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Asus PadFone 2 and ZTE Blade III review

Hello guys, I am doing review of these smartphones. Is there anything special you would like to know about them? And yes, both phones rock in their class
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Update, links to reviews are up:
http://www.insidehw.com/reviews/mobility/7388-review-asus-padfone-2-second-to-none
http://www.insidehw.com/reviews/mobility/7416-zte-blade-iii
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Hi.
Does the ASUS Padfone 2 have a notification led?
Can you remove the 'Pad Only' tab in the App Drawer?
Would you recommend the Padfone 2 after using it so far? Im looking to get one or a LG Nexus 4 or an HTC One X+.
Thank You.

Bilhouse said:
Hi.
Does the ASUS Padfone 2 have a notification led?
Can you remove the 'Pad Only' tab in the App Drawer?
Would you recommend the Padfone 2 after using it so far? Im looking to get one or a LG Nexus 4 or an HTC One X+.
Thank You.
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Same question

For the Padfone2:
Do games (like World of Goo and Osmos) work on the tab in fullscreen?
Is the sound quality with headphones as good as they advertised it to be?
Does it have any WiFi issues (like does it turn off after the phone has been in sleep mode for a couple of minutes and turns back on when you turn the screen on, like on some Sony phones and Cyanogenmod 9)?
Is the bootloader unlockable?
Thanks.

Bilhouse said:
Hi.
Does the ASUS Padfone 2 have a notification led?
Can you remove the 'Pad Only' tab in the App Drawer?
Would you recommend the Padfone 2 after using it so far? Im looking to get one or a LG Nexus 4 or an HTC One X+.
Thank You.
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Tipkaros said:
For the Padfone2:
Do games (like World of Goo and Osmos) work on the tab in fullscreen?
Is the sound quality with headphones as good as they advertised it to be?
Does it have any WiFi issues (like does it turn off after the phone has been in sleep mode for a couple of minutes and turns back on when you turn the screen on, like on some Sony phones and Cyanogenmod 9)?
Is the bootloader unlockable?
Thanks.
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Hi guys,
- There is no notification LED
- I don't thinik it is possible to remove Pad Only Tab in official launcher.
- I like PadFone 2 a lot this far. There are some minor issues which I will cover in depth once review is finished, but no deal breakers. I cant compare to new Nexus, as I didn't try it, but PadFone 2 looks to be in line and better then One X+.
- Still didn't cover gaming on Pad front, but I will update info once I do.
- Really looking forward to test headphone output. If it is on par with VivoTab, it will be more than good.
- WiFi is coming on in few seconds after waking up, so, no there is no issue there.
- Don't know if bootloader is unlockable, can't confirm that. Early guess is that it will be possible to flash, but due Pad/Phone combination it will be difficult to cook good ROM for it.
You are welcome

Mr. Corny said:
- WiFi is coming on in few seconds after waking up, so, no there is no issue there.
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Thanks for the responses but I didn't really understand this one. I'll explain what problems I'm having on a Sony device (with and without Cyanogenmod) :
I turn WiFi on (mobile data is off). While the screen is on, everything is normal. When I turn the screen off during the next 10-15 minutes I'm able to receive gtalk/gmail or any other content but after that, nothing is coming in anymore. When I turn the screen on again, suddenly all of the mails and notifications start coming in.
It may sound silly. If you could just turn on wifi, turn off mobile data, let your phone be uninterrupted for about 20-30 minutes and then email yourself from the computer to the email linked to your phone and see if your phone notifies you at once. If not, wait 5-10 minutes and turn the screen on and see if the email comes in at that very moment.
Looking forward to that complete review soon. :good:

OK, didn't understand the issue first time. Will try and get back with more info.
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Hey,
I'm currently on Samsung Galaxy S (the first one), and I found a really big need of a tablet. So instead of buying a tablet and a phone separately I'm looking forward to a combination of two, like this one.
I'm more interested in performance, I have seen many tablets so far, even some quad core, but so far they were a bit slow (at least for me).
May you show some performance examples in your review? Like opening many apps and then using the phone/tablet?

Could you post the supernote apk from the Padfone 2, so we can test it on the Padfone 1?

It so cool.!!!!!!

Tahvok said:
Hey,
I'm currently on Samsung Galaxy S (the first one), and I found a really big need of a tablet. So instead of buying a tablet and a phone separately I'm looking forward to a combination of two, like this one.
I'm more interested in performance, I have seen many tablets so far, even some quad core, but so far they were a bit slow (at least for me).
May you show some performance examples in your review? Like opening many apps and then using the phone/tablet?
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If you are looking for combination of phone and tablet you won't find better. As far as I know, beside Padofone 1, there is no other product on the market. This phablet has a lots of RAM and high speed CPU meaning it delivers some high end perfomance in both phone and tablet mode. On the other hand, if you tried some other high end tablet like Samsung Galaxy 10.1 or Asus Prime, it will feel similar when you are juggling between many apps. Despite manufacturers claims tablets are stil far far away from PC in terms of usability.

Snipes said:
Could you post the supernote apk from the Padfone 2, so we can test it on the Padfone 1?
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Can't do that, no root, no access to system files.

Tipkaros said:
Thanks for the responses but I didn't really understand this one. I'll explain what problems I'm having on a Sony device (with and without Cyanogenmod) :
I turn WiFi on (mobile data is off). While the screen is on, everything is normal. When I turn the screen off during the next 10-15 minutes I'm able to receive gtalk/gmail or any other content but after that, nothing is coming in anymore. When I turn the screen on again, suddenly all of the mails and notifications start coming in.
It may sound silly. If you could just turn on wifi, turn off mobile data, let your phone be uninterrupted for about 20-30 minutes and then email yourself from the computer to the email linked to your phone and see if your phone notifies you at once. If not, wait 5-10 minutes and turn the screen on and see if the email comes in at that very moment.
Looking forward to that complete review soon. :good:
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Well, it looks like it is normal behavior. WiFi will disconnect when phone goes to deep sleep, ergo you will not be available to receive emails etc... If you want to prevent this, you need to select keep WiFi on during sleep in advanced part of WiFi settings. If this option is enabled,everything works as you would like, instant email notification for example.

How does it work in the U.S 2G,3G, or 4G
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kaylord84 said:
How does it work in the U.S 2G,3G, or 4G
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Picture speaks a thousand words:

How is the polaris app installed on the padfone 2, is it a good office app
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Mr. Corny said:
Well, it looks like it is normal behavior. WiFi will disconnect when phone goes to deep sleep, ergo you will not be available to receive emails etc... If you want to prevent this, you need to select keep WiFi on during sleep in advanced part of WiFi settings. If this option is enabled,everything works as you would like, instant email notification for example.
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Good! The problem with my devices is that even when I turn on that option in advanced settings, it still disconnected during deep sleep. Glad to see Asus did things well.

GPS LOCK
Hey
Thank you very much for taking questions.
How quickly does the padphone get GPS lock?
I'm asking as I use the GPS (Google navigation) multiple times every day.

Mr. Corny said:
Picture speaks a thousand words:
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-Do you know what networks in the US are supported though?
-Where can we buy one?

Violater said:
Hey
Thank you very much for taking questions.
How quickly does the padphone get GPS lock?
I'm asking as I use the GPS (Google navigation) multiple times every day.
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I will get back to you on that when I reach this part of testing.
VTEChump said:
-Do you know what networks in the US are supported though?
-Where can we buy one?
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I don't know which networks will be supported, Verizon is educated guess. It should become available in November on contract.

[Q] Who can interpret this battery graph?

Hey there,
I'm getting a huge battery drain, when my phone crashes.
Can someone interpret what could be going on at 06:00AM (unfortunately betterbatterystats won't show anything)?
It stopped using the phone at 04:00AM and started using it again at 08:50AM, so there must be some activity while idle (WLAN issues?).
Thanks a lot!
PS: ROM: nonsense Build-5 / Elemental 2.1 Kernel at 1,5Ghz
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At one point you turned the device off - after restart it was lower on battery, then you stopped using it as much, then used it again (still on WiFi)

As mentioned, I stopped using it at ~ 04:00AM. I wasn't awake while the graph began going down.

r0man.de said:
As mentioned, I stopped using it at ~ 04:00AM. I wasn't awake while the graph began going down.
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I only see it go down when in use.

Give cpuspy a try. You find it on the market.

Thanks, I'll try out cpu spy.
Here's the screen again with some explanations, maybe it's more clear now:

r0man.de said:
Thanks, I'll try out cpu spy.
Here's the screen again with some explanations, maybe it's more clear now:
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The ringed bit says its in use but you say it isn't so I guess a ghost is using it or you are.
Edit, and the white/grey line in the middle looks like a reboot.
Edit, hmm to me it could be the odd battery drain that pops up here and there and a reboot fixes it and on yours its draining but your phone is not liking it for some reason and reboots which in turn fixes the bug but this is based on you not using it like you say.

Duo you have someone else with access to the phone. Maybe someone used it while you were sleeping cause the graph says it was active with the screen on.
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ironclaw22 said:
Duo you have someone else with access to the phone. Maybe someone used it while you were sleeping cause the graph says it was active with the screen on.
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I also thought that but why the reboot its on both of his pics.
Edit, hahaha they both the same pic but still why the reboot if someone was using it.
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Think I sort of know what's up if no one really used it. As you see the wifi is off and thats down to HTC thinking thats its a good idea to force data off at night. The issue starts at the time data should come back on like it does in the pic but I think its bugging out which then drains it but the part that is bugging out is at guess spamming the cpu with something and locking it up. This if I remember right other people have also said they had a crashing in the morning.

Darknites said:
I also thought that but why the reboot its on both of his pics.
Edit, hahaha they both the same pic but still why the reboot if someone was using it.
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Think I sort of know what's up if no one really used it. As you see the wifi is off and thats down to HTC thinking thats its a good idea to force data off at night. The issue starts at the time data should come back on like it does in the pic but I think its bugging out which then drains it but the part that is bugging out is at guess spamming the cpu with something and locking it up. This if I remember right other people have also said they had a crashing in the morning.
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If the cpu outs getting spammed why would there be little times during the drain where the phone goes inactive and the screen shuts off? If something was pegging the cpu, the active bar would have been solid, no?
Sent from my HTC One S

ironclaw22 said:
If the cpu outs getting spammed why would there be little times during the drain where the phone goes inactive and the screen shuts off? If something was pegging the cpu, the active bar would have been solid, no?
Sent from my HTC One S
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Ya I would agree to that but it does depend on what is really happening and now for some reason I thinking its the wifi and could maybe explain the issues with wifi people are having and the morning reboots and maybe even the random ones but all of this depends on the phone not really been used buy someone but even going with someone was using it why would they reboot the phone.

Try another go through with this and try to replicate what you did when you first checked the battery chart.
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AW: [Q] Who can interpret this battery graph?
There really were no ghosts or other people in the room
I updated my Radio to 1.11 and it seems to be pretty solid now. Cpuspy shows to me that everything is fine (high deepsleep share). Is there an HTC Wifi fix for the mentioned issues?
Thanks again

r0man.de said:
There really were no ghosts or other people in the room
I updated my Radio to 1.11 and it seems to be pretty solid now. Cpuspy shows to me that everything is fine (high deepsleep share). Is there an HTC Wifi fix for the mentioned issues?
Thanks again
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No fix as far I know and I'm only guessing at the issue but need more people with reboot issue to post the same screenshot and see if im right or not.

[Q] Google play services wakelock

Hi guys,
Having an unbelievable issue with wakelocks destroying my battery, but this is a bit different from the usual stuff you hear about, just read on:
I came from an S4, my wife bought a Nexus5 recently and I was already done with my S4, with all of it's bloat and stuff I don't use (only the camera made me stay but eventually I broke..),and on top of that, sice I upgraded my S4 to 4.4.2 it began having battery issues, it would stay awake all the time, making the phone die in ~7 hours.. so after ALLOT of attempts to figure this out, I decided to start fresh, get rid of the S4 and get a nexus5.
To my surprise, as soon as I finished configuring my N5 (unlock, root, bootloader, xposed+gravity box, the usual apps, nothing fancy) it began experiencing the same battery wake lock drain. now, my wife's N5 is absolutely the same as mine, maybe an app here and there are not the same but I'm not running anything unconventional, I have Beautiful widgets, the usual Google stuff, exchange email etc. Google play services is waking up my device every minute, it drops from a fully recharged battery to 90% in an hour and a half. I've had my wife's phone and mine side by side to compare - same os version, same radio etc.same settings in location are active (location reporting and location history), same location accuracy, same google play services vrsion, same settings in google+ and google now, same everything! I disabled location reporting for now to see it this will have any affect, but this is absolutely driving me nus. why do I need to go through this ordeal, when another nexus 5 is experiencing great battery life while everything is enabled, it will sleep all the time if screen is off.

