Asus Zenfone Selfie - Getting into Recovery Mode

Sometimes you have to get into Recovery Mode on the Asus Zenfone Selfie to do a factory data reset, wipe cache partition or manually install an update. Here's how.

First, turn off your phone. Then press and hold the 'volume down' button and 'power' button together. As soon as the Asus logo appears, you can release the 'power' button. Hold the 'volume down' button for another 3 seconds and let go. You should be in Recovery Mode now.

Omron HEM-7130

Bought this Omron HEM-7130 blood pressure monitor for home use. It is quite an accurate and affordable BP monitor.

Green light indicates that the cuff is properly wrapped around the arm.

Asus Zenfone Selfie (ZD551KL) - Introduction

Just got the Asus Zenfone Selfie from an online store (Lazada Malaysia) for RM836( approximately 200USD ). I'd say it has pretty good specification for the price.

The box.

What's in the box? Charging adapter, micro-USB cable, manual and phone.

 UK three-pin plug piece

Slide in the UK three-pin plug on the adapter.

Attachment complete.

Adapter 5V/2A.

 Capacitive buttons.

Front facing camera, dual LED flash and ear-piece.

Back: Rear facing camera, dual LED flash, laser autofocus and volume rocker. 

Loud speaker and micro USB port.

Back cover.

3000 mAh battery.

Asus Zenfone Selfie.

Let's take a look at the specifications.

CPU and GPU

In the heart of the Zenfone Selfie is a Snapdragon 615 SoC or so it seems. Qualcomm's website shows that the Zenfone Selfie uses the newer Snapdragon 616. On the other hand, Asus official websites state that Snapdragon 615 is being used. The screenshot below shows that the phone is clocked at 1.5GHz and 1.11GHz on low power cores.

RAM

3GB RAM is plenty and more than sufficient for most Android tasks. After uninstalling(or disabling) some Google and Asus apps, I was able to get around 1.5 to 1.6 GB of free RAM. Fortunately, Asus gave the option to disable most of it's pre-installed apps.

Camera

I'm quite pleased with the image quality results on both the rear and front facing camera. Will add more information and post up some image samples soon.