I must say, so far, I'm extremely pleased with this J3, especially the battery life!

That's what is so good about the A5. Dunno about the j3 but the A5 has same battery as an S8 but with a much smaller processor and less fancy screen so it has amazing battery life.

Mine lasted 2 days before needing a recharge.

puntofan01 said:

I must say, so far, I'm extremely pleased with this J3, especially the battery life!

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If you dont use the office apps - disable them, uninstall any updates for them before you disable them - you can free up around 1GB of space that's used by these, my partner has the same phone and less than a week after buying it - the memory was full...

I also use a J5 (work phone) and it's fine, not the best but does everything i need and yea - i can get about 3 to 4 days out of a full charge, dont use it much though.

If I do that though, won't I risk ballsing up the phone? In the past, I've uninstalled/disabled factory apps, and I get a warning saying it could cause other functions to fail. I wonder if doing that is what started my S3's gradual demise.

If you've got your back ups set properly just factory reset every once in a while and it keeps them running nice. You can then just let it reinstall everything you wanted and untick stuff you don't.

I have no idea how to use backups, lol!

It's usually sent to the cloud via your email address you set up when you log into your phone for the first time.

Or it is if you set it up mine runs over night.

I don't use cloud tbh.

You don't have to, if I recall correctly you get 15gb free along with a Google drive if you buy an Android phone.

If you set it up then all your photos, texts, calls app settings e.t.c. get backed up to it. When you reset or get a new phone, you just log in and it'll make your new phone like your old one.

puntofan01 said:

I have no idea how to use backups, lol!

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I don't know how many years my junior you are, but seriously! I though that younger people are supposed to know how to work all new technology by default !!

"Alexa! Turn the lights on" "ok google put the kettle on" "Cortana read me the news I can't see without my specs" "Siri..... we won't ask you to do much you'll only get it wrong"

I don't really have that much stuff that needs backing up really. All the pictures i take go onto an SD card.

puntofan01 said:

I don't really have that much stuff that needs backing up really. All the pictures i take go onto an SD card.

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Even my tv remote syncs to the cloud !

Fair enough, lol!

dtimmins1985 said:

If you dont use the office apps - disable them, uninstall any updates for them before you disable them - you can free up around 1GB of space that's used by these, my partner has the same phone and less than a week after buying it - the memory was full...

I also use a J5 (work phone) and it's fine, not the best but does everything i need and yea - i can get about 3 to 4 days out of a full charge, dont use it much though.

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No - it will be fine, just dont disable apps relating to the system.
The microsoft office apps take up huge chunks of space when you update them.

The reason they do this is...
1 = When you buy the phone, turn it on - the office apps are just stubs, not the full apps, more like a shortcut to them in the app store.

2 = Even though they are stubs, the app store see's them as installed apps and wants to update them when updates are available.

Best thing to do - uninstall the updates then disable the apps (stubs).

Okey dokey.

Too hot to sleep (night shift). Just as well I have stuff to do.

Liquid Knight said:

Too hot to sleep (night shift). Just as well I have stuff to do.

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Yea same here... tossing and turning, woke up feeling hot and flustered, no lie in after a manic week at work... Beer is much needed to help cure my night

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Yea same here... tossing and turning, woke up feeling hot and flustered, no lie in after a manic week at work... Beer is much needed to help cure my night

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Not an option for me as yesterday was Wednesday for me.

Did a spot of retail therapy instead.



2.5 V6 156 Wagon.

Doesn't feel as quick as my Bravo but you have to pay attention otherwise license loosing numbers appear before you know it. Wafty.

Seriously nice! I think good 156s are starting to become sought after.