Are you rooted?
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Ben36 said:
Are you rooted?
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it says in the post that he is

alb3rtt said:
it says in the post that he is
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Sorry i didnt notice that. Doh.
Well in that case download this -
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice
And make Google play services look like this and see if it makes a massive difference -
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Ben36 said:
Sorry i didnt notice that. Doh.
Well in that case download this -
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice
And make Google play services look like this and see if it makes a massive difference -
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To tell you the truth I'm a bit hesitant in trying these kind of solutions, yes maybe they could make a difference, but I am tired of messing around with everything just to get a decent experience. I need to know why do 2 perfectly identical N5's experience such astronomical battery differences. And that means I have no choice but to start comparing the two (my wife's and mine) side by side with a needle..

You can always just tick them again if ever wanted. And just so you know. I don't get any Google play drain now and everything works fine. All your doing is removing the stupid permissions gms core wants but doesn't actually need
My battery right now. (gonna charge it at 1% lol)
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Ben36 said:
You can always just tick them again if ever wanted. And just so you know. I don't get any Google play drain now and everything works fine. All your doing is removing the stupid permissions gms core wants but doesn't actually need
My battery right now. (gonna charge it at 1% lol)
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Thanks allot for the info, I'll try it if I see my temporary solution isn't working.. Seems that if I turn off "location reporting" the wakelocks go away, now I need to find what's different between my settings and my wife's settings location wise, it's definitely something that "came" with me before I bought the nexus 5, it's some setting I have deep withing google..

omricn said:
Thanks allot for the info, I'll try it if I see my temporary solution isn't working.. Seems that if I turn off "location reporting" the wakelocks go away, now I need to find what's different between my settings and my wife's settings location wise, it's definitely something that "came" with me before I bought the nexus 5, it's some setting I have deep withing google..
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There won't be any difference, Google have just f**ked up basically. My missus's phone without being set like those settings absolutely hammers her battery (like yours) , yet mine shows about 6% use over the day. But with the boxes unticked shows none so i do it anyway. Otherwise all settings are the same from what I can tell. It did my head in too trying to sort hers out
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Ben36 said:
There won't be any difference, Google have just f**ked up basically. My missus's phone without being set like those settings absolutely hammers her battery (like yours) , yet mine shows about 6% use over the day. But with the boxes unticked shows none so i do it anyway. Otherwise all settings are the same from what I can tell. It did my head in too trying to sort hers out
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I'ts absolutely driving me nuts.. I've been trying to find out what's the problem for more than a month now, unbelievable.. but I still think it has something to do with something I have connected\set\changed with Google somehow.. with my S4 I've reset, completely wiped, changed roms, and the issue was still there, now moving to another phone, still.. so it has to be something to do with my Google account

Do a backup and wipe all and Start a new Google account to test?
My missus changed absolutely nothing, was literally just one day it decided "hey I'm gonna ass rape your battery from now on" and that was it
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Ben36 said:
Do a backup and wipe all and Start a new Google account to test?
My missus changed absolutely nothing, was literally just one day it decided "hey I'm gonna ass rape your battery from now on" and that was it
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I can relate buddy.. You've given me an idea tough, I'll set up a new Google account, and test it on my s4 which is not in use right now.

