ZENFONE 4




Specification:


ZENFONE 5




Specification:


ZENFONE 6





Specification:

If I'm not mistaken, the trio can use a normal pen act as a stylus.

NICE SPECS BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PRICE ?



( The price may vary due different regions and also the different internal storage )



This post has been edited by suntzulee: May 16 2014, 07:53 AM

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This post has been edited by suntzulee: Jul 7 2014, 10:24 AM

Tutorial guide#1

How to downgrade Zenfone 5 rom

This post has been edited by suntzulee: Jul 13 2014, 11:10 AM

Zenfone5 user high spec

Guys, if you want me to add you in proud owner listing https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=68067611

Pls reply at this post!

Checking in. Hope to be included in the proud owners list soon too!

Count me in

zzzz... use google spreadsheet la..

like moto G user list lah

zenfone 5 high spec user white ~

Kindly count me in

guys...sorry forgot to remind...when you want me to add to proud owner...pls state model/color/high or low spec

bro, pls provide model and spec

sorry, still noob. can tell me how?

pls provide details like model/color/? spec

ZF5 High Spec / Black

still no official release? mami need 1 zen5

where did you guys buy this phone?

welcome bro, been expecting you..haha

Asus malaysia delay stocks until end may or early june...yea, they screw up big time...

unofficial channel...you may pm me...

Zenfone 5 black high spec

updated!

ZF5 High Spec Black

China!

welcome!

Any zf5 user face problem when install apps? IT says error code 960
Wat should i do?

did you enable unknown sources in security?

zenfone 5, low spec (i'm proud to say that ahahaha), black colour

Zf 5 high spec black hi ts

welcome to the family...

hi bro...welcome too

count me in ts. mine zf5 high spec white. thanx =D

added! welcome to the family

ZF5 High Specs Black reporting in..

I enable already
Btw i am high spec white zf5

hmmm...perhaps you may try to hard reset it....

how to hard reset?

go setting, backup and reset

alrite i go try now thank you XD

i untick the unknown source then can download the apps i wan from playstore already, do i need hard reset again?

anyone bought it from china?

Zen fone 5 white low spec reporting.. Wanna ask about OTG.. Is it this model can support OTG? Have tried mine.. Nothing happen when connect with pendrive while my other fone support it smoothly.. Why?

any sample of pixelmaster? im very interested with the photos quality

share share plz

V2 already?

2 photos i took during the afternoon at Mid Valley

Auto Mode


HDR Mode

See picture

White ZF5 High Spec User......

Both Honor 3C & Zf5 dont support OTG

Hi terion, pls provide details of your phone...will add you in the proud owner listing

welcome bro...

V2 but stil not offical zenfone yet haih......zwn 6 where r u

yup, that's the sad part...both zf4 and zf6 are not available yet too with zf5 out of stock currently

Low spec zf5 also no stock now?

my previous post being removed??

can someone do review of this set kikiki

due to high demand with less supply...

what have you posted?

well, this is indeed a good phone. i just got to know the dual sim slot are both 3G support but either one only. Camera wise would be very good in low light condition...remember the butterfly picture taken? Next would be the performance, it is very butter smooth and i'm referring to 2GB version...at this kind of pricing, only honor 3c is able to compete with it...i like the UI but the bloatwares make it heavy on low spec version

The downside would be battery consumption...perhaps is the stock rom and the powerful processor. Maybe when kitkat released, hopefully it would be better. If battery is as good as honor 3c, well no brainer this is a first choice phone to get...on the other side, the battery issue can also be solved by having a powerbank standby.

There are current 2 colors in the market, black/white...of coz black is so elegant...

Straight from phone unedited (taken @ 8Mp)...


Depth of field mode





Indoor shot

Hi All,

May i know you guys got facing the issue like asus taiwan fans saying?
saw from zentalk that zf5 seem like got lot of issue...

Based on ZF5 high spec model:

Bought the Zenfone 5 to be used as a travel phone but i've been using it as my local phone to evaluate its performance. Battery life is manageable. A typical work day from morning to late evening, with dual SIMs active, a few calls, using whatsapp, email and web browsing will see battery level dropping down to 30+% or so. If u are only using a single SIM, then the battery life will be better. During my few days of usage, i've noticed that the phone's standby power is not too shabby. Overnight (7+ hours), there's a drop of about 5% of battery power.

