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Just when I was prepared to wait another six or more months for the Pro¹ (or now rather Pro¹ X) I had ordered in September 2019, now I got lucky – and my hands on a used device! It came with (non-rooted) LineageOS 17.1 (February 15 update installed like a charm from within the system menu) and all the apps I need work, even banking and the health insurer's app (and Netflix via APK), except only one, the "Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Softtoken" app for connecting to my employer's VPN from the home office. For the time being, I guess I'll just keep my old phone lying on my desk.

Thats my collection over the years. Starting from right is OQO Model 01 then Fx tec Pro1 then Nokia E7 and finally imate Jasjar

Oh god this was from the time they gave u a free styles with the phone ( and 2 spare's) a charger a docking station earbuds and a protective case just straight from the factory , im telling u back then u recieved allot more bang for youre $ i had a bluetooth dongle for gps and was already using it for navigation with tom tom in 2004 i wrote a custom app so it would display my speed when driving my moppet ( the speedo on the moppet did not work ) this nifty replacement after the qtek died . it had build in gps and back then that was the dream very very good device . until the

Ah that sound the problem several have encountered with the earpiece. It seems to be a mechanical issue, try to check if the display part is tight together at the earpiece end. Some have reported that they pressing it can hear it 'snaps' back in place and the works. Could that be what you experiences? If it fixes it, perhaps check that the screws behind the stickers are not loose.

And i still have 10 Nokia E7 in original packing and running perfect is brand new confdition

Since I dabbled quite a lot in Symbian modding back in the day (mostly widget and theme mods, editing the SVGs and the .000000 hex files), I took an hour off today, disassembled and brought back to life my old Nokia E7-00. 🙂 I love the design and am so happy that the Pro1 continues that line. Truth be told I am a fan of Bauhaus and Dieter Rams 8 degree slant on his audio 308 turntable, so this might have something to do with my fascination with this phone form factor. Nothing important here, just noticing things. 😄

The poll should speak for itself. I'm really wondering how many of us aren't computer nerds 🤓

Nope, you don't get rid of me that easy. 😉

I really wonder if they changed the hinge mechanism along the way because I have never owned anything like a Pro1 before and when I got it I could easily open it and now I can easily open it with one hand.

You could use termux, which allows to spawn several sessions, and open an ssh connection in each?

Did that for you. 🙂 Awesome support, @EskeRahn!

Fired up my E7 last week-end and it looks like it's dead. Garbage on screen and not charging. I have another one that's still booting though.

I know. I have 3 complete E7-00 phones, all working, and 2 E7 boxes full of broken phones I used to repair the one I daily drove. In the end it got to the point that I did a PCB swap in 20min and my daily driver was actually made out of parts from 5 different devices. :))

Nah, i dont think these will worth anything. i just bought them for backup, at one point it was hard to buy them so i started buying them from where i could

Is there any way for people from WTB section to block this kind of threads? 😀

This can be true, but I like to believe we're doing quite well at welcoming everyone on this forum :)

This sort of anti-correlates with that most true nerds would stay away from a social thing like this forum, and thus never get to the poll. 🤣

AFAIK, the difference between a simple restart and holding the power button for longer is that the latter interrupts the circuit and can therefore also solve "electrostatic problems" (like removing battery in older days).

I'm afraid that's worrying. The Sandisk labeling on that card is for a line that only goes up to 32 Gb. Neither Sandisk, nor Amazon show any Sandisk card commercially available with more than 1TB and they are over $200. Fry's doesn't seem to have many Sandisk cards currently. Here is Sandisk's current listings with their label formts(No 2 TB SDXC cards): https://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22697/~/microsd%2Fmicrosdhc%2Fmicrosdxc-card-support-information-page I'd really love to be wrong, but I wouldn't trust this card. If everything on it is backed up elsewhere, mi

Yes and Yes. So I tried 2 things: 1) I disabled Contacts+ as the default app ane enabled phone Still no thing. 2) I reinstalled an old APK for the version of Contacts+ that I like. Magic better. And all my apps are set to never updated. I hate updates. Updates suck. But it may have been the battery pull thing that you had me do. Regardless... problem solved and thank you all!

