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[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Mr_Mooncatt:
Wow, those came out better than I would've expected. Then again, I'm use to my V20, which looks bad at anything above ISO 400. I'm surprised you started to get star trails with that focal length too. Get a handful of those in a row and that could make for a good composite with long trails.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bluegizmo83:
Yeah the star trails weren't really that bad, more like just not pin point stars anymore. Here is a photo at 20s and iso800. When zoomed in you can see very slight trails.

Edit: this was also taken on a different night and the moon was just coming out if I recall correctly.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Mr_Mooncatt:
Gotcha. I like doing night photos and light painting, so I was anxious to put this phone through its paces if I bought it.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] mastaful:
What do you yall think is better 48mp without hdr or 12mp with hdr
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bkcobra:
typical photo, nothing special.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Suodes:
Not effing bad for a phone, ISO 800 looks ok, the 1600 not so much ahah but it's not a reflex after all
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Shotgun4:
Coming from a Pixel 2XL, i REALLY miss the ois ...
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] MontAlbert:
Daylight photos are fine but low light is junk. Garbage would be too kind to describe it. The ONLY thing wrong with the phone. It is still my phone off the year though... And I've used them all.

Photos below comparing low light pixel 4xl and pixel 3xl to it. Daylight (pixels first in each collage) was good but not premium. Colours a bit muted.

Asus need to really do something about the camera quality. It's a premium priced product (although accessories included here in Australia for $1699aud) with a mid range camera (although the pixel 3a kills it).
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Dutch-Leo:
Agreed, coming from many years of Samsung phones the camera is straight up trash !

You can't depend on it and in most cases i am not in a bright sunny environment but indoors, cloudy environment, etc.

Gcam mods kinda work but i find them to be kinda slow and therefore i lose the moment to capture a moment quite often.

Asus really NEED to spend serious time on this after the Android 10 release and come out with a MAJOR camera update.

Love pretty much everything else of the phone but the camera is a real let down and should not have been released this way.

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Great Question, i have been wondering about this myself.

Tried both but i have not really seen which is better due to the camera not really being consistent.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] linom:
Folks who are on 10 beta say the camera has vastly improved: https://xdaforums.com/rog-phone-2/themes/app-google-camera-mod-t3970371/post81801449#post81801449
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] whyou:
Aurora at Iceland
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Your friends are never going to believe what you did. The only way to prove it to them is with that video you took. Rate this thread to express how videos shot on the ASUS ROG Phone II come out. A higher rating indicates that videos are smooth (and not choppy) and that auto-focus works very well, and that the camera adjusts quickly to different lighting conditions while recording.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bkcobra:
normal, high price, same quality like a budget phone.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Hmminteresting:
Decent video quality, modes and features

Having a lot of fun with the motion tracking, which basically lets you focus on an object/ person and the video will keep it in focus throughout the recording. Also time lapse and slow mo are decent enough. You can record up to 4k [MENTION=7825661]60fps[/MENTION]. Additionally it can record in H.265 which is a nice feature. Another decent feature is the anti flicker feature which supports displays up to 60Hz. Essentially allowing you to record screens without those annoying lines.

Overall quality is good, great even. However given the price a little uninteresting. In the short time I've had the phone it has yet to fail or crash, so that's good. However keep in mind you're not paying the price for the camera in this phone. It's for the performance. So the camera should be of decent quality and not something to blow us away with.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're beautiful and everyone knows it. That's why you take selfies. Rate this thread to express how the front-facing camera of the ASUS ROG Phone II performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bkcobra:
normal, nothing special for this money.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Hmminteresting:
Great quality

Portrait mode on the selfie cam is amazing!

Unfortunately setting the selfie cam to 24mp turns off HDR+. if you want HDR+ selfies you're stuck at 6mp
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
There! Something just happened! Did you take a picture of it? Rate this thread to express how fast the ASUS ROG Phone II can go from "zero to picture". A higher rating indicates that launching the camera app and taking a photo is extremely fast such that you never miss an important moment, like when your cat attacks the couch again.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bkcobra:
typical speed for phone that have more then 4gb of ram.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Hmminteresting:
Its basically instant

From lock screen, swipe from bottom right. If you have the volume down as a shutter shortcut you can pretty much just click that straight away. No noticeable lag or slowness.
[General Topics] NoFatePPC:
Hello,

I tweaked my PDA to disconnect from GPRS after 2 mins of idle time.

So when i surf using IE or opera, my connections is still connected.

But when i use remote desktop WM6, is disconnects after 2 mins.

This is really annoing, in other words , i cannot use it... Any1 else experiencing this problem of has maybe a fix?