Performance of the phone is quite impressive, considering its a mid-tier/budget model. Interface is responsive with no slow downs. Daily operation is very stable. Phone calls are loud and clear (comes with a built in call recorder app accessible from the dialer). Paired to my SBH20/80 stereo headset, i'm getting a better range and performance than my Sony Xperia ZL!

My only quip with this model is the lack of a notification LED. There's a LED on the top right but it only functions as a charging LED.

What issue is that? The only issue i've encountered with V0430 firmware is that the double tapping of the volume button sometimes do not bring up the camera app from standby.

zenfone 5 high spec white colour

I not sure is it my problem or wat
When me on call l, the sound quite low, quite hard to listen for me, any others user face this problem?

Nice review. By the way, the notification LED will blinks but very shortly if you have notifications from Calls, SMS, Mail, Facebook, WhatsApp etc etc. Maybe you didn't notice it because of the short-blink?

waiting day after days zf5..but really disappoint bcoz asus malaysia brings low spec..

Asking, most of you guys using High Spec, did you guys flash manually to WW version (World Wide) or just staying in TW version (Taiwan)?

No, i'm positive there's no LED notification from missed calls, SMS, etc. It only lights up orange and turns green for charging. I have also tried using Lightflow to control the LED but still no go. Which version of the ZF5 do u have?

Not a problem on mine, its loud and clear. Have u tried increasing the volume DURING calls?

Works fine on my High Spec version.

Other people from Taiwan also facing the same problem. Perhaps a factory reset will do?

http://www.asus.com/tw/zentalk/tw/forum/list?aid=28825

Lucky for me, I didn't face so many problems but just the battery drainage issue only.

battery life is quite short IMO. i think i need to root my zf5 and then deleting the apps that rarely used by me. 1st time android user. before this used phone which can call & sms only

Yup same. Maybe the screen on time even lesser than my mom's Asus netbook Eee PC ==

seems like this guy managed to root zenfone 5.
https://twitter.com/shakalaca/

Anyway to solve the battery issue? Or any app can make it battery longer?

Root is the way.

Thanks for the heads up. Maybe i'll have to do a factory reset and see what happens. I hate to do all my app configuration all over again.

sorry to ask how you flash manually to WW version? how you check it?

Saw from zentalk:
http://www.asus.com/tw/zentalk/tw/forum/li...15&PageNumber=1

could not charge to 100%, always until 99%
line not stable, need to restart line only can get back the line
battery drop very fast when it only left 20%
wifi could not detect after channel 8

and etc...

Then after this fone allow to root please teach me how to make it save battery 😄

Any zf5 user using flip cover with glove mode on? I realize it can touch over the flip cover, I using nilkin flip cover now and it makes me accidentally call people ==
The glove mode is too strong haha

one reason i dont like about flipcase is taking the photo, very mafan with the flip cover hanging...prefer hard case

Agreed. In addition, with a flip cover, its practically not possible for 1 hand operation.

the flip cover can put the zf5 into S-View mode like in Samsung? now i only use black nillkin frosted back case =D

black color nillkin back case looks so elegant on zenfone 5 black...like darth vader..

This post has been edited by suntzulee: May 16 2014, 11:27 AM

Hahaha so nobody using flip casing is it haha
Okay my zf5 from 7am until now battery red line already. Consider fast or normal

All these issues mentioned i believe has to do with the firmware not being thoroughly tested before releasing to the public. There are various configurations of this model and with so many different setups (different apps etc.) that there may be compatibility issues with the firmware. Asus needs to do more thorough testing before releasing new firmware updates. I'd rather they take more time to release stable updates than for us to be guinea pigs.


Factory reset advice is an easy solution to offer but its a big hassle for us users IMO. I have been using a Sony Xperia ZL for 1.5 years. During this period, i have gone through numerous updates... from Adroid 4.1.2 to 4.3 and soon to be 4.4. Not ONCE did i need to do a factory reset after update to resolve issues associated with firmware updates.

Indeed! I'm using the black frosted nillkin back case, together with Start dark theme locker screen.

ah i regret not choose black. because b4 this all my hp were black so decided to change to white

1. Download the latest International firmware (ending with WW) for your respective Zenfone 5 model. Eg: TOOF_WW is for 2Ghz 2GB and TOOJ_WW is for the 1.6Ghz 1GB model.


2. Take note the date of existing firmware in the phone (Settings->About->Software Information). Eg: 20140430 for V0430 firmware.


