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Holy crap, I finally got a2dp working. That took waaaaaaay too long, but it's working now. Next build will have it, probably tomorrow since I am a bit busy today and there's some other stuff I want to fix/add also.

Cancelling won't increase production speed. If you don't want or need a Pro1, feel free to cancel. If you do, try to be patient and remembet that you will be one of the first ones to receive the phone when production and shipping starts. Cancelling will cost you at least one to two months more if you change your mind afterwards. My phone is breaking apart since months. Battery lasts a few hours (and is difficult to access), and the screen is unusable when it's cold, warm or somewhere in between. And it was already slow when I bought it. But we can't change the situation in China

Poking around a bit in the touchscreen driver. Adding code for the side dead zones is trivial and it works here. Hooking it up to a sysfs node and adding a setting item in the settings app will be a bit more work, but very doable. Not sure about the fingerprint reader yet. I may implement two options: one to only activate the reader when the screen is not off and one to limit the amount of time between reads. I personally like the latter -- I love to be able to unlock the device without pressing any physical keys. But I'm not really sure exactly how to implement either of them

Good to hear. FYI, no issues with audio yet. Been using it for 7 hours so far. I've never had it stay up that long without issues using the LOS built vendor image.

I made a quick video of the shortcuts to bring up virtual keyboard or floating notepad. If we can make keyboards with different layouts as default then it would very usable. You could just bring up a virtual keyboard for special needs. For example in the situations when you are looking for specific character that you can't find from the physical keyboard.

What I really enjoy is reading with the keyboard open and the book forced to portrait. This might only be a pleasure for right-handers, but wrapping my left hand around the keyboard gives me a very firm, comfortable grip while my right index finger turns pages, or my right hand grabs my coffee. My hand doesn't get tired holding it this way. It's perfect for reading.

I have been able to replicate the Moto Z shake to enable/disable torch fairly successfully. Profile: Event -> Sensor -> Shake ->Left Right -> Sensitivity Very Low, Duration Long Task: Torch set toggle As I was having some accidental activations, I added to the task: Wait 1 minute Torch set off. For this to work you also have to set the collision handling on the task to 'Abort Existing Task', otherwise you can't shake to turn off until the 1 minute expires. Edit: Forgot to mention, you need to go to preferences -> monitor and make sure you have

I noticed that you are able to change virtual keyboard without root with Keyboard Switch Assistant. What makes it even greater is that you are able to make shortcut (for example ctrl + K) for the keyboard switch with Keyboard/Button Mapper and Nova actions. So I installed Hacker's Keyboard and enabled "Show soft keyboard: Always" from its settings. Normally I use Gboard so I don't see virtual keyboard when physical keyboard is opened. However, now I can bring up or hide Hacker's Keyboard with the shorcut (ctrl + K) when the physical keyboard is open. Hacker's Keyboard supports language pa

Ordered September 20, no tracking number, no stock assigned. Didn't think of canceling. Waiting for production to restart.

Old, but not wooden legs (yet) 🤪 Haglöfs fleece soft shell.

for a moment i thought that table was a naked leg

I held down buttons like you said. I edited an earlier post to mention that it worked, I felt I'd already made enough posts 😉

This is a known issue. See this for some work arounds.

When I first saw there was going to be a tilt, not straight slider, I was concerned the angle would be annoying when holding the device. I've found that isn't the case, and the angle makes it better for reading when placed on a table (like while eating alone or something). I've got much better with opening than December, but I still feel this will remain an ongoing complaint by reviewers and new users. And if there were competition, and someone walked into a phone store w/o any prior experience and compared pro¹ to any other regular slider, they'd buy the regular slider, cuz pro¹ so d

Look, I'm not offended, but reading through this thread for the first time today I felt bad for some of the posters - they're discussing the real issues and frustrations they're experiencing and they probably don't appreciate being compared to 4 year olds who have to ride a tricycle. There's a distinct hint of "you'd love this phone if you were skillful and intelligent, but as you're a clumsy oaf you're having problems."

Hmm, ok. I didn't dig in to what the property does. Just comparing the build.prop (and the libs) from the stock vendor image but I guess that doesn't mean FxTec left some unneeded cruft in there. Anyhow, I'm going to test out an updated vendor image today. I'll let you know how it goes.👍

No issues with getting insurance here. Mine is covered for theft and accidental damage in and outside my home. Don't bother with online insurers, if you've got contents insurance on your dwelling have a word with your provider, they should be able to provide cover for a fraction of the cost of say Gadget Cover etc. For reference my home contents is with Barclays.

I think they try to get you to enable it by default during setup. There is also another area where individual apps can have permissions to control the wifi. If you find it is still happening, you can look to see which apps have that permission. This article explains how to get there: https://www.megebyte.com/how-to-disable-app-to-control-wifi-in-android-p-9/

No, but it's still fun to read.

Wasn't aware of those settings. They were indeed on and I do have 1 access point saved (local network at home for big transfers better speed) so thats probably my problem, nice and simple! 🙂

Go into your system settings wifi screen where it shows all the access point names. Scroll below those and there is a submenu for wifi preferences. In there is an option to automatically turn wifi back on under certain conditions.

