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I've seen it reported that the Pro1 doesn't come with its own recovery. There is a standard recovery included with the phone's firmware. I think there may have been some confusion due to the way you need to access recovery mode. To access recovery mode, you have to either: A) Hold down the volume up when you boot the phone (before the logo screen comes up) or B) Use "adb reboot recovery" from a connected computer or C) Boot into the bootloader (by holding down the volume down when you boot the phone (before the logo screen comes up) O

Let's see, there are a number of games I play on the Pro1 Where Is the Setting Game How Do I Make This Stop Search Game What Does This Do Challenge The Volume Game Puzzle The Notification Light Game Holding The Pro Russian Roulette Can You Hear Me Challenge I find new games to play EVERY time I use it. It's such fun :D

Basically it's a standard Qualcomm device. Meaning that data is encrypted and this cannot be disabled. The method of encryption varies: stock uses FDE while my lineage ROM uses FBE. There is currently no TWRP that can decrypt data but it's on my todo list. If you mean a locked boot loader, yes it comes locked by default, and can be unlocked. However, being a device aimed at hobbyists, FxTec chose to disable Secure Boot. Which basically means that you cannot force your device to only run OEM signed code -- it will always allow you to flash a custom ROM

FYI... for those following this thread: The Linux and Windows tools have been updated and now flash xbl properly. This has been verified with real bricked devices (no shortage of those recently!) I'll try to update the MacOS version within a day or two. I asked the Sailfish developers to please remove the option to flash internal storage partitions. They had no idea so many people were doing this, and said they would fix it soon. That's great, but why didn't they know? Did nobody file a bug report or anything after bricking their device?!?

Here's the details from android source (emphasis added): https://source.android.com/devices/input/key-character-map-files ALPHA: A keyboard with all the letters, and maybe some numbers. An alphabetic keyboard supports text entry directly but may have a condensed layout with a small form factor. In contrast to a FULL keyboard, some symbols may only be accessible using special on-screen character pickers. In addition, to improve typing speed and accuracy, the framework provides special affordances for alphabetic keyboards such as auto-capitalization and toggled /

If not mistaken Swiftkey can do that for you.

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Finqwerty is not an 'active' app. It 'just' presents the system with some alternative pre-fabricated .kcm keymaps, and lets the system do all the active work. The KeyMapper is installed as a keyboard driver, that is an active app, and let you map things one by one. Nice versatility, but quite a bit of work to set up fully. I do not know if the setups can be exported and edited in an editor and reimported though - that could help. (Unless I'm mistaken the keymapper only handles individual keys not combinations, but i could be wrong) KeyMapper requires a LOT of high privileges, so

Sure, it seems silly to me also. But that's the way the keyboard is printed. I would map the fn keys to something else but they are required to generate '/' and '?'. But the beauty of the new keyboard driver is that you can remap all the keys. The gpio keys aren't remappable yet but I'd like to make them remappable before I finish.

I think he gets a new one sent to him every 2 weeks. 🙂

Perfect! It took some time to configure it the way I want, but it solved for almost everything. It took me a while to get "i" to auto cap. I had to enable autocorrect by tapping on that icon. It can be a bit odd about learning some shorthand capitalization I use with a friend, but I seem to be able to get it to work eventually, if I keep trying. The only 3 things it doesn't have for the physical keyboard settings are: - No double space to insert a period. That setting is only in the generic settings, not in the physical keyboard settings. - When you type punctuation, it inserts

Even if the card was too big/wrong format/wrong block size (etc) I think it would at least know that an SD card had been inserted. My phone isn't even detecting that there's an SD card in place.

They do.

Roguelikes! The keyboard lets us play "real" roguelikes, not just the ones that have been simplified for mobile. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Nethack Brogue

Possibly stupid questions but they gotta be asked: Did you try rebooting after inserting the SD card? Did you look in settings->storage?

Please note that this is NOT the straight apostrophe, it is the backwards slanted one (apostrophe not accent!), printed left of Q, My English isn't good enough to even know where I could (or should?) use a slanted apostrophe over a straight one. Please tell me where it is used. (see also this) And the Alt functions are Stock Android afaik...

Don't know if Eske gave him the idea, But Anssi asked me what I thought of the idea back in December and I told him I thought it was a good solution (which I continue to think) so you might have to blame me too. 😄

This is in the splash partition. It's a BMP file with a custom header prepended. I don't know the header format off the top of my head though. Feel free to play with it, it's a rather easy customization. Also please note the "powered by Android" text, including font, size and color, is mandated by Google for play store certification. There is no use requesting that FxTec change it.

This was incorrect. I posted that before receiving my phone. I posted instructions on how to access the Pro1 recovery mode here:

Never uses PTP either, but it CAN make sense if you want to show images on some computer you are not 100% happy connecting to. As the PC is not supposed to be able to access other than the photostuff. (the pc can still copy/delete/modify those, but should not be able to do it outside the picture folders)

I tried some testing without much success with Light Flow a couple days ago. I didn't do a lot of testing, because I got sidetracked with a bug where gmail notifications won't come through in a timely manner and that is what I was using to test notifications. Turns out google changed something on purpose to not make gmail notifications be timely. They say that email is something that doesn't need to be dealt with on in a timely manner. Now, either they are covering up for their mistake, or it is yet another case of google thinking they know what we want, when they clearly don't. The way a

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If I remember right I locked them to get the google certification, but could remember wrong.

