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I have also the randomly failing fingerprint reader problem. Today I noticed a weird bug, I already experienced one time before. I cut a text from a form, suddenly the physical keyboard is not working anymore until you paste again. The first time I didn't try to paste, I just rebooted, so I'm not sure if pasting is always the solution. Did anyone else experience this before?

just for conclusion, I replaced the screen and it's working again now 🙂 Just a hint: don't forget pulling of the plastic sheet at the back of the screen at the speaker/camera, realized it after it was glued in...

Typically changing a screen digitizer is quite more hassle and harder to do than just switching the complete screen, because it's glued just on top of the screens. That's also the reason why you don't get digitizer itself for swapping anymore. Anyway a complete Elephone U screen is just 45$, perhaps I will try the igniter method first, but I'm not sure if the high voltage of the piezo isn't be able to kill other components.

finally I got to testing, after getting some adapters and time first. The failure really comes from the screen, with a mouse it's working fine. With some testing I found out, that there is just a horizontal stripe where the touchscreen isn't working anymore, that's also why the input of the pattern failed, because if you get into this part, the phone will think your finger left the screen. Long story short, I need to get a new screen, at least there is no other major damage

Hi, thanks for the test. You're right, didn't thought of a mouse, good idea. Unfortunately I already checked all connectors, the seem to sit correctly. Even a screen is only like 60-70€ I think and it seems to be not too hard to replace.

Hi, I dropped my phone some days ago and since then the touchscreen doesn't seem to work properly anymore. There is no visual damage, so no crack in the screen. The problem is, I can't do swiping anymore, because every touch gets translated into a click immediately, but before the reboot it also seemed kind of missplaced. So, I'm not able anymore to unlock the phone, because you can't draw any pattern on the screen. To verify it's the touchscreen/display and for example the keyboard I need some help of you guys. When you boot your phone and the pattern unlock comes up, could you

I'm not on LOS yet, but I think the fingerprint reader itself is just bad. Also on stock It fails very often to identify the fingerprint, even if you save multiple "versions" of the same finger.

first of all, thanks for all your effort you put in this, great work @tdm! I'm not sure if this is still an standard option in the vanilla LOS, but it was available some time ago that you can lock your device by double tapping the notification bar, is this still a thing or is there any other way to lock it without the power button? I'm using mine as a daily driver, that's why I'm still waiting a bit before changing, otherwise I would just have tested this myself.

I also can't change it in Stock, only on my old Motorola. Yes, it's a bit annoying if you need a change, but typically you should only need to change it once and be happy 🙂

for me the placement is actually really nice as left handed, but could it be this was disabled/coupled with screen on with the last update? I know some people here were complaining about this, but now the power button gets worn off again 🙄

don't worry after customs finished mine at the late evening, they would have been able to deliver next day, even so they needed to transport through half Germany

seems like the package got released from customs this evening.

ok, I also called FedEx today and right now they are also just waiting for customs. There are no more import taxes to pay on my side. Normally they should continue shipping tomorrow.

but please only make it an option. Mine isn't here yet, needs some more days to deliver, but normally I always wake up my phones with the fingerprint reader. Typically if you always use the power button for this, the button dies at first even if the rest of the device is still fine.

Also no progress on my side. Fedex didn't react on my sent emails with documents. If there doesn't change anything till monday I will call them just to make sure they don't sent it back

That's interesting because I didn't get contacted directly by customs administraion, but only by fedex themselfs forwarding

did anyone of the Germans got asked about their bill from customs? Fedex told me they don't believe the declared value 😄

That's odd, mine is in France on the way to Germany and haven't heard anything about customs yet, also not from FedEx who want to deliver on Friday

like everything else, this is also just an assumption. From a business point of view the formula makes total sense. If you take into account, that the preorders show the average interest of a country in such a product, you want to let other people see it there in real life. Like this you probably could get the biggest marketing effect to get people know the device as fast as possible before it gets outdated. Btw what are you guys doing with your phones, that they are dying so fast? 😅 I still have a Moto Z Play bought at the beginning of the Indiegogo campagne and it's still fine.

I'm not sure, but probably yes, at least the other Unihertz were unlockable, but there don't seem to be much custom ROMs and it has a MediaTek SoC. The Titan also still seems to have Security Patch Level from August 2019

the only problem I have with the Titan is "Android only" (BB10 was very nice to use with the gestures, Sailfish comes a bit close to it) and I fear it will be dropped in terms of security patches quite quickly.

oh man, now I am struggling to decide which phone I want. The Titan looks nice and I was always pretty satisfied with my BB Q10 and always wanted to get a Passport but the end of BB10 stopped me. Titan with Sailfish would be the perfect match for me 🤔

actually the worst happened which could happened, has happened now. Instead of helping growing attention to the product to get more customers, all pre order people ordered all phones from the retailers 🙄. So the hoped effect of additional retailers just came to nothing and we came to the beginning again. I can understand the anger (I was angry too) but I can also understand the business decision. It could be like @EvilDragon stated how it went for the pandora. We as customers should also be aware that we win nothing if the company is bankrupt after the last device is delivered (or even worse b

You are clearly not an engineer. This is a common "problem" of engineers (note: I'm myself one), you always pursue of perfection without accounting costs or other stuff. Probably this is even "worse" if you are a startup, because your first product will mostly define your way if your survive or not. But honestly why do people buy a 650€ phone if you don't have the money in your pocket? This is a dangerous ride for just a phone (even if it is with a keyboard)

that's very generous of you, but you shouldn't generalize. Just because people will wait calmly for their devices doesn't mean they want to let pass other people in the queue. It could help to calm down some screamers, but I think the effect on the others would lead to a worse feeling, at least if they didn't accept that explicitly. For example myself nearly never starts to scream, because I think it's worthless and it doesn't make sense to needle someone every week. But if I feel it's enough I just will take actions.