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Root I freaking hate this phone (Fierce XL.)

HelgenX

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Please let me know if this is the phones fault, or if it's this version of Android's fault:

LED Indicator: Doesn't work, put it on in settings, it literally does nothing. There's a little light that goes on when the phone is charging, but that's it. Tried many apps even root apps, can't get that indicator to do anything damn else.

Notifications: Terrible, phone literally shows nothing on the screen when sleeping, tried some apps which flash the camera flash, but that looks to insane for a notification. Tried apps which supposedly let you use the button lights to light up: They don't work on this phone. Basically, I can't get any notifications for messages unless I literally turn on the phone.

MMS: Since day 1, I haven't been able to send or receive MMS messages like photos or files (which are not exceeding any sizes.) I tried resetting the APN, turning the WiFi off, this phone just does not work. I have had cheaper phones that did better jobs, heck my LG Motion is much better than this garbage, too bad the screen is cracked, I'd still use that phone!

Camera: Right off the bat, the worst camera of ANY phone I ever had, even worse than some flip phones I had. Whenever I take a picture, it looks like it has some sort of pixel filter on it if I use the default camera app. If I use the Google Camera app, it's a little better, but it's noisy even in the daytime, it's just horrible. Also, the front camera is extremely dark so it's worthless to do video conferencing.

Glitches: Sometimes the phone just cuts off while in a call or while I'm typing, the keyboard just disappears, in a call the screen would go on and off and press random buttons, so that means the sensor isn't doing a good job.

I could go on and on about why this phone is terrible. It's a shame because it works quite fast otherwise, but it's really not worth anything. Other than the big screen, all this is really is a big screen phone AKA Phablet, but there's NOTHING PHABULOUS about this phone.
 
That is definitely a phone problem IMO. Notification light is fine on my stylo and my zmax both on 4.4(zmax now on 5.1 still works) and stylo 5.1. For camera try aillis and see if there's a difference at all, I have heard this (fierce xl) camera sucks. As far as the glitches I think that's a stock launcher problem. Try another launcher like Nova launcher see if it helps. I don't have this phone, but I an trying to help. I hope it does help some.
Anthony.
 
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