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Soo yesterday i have madded my battery refurbishment . It was simple process - remove kapton tape, cut old battery cell contacts from pcb, littlebit shorten contacts on new cell, solder new cell to pcb with spot welder, isolate, bend pcb to correct place and then new kapton tape. It looks like original and whole process was for 5 mins 🙂 I am now inside testing - charged to full - lineage batt info shows approx 2900mA after full charge. I have now 66% on battery after 10 hours usage (lineage update, yt music for 2 hours in car, 40 mins on browser, some calls e

Soo yess...my phone have stuck on 10% (battery saver) for more than one hour with youtube playing. Final time on battery was approx 34 hours and 6 hours on display. After second charging my phone charges up to 3138mAh but after few seconds after disconnect chager it shows again 2900mAh. It looks like i can be happy with new cell. Question is for how long. BTW cell looks exactly same as original with contacts on exactly same place.

Think it’s time for me to join the action. I’ve got a Pro1x in daily use since July, stock Android 11. I’m located in Denmark, ’Telia/Telenor’ network if anyone wonders. In the time I’ve had it, I’ve been on vacation driving through both Germany, Austria and eventually Italy. I haven’t had a single connection issue anytime, other than sending MMS from Italy didn’t seem to work. Positives: No network issues No hardware issues No issues calling/receiving calls. Texts also fine. Build quality is decent. Only the buttons on the side are a bit flimpsy. Batter

I once tried to swap-in the screen assembly of a Pro1-X into a Pro1. They fit mechanically and connector-wise. The result was that the Pro1 was able to boot into a (working) Lineage recovery, but not into the full OS. I thus assumed the selfie camera was different. Of course, the top half of the Pro1(X) includes more than the (touch)screen and camera. There is the indicator LED, the ambient-light photodiode, a speaker and (I guess) a mic for handheld audio. But somehow I had assumed those were analogue devices that could not cause a crash upon boot.

Today I got an email notification from my US based mail forwarder. "You have a new package". I was baffled as I didn't remember having ordered anything recently... To my surprise, when I checked the package photos, there it was. "Sender: FX Technology"... So here I am, another customer who finally has had their phone shipped. Contribution #21XX

HMD Global (used to be known of Nokia Android phones) is now trying similar thing what Motorola did with Moto Mods. https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-fusion https://nokiamob.net/2024/09/05/ifa-2024-introducing-the-modular-hmd-fusion/ Maybe we see keyboard mod as well?

I edited my previous post with updated information. Pro1 and Pro1-X are more different than I first thought so you cannot swap parts that easily. I added also the source for the information. Here are few Indiegogo updates: #14 Both the fingerprint sensor and the camera will be redesigned once the samples have been fully tested in the factory. #15 The Fingerprint sensor now has a new module. We’re expecting the performance to be more accurate than the Pro1 and keep you updated once we have a working prototype. #20 Our engineering team in China has had to sta

No we can't, it is a mat, sorry, but you can change what the keys actually return. I have for five years used a Pro1 qwertZ setup for qwertY (as I disliked the shifted qwerty) using FINQWERTY the nice open source work by @Anssi Hannula, and selected a Danish layout. ADD: See below

I agree with your criticism of the Pro1-X's remaining hardware and delivery process. But in these lines you essentially state that you backed a keyboard phone even though you have absolutely no use for a keyboard phone. Of course you have every right to do this. But then do not lateron blame F(x)tec when they indeed ship you a keyboard phone as ordered ...

No no no claude0001, I'm not gonna read this! :)) BTW the psychologist appointment has been canceled - fxtec promised me to send new screen!

Maybe it is. But not because you dislike the screen. Rather because you do like the rest of the phone! Just joking of course ... 😉

Lineage-21-20240826-NIGHTLY-pro1x with Aug 5th security patch installed smoothly via OTA. MindTheGapps14, and root was maintained. One oddity. I don't have any kind of screen lock on the device. Before this update, aside from swiping with my finger, I could press the space bar to dismiss the lock screen. That no longer works. There isn't a setting, so something internal changed. It's annoying since pressing the space bar is easy and really ingrained. I'm also getting yellow triangles about not being secure, so maybe that's connected. FU Google, It's my decision how secure or not

You can use app called Round corners and Hide notch to make the curve of the corner bigger (there are other apps too). It is not a perfect fix since it does not work in the settings or the drop down menu. However, it can help little bit. Maybe with root you are able to make better fix? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=round.screen.corner.hide.notch

You must be new here ... Sorry for the pun, but you'll soon learn that f(x)tec is no ordinary business ... 😄

Until you have it in youre hands allot can happen However i consider myself lucky to get a tracking number I plan to elevate it to a masterpiece on my wall once it arrives. I wil not use it as a smartphone, but as a poignant reminder that no matter how many blunders I make, they'll never quite measure up to the Pro1-X saga.

The size of the HMD Fusion is actually so huge that full size Pro1 keyboard fits to the area next to the camera bump. Check the illustration below (it is not perfectly scaled but pretty much correct). Also, since the back cover is removable you could theoretically design the whole back cover from scratch with keyboard. But that would be more expensive of course.

Forget it. The Pro1-X camera cannot handle such light conditions. The Pro1's is better, but still takes a lot of patience and manual intervention (and a good camera app) with night shooting. The price tag comes from the mech keyboard. Full stop. Other than that they're mid- (Pro1) to low-class (Pro1-X) phones. The position of the spot on you screen is different from all I've seen before, though. Normally they are all in the corners of the display, and hardly visible in normal operation. So forget what I said before: Might be worthwhile contacting F(x)tec for a replacement after al

@claude0001 thanks. I eventually ended up compiling from source then manually flashing via fastboot. Finally in Ubuntu! The documentation / process needs updating. Newer builds. Better device detection. This is not user a friendly process for those unfamilar with the command line.

Yeah, the screen with frame does not include front camera module and the board for the connector. So those parts would need to swap anyway from the old screen. But the frame and the panel itself is the same so it makes the change much easier.

so with a lot of help and custom made images from TheKit, now i got it running. Basically the persist of mine was corrupt. Some other device persist.img flashed and it worked!

A bit of a tangent, but in what universe is August 26th 2 weeks before September 3rd? :D

@Aeong – to be fair, the screen is not "defective", it's a minor cosmetic blemish, and all of us had to put up with it who needed to source a replacement screen outside of Fxtec, which was often the case. On the parts market, perfect replacement screens haven't been available at all now for a long time, and it seems that at this point not even Fxtec is capable to source any. Your complaints on some of the other issues you mention are, of course, perfectly valid. When I was still using my Pro1X which also had basic connectivity issues, practically inhibiting calls and text messages a

Can't find it back either. But I just checked: If you *carefully* lift the edge of a cap with a pair of tweezers, you can see the transparent mat below. So the keycaps indeed seem to be individual parts. Not something that was meant to be user-customizable, but it does seem possible ...

Looks like something really screwed up your partitions... This is now beyond what I can think at the moment. I'm currently out of ideas.

As previously stated, I can only agree. I have 2 x Pro1 and 1 x Pro1-X and all displays have these black moons in at least some of their corners. The good news is that they haven't worsened over time, which is 4+ years for my initial Pro1.

I am not sure but maybe will it be same as when i have changed battery cell on my old motorola photon. After first full charge motorola stuck on 5% battery for hours and was needed to wait util phone off and then recharge. After 3 full charging was battery info "recalibrated" and all was fine. ...i am now on 55% after 15 hours and phone says that will be on battery up to tomorrow 14:30

I've been daily driving Sailfishos for about 4 years on the Pro1 then the X. I haven't experienced these issues.

I ordered a screen as a well-reviewed supplier on AliExpress had them for only $50. Will update when I receive it in the mail in a few weeks and open up the phone.

i did not expect it to show up. somehow, it did... box open as expected, battery dead as expected. rubber band is currently rubber banding. will report back when I know it actually turns on...

hmmm...this forum is about FXtec phones and this is TCL. I see, that your phone is in fastboot/bootloader. On this screen press power button for normal start. If phone boots again to this screen, then use VOLume buttons - select Recovery, press power button - phone boots into recovery. Here select with vol buttons wipe data and then select reboot. If phone still boots into Fastboot, then is neededt to test firmware flashing............

It is normal of FX devices...my pro1 from first serie was delivered with same problem. Soo i have immediately contacted fx for solution. Fx have sent me gratis another new display but with another problems 😞 Really good solution is set corner radius - some root and some not root apps can made it. As i see your corners defects are small soo it will be invisible 🙂 Corner radius settings was in one custom android 10 and 11 rom ...it was not lineageos...but i forgot name 😞 BTW...i have contacted fx again after 1+ year ago and finally good display was delivered soo

I wouldn't worry about those. My Pro1's (got two of them) and my Pro1-X have had these black spots in the corners of the screen since day one. They haven't worsened over time (we're talking years for my initial Pro1)

everytime I see the phone on my desktop I think "unbelievable, it's here..." I feel lucky as the direct concurrent keyboarded-phone from Planet computer seems to be a complete scam now. (I don't expect a Pro2). That say, I wish you a good ending for the saga.

Just came in by email:

I've just uploaded my latest build of LineageOS16.0 (for SD835 Pro1), dated 20240820, to https://findus.zwergenschaenke.net/~puma/linux.html#lineagepro1 Changes since last month: Includes backported security patches up to the August 2024 Android Security Bulletins. Updates the bundled system WebView to Chromium 127.0.6533.103 (as shipped with official LOS 20 and 21). Have a lot of fun!

