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[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] niyonsv:
That's how I used my Z2 bro. It has a unique design (all phones where curved then) and it always stayed different from others. But there's one thing that I changed thrice and it was a bit more costly - battery. Also my phone is becoming slow and slow each day. Tried different ROMs, reduced number of apps. The phone is not performing well too. It is taking ages to click a photo. Also the earpiece speaker now started distorting, I've to use headset always for talking. There are other reasons here and there, so I think it is better to change my phone. That's why I asked for suggestion.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] P650SE:
I'm also looking for an upgrade to this phone. I bought the ZUK about 3 years ago with the intention of only keeping it for under 12 months. But I ended up sticking with it since I couldn't find a suitable upgrade at the time. After a lot of use it seems the ZUK is starting to show signs of slowing down. It's taking time to open apps and the storage is incredibly slow as prooven by benchmark testing.

Unfortunately my choice for a replacement is limited because I get eyestrain and headaches when looking at AMOLED screens with PWM flickering. The Asus Zenfone 6 looks perfect with an IPS panel, but it is too expensive at £450 here in the UK. The upcoming Realme 5 Pro seems good with SD712, 6GB RAM and 128GB UFS 2.1 storage for a much more reasonable £190. But I worry about whether this phone will recieve good custom ROM support. There's also the Redmi Note 7 Pro with SD675 but it has a horrible ugly U-shaped notch. Maybe the upcoming Redmi Note 8 will also be decent.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] mcalistri:
I'm a bit surprised about hear some buddies have the need to replace the battery in their ZukZ2.

My battery, after years of usage looks like brand new, it doesn't presents any sign of longevity.

Furthermore I can't understand how the device appears running slower! We have not any mechanical disk inside it, neither a Windows XP is running here! If your device is slow then try to clean flash after performing a factory reset.

Sirs, are you violenting yours smartphones? Are you using it extensively with gaming and repetitive charging during usage?

May be you should have been more respectful and conservative using the phone now you have to pay the bill!
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] niyonsv:
I haven't heard of this AMOLED flickering issue till now. Is it a serious issue to consider?
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] niyonsv:
But I changed the batteries thrice, all from Lenovo official service center. I always go to stock ROM between each ROM changes, and clean flash between each updates. It's a bit time consuming sometimes but I know its better. Only a very few times I dirty flashed.

I used it for gaming only in the first year of purchase, now I'm not interest in that, that's why. Also I was always respectful to my phone, since it is the only device I have.

The phone is speedier with old stock ROMs and nougat ROMs, but not that speedier than then. So if I need to use newer version of ROMs and apps I should switch to a newer phone rather forcing Z2 to do all new stuffs.

I remember only a few phone models were capable of taking photos with GCams and Z2 was there in the list right after getting camera2API. Also it took and processed photos very fast. But now it is taking a lot of time even to click a photo.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] P650SE:
Well it only affects a small minority of people, I heard about 10% of users can experience these symptoms with AMOLED panels. It just means you are more sensitive to the flickering than other people. Sadly, the only way to find out is to purchase an AMOLED phone and try it for yourself. That's what happened with me.

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I was of the understanding that flash storage can degrade over time in smartphones. I probably didn't do mine any favours by constantly flashing ROMs and copying files to it over the course of 3 years. I did some storage benchmarks and I'm only getting 33MB/s sequential write speeds. Random write 4K is even worse at 1.3MB/s average. Surely that's not normal.

https://files.catbox.moe/e1wu3r.png

Can anyone compare against my scores? The app is called CPDT Benchmark in the Play Store.

In regards to battery performance, mine still gives about 4 hours of SOT but that is disappointing when it used to last for 7 hours and 30 minutes. I always allow my phone to run completely out of battery which I heard isn't good for for in the long-term. So perhaps bad charging habits have caused more degradation.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] mcalistri:
I really don't know why you had to replace your battery trice, I think it is a very seldom occurrence, nor I can say it happened due your usage, most likely it could be due you purchased a defective device.

About slowing down after time, I agree about the SSD consideration made by our buddy participating to this discussion because I recently red something about SSD since I'm going to replace my laptop HDD but also this kind of issue I believe it's happening seldom in smartphones.

I won't to cause frustrations writing that I've not noticed any slowness on my Zuk Z2 so far, just a little bit when I flashed Nameless kernel which was an EAS kernel.

Now on AEX 6.7 I'm using the default kernel which is giving to the Z2 an extremely fast responsiveness and smooth usability too.

