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[AndyRoid]

£60 more and you could have had a Samsung S3....

You should shop here Aaron, I sold a fully working and unlocked S3 over a year ago for £120.
Next week I'll be flogging an S4 and an S5, 6 months and 3 months old respectively.
Both boxed and fully working, although the S4 will be the cheaper than what it should be as I tripped the KNOX counter which means Samsung may argue over the remaining 18 months warranty should you ever need to call on it.

The Cubot 10 is a good smartphone. Just no instructions. And no after sales care. But what do you expect for £60.

1. Can I have your dealers name & address, because I'll definitely have some of whatever it is you are smoking 
2. No smartphone comes with instructions mate
3. Probably because it's so poor that even the likes of GSM Arena and XDA don't mention it
4. You get what you pay for. In your case you got what (at first glance) looks like a Galaxy S4, but in reality would get blown away by a Galaxy S2 which is now 4 years old in April and essentially extinct by technology standards.

It's probably worth it to give to the kids as a cheap xmas/birthday pressie, but only because they'll more than likely break the screen within a handful of weeks.

The only thing I don't really get is how boosting the mic volume also had the effect of boosting the audio output volume.
I'll await your next post saying your speaker/mic no longer works as the cheap chipset it uses didn't have some form of overload protection built in 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

£60 more and you could have had a Samsung S3....

You should shop here Aaron, I sold a fully working and unlocked S3 over a year ago for £120.
Next week I'll be flogging an S4 and an S5, 6 months and 3 months old respectively.
Both boxed and fully working, although the S4 will be the cheaper than what it should be as I tripped the KNOX counter which means Samsung may argue over the remaining 18 months warranty should you ever need to call on it.

The Cubot 10 is a good smartphone. Just no instructions. And no after sales care. But what do you expect for £60.

1. Can I have your dealers name & address, because I'll definitely have some of whatever it is you are smoking 
2. No smartphone comes with instructions mate
3. Probably because it's so poor that even the likes of GSM Arena and XDA don't mention it
4. You get what you pay for. In your case you got what (at first glance) looks like a Galaxy S4, but in reality would get blown away by a Galaxy S2 which is now 4 years old in April and essentially extinct by technology standards.

It's probably worth it to give to the kids as a cheap xmas/birthday pressie, but only because they'll more than likely break the screen within a handful of weeks.

The only thing I don't really get is how boosting the mic volume also had the effect of boosting the audio output volume.
I'll await your next post saying your speaker/mic no longer works as the cheap chipset it uses didn't have some form of overload protection built in 

My previous phone was circa 1985 so the P10 is the dogs boll*cks as far as I'm concerned.

Good enough for my needs.

[AndyRoid]

My previous phone was circa 1985 so the P10 is the dogs boll*cks as far as I'm concerned.

Good enough for my needs.

So long as it does what you want it to do, that's all that matters really.
If nothing else, it has the distinct advantage that you can simply forget it if something were to happen (eg, screen break)

[The Sheriff]

I seem to have cured my S4 from having a mind of it's own. I did a factory reset and didn't log into my google account. I can't access the play store so can't download apps, but I really wasn't using them anyway and it was obviously one of the apps that was affecting it in the first place.
I now have a phone that takes/makes calls and texts, nothing else. It's actually quite liberating, I don't feel the need to check it every ten minutes.

[AndyRoid]

No need to jump the gun with a reset Steve, you could have proved it was one of the apps you installed (which it often is) by starting it in Safe Mode.
You'll still have Bluetooth, GPS, etc, in Safe Mode, but you won't see any apps over & above the factory installed software.
It will probably appear to run quite rapidly (which it will as there is no rubbish installed), but it will also prove it is a user problem rather than hardware.

To start an S4 in safe mode, simply keep pressing the "soft menu" key (that's the one to the left of the home button) while the phone boots up.
If you are successful in starting in safe mode, you'll see those words written on the bottom left of the handset.

Logging in to your Google account wouldn't cause any issues (in fact you need to log in to update the Play store so it works correctly anyway).
Log back in, but disable any options to sync (these are in both the phone and the Play store itself), then install your apps one by one and run it for a couple of days to see if the issue reappears.
When/if it does, you have found the rogue app.

[The Sheriff]

I reset it once before, Mark, and logged into my google acount. Next thing I knew, all my old apps and settings had been downloaded from google cloud, right down to my home screen wallpaper, which obviously didn't even exist in my gallery any more. 
I'll see how I manage with just a 'phone' for now. Got my iPad and a PC, so doubt I'll miss anything important.
Thanks for your continued help for us philistines 

[AndyRoid]

Next thing I knew, all my old apps and settings had been downloaded from google cloud, right down to my home screen wallpaper, which obviously didn't even exist in my gallery any more. 

That's probably because the sync feature was enabled Steve (it's enabled by default during the initial setup if you don't remove the tick from the checkboxes such as Location, etc).
My advice would be to disable the sync option before you sign back in, then do the sign in afterwards and go from there mate.

PS
To make sure sync is off, use 2 fingers to pull the drop down bar down and you will have ALL the quick access buttons on one page...."sync" will be one of them. Also disable GPS as that is on by default as well.
Note that a long press of the sync quick access button will take you to the Accounts page where you can alter the sync requirements for each app if you so wish, and the sync button for Google Play is within the app settings itself.

Alternatively, if they have downloaded before you can stop them then go in to your Launcher, press the soft menu key (that's the imaginary button to the left of the Home key), select Uninstall, and then place a tick in the apps that you want removed (you can remove more than one at a time this way).

[The Sheriff]

That two finger pull down (ooer) ia a new one on me.
So...no sync...ticked do not update apps...I'll start with my two email accounts now and see how I go from there. 

[AndyRoid]

I suspect your e-mail will be fine Steve, my money is on an app causing your issues

[The Sheriff]

Email working fine, Mark. So...calls, texts, emailx2 working OK and......battery is lasting three days! 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Email working fine, Mark. So...calls, texts, emailx2 working OK and......battery is lasting three days! 

Have you considered a Cubot P10?

[AndyRoid]

Email working fine, Mark. So...calls, texts, emailx2 working OK and......battery is lasting three days! 

It probably does when it's in safe mode Steve, and probably also does if you don't install anything.
I can get 2 days out of my S4 with mild to moderate usage, although that has been tweaked to the heavens and is currently running a non standard ROM (Phoenix ROM v10.2, which is based on firmware XXUGNJ8...your firmware is probably still on XXUFNB9).

Although my device status is still reported as official (and boot status still as Samsung), recovery mode gives the game away by reporting the KNOX counter as having been tripped. Unfortunately I had to do that in order to install a custom recovery (PhilzTouch) which then allowed me to install the custom ROM.
That opens the doors with Samsung for potentially refusing to honour the remaining 18 months warranty, although if it went that far I would expect them to prove the fault was caused by software in the first place.

Email working fine, Mark. So...calls, texts, emailx2 working OK and......battery is lasting three days! 

Have you considered a Cubot P10?

He had better years ago when he had an S2, and didn't have to boost the volume to hear videos either