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as soon as i saw the title i knew i'd see Eske in the comments talking about battery life lmao

For those getting their devices and wanting to root now, the recommended procedure has changed! This method should allow you to take future OTA updates keeping root using the A/B method linked earlier in thread. Steps have been reordered and updated since first post. 1. Install Android Platform Tools on PC (adb & fastboot) Ubuntu (and presumably debian): sudo apt install adb Windows: https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip Windows/Mac/Linux: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools 2. Connect Phon

It does indeed charge fast when needed. But I will discourage the use of fast charging on a daily basis, as it heats the battery, and heat during charging shortens the lifespan of the battery significantly. So I advice to use the fast charge when in need, and a simple power source not above 5W (5V not above 1A) for daily usage. e.g. the USB port of a PC, or an old charger you got from an old phone. When charged while we are asleep, there are zero reasons to let it charge quickly. I usually compare fast charging with junk food, nice, convenient and it does not really harm if you eat it occ

Will get it corrected shortly!

I feel so sorry that there wasn't a better birthday present... Will an Fxtec T-Shirt make it up? Maybe we will try to put some kitty element. 😄

QuickCharging heat issue solved

Just took delivery of my clack 😄 My cats (one of them at least) were also happy with the delivery

That is the way how the "dark theme" is working on Android Pie. System wide dark theme comes with Android 10 so we need to wait for update. Or flash Lineage OS 😉.

I really should read this thread more slowly. For a brief moment I was trying to figure out if launching lawnchairs was a traditional cultural activity or a new sport of bored rednecks. At some point one does grow bored with launching pumpkins, after all.....LOL!

This reminds me of my dog deciding to 'help' me do the garden, 4½ years ago so So I thought I could easily tease him to find another spot - but no, he just stayed...

You can do this pretty trivially with Tasker. Profile: * State: Keyboard out * add an innocuous task as the normal task * Add an exit task which has a step of Display -> System Lock. You need the exit task (as opposed to just inverting the state check) to be sure it doesn't constantly trigger.

I have no idea what "remote wipe" in e-mail is, but on mobile I've just migrated from K-9 mail, which used to be something like a halfway viable compromise for me so far, to FairEmail (a recommendation I got in these forums). Reason: FairEmail not only supports PGP/GPG encryption (something that I increasingly feel to be a good idea in these times of every company and every state trying to spy on everyone regardless of where someone is situated), but also multiple identities per mail account with different SMTP server settings (just like Thunderbird does for ages). It's the only Android e-mail

got mine earlier than expected!

I wrote one also 🙂 http://matland.be/?p=things&s=pro1review

Will be great if keyboard backlight can be enabled on each key press with opened slider.

That would help tremendously and I'd be proud to wear it. Send me a PM!

Uh .... a dusty screen, look out for @abielins 🤣😝

I'm starting this thread to list what I feel are some missing essential features in the stock version of Android. Not necessarily bugs, but things that are missing that would be great for FxTec to implement. Feel free to add others if you feel some essential feature is missing. #1 Sticky Modifiers. When shift/alt/ctrl/slantarrow is pressed then released, the next keypress should behave as if the modifier is still stuck down. Ideally the caps led would illuminate when shift is pressed (until next key is pressed). [Include a toggle in slider settings to disable if possible.] #2 W

I don't recall anyone mentioning when or whether stock will be upgraded to Q. Has anyone official chimed in on this? Lineage is getting close to releasing Q (which will be 17.1). By the time that happens, I should have Lineage running well and updating should hopefully be pretty easy.

Alright, so I got gnss fixed. I just did a fresh build and wipe and .... it boots. Unfortunately there are some broken things that need to be fixed before I can do another release (namely wifi and cell radio). But now that I've gotten it to boot, it should be all downhill from here. So I'll work on those and hopefully will have a working build within a few days. After that the bugs should fall quickly and official support won't be far off.

Very much like "The Beast" (Nokia N900). You could lock/unlock that in a number of ways. Little toggle button on the side. Pressing the power switch brings up the "Slide to unlock". A double press locked the phone Opening and closing the slider locked/unlocked the phone. Sliding open the camera cover unlocked the phone and started the camera app. You could even unlock the phone by waving a magnet over the screen. This made the phone unsuitable for cases with magnetic clasps.

Don't disable encryption. I'll get a TWRP that does decryption soon after I get Lineage in a usable state. But really you should have no need to decrypt data anyway.

I had fedex 'delivery scheduled' for next Tuesday. Checked tracking yesterday, showed the unit arriving in Japan. Got an email this morning 8am saying 'your delivery is on the van' (in the UK). Arrived by 10am Flashed SFOS by 11am Late for work - luckily I work for myself, so will give myself a stern talking to later on when I get a quiet moment. This evening I may buy myself a beer by way of an apology (QWERTY, order 48xx)

I think it is GREAT that they kept the Pro1 as close to stock as possible, and let the user choose, rather than infecting it with all kind of stuff we might or might not like. There are tonnes of mail-apps available, that works more or less good in landscape with a keyboard. I use K9

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I just got my Pro1 from HK today. Got FedEx shipping notification on Wednesday saying it should be there on Monday but it was there by Friday already. That was a shipment to Germany outside Frankfurt. I'm still ok but then again it's 5 days incubation 😁 The phone itself is just awesome. Thanks FxTec!