I think I will try to run the SSD performance test suggested by our buddy (sorry I didn't wrote your name to mention it but you sent interesting comments indeed).

I'm sure that there are not many users affected by problems you are facing about slowness and battery, or better, it would be interesting to make a survey here on XDA to know how many people have such problems on their ZukZ2.

Best regards,

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Very much interesting comments!

I think I will try to run the SSD benchmark but before I would like to ask you why you say that your results are bad?

Did you compared with another ZukZ2 user running similar environment?

About the battery we also have to take in account the adjustment we could have done to applications (running in background or not) the screen stby after X seconds, the charger we use, in fact there are plenty of chargers around that are not good for our battery but that are being used normally.

In any case your SOT looks very normal to me.

Regards,
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] mcalistri:
Here is my CPDT benchmark result which looks quite aligned with your, so I think that SSD performance has nothing to do with the slowness of the responsiveness of your Zuk Z2.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Saplin.CPDT

Regards,
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] mcalistri:
Sorry, the result of my benchmark is not visible externally so I'm attaching the screenshot here.

Regards,
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] P650SE:
Thank you! Very interesting to see your results, like you said there doesn't seem to be any difference between our phones which is good. Maybe the slowness on my end is because I use encryption. I notice sometimes it takes quite a few seconds to load apps. I expect things to be more 'instant' on a phone with SD820. But the ZUK does have very slow storage in comparison to a lot of other mid-range devices. I think it is one of the shortcomings of this phone. In particular I notice when downloading files on high-speed fibre-optic internet connections, I often experience slowness and crashes because the storage can't handle writing such a large volume of data at one time. :(

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Well I think that is something I did wrong in hindsight, since I have always used a Quick Charge 3.0 charger with my ZUK even though this phone doesn't support Quick Charge. I do have the original ZUK charger but it is a 2-pin plug and here in the UK we have 3-pin mains sockets. So I use the QC 3.0 charger instead because I don't have anything else.

Yes, the SOT of around 4-5 hours is still OK and to be expected after 3 years of usage. I tested the phone with AccuBattery and it reported about 75-80% health. The phone has lost somewhere around 700mAh of capacity since it was new.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] mcalistri:
I don't use encryption here, also we should consider the kind of filesystem in use, for example I use ext4 on my ZukZ2.

Do you ran some global benchmarking?

Do you wish I run into my device to compare?

Cheers,
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] NaXal:
Rs. 10k (INR) I spent on purchasing my Z2 Plus 4/64 New. Definitely the price will be the major driver towards selecting a replacement for this device.

Presently as on this date of typing this reply, Poco F1 is down to Rs. 15k (INR) for its 4/64 version. May be it would drop further, not sure, but looks a good bargain if ROM options are good on that.

OnePlus, Pixel, they all are just awesome phones but simply not VFM compare to what Z2 Plus offered at such low price.

Thanks.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] babisai:
Yeah same thing that I was thinking about may be price will be reduced further on Jan next year

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My problem is battery is only capacity of 60 % health, currently I reduced big cores to 1.2 GHz and small cores to 1.1 GHz and powersave CPU Governor so it improves my battery consumption best thing is it doesn't give lags 99% time so a bit of success, I never replaced my battery, can we trust lenovo service center that ? Will they give any proof about the battery they replaced is original one ? If I purchased 10000 or 20000 Mah powerbank instead of replacement battery will it helps ?
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] NaXal:
Lenovo is almost dead in India. So risk is definitely there in getting counterfeit hardware from these independent service centres with Lenovo certificate.

But your choices are limited, power bank won't solve your issue. Beside, device is known for touch issue while it's on charge.

Take the risk, try your luck in Lenovo Service but I wonder if they have stock of this battery :confused:
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] frozenfirevr:
Get the 7T or 7 if you would prefer to use stock ROM with a vanilla experience, since they have a good track record with updates. Get the K20 Pro in any other case (if you don't mind a non-vanilla stock ROM, or if you prefer custom ROMs).