omricn said:
I can relate buddy.. You've given me an idea tough, I'll set up a new Google account, and test it on my s4 which is not in use right now.
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Cool let me know how it goes!
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I'm having similar issues with Google play services preventing my phone from sleeping. I've tried the suggestions in this thread, I've also give through other threads and tried them, but over the last 3 or 4 days when there was an update to Google search, my battery has suffered massively!
I'm not sure what else I can do
I've tried turning off all location settings, I don't use Google now and I've even set Greenify to hibernate most of the Google stuff. I'm constantly seeing the message Google search has been greenified when I switch my display on
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Try Settings > storage > cached data. Clear and reboot.
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I'll try that now
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Hate to bump an old thread but what I have is related. See screenshot.
Any idea as to how to fix it?
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alb3rtt said:
Hate to bump an old thread but what I have is related. See screenshot.
Any idea as to how to fix it?
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Go to settings > location > google location reporting > TURN OFF "location reporting" (leave location history on). charge it over night and check battery usage after a day's use.

omricn said:
Go to settings > location > google location reporting > TURN OFF "location reporting" (leave location history on). charge it over night and check battery usage after a day's use.
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Hey,
I have seen that some parts of the Google account could not be properly synced.
Could this be the battery drain hanging out together (as this is also part of Google Play Service)?
At least the error always occurs with the battery drain.
bye Stefan

stefan-w said:
Hey,
I have seen that some parts of the Google account could not be properly synced.
Could this be the battery drain hanging out together (as this is also part of Google Play Service)?
At least the error always occurs with the battery drain.
bye Stefan
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Everything is possible.. What exactly do you mean by "not properly synced"? My friend is experiencing the same behavior even after disabling location reporting.. Anyway.. This is the Google saga we've all been fighting with for as long as I can remember..

I've also seen Google not syncing properly a couple of times today. Had to manually force it to sync. Might be what's causing the wakelocks. Gonna keep an eye out for it from now on.
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Android System and Android OS using 50% of battery life

The battery stats are consistently showing Android System (around 35%) and Android OS (around 15%) totaling just under 50% of battery usage, is anyone else seeing this and/or know how to reduce this?
WIFI and GPS off, location set to just wifi and mobile (with wifi and Bluetooth scanning off), Bluetooth and NFC on, and screen always on turned off.

Welcome to the world of Marshmallow, where battery sucks too, like Lollipop

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The screen has been either the third or fourth down on my list. I can't figure out what is causing the drain though as I have any and everything disabled that normally kills the battery. Don't get me wrong though, I'm still getting more usage than with my S6 but it hurts knowing that I could be getting a lot more if the Android System and OS wasn't draining so much.

supernova_00 said:
The screen has been either the third or fourth down on my list. I can't figure out what is causing the drain though as I have any and everything disabled that normally kills the battery. Don't get me wrong though, I'm still getting more usage than with my S6 but it hurts knowing that I could be getting a lot more if the Android System and OS wasn't draining so much.
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I have to say I've noticed the same. Are you using a ROM? Also,depending on your phone/ROM there may be a way to turn off ambient sensor. This is the option that marshmallow use to wake the phone when picked up, notified , ect. Its seems disabling this prevents a lot of system use and wakelocks. At least for me it does. Worth a shot.
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Shaftamle said:
I have to say I've noticed the same. Are you using a ROM? Also,depending on your phone/ROM there may be a way to turn off ambient sensor. This is the option that marshmallow use to wake the phone when picked up, notified , ect. Its seems disabling this prevents a lot of system use and wakelocks. At least for me it does. Worth a shot.
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Just stock Marshmallow on my S7 and I have all of that "smart" stuff disabled, like the smart stay to keep screen on while reading, gestures for various things, etc

I was coming here to try and figure out the same thing. Android OS and Android System are always #1 and #2 on my battery drain. I know I could get a LOT more life out of it if I could figure out why.

Pneumatic said:
I was coming here to try and figure out the same thing. Android OS and Android System are always #1 and #2 on my battery drain. I know I could get a LOT more life out of it if I could figure out why.
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I'm thinking of being the guinea pig and sideloading the newest google play services to see if that helps. The one on our phones, or at least mine and my wife's, is old and made for lollipop and older. I'm not sure why we haven't gotten the marshmallow version.
The most recent 8.7.02 but we have 8.4.89.
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/google-play-services-8-7-02-release/
APKmirror is ran by androidpolice.com in case anyone isn't sure what site I posted.

