[ASUS ZenFone 6 (2019) Questions & Answers] bobs50000:
I recently got this phone, and the phone itself is pretty great. The flip camera is amazing, and I impress everyone I go to take a selfie with.

Flashing LOS 17 is pretty normal I'd say. This was my first A/B device so it took a bit of getting use to, but a few tries, and I got it down.

As far as support, I think this phone has been pretty lucky to have as these people working on it, like luca for the LOS build, mauronofrio for his 9.0 TWRP builds, and bigbiff for this current TWRP builds, just to name a few. (Thanks to everyone out there helping as well!)

However, as always, the information on some of the details about this phone are scattered around the internet, and its taken me a few weeks to get a good grasp on what my options are with this phone, and some things im still not clear on. Sometimes, a particular detail is only mentioned once in one specific thread, and I guess there just arent enough users with this phone to spread the information around.

Specifically, this is some information I wish I knew about before I tried flashing this phone:

- On LOS 17 (the Android 10 versions), you will have a horrible camera experience. Not sure if its just me, but I havent found a camera app that works correctly, and has modern features like save to SD card / panorama / slow motion / etc. You would think the flipping camera would be the problem, but that actually works fine! One thing that seems completely botched is autoflash. I know nobody probobly uses autoflash, but it seems to use flash at random, in any camera app. The stock lineage camera app is extremely basic, and the quality isnt as great as stock, but if you can live with ONLY pictures and video, then I guess it works (autoflash still doesnt work). There are a couple of GCam ports. I havent tried them all, but they are patchy. The best one I tried only didn't have slow motion working (and autoflash). To my knowledge, there is no way to get the stock Asus camera app on LOS 17. There is, however, a flashable zip for the Asus camera for LOS 16 (Android 9), but that leads me to the next point.

- LOS 16 is a major pain to flash. I am actually going to try and flash LOS 16 right after this, so wish me luck. Ill update this if it goes well. Something is wrong with flashing these versions of LOS. I don't fully understand, so I dont want to say something wrong here and spread misinformation. The steps dont seem to be the same as flashing LOS 17. There are sometimes issues mounting partitions, and some people mention using the unofficial mauronofrio builds over the offical builds for some problem with encryption? Trying to boot into the Lineage Recovery for the 16.0 builds takes like 10 minutes, I almost thought my phone was just stuck, but leaving it there long enough, it finally opens recovery! Its just a pain. Lineage sometimes doesnt work if it wasnt installed using its own recovery, so i try to install LOS with LOSRecovery, and then switch to mauronofrio TWRP to install gapps, magisk and the asus camera app, but i havent gotten a working flash yet. I have to keep trying different combonations and it just takes forever for recovery to start and to flash things in the right order.

-There was an update released for this phone for Eastern countries for VoLTE/VoWifi, but it never made it to the west, and someone said they spoke to Asus, and said they dont plan to release that here (in America, canada, etc) Im not even sure if euro countries got it, but dont quote me on that. Point is, this phone _can_ use VoLTE/VoWifi, but you have to enable it yourself. This amazing man has a guide for the ROG Phone II, but i followed his steps, and it works perfectly on the Zenfone 6! https://xdaforums.com/rog-phone-2/how-to/guide-enabling-volte-vowifi-v2-t4028073

Shoutout to HomerSP. Thank god this works. Why Asus wouldnt ship this phone without VoLTE amidst the 3G shutdown, i have no idea, but this features seems almost necessary to make and receive good quality calls anymore. So yea, if you get it, follow his guide. You need root for most of the steps. It seems complicated but its very easy if you just sit down and do it.

Uh yea, thats what I can think of right now.

Sorry for the wall of text.

I wish this phone was perfect, but flashing LOS and getting everything working correctly is taking me a while to figure out. I don't understand why I cant get LOS 16 to work, but If i get something working Ill post what I did incase anyone else is searching for an answer like me.

For anyone else looking to get this phone, Im starting to think just sticking with Stock firmware with Magisk is the way to go. Killer chipset, amazing cameras and app, 3.5mm, duel sim AND SD card (seriously wide tray, 3 slots!) The only thing this is missing is an AMOLED (if you prefer) and Band 66+71 (T-Mobiles best bands aside from 5G)

Alright, enough of my ranting. Message back with any questions, ill do my best to respond.