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Are you sure you have the January update installed. Because, while I clearly saw what you describe in December, when I have the Dragon Pic on my phone now, it no longer does that. I don't know what other explanation there could be unless something happened differently when I reflashed my phone in january, starting with the October factory image provided by Chen. It's weