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I bought this phone on sale from MetroPCS and from week 1 immediately had issues with it.. Have no insurance on it and currently no Wireless carrier, using it only on WiFi. Just trying to understand what might be going on with it because the internet says this is a great phone but I've never owned a phone that performs so poorly and has SO many pervasive issues.... I'll try to be brief but I'd just love to hear if I seem to be the only one?
1) Keyboard malfunctions extremely frequently, tried stock Android and SwiftKey. When typing, it will randomly take my input and jumble it up in a nonsensical fashion. For example let's say I type the word 'great' , hitting every key cleanly. Sometimes I'll get 'great', sometimes I'll get 'gr3a t' , sometimes I'll get 'gr@rt', there's no rhyme or reason. It randomly decides to capitalize letters, sometimes it will enter the associated symbol for that letter such as '@' for 'a'... Sometimes it will insert a space, or random punctuation. Using portrait or landscape mode makes no difference. (I just typed the word 'difference' and first it returned 'xifvefenn e' and second it returned 'differ3nce' .) the microphone key trips about 20 or more times per day also, resulting in a pop up message stating it is sending an audio transcript to Google for speech recognition. Just in creating this post it has sent four audio transcripts to Google.
2) Alarm clock doesn't work consistently. Regardless of power settings or which app I use, any alarm that I set will either work normally, vibrate only and never sound regardless of Alarm volume, or neither vibrate nor sound whatsoever. Has been doing this since day 1.
3) Extremely slow camera app operation (it just returned 'ope5ayjo' instead of 'operation'). Regardless of available storage, RAM, etc the screen refresh rate when operating the rear camera is something like 5 frames/second. Any motion whatsoever results in extreme motion blur and unusable photos, so I have to manually set the dhigget speed (I typed shudder speed) etc. Doing so results in poor but usable photos but only affects the photo, not what's displayed)
4) WiFi connections that arent extremely strong will randomly disconnect/drop and disappear from Available networks for several refresh cycles. Available networks also randomly show WiFi connections that are not present, such as it showing an Open Network that is miles away.
5) Unpredictable battery usage and unpredictable charging speeds. Running the same app with the same settings, screen brightness, volume etc, sometimes it will run 5 hours on a charge, sometimes 1.5 hours. Charge speed is erratic.
6) No persistence for apps, websites forms etc... if I move another app to the top, for example changing my focus from Google Chrome to Settings to find my android version, when I go back to Chrome it will be a blank page and Reloads, so I constantly have to select all and copy everything I type.
I've attempted to update Android but even after doing a Factory Reset it says my version is up to date... It's running 6.0.1 and ZTE System Update version 1.0.0B21. Performance is generally poor and even the most basic games, such as a 100mb turn-based 2-dimensional game, will skip and lag.
1) Keyboard malfunctions extremely frequently, tried stock Android and SwiftKey. When typing, it will randomly take my input and jumble it up in a nonsensical fashion. For example let's say I type the word 'great' , hitting every key cleanly. Sometimes I'll get 'great', sometimes I'll get 'gr3a t' , sometimes I'll get 'gr@rt', there's no rhyme or reason. It randomly decides to capitalize letters, sometimes it will enter the associated symbol for that letter such as '@' for 'a'... Sometimes it will insert a space, or random punctuation. Using portrait or landscape mode makes no difference. (I just typed the word 'difference' and first it returned 'xifvefenn e' and second it returned 'differ3nce' .) the microphone key trips about 20 or more times per day also, resulting in a pop up message stating it is sending an audio transcript to Google for speech recognition. Just in creating this post it has sent four audio transcripts to Google.
2) Alarm clock doesn't work consistently. Regardless of power settings or which app I use, any alarm that I set will either work normally, vibrate only and never sound regardless of Alarm volume, or neither vibrate nor sound whatsoever. Has been doing this since day 1.
3) Extremely slow camera app operation (it just returned 'ope5ayjo' instead of 'operation'). Regardless of available storage, RAM, etc the screen refresh rate when operating the rear camera is something like 5 frames/second. Any motion whatsoever results in extreme motion blur and unusable photos, so I have to manually set the dhigget speed (I typed shudder speed) etc. Doing so results in poor but usable photos but only affects the photo, not what's displayed)
4) WiFi connections that arent extremely strong will randomly disconnect/drop and disappear from Available networks for several refresh cycles. Available networks also randomly show WiFi connections that are not present, such as it showing an Open Network that is miles away.
5) Unpredictable battery usage and unpredictable charging speeds. Running the same app with the same settings, screen brightness, volume etc, sometimes it will run 5 hours on a charge, sometimes 1.5 hours. Charge speed is erratic.
6) No persistence for apps, websites forms etc... if I move another app to the top, for example changing my focus from Google Chrome to Settings to find my android version, when I go back to Chrome it will be a blank page and Reloads, so I constantly have to select all and copy everything I type.
I've attempted to update Android but even after doing a Factory Reset it says my version is up to date... It's running 6.0.1 and ZTE System Update version 1.0.0B21. Performance is generally poor and even the most basic games, such as a 100mb turn-based 2-dimensional game, will skip and lag.
