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[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] brljak83:
If you want pure android go for an Nexus device

And it is not much bloatware as you are saying

For example I had an vodafone sony z2

Well it was full of some vodafone useless apps

And my A5 is not from any carrier so it has not

all the useless apps

I think it has just what you need not more of that

Some google apps

Ok some samsung apps

But you need to admit Samsung always tried to have

their own system

Since Bada and tried with Tizen

And now what they are doing is just having their own

Samsung apps aplication and thats not much of bloatware

But everybody got their own taste

So if you dont like it

Nothing to say

Get what you like

Go for Nexus devices
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] SimboXXX:
Seems like something is eating your battery. I regularly go the whole week on one charge.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] brljak83:
Hmm

Will pay atention to it now...maybe you are right....

What I noticed till now is that my ram memory is always at 80-85% usage

I close all task and from the app manager close all background proceses but

after 2-3 minutes it comes back again to 80-85% usage...wich is for me not ok...

I think it could be some backproces like the app wich counts my steps all the time...

Will see how it will be after disableing all of it....

Thanks anyway for your share

Now I know it can do evan more hours and days

:)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Mozdef32:
How is the fluidity of this phone? I know it's touchwiz... Does it lag or something? How is the fingerprint scanner?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Skulldron:
Like I said touchwiz is terrible and does it your battery a lot

Psycho Tech
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] brljak83:
I set in the developer options animation x0.5 and it gets a bit faster

The battery is very good...can last for few days if the phone is not used a lot

But if you use it as a power user and do lot of browsing or video the battery need

9 hours to get empty...so this is very good...anyway it can last with now worries for

one hole day...but as said...if you use the phone less it lasts for days....

The build quality is very good also..has the goood premium feel in the hand

I recomand to buy this phone for sure no mistake to buy it
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] mmme:
I bought it - a great smartphone, the author of lying.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] brljak83:
Yeah,

you said it right

The author of lying

I bought it too and only from reading

the resons you can see that he is just lying or

maybe just hating samsung for some reson

If anybody has the phone he can tell just in 2 days that

the phone is everything else then he is saying not to buy it

:)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] dicks66:
My daughter bought one and is really happy. I played with it a bit. Build quality is very good. Battery lasts long time. Bloatware, yes but it is present on all Android phones. Probably there will not be a Win10 ROM anytime soon...

The camera is very good too. Especially for girls the white glass seems appealing. The phone now costs 290€ with a cover and a 64GB SD card. Pretty good offer.

The only thing that surprised me is Android5 and not 6.0.1.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] brljak83:
Yes, the phone still has L 5.1.1 and not MM

I am wondering why? Becouse the phone

did not even come to all countries when it was released. Today it will be sold in the UK

What is wondering me why this big delay

I think when this phone is sold word wide in all countries that then will be some updates

And it is a good midrange phone

But still this delay for some countries

Even the UK

But I am happy for now with Lolipop too
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] jamesava:
Major flaw is excluding Haptik feedback.. this price range phones without Haptic feedback is pathetic﻿
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] wahaj0892:
At this price Range this phone does a pretty job !

p8 lite also have mali450mp4 it also very old gpu and don't support openGL 3.0

First I use P8 lite then I Move to A5 2016

Both do nice job as a daily driver . and A5 2016 Handle Games more smoothly because it clocked @ 800 mhz
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] mikeloury:
Buy an a5 2016 now and after a week I will buy a flagship phone with similar price or may be lower price than your pricy mid ranger.

No one is hating a5 2016. But the victims who have purchased this mid ranger are satisfying themselves by talking anything.

Edit: For example Lenovo vibe X3 which absolutely throws a5 2016 into garbage.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] brljak83:
We are not talking anything

But if you had the phone and if you had used it

You would realize what we are talking

And yeah.. go and buy a evan cheaper flagship

Yeah...like ZTE flagship for that money

This phone is the best I had

And I had a lot of different phones

LG Sony Samsung

Bada

Android

And this one is very very good

And I can not understand the kind of people not

Having this phone but giving and writing comments

Not to buy it

Its a premium midranger

And by now it got evan cheaper with cover and 64gb micro sd card
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] mikeloury:
I myself have an a5 2015. And I still enjoy it. I am not saying that A series is a bad series.

Only if they provide slightly better cpu/gpu in A series, the A series will rock for sure. They are providing everything premium/latest but the cpu/gpu are age old. And that's the main problem.

