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Hello, In case of someone would be interested, I try archlinux container in termux with Xfce and it works perfectly for the pro1 with Xserver-XSDL apk. It also works with VNC but without sound. I can now listen music, use Libreoffice and firefox and play with my programming tools. Pro1's keyboard works prefectly (qwerty version here) Very nice discovering a new linux distro. It's not so hard and the documentation is very complete. Source installing archlinux : https://github.com/SDRausty/termux-archlinux When you have done this, $ startarch (in Termux) and you wil

Nice job! Always good to see I am not the only one using the Pro1 as an actual computer ... 😎 By using XRDP as a wrapper around VNC, you can forward sound from the VNC session to an RDP client (I recommend MS Remote Desktop 8 as it seems to work best with the Pro1's keyboard). This way you do not need a separate XServer on Android, and the Linux session can run in the background when disconnected. I gave an overview about such a setup in another thread. I do not use termux, but I guess it cannot install XRDP and the required PulseAudio drivers for you. You'll have to do that yourself f

Updated to the 06 OCT weekly via OTA. All went smoothly and root was maintained, September security patch (wasn't expecting October patch this early).

Well, as the original poster, I thought I might follow up on this. I was finally able to get in touch with fxtec support back in March (I think their messages may have initially been marked as spam). After requesting and receiving some pictures of the phone to ensure it had not been physically damaged, fxtec support advised me that I had two options: 1) They could immediately send me a replacement screen, along with a link of a video on how to replace the screen myself 2) I could send the phone in for repair, but their service center was out of stock of replacement screens unt