The ROG Phone II deserves a mention for its hardware but their update history is terrible and you'll most likely be stuck with the same ROM. Custom ROMs for it would likely have trouble with features like the triggers and stuff.
[Lenovo ZUK Z2 (Plus) Questions & Answers] SonicBoom42:
I say go for it. My battery was actually at 80% health, but I found that it would drop between certain percentages and heat up rapidly, suggesting that while the capacity was 2800mah according to accubattery, the cells were unable to hold that charge. So I got my battery replaced in Bangalore by the authorised service centre for INR 1200 (part) + 150 (inspection) + 200 (labour) + 100 (taxes). I spent a total of 1650 INR, but the service charge may vary depending on location. I have to say, the difference is night and day. I died to barely get 2.5 hours of SOT, noe I'm getting 8+ hours (mixed usage 4G + WiFi and some navigation, no gaming) on the same software setup (they didn't format the device). This was yesterday, 09th October 2019. I am on AOSiP Pie, latest build.
[Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Questions & Answers] Cubeless+:
Hi guys,

New guy here, i just bought a mi A2 Lite,

Since it's brand new, i wanted to take the occasion to install Magisk and Gcam before migrating my stuff to it,

Sounds like a plan, but i am slightly confused by the amount of guides that i find around,

Can you guys point me in the right direction, pointing me to the guides that are correct to install magisk and Gcam on Pie?

Thanks in advance!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sephiroth02:
Hello

Anybody know where I can find wm6.1 for this device??
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] powerbyte:
Vodafone make a update from VDA GPS aka gsm6711a ........

Vodafone bring a update wm6.1 from VDA GPS aka gsm6711a ........

INFOFAX 467 VODAFONE

http://www.vodafone.de/infofaxe/467.pdf

powerbyte

AMOI gsm6711a hold press Camera Button and press on = Download mode

WIFI Insite ???? is not aktivate ???
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] tuo_kaerf:
...does anybody know whether or not this update is already available at vodafone, Toshiba or Amoi?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 General] andres_1033:
Want to increase the battery life of your Galaxy A series?, you don't need root, flash or weird stuff. Just change the launcher and you'll notice a big improvement.

One UI is a glutton.

Personal recommendation: Evie or Microsoft Launcher.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] hm477:
So basically I restore wrong TWRP backup of another S7 Edge. Now this happens:

1. No IMEI and Serial, no service

2. Can't flash any original rom, shows updating, gets stuck at 32 percent and then no command

3. Can flash TWRP, any rom through it.

I had already tried pretty much everything I found on XDA.

I need combination rom for bootloader U6. Phone is 935F
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] kpwnApps:
https://combinationfirmware.com/downloads/g935pucu6arc1/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] hm477:
That's for 935P, not 935F.

935P is a Snapdragon
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] shohagik555:
I have same problem. Still no luck
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] UsmaniMustafa:
Have you tried nand erase in odin?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] shohagik555:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] UsmaniMustafa:
Just flash the bl and cp from latest firmware.

Have you tried this?
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] pranjalm:
Hey guys,

Just wanted to know if k20 also have dual frequency gps same as k20 pro?
[Redmi K20 / Xiaomi Mi 9T Questions & Answers] Schnedi:
No, it doesn't.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Retrial:
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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raza.code.repo:
Hello

I have an Android phone iDroid Balr X7. The issue that I am facing is that whenever I turn on the phone screen is all green. I can hear all the sounds of phone starting up but cannot use the phone since the screen is all green. I am new to this forum so am unable to post a link to image.

Please any suggestions as to the cause of this issue and how to resolve it would be very helpful.

Thanks
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[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] chris5h:
Hey all, just got my Note 10+ on Friday and I have an issue with Roboform password manager.

Usually, on a username/password prompt a floating Roboform icon pops up, which you tap, validate finger print, then the UN/PW fields get filled in.

Now, when the icon gets pressed, the dialogue to confirm fingerprint shows for a moment then quickly disappears. It happens in both Chrome and login pages in apps.

Has anyone experienced anything similar, or have an suggestions?

I snagged screen recordings of it happening: https://imgur.com/a/wTgSWBl

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] jabberwock:
Why not use Samsung Pass?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] chris5h:
Cross platform: Roboform works on my Phone, tablet, Windows Desktop and ChromeOS laptop.

I found the answer. I emailed Roboform about this and they confirmed it is known issue and it would be resolved in a future update.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Questions & Answers] KruseLudsMobile:
I opened a ticket with them too. The workaround is to go open the RoboForm App, then go back to the other app and it'll work because you are already logged in. I did notice they have updated the app today though but they still have the issue. They claim it is specific to Samsung phones and no ETA for the first but working on it. If you press the fingerprint reader at just the right time before it disappears it'll work but usually you can't do it that fast.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] yoyoyochief:
Hi,

Newbie alert!