Not sure if SFOS would support APKs then, but I could see myself using SFOS instead of Android, so I'd pay for a good OS. But it'd have to be easy and most things should be working - then I'd buy a license and switch.

my bootloader is locked, so maybe that could be why. But i can get to the bootloader by doing voldown+power or with adb reboot bootloader

Has Total Commander been mentioned yet? My primary file manager app on any Android device. Works in landscape very well since it allows for two panels side-by-side. It can be fully controlled by the hw keyboard, including tab to switch panels, arrow keys and enter to navigate folders. Can't live without. 🙂

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It's not an intentional option... I don't really know how the SailfishOS porting process is supposed to work, but I have a Jolla and compared some of the things we found out in the chat with the Jolla; and to me it looks like you mostly take the userland from the Jolla, add changes and put that onto the new phone. Now, I don't know how familiar you are with desktop Linux (I have no idea if your interest is mainly Android or Linux in general), but if you are familiar: SailfishOS is very much like a desktop Linux distribution, amongst other things it is using systemd, udev and udisks2. Now

My reading of that was that he wants the stuff that the system stores in /data to match when he puts a point in time snapshot of system back later, not just his personal data. I could be wrong, though I can get by on TitaniumBackup backups and wireless transfers for media (MTP isn't working well for me). adb backup, in theory, is a nice idea. But with so many apps not supporting it, it ends up being a worse solution than using a backup tool (like TB). adb pull is another option to backup the files in /data, which is why I asked if just having the files on the /data parti

You can flash system without affecting data, this is exactly what OTA updates do. But you do need a PC and adb -- you can't store your system image on the data partition. The OEM should fix the speaker swap issue. Has that been noted by FxTec? And for others complaining about backups, you need to do it the way that Google intended ("adb backup" and mtp for media) until a decent TWRP appears. Just an inconvenience, really.

Finqwerty doesn't modify anything. It just adds some layout files that you select the same way as the included ones. It's just the included ones are default (not customized for our device) and assume we have standard hardware keys available. Since we dont have slash key, we need a unique layout to get slash and question mark. Keymapper allows you to map keys & buttons or combinations or longpress keys or whatever. See the details in the first post spoiler section or read about it on fdroid or play store. You would not want to use that to create a whole layout. They serve dif

@EskeRahn Unrelated topic, but do you know the app 'Ampere'? Best app I know to help you avoid/choose a charger that does fast charge. (Depending whether you want a hot/fast charge or a slow charge/cool 😎 battery.)

To be honest, I'm very disapointed with this because when I mess something with system partition I can't just flash system.img because /data is encrypted and I cannot restore it any file from it. Also, I cannot mount /vendor rw (to swap speaker channels) so without custom recovery this phone is little crippled up. Which is sad because I really like this device.

Well it was my bug confusing with irrelevant USB-debugging.. 🥴

Unfortunately it seems like swiftkey messes with that. I know no usable workaround, sorry.

I have no idea. I do not know the app, nor how it is supposed to look. Only installed it to test this. Anyone else in here that knows? @VaZso ?

It had the same accesses enabled and application's version was also the same. The only thing I didn't dare to do is to remove Light Manager from my own phone then reinstall it again to see if it still works...

I don't know but I haven't seen any related apps installed anyway. That AMOLED app was suspicious because it provides an on-screen display (which would be good to be enabled by default anyway), but that was also uninstalled which had no effect...

That is also what I thought but I could not find any applications that I thought it may affect it... Also we are on the latest OTA...

which app do you speak about, EskeRahn ? i tried LightManager 2 but not much happens, actually no change at all. also the app-built-in tests to make the LEDs shine doesn't work. i assume i don't need root access, correct ? i even rebooted the pro1 w/o success, no LEDs lighting up... which is the most suitable app to get the LEDs running for regular notifications such as SMS or missed calls ? i currently don't care much about the green charging LED, but i would like the LEDs help with my daily work flow.

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney Have already installed Sailfish OS on it. My phone seems to have unreasonably quiet speaker during phone calls (quieter than Geeksphone Keon); and when I switch on loud-speaker mode, the other party gets echo on their end of the line - but that's likely just my device having some mis-configuration. Music plays fine, loud and clear. Thank you. Best wishes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Per aspera ad astra...

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Am from Singapore. Yes, this is a great idea.

Use a slow charger. Either an old one, a charger with both a slow and quick charge ports, or usb port on a PC, or any other equipment with a low power output. I would suggest to stay at 5W and under (Many old chargers offers 5V 1A, and thus 5W). The problem is that the worst condition for a battery is charging heated. See e.g. this (This is a practical solution, though the print on the slow ports say 2.1A, it actually only provides 5W to the devices I tested, just as wanted) See also this thread