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[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maor545:
Got the update finally 20160315:

The camera still needs more improvement. It's grainy, focus is very slow. I don't think the laser focus works.... at any distance the focus speed is just slow. Colors are flush and cold. Sharpness is ok.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] VYSquare:
Hi

In deep sleep P9000 smartphone is not going away! wifi consumes power even when it is turned off !!!

Tested on firmware 20160304, 20160315, 20160401 (beta)

[IMG="screenshot1"]https://s29.postimg.org/gkc8jvhfr/Screenshot_20160411-190529.png[/IMG]

[IMG="screenshot2"]https://s29.postimg.org/56pp8o6x3/Screenshot_20160408-201041.png[/IMG]
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] som.localhost:
Yep confirming, before enabling plane mode wifi was on and at morning battery status say wifi was on during plane mode (battery drain for 13%)

running 20160315
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] badbobe:
I found WiFi was consuming way too much power when I got the phone with the default set-up. I eventually found what appears to be a bug with Marshmallow and its feature that disables WiFi when the screen is off. I disabled this feature (i.e. WiFi is permanently enabled even when the screen is off) and WiFi now rarely appears in battery usage and the battery life is greatly improved.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] VYSquare:
For me also all disabled. But there is no effect. Where these functions are turned off?

And how are you with the "active mode"?
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeffyweffy:
In my office, the elephone p9000 is much worse than my old sony xperia z1 sitting in exactly the same location with the same carrier.. Data is the most noticeable.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] som.localhost:
At settings wifi is off and battery status says its on.this seems to be bug or some other app running wifi without system enabling ?!??
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] graineeg:
maybe location?
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] VYSquare:
Yes WiFi off but indicates that the WiFi works. Also active mode.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] VYSquare:
I solved the problem. it is necessary to use native drivers
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] som.localhost:
Well what does it mean native drivers, this is not windows ;)
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] VYSquare:
native drivers=manufacturer drivers
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] wyldphyr3:
Received my P9000 yesterday and found some bugs:

20160304

I'm living in Germany but I'm usually setting all phones/computers/... to English (US). When I do this with the P9000 the language is reset to German after each reboot. Why german? Does it set language to location? Does it use the secondary keyboard language setting? Does it use the network providers language?. I can set the language to English after each reboot but that setting is gone when I reboot next time.

Funny thing with this is: The name of the "Settings"-App is "Settings" when the phone language is set to German but it states "Einstellungen" (german for Settings) when the phone is set to English.

My network provider has acquired another provider about a year ago and now they are running two networks (O2 Germany + Eplus). The SIM card allows roaming between both networks. Every other Android phone does roam without a roaming warning. The P9000 does not. I'm constantly warned about roaming (by the little "R" in the status bar). Therefore the P9000 cuts the data connection when mobile data is forbidden for roaming.

As I said before the roaming between these two networks is not identified as "usual roaming" by other Android devices. Therefore data usually works in both networks, even when roaming data is turned off, but not on the P9000. Nevermind this.

The phone roams quite often between networks. Did not see this behavior so extensive in my region on other phones. Maybe the connection is not as stable as with other phones.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] som.localhost:
Did you root your p9000 to restore those drvers?i hope with next OTA will fix it (and maaaany others bugs).

I am disapointed with current version of rom and thinking about return back via seller (aliexpress)
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] racer290:
[MENTION=7405299]VYSquare[/MENTION]

How do you install this native driver on the P9000, please give us a quick guide :)
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] VYSquare:
root dont have

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apply the driver

https://s24.postimg.org/l3vi0t3ol/Какой+драйвер+подходит+к+P9000.png

and disconnect the unlock function by double-tap, swipe, etc.

https://s24.postimg.org/z03qcozxh/11.png

https://s24.postimg.org/3rv5fda79/22.png

I forgot to add

the changes to take effect you must disable smart for a few seconds

(no reboot, and it is off)
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] ovkhan:
Hi,

Received my P9000 today, phone looks gorgeous but ... camera app is using only front camera, no options to switch to back camera.

If i use an app like Camera FV-5, there is a button to switch front/back camera but phone always use front camera ... i missed something, or phone is faulty?

Thanks~
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] som.localhost:
I have no issues with camera switch,works well also with Snap Camera app.anyway what about calling and data service at area where may be signal not so strong eg. inhouse or shopping malls?
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] bartali8:
Hi to everybody. I have received my p9000 2 days ago. I meet problem with bluetooth pairing with my car voice kit. Another problem meet during calls. With the flip close, many times if I touch with my face the little windows, the call will hang up. Someone may help me? thanks
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
I've had my P9000 for 3 days now, battery life is good about 5 hours on screen time. Charging is fast and the hardware package is really well put together. However there are a number of bugs which mar the experience.

