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Today i got the headphones accompanying my very early delivery from November. I am very satisfied with the build quality. The cables are soft but sturdy enough to not knot easily. There is no plastic smell, all components feel worthy. Compared to quiet neutral Sennheiser, the the mids and bass are nicely emphasized. No distortion in the heights even at unbearable 100%. They sit very comfy and yet tight. My expectations are met, Thank you at F(x)tec.

That is the story of all of Europe. But big parties should not forget 80% did NOT vote for a nazist party, so going more in that direction has the chance to scare of 80% of people to the other side...

What are we defining as large file transfers, exactly? At 480mbps, copying 1GB takes 20-30 seconds depending on your USB controller--no, they're not created equal! I can move tons of junk in a few minutes. Makes me think of this: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/08/17

@Swond Regarding phone automation, look for Situations in the google play store. There was a "Nokia Situations" back in "the good 'ol days" and this android version was created (and still maintained) by the same people behind the original. It does exactly what you are looking for...if this condition (wifi, bluetooth, location, time...etc), then do xxxx. I use it to switch ringtones, volume (like an old symbian profile) automatically when I'm at work. It works like a champ; solid. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pastillilabs.situations2 https://pastillilabs.com/

It has an option to draw visual borders (shades) but you can turn visualization off.

Hi everyone, Exciting update today. Liangchen is visiting the factory in China at the minute and he expects all of the pre-orders will be produced by the 18th of January, so in less than 5 days now. We have already produced a very significant number of pre-order devices, which are waiting for the full list to complete by the 18th. As you are all well aware by now, once the devices are all produced on the 18th, the stock will be rotated between our warehouses, so there will be, I'd say, 1 more week after complete production before you receive your tracking. Just so I don't overpromise

In general, yes. But companies might not want to advertise an option that makes criminals out of naive users who just don't know the laws about recording calls, which I guess might be a large percentage of the people in those states where the laws demand two-party consent.

Sorry some communication mixup, cuz that's what I thought I suggested in the first place.

I know that @Craig had to input an APN for his AT&T MNVO. You might check their web site or ask customer service what apn you should use in your area.

On my Relay 4G, my SD card is faster than my internal storage. I use an app called Link2SD (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD&hl=en_US) to allow me to run apps and have them store their data on the SD card (in a special partition). I was worried about that slowing them down, but before I went through that transformation, I tested the storage speeds with another app and was pleasantly surprised that the SD card was faster. I'm sure that isn't the case in newer phones, but in older phones it can apparently be true. After utilizing Link2SD, not only did I

I'm guessing you are talking about non-fast charging chargers or Qualcomm Quick Charge chargers. Those are all typically Type-A connectors. Quick Charge is Qualcomm's proprietary standard. Power Delivery is another fast charge standard that newer phones use. It is an open standard created by the group that handles all the USB standards. Apple's phones use it. Google's phones use it. And some number of other, newer Android's phone use it. It supports delivering more power than Quick Charge. Quick Charge tops out at 18 watts. Power Delivery tops out at 100 watts. But you typically

Except that I don't think I want to get every last drop of it out of the carton when that happens! :-)

While milk can also become a thick product quite easily.

Some pages ago during December I requested a refund for preorder, and decided to wait till FxTec could actually deliver. Everything has been processed in a friendly and timely manner :-). What I can also tell is that I bought a Pro1 from a friend who had a preorder with IGG. He received the phone last week and found it to large as his daily driver. So since yesterday evening I am now the owner of a Pro1! I can tell you all it is worth the wait. Yes the phone has pro's and cons which I will describe later in the "Independent reviews" topic. For all who are curious, S/N is 000211.

I honestly don't know how many pairs of shoes I have, what I do know is that I need to buy a new shoe cabinet 😄

As a former computer security professional, I want to emphasize that everything tdm has said is correct. But any serious discussion about security needs to be very concrete about the threat model, or it becomes very difficult to determine what the effects of any change might be. Google has produced a detailed white paper describing the security model of Android, and it lists 15 different threats in section 2.3. Only the first two critically depend upon secure boot, i.e. the cases where, "Adversaries can get physical access to Android devices," and the primary attack vector involves modifying t

So just a quick update regarding Secure Boot. I had considered posting a new thread about this but I'm not sure it's warranted. So I'll just drop this here... I spoke with FxTec and they confirmed that they disabled Secure Boot intentionally. The rationale was that it makes the device more developer friendly, especially for non-Android OS's. I'm not sure I agree with this conclusion, but that is/was the decision. The one thing that disabling Secure Boot allows is building a custom abl (boot loader). I have yet to see anything that requires a custom abl. But it does leave the