I am a UK post pay O2 user interested in flashing my Stellar with a new ROM. I have been reading the wiki and other posts about unlocking & flashing my phone, I am happy with doing all of that.

My main question is once I have flashed my phone I know I will lose all my O2 provider settings. Does anybody know where I can find these.

Also can any other post pay O2 Stellar users give me info about which ROM & Radio upgrades they have tried. Tips etc

Thanks,

Chief
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] bronx:
hi there Buddy.

when You will flash a new rom, then Your o2 connection will be set up automatically. i.e. I have flashed my t-mob vario III with 6.0 wwe rom and autoconfiguration tool recognized my o2 simcard without any problems.

most of new roms have this tool build in (I know that Leo's Diamonds have it).

hope this helps

br

bro
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] yoyoyochief:
Thanks for the help
[Vivo Z1 Pro Questions & Answers] Indiguns:
Craziest thing I have ever seen. In the name of developing upon the Android platform Vivo has removed the customisable notifications and ringtones. Each time the phone switches on, you have to rework all the customizations from the beginning.

Any ringtones you want to select from your personal files can only be selected from the SD card and gets erased every time the phone goes off.

I tried accessing multiple system files including downloads, music, record, others but was not able to add any ringtone files to the system default ringtone files.

Anyone here who has any ideas or success with these efforts?
[Vivo Z1 Pro Questions & Answers] SBhadani:
Customize ringtone problem solved

Just change the ringtone formate to .ogg.

I worked for me. Put the ringtone in internal memory of ur mobile not in SD card.

And if you want to add those to ur default ringtone list then follow below steps-

1. Make a folder in your internal memory of ur mobile and name it media

2. Inside it make a folder and name it audio

3. Inside audio make 2 folders name them notifications & ringtones.

4. Put the converted .ogg files in ringtone if u want it it default ringtone list or in notifications if you want it in notification list.

That's it now all those ringtones can be selected in default list.
[Vivo Z1 Pro Questions & Answers] sere._arnon:
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[Blu Bold N1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the Blu Bold N1, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the Blu Bold N1 is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it. :o

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Blu Bold N1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're a power user. Can the Blu Bold N1 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Blu Bold N1. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Blu Bold N1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Would you say that the Blu Bold N1 is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the Blu Bold N1 exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Blu Bold N1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
OMG! Kim K posted another selfie with tons of cleavage! Rate this thread to express how quickly apps launch on the Blu Bold N1. A higher rating indicates that even the most intensive apps launch quickly and without hesitation, even if they are no longer in RAM.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Blu Bold N1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're busy and don't have time to wait, which is why you need to stop reading this thread and get back to organizing your Pogs. Rate this thread to express how the Blu Bold N1 performs when multitasking. A higher rating indicates that the Blu Bold N1 keeps many apps in memory so that they don't need to reload, and that when moving between apps, transitions are smooth and performance is excellent.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Blu Bold N1 Real Life Review] TheGeekRedneck:
I've spent a week reviewing the Bold N1 and the aggressive memory management is one of my huge complaints with this handset. Background apps are killed or flushed out of memory on an epic basis making multitasking almost impossible.

Real life example:

You're in Google Chrome in the middle of filling out a form on a website. You realize you need to copy some text from an email or another app and paste it in the form you're in the middle of filling out in chrome, so you load up gmail and copy text from an email. Then you use the square navbar button to open your list of running apps and you go back too your Google chrome to paste the text into your half completed form only to discover that Chrome has to reload itself and your half completed form is now completely empty!

This isn't exclusive to Google chrome on the Bold N1 - it could be any app and switching back and forth between them. I've seen old phones with 1GB of RAM handle multitasking better. The N1 has 4GB of RAM and it acts like it's starving. It's maddening and absolutely ludicrous!
[Blu Bold N1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the Blu Bold N1 under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".

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[Blu Bold N1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the Blu Bold N1 stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.

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[Blu Bold N1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the Blu Bold N1's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.

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[Blu Bold N1 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Blu Bold N1 come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).

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[HTC Vox] degevederde:
Has anyone a free alternative to use multiple gps applications at te same gps bluetooth receiver at te same time.

I can use TomTom6 for gps and trackr (trackr.nl) for tracking the route, but it isn't possible to run them at te same time cause they both want to use the bluetooth gps receiver and it looks like that's something that can't be done?

gpsgate could do this I've read, but I was wondering if there is a free solution?

thanks