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Have received my qwerty version. Serial number 135, ordered from Clove. Need some work with settings, apps, layout - but in all, good device

Total agree on the gimmickry, especially as touching upon cameras. Three-quarters of the page on most manufacturers' model pages are devoted to the camera. I could give a rat's ass about the camera. I'm interested in the guts. Richard

The key apps I would recommend anyone are 3C All-in-one Toolbox Pro (Especially if you with adb give it android.permission.BATTERY_STATS ) GSAM Battery Monitor Pro (Especially if you with adb give it android.permission.BATTERY_STATS ) Greenify - to help automatically clean up, the bloat that you have chosen not to disable due to occasional usage. Android Assistant - To help manually clean up Netguard - a non-root VPN 'firewall'. Textra - a nice SMS/MMS app, that works great with a real keyboard NOT giving a small window of a few lines for entering the text..

There are many reasons imaginable which could justify a higher price than the processor alone might. I mentioned it somewhere else already – these days, a Fairphone 3 got added to the handsets of my household. That's a Snapdragon 632 device and thus, in 2020, a middling performer. Still it is 450€ ($500), whereas I got my similar-performing Moto Z3 Play for 250 € last year. It's the "fair" thing, the 5-year support for hardware and software including security updates, the repairability, which justify the price for those who bought it. I find it easy to justify the Pro1's price premium over oth

I think the others above have been making this point, but while I understand this thinking (I also remember JFK), I think smartphones have hit the same CPU plateau computers hit in the mid 2000s. Succeeding generations of chips get faster on the benchmarks, but in real life, performance isn't getting that much better and, in fact, battery consumption may be getting worse for what little performance benefit you get. I don't think there is a lot that an 835 SD CPU and 6 Gb won't be able to handle for some time to come. For the same reason, I don't even care if I have the latest version of And

This was done earlier: https://community.fxtec.com/topic/2357-age-group-of-users-for-pro1/ and ages 40+ won, but the age groups weren't equal sized. So let's try it again. Note usernames are private.

I just wanted to note that I am suddenly starting to see this bug with much more frequency. Getting close to once a day. No, it's not terrible, an easy reboot, but I am concerned about the possibility of losing data if I am working on a document when it happens. Also, @EskeRahn can this thread be pinned so people don't have to hunt it down?

Okay so.. the refund for the device I never got from FxTec is back. From what I can deduce from my emails it took them about 2 weeks. I confirmed their email asking whether I really want to cancel my order and get a refund on the 21st of December and got my money onto my credit card on the 2nd of January. If you take all the holidays into account, I must say FxTec was very fast on this matter. Now I am waiting for them to find a solution to my broken display replacement. I ordered a display from Aliexpress, so I will be trying to replace it myself once it arrives, but FxTec-support told m

I like the look of the Cosmo too, except that the keyboard is such that you pretty much have to lay it on a table to type. People who already own them have confirmed my suspicion that it is really a UMPC with a phone in the back of the screen rather than a true smartphone with a keyboard. I'll probably get one eventually, but as a curiosity, not a phone.

I would stay away from QuickPic. I used to swear by it, but it is now owned by Cheetah Mobile a notorious spyware publisher. I replaced it with Gallery Pro by Simple Mobile for which your description is appropriate. If you are using an old pre-Cheater Mobile apk, then you are ok, but folks should be careful.

Yes, and this is where a special device with its own community comes in. ...at least it is what I hope. So if a usual device abandoned then the user cannot do anything. ...but Pro1 has open (or openable) bootloader, a keyboard which makes it special, a decent hardware and hopefully durable design, so I am currently absolutely not worry about it.