So I'm assuming you Contacts app also is your phone app? Is it selected still in Settings -> Apps & Notifications -> Default apps?

I know this sounds silly but try two things. First, go into settings -> apps and clear chache on the phone app. Then do a simulated battery pull. This is done by holding the power button. Keep holding it (ignore the pop-up shutdown menu) until the Pro1 spontaneously restarts. This is my go to whenever I get inexplicable wonky behavior. It works for lot of cases. Don't know if it will solve yours, but unless yours is a messed up proximity sensor, it's all I've got. 😉

If you are like me, you're an Android enthusiast and you love how the keyboard on the F(x)tec Pro1 makes it feel like a miniature laptop. However, you must have also noticed that most of Android isn't built for landscape use. I've thought about it for a bit, and I decided to make a Tasker profile that seamlessly changes DPI when the keyboard is opened. Assuming your close-up eyesight is fine, this allows much more information to be displayed on the screen in landscape mode, and gives Chrome desktop-like tabs at the top (basically a tablet mode). Since I am loving it so much, I bet there's at l

I actually wouldn't rule this out. Those policies usually are defined per group... And perhaps someone upped the upload options for users at some point, but not for moderators?

Strange. I'll try another one myself. Like above, I'll drag and drop it from my image viewer (XnView) right into the text editor. Ok... It only works if the image is below 2 MB size, so I need to set a fairly strong JPEG compression when developing the image.

I should probably have said that I do have a GNU/Linux running in a Chroot that allows me to start a full X11-desktop if I really need it. However for simple CLI-work, I want to have a lightweight Android app around that allows me to spawn an SSH session via a shortcut on my homescreen with a single tap (I use PSK authentication). Up to now I thought termux was too heavy for that purpose and that it would simply duplicate features my Chroot provides anyway. Maybe I should give it a try after all, thanks for the suggestion.

I don't really know what you are speaking about, but copying another phone would be useless and also prohibited... Additionally, Pro1 itself is good-looking, similar phone like N950 was but most probably it has already more units available. Also, it is not as simple to make an N950 styling but also they should have appropriate parts available (like display, exact size of PCB, antenna system, accommodate to different bands supported, etc). Practically, producing Pro1 is a much better idea 🙂, even if it has to be somewhat redesigned because the problem of available parts... ...but

Reboot worked. I though that I did that, but I guess not. Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit. Sorry to bother you guys. BTW: I only had my phone for a couple of weeks, but I love it.

Khm, I have ordered my Pinephone while I was waiting for my Pro1 to arrive. My Pro1 has been arrived by late December in 2019, and if I remember well, Pinephone has arrived in January 2020. Basically, Pro1 worked from the first boot very well. It had some problems like loud in-call volume (still exists) and green tint (still exists). Keyboard handling was improved anyway and had some stability improvement which triggered for me only a few times traveling on a motorway and some other improvements was made. Stock Android for Pro1 still has some problems (maybe optimization-related) a

Is this with any sound chosen or just the default sound? If all sounds, check volume rocker and also check you didn't accidentally trigger the Do Not Disturb quick tile in the pull down notification shade (I've done that before).

Awesome, i like your mods

Can I just ask... why? 😂 it looks insane to me, in a way. Are these the new Pokémon cards, that will be worth a lot in the future, you reckon?

Yeah 😄 its not as bad as the moto mod though is it?

Thanks. Not being very technical, I never knew the explanation. Just knew it solved a lot of problems. As I said, my go to first move when things are wonky. 🙂

I personally don't think the Pinephone is a real alternative for Pro1(x) backers/users. It's a lot different since it's using mainline linux kernel and the hardware and software are in their very early stage. Definitely not for most users 😄️ it is a great for the future of mobile alternatives though so would be good to support it now and get one since it's cheap anyway. Also, I don't think it's not correct to say that it exclusively runs Linux. It's an open hardware so you can basically run anything on it, well at least anything developed or ported for it. There are even Android distros a

Yes, on their website it says the phone will ship preinstalled with Manjaro as OS and PlasmaMobile as UI. So I guess that gives the best normal-user experience. That said, a plethora of operating systems have been shown to run on the phone already. Community support for the device is impressive ...

