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[ZenFone 2 General] tikilou:
Just one suggest, concerning Asus PClink.

The client software (on PC) is dependant of Windows... No Alternative fort MacOS & Linux.

I've tried with Wine, Crossover, VirtualBox (Windows) , PC link not working at all.

With VMWare (Windows), it work, but with many problems (many colors/lines problems).

So please, Asus have to do something about interoperability !

Edit : maybe an other idea, for game developers, when Vulkan API (OpenGL/OpenGL ES successor) will be available (need SOC compatible OpenGL ES 3.1 and Zenfone 2 have it !), it will be great to implement it, better perf & more energy efficient ! :)
[ZenFone 2 General] zainthesnipe:
AOSP rom from niropa is probably what you are looking for! i mean the closest we can get to to a GPE rom
[ZenFone 2 General] vipercoyote:
Every single dang phone that has been released people always cry about battery life. Get over it lol
[ZenFone 2 General] kanagawaben:
If they decide to stick to pretty much the same zen ui for the asus launcher, then I have a couple of requests. The current launcher wastes a huge amount of space. I'd like them to lose the text labels on the dock icons and position them lower, like on the Google Now launcher. Also, if you use the search bar widget it, I would like it to be higher and wider. Now it is different than it is in the recent apps screen, and the way it jumps is jarring. However, if Asus insist on keeping the ui looking quite different from AOSP, it would be nice to have an option to switch between the asus settings and notification tray, and the stock android ones. That way, simply switching to android style and using google now launcher would give many users craving the stock android look what they want.

I'd also like more granular control of theme elements and ability to mix up stuff from different themes would be nice, but failing that I would at least like the option to apply the icons from themes/packs without also changing the app drawer button and page indicator.

Being able to choose between the hard keys and soft nav keys would be fantastic, particularly as being non-backlit the hard keys are difficult to use at night.

Hope some of these could be implemented.
[ZenFone 2 General] livewire168:
Keep em coming guys, ASUS_Khang has already committed that this thread would be monitored closely. Let's fire up the suggestions whole m is still on the development stage for zf2.......

Cheers
[ZenFone 2 General] ElmirBuljubasic:
I also would like some material animations in stock launcher and other stock ASUS apps.
[ZenFone 2 General] gontie:
Improvement in game performance and battery life, that is all that matters.

There are so many launcher available that it is a while that i don't choose my phone depending on the default launcher.
[ZenFone 2 General] dongongo:
Ambient Display (or something like that)

Multiwindows

Erasable Bloatware

AOSP rom

:)
[ZenFone 2 General] mc2mc2:
removeable bloatware!!! would make me very very happy
[ZenFone 2 General] gipikay:
- Fix tzdata timezones (some countries have changed their timezone, mine between them, it all depends which source they use)

- Fix double headset notificaction, one notification is enough and we don't need both Android and Asus reminding me. And if they want to keep it, at least let us disable it as other manufacturers do

- Fully disable bloatware

I'm mostly satisfied right now with stock ROM as it is, just a couple of annoyances. A GPE image would be awesome (keeping the FM radio which is the only reason I haven't jumped on CM/AOSP ROMs)
[ZenFone 2 General] timwelter:
Well maybe if Asus actually would fix battery life, then we could stop crying about it.
[ZenFone 2 General] cmendonc2:
1.) Battery improvements

2.) Multiwindow

3.) More theme control
[ZenFone 2 General] dh_711:
That developer edition image would be pretty cool. That being said, I would like to see:

1. The manual controls of the Pixelmaster camera open to all camera apps (like Manual Camera).

2. Multi-window support

3. Slimmed version of ZenUI.
[ZenFone 2 General] AL_IRAQI:
AOSP ROM would be great just like Oppo, they made AOSP ROMs for their device with stock features, check this video:

https://youtu.be/WKQiGnTmll0

Or make ZenUI closer to AOSP ROMs like Sony, more themes control will be great also and please make new Asus Keyboard ?
[ZenFone 2 General] :
I've had reasonable battery life on this phone. I can't imagine spending more than a couple hours staring in to the phone in a day anyhow, and it lasts enough to do that.