I like LineageOS and installed several builds of it on the V20 I used for navigation, but none of them did everything I needed it to do. 17 ran the nav and mapping programs fine, but not the BT. 16 had problems with the GPS. And none of them worked the fingerprint scanner. I could have hacked them, I suppose; but I was actually looking for a solution more than a hobby at the moment. So I wound up flashing stock Nougat back onto it, taking the OTA to Oreo, and removing as much AT&T and LG crapware as I could with ADB short of rooting the phone again. If I replace the first V20, it

Also I feel SailFish OS (or some others) will run well on this phone after a while and it is a native operating system which may mean better performance if optimized well. Also it may have a long-term LineageOS support if community will exists around this phone. So it may happen to have also some improvements by time and not necessarily obsolete operating system. 🙂

I'll preface this by copying the warning on the page I'm linking: So with that out of the way, has anybody tried https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/acc It seems to have a bunch of functions to extend battery life, but it does require root via Magisk. One specific function that seems to work on a very limited number of devices is to limit the charging current via applyOnPlug=usb/current_max:MICRO_AMPS . This seems to accomplish what most people here would want, without needing to use a specific charger.

[For those not familiar, a dead key is a key that doesnt advance when you type it, imagine a typewriter and typing é, you type ' first then e and it comes out é. but if you just want ' you have to type ' then space.]

Additionally, it seems retailers have also received a very few amount of Pro1 phones and maybe much fewer than what they wanted. I am sure they will have additional stock after other orders are fulfilled here and that will be the time when generally anybody will be able to buy it. It also allows some more time of polishing the firmware anyway. Also, I think canceling a pre-order because a few phones have appeared at retailers is not a really good decision anyway.

I don't know if special layout creator program exists but these are human-readable files so practically they can be modified but it also needs some time and effort. 🙂

It's not the end users fault fxtec sold to retailers first. The end user did nothing wrong by buying from retailer. Once fxtec sold them to retailers, you think everyone should have boycotted those retailers? Those retailers did nothing wrong either. Anyone who cancelled a preorder to buy from a retailer only hurt fxtec, cuz fxtec presumably sold the retailers at some discount.

Hi Eske, Thank you doing all the testing. Geat to see the issues and solutions!!! I was also looking to find a proper solution until an "original" cover for the pro1 appears. Just wondering why you rotate the flip cover 180° instead of using it in the "normal" position like the original Nokia leather case for the E7, so even the camera might fit to the original opening of the Huawei p20 Pro? I do not have my pro1 yet, so I cannot judge by myself yet. So I am curious why you make all the effort of making the hole for the camera. I loved the good one for the E7 these days. I am

Criticism of Dropbox [Wikipedia] – those are the reasons why I never used Dropbox... I try to get along without commercial cloud offerings as much as I can anyway, but then again I have the privilege of being able and willing to run my own Nextcloud server. I do still use Google Drive, though, for those rare applications for which there is no adequate Nextcloud support, like exchanging hiking tracks between my desktop and the Locus map app (see above) on Android... Thanks for reminding me to check these out on Android. I'm mostly using LibreOffice on Linux (and Windows,

Ah I see. It cost a whole US dollar. I will do the investment in the experiment.... 🤣

I really like it. Wouldn't go out hiking without. The usefulness of course depends on how good the available maps are for where you are. And sometimes the offline maps are worse (less detailed) than the online maps of the same source, like "Outdoor Active", which is what I use for Germany...

Locus map: For those who needs to record tracks in nature or to work with maps a lot. You can also work with .gpx files and also share them or whatever - usefull eg. for guides. Has many features and different (mostly paid) maps - also for cycling or hiking. The program has so many setups, that it may get annoing for someone, but when you get used to it, I am sure there is no better app. Also can work as a bycicle trip computer with nav. Good to purchase pro. Not that expensive and very usefull. Unfotrunately the lifetime licence is for programm only. When you need some map, you still have to

A lot of the apps that are my go to apps are apps I have been using forever. I can't very well say they are the greatest apps, just that they have always worked well enough for me that I haven't been tempted to go looking for replacements. Also, I'm not an IT person. I am a writer (not published but something I've taken on in earnest as I approached retirement and a phone with a hardware keyboard fits well in my scalable write/edit anywhere plans. Otherwise, my phone is mainly a PDA My key go-to apps: DropBox - Really, this is the thumb drive in the sky that lets me keep all

Yes, 100% agree with @silversolver, for me, Brave is the only way to go. I run it on everything I can and it works well. I too support what they are attempting to achieve, but even if I didn't it runs quickly and efficiently.