Ok Ill bite... How does this work without root? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpro&hl=en
Seems like this could solve our issues if we kill a bunch of bloat, no?

supernova_00 said:
I'm thinking of being the guinea pig and sideloading the newest google play services to see if that helps. The one on our phones, or at least mine and my wife's, is old and made for lollipop and older. I'm not sure why we haven't gotten the marshmallow version.
The most recent 8.7.02 but we have 8.4.89.
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/google-play-services-8-7-02-release/
APKmirror is ran by androidpolice.com in case anyone isn't sure what site I posted.
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Which one is for our s7

PunishedSnake said:
Which one is for our s7
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Looks like:
8.7.02 (2624717-440) February 26, 2016 arm64 + arm Android 6.0+ nodpi
The -440 is the key here. The first 4 means marshmallow, the second 4 means arm64-v8a CPU architecture, and the 0 means universal dpi

I disabled VoLTE today and it seems to have helped. They have currently drained a total of 36% (down from 50%) so far. Android System used 20% (down from 35%) and Android OS using the same 15%.
I can't say for sure this is what caused the drop though because I'm also in an area with 4GLTE whereas every other day I was in an area with only 4G all day. So could having VoLTE enabled while not being connected to a LTE tower cause the Android System to drain the battery?

km8j said:
Ok Ill bite... How does this work without root? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpro&hl=en
Seems like this could solve our issues if we kill a bunch of bloat, no?
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Is this not the same as disabling the apps yourself?

elijahblake said:
Is this not the same as disabling the apps yourself?
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Nope, you can disable any package with this.

supernova_00 said:
I'm thinking of being the guinea pig and sideloading the newest google play services to see if that helps. The one on our phones, or at least mine and my wife's, is old and made for lollipop and older. I'm not sure why we haven't gotten the marshmallow version.
The most recent 8.7.02 but we have 8.4.89.
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/google-play-services-8-7-02-release/
APKmirror is ran by androidpolice.com in case anyone isn't sure what site I posted.
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Any luck?

I had 10% loss in 6 hours sleep freaking amazing sad out of box performance.
The fix for me,
(Settings/ More Connection Settings/ Nearby Device Scanning - Off )
Result was 1% loss in 4 hour sleep.
Anyway hope that helps

sling said:
I had 10% loss in 6 hours sleep freaking amazing sad out of box performance.
The fix for me,
(Settings/ More Connection Settings/ Nearby Device Scanning - Off )
Result was 1% loss in 4 hour sleep.
Anyway hope that helps
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This is already off for me but what is your android system usage?

km8j said:
This is already off for me but what is your android system usage?
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not so bad

sling said:
not so bad
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Yea but that is only 10% usage of battery. Wait another 8 hours and let us know.
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Ive disabled like 30 packages and that is about as far as I'm comfortable going without someone else here being able to identify what each of the packages are used for. Will see if this does anything. I'm down 25% already in just about 4 hours with 30 min SOT and 20 min of voice calls.

km8j said:
Yea but that is only 10% usage of battery. Wait another 8 hours and let us know.
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Ive disabled like 30 packages and that is about as far as I'm comfortable going without someone else here being able to identify what each of the packages are used for. Will see if this does anything. I'm down 25% already in just about 4 hours with 30 min SOT and 20 min of voice calls.
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Yes true another 8 hours would have been ugly.
Disabling device Nearby Scanning seems to had did the trick 4hr 1% loss , Unfortunately I didn't take System Usage screen shot of change made.
As far as disabling packages , that can do more harm then good they work off each other.
Your best bet start from scratch hard boot back to basic disables no 3rd party app installs & go from there
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Adding
The first few charge cycles are VIP conditioning battery.
I highly recommend disabling fast charge & no wireless charging during that time frame

Checking on 5G and LTE speeds with T-Mobile

Got my phone today and really like the feel, features etc.
Working with the camera now to see how its working...
Biggest issue is 5G, coming from OnePlus 8 and get speeds in my house that keep getting faster.
But Edge is struggling! Motorola Engineers are looking in to it.
Anyone else having issues?
OnePlus speeds:
Motorola Edge speeds:

Random Pictures:

Stupid question from Germany...does the Edge works on 5G since the beginning in the US?
In Germany we're still waiting for the patch.