3. Extract the -user.zip file from the downloaded _user.zip file.


4. Rename the -user.zip file to UL-ASUS_T00F-CN-yyyy.mm.dd.65432-user.zip where yyyy.mm.dd is any date newer than the existing firmware. If yours is an original Taiwan firmware, replace CN with TW. 65432 is just an arbitrary no, u can use 12345 instead.


5. Connect phone to PC. Copy the renamed -user.zip file to the root directory of the phone's Internal Storage.


6. Disconnect phone from PC.


7. There's an exclamation mark notification on the notification panel. Pull down and click to update.


8. Firmware update complete.




This post has been edited by dinkydong: May 16 2014, 11:38 AM

sure,

ZF5 Black High Spec

just wondering why so complicated and not just press OTA in one button?

well, well...you got yourself a black high spec...congrats bro.

that is not just a firmware update, its to change our ZF5 firmware from taiwan version to international version

but other than some changes in the apps, is it really better? i mean does it fix all the current issues of the ZF5?

This post has been edited by terion: May 16 2014, 11:43 AM

yupe, once of the few last units from directd's first batch B4 they bumped the price up RM100

The manual update for Wat? Can make it better?

count me in
zf5 black high spec

ah...ic. yeah i wanted to know as well, what different would it make? better performance? battery saver?

u r just a lucky chap

Nope, this manual update to international WW ROM is mainly for China models. The reason being China Asus Zenfone has no Google service support => No Google Play Store, Gmail, GSync, etc. Manually installing Google Play Store.apk is also useless as the app cannot even run! In addition, u will also get tons of chinese bloat wares pre-installed into the phone, constantly spamming u with notifications on the notification bar.

As such, the only way around this is to flash it with the WW ROM.

I'm not sure if it's a combination of what I did, but I've used the "Notification Light Widget by Motorola for the Moto G problem, and then used Light Manager - LED Set to customise the LED notifications. Works fine on mine as initially mine is same as yours, LED only lights up during charging. Downside is that there's only 3 colours with the Asus, red/orange/green. Not much customisation can be done.

I'm not sure how it works before that, since I just updated immediately after getting the phone, but, for me, double tapping volume button then press the "on" button it'll go into camera app from lockscreen. Pretty useful for me since I'm using screen lock pattern and the camera app shortcut on the lock screen wouldn't function.

On a side note, I'm just curious what are the pre-installed apps on the WW version. There's a couple of apps I would wished I could at least disable on the TW ROM.

This post has been edited by GRexer: May 16 2014, 12:58 PM

I see, u using China version of zf5?

Yes, mine's a China version of ZF5. Imagine the disappointment and shock i had when i discover no google services!

Thanks a zillion bro!!! My notification LED is working now!!!!!!!!!!!
We should post this on the Asus TW forum to spare more innocent victims from doing a soft reset for nothing!


Though the blink is a little dim (i'm spoiled by my Xperia ZL), still its better than a non functioning LED!


With regards to the double tap to call up the camera, its supposed to double tap on the volume rocker and the camera screen will turn on automatically without having to touch the standby/power button.



This post has been edited by dinkydong: May 16 2014, 01:22 PM

Yeah.. The notification LED is barely noticeable, well, I come from a phone without the LED, so, anything is god sent, though I'm spoilt by the huge multi-coloured one I see on my Mum's Note 2.

As for the double tap, now that you mentioned, I remember that when I first enabled that function, it works like you mentioned, double tap and it comes up, but only that 1 instance, after that seemed to have to press the "on" button after double tapping. Well, anything works for me since if that function is not available, I would have to unlock my phone only I can access the camera anyway. With this function, at least it's still one step less.

U bought from taobao?any different with Taiwan set?

Another "tip" I find out, not sure if it works for you guys, is to fully charge the phone to 100%, use it as per normally, intentionally leave it to run down the battery down to 0%(automatically shutting down) without any charging in between and then charge it to 100% without unplugging at all.

Battery meter works more accurately after that. I did this "cycle charge" twice on mine. It doesn't seem to make it last longer, but battery meter is more accurate.

According to GRexer, his phone's SIM 1 slot is NOT spring loaded, only the 2nd slot is

However, for mine both slots are spring loaded just like the microSD slot.

anyone else having the same issue as GRexer? he suspects the 1st slot is broken/faulty

mine both sims' slot are spring loaded as well.