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I'm not very worried, myself. However, I'm surprised they haven't been more communicative. That was the big problem last time they produced a product. My mistake regarding a February refund. I saw someone else post about a February date and then when I recently paid for a battery on the Indiegogo page, the email I received stated: ... This charge will appear in your credit card statement as “INDIEGOGO* Pro1 X IGG”. Crowdfunding is not shopping. Your donation is a way to support a project but does not guarantee that you will receive a perk. You may request a full ref

That's my understanding as well.

Good point. They *did* send the early Christmas phones, so there is progress there. But you are right. They haven't updated it. Have we not heard anything through any other channels on where they are with this? The time for refunds is fast approaching.

Their plan was to be assembling the new phones in January, I believe. I could be wrong on that. But if that is correct, then a person would think the design is final now and that they would update their website if there were any changes. But there are many "if" variables in all of that. 😏

Here is the new QWERTY layout: The most often used keys that changed, for regular typing, seem to be the : and ;. They were to the left of the Del, but are now to the right of the L. / is still on the P and ? is still on the L.

Mine has the paint worn off on the J key (QWERTY layout), where the horizontal, raised surface is for touch typing. The paint on the F key's raised area is still there. No other degradation that I can see anywhere else on the keyboard.

That's how I understood your original post. Sand the aluminum, not the gold. Thanks for pointing them out in the photos. Regarding the fingerprint scanner, more information on that here: https://gelraen.github.io/fxtec-pro1-teardown/ That shows the cable here:

I sent support an email explaining the situation with my USB port and asking if I could get a replacement sent to me. I'll report back if/when I hear from them.

Thanks for sharing this. I believe a lot of us have poorer reception with the Pro1 than with other phones. (as well as weaker wifi) I wonder how many of us have this issue just due to poor connections inside between the gold connectors and the aluminum that you mentioned. Do you happen to have any photos of the connectors and aluminum pads? Do you have any before and after screenshots of the signal strength? Maybe even marking up these images with arrows pointing to the parts in question would help.

Thanks VaZso. I've seen the battery there (the Indiegogo page), but wanted to know if we've found a source of parts other than fxtec. For instance, we can get the screens through various chinese websites, and those are more reasonably priced than the fxtec screens, I believe. Regarding the Indiegogo page, has anyone received replacement parts that they ordered through there? I know the phones aren't ready yet, but I'm wondering if some of those other packages of parts have been sent out.

It has been a while since I've been on the forums. I looked around, but couldn't find anything indicating new information on sourcing parts, so I'm posting a new topic. Do we have a source for replacement batteries yet? Do we have a source for replacement USB ports yet? I don't *need* the battery now. I'm getting close to needing a USB port. It could be anything, but it seems like a problem with the connections on the tab in the port not making proper contact with the cable end. I can sometimes get it to work better if I flip the cable upside down or tilt the cable connector

My main gripes are: - Volume in calls being way way way WAY too loud - Proximity sensor or something related in the screen touch software causing the screen to register touches when the phone is against your face. And that causes me to either mute the phone (most often), so others can't hear me, or hold, so I can't hear them. This causes real problems and is very unprofessional on business calls. - The cell reception is horrible when you aren't in a strong signal area, compared to other phones. - Auto rotate gets confused and I have to turn it off to get things to rotate

Ah, thanks.

Can you take all the pictures again with the Pro1 camera? It might do a better job. 😅 Seriously, thanks a lot for taking the time to take them and post them online. LOL! Might depend on the cat. Yeah, I wonder if a coating of something would do exactly that (provide enough protection for very brief water exposure).

Did you have to unglue anything or just unscrew?

Thanks for finding that. How did you determine that was the company? I glanced at some of the battery pics, but figured fxtec had wrappers made to obscure the true source and I couldn't find anything based on the model number shown.

Thanks for taking the time to take the photos and post the pictures. I haven't been active much otherwise I would have posted earlier when you had it apart, etc. Hope putting it back together worked well and the cat didn't feast on the guts. :-) I laughed about the gray spheroid. :-)

I bow to your powerful ebay sorcery magic. 😄

See my reply to @Rob. S., explaining. :-)

Yeah, I realized that a while after posting and forgot to update it. I thought it would mean the product was somehow posted on each target country's ebay site, which was not my experience, hence the question. I am guessing it is more common to buy between geographically close countries over in europe. Over here, although I don't spend a lot of time on the UK ebay site, I haven't found any products that would actually be shipped from there to here. I guess in the case of a china based product showing up on the UK site, @EskeRahn's method could work for someone wanting to to get it in the US

How does that work when the product isn't listed in the target country's ebay?

Thanks. I ordered a couple from the USA site. Free shipping, but coming from China, so will take a month. For anyone else interested, I picked P20 Pro from the list: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Shockproof-Crystal-Clear-Soft-Silicone-Bumper-Case-Cover-For-Huawei-P30-Pro-Lite-/254181243108

Great job!! I think a lot of us are hoping for someting like this, to protect the top and bottom of the phone. As mentioned, a soft case would be great for absorbing shocks.

I like those with the extra protection on the corners. Which model phone did you pick in the listing?