Question about Asus Zenfone 2 Laser ZE500KL

[Jhyrachy]

Hi,
my "old" moto g 2014 broke few days ago and now i need a new smartphone.

Since i can spend max 200€ there are really few options and i was thinking about hte Asus Zenfone 2 Laser ZE500KL [the one with the Snapdragon 410] (200€ here)

But I know no one who has it and i have lot of question:
can i root it? there is a "scene" support?
It has a "cheap plastic" feel?
How long the battery last?
Is the screen good enough?

Any downside?
It's weak?
it's "scratch-friendly"?

You will suggest another phone?

Thanks a lot!

 

[cLeAv0]

Hi,
my "old" moto g 2014 broke few days ago and now i need a new smartphone.

Since i can spend max 200€ there are really few options and i was thinking about hte Asus Zenfone 2 Laser ZE500KL [the one with the Snapdragon 410] (200€ here)

But I know no one who has it and i have lot of question:
can i root it? there is a "scene" support?
It has a "cheap plastic" feel?
How long the battery last?
Is the screen good enough?

Any downside?
It's weak?
it's "scratch-friendly"?

You will suggest another phone?

Thanks a lot!

Root for now will be hard because I can't access the bootloader. Probably needs other root methods that aren't discovered yet. It actually has a premium feel to it and has good build quality. Battery life is good. I keep my mobile data on + smart power saving feature and it really helps. It has Gorilla Glass 4 which is the latest I think. But still it's better to add screen protection to be sure. As per performance it's all smooth on light to moderate tasks with occasional stuttering when having 5+ apps open. (Probably due to killing some tasks to free RAM)

I plan on creating custom ROMS and kernels for myself if we get to unlock it's bootloader but I can release it if there's not enough devs.

 

[Jhyrachy]

Thanks a lot for your answer.

I thought root would have been easy since Asus released the kernel source.

Sad to be wrong.

Ram could not gave me more problem then my old Moto G since it has double the amount. My worries were more about the Zen UI being laggy (I always used cyanogenmod and nearly stock android, I have no experience with custom UI)

There are different phone you suggest for the same price tag or this is one of the best in his range?

Thanks!

 

[rajlko]

Zen UI is no laggy, it works very well.

 

[cLeAv0]

Yes as much as ASUS puts bloatware zenui is smooth. And you can also uninstall/disable preloaded apps. For me the only downside on ze500kl is we don't know how long it is gonna get updated and how development will progress. Other than that it is a solid buy. I also thought it's gonna be easy to develop because of released kernel sources but still we can't place a custom kernel in it without flashing.

 

[Jhyrachy]

Pulling it out of my ass, but can we dump boot.img and recovery.img? The bootloader is locked?

Trough adb we can boot a custom recovery without flashing (adb boot myrecovery.img) and if we get a really simple recovery to work we can push supersu.apk in System and get root access.

I read that other People rooted others snapdragon 410 using this way

 

[rajlko]

unable to find any recovery.img in full firmware or in kernel.
not able to pull from adb.
at present we have no custom recovery, neither any developer seems to help

 

[Jhyrachy]

I'm not really expert in android devolopmente but i'll take a look when i'll get it

 

[rajlko]

we will wait

 

[Jhyrachy]

I'll ask here to not make a new topic.

Someone with a ze500kl can make an Antutu benchmark?
Thanks a lot!

 

[ivanfix]

I'll ask here to not make a new topic.

Someone with a ze500kl can make an Antutu benchmark?
Thanks a lot!

About 22000 on my device

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[rajlko]

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[miau9202]

unable to find any recovery.img in full firmware or in kernel.
not able to pull from adb.
at present we have no custom recovery, neither any developer seems to help

recovery is a patched boot.img, and the patch is present in OTA package. (at least in 118)
although I can't ensure manual patched recovery is same as in phone,
it can directly boot from bootloader and is no need to flash.

recovery is attached. (it's not a flashable zip)

credit goes to: shakalaca


sorry for my poor english.

 

[jide1]

Please can anyone tell me what is better in terms of battery life between zenfone 2 ze550ML and zenfone 2 Laser ze550KL ?

 

[Arhaan11]

Asus Zenfone 2 laser

Why is Clash of clans lagging a lot on my Asus Zenfone 2 Laser(Z550KL)??

Have cleared the RAM cache as well, did factory reset and all. But no use. Any one having the same issue?? :crying:

Need a good solution.

Thanks
Arhaan