I mean, think about it. Even at two hours screen on time in a day it's still over 10% of your day looking at your phone if you account for an average of eight hours of sleep in a day. If you subtract out the average work day of eight hours it's 25% of your free time spent staring at a screen. Most of the people I see on here have around four hours of screen time in a day. I'd rather interact with my wife and kids or generally just set the thing down and go do something else.

That's just me though.
[ZenFone 2 General] vipercoyote:
There is nothing wrong with the battery life. It's last over a day for me. Plus asus have fast charging. Get you a fast charger, charge it to 70% within mintues and quit complaining!!!! There is no reason to complain about battery life especially with fast charging. And don't try and give me any stupid scenarios...
[ZenFone 2 General] ndoak:
My only other android experience is from the 2012 nexus 7 and I find myself really missing the stock feel. The developer edition mentioned earlier really intrigues me.

But baring that, I would like to be able to remove many of the default system apps and a much more minimal zenui. There are themes I can use etc to get closer to a stock feel but it just isn't close enough.

At the very least I'd like to have much more control over the lock screen. I've installed acdispay to make the experience more palatable, but it would be nice not to have to go to those lengths to get a better experience.
[ZenFone 2 General] Druboo666:
[MENTION=6922370]ASUS_Khang[/MENTION]

i) A 64 bit OS is must other wise whats the use of 64 bit CPU :silly:

ii) A little improvements of camera app

iii) A release of full source code for developers

closed source stuff breaks the rule of GNU

iv) improvements of battery

v) Without modifying the system heavily asus can use RRO/Layers system that way user have more control over theme
[ZenFone 2 General] Hawtpants:
More customization options for the Asus Launcher, mainly for the Lockscreen and Status Bar. Please don't make us rely on third party softwares (such as KLWP) for this kind of thing, I don't think this would be too hard to implement and would be definitely put ZenUI one step further in comparison to other stock roms.
[ZenFone 2 General] Status_Errorv1:
the ability to COMPLETELY remove power saver cause for me its not needed...cause I already have a CPU management app and it works well but Power saver keeps overriding the settings of my CPU management app.
[ZenFone 2 General] KuGeL94:
freeze power saver app :rolleyes:
[ZenFone 2 General] Status_Errorv1:
I greenified it gonna see if it affects anything
[ZenFone 2 General] crpalmer:
Asus is in no way violating the GPL. They are usually quite reasonable in releasing kernel source code.

The rest of android is apache (no source release required) or less even lenient (e.g., Intel can apply any license they want to source they give to Asus).
[ZenFone 2 General] modetricots:
Need the two SIM operation to have an option to auto schedule the time it will be on and off. As for international travel, need the second SIM on only during night hours. Please work on this in the new update. Also need landscape mode for Home screen.
[ZenFone 2 General] dongnguyen2301:
Please make sure that you keep DoubleTap2Wake function. I would never have bought this phone if it didn't have this feature. Everyone knows ZF2 has its power button at such a weird place.
[ZenFone 2 General] VinzNguyen:
battery life better :)
[ZenFone 2 General] Apology11:
As requested before, the android m image should have a 64bit userspace.

I was really exited, when I bought this device, because of its x64 Intel cpu and the 4gb of ram.

But its just sad that it can't run x86_64 android apps.

Dolphin emulator for example. I'd really love to see how the intel chip peforms. But dolphin only supports x64 jit compiler.

There are other apps too, that would benefit from an x64 userspace.

And in general a 64bit os is more futureproof. As development continues more and more x64 apps will appear and I really hope that our device, that is capable of running them, will be able to do so.

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[ZenFone 2 General] kamyk70:
Guessing support for those 3 will be very useful:

1. USB OTG hard drives with NTFS system files

2. Capabilities for 3G / 4G data connection for second sim card as some of us working and living in different countries

3. Option for normal / quick charging battery
[ZenFone 2 General] gipikay:
Enable SIM Tools on SIM2(2G) (usually your carriers menu's), currently is only available on SIM1(2G/3G/4G)
[ZenFone 2 General] livewire168:
I think on this one it's a hardware limitation as the sim2 is not really an independent Sim but an extension of the sim1 hence the lack of smtk2
[ZenFone 2 General] WTKI:
First of all, thank ASUS for announcing officially Android M to our devices.