The phone is without a doubt a very fine piece of hardware, it's well balanced, feels good in the hand and looks much more expensive that it actually is. I've encountered the following bugs/niggles:

1. there is no way to change the wallpaper on the lock screen

2. the navigation bar, contains an icon on the left of the bar, this icon shifts the on screen buttons few pixels to the right and this spoils the look of the phone.

3. the speaker is pretty bad, it lacks bass which is understandable but it distorts too early on the volume scale, it's almost as if it has a hidden loudness switch turned on, even after one turns off the loudness boost.

4. the camera software is in need of some serious improvement, the images are very dark.

5. the fingerprint sensor is, to be frank, completely random, often I pick the phone up and the screen informs me that I have made too many incorrect attempts, this is before I've even tried to unlock using the fingerprint.

6. google cardboard does not work correctly, the overlay is incorrectly calibrated, I've tried this in a number of viewers and the same issue arises.

7. the status bar icon sizes/font size is too large. The 3G/4G notification comically so.

I'm hoping that the camera and fingerprint sensor issues are software related, pretty much everything else listed is. The elephone.hk forum is down at the moment, there is much confusion about which ROM is the latest with some posts mentioning an April beta. I'm quite sanguine about this I knew I was taking a punt on elephone and I'll wait for a few more weeks to see if they can get it together on the software front. I would urge anyone reading this from elephone to get out in front of these bugs very quickly, the mid-range sector is about to get very crowded with similarly specd phones (e.g. Zopo Speed 8) and whilst a near stock ROM is very attractive compared to the custom UIs which normally dominate the mid range chinaphone, a buggy rom which fails to make the best of the excellent hardware package could be an expensive mistake by elephone.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] silverovercrash:
Hi, is your NFC with bank card or a batch working? I can switch on but no recognisation. Im on 20160401 beta FW.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
I've just tried android beam using the NFC chip, it doesn't work.

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I've just tried Android Beam using the NFC chip, it doesn't work.

Edit: just tried the NFC functionality using the NXP apps. Reading and writing to tags is fine, I can use a tag to open apps etc. After removing the wechat app Android Beam works correctly with both Nexus5 and 5x.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] rudlren:
Hi,

Is it a mistake if I record a video and the video rushes during Playback (same with voice Recorder) Although it is quietly in the background and I do not say anything??? Or is the speaker damaged? Make phonecalls, playing YouTube i have no Problems. Thx for your help! Rene
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] silverovercrash:
AFTER installing NXP APP from GPlay i can read NFC /Sticker / Tags. NFC Bank Card not working. How to get it work?

In same moment I found also that OTG is not working. But I use adapter on small USB side from old micro usb to usb c.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] remus35:
I meet problem with bluetooth pairing with my Elephone W2

GSM&data signal is very weak
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] alarmatwork:
Reset to SIM language / GPS / Wifi performance

I'm using original software and I have 3 issues to report:

1. Phone language is reset to SIM card language every time you restart phone or come back from Airplane mode.

2. GPS is not stable.

See: dropbox.com/s/phxljsh1o2gmmgl/track_gps.png?raw=1 ( I was running on the dark grey track with no tall building or other obstacles near by)

Also I did side by side test with Nexus5 in Portugal with Endomondo sports tracker and P9000 track was not very smooth it jumped here and there all the time. At the same time Nexus5 managed to produce nice smooth track. And in 6km test there was a difference almost 2km between 2 devices because of cusps on P9000.

3. Wi-Fi speed is slow

With speedtest.net app I can get only max 70 Mbit/sec on up and down in multiple test. At the same time I can get 120Mbit with Nexus5. I 've used Asus ac68u router and tried both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bandwidths. With computer I get 290Mbit/sec with thr same wi-fi ( where 300 is my service provider limit)

Not sure if the last 2 problems can be fixed with software.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bradco:
Hello everyone, on 20160315 The battery will quickly discharge with and without root, when i look in battery stat, it does not pass in deep sleep mode. even in airplane mode the battery is draining.

Have you more info about this problem ? and are the engineer of elephone work to solve this ?

Best regard.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tockmock:
Can confirm. Also the battery drain for the WiFi module is way too high. I enabled the WiFi to always on and it fixes the battery drain for this.

Now the "Standby" takes up to 50% of Battery life of a normal day usage. I also think the WiFi underperforms a lot.

I've got 200MBit Internet and with WiFi on, the loading time (for the google store or websites) is really bad only on this phone, but if I switch to

LTE it's fast af. Cross checked this with my other phone and 3 tablets that my WiFi is not the problem.

