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[Francisco Pina Martins <f.pinamartins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here are my 0.02€.

I never had the issue of silent calls (or any other notification), at 
least as far as I can tell.

I did have the battery drain issue a few times, but it was always solved 
with a restart of the phone and a full charge.

After reading the posts on this mailing list (I'm sorry, I can't 
remember the names of the authors, but it involved one of canonical or 
BQ's engineer) on how batteries actually work, I have changed my habits 
and now I charge the phone every night. Approximately once per month I 
let it drain to close to 10%, for calibration. Reaching this charage 
level takes about 3 days of my regular weekend usage (so less 
[calls|email|sms|etc] than normal on a week day). I never had the 
battery drain issue again.

Also, like Walter, I'm pretty much hoping my E4.5 will last until the 
next snap based device is available.


Francisco


On 04-03-2017 16:02, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote:
> * Matthias Apitz, guru@xxxxxxxxxxx [04/03/17 16:08]:
> > El día Saturday, March 04, 2017 a las 01:53:57PM +0000, Paul Tait escribió:
> >
> > > I think that it may be more a case of you've been extremely lucky, or I have been extremely unlucky. Although many others have had the same issues:
> > >
> > > Silent Incoming Calls:
> > >
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/media-hub/+bug/1612367
> > I never faced this issue.
> I had a case of hardware failure, not software. The speakers started
> failing sometimes, and then always, in my BQ E5 (not E4.5). I sent it
> for repair to BQ and it was fixed and had my phone back in four
> days. It failed again, I think once in a month, and I got the sound
> back by pressing on the  back iat the bottom part with both fingers,
> with the screen facing me (as I read in Internet from users with
> Android). It looks like failing speakers is a common issue in this
> model of BQ, also with Android, I don't know about the E4.5.
>
> > > Battery Inexplicably Drains:
> > >
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1458756
> > >
> > > Which, incidentally was filed by you Matthias in May 2015. Despite two years passing and a new power manager, the problem still persists, at least for me. Did you find a solution to it then?
> > I do not have it quite often, and if it happened I just recharge the
> > device without any problem.
> I saw this a couple of times, haven't seen it for three months or so
> now. In may case, restarting the phone fixed it. I think in my case it
> was caused by some misbehaving application.
>
> But overall my BQ E5 with UT is very usable, unless the hardware
> fails I think I may be able to make it last until (hopefully) we have
> a snap-based device.