You know j7 2015 that cost only half of the price of a5 2016 has the same cpu/gpu. And j7 2016 which also cost half of the price of a5 2016 has actually batter cpu/gpu.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] MisterIchiban:
But if I use this phone only for SMS, Facebook, Tinder, Chrome, Youtube but no game, etc. Is it good ? I don't play video games on my phone

My G3 was sent for reparation and I'm searching a new phone eventually if my G3 is dead for always

I really want a phone with a smooth UI and good battery duration. I also want some good photos, G3 was perfect for me, does the A5 2016 close of the G3 for photos ?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Flyagaric:
Watch the camera samples from this Lenovo, then come back and apologize!

Sometime ago I've gone to conclusion, that I don't really need a powerful SoC in my phone, but midrangers with less powerfull CPUs usually lack everything else too. This one is different.

I've read tons of text about this phone before getting it. Didn't cost me a penny, so I don't have to rationallise it to myself in any way. Decided to go for it and only thing it IMHO misses is notification light - can live without it, it appeared. Battery experience is a constant jaw drop. My biggest concern is always quality and usability of the camera and in this case no mid-ranger can beat A5(6). Maybe new HTC 830 wil be able to compete on this field, we'll see, but it definately lacks the looks.

So far, so good - I love it.

People who expected getting Galaxy S6, for the price of Galaxy A5(6) will of course be dissapointed, no surprise here.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] brljak83:
Just count the number of people in this thread

Just a few of you are saying Not To Buy it

But evan dont have it

And more of us are in this thread too

Having it

Loving it

And recommend it

The phone is premium midranger phone

I just love it

:)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] MisterIchiban:
No one can answer me ? :(
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Flyagaric:
I don't use FB, or Tinder, so can't really say how much of computing power will these apps utilise. I don't do 3D gaming too. Have maybe 20 apps installed. Replaced few widgets. Keep like 200 entries in the phonebook. So far, it's all smooth - real slow down I noticed was only when I restored the Helium backup of apps and app-data from my previous phone. Lot's of installing and copying data, but only needs to be done once. That was the only time.

It's hard to guess whether the FB app and Tinder add some lag to the TouchWiz experience, therefore I'm not even trying to answer that. Your individual reception of what is smooth and what isn't can differ too. No one can guarantee your satisfaction.

Best option - go to the shop in a bigger town and try playing with a demo unit.

In my opinion camera is noticably better than in G3. No other mid-ranger offers OiS and 1.9 aperture.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] MisterIchiban:
I have tried it in a shop 2 days ago and it was smooth but as always, a simple "try" in a shop isn't like a real daily usage so ...

So you think that the camera is better on A5 ? :o

Well maybe i'll go for it, I'm just waiting for P9 Lite to see some feedback and I'll make my choice.

Thank you
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] brljak83:
The phone got all it needs for you

It is way better then G3

I had G3 and the battery needed to be charged every day..

This phone with low use and no gaming can last for days without charge

If you are a heavy user it will also be good couse the battery needs about 8hours to discharge

And you probably wont be in one day hole 8hours using your phone

I bought it for the same resones as you want to buy it

I was looking for a good phone with good looking and also good build qualitiy

And no gaming too...for that I have a gaming PC so no need to do also gaming on phone

If you buy it once is for sure

You wont regret any single penny spent on this phone

Its a premium midranger
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Soufiansky:
Dont believe what he just said , with all my respect to the OP but you are hating on that phone.

I had it for one month and "everything" you said is wrong.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] MisterIchiban:
Finally, I had the opportunity to take a S7 so .. I bought it, I will have it in 2 days
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] brljak83:
Thats what I have been trying to say all this time

If you dont own this phone than you talk like

that and as an hater

Everybody who is owner of this phone

Knows it is a very very good phone
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Vivacity:
lOL that's clearly a big hater post. These kind of posts are not even allowed, if you don't like the phone don't discourage other people please.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] mankmill2010:
My system takes just 4,97GB and with some additional apps I have more than 8GB available memory left!
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] kitaru_hukawa:
Yesterday I bought A5 (2016). I guess, I really like that design. May be some people have thinking positive or negative from using glass n metal body design. But at it all depend on you.

IMO have many enhancement from this phone. It is just for minus on camera quality & no led notification and other that is good. duration battery is awesome an also fast charging ;)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] zyxw-androidiani:
My system takes too 4.97GB, I bougt my A510F in Germany. How much memory take the system partions to all you guys ?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Edcheong98:
SEA buyers

I bought this phone last week because samsung made some promotion in my country . I never feel that kind of satisfaction before :good::good: . This might be the best midrange phone i ever had , the SoC might not be as fast as the flagship's but among the midrange phones it does well. The part i loved the most is the design and the hardware , OP must be mad this is a glassy phone of course it must be more fragile than plastic or steel right? :confused:
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Khaykhay:
I bought A5 2016 and these are my opinions. It's not about hating or loving this phone.