Edge is my only 5G device so don't have anything to compare it to, but here in Phoenix here is what I'm getting the last few days. Ignore the really bad one, that was at my in-laws place which for whatever reason has been really bad always and I'm thankful to have anything at all. Even though these speeds are plenty for my usage, it kind of stinks to think I might have even better speeds with a different device.
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tom93r1 said:
Edge is my only 5G device so don't have anything to compare it to, but here in Phoenix here is what I'm getting the last few days. Ignore the really bad one, that was at my in-laws place which for whatever reason has been really bad always and I'm thankful to have anything at all. Even though these speeds are plenty for my usage, it kind of stinks to think I might have even better speeds with a different device.
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I haven't activated 5G yet but it doesn't seem to improve speed much on this phone. I think I'll save the $$ until Motorola addresses it.

braveally said:
I haven't activated 5G yet but it doesn't seem to improve speed much on this phone. I think I'll save the $$ until Motorola addresses it.
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Today I set my edge to prefer LTE and ran speed test then right back to 5g for test. The LTE in my area is much slower, so 5g does make a difference here. 48 vs 15 download speed as shown in screenshot
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tom93r1 said:
Today I set my edge to prefer LTE and ran speed test then right back to 5g for test. The LTE in my area is much slower, so 5g does make a difference here. 48 vs 15 download speed as shown in screenshotView attachment 5075631
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I see, in this case, I guess it's relative. It must be a location thing. The speeds I'm getting are more than enough for all my uses.
Edit: I know these were all done together but this is what I get at any time of the day or night generally.

braveally said:
I see, in this case, I guess it's relative. It must be a location thing. The speeds I'm getting are more than enough for all my uses.
Edit: I know these were all done together but this is what I get at any time of the day or night generally.
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I've never come close to 100 Mbps ever with any phone in my area, I wouldn't bother worrying about 5g either at this time.
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tom93r1 said:
I've never come close to 100 Mbps ever with any phone in my area, I wouldn't bother worrying about 5g either at this time.
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Speeds improved today Tmobile said tower work was being done in my area...
I am in N Peoria but yesterday was 1st day driving around with this phone and it was all over the place in speed and some areas 4G was faster
So for now its really address specific.

Didnt notice mine till I watched a YouTube today and the kid said the case was super loose by the power button and sure enough I checked and its really bad.
Anyone seen any leather cases ?
Something like this open and easy
ALso anyone getting this when you do a voice search?
I am getting it once to twice a day...
Still working on Gcam pics

T&C said:
Speeds improved today Tmobile said tower work was being done in my area...
I am in N Peoria but yesterday was 1st day driving around with this phone and it was all over the place in speed and some areas 4G was faster
So for now its really address specific.
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Looks like they did similar work in my area (Tempe), things got much faster today!
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tom93r1 said:
Looks like they did similar work in my area (Tempe), things got much faster today!View attachment 5076757
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They must have undid that work, last night and today I can't even hit 50 down any more

tom93r1 said:
Looks like they did similar work in my area (Tempe), things got much faster today!View attachment 5076757
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Nice what part of Tempe because Sat was over by the Pointe i10 and Elliott and it was average about 40 mbps.
Got to like that 114 better!

T&C said:
Nice what part of Tempe because Sat was over by the Pointe i10 and Elliott and it was average about 40 mbps.
Got to like that 114 better!
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48th St and Baseline, but it back down to around 40 again. They are just messing with us now

tom93r1 said:
48th St and Baseline, but it back down to around 40 again. They are just messing with us now
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Yeah same area but think the 114 still gives hope!
I would still DM them on twitter just to see what they say.
@motorolaUS
@tmobileHelp

T&C said:
Yeah same area but think the 114 still gives hope!
I would still DM them on twitter just to see what they say.
@motorolaUS
@@tmobileHelp
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I'll give it a shot
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Well those were some quick generic responses
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Here is my Speed on T-Mobile in Chicago.

That was with the Released Chrome Version with the Google Speed Test Website.