PS, i want to use the RDP protocol, not an alternative like logmein...

Thnx in advance!
[General Topics] Menneisyys:
Use for example ping in vxUtil. Also see my related article - I've linked to it from several of my newer articles.
[General Topics] NoFatePPC:
good point , gonna try that , thnx
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you hand your phone to granny to take a photo of you, can she get the job done? Rate this thread to express how you deem the ASUS ROG Phone II's camera software. A higher rating indicates that the software is easy to use, fast, uncluttered, and inclusive of advanced features for when you need them.

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[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bkcobra:
poor software,it feels handicapped when trying make combos with the settings
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] omar.abbas:
Could you please elaborate further?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Hmminteresting:
Not Sure why that guy has an issue with the phone

I've had the phone for around 4 days now (short time I know). I found if you're using the gaming theme , yes it's hard to understand. though basic functionality of camera and phone are easy enough to understand and use.

If you use the standard google/ asus launcher and theme, its essentially a pixel or stock android, so much easier to use and understand.

So to answer your question: Yes grandma can take a picture for you. as long as you don't have a weird icon layout/ theme and she can use a standard smartphone camera.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
To power up, you consume Red Bull. But your phone just needs its adaptive fast charger. Rate this thread to express how quickly the ASUS ROG Phone II can charge. A higher rating indicates that it charges extremely fast.

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[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
This phone charges pretty fast! Around 1h 35min from 0 to 100% (I think, will test that later). I'm using the 30w charger.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Simo88ist:
2 hours with 18W
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] kanej2006:
1 hour 40 mins with 25w charger...
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] thiagoserrao:
Any one used some charger with 45/50w? ;D

I want to know how much faster this smart can charge lol.i bought the 30w charger and i think is very fast a great smart too
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Mad_Duke:
I'm having serious issues with 3 of my Samsung 15W chargers. Never had a problem with LG G6, Samsung S6, S7, S9 and the odd device here and there while on Rog Phone 2 it will quick charge 1/20 times with it.

And believe me. You don't want to charge with the regular 5V charger mode. It will take hours upon hours.

Maybe it has something to do with the latest OTA.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] pewpewze:
If some1 can test 50 / 65 w charger and post the results will be awsome!
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] rob!n:
Which 25 watt charger are you using
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Himan99:
I'm facing issue with my Rog 2, my phone is not charging fast. 1) I'm using 18w charger come with the phone to charge. 2) I have used Xiaomi 2i power bank with 18w output to charge my phone (still not working). 3) When i restart the phone battery goes down 36% to 29%. 4) On charging when i restart the phone it goes 8% to 13%. 5) I'm facing this problem from the 2-3 days. 6) Double plus sign on battery icon as well as fast charging text on home screen is also not showing while charging
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] kanej2006:
It's a custom made charger bought from ebay. It is called JUICEBITZ Turbo Charger 3.0 Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 3 port.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bkcobra:
Normal charging speed, just like 4000-5000 mah phones batterys from 2013 same speed nothing special.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] AlanTham:
6000mah what more u expect ?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] oberio28:
You need a higher output powerbank bro.. I bought a nubia 27w output power bank to be closer to the 30W power brick...
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] HermesHidayat:
I use my Note10+ 25w charger. Works well.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] uygar2580:
I tried Baseus 60w PD type-c charger but it's charging about 16w. Looking for 30w alternate charger. Asus one really expensive with our local money.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] JeanKelley:
1 hour 40 mins with 25w charger...
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the ASUS ROG Phone II before depleting the battery.

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[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Nothing yet? ?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Cammarratta:
I've gotten about 6.5 hours of screen on time. With it at 120hz and playing a lot of games. I'll have to chart my display next time. Though gaming tends to drain it a bit quicker.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Shady282:
It is a 6k battery i thought it would last long !
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] BoostRoid:
Lots of gaming and the screen set to 120hz while getting 6.5hrs is pretty impressive to me. Especially when you consider I don't play games on my phone at all. Can't wait to see the screen time I'll be getting. Can't wait for next week!
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Cammarratta:
3 hours and 40 minutes in at 50%
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
What did you do in those 3h and 40min SOT? Gaming? YouTube?

I see AdGuard drains a lot of battery on your phone too..

