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@Rob. S. Things holding steady for you, repair-wise? Couldn't swing the price of a Magic V2, so I took delivery of a refurbed Galaxy Fold 3 last week. Fold veterans talked me out of the Fold 4, given its hinge issues, but Fold 3 is mint and I've set it up more or less to replace the Pro1x (the Fold 3, surprisingly, makes successful phone calls and things like that). The hinge feels rugged enough and the screen crease is almost unnoticeable indoors. That said, the hinge does clamp tight when phone is folded so care is necessary when opening to make sure the Fold doesn't spring out of your hands.. If I were at a bar with fx users, I would readily pass it around for inspection because folks here appreciate fragility, but I do keep the Fold at arm's length from people like my lovely wife who must drop her slab S6 about 5 times a day. On-screen kbs continue to drive me mad, even when the Fold is in laptop mode (TextMaker doc on upper screen, full kb on lower screen). Hacker's kb is still the best I've found, but its text prediction no longer works in later Android version and my lousy typing really needs prediction. Can't get the installed Unexpected kb to come up as a kb choice and can't figure out why. @Rob. S. -- I see that you've have Alt and Ctrl keys working on SwiftKey; I can't find them. Also, does SwiftKey have a Tab key? As one might assume, I'm trying to recreate a PC-like physical kb as much as I can, with mixed results at best. That said, the Fold 3 is peppy, with a boatload of storage, and due for Android 15 and 2 more years of security updates. There's no doubt though that the form factor still feels beta and I treat it accordingly and gingerly.  

Lineage-21-20241021-NIGHTLY-pro1x with October 1st security patch installed smoothly via OTA. MindTheGapps14, and root was maintained. 

Well it might, depending on where the contact for ground is in the old device. But certainly if plugged into a mono device, CTIA is very likely to work in Left channel.

AFAIK, the advantage of the CTIA standard is greater backwards compatibility. A CTIA headset can be plugged into a traditional (3-contact) stereo-jack socket and still work as an output-only stereo-headphone set (without mic function, obviously). If an OMTP headset is plugged into such a socket, even the earphone function could not work, as there might be no connection of the speakers to common ground (the common ground of the socket contacts the MIC ring instead of GND).

Librecam from fdroid is a pretty good camera app as well. Simple and it just works!