I am pleased to announce a new member of the Pro1 ROM family: "Ungoogled Stock". What is it? This is the stock ROM as built from the BSP directly from IdeaLTE with the following changes, and only these changes: Removed AdUps OTA update code. Removed GMS (Google Apps). Where is it? The current version is: http://files.nwwn.com/android/pro1/QX1000-user-nogms-noadups-20191208.zip MD5: 01c90007a843328b869bb294c8f88330 SHA1: 3aff440c50ec2464437c5698bc1c7740ed827c34 Source synced to BSP as of Nov 29, 2019. How do I flash it

[Note: This post is on an esoteric topic, and is only suitable for people who enjoy tinkering with their phones. Please don't try any of this if you aren't willing to erase everything on your Pro1] Project Treble made it possible in theory to run new versions of Android without requiring any OEM updates. If you've tried this in the past then you know the usability results can be 'mixed' 😉 The good news is that the Pro1 ships with fairly good Treble support, and you can find some information about how well it works while running an Android 10 generic system image (GSI) at https://github.co

Most USB 3.0 thumb drives are faster than USB 2.0 thumb drives. In fact, they're fast even when plugged into USB 2.0 slot. There are always bottlenecks somewhere. Even tho I only have USB 2 ports on my old laptop, I only buy US3 thumb drives. But cmon, we're in the future, use wifi to transfer files between pc & phone. Cables take effort. Bluetooth/IR are slow. For most people, ftp is gunna be more than enough. No need to deal with complicated stuff.

Modems and car phones. :-) The 480 Mbps is the theoretical top speed. As you mentioned, the controller and other factors may impact this. MTP is a slow protocol. It doesn't allow for parallelism. The hope is that USB 3.0 will make up for some of that. If you can't do multiple operations concurrently, then try to do each serial operation as fast as possible (that's the idea). Of course, there is also the speed of the internal storage or SD card storage or PC storage at play here too. Lots of variables. I've never used a USB 3.0 phone to do data transfers, so I don't know h

Oh wow. That's very minimalist. I'm a dude, and I like to think I'm a man's man, but I've got WAY more shoes than that. I guess it's because I have to function in professional circles, outdoor activities, some of which are pretty hard work, and 6 MONTHS OF WHITE FLAKES TRYING TO BURY ME because I'm an idiot and live in Northern Michigan. ROFL!

It really is a shame that apps don't draw relative to the logical size, or give the users the option to have them work against logical or physical. Agreed that this would be best done by fxtec. And it does seem appropriate, since the curved screen is part of the phone design and does cause some people issues (whether functional or visual). And by that, I mean not just replicating the edge null functionality, but also re-setting the physical display size so that we can have the display end before the curves (user configurable, of course).

History is definitely on your side. 😂

Other apps can do that, BUT the problem is that some apps seems to look at and draw relative to the physical display and others more benign relative to the logical remaining display. So to really work, it has to go deep enough to also modify the answer for the physical size. So I assume the best would be if it went into the hardware driver.

WebDAV is built into Windows too. You can map it to a drive letter the same way you can an FTP server, in explorer, without installing anything. I don't remember if it was the performance or if it was flaky in some way, but I elected to pay for a product to take the place of the built in WebDAV client in Windows. But it is there, and probably works for most use cases.

True. But for some reason, I think the planets are more in alignment this time. I'm guessing they'll at least get out a good chunk of them this time. I could be wrong, of course. :-)

Usually that's the main reason for a director to go to the factory 😉 If everything going perfect, director stays home.

I always imagined him with a whip making sure they worked hard 😄

Ah safestrap, I'm glad the S4 I purchased was Loki patched, the people that didn't patch their S4 needed to use safe strap and could only flash TouchWiz ROMs, those poor souls!

I'm no photo expert, but I think it might come out better if you open the window before taking the photo.

Hmmmm.... 1 hour drive to crossing, then half hour to 'HK Dispatch Center". Wikipedia says the crossing is open 24 hours, but dunno if they actually close for holiday or something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lok_Ma_Chau_Control_Point If what Chen predicted comes true and they finish making them this week, they've got all next week to get them to HK and send to ppl... seems doable... and if they miss that, HK doesn't have quite as long as holiday as PRC, only a few days... so shipping by end of the month is possible (which is the last business day of the week commencing on the

In the United States, it is similar. You'll generally hear, "Your call may be monitored or recorded for quality and training purposes." In the United States, even though the laws use the term "consent", notification is deemed sufficient. I'm guessing they feel that if someone is notified and stays on the line, then they are consenting. The above is mainly used in business, since they want to be safe regarding calling across state lines, where the laws may be different. Most states are single party states, meaning that only one person in the phone call has to know it is being recorde

I have 2. Well 1 pair shoes 1 pair boots 😄

That looks exactly like mine. also USB 2, but don't care for the same reason @Craig doesn't care. Large file transfers are pretty rare for me, so even the 2,0 speeds are fine with me.