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How is batterylife with "normal usage?" Watching YouTube, checking Facebook, gaming a little, etc.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Cammarratta:
I usually do like a solid hour or so of gaming and have my screen on at work to watch YouTube videos and podcasts so for an 8 hour day my screen is on, I work 7/4 and make it home with about 45% left. Then I more or less use steam link until about 10pm, forget to charge my phone and wake up with my phone at like 18ish percent left.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Got any pictures of battery-usage without any (or just a little gaming)? :) I just want to see how batterylife is when using it "as a normal phone." Maybe just 60/90hz too?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Cammarratta:
Yeah here we are. Now I'm about to game until the phone hits 9%

This is with the screen set to 90hz
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bluegizmo83:
The battery life on this phone is incredible!! I'm now sitting at 1 day and 4 hours off the charger, with 7 hours and 5 minutes of screen on time, and I STILL have 53% battery remaining! That includes a couple hours of emulator gaming as well. Brightness has generally been around 50% (though adaptive brightness is on so it fluctuates up and down), and screen has been set to 120hz most of that time. WiFi on, Bluetooth on, mobile data on, location on, no battery saving modes set.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Cammarratta:
Can attest to this. 9 hours and going strong. Going to game until the end of night and check in. 120hz medium brightness.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bluegizmo83:
Update to my previous post above:

Phone finally died! Final battery stats before it died was two full days off the charger (48+ hours), 13 hours of screen on time, including several hours of emulator gaming. WiFi on, Bluetooth on, Mobile data on, location on, mix on 90hz and 120hz screen setting, 50% brightness with adaptive brightness on. I was just using my phone as normal the entire time, I was NOT trying to stretch the battery life as long as possible.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Damn, thats impressive! Can't wait til I get mine! :D
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] viper98:
Battery life is mind blowing
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] lowpaw:
Hi,

Don't know if this is the right thread to ask this question.

I have less than 10 post as of the moment so please forgive if i cannot add an image.

I have the CN version which I converted to WW (PKQ1.190414.01)

All is working well except for the SoT of the device. Google Play services is eating a big bulk of my battery.

As of this posting my battery percentage is at 70% with google play services at the top of the list for the most battery drain @ 11% and screen usage is only 5%.

I did not do any gaming only social media for about 45 mins and youtube for 2 hrs.

Can anybody give me advice? thanks!

Steps currently taken:

-clear cache of google play services

-remove account auto sync

-disabled location services
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] xxBrun0xx:
Have you tried rebooting? This seems a little high, but not unreasonable battery drain if using high brightness and mostly using data.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Cellendril:
Looking forward to trying out the battery today. Last night my son and I both played on a Razer Phone 2 and an iPhone XS. He was playing the latter - some Apple Arcade racing game that worked for a 3 year old; I was playing Asphalt on the RP2. Battery on the iPhone XS got hammered pretty quickly. The Razer was solid, but holy cow it got wicked hot.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] lowpaw:
:cowboy:

yup multiple times even tried booting into safemode

https://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t126/pawlow_photo/Screenshot_20190924-214101608.jpg
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bluegizmo83:
Yeah that's high. I'm currently sitting at 71% battery on my ROG Phone 2 (same model as yours) and Google Play Services has only used 1% of that battery according to the built in battery page. I'd say, if you told the phone to restore apps and settings from a previous device during setup, you have a rogue app that got copied over or installed that's eating battery via Google Play Services...
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Tried a factory reset? That might help :)
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] lowpaw:
Wanted to make factory reset as a last resort as possible. but will surely do if things does not improve.

Thanks! :)
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] zed011:
Do you have the latest version of Google play services? Try the beta

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/google-play-services-19-3-49-release/
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] theoryzz:
Bro do u use cn rom or ww rom? Thanks
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bluegizmo83:
WW ROM. Bought the phone on eBay from a seller listed as being in the US and it came already preloaded with the WW ROM.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Damn this phone is a beast :D 4h SOT and 70% left. Even running at 120hz
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Batterylife my first day with the phone. Amazing ?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] kobkobb:
Seriously, this phone is a beast!

Constant 120hz and max brightness.

Super heavy usage today with music and almost 2.5h navigating + gaming.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] biboFx:
Battery drain

Same, I don't know why and how those people here can use that for so long. My phone I just bought for a week. Used as secondary phone, no gaming just yet

Battery drain 5% per night (8 hour) with flight mode

And it keep draining 1% per 10 min web browsing, no bg task

What the heck guys this phone really has problems with battery optimize

Don't ask me try to factory reset, I did, same. I used without sim card, only wifi, can't be imagine how it drain more if I plug Sim card.

Running ww rom 16.0622. 1906.19
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stealthj:
Update your phone. 1908 is out. Or better yet do a clean flash :)

Either you have some battery draining app or you have a faulty unit.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] bryanpen:
Have you changed your rom footprint as well? My phone was converted from China to WW as well buy because of the old footprint from China was still showing in the rom it made everything act up really bad, mainly my data.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
9h SOT and still 50% left, amazing! What a battery beast ? screen was set at 60hz
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Update on last post. 12h sot and still 20% left. Used 120hz from 50%, and a bit gaming
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
My battery-usage a "normal" day, was even gaming 1 and 1/2 hour (golf clash, nfs heat Studio at 60hz) screen set to 120hz :D (I "like" that spotify uses more battery than the screen ?)

