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I might have missed some messages here. Are you saying the batteries also have the correct connector, or are just the right physical size and capacity? Have you managed to get them working in a pro1x yet? Or are these for the pro1?

I replaced my usb board in the past, so had to disassemble and reassemble the phone. I didn't notice any difference in the hinge. The hinge mechanism didn't need to be disassembled -- just the screen and the keyboard. My pro1 is currently still disassembled, but I am using my Pro1X now.

I believe Fxtec will do it if you contact them. You'd be without the phone for a while though. My guess is a repair shop could do it if given that link to the instructions on how it is done. They are generally used to taking apart many different models of phones.

I should mention that I find it short sighted that the phone makers require the phones to boot (even to just the battery charging screen) in order to charge the battery. They should have these set up so that the charging can take place with the phone completely off. There might be some sort of limitation where it can't fast charge until the cpu is involved, but it should do a low level charge, at a bare minimum, until the battery gets to a state where it can boot to the charging screen. That type of failsafe seems a lot better than shutting down when they think it is getting into the danger

I was pondering that too. I don't know if it would matter. If someone has a phone plugged in, I am guessing it takes about the same power to get booted enough to start charging when booting fully as it does to get to the charge only boot screen. But I could be wrong. I have it turned on with my phone, because the phone can charge a lot faster with it powered off. I use that if I am in a hurry sometimes and want to get enough charge in the phone. Doesn't seem to get as hot on fast charging when powered off.

One thing that people may way to consider to avoid this issue is installing an app that shuts down the phone before it gets to the critical level. This won't help people who have this happen before installing the app or have the battery run out when the phone is off for a long period of time and the battery drains, but it can help those of us who are able to do this step before it happens. I believe this requires root (my Pro1X is rooted). The app I installed is called Advanced Charging Controller App (ACCA). It isn't on the play store. Here is its page: https://f-droid.org/en/packag

You need to disassemble it and get enough charge in the battery for it to get to be able to boot to the charging screen (or someone else do that for you). Here is how I got a charge in my pro1 battery. There are other methods that have been posted. For example, you could jump charge it with another battery (9 volt alkaline battery was offered as an example). But however you charge it, you need to get the Pro1X battery out of the phone.

That's a great idea to "jump start" a phone battery, @bulk88!

@Noob - did you try booting it with the phone apart and the battery plugged in? If not, you can try holding in the power button for 30+ seconds and see if it will boot. My pro1 is still apart, and the only thing I can see that sort of resembles that piece is the rubber insert by the mic port. But it doesn't look exactly like your mystery piece of rubber.

It did power up with the MI 6 battery plugged in. The battery doesn't fit in the case, so no way to close it up with that battery in place, but you should be able to boot the phone with that battery. The battery plug overlaps the plug next to the phone motherboard battery connector. You would either have to hold it in place or you might be able to put the bar over the top of it and screw it in place and that should hold it. I'm not sure if you could trim the edge of the plug without damaging the wires going to the plug.

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Does anyone have a link to a non-glass screen protector that goes around the curves on our phones (that ships to the USA)? I ordered 2 from aliexpress in 2019, but can't find the 2nd one. I can't seem to locate any on there now. I did find this one on Amazon. It states it is made for curved screens and goes to the edge, but the photos aren't very convincing, nor is the single review (about it having a 1 mm gap at the bottom). https://www.amazon.com/atFoliX-Protector-Compatible-Elephone-Protection/dp/B0792HRC7T/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=AFA7IVJWKV00&keywords=Atfolix+elephone+u+pro+sc

I ordered 2 of these a while back. I have not tried replacing my Pro1 screen with one of them yet though, so can't report on any imperfections. https://m.aliexpress.us/item/3256805194536442.html?spm=a2g0n.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.1e94f19cvAhrpJ&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

I didn't realize T-mobile was in other countries. Yes, I meant T-mobile in the USA.

Interesting that you have volte disabled, but it how's voice network type as LTE. For Tmobile, it grays out the setting and has it turned on. No way to test by disabling it. I'm not sure why the LTE apps can't see what band you are connected to.

Did you disable volte, or does it show as off and grayed out automatically? Can you send a screenshot of the setting? Also, what does your phone show for these two values? Settings->About phone->SIM status (sim slot 1)->Mobile voice network type and Mobile data network type

That's great it is working for you there. My guess is your phone either hasn't found band 41 yet, or where you are doesn't have any LTE band 41 towers. Are there people reporting band 4 not working on Tmobile? Mine works okay on Band 4, both in Minnesota (multiple towers) and in SW Tennessee. It didn't work on band 41 in SW Tennessee and doesn't work on band 41 in Minnesota. I don't remember if it found a band 41 in Mississippi. I was using my Verizon 5G wifi hotspot most of the trip, so my Pro1X was using wifi more often than cellular.

I can't speak for non-USA countries, but the sense I am getting here is that they will keep lowering bandwidth on the LTE bands and giving that to 5G. Eventually, I am guessing they will shut down LTE completely. That's not good news for Pro1/Pro1X owners. My hope is that someone will make a 5G keyboard phone and that 5G will be around for a very long time (with 6G, 7G. Etc. being more about ultra high frequency use for shorter distances). Of course, keeping a phone working over these long time periods is probably a bigger obstacle. 😢 And that's just the hardware aspects. Then there i

It might be a work around until they can figure out why certain bands don't work.

Sorry, I meant they don't list LTE band 41 (b41). They do list 5G band 41 (n41).

Does that mean Key Mapper doesn't work with the screen off?

They don't list band 41 on their website, but they use it. I am hoping the reason they don't list it is because they are going to stop using it for LTE this year. This thread below discusses it more. I hope they kill it completely and not just leave 5 MHz of it left. They may have already killed it off in your area. I don't have 5G (NR) in my preferred network type list.

I have seen data work on T-mobile with B2, B4, and B12 (and assume voice would work too). B41 has never worked. When it is on B41, I need to turn on and off airplane mode to get it to pick another band temporarily. I did get a new SIM, in case that would help with band 41 (which used to be Sprint, and is also a shared band between LTE and 5G). It still doesn't work with band 41. Most places, I am on band 4. Unfortunately, sometimes, even if band 4 is a stronger signal, T-Mobile will switch to a weaker band 41 signal. Because we have a Qualcomm modem, the apps for locking/blo

Oh, and I did play around with the shake gesture in Automate (haven't tried yet with MacroDroid). It didn't want to work reliably when the screen is off. It did state it would draw 0.125 amps to monitor for shake. That doesn't seem *too* bad, if that is what MacDroid would draw too.

Yeah, I installed it and tried to find a keypress action, but didn't see it. I then went online and found the author saying he won't support it. I then installed the Automate app. I did manage to get it to see the escape key press and turn on the screen.....but only when the screen was already on. It can't read keypresses when the screen is off. 😭 I also found out later that Automate apparently has the same conflict as Autoinput (reported by another user on the forums too), where it messes up the keyboard mapping. I has to uninstall Automate to get the keyboard mapping to work corre