My touch screen laptop like to activate if there is wind around opening a door quickly and causing a draft will do it. Annoying when your trying to watch something! 😄

I am too lazy to get ye olde oscilloscope out of the cabinet, but I too suspect it to be electrical noise. Possibly not even from the charger itself. The ghosting only happens when the phone sits on the plastic surface of the table. IT is a height adjustable office table with a laptop and two screens on it. Maybe the table itself acts like a capacitor and the surface of the phone gets charged electrically when it is in contact with the table surface while connected to a power outlet. Oh my, so much text and I bet @michal@hanu.la is not even struggling with ghost touches only while chargin

@elvissteinjr's solution in this post solved this particular problem for me, nicely. The keyboard backlight turns off every time the scree turns off, so if you set your screen to not turn off as often, then you'll face the keyboard backlight issue less often too. However, with the above solution, every time the screen comes back on, it will turn the keyboard on too, so the screen off timer duration won't matter anymore, other than having to unlock the phone (if you have it password/fingerprint/pattern) locked. If you are like me, and have never used Tasker, to import the profile fi

Chat (= RCS = Rich Communication Services) is the revamped texting protocol that allows for guaranteed delivery, full sized images and videos, read receipts, typing indicator, longer message limits, wifi chat, and other features (NOT including encryption). It has to be supported by the messaging app and the cellular provider. Google provides the app for Android, called "Messages", and has worked with the cellular providers to make things work on the back end. It will still fall back to SMS/MMS if the other side doesn't have Chat. Formally, non-OEM, 3rd party texting apps aren't allowed acc

@tdm The items I was just referring to were a line or 2 in the build.prop file. Also, looking at the file comparison, I noted a few additional audio libraries in the lib64 that are not present in the latest update to the vendor files (libaudioalso.so, libaoa.so and libaudio_log_utils.so). I'm guessing those are not necessary? Anyhow, I'll compile an updated vendor.img tomorrow with the changes you pushed and see how it goes.

I disagree that it would be a good idea to waste two modifiers for Shortcuts. These are MUCH less important as fast than what is printed on the keys IMHO. Shortcuts are single-shot stuff, to launch a program, special chars should be fluent in entering a text-stream, say entering question mark or entering "3/4", So it would be completely tolerable to move one hand to do say Meta+A for a shortcut.

Logged in hoping to catch @fxyo1 before it's too late: Please dig it out of the trash!!! There are LOTS of useful components, I would personally pay you cash for it. I'm sure others here or on Ebay would too. Like hundreds of dollars. - Battery - Keyboard - Shell - Main Board / CPU / RAM - Buttons / Sensors - etc It's just that these phones are so rare. Having one for parts is still super valuable!! I hope I caught you in time... otherwise what a waste 😭

I agree on that. People have different hand size, and more or less dry skin, so how much each is affected is quite different, so would be nice if we could compensate it. My personal favourite would be the most primitive approach. Present the API with a reduced 'physical' size of the display, So people can select as wide bezels as they need, that are displayed black, and independent for the two sides. This might require a boot after changing the bezel size, but that would be acceptable in my book. Having it happening in the HAL-layer, would mean that there are no programs that would ever k

I recently contacted support because I hadn't recieved the update mails and they wrote that part of the staff is already at the factory again. There might still be problems with recieving components from suppliers and obviously they cannot produce at full output, but at least it seems like something is going further a bit :)

Priv has or is entering end of support. So what's your question? I've had both. If the Priv was updated to newer versions of Android I would personally have replaced the battery. I was very happy with my Priv. The only gadget I missed was the fingerprint reader. Now on my FxTec, yes a lot of nuisances, but what's the alternative? Titan? Never liked that style. Also, I'm glad I could go back to landscape keyboard. That Priv started working on my nerves once in while during long typing sessions, too narrom for my taste. The Priv is a good phone (IMHO). But the lack of upgrades killed

Sorry that the phone didn't work out for you. Certainly there are different ideas about what hardware looks and functions best. But I must admit the software is currently a weak spot. I'm going to respond to the software issues. Please keep in mind that I am not employed by FxTec, I'm just a developer who was given a device to get LineageOS running on it. Further, I'm not really a "keyboard phone" type, this is my first keyboard phone (but my wife used to love her Relay 4G, which is why I was the Cyanogen dev for that device for a while). I have gotten to know Chen and a few other

Finally got mine after waiting so long. I love it!

Most definitely, I can do the same thing with my Droid 4. Not an issue. Also, I can very easily open my D4 with one hand (as I can with the Pro1). I never had any issues opening any of the Droids with one hand. I also never had any of the other issues mentioned above with sliders either. The only exception would be sometimes it will be in a pocket and begin to open, activating the touchscreen without me knowing it. However, it's very rare and happens, at best, 3 to 4 times/year. I like the angled screen, but really only use it while holding it, so I don't consider it a must have fea

In all fairness, that would work close to equally well on a plain slider. Though the tilt DO give a small extra advantage if you rest your hand on say a table. I tried to take an image...