@Polaris I suspect I'll run the D4 until it stops working just to annoy the whackos at Verizon who think I should have binned it in 2014. :)

@elvissteinjr Brave, by far. Of course that's just my opinion. I support what they are attempting to achieve, and they're making a fabulous product in the process. I use it desktop and mobile almost exclusively--exclusively on my devices new enough to run it....as mentioned elsewhere I do have some shockingly old machines still in use. On them I use FireFox or its derivatives.

...Just tried it and i really like the QuickPic way you can reduce quickly to a standard number in one direction, without having to enter it. And also the both coarse and fine rotate. Most often I take a picture to be used for a mail or MMS, go to edit, crop it, and choose a suitable reduction size (What the original would have been without crop), and save. And most often kill the original. I have found a few others that can do this, but none as simple. (or they had other issues)

Shake Light - On my Moto G6, there was a built-in feature to turn on/off flash by shaking the phone. It does the same thing which also works on Pro1. It is completely ad-free and works in background DualSimRinger - As Pro1 currently does not have a setting of separate ringtones for two SIMs, I have installed this app yesterday. It looks to be working well, however, it seems it will request an in-app purchase in a week... Fast Notepad - I use it to take some quick notes sometimes Aqua Mail - I found it as the best e-mail client for me because it supports aliases, has perfect IMAP Push support,

Oh spyware requires network access to be effective, and I do not give it access. But of course Netguard could be spying too.

...maybe i know where is problem...it is not about cpu/chipset performance...it is about phone price vs hw specs. BUT...i mean that 90% of users cannot see any difference between qc 835 and 855 with 6GB RAM...maybe it is visible on antutu and maybe will be littlebit less battery consumption...but thats all. On 835 you can still play latest games, record 4k videos atc. QUESTION IS...for what is needed really last chipset with XYZ RAM? 95% of users have phone only for facebuk, mesenger, wacap and maybe for camera...thats all. ...AND security ?...yesss that is user problem SOO ony

I can absolutely follow you, BUT it much depends on whether you can feel reasonably certain that you can buy another in a couple of years or not. I mean the approach makes a lot of sense for a device like the Pro1 where we do not know if/when there will be another. Had it come in several 'flavours' I would for sure have bought the one with top specs. But If I was in the market for an ordinary slab, I would most likely be looking at say yesteryears flagship, As I would feel certain that I would have upgraded to something different before it even got close to it's theoretical end of life, S

I am currently using a laptop released in about 2012 / 2013 - it still works well, not laggy at all and at least it has better quality than almost every modern laptops. So time is not necessarily means something is unusable, especially if hardware and build quality is good and is open enough to not depend only on manufacturer. Anyway, manufacturers sold much weaker configurations also one or two years ago. I think Pro1 is a hardware which may have long life also if manufacturer decides to focus on something else but we need them to sell enough phones to have enough users who suppor

My concern here is if the adhesive is too good. I would not like a permanent solution, or something that pulled of the paint when removed. ADD: Ordered some, and will experiment with it on other stuff first.

This thread got linked elsewhere, and reminded me of this, so I thought why not - New Poll: https://community.fxtec.com/topic/2598-poll-user-age-group/

Screenshot Assistant is an awesome little replacement for your google assistant shortcut if you're not using the google assistant: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.beatbrot.screenshotassistant/ It lets you quickly take a screenshot, crop it, draw a little, and share it directly to an app without having to save a file and open it in something else. It's free and open source.

I was 18 years old when the first iPhone was released. I thought it was a terrible device even back then. I spent my undergraduate years with Samsung Galaxy models. Even after nearly 12 years of slab smartphone use I never grew to love the keyboard on the touchscreen. So I'm here now patiently waiting for the Pro1 to save me from my aging Galaxy slab😏

I really don't care to hear from smug people who managed to use the lawyer-muscling of retail partners to cut in line.