I got my phone - and it worked two weeks 😞 Fxtec haven't answered my emails and FB-message got automatic reply that they are not at workplace 😞 😞 Thus, I waited almost a month and wondered what to do to my phone... However, one of my friends made me try a laptop charger with USB-C - and, surprise, surprise, the battery loaded and now it works.

Another thread here made me thinking that what are the chances if Pro1-X mainboard could work on Pro1 (and vice versa). Of course, the phone would change to Pro1 -> Pro1-X (or other way around) since the main board determites software etc. https://community.fxtec.com/topic/4137-shopping-for-a-working-pro1-not-x-mainboard/ The board is definitely different (not the same SoC etc.) but the size could be identical. We know that battery has different connector and camera is different so you probably need to swap those also. But if other connectors are the same could it be just "plug an

Allow me to suggest you to launch a new keyboard slider phone, if you know how it should be done, I would certainly be interested in buying... All electronic devices are the result of series of compromises and design decisions, there are no perfect devices. Would I have preferred a slightly lesser flat rectangular screen with protected edges? Sure, but not all would. And with that changed design other things might have followed that I might not have liked. Remember that such a tiny company as FxTec, aren't requesting a display manufacturer to produce exactly what they would find opti

On discord they helped some guy install UBtouch manually after the installer didn't work for him either, basically following this how-to: https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/community-ports/android11/fxtec-pro1x/fxtec-pro1x To get all the partitions required for flashing, you need a "devel-flashable" zip. Unfortunately, the last successful job of that kind at UBports was 9 months ago, and the resulting artifacts.zip is no longer available for download: https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/community-ports/android11/fxtec-pro1x/fxtec-pro1x/-/jobs So self-building the system p

I had already forgot this picture but the discussion here helped me to remember. Individual keys are indeed possible to swap or even rotate x).

Someone brave should test to flash stock Android 9 firmware of Pro1 to Pro1-X with new screen. I mean the same process that Lineage OS users have done when changing the screen. "You have your current rom installed and try to overwrite it without wiping data. The installation starts and fails after a few minutes, however the display area is reconfigured" It works on Pro1 and you do not lose data. But probably the flashing of Pro1 firmware to Pro1-X does not even start. And if it does, there might be high risk to brick device.

I agree. There's no noticeable errors or warnings in the logs. @trahe I found this almost by chance: Does it help you? It shows that restoring some of the partitions worked to unbrick his phone.

never. we all start somewhere. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I can't provide much better steps than what is already in the OP. I guess start here: backup persist. try adb method first. requires unlocked and a recovery boot if above doesn't work, install EDL (see readme and OP) edl r persist persist_backup.img edl r modemst2 modemst2_backup.img edl r modemst1 modemst1_backup.img edl r fsc fsc_backup.img edl r fsg fsg_backup.img flash your OS of choice:

Not using SFOS myself since many years. But others indeed have reported much better results. As you had similarly devastating experience with Droidian, also (kind of) positively tested by others, I wonder if something is wrong with your device. Did it work correctly with stock Android 11?

If you can login to recovery, then the phone is not bricked. You can still do things with it. Did you backup the partitions?

I pretty much echo @MonCon I consider my Pro1x my daily driver. It does work fine as a phone on T-Mobile (both calls and data) in both VA and CO in the US, but I don't use it for that. I de-converged back with my Pro 1 in 2020. I'm retired and it isn't a lot of trouble to carry 2 devices. I don't do a lot of calling. 95% of my calls involve home health care for Mrs. Hook. Both the Pro1 and Pro1x are have weaker r reception than other phones and I need 100% reliability for the home health care no matter where I am driving. S0 I have a Pixel 7 Pro (got it new for under $500 from

Well, today my saga has finally come to an end. After paying a 49 euro import fee, the delivery guy was gone in a flash. The packaging looked like it was meant for the original Pro1, but inside was a blue Pro1X. Unfortunately, it has a custom engraving on the back. And, of course, it won’t turn on. So, I’ve resorted to putting a rubber band on the power button while it’s hooked up to the charger, hoping it’ll eventually come to life. Regardless i will 3d print a frame and put it on my wall. This will likely be my final post here, as my journey has come to a rather ironic conclusion. I’ll

its today or at least i have a tracking number

@Hook Very much appreciate you weighing in. I mostly run Manjaro on my machines and have one that's already communicated effectively with Android, so good to know that Linux is a more advanced starting spot for flashing (which I have never done). I may stiffen my spine and use the L word. The occasionally blank edges can drive me to distraction. Thank goodness the install guides here are so thorough. Jake

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sf5VTN_OyjpzcZZFylahh6dhNlEQ14yl