Really fast charging ( about 30 mins for 50-80% battery)

And it's longlasting. (Noraml-Medium usage = 1 day)

But it heats up after continuous gaming. (Well that's Samsung for you.)

Loudspeaker type but it only produces average sound. I think it also depends on your playing sound file's quality.

Camera is really great. But you can't record 4K videos. And you'll get a little bit of noise while taking photos at night.

As for me my Android version is lollipop 5.1.1 and it takes up about 1.1 / 2 GB of phone's RAM.

Fingerprint reader is fast but kinda sloppy and does not show exact areas of recorded parts while you set the fingerprints up.

And you will need to press the home button to reach home screen (not just touch) because it also work as a fingerprint scanner.

Put a shock absorbing cover on.

I dropped from less than 4 feet and it's back cover cracked. And ofc I didn't put a cover on. It's glass cover made it slide from my pockets while I'm sitting. (But the phone is really sexy without cover though)

I rooted it using Super SU+TWRP and Odin, succeeded then unchecked OEM unlock thereafter, it now says "Custom Binary blocked by FRP lock" and after Googling it says that it means I gotta reinstall my Stock ROM again. So, if you happen to root your Samsung A5 2016, make sure you don't uncheck that option after you've succeeded rooting it.

I prefer Xiaomei devices after checking them from my work partners, you can get them for half the price of SM A5 2016 but it's somewhat ugly.

Sorry for my cancer English.

Don't say I'm hating on this phone.

I wrote this because I couldn't sleep.

Because it bricked.

Hope this helps.

Now I'm posting this from my Mom's J7. T_T
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] zyxw-androidiani:
Are you sure that you have bricked it ?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Khaykhay:
I'm just a newbie in mobile tech.

I think that's what they call it?

Sorry if it misinfomed you.

I reinstalled another official firmware and now it works fine.

Sadly, my app backups and settings were in device storage and were gone with previous firmware.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] zyxw-androidiani:
There are two different birck:

-hard brick (you can't do anything you will not have download mode and recovery so you can't save your phone?

-soft-brick (you can save you phone just flashing stock rom) :)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Flyagaric:
Surprisingly, it's not so easy to brick the phone completely.

Even before I do OTA updates, I perfrorm a backup of my apps to SD card. I recommend Helium - http://www.clockworkmod.com/carbon - does app data backups (progress in all of my games is preserved) and no root required.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] micu999:
5. Bloated? that's depend on countries and carriers, buy the unlocked version.

4. You already mentioned it, it is GLASS, what are you expect for glass compared to plastic or aluminum (A5 2015)? glass is fragile, if you are clumsy just slap a decent case for it

3. The higher the price, the better specs you get.

2. Outdated compare to what now? S6 and S7? LOL

1. Is it your first time having Samsung as your primary phone? tell me which Samsung phones/tablet had free space more than 50% its capacity?

OP is absolute haters IMO, be grateful of what you have today.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] XDADEVX:
Man but u not thinking ... your reasons are total nonsense

Reason 5 : why u complaining bout bloatware ? I rooted A3 2016 in 1 minute I installed uninstall.apk and uninstalled all crap within 5 mins

Reason 4 .. any phone shatters from drop .. even 2015 version.. get flip cover and glass tempered on display !

Reason 3 .. I purchased A3 2016 NEW SEALED just for £150 ..and has same CPU as A5 2014 you need more research and know where is cheapest just ebay ..

Reason 2 .. Are you so naive that A series 2014/15 are metal ?? NO they are NOT in reality it is plastic back cover and ONLY frame is metal!

Reason 1 .. With custom ROM you will have EXACTLY same or EVEN better partition resizing !

:good:;)
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Khaykhay:
It's a soft brick then.

Thanks for the info bruh.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] contrinsan:
Got mine for a week now as a (cheaper) replacement for my broken s7e and at a 3rd of the price of my s7e i get almost same battery life !(which, at the end of the day is the most important for me) so for my daily use of internet, email, chatting, music,.. it is as good as my s7e and if this one drop i woud not feel as bad as i would do with the s7e because i can buy 3 for the same price :)

However offcourse i do miss some things from s7e such as the always on display that used (almost) no battery on the s7e (and longtime ago i also had this on my nokia n8) while the always on display apps that i tested from play store drain the a5(6) battery up to 10%/hour :(

It's also my first phone in many years that has no notification light so i miss that too. Also a lot of features are missing (but i almost never used them anyway) compared to the s7e

Ofcourse this camera can't be compared to the one from the s7e but for daily use it is good enough and you can record hours and hours with one battery charge.