Yeah so please fix WiFi drivers and Standby aka deep sleep and also the fingerprint reader which is really random.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
Just updated to 20160401beta and can report the following:

Fingerprint sensor, not as random, still not 100% of the time but an improvement.

Camera much improved!

Google cardboard still broken.

NFC works as expected.

Antutu Benchmark: 46373 which is approx 6000 better than last time.

Icons on navigation bar, still off centre, icons on status bar still comically large.

Can't speak to battery life.

Sound still poor, doubt if that'll ever get better ,:)
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] som.localhost:
Dear blairpoodle. What about wifi active mode, is wifi always ON, eg. when plane mode is on?

Any improvement on antena signal for GSM and cellular data at buildings?

Thx
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
I'm not rooted so I can't help with any detailed info e.g. better battery stats etc. I can tell you that when I toggle aeroplane mode everything is off to the user, but as I have no way of checking if the WiFi radio is still active, I can't help, but I'm sure someone has rooted it and can answer your question.

GSM signal isn't great tbh. I'm not getting 4G indoors and where my Nexus5x is getting 4G full bars, the P9000 is getting 3G full bars. That's not a great test though as they are on different providers so there are a number of variables to consider before you fault the P9000.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] bartali8:
Hi, I have a problem with bluetooth pairing connection with voice car kit of my car. bluetooth 4.0 have some issues? please help me!

thanks
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] chtsarts:
-I have the same problem.I am from Greece.Very frustrating bug because i cant switch to 4g(in order to receive calls)

-Also the system language change from english to sim language after reboot

-i have a big battery drain during idle and wifi drain.The phone is always awake.

Need an ota quickly
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] swizztool:
I ve a problem with bluetooth-pairing too. The pair ist okay, but the connection i not stabil, only one second, then out of connection, then 1 second connect a.s.o. Where is the mistake?
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] hottmeeel:
I live in the Netherlands and am having the same issue: language settings switch to Dutch automatically, don't even need a reboot. I wonder what will happen when I abroad, having plans to visit Japan and Korea in september....
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] alarmatwork:
It is the SIM card default language, what you will get. But agree, that there should be option to turn this auto-selecting off.. really annoying while being abroad.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] songforwhoever:
Finger print unlock

Hi All,

Finger print unlock does not work whilst the phone is on and charging, unplugging the charger and then trying is successful, does anyone else experience this?

Thanks.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tockmock:
I've also got something strange. Battery drain for "double tab to wake up" feature consumed 70% Battery life over night while doing nothing. It is shown as "Standby" within the Battery status overview. Usually the drain is only 7% at night with the feature disabled.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bradco:
Another bug for me, Gps never fix with rom 20160315 with and without root, Aerom V1.

Is there someone have the same bug ?
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] antigravity:
Main bugs for me, running on March update:

1. Standby battery drain is enormous. Phone does not go to sleep ever.

2. Wifi keeps dropping out in areas where other phones have absolutely no issue. Wifi connects, it then says there's an authentication issue and drops out. Reconnects, works for a bit, then drops out again. Seems to be a little better closer to the router, but still does it fairly regularly. As mentioned, I have had no issues with other handsets with this router and environment.

3. Photos are too dark in anything other than perfect light. It's as if the camera actually darkens the image compared to real life.

Any assistance with the above issues would be great.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] bojan87:
Hi. I got my p9000 and i can get mobile data to work. I try diferent settings and nothing helps. Do i have to do something? So on wifi works great but on mobile data it wont move. What to do?
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] demien_max:
Try to turn on in DATA USAGE menu in your network : MOBILE DATA

If you have a small letter R next to your network try to go settings MORE ... / MOBILE NETWORK / and turn on DATA ROAMING

It works for me
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] smartjim25:
unfortunately small window has stopped bug

I get the following message a lot while using Google Play Music. I know it has something to do with the flip cover which i have not got. I do not want to root the phone either can anyone help/solve the issue. I hope Elephone can fix in new OTA build soon?
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] Goonerman:
I'm downloading an OTA update right now:)
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] smartjim25:
The update seems to fix quite a few issues, the battery now lasts a lot long wifi never was an issue for me. The finger print scanner works a dream now. The camera seems now up to spec and works faster. Overall very pleased with the phone!
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] tomashco:
Camera too dark on different app

Hi, I've noticed a strange behaviour in the camera.

I'm using the last version of firmware (just updated) and I saw that:

Stock camera application works well but when I try a different app like Camu or Camera FV-5 the images are really dark.

Someone has a workaround or has the same issue?