I must say as a Stock OS user, what I really miss from my old Nexus 5, and I'd like to see on my AZ2:

1. Option to install/remove ASUS apps (I'm not that inflexible to consider all of them useless, but I do use few apps).

2. Improvement in battery life (if possible).

3. Add video to the front camera.

4. A better & fluid launcher, like the Android Stock ROM for Nexus (or close, if not).

5. Reduce lagging (over the last month I've been used many times the ASUS RAM booster and it's kinda annoying).

The rest is OK. I am still not in the feel to set up a ROM on my device, but I was looking for an upgrade until I saw this thread. So, let's see.

Btw mine is a ZE551ML.
[ZenFone 2 General] harpy.eagle:
Its kinda rant from me but this phone has several serious limitations considering its flagship device from the company. And same features are implemented by other companies even for 80$ phones.

Its like people who developed this phone never used android phone at all. Such low maturity is shown in few features.

1. Why sim 2 is limited to calls only? At least one should be able to use 2G data on it if not 3G/4G. How can a company design such a phone?

2. There is no freedom to user to select what to sync and what not to. I have never seen this messed up in samsung phones, or nexus i have used. I want freedom to select what phone syncs from my google account individually, like i dont want to sync contacts, calender, people etc. I just want to sync mails from multiple google accounts which i use on single phone. Same is the case with selecting which apps to sync or not to. Lets say i want to sync only google accounts, whatsapp but i dont want to sync facebook account etc. I cant do it at the moment with poorly implemented feature. Because of this i have disabled auto sync completely as i dont want all apps to download junk on my phone.

3. Toggle switches take whole screen. Really, its stupid design. My ideal is widgetsoid app with small icons/ toggle buttons which consume only one row.

In all i feel os is quite poorly designed. So instead of pin pointing every issue i would just prefer AOSP rom.

Give devs open hand and complete freedom.

They can do the job lot better and faster than asus anyday. With whole shared resources, devs can keep giving os updates much longer than asus can and actually would. Just look at nexus and samsung devices.

And make resources available for devs to dual boot windows 10 too. :D
[ZenFone 2 General] ElmirBuljubasic:
For texting and calling 2G is enough, if you want to use 4g put it in sim 1 and be happy
[ZenFone 2 General] KuGeL94:
Dont greenify, freeze with link2sd, it will disable the app totally
[ZenFone 2 General] Status_Errorv1:
I switched it to custom mode so far so good except when it gets low battery I get bombarded with Low battery notification every 3 secs...no way to get rid of it normally so I have to greenify it.

Edit: I managed to fix it...by using ultimate notification control from Gravity box :) I have disabled all the notifications options on Power saver and no more battery low notifications EVERY 3 seconds :D
[ZenFone 2 General] ElmirBuljubasic:
Also, please ASUS, add 60 FPS to the videos at least 720p60 and camera2 api
[ZenFone 2 General] Level99:
I'm also going to echo requests for Light/Dark UI theming, which would be fantastic for someone who typically uses the device in the dark and prefers not to have their retinas burned off by the super bright white theme (Speed apk theme is a great improvement, but not everything changes obviously). Also the ability to toggle quick charge capability on/off. I guess the most primitive solution is to use a non-QC charger but knowing how insistent manufacturers are about using the bundled charger, it would be nice to have that option. I love QC and don't plan to turn it off except for circumstances where I want to keep using the device while it charges, since it gets a bit too hot for my hands with QC on.

On top of that, the current ability to remove/disable apps on the stock rom is adequate for me at least to remove all that I don't want about the bundled apps. In fact, the stock rom quite satisfactory when it comes to features! Reduction in the size the quick settings pulldown would be nice but not a dealbreaker in any way.

What I would like to see, above all else in the 6.0 stock rom, is a proper and complete implementation of doze and all the power saving features that has been touted in the latest version. We have a huge battery, and we get okay battery life out of it most times on the most recent versions, but it could be vastly improved with smart kernel tweaks and the doze.

Highly improbable but I'm going to talk about it anyway would be implementing F2FS in the stock rom. I came from a Moto G, a midrange device that felt blazingly fast because of F2FS file system improvements. The ZenFone 2 is already quite spiffy, but it could be pushed into insane-category possibly with F2FS in use for /system and /cache (pretty sure a full wipe would be necessary to put /data into F2FS, so not banking on that at all but hey, having the feature would be great).
[ZenFone 2 General] ASUS_Khang:
Keep the suggestions coming! HQ is paying attention!

