What has been your experience with the ROG 2?

[nationkid]

I want to start back to when I first heard about ASUS doing gaming phones and why I got one. But to hear your thoughts too, because I've seen alot of posts gone from excitement and enjoyability to out right hate or disgust.

I was lucky to visit Japan back in August 2019 and during my travels I came across a gentleman who had the ROG 1 phone, it took my attention from the lighting back and made me wonder what the spec and everything was. My old phone being a sony xperia xz premiun I decided to look into the ASUS brand. That's when I saw the ROG 2, its big huge spec and battery and its slightly useless but nice fan I decided this phone would be a good phone to last me years, if not a good 8 years if I was lucky. So... I waited for release in the UK which was roughly two months later and I got one from ASUS UK store. It arrived next day and I was super happy with the upgrade.
I then have been on here now for the past 6 months. Mostly to keep an eye on updates and bits for game genie. Sometimes looking at issues to see what was going on. That's when I started to see issues with motherboards, battery issues and red tint, black crush. After which my battery began to feel like a 3000Mah rather than a near 6000 (5800 rated) battery, I actually charge my sony phone the same amount as my ROG phone and do the exact same stuff, so it really ticked me off as it feels the same.

We then had the delay in android 10 and having months without a secruity patch or update, then seeing how ROG 1 had to wait ages for android 9 and then after which told the phones basically done with, I felt abit put off.

I then saw a jerry rig video, were he breaks down the phone and seeing how the vent/ cooling was basically a crap con and the phone mostly cooling out of the screen, made me feel more buyers remorse. The ROG 3 actually has a heatsink with a useful vent btw.

Overral I like the idea, and I think the specs are nice but there is either a serious need to fund software dev more and boost the team or ROG 3 was rushed out to replace the issues we are getting in ROG 2. I honestly dont know what the future is for this phone but I just hope that if and when we get android 11 that the devs can then focus on features, fixes and overall improvements. Heck that bypass charging that the ROG 3 just got is right up my street and I would love that so much. especially how im such a battery care geek.

To sum up, I regret buying the ROG 2, I had tried to see if Asus do a replacement service for the ROG 3 and pay the dif but they sadly don't. Will I buy again from ASUS? Mobile wise, no. PC stuff, most likely.

I don't personally blame the devs, heck they have had a virus shutting down normal processes but I just wish the company listened and at least cared for past phones which aint even a year old.

Curious to hear other peoples thoughts and experiences.

[deeppaul589]

This phone could be good if it had good software . I would still this recommend phone to someone who need an interruption free display , etc and dosent care about software.
Would I buy it ? : NO

[ronald1985]

nationkid

I want to start back to when I first heard about ASUS doing gaming phones and why I got one. But to hear your thoughts too, because I've seen alot of posts gone from excitement and enjoyability to out right hate or disgust.

I was lucky to visit Japan back in August 2019 and during my travels I came across a gentleman who had the ROG 1 phone, it took my attention from the lighting back and made me wonder what the spec and everything was. My old phone being a sony xperia xz premiun I decided to look into the ASUS brand. That's when I saw the ROG 2, its big huge spec and battery and its slightly useless but nice fan I decided this phone would be a good phone to last me years, if not a good 8 years if I was lucky. So... I waited for release in the UK which was roughly two months later and I got one from ASUS UK store. It arrived next day and I was super happy with the upgrade.

I then have been on here now for the past 6 months. Mostly to keep an eye on updates and bits for game genie. Sometimes looking at issues to see what was going on. That's when I started to see issues with motherboards, battery issues and red tint, black crush. After which my battery began to feel like a 3000Mah rather than a near 6000 (5800 rated) battery, I actually charge my sony phone the same amount as my ROG phone and do the exact same stuff, so it really ticked me off as it feels the same.

We then had the delay in android 10 and having months without a secruity patch or update, then seeing how ROG 1 had to wait ages for android 9 and then after which told the phones basically done with, I felt abit put off.

I then saw a jerry rig video, were he breaks down the phone and seeing how the vent/ cooling was basically a crap con and the phone mostly cooling out of the screen, made me feel more buyers remorse. The ROG 3 actually has a heatsink with a useful vent btw.

Overral I like the idea, and I think the specs are nice but there is either a serious need to fund software dev more and boost the team or ROG 3 was rushed out to replace the issues we are getting in ROG 2. I honestly dont know what the future is for this phone but I just hope that if and when we get android 11 that the devs can then focus on features, fixes and overall improvements. Heck that bypass charging that the ROG 3 just got is right up my street and I would love that so much. especially how im such a battery care geek.

To sum up, I regret buying the ROG 2, I had tried to see if Asus do a replacement service for the ROG 3 and pay the dif but they sadly don't. Will I buy again from ASUS? Mobile wise, no. PC stuff, most likely.

I don't personally blame the devs, heck they have had a virus shutting down normal processes but I just wish the company listened and at least cared for past phones which aint even a year old.

Curious to hear other peoples thoughts and experiences.

What has been your experience with the ROG 2?

Personally I not had problems with this phone as my daily driver. I live in Europe, but got the phone from Asia. Like alot of you, if my phone breaks and it is under warranty, I would probably need to take my phone back to the orginating country who sold the device to me.
The hardware specification is definately what I am looking for and the reason why I got the phone (512GB Disk Space/12 GB RAM) and the battery life is definately helpful for me to do light gaming on the move and yet do not have to worry about running out of battery by the time I get home. I hate nowadays that battery is integrated with the phone, but there is nothing I can do as that is the trend. If only a manufacturer somehow make the batteries detachable but yet make it comfortable to use, I would like to try it out. The weight is definately heavier than alot of the phones that I had, but I can adjust to that no problem.
On top of that, like OP has said was the lights and fan did catch some of the attention, but was not a deal breaker to me. But it had me interested.
The regular updates and patches was a concern as it was around 6 to 7 months when I checked before buying the phone. The hardware won me over because if I don't go onto dodgy sites to get your apps, you will be absolutely fine.
I would like to see the phone essential apps like Clock, Phone, Camera and Contacts to be the same app created from ASUS to be uniformed and they are indeed. But the Messages app is from Google and the blue does stand out abit from the ASUS apps. It doesn't look professional at all 😅
It is my first phone with ASUS. I have been with Samsung Galaxy Series from 2 to 10 (rooted all of them) and I have 20 at the moment too which is still under warranty. Do I want to stay with ASUS? I would definately give things a try if new things do come out in terms of hardware specification. A new model with just changing in software doesn't really work for me. I like to touch and feel what I have brought and software can be changed by anyone.

[mandalkunal5555]

Terrible. Never buying any phones from Asus ever again. And I'd also advise my friends and relatives to stay away from Asus smartphones.

[Osmak]

mandalkunal5555

Terrible. Never buying any phones from Asus ever again. And I'd also advise my friends and relatives to stay away from Asus smartphones.

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Why ,I suggest you stay away from all expensive phones and buy only cheap phones coz that kind of mentality you have got....stop complaining..this is good phone

[mandalkunal5555]

Osmak

https://zentalk.asus.com/en/discussion/comment/116232#Comment_116232

Why ,I suggest you stay away from all expensive phones and buy only cheap phones coz that kind of mentality you have got....stop complaining..this is good phone

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I only go for high end gadgets bro, and from the way you've written your response, it's not very hard to tell just how bright you are. Telling a consumer to "stop complaining" is probably not a great idea.
First there was only this ronald guy and now you. Where do you people even come from? JFL