Thank you in advance! :)
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
I can confirm this issue with Camera FV-5
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] smormone80:
Hi,

do you have noticed that "hide" button has disappeared in the navbar?
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
It's still there for me, although the icons are correctly aligned now :good:
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] smormone80:
Really? Have you done a factory reset, after upd?
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
Yes first thing I did, after going all the way back to March 15th build then ota.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
Still there.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] smormone80:
I missed that. I'll try with factory reset,

thank you!
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
The latest ROM still hasn't fixed the Google Cardboard issue. The fingerprint sensor is faster, the camera looks better, but 3rd party apps are broken. Given that I was looking for a cheap device for VR demos it's looking like the P9000 isn't for me.

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However, the screen now recognises 5 touch points not 3 as before.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] smartjim25:
Yes

I have just notice that and slightly of centre too, but i am using the single capacitive button though!
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] smormone80:
Factory reset worked for me ;)
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] andy radical:
the system recognize only 5 touch but if you set one of the "3 fingers gesture" it will only reconize 3 fingers.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] antigravity:
Still getting really dark pictures with even the standard camera app. I did restore a Titanium backup though, I wonder if that overwrote a new camera app. I doubt it though, would have though the camera brightness was a kernel issue.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] tomashco:
The issue seems to be solved since I rebooted the device, someone had similar behaviour?
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
Camera

The camera has inproved, but it's still a long way from good. I went out yesterday afternoon to try it out. I took my Nexus 5X as a reference device. Attached are the two images I took one from the Elephone P9000, one from the Nexus 5X. Can you tell which one is which :)?

I know this may be an unfair comparison, the Nexus camera is regarded as one of the best cameras on the market at the moment but the colours from the Elephone ? Not even close.

I've edited the exif data to remove my gps location but other than that the images are as the cameras captured them.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] andy radical:
for sure the first is p9000 ... am i wrong? :D
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] blairpoodle:
Yes the first is the elephone.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] chtsarts:
No,many people have it, me too. Elephone should solve it in the next update
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] antigravity:
Here's some photos I've just taken. As you can see, they are a little dark. This is with brightness and contrast increased slightly in the camera settings too

http://imgur.com/a/n6cNZ
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] lds777:
I've just posted this in another thread but maybe it is more relevant here. I think it addresses your first issue and possibly your second.

I had two types of standby battery drain - mobile data and wifi. I have fixed both of them through lots of trial and error. From my testing and looking on XDA at similar experiences of people on other phones, these are bugs in Android rather than anything Elephone can fix through updates (I'm on the latest 20160419 update).

I fixed the mobile data problem by creating Tasker profiles to keep the phone on 2G whilst it's connected to wifi. I can't post links yet but a search on XDA/Google will find you these profiles. Maintaining a 4G connection is unnecessary whilst on wifi, besides, some people have problems receiving calls on this phone whilst on 4G. If the phone is not connected to wifi (rare in London because it's everywhere even on public transport) 4G comes on. Best of both worlds.

The wifi drain solution sounds counterintuitive but it is simply to set it to 'always on'. With both of these measures, my standby drain has been 1% overnight for the last two nights and roughly 0.25%/hour during the day. Standby drain on 4G whilst moving around London with location on at least quadruples battery drain to around 1-2%/hour.

Some of my other settings will have an impact too. I find the auto-brightness calibration of the P9000 poor, so adjust brightness manually (which also saves battery life). NFC, bluetooth, etc. I only turn on when needed. I use Greenify and have all apps Greenified except Tasker, Textra, and Hangouts. I haven't Greenified any system apps except Google Maps. Location is always on but mostly device only (again counterintuitive, you'd expect it to be 'battery saving') unless I am moving around in which case I have a Tasker profile to automatically switch it to 'high accuracy'.

I tried to get Xposed working so that I could use Amplify too (see my other post) but that didn't work. Since I'm very happy with battery life now that's not that important anymore though it would be nice for the further tweaks it makes possible.

There are too many other variables to list and everybody's phone is set up differently. However, hopefully using some of the main big gains I've listed above you can fix your wifi drain specifically and improve standby drain generally.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] alarmatwork:
Thanks for the update, really happy to see that Elephone is working on the issues actively!

With Elephone_P9000_20160419:

1. Wifi is still a unstable (keeps disconnecting and keeps falling into state where Wifi icon has also exclamation mark and Wifi speed is max 70Mbit/sec with 802.11n)

2. GPS is still jumping here and there (specially annoying with Google maps driving - it moves to you nearby street and recalculates route etc. Also very bad for sports tracking, with wrong distance)

3. Battery seems a bit better than original firmware, but still top consumers are WIFI and Phone Idle ( which is not the case for other Android phones usually), but still gets empty around 10h very small usage.
[Elephone P9000 Guides, News, & Discussion] mangoman:
anyoneelse not that satisfied with the adaptive brightness?