Yay!! (I did like them on windows phone worked well tbh :D)

I would like to see proof of people using aptX on stock. Because I do not see the aptX libraries in the stock image. So unless Qualcomm has embedded the aptX libraries somewhere unexpected, or someone has added them manually, I don't see how it is possible for aptX to work on stock. It is LineageOS policy to include only what stock includes. This is to avoid any potential issues with licensing. So i cannot add aptX on LineageOS (officially anyway).

Nothing of the sort! Just saying that YES it has a learning curve, and YES it is worth learning. And as many other things once learned, it is easy. Nothing more, nothing less.... I even offered suggestions on alternative (though somewhat odd) ways to open it with practically zero learning curve. I personally can not play a violin, but I do not blame the violin-design for that, and I find it quite silly if people do....

Of course I'm aware of that. The mechanism chosen is not superior. The superior one is the one that works really well with zero problems and doesn't cause loads of complaints from users. Your bicycle metaphor is condescending. Please don't belittle people for having a different view. The Desire Z did have a hinge mechanism by the way, it just wasn't a problem because it was well implemented.

Indeed, but we also don't know how many get rid of the virus, so the mortality could fall well under influenca or go as high as sars. Anyway agree with you that we don't know a big deal yet and panic does not help. What is for sure is that People should stop buying masks. Most of them are useless. the other ones do only help for 20 minutes or so and do make breathing hard!

Thanks for explaining. Yikes to the Assist part, It is the app just called "Google" that is the first thing I disable and removes permissions for when installing a new Android instance. It have a truck load of permissions granted to it self. But as many keep this mess installed you are right, Meta-key could be problematic in general.

At the core they are just generic modifiers for OEM to use as they see fit. However Meta is notably used by Android Bookmarks. Fn on full size keyboard is typically used to access media, device features and default apps. See Logitech and Thinkpad keyboards. Fn on reduced sized keyboard is typically used to access characters that are otherwise directly available in a full size keyboard. See Nokia E7 and pretty much every qwerty smartphones. At least one of the Alt, often Alt Gr, is typically used to access non English characters, 3rd level ones. Shift access uppercase

Can you bring up a different keyboard for different special key combinations (or long presses)? If so, that would be a way to implement what @EskeRahn has mentioned as an idea to have multiple levels of special characters available for each physical key. It would also require the button mapper allowing for key combinations to represent those keys on the physical keyboard, not just tapping them on the virtual keyboard, which would be more of a "cheat sheet"/reminder of which physical key combinations map to special characters.

I think that I am not able to locate the place very precisely. I was driving 150km away and noticed that phone had rebooted during the trip. It only happened one way (not in both directions) and I am using one SIM.

My understanding is meta cannot be used as a modifier in kcm files - only shift, function, and both alts (right and left). Only shift & Alt are sticky tho. If I understand right. [Please tdm/mccreary/etc correct me if I'm wrong] Although its a technicality, to be clear you can also switch between open apps with bookmarks, not just launch them. 3/4 isn't printed on our keyboards is it? I need to get me a pic of qwertz layout handy. Regardless, I thought all the third level characters are on the right side of keyboard, which means left side thumb for modifier anyway, so doesn'

test7 is up. This has some missing audio libs that should make audio behave better. Please test and let me know. a2dp is still broken but other bluetooth functions seem to be okay (tested file transfer). @EskeRahn this will hopefully make android.hardware.audio@2.0-service behave better. @EskeRahn no I didn't do any screen calibration that I'm aware. @Kabbone yes double tap to sleep works.

So thanks to @Craig post there, we solved that mystery. The modifier used by Android for those shortcuts is called Meta. I could indeed provide layouts remapping the Fx key as Meta thus enabling that built-in feature. However I doubt I would be using it myself. Some of those shortcuts don't make much sense compare to the ones I defined, obviously :), like Meta+L to launch Calendar. There are only two features available in Meta and not currently offered by FxQwerty: Meta+Space which can only switch between two input methods. If you have more you will have to do it via touch menu an

Missing keypresses might be due to a bug, where you can't press the next key before the last key is released. That should be fixed in one of the new firmware updates. For the / and ? problem, clear your keyboard language selection so that it reads "Default". Then the button next to the left control key will get you / and ? The other 2 are known issues. Hopefully they will be fixed in a newer firmware.

These are all valid complaints yet most of them are not an issue for me anymore after getting used to them. I have not much problems handling the phone carefully to not press the side buttons and screen edges, am used to huge phones already, and I simply like the hinge mechanism as is. The issue with cheeks pressing the screen during calls is supposed to be prevented by the proximity sensor turning off the screen in calls, and at least for me it seems to try but I have to admit it has happened to me once or twice, but it did so for phones before that too, maybe it can be tweaked in software bu

I like opencamera, the shutter button doesn't yet work in it though (but should be a relatively easy fix in future OTA).