Hi everyone, I've informed our team at HQ to monitor this thread because you guys have come up with a lot of great ideas and suggestions. Although we can't guarantee everything will be implemented in upcoming builds, or M, I think this is a great start and you guys have their attention.
[ZenFone 2 General] livewire168:
Thanks [MENTION=6922370]ASUS_Khang[/MENTION] , very much appreciated

BTW pls tell hq to monitor the link mentioned below

Link:http://www.asus.com/zentalk/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=56024&extra=page=1&mobile=2
[ZenFone 2 General] kensheen:
I would like to have a gpe edition of zenfone 2
[ZenFone 2 General] kamyk70:
I there any chance to implement a real "Schedule power On/Off" functionality like in the Chinese MTK devices? This is awesome stuff and very useful.
[ZenFone 2 General] miku1024:
Please add feature long press volume button to skip music tracks when screen turned off, also add audio processing app to improve sound quality like dolby atmos, viper4android (if can)
[ZenFone 2 General] keshav_c17:
New update rolling out Android 6.0.1 for Android One devices.

I think ASUS should wait for awhile and examine the new update and bug fixes. Once again we dont want something buggy like Android 5.0

It would be better for us that ASUS should first roll out Android 5.1.1 for ZenFone 2 and then wait till the most stable and least buggy Android M comes out.
[ZenFone 2 General] dakunclear:
I just want doze from Android 6.0 for better battery life while in standby
[ZenFone 2 General] AL_IRAQI:
Doze will be included without any edits

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/1...-include-unmodified-doze-mode-in-android-6-0/
[ZenFone 2 General] kidnova:
All I ask is that Asus improve its communication with customers. I assume that they are going to skip 5.1 entirely, which is fine, but it's been a long period of silence from the company up until the M announcement. I'm not asking for an exact release date, but a target quarter for M would be nice.
[ZenFone 2 General] dongongo:
New zenmotion: for example draw an "I" (swipe up) to unlock the screen. :)
[ZenFone 2 General] Rodriobr:
Look at this...

Hi!, i dont remember when :confused: (i believe 3 days ago), I found a topic on reddit, about the battery life and the kernel problem on android 5.0 (I can´t post the link because "ALL new users prevented from posting outside links") :crying: ... On that topic on reddit, there was a link going to "theandroidsoul" where it says "Asus Android 5.1.1 update for Zenfone 2 and Zenfone 5 looks months away, Intel came with source code only now" , "The little good news is that Intel just released the source code for its processors as regards Android 5.1.1. And, that’s the bad news too. Because Intel took so long, Asus only now has the requite code to work on and come up with Android 5.1.1 update for its 1st Gen and 2nd Gen Zenfone sets, including popular ones like Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 2."

This is the date and name of the user by Krishna · 16/10/2015

So... Its possible to see android 5.1.1 before Marshmallow around here :eek:
[ZenFone 2 General] lucky4814:
1. Please add soft volume controls...something like the current brightness bar may act as sound control with the help of toggle and perform the brightness control when toggled off...I accidentally touch the camera lens when pressing volume up

2. Please add themes which can change status bar icons too.

3. +1 to all battery usage tweaks
[ZenFone 2 General] NiTesh:
1. Remove Bloatwares

2. Requires more brightness while using in sunlight ;)
[ZenFone 2 General] msueiro:
Same here. Since the very first time I booted my Zf2, I missed my old Nexus 4. Specially Google's ROM. I felt the need to install a clean ROM, so I game C.M. a try and I like it. However, it has some bugs... I will try the AOSP by Niropa.
[ZenFone 2 General] ChiDi9901:
Remove the bloatwares please.

Keep things light. Only let the themes decide how the UI should look like. So if possible, create more themes but keep the standard UI simple.

Do proper translation of the UI. I use German and some elements in the ZenUI environment is not properly translated or still English. Then there are also typos which should not happen at all.

