Vodafone Smart ultra 6 Owners Thread- apps, tips & tricks

Doodlebug

Can anyone confirm if the Snapchat / Facebook photo bug is addressed with the latest update?

DopeTech

Doodlebug wrote: »

Can anyone confirm if the Snapchat / Facebook photo bug is addressed with the latest update?

I don't use it myself but someone else here on boards said problem is still there after update.

kinanoman

The snapchat Filter bug is still present after update.

Alanstrainor

GvidoR wrote: »

Any battery saving tips? I'm struggling to get 3 hours on-screen time with brightness almost down to minimum and using 3G (4G disabled).

I easily get twice what you get, and have since the start. You'll have to look at your settings->battery, and see what is eating your battery. I would bet there's a rogue app in there that's sucking your battery dry.

Current battery 64%, screen on time, 2 hours. Just to give you an idea.

Jay Dee

Hi,

My computer refuses to recognise the Phone.
Connecting via a usb.
Nothing.

Am I missing something ??

Thanks

Jay

DopeTech

Jay Dee wrote: »

Hi,

My computer refuses to recognise the Phone.
Connecting via a usb.
Nothing.

Am I missing something ??

Thanks

Jay

Turn on MTP.

patrickLouth1

What is a good case for this phone was looking on amazon at a shock proof one but would this be to big?

Alanstrainor

FrostyJim wrote: »

Turn on MTP.

Settings-> storage -> USB computer connection (top right corner, there's 3 dots) enable "media device" option (MTP).

robwen

Anyone know is there a cable u can get to connect the phone to a hdmi tv so I can watch stuff off Kodi app on my phone on my TV?

DopeTech

robwen wrote: »

Anyone know is there a cable u can get to connect the phone to a hdmi tv so I can watch stuff off Kodi app on my phone on my TV?

99% certain this phone doesn't support mhl. You can get a first gen Chromecast on adverts for €20, that's probably your best bet. Then there is apps that allow you to cast kodi to Chromecast.

Andy From Sligo

so pleased with the battery stamina in the VFSU6 - when you think how they have made the battery last so long much longer than on my galaxy note and galaxy S3 which I was lucky if it coluld last til end of day - with my SU6 some nights I go to bed and its still on 86% .. thats mad! - but in a good way!

Quigs Snr

Mine has been unlocked and upgraded to 5.1.

Seems to have developed a problem however... vibrates but does not ring for an incoming call. However.. if its in the car connected the Bluetooth and receives an incoming call the phone itself does actually both ring and vibrate.

Bizzare one. Any ideas ?

dahat

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

so pleased with the battery stamina in the VFSU6 - when you think how they have made the battery last so long much longer than on my galaxy note and galaxy S3 which I was lucky if it coluld last til end of day - with my SU6 some nights I go to bed and its still on 86% .. thats mad! - but in a good way!

Love the phone but I'm a battery killer user, often need a second charge.

valor

Anybody recommend an app for when opening / closing cover the screen auto turns on/off? The ones I've found via google wont work. I have a leather cover that I bought in the Vodafone store so I guess its an official cover. Thanks

Just got the phone, this thread is prohibitively long so apologies if answered

FrostyJim

FrostyJim wrote: »

99% certain this phone doesn't support mhl. You can get a first gen Chromecast on adverts for €20, that's probably your best bet. Then there is apps that allow you to cast kodi to Chromecast.

Even better option is to buy a cheap Android box for 20-25, run kodi or showbox on that and still have your phone free to browse boards

shanemkelly

Quigs Snr wrote:

Seems to have developed a problem however... vibrates but does not ring for an incoming call. However.. if its in the car connected the Bluetooth and receives an incoming call the phone itself does actually both ring and vibrate.

Mine has been unlocked and upgraded to 5.1.

Bizzare one. Any ideas ?

I had the same issue but a reboot & reselect ringtone sorted mine.

Soarer

Morning all.

Time for me to get the finger out.

Would this be a good upgrade from a Galaxy S4 for Mrs. S?
Is it easy to swap everything over from the S4?

Thanks.

duridian

Soarer wrote: »

Morning all.

Time for me to get the finger out.

Would this be a good upgrade from a Galaxy S4 for Mrs. S?
Is it easy to swap everything over from the S4?

