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You are quoting a three year old reply - sorry I have zero recollection "The F(x)tec Pro1 is not supported by the current Ubuntu Touch release."

I think that is a crucial thing, that we as users can not easily set/change. IF it was easy to change it would make it too easy for thieves to give a phone a new identity.

I wa under the impression that the persist partiton contained unique information so copying it would sort of making the two devices clones. Interesting if that is NOT the case as we could thus have one available somewhere.

I would expect that the screen plus frame they are selling, are far from the full top half, and thus not includes the front camera.

I would have guessed they were the same, but if so FxTec would now, so I guess they are not when they say so. Have no idea of parts, sorry.

Ah yes, for the elephone ones you should get it without the frame, as it is different. If you can get it with a frame fitting the pro1/prpo1x, that is obviously easier to swap.

As mentioned you could also look for "Elephone U Pro" i think they are more common, and they use the same BOE display.

The screen is identical to the one used by Elephone U Pro. BUT there could be some initialisation issues with setting the size of the touch border, that we are yet to find a solution for. Currently the only way I know of to do it, is to attach it to a pro1 (not pro1X) and re-flash that with stock android, as this process initialise the screen setup also.... (I have not tried this myself yet though) Unfortunately none have (yet?) been able to extract what this precisely does, so it could be replicated directly on a Pro1X So would be great if some had the skills and time to reverse

Oh, that was interesting, have no recollection on that, thanks Found this thread. And this. So indeed it IS possible.

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

That would be my guess too, but strange that that it starts working again though shortly. If you are lucky, it is a cable not locked in the connector and maybe the way holding it can make the cable just get or just loose contact BUT this is a pure guess,

You could start at the thread pinned to the top in the community, where I keep various links like these....

A long shot is that it is a cable that is not firmly in the plug, so if you are to open the upper part with the intend of replacing anyway then try to check that.

AFAIK that is normal

@daniilflyy This is not an optimal place to post support-questions related to non-fxtec phones....

Let my give pinging @npjohnson a try, though it has been a while since I saw him active in here. 😉

I have several Pro1 and Pro1X, and they all got it to some degree, sorry. It is the same screen from Boe used on the Elephone U, and you can find complaints on that too. So though annoying, it would be really lucky to find one without the issues...

I'm sad to say that I fear you are a bit optimistic with the pricing, despite the high costs you had. 😢

In other threads some were talking temperature issues. Could that be relevant for you? That is if it does not throttle down sufficiently to prevent itself from overheating.

How weird, I just tried to open it. Maybe it is available to me because I'm a mod??? Odd.... But thanks for telling. ADD: Just tried to share again, same result,

(it is in here as well, look a few comments above...)

Could it be driver issue on the PC/cable side? That is the phone does not think the connected PC supports MTP, and hence does not offer the option? Try on another PC and/or different cable and see if you get the same.

I would expect the electric part to be identical, though the US QWERTY key-MAT on top obviously has a different key layout. The German qwertZ might be the same though.

In the minor department they moved the USB-plug about 1mm further from the back, making it easier to use e.g. round magnetic charging plugs, so the lower half is not 100% identical. But we are talking a very small change, It could still be that the usb-board is the same, or at the least are physically exchangeable without the need of extending the hole, Any changes in the antennas could be what is put on the same basic metal frame. We would need to take one of each apart side by side, or have an official reply on which parts that are identical and which one that are just 'similar' bu

I believe they said that had to redesign the case due something with the antennas. So I would not expect neither the inner of a Pro1 working in a Pro1X case nor vice versa. ...but could be wrong, this is just what I recall they said over three years ago...