August Update). So far:

Two white spots that are only visible on very bright backgrounds (one bottom right corner, one also right side further up). Doesn't bother me too tbh.

Relatively quick battery drain as reported in here.

Occasional freezes for several seconds, Swype is sometimes laggy

Was on vacation in country with constantly >30°C and phone heated up alot during active use. I don't think it affected performance but upper back area was literally hot. Back in cold Europe it's fine (except when you use it while charging).

Randomly (?) switches on/off data-roaming or Hot Knot and other functions when screen was locked but might also be due to movement in my pockets.

Apart from that, I am not unhappy. Camera does solid shots, no issues when calling people - clear sound. Apart from the occasional freezes it runs pretty smoothly. I like the design. So, for a device significantly cheaper than 200€, I guess it is ok. Would not pay more though.
[Device Reviews and Information] dupajapona:
Poor WiFi - possible solution

Well it worked for me so hopefully...

Try to tighten the top left screw just beside the wifi antenna.

Mine was covered with qc sticker and was actually loose.

Now wifi back to full signal not only as close as 1m from the router.

Going, going... Gone! I sold my BT2 eventually as couldn't stand that crap anymore.

Using now my almost 3 year old Nexus 4 and tbh it's much better in terms of day to day duties....

Trying to make up my mind - moto x style or nexus 6p....