Thanks.

The GS4 is still a pretty powerful device, so I don't think it will be totally blown away by the Ultra6, but it would still be a nice change as the screen of Ultra is bigger and the Android interface is much more like that of a Google Nexus.

It should be pretty straightforward to switch.
Anything she has bought from Play Store on GS4 will still be available through the Play Store on new phone.
If she has her contacts backed up to Google's servers, they will automatically sync into the contacts app on new phone.

I think that because the VSU6 has Android Lollipop on it, the initial setup process will probably ask if you want to use a previous phone's settings to setup the new one, if the old one has been synching the apps and data to Google.
At least that was how it worked on my Motorola last time I had to set it up. And like the Moto, the Ultra6 has a very similar, "stock" form of Android, so I'd think the same type of set up runs initially on first boot up. This practically completely automates the setup. Just enter your Wi-Fi and Gmail details and let it off to do it's thing.

Andy From Sligo

valor wrote: »

Anybody recommend an app for when opening / closing cover the screen auto turns on/off? The ones I've found via google wont work. I have a leather cover that I bought in the Vodafone store so I guess its an official cover. Thanks

Just got the phone, this thread is prohibitively long so apologies if answered

I think the mrs uses Pocket screen Lock from the play store on her android phone - choose the one by Golden Pie Devs - Ive just downloaded it to my SU6 now and it seems to work OK whereas the other pocket locks would just turn off the phone but not turn it on when i moved my hand away from the sensor. Before using it properly go to the settings of pocket screen lock and choose 'Always' where it says Works:

HTH

valor

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

I think the mrs uses Pocket screen Lock from the play store on her android phone - choose the one by Golden Pie Devs - Ive just downloaded it to my SU6 now and it seems to work OK whereas the other pocket locks would just turn off the phone but not turn it on when i moved my hand away from the sensor. Before using it properly go to the settings of pocket screen lock and choose 'Always' where it says Works:

HTH

thanks but doesnt work for me, when I close the cover it doesnt lock / when I open the cover doesnt turn on the screen ;/ kind of annoying cant get that to work on this phone

DopeTech

valor wrote: »

thanks but doesnt work for me, when I close the cover it doesnt lock / when I open the cover doesnt turn on the screen ;/ kind of annoying cant get that to work on this phone

Is the proximity sensor working properly? Try calling somebody. Does the screen switch off when its up to tour face? Or you could cover it with your finger.

deadanonymau5

Jay Dee wrote: »

Hi,

My computer refuses to recognise the Phone.
Connecting via a usb.
Nothing.

Am I missing something ??

Thanks

Jay

I presume its to transfer files?

Download Android File Transfer?
https://www.android.com/filetransfer/

Andy From Sligo

valor wrote: »

thanks but doesnt work for me, when I close the cover it doesnt lock / when I open the cover doesnt turn on the screen ;/ kind of annoying cant get that to work on this phone

thats very strange - as frosty jim says check the proximity sensor is working fine

Now, I cannot find it but I am pretty sure there has got to be , but a secret code for this Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 for testing things like the proximity sensor along with checking other hardware such as lcd screen and function buttons - but i cannot find the proper secret code, well not yet - I have even tried to find some ZTE Blade 6 plus secret codes that can test hardware of the SU6 but no joy yet

Andy From Sligo

valor wrote: »

thanks but doesnt work for me, when I close the cover it doesnt lock / when I open the cover doesnt turn on the screen ;/ kind of annoying cant get that to work on this phone

try this - when you have Pocket screen Lock installed and running on the phone, wake the phone up so its in lockscreen walpaper - then cover the top of your phone with the palm of your hand, screen should go off and then take your hand away from top of phone, lockscreen should show. If you manually use the right power button to put the phone to sleep from the lockscreen then pocketscreen lock wont work (maybe manually putting phone into standby turns off the proximity sensor on this SU6 phone)

jgbyr

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

thats very strange - as frosty jim says check the proximity sensor is working fine

Now, I cannot find it but I am pretty sure there has got to be , but a secret code for this Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 for testing things like the proximity sensor along with checking other hardware such as lcd screen and function buttons - but i cannot find the proper secret code, well not yet - I have even tried to find some ZTE Blade 6 plus secret codes that can test hardware of the SU6 but no joy yet

This was posted here by ExcaliberRisen in Aug in this thread - " I was experiencing an issue with the phone where holding the phone to my ear causes the speaker mode to engage. Plus the screen remains blank after the call has ended. I read a couple of posts in the other smart ultra thread over in BA of people experiencing similar issues.

