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And that lasted for five minutes 😄 It reminds me of some guys talking about promises not kept and/or expectations that did not hold.... 😇 Good luck to you too - and have mercy on the manufacturers of what ever you may pre-order in the future.6 points
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This entire discussion makes it look like FxTec caused the delays on purpose. And we can be sure they wouldn't. So as long as the delays are obviously out of their control it really doesn't make sense critizising them. They can't change anything anyways.5 points
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That's not how it works, Samsung will not just give you their stuff and reverse engineering it is more work than it's worth.5 points
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....with all the time people are confined to be at home, expect a baby boom...4 points
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I started reading this post today. I guess since I haven't left the house much and primarily use my phone as a phone, it hadn't occurred to me to come visit this forum. I apologize for that. I should have checked in, and checked in on my peeps. It's just surreal. This post here, and moving forwards, you can almost track progression. We go from concern to trepidation, to fear pretty quickly. And I get it - people want their phones. What I want is for all the people like you to be around when this whole thing has passed. I want to know that you are safe and then one day we can go back to norm4 points
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Sheesh. Look, I understand not wanting to wait any longer and deciding to get something else (no, actually, I'm lying, this phone is so awesome, I can't imagine ever getting something else, but the frustration with waiting I understand 😉), but why do you have to throw a hissy fit on your way out the door. Why not just, "Okay, I'm tired of waiting so I'm moving on. Good luck to the rest of you."4 points
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Which might happen and might not. And if it happens, it still proves nothing. If the virus should come back to China, which everyone hopes it won't, but the rest of the world is already suffering higher infection rates than China had during the height of its crisis, that "guarantee" will immediately prove worthless. Yeah, which of course is exactly the same as building and marketing an Android phone for mass market. You don't seem to "understand" much, actually. We all want our phones and are not happy about the delays, but venting exaggerated (and, by the way, potentially illegal4 points
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@sixaxis , you could add a number 8, see mail posted yesterday by @Raksura above. When they say nothing: people are whining When they say something without a when: people are whining When they try to give a vague estimate stating that it is out of their control. people are whining When they tell that the supply lines are working again and production and shipping is expected to be resumed: People are whining too ?!?!? What do you expect them to do in the current situation?4 points
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@FlyingAntero, since you will be taking your phone part way apart anyway, which I believe voids the warranty, if you have a chance to take photos of both sides of the battery, that would be very helpful in possibly finding a source online where we can get them. I realize you are replacing the screen, and might not need to open the bottom, but I'm just mentioning it since you will be doing some surgery anyway. Also, close up pictures of the flex cable, flex cable connectors and USB port would all be valuable, as those are parts we might want to replace over time and currently don't know w3 points
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Unless they are practicing safe social distancing. 😜3 points
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I don't want to restart your debate, just would like to write my own opinion. Those of high risks usually do some precautions. So they apply for vaccination and try to avoid to catch the virus. However, for this virus, there is no vaccination yet and it can spread very quickly and causes pneumonia not as the result of weakening the person's immune system but directly. The biggest and worst part of this whole virus I think is the very long incubation period. So if you are ill, you can do many precautions to not infect others... but if you don't even know you are ill (yet), then yo3 points
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I haven't noticed a single random reboot. I *might* have had one early on, but my brain could be confusing that happening to me vs reading about it with someone else. :-) I'm on stock, though, and I also did a factory reset at one point. I used to have reboots fairly frequently on my Relay 4G phones with Cyanogenmod and whatever apps I was using and constant memory/storage swapping, due to low available RAM. I have hundreds of apps installed on the Pro1. Even though I don't use all of them, there are probably quite a few background processes. It could be some app I don't have ins3 points
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Again I'm puzzled. I have never said that there's nothing worth noting; only that the extreme precautions and any panic at all are unwarranted, based on the available data. I am between your extremes as you stated them, having observed that those at high risk would do well to take extra precautions, as they should during flu season anyway, but that the general freakout and resulting general shutdowns are completely unwarranted. Caution is not panic, and many actions being taken now by both individuals and governing bodies are not representing, in my opinion, caution, but panic. It sounds like3 points
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I am also a developer of both hardware and software and I would not say that creating a phone from scratch is easy. You are right about the SoC itself does a lot of things but you should follow several considerations, select appropriate components and routing, so you have to have appropriate skills and experiences. Also, creating a phone from scratch can be relatively easy for an expert who is also familiar with multi-layer PCB design, but creating a good phone needs much more experience not speaking about good mechanical design and EMI / EMC considerations and the price of testing a2 points
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To ignore it would be foolish, and to lock down the whole world is too. I wonder if it would not have been a more rational approach to this whole thing to find ways to separate in clean and unclean, at let the disease 'rage' among any below say 50 (or where you want to put the cut), as any other flu/cold, All us above the limit working should be strongly advised to work from home. Isolate the vulnerable, and use the resources on guaranteeing disinfected deliveries of whatever groceries etc needed. One could even have transformed some holiday-camps and/or hotels to safe-havens for the2 points
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My 3M strips have arrived last week, I hope they'll be joined by my Pro1 soon 😁2 points
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It’s better not to have business with fxtec. That they do not hesitate to feed with promises like "next week." And the fact that we are not completely respected. (It's my personal opinion). And the fact that I personally was disappointed in fxtec. I myself am a developer of both hardware and software, and I understand that for YEARS it is possible not only to build a telephone, but to surrender it from scratch, patent, certify, test, navigation equipment for small aircraft. This is what My firm has done. If you think that creating a phone is hard, then you are not competent in the matter. Fo2 points
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I'm very happy for getting any information at all. At this point, the best they can do is estimate. And I don't believe anybody who is in a place where Corona spreads out can handle it differently. I'm impatient as well, but at least they don't ignore us (anymore) when they don't have secured/new information. Also think of them being treated the same. All companies and partners they work with will be promising that they will receive parts, start working, etc. They are in the same boat as we are.2 points
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This isn't a Pixel device and FxTec is no Google. You'll be lucky to just get support equal to other manufacturers. Read the Lineage wiki. I'm sure this is covered in detail. Hint: extract-files.sh. If you need to do a full factory restore (you won't if you are careful), just grab the latest fastboot package and flash it, then "fastboot -w" to erase userdata.2 points
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I'm just curious how big this batch will be 😀... I placed my order in January ( so I know I can't complain yet ) ... but I am a glass half full kinda person, so I'm kinda excited that the factory is getting back to work ( hopefully everyone is staying safe )2 points
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- Be probably already aware that people whine regardless of talks. - Hopefully soon be able to crank out more of these awesome phones :).2 points
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Yeah, I saw that too (online). Clear as mud. 😕 Seems you might be charged with a crime if a police officer sees you sneezing into your hands or not covering it at all. Or shaking hands. Pretty drastic order. The part about sending homeless people indoors seemed counter-intuitive.1 point
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In a summary of what Germany's "Heise" IT news portal published today, there are a lot of special offers for software and services available right now, albeit some of them restricted to a limited time of free or cheaper usage. Collaboration: Google G Suite, Lifesize (meetings, videochats), Microsoft Teams, Pronto (also videochat), Teamviewer (free version is normally intended for non-commercial use only, but those who use it professionally during the Corona crisis do not need to fear payment requests. Inofficially it is said anything less than 150 simultaneous connections is tolerated), Z1 point
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The burden of justification lies in the accusation, not the defendant. ... And with that you ignored everything else... Including You mean "bye bye"? If you say so. If you always run away from a discussion and keep giving accusations without proof, you will never win one.1 point
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Are you sure they are promises? When I read their texts, I read expectations: Got any examples that state otherwise? Good for you. So am I. You do know that f(x)tec owners are not programmers, do you? You do know they are at mercy of snapdragon and google (android), don't you? What? It's not? Elaborate, please. Please be more technical on what you mean by "tie". So... You mean they changed linux for the PRO¹, is it? What kind of changes do you notice? Have you ever tried to make a new piece of hardware that has never existed before to1 point
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Here's some additional food for thought on the subject (which I got from a German source that was cited in another forum I'm active in, while I cite the 1977 translation by Alan Sheridan here) – perhaps worth reflecting on especially in our day and age, even if we agree with most of the concrete measures that have been taken against a quicker-than-necessary spreading of the virus... The plague-stricken town, traversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power that bears in a distinct way over all individual1 point
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That's right, I meant to say for Verizon as they don't have any licenses in BC10. BC10 was the old Nextel iDEN band and as far as I know only Sprint obtained licenses, and I'm not sure if any of it was put into use for their CDMA system. If so, then the Pro1 won't work with those CDMA sites (or cells).1 point
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I grant you that "making a mistake" is a third option beside "stupid" and "malicious"... But it never did in the first place. In judging the case at hand, we have a large bandwidth of possible assessments, with two extremes – one extreme that fears the end of the world, spreads panic and has bought truckloads of toilet paper, and another extreme that doesn't see anything worth noting except that everyone else are fearmongers and panic spreaders. As usual, both extremes are wrong, and, as usual, science and the professionals of the involved fields are the places where the most sensible1 point
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If we want to keep up the assumption that you're not stupid, you're giving us more and more reason to suspect that you're purposefully and heavily distorting the truth to advocate your ideology, spreading lies to influence people to behave in a way that follows your personal ideology, thereby endangering others. My numbers are not "order of magnitude low". They're from the exact same source you're citing. We can only compare confirmed deaths with confirmed deaths, which is what I did. You, on the other hand, are trying to compare total estimated deaths of the swine flu, estimated after it1 point
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I've really thought the userbase here is a bit smarter than that. Kind of sad.1 point
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A lot can be easily fixed with tiny pieces of thin self adhesive rubber or felt strategically placed. Say of 0.5 - 1mm thickness. e.g. from here. I suggest a 10x3x1mm piece (can be even shorter e.g. 5mm, but then it is hard to apply DIY...) Sure it should have been there originally, And we can hope they will extend the assembly of some later Pro1s with adding some.1 point
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As long as you follow the instructions and you don't install anything that modifies the system partition, then you should be able to update via OTA. You just have to be sure to follow the proper steps before and after you do the OTA and don't reboot in between.1 point
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Production and software updates are the fault of IdeaLTE. Lack of communication is clearly the fault of FxTec.1 point
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I have done the update. mine seems to be all fine. keyboard works without any issue landscape and portrait is working fine gpay is fine speaks sound is ok so i dont see any issue at all1 point
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Try "massaging" your keyboard and see if that fixes it? If it is a mechanical issue rather than an electrical issue it could help. Maybe your keyboard is still too stiff and too new. I found mine got easier to use as it aged a bit.1 point
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Hum, it seem to be hardware. It was masked by the previous behavior as multiple keypress was ignored. Now all signals are recorded. If I press very gently the m keys, it is not apenning sometimes.1 point
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Next time try launching a program that ignores your auto-rotate setting, And rotate the Pro1 back and forth within the app. e.g. the snapdragon camera app or AndroSensor. It usually solves it for me.1 point
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I'm not on LOS yet, but I think the fingerprint reader itself is just bad. Also on stock It fails very often to identify the fingerprint, even if you save multiple "versions" of the same finger.1 point
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(then again I'm on holiday for the middle three weeks in March so there will be limited help in that period)1 point
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Speaking of helping, I was going to mention I would be happy to be a US supplier of black dots to folks who need them. I'll set aside what I need and then dole out to others as needed. There will be no cost to those I dole out to. 🙂 I count 7 black dots. Anyone know if that's correct or are there ones under the keyboard I can't see?1 point
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He said MI6 was asking questions. I told him to send them to @EskeRahn.1 point
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Yup, worked out the same for me. Lol. Alex must be wondering about these stickerorders. 😄1 point