Clearly a bunch of amateurs 🤪

Oh my... That is obviously a statement coming from a boy. Who would match their shoes to their cases? Shoes should match purses. And I have more than 53 of those too (shows AND purses).

Thanks for the link 😊 I installed FinQwerty v1.5.2 on the Jan 10th Android 10 GSI build and it seems to work.

I did not mention letter shifted qwerty being a flaw at all. The wobble is in closed position at the bottom of the phone, it wobbles from the left to right making sounds when it moves. I asked people here about that and so far nobody else had the same issue. By "right side buttons" I meant volume, power and fingerprint sensor. Not the keyboard. I feel like you completely didn't understand my previous post. Where did I want a PC with phone capabilities? I wanted a smartphone with keyboard and issues I mentioned happen in portrait mode. The phone is annoying to use in portrait,

Well, this looks promising... tommy@neuron:~$ echo x > foo tommy@neuron:~$ fastboot flash avb_custom_key foo target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes sending 'avb_custom_key' (0 KB)... OKAY [ 0.009s] writing 'avb_custom_key'... OKAY [ 0.003s] finished. total time: 0.011s tommy@neuron:~$ fastboot erase avb_custom_key erasing 'avb_custom_key'... OKAY [ 0.003s] finished. total time: 0.003s tommy@neuron:~$

Well, what do you know ... the qcom bootloader in the bsp does reference avb_custom_key. I'll have to dig more to see if it's actually enabled and usable. Thanks!

Uhhhmmmm, you do realize that the Copperhead team is rather antagonistic to Lineage, right? It's not surprising that they would slam Lineage as being insecure. They do raise some valid points (particularly about verified boot), but most are bogus and/or outdated. Verified boot requires a locked boot loader. You cannot run any custom software with it enabled, including this ROM. That may be fine at the time of release (though with a BSP that is already 4 months out of date, probably not). But as soon as the OEM stops updating, you have a choice of running with verified boot and

What he was very politely hinting at, to which I, personally, am less inclined, is that if you don't come up with a better answer on "how else to explain it" yourself, you're either suffering from a severe lack of imagination, or you're absolutely intent on throwing mud at Fxtec even though you damn well know that there are more possible explanations.

That's an interesting perspective. May I ask how you came to that conclusion? My feeling is exactly opposite. The OEM may or may not provide security updates for a period of time after release. My copy of the BSP is on tag LA.UM.7.4.r1-05500-8x98.0 which was released August 23, 2019. Incremental updates may have newer code, I'm not sure because I don't do OTAs. But either way, IdeaLTE will stop publishing updates at some point. As a member of Lineage and former Cyanogen employee, I can assure you that many/most of the Lineage developers care a great deal about secu

I can certainly look into this. I also hate to waste 4gb of storage for no benefit to me (because I never use OTAs). But do understand that it's pretty low priority. Also note that it will require repartitioning the device, which makes most folks nervous. And I'll need to make a non-AB version of lineage. In other words it's a fair bit of work and will take some time.

Well...... yes but not exactly. Lineage is built on the open source portion of Android (AOSP) and the portions of the Qualcomm code that are released as open source (the CodeAurora project, or CAF). The portions that Qualcomm does not release as open source are taken as binary blobs from the stock firmware and integrated into the Lineage build to make a complete package. Because this is a sort of legal gray area, these blobs are kept strictly partitioned from the Lineage project and made available under the github account TheMuppets (really!) The portions t

Unfortunately, no. The BSP is proprietary. FxTec has shared the BSP code with a few developers, but it is not generally available. This is one of the reasons that Lineage exists. And please don't get upset at FxTec and IdeaLTE. The bulk of the BSP is licensed to OEMs by Qualcomm. It is only through the generosity and trust in developers that FxTec has made the BSP available to developers at all. They did not need to do this and, in fact, are not really supposed to do it. Also note FxTec and IdeaLTE could release their device code if they chose, but it wouldn't do much good w

I'm not going to try right now, but the short answer is no because the kernel binary is not signed with the device keys, which means the stock kernel modules in /vendor would not load and WiFi would not work. You could work around this by putting the stock kernel binary into my boot image. However, at that point, you may as well use a stock boot image. Additionally, the following things come to mind: The adups properties are not present. This will likely prevent OTA updates from downloading. Which is fine, because: The build is signed with test keys, so recovery will refuse to

I tried key mapper from f-droid. I was able to map camera button longpress to open gcam or default cam (and change quite a few other things while i was at it) but dont see a way to make focus/shutter work.