Could you edit and quote that better (whats your v theres) 🙂 But thanks for posting! 🙂

I posted about this keyboard mod a bit ago the keyboard is designed like the psion one like planet computers uses The keyboard attaches to the back of the phone I believe after removing the back cover I think it uses the extension GPIO points. It also has a huge battery inside the keyboard to phone battery life. Think what FxTec as doing with the moto mod phone. I believe also that more work has been done on the other OS than ubports but unfortunately I've not managed to get a device yet so can't say on that 😞 I am sure manjaro was more complete.

Depending on your operating system, you may try F3 or H2testw, they will show you if the card is fake and you may ask a refund and show the result of the test program as proof of being a fake card. I think it will show you most of the data was corrupted which is usual for a fake card.

I'm a little confused here I thought we were talking an SD card, this sound more like an SSD drive? And for SSD 2TB is more likely to be real.

Have you also copied back the photos and compared against their original versions? ...or at least have you checked if these photos can be displayed at different positions of the card? (So copied first, copied in the middle, copied around the last, etc...) We are not joking, this is a serious problem of a lot of sellers. These cards report fake capacities (like 2 TB), behaves like if it would be true, but when you write data to the card which should go above the address of the last real data, it will overwrite existing data causing them to be lost. I have found a lot of fake cards

So 50% of the problem solved. I get a notification in the drawer now but it doesn't default to my Contacts app.

No. It literally does the same thing a battery pull would do. Doesn't touch your apps. I don't know exactly why it solves problems, but I know in the old days pulling a battery from a phone (like blackberries) would also solve wonkiness often.

It doesn't wipe your phone, just helps clean garbage out.

You're obviously talented. I can't do that single-handed half a year into using the phone 🙂. I did stop training after the Pro1 almost jumped out of my hand once. Congrats on your purchase. This user forum naturally tends to over-emphasise the problems of the Pro1. All-in-all, it is a quite solid phone. While there certainly are devices with significant manufacturing flaws, I suspect they are a very small minority.

I think such problem may happen using stock Android. I used to have black screen during the phone ringing while it turned on the screen after several ringings, so I could accept the call. One of my friends had similar problem on his replacement unit. I have also experienced reboot loop after restarting the phone for hours before it booted up properly. Later, I have experienced the same reboot loop upon connecting charger cable. After factory reset, the problem disappeared while I have no applications installed but started again after all the applications restored. After a

You have probably enabled "Power button ends call" feature from Accessibility settings. Disabling that feature should allow you to answer calls. However, I don't know what causes black screen.

I'm still figuring out when I want to use the physical keyboard (for now, mostly for fun or when browsing the web), other times I simply use Google Keyboard which is much faster for me with suggestions on, to text friends and such. I personally want my F(x)tec Pro1 to feel like any other smartphone in portrait mode, with apps and in-app buttons being quite large, and be able to switch to the physical keyboard when I want more of a laptop/productivity feel for the device, with the display size and fonts being much smaller, and getting the full desktop sites in Chrome. This guide is mainly

The N950 was the holy grail for me too. Still didn't manage to get my hands on one. I have an N900, an Ngage QD, a 6600, an E6, a BlackBerry Priv and an Asus SL101 tablet in my "collection", all working. I regret not getting an Xperia Play when I came across it at the flea market a couple of years ago. I eventually turned the E6 into a retro-futuristic "PC". https://builds.gg/builds/lina-12641

I myself could never get used to my brother's ole' HTC Desire Z, simply because the screen didn't tilt up. I fell in love with the Nokia E7 as well when I was about 15 years old (time flies, but also, I'm still pretty young). I remember selling it to some older man, who gave me a confused look and said: "why does someone like you have a device like this?", clearly indicating that keyboards on Symbian phones are for grown men only. To which I replied: "I... collect phones?". Still true, to this day. But I think it's pretty hilarious to think of a 15 year old boy saving up to buy his next cheap,