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For those of you who are self-building, I thought I should provide some info about where to find the monthly ASB patches. Google is currently backporting security patches to all releases since Oreo (Android 8.1), and there is a simple way to cherry-pick these patches from the AOSP source tree. You'll need to have synced the full tree first, following the instructions at https://source.android.com/setup/build/downloading tl;dr repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b master repo sync Once you have the full tree, you can easily display the patches inclu

While I agree with most of your ideas, I think that ship has sailed. According to the last update from Fxtec, they should be in the protoyping phase by now. Even small changes to the hardware would likely introduce large delays at this point. As @VaZso pointed out, that's especially true for the Fn key which is wired differently than "normal" keys. So it is not only a matter of changing the printing on the caps. That said, I would not worry too much. My experience is that typing on the phone and on the PC "feels" so different that it does not help to have identical layouts for the symbols

Yes, there is still a problem to be solved, it just can't be solved by changing qwertz_fn_keys[] in the keyboard driver. @VaZso's summary is quite correct, that we will most likely need additional language-specific custom keymaps to make this work properly. We probably also need the ability to remap the six 'modifier' keys with dedicated GPIO lines (shift, ctrl, fn_l, F logo, alt, and fn_r), and this is not possible with the current custom keymap feature. However, we are making good progress towards adding support for that.

They stepped up their game again. Since a few weeks support is answering and sending out parts again. I got a new USB-Board a few days ago, which has brought me one step closer to revive my precious pro1.

@EskeRahn Thanks for the tip Still no response to my email