Dear All I had to recreate a profile to end the mystery. The closure of my account has nothing to do with the community. I enjoyed this community. I want to reduce my involvement as I am spending too much time on this forum. The best way to do so is to delete my profile. If not I will keep posting. Now I need to asks fxtec to delete another profile. Sorry about this. Full success to the pro1 and fxtec Bye

I don't know about headaches but it may cause respiratory infections 😁

That's perfect, as long as there's no trouble with you receiving your package :). Our shipping partner Expansys can later dispute their decision, but even if they don't, the amount of people that reported to have this issue is relatively small compared to the shipped orders, so it's not going to hurt us in any way. We have accounted for possible lost devices in transit and little things like this already. Expansys was used to deliver some of Google's devices, including the pixel, so they know what they're doing.

Try rolling cheese 😄

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- Multiple people have reported that the phone doesn't come with a built-in Recovery - Can't boot into a custom recovery with fastboot, without flashing, by using: fastboot boot boot.img - Instructions for how to remove encryption so that TWRP and ADB can read the /data partition

You guys really rock. Thank you for giving us this world.

Once again F(x)tec failed to meet expectations.

One ready to ship :

Correct. It excludes the factory labour, shipping, customs that we pay for, in addition to the hefty licensing costs with Qualcomm, certifications and everything else that is needed for the device to be on the market. Once all of that is deducted, the margin is actually very low compared to other technology/phone startups. We have made the decision to keep it low to allow more users to afford the Pro1. Our margin will increase in tandem with our production volume, as costs usually drop on larger scales.

Yikes did not see that.... I would guess some sort of plastic made from bamboo... 😱 ....With a little luck it is leather cut from a vegan... 😈😈

I did not do a port, I installed a GSI which you can easily download. Because of googles Project Treble thing and the pro1 stock rom being fairly compatible with it, as long as you have their vendor and boot image, other versions of android mostly work by just flashing the system image. At the time I installed it I wasn't aware there are instructions for it but it was reasonable straightforward and went without a hiccup 🙂, if you want to try it I recommend following this guide though https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/F(x)tec-Pro1

I wonder if there is a temperature sensor in the battery and if the charging current could be limited by software?

Yup, absolutely. As soon as I can get a vendor image built and working. I've just now gotten Lineage to boot with a custom built vendor image plus one remaining hack (copying the gnss blobs from stock). I'll try to clean that up and get it going today. And hey what do you know... with the custom vendor image, a2dp actually works. 😄 😄 😄

Indeed, companies in general do not want their devices to be repairable.... The harder to repair, the bigger chance that you waste money on a new one marginally better than the one you got. A planned obsolescence business model aPple has proven works extremely well if people are gullible enough - so that pest has been spreading. Nice to see that there still are companies like F(x)tec that believes in not cheating the customers!! Making the Pro1assembled with screw, and very little glueing. I can not wait to see Ifixit get their hand on a Pro1. I think they are going to have a field d

Yep, there was one ages ago, but google have destructive politics for android that's why I don't like it. Normally Android is an open source OS, but google takes code, makes changes to apps and closes modified apps. Most of the open source stock android apps remembers time of 2.3.7. Also mail app. That's the reason why manufacturers have its own apps - stock open source ones are very outdated and new ones written by google are closed source.

Well, I didn't know that (and didn't manage to find it out by myself. But just wanted to point out that I find the way launchtime categorizes the apps very strange. It is good thing it can be modified, but still I think they [developers] could do it better. Anyway I switched to lawnchair, and it's pretty much what I have been looking for. I love the way it has to freely resize widgets and to extend them to the side edges of the screen.

Oh, so we don't need any writing on them. We can just get them with blank keys and write on them with some marker that wears off after a few weeks? :-) I still have to cheat for numbers sometimes or to make sure my fingers are on the right keys sometimes, and definitely for some of the punctuation characters that aren't used as often.

Serial number 736 https://www.instagram.com/p/B7sd3nLnO8j/

I've got tracking number in Tuesday, today my parcel is in my local Fedex facility. So it should be today.

I also would like to have these solved: - ability to decrease in-call volume further - so I mean the lowest in-call volume is also too loud - only bottom speaker is working in hands-free mode (being in portrait state), top one is silent - it would be good to also use top one - screen colours are incorrect below ~50% of brightness

Or perhaps they were rewarding her for being a repeat customer ROFL!

I'm using Total Launcher, as you set up different layouts and even widgets for Landscape and Portrait 🙂

A phone made my a UK company doesn't include the £ sign.....