Soo glad I went for the ROG 2, it blows the Samsung Note 9 I had out of the way! I only got 5-6h sot at normal usage with it..
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Proloser93:
Android os battery consumption

Hi guys,

How are you guys doing? Enjoying the phone?:D

I had a question about battery consumption of my phone.

I can't post any screenshots so I will write down the info.

Currently i am at 44% of battery left

It has been 1 day and 5 hours since the last charge

List of battery usage:

Android os 19%

Screen sot 5 hours, 57 min 16%

Mobile network standby 13 %

And some other apps that are at 1%

I did some websurfing

Watched YouTube

And some WhatsApp

While i am not complaining about the sot untill now, actually i am happy with it.

But when i saw the posts of several other people with their battery usage i never saw android os being as high as 19%.

So I was wondering if this is normal, and if anyone else has a similar consumption of android os.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Why can't you post a screenshot? ?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Proloser93:
I guess because it's my first post, and you need a minimum of 10 posts to be able to add images.

At least that's what i thought if that's not the case, i have overlooked the option to add images
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Hmm, not there? (I think one of my first post was with pictures)
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Proloser93:
I downloaded the app, and tried that, unfortunately it gives a bad request notification.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Huh, weird.. Android OS should not use that much power, only like 1-5% with normal usage.. maybe try a factory reset?

And yes, I'm very happy with my ROG phone 2! Its the best phone I ever had! Going from the Samsung Note 9 I get 2x the batterylife, bigger screen (but lower resolution, but idc), 120hz ?, better sounding (with some EQ-tuning) and louder speakers(!), Maybe not better camera, but good enough, WiFi and 4G reception is also better(!), The fan attachment is also cool (pun intended), and 30w fast charging.

There is also some cons..

- VoLTE is not working on this phone (not yet at least)

- the screen has a weird reddish tint on dark parts of the screen in low brightness..

- No wireless charging.

- I had a weird batterydrain with carrier-services when I got the phone. Probably fixed it in the last update.

My batterystats today:
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] erosq:
SOT now. :)
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Dev Jaskirat:
I love this device!

Been getting solid 5-7hr SOT with the display staying at 120Hz all the time!

Only need to charge the device once in 2 days. At first I thought that the battery is so big and the included normal charger might be slow, but I get a full charge from 5% to 100% in 2hours[give or take a few mins]. I switched form a Note 9 which I had to charge almost twice in one day, I'm so glad I switched :')

Here are my usage and SOT stats from my last 4 charge cycles: [Sorry about the Huge screenshots]

Cycle 1

Cycle 2:

Cycle 3:

Cycle 4:
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] stiffis:
Best phone ever ?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] suganesan:
Hi friend your google play service using more battery, as mine earlier. After i googled, i found location service taking that much power. So I switched of gps when not needed. After that I got good sot. I attached screenshot with gps on and off sot
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] DailyDust:
That's great. Thanks for the trick.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Simo88ist:
I love it
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Ramkyjunior:
The battery feels like a 4k mah battery when used on 90hz.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Gizumhi:
Really? And how is it when using 120hz?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] ben cherian:
What all settings of battery you changed to save battery? Also location on ? Only one sim all the time ? How much phone calls time ?

Cos am getting 8hrs sot only
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Harley appezzato:
Is my battery doing ok I feel like something is draining it it's on 32% 60hz all day used screen for 7 hours and 30 minutes can't tell if that's good for my usage I played games like cod mobile for around 2 hours as well is something draining my battery or is it good?
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] supertory:
sounds like something is draining your battery, post your battery graph so persons could better understand to further aid you

Try turning off your GPS if its on constantly and try clearing the data of Power Master and rebooting the phone
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] anthonws:
What model would you recommend for battery life? The 8GB/128GB or the 12GB/512GB?

That is assuming that there is a big difference in SOT between those 2 models.

Not sure if UFS 3.1 will have a positive impact in the battery life.

Thanks,

anthonws.
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] Harley appezzato:
XDA refuses to let me post screenshots :( smh
[ASUS ROG Phone II Real Life Review] AydanmDEV:
Personally I would do 12/512 as it's the global version which passes it's safetynet and has the better chance of getting software updates with likely better support and if going for a gaming phone it's better to have more storage and ram aswell as the global edition gets accessories.