I see not much mods yet (or no custom rom for this device that has Marshmallow ?) i guess no developper has this device, which is a shame because i think it's a phone that deserves modding :) (especially speaker needs a working mod to make it much louder like on my other samsung devices, i've had a look at the mixer file in system\etc but changing the parameters didn't seem to work :(

For people who feel this device is a little slow sometimes, enable developper options in your settings app and put all animation scales from 1.0 to 0.5, it will make a good difference in the reaction time of your phone.

I personally bought a(nother) samsung device because i like & use most of their apps. The few apps that i don't like such as gmail and hangouts (lol not from samsung) are disabled/removed. Some other things i don't like are fixed with xposed modules (or a theme or an widget/app from the playstore.)

At the end of the day it is not a flagship like the s7e but compared to my previous phone, the s4 i9505 this is a5 is a beast :)

So at the end of the day i am happy because i have a phone that lasts all day without the need to charge, looks and feels as good as an expensive model and does all the things that i need for a third of the price.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] tietganFTW:
thinking of getting this device when my carrier contract expires. All the specs are good for me but the only problem I have is the 16gb internal storage. I actually went to a samsung store and took a look at the storage settings screen and it showed me system took up 10gb of the 16gb. That leaves me 6gb for cache, apps, etc (media can be stored on sdcard). This may potentially be a dealbreaker for me. But a workaround to this problem is the marshmallow feature of formatting SD card as internal storage. Just wondering if official marshmallow has been released for A5 2016 yet? From what I've read it's only released in Russia, though that may be outdated news.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] contrinsan:
It indeed only has a little more then 5 gigabyte when the phone is full set up but in marshmallow you can move your apps/games to the sd card without the need for root or app2sd (it's a feature in the firmware) so the 5 giga is almost unused as i move all my games and big apps to the sd card after installing.

The 2 gigabyte working memory makes me a little bit worried, it hasn't been full yet but 80-85% full seems to be no problem (65% free after closing all background apps)

It should be better if it was 3 gigabyte :)

I have marshmallow 6.0.1 on my a5 2016 (Netherlands-Belgium) it came like that when i bought it and i noticed at sammobile there are many other countries that have a 6.0.1 firmware allready so in a matter of weeks it will be available for every country i think.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] sachs:
I'm just not 100% happy because there is no custom rom for my A7 exynos 710M 2016 ....:(
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] TheiPhoneKiller:
Flip me ,If you want a device that's not bloated get a Motorola or nexus or pixel,most Samsung have been bloated for as long as I can remember ,it's not all singing ,all dancing ,look at me im a s7 killer device but this as a daily phone ,it does the job ,I come from s6 which I broke screen on ,the stock camera is lacking some features and a little less quality of s6 but it's generally still good but as for battery I'm getting another half day over s6 ,screen is nice,playing music is nice ,can browse for hours ,I'm happy with
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] ImStrafe:
Yeah also the phone has no custom Roms or kernels like no cm13 or any cool mods for thenphne
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] Ryland Johnson:
I am one of 'those' who has been through the grinder with the Note 7. Had both types, pre fire and post fire. Best phone I have ever owned and since 1989 I have owned hundreds of them.

So, how do I end up with the SG A5 2016? unlike most note 7 ex owners who are either hoping for a miracle and they can keep the Note 7 or looking for a poor flagship mobile from another brand, (Google or iphone 7+) I have bought the A5 as a stop gap until next March when the S8 series will be released

Nothing and I mean NOTHING can replace the Note 7, its unique. To that end I was not going to blow 700€ here on a mobile that will be replaced in March next year. The S7 is a very good mobile indeed but after the Note 7 experience............oh dear.

I need two mobiles. I already have the Samsung galaxy S6 edge+ and am very happy with it.

To the point, finally, I have to write I am very surprised at the quality of materials used and the high finish of this A5! I owned the S6 and S6 edge and this A5 is every bit as well constructed and made from high quality materials. It feels great and runs very VERY well for a mobile in this price range and there are an awful lot to chose from at this price point.

I can safely write I am not only happy with the A5 but rather shocked how well it performs. It is certainly no budget looking mobile in fact its a class act and I always own flagship models.

Ryland
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] brljak83:
Just something you are saying at the end of your post

Yes it is more wunrable becouse it is not plastic

But just wanted to tell you I dropt it a few times already..

Was lucky that it was in the house not on the street

And nothing happend from a fall on the ground form like 3feet

Lucky I say but how it got fall out of the hand and got a HARD impact still it was not broken

But my heart was shocked....every time I got a heart attack LooOOooL