Brand New ROG 3 came with a battery with no charge

[Roystoys]

I just got my brand new ROG 3 strix edition and I am a bit concerned. First thing I noticed is that it had no protective film on the screen and the battery was totally dead so much so that it would not fire up until I had it on its charger for 5 minutes or so. Is this normal. I have had tons of New phones before and this is the first one that came like this. I am wondering if this particular phone has been sold to someone else and returned??????????

[Roystoys]

xihe

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/129510#Comment_129510

They flash to global ROM

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Ok that makes sense thanks I'm learning a lot about this phone from you guys and at my age I can use all the help I can get. When I was I kid a mobile phone was totally SciFi then they brought out there thing that you needed a suit case for and only the CIA and the FBI and the like had them LOL

[aguo1882]

Roystoys

I paid$950 au for it . And that's what I thought must have happened, after they flashed it they must have forgotten to turn it off thus the flat battery. I also got a 40 gb prepaid SIM card as part of the deal so I am pretty happy with the price .I have been using develoer mode for a year or so now on my old 5 z and yes it's one of the first things I set up when it arrived. I didn't know what,, disable he overlay,, did so I'll enable it now thanks for the tip . It's running OS 17 0823 2007.32 and I think the latest is OS 17.0823.2009 .98 Does that sound right. Having been flashed will it still get OTA updates when they are released??

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You must have gotten it from Kogan haha. Its amazing value, just need to live with a few issues.
Yes, .98 is the latest firmware. I was not able to get the updates OTA, so I just use the method I described to update.
Very happy with it so far. The S20 Ultra (Exynos) was a huge disappointment, I will never touch Exynos again, its so bad that the Snapdragon variant is not available everywhere.

[Roystoys]

Yes Kogan it was. I have downloaded the zip file but I haven't been able to work out how to copy and paste it to the root directory yet but I rufuse to let technology best me so I will work it out come hell or high water

[Roystoys]

Any tips appreciated but I will have to leave it until tomorrow. I've been playing with this phone since about 11am and the war office is going to kill me if I don't put it down for the night and come to bed so later guys. Again thanks for all your help and tips muchly appreciated ☺️

[Roystoys]

PS Asus is very slow with their OTA updates I do remember that much