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[ZenFone 2 General] ASUS_Khang:
Totally understand... That's what I've been trying to accomplish here and give you more visibility. I'm pushing HQ for a timeline.
[ZenFone 2 General] maahmd:
1 : Please make Bluetooth visible without always stay within its settings

2: Add run flash led when a call comes in..

thnx asus
[ZenFone 2 General] kidnova:
I know and we really appreciate your efforts. :good:
[ZenFone 2 General] livewire168:
Any luck on the time line from hq??? There are rumors and speculations it would be sometime January of 2016 after CES 2016. Any hint on this???
[ZenFone 2 General] blazzer12:
please do this:

1. Volume keys to control Playback when screen if off

2. Audio Enhancement "Dolby headphone", "DTS X" etc...

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3.CAMERA API 2

Please implement this. Great things will happen!
[ZenFone 2 General] dakunclear:
Soft keys
[ZenFone 2 General] texla:
Privacy guard feature like in cm roms would be a winner.
[ZenFone 2 General] raynan:
I do also want to state that a lot of us do, however, understand that it can be very difficult to come up with a timeline of these things, but some sort of update every now and then would be very much appreciated.

I will also state that having you here on the forums is awesome! Thanks for taking your time here to hear us complain and help "steer the ship" in the right direction. Maybe other OEMs can learn from this :good:
[ZenFone 2 General] Bob1nz:
Do you mean record from the front camera? You can do this but only in some presets. I normally use Auto for front cam recording. I think it defaults to "Beautification".

I think the one thing I would love to see for this phone is the ability to remove the extra apps that get installed. ZenFlash, OmletChat, Up, Do it Later, Live Water, ZenTalk to name a few.

Some of the other Asus apps seems a little redundant or repetitive.
[ZenFone 2 General] livewire168:
I do agree to this and I also understand [MENTION=6922370]ASUS_Khang[/MENTION] disposition. As much as he wants to answer and feed us upto the most detailed plan of asus for zf2. He is still stuck with either a no reply, no comment or whatever reason hq might come up. So if hq has no information given, khang has also nothing to feed us.

However he might want to try to pacify some angry and eager consumers if the bosses in hq doesn't care he gets stuck in between trying to save a future Asus customer while his bosses might not care at all.

So many thanks [MENTION=6922370]ASUS_Khang[/MENTION] for all your patience towards us and doing your best on our behalf convincing your boss to be more transparent thru a road map.
[ZenFone 2 General] XeidiDent:
I like these suggestions, specially the third, but, can it be done through software? Sorry if it's obvious, but I'm noob.

Also, I would like to see more overall system optimization to save more battery and less bloatware.
[ZenFone 2 General] livewire168:
I think so, software and hardware always goes together. Somewhere inside android system there is a script on power management and safety protocols which I don't think it's hard for the devs of asus to include a on/off switch for fast charging.

Fast charging degrades our battery faster than normal charging due to the heat and high input of milli watts. For some people who do charge at night and plug it out in the morning doesn't need fast charging and an option to fast charge mid day if needed.
[ZenFone 2 General] dakunclear:
Holy crap ya wouldn't of thought of the on/off switch for that lol
[ZenFone 2 General] Shaxine:
I'm not sure if this haven't been suggested before, but it would be nice to have a "Flip the phone down to mute the incoming call ringing and vibration" mode. Like what GravityBox does. I miss that functionality.
[ZenFone 2 General] kanagawaben:
Agreed, although it's actually a very simple tweak to enable them if you are rooted. Just have to add a line to the build.prop file, don't even need xposed. But I would love an option in the firmware to be able to toggle between the hard and soft keys.

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Erm, just use a normal 1 amp charger?
[ZenFone 2 General] loganj:
me too
[ZenFone 2 General] livewire168:
Yep just the normal charging that's appropriate for our Zenny's when boostmaster is turned off.
[ZenFone 2 General] say99:
Asus should remove most of the blobs n make it some nearer to AOSP
[ZenFone 2 General] kanagawaben:
What I meant was, I don't see a need for a quick charge on/off toggle in the firmware. If you don't want to quickcharge (e.g. when charging overnight) then just use a different charging plug. I'm sure, like me, most people have dozens of non-quickcharge usb plugs lying around the place, and if not you can pick them up for pennies.
[ZenFone 2 General] livewire168:
Yep that's true, but it would be handy for me since I travel a lot. Bringing another charger would add up on my already full and messy bag. Lol
[ZenFone 2 General] XeidiDent:
No, I don't have non-quickcharges lying around.

Also, if this can be done through software, then why not? What is the harm in doing this?