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Vodafone Smart ultra 6 Owners Thread- apps, tips & tricks
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RobertFoster wrote: »Try that gesture with a two finger swipe. It'll save you having to swipe twice.
Wow, thanks for the tip. Didn't know this.
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Well I've had mine a few days now:
Im happy with the camera - takes lovely sharp clear bright pictures. The built in stock camera app is very good with loads of manual features that I would wonder if you could even get on a high end phone let alone a budget handset. - I personally have installed another camera app called camerafv5 from the market because Im used to using that and I like it. even though the camera takes up to 13mpixel photos, I have chosen 10mpixel because 13mpixel is 4:3 and i like widescreen (especially for landscape pics) and we have slow upload on broadband so 10mpixel uploads a bit quicker, and I very rarely print my phone camera photos so 10megapixel resolution is enough or more than enough for my particular needs.
Sound: my particular experience is that the speaker volume (for the speaker at the back of the phone is too low in my opinion for ringtones notifications etc, and I would have liked it whereby that you could select one or 2 more levels even if it meant a bit of distortion.
The earpiece: - well I got a call the other day and the other person sounded like they were talking with a sock stuffed in their mouth - it was by no way clear and when checking my voicemail it was muffled, maybe coming from samsung phone where in the settings it had something in the settings for clearer call maybe thats what I was used to - dont seem like there is any settings on this ultra 6 to make phone call quality clearer.
The colour of the screen - lovely colours, I like the colours on the screen, my wife reckons they are a bit too punchy and bold. On my samsung it had some kind of dnie setting or something for the screen colours, you could choose automatic to match picture/image or choose bold, natural or movie colour settings. I havent found any settings like that on the ultra 6 yet. Maybe it was just a thing built into the samsung touchwiz system only.
Battery: I have found the battery to last really good - i am no heavy user by any use but i can get to end of day and still have 20% left whereas my previous samsung would have run out much earlier even with battery saver installed and things like bluetooth and 3g turned off and brightness down - so yeah I am really impressed with battery life so far.
Charging LED light (blue circle on home 'button') : - I am being picky here and its only my personal preference, this will not be an issue with most people because it works absolutely fine - but I would rather as you are charging up the phone:To either have a red circle light up at bottom of screen as you are charging and turn blue when battery fully chargedNotification LED (blue circle on home 'button') :
or to have a Blue slow flashing circle as you are charging and a solid blue non flashing circle when battery charged
or Blue circle when charging and no blue circle and no lights when its fully charged.
or seperate multicoloured LED light above screen (or next to micro usb socket) and flashing red when charging and off or green when chargedI would like to see this flash very fast (millisecond) once every second to indicate missed call or unread SMS message in blueAs for the home button, my samsung had a 'real' Home button and soft back and menu button - I think at the moment I prefer the 'soft' button on the Ultra 6 better - strangely my samsung buttons were in different place to this ultra 6 so on the samsung the 'back' button was on the right hand side of the phone and on the ultra 6 (and on many other phones) the back button is on the right hand bottom left of the phone so this is something I am particuarly having trouble getting used to, but I will get used to it in time I suppose.
or multicoloured light on the home soft 'button' for notifications that flashes very fast (millisecond) once every second for missed call or unread SMS and have it so you can choose say green for missed calls and yellow for unread SMS message.
Talking of navigation buttons at the bottom of the screen, my previous samsung phone had a 'menu' button on the bottom left on the row, so it was Menu - Home - Back on the ULTRA 6 it seems to be 'Back - Home - Recents soft buttons ... but no 'Menu' button?!? .. - most applications on the phone have a '3 dot' menu button at the top right of the screen to activate a menu which it is fine if it has but I have a couple of android apps that dont have the 3 dot menu at the top of the screen so I am not quite sure how I can activate the menu if there is no menu key at the bottom row of navigation buttons on the ULTRA 6 ? - also on the samsung you had the menu key on the right and a long press on the middle 'Home' button brought up 'recent apps' or 'task manager'
Other Buttons: - not mad keen at the moment with the power button and the volume keys being on the same side (right hand side of the phone) I personally would prefer power key on right hand side and volume keys on left or volume keys on right and power key on top of phone or left hand side of phone, but again thats my personal preference and I keep pressing the volume key thinking its the power key most times to put it into standby (ie turn the screen on or off)
SD Card insertion - personally I dont like to have a 'tool' or paper clip at hand to actually remove the SD card from the phone - but at least you dont have to shut down phone and remove battery just to remove or replace SD card like you have to with some phones on the market.
Sim card - they could have easily made this phone use a micro SIM card instead of a Nano one - the night I got my phone I had to put my sim in from my samsung which was a micro sim and nowhere was open so I had to hack my card with a pair of scissors to fit the sim into the ULTRA 6 and it also means now if something happens to the ULTRA 6 and I want to go back to using the SIM back into my samsung phone now Im snookered! - diddums eh?
Battery: - personally I dont like phones where you cannot take the back off easily and remove the battery, especially as in the past my mobile phones have locked up and I have had to take the back off me phone wait for a few seconds and put battery back in to get working again, what am I supposed to do if it freezes and even a long press on the power button dont work - just wait for it to die down over a couple of days?
Vodafone Update: - yep one came through yesterday on my phone it said VDF-995NB01-IE_MR01d ... whatever that is? - no indication of what it fixes or enhances on restart it all looks and feels the same to me. Maybe it was sorting some bugs I dont even know about.
Software:
I do like fiddling when I get my phones its part of the fun isnt it, customising it just the way you like it and doing things it werent designed to do 'out of the box' - well a couple of times on my samsung I have mucked things up and I have had to re-flash the ROM, no problem with the samsung phones - I just do a combination of power and volume keypress as phone starts and im easily into download mode then put ODIN flasher and then plethora of different samsung roms available on the Internet and Cyanogen Mod roms (which I love ) so I am just wondering at the moment how I would get on with this ULTRA 6 should I need to have to re-install the ROM at any time after mucking it up and if a factory reset dont cure it. I havent looked yet but I am presuming there is not as many vodafone ROM's available to download as there was samsung, and I suppose I cannot install cyanogen mod 12 or whatever on this ... I dunno maybe I can.
Anyway bottom line is that I think the phone is fantastic for the price and I am more than happy with it - when I think in the past how much I have paid in the past and they have been no-where near having a camera quality like this and the speed of an 8core processor and the other features that the Smart Ultra 6 - My daughter last month saved up a huge amount of money and bought a One-Plus_ONE because all her mates were raving about it, I think she paid 269euro for it, Ive had a play with hers, its nice but ... well to be honest I like my Vodafone Smart ULTRA 6 better to be honest and the Vodafone Ultra was only 170euro compared to her phone .0 -
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I just ordered this on Sunday evening and am waiting on it to be delivered today.
In regards the battery issue above I had something similar happen on my old Xperia T and whenever I popped out the sim card it used to start into a reboot cycle. Not sure if this will also work with the VSU6 aswell?Battery: - personally I dont like phones where you cannot take the back off easily and remove the battery, especially as in the past my mobile phones have locked up and I have had to take the back off me phone wait for a few seconds and put battery back in to get working again, what am I supposed to do if it freezes and even a long press on the power button dont work - just wait for it to die down over a couple of days?
I read somewhere yesterday that some guys on XDA have got this booting into a different rom so some progress has been made there but could be a while yet before CM12 or so is available for it.Software:
I havent looked yet but I am presuming there is not as many vodafone ROM's available to download as there was samsung, and I suppose I cannot install cyanogen mod 12 or whatever on this ... I dunno maybe I can.0 -
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