Anyway I did some googling and found a code to access the service menu. It's a code for the XTE Blade but I gave it a shot and it worked for me. The below code gives you access to 20 different tests you can do on the phone. The one I wanted was the Sensor option (scroll down the list).
The sensors in the phone are 'Accelerometer', 'Magnetic', 'Light' and 'Proximity'. Proximity was the one that interested me and there's a Proximity Calibrate button which I clicked and I get the message that the calibration is ok. However under the Proximity section I see the following:

Feature_Sensor: F:trued/S:true CTS success
X: no Fail!

I have no idea what this means. But I've dialed a couple of numbers since doing the calibration and initial impressions are that the speaker mode is not getting enabled by my ear any more and the screen comes back on when I take the phone from my ear. So it appears to have fixed the issue.

Service Menu code:
*983*0#

Disclaimer: This worked for me but I take no responsbility if you bork your phone. :-) - "

Jay Dee

Hi,

Alanstrainor,
Thanks for the advice.
Worked first time...
Would never have worked it out...
Although it seems simple now...

Thanks


Jay

Andy From Sligo

jgbyr wrote: »

This was posted here by ExcaliberRisen in Aug in this thread - " I was experiencing an issue with the phone where holding the phone to my ear causes the speaker mode to engage. Plus the screen remains blank after the call has ended. I read a couple of posts in the other smart ultra thread over in BA of people experiencing similar issues.

Anyway I did some googling and found a code to access the service menu. It's a code for the XTE Blade but I gave it a shot and it worked for me. The below code gives you access to 20 different tests you can do on the phone. The one I wanted was the Sensor option (scroll down the list).
The sensors in the phone are 'Accelerometer', 'Magnetic', 'Light' and 'Proximity'. Proximity was the one that interested me and there's a Proximity Calibrate button which I clicked and I get the message that the calibration is ok. However under the Proximity section I see the following:

Feature_Sensor: F:trued/S:true CTS success
X: no Fail!

I have no idea what this means. But I've dialed a couple of numbers since doing the calibration and initial impressions are that the speaker mode is not getting enabled by my ear any more and the screen comes back on when I take the phone from my ear. So it appears to have fixed the issue.

Service Menu code:
*983*0#

Disclaimer: This worked for me but I take no responsbility if you bork your phone. :-) - "

ah what a shame - I got all excited then ... but put *983*0# into my VFSU6 and nothing happened

Hitchens

bidiots wrote: »

Double tap to wake is hit on miss on any device i've ever used, Windows and Android

try a quadruple tap, seems to a good success rate

jgbyr

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

ah what a shame - I got all excited then ... but put *983*0# into my VFSU6 and nothing happened

It works on mine

Andy From Sligo

jgbyr wrote: »

It works on mine

This is why im sort of like convinced now that there are variations of VFSU6's out there on the market because there is another issue where some people have rooted their SU6 with no problems whatsoever but with some SU6 owners (including me) where it stayed rooted until the phone rebooted and then lost root. I have sorted it now and pushed TWRP to the phone and updated supersu but some people have managed to root their SU6 permanently only with using wondershare mobilego. Thats why I think there are different version SU6's - but logically *983* stands for *ZTE* and then 673636# meaning OPENEM (open Engineering Mode) - but no, none of those codes work on mu VFSU6 phone

dahat

Worked on mine, pity it wasn't as easy to root.

valor

Used this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mtorres.phonetester and proximity sensor seems to work fine..when i put my finger over the part at the top to the right of the earpiece it recognises it as near

valor

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

try this - when you have Pocket screen Lock installed and running on the phone, wake the phone up so its in lockscreen walpaper - then cover the top of your phone with the palm of your hand, screen should go off and then take your hand away from top of phone, lockscreen should show. If you manually use the right power button to put the phone to sleep from the lockscreen then pocketscreen lock wont work (maybe manually putting phone into standby turns off the proximity sensor on this SU6 phone)

Yeah, when I do this, it works..screen goes off and comes back when I take my finger away - but it doesnt lock it, it just dims the screen
I wanted an app that would wake the phone from sleep to the lockscreen..but that isnt possible if proximity sensor doesnt work in Standby, is that the issue?

Any idea why it seems to just dim the screen rather than lock it straight away ?
And an app that allows it to light up the screen to lock screen when I open the case isnt possible?

Thanks.

valor

I think the problem si with the cover maybe, because when I do it with my finger it does light off..but when I close the cover, it doesnt dim the screen..I can see light coming from undernearth the cover. Quite annoying

DanC90

Hitchens wrote:

try a quadruple tap, seems to a good success rate

Double tap on the home button has a high success rate for me, the odd time I triple tap to make sure :P

DopeTech

valor wrote: »

I think the problem si with the cover maybe, because when I do it with my finger it does light off..but when I close the cover, it doesnt dim the screen..I can see light coming from undernearth the cover. Quite annoying

Do you have a link to the case?

GvidoR

Over in Latvia now using a Latvian sim card and all of a sudden it became nearly unusable. Dropping signal randomly and I have to restart the phone for the signal come back again. This started happening when I tried to send a 5 MB video over 3G. I have restarted it about 50 times today. Switched it to 3G/2G only, seems OK so far. Hopefully it stays that way.

DopeTech

GvidoR wrote: »

Over in Latvia now using a Latvian sim card and all of a sudden it became nearly unusable. Dropping signal randomly and I have to restart the phone for the signal come back again. This started happening when I tried to send a 5 MB video over 3G. I have restarted it about 50 times today. Switched it to 3G/2G only, seems OK so far. Hopefully it stays that way.

Possibly using different bands? Or just their 4g is not as reliable.

GvidoR

FrostyJim wrote:

Possibly using different bands? Or just their 4g is not as reliable.

It's working fine now after I switched to 2G/3G only. Strange how it would just lose the signal though but come back for a short time after restart.

Woden

FrostyJim wrote: »

Has nothing to do with the fact your not using it on VF, most likely to do with the rooting. You could try flash the OTA file from SD card instead of the online update method although it may have the same results. Failing that you will need to factory reset and run online update again.

Cheer I ended up installing the stock rom again and then was able to update. Google just delivered a backup then of all my apps which was nice. Even had my google keep notes still in place!

GeneralC

My micro sim won't fit. Any suggestions?

smilgy

GeneralC wrote: »

My micro sim won't fit. Any suggestions?

This phone uses a nano sim. You're going to have to get it changed.

Also, I noticed, even if the phone is on silent, when taking pictures in WhatsApp, the shutter sound is present. I have it turned off on the main camera app and its silent when taking pictures through that, but not in WhatsApp. Anyone have any ideas on how to disable it, short of rooting the phone ?

GeneralC

smilgy wrote: »

This phone uses a nano sim. You're going to have to get it changed.

Also, I noticed, even if the phone is on silent, when taking pictures in WhatsApp, the shutter sound is present. I have it turned off on the main camera app and its silent when taking pictures through that, but not in WhatsApp. Anyone have any ideas on how to disable it, short of rooting the phone ?

Are you positive it's a nano sim? I have a nano sim, not a micro and it's too small for it!

smilgy

GeneralC wrote: »

Are you positive it's a nano sim? I have a nano sim, not a micro and it's too small for it!

Pretty certain, as I had to order a nano sim myself. Are you sure you're not putting it in where the SD card slot is? The sim slot is on the right, just above the volume button.

GvidoR

It is a Nano SIM.

Martypants1

Can I just cut the micro sim to size?

slowlydownwards

I chanced it and it worked. Your mileage may vary, as you need to cut a part of the metal chip on the SIM card to get it down to the right size. That was 2 months ago, SIM still working fine. Various guides on the interwebs/YT too. You'll also need decent enough scissors too.

mickey1985

Anyone buy a mhl to HDMI adapter to connect this to a TV?

mickey1985

Anyone buy a mhl to HDMI adapter to connect this to a TV?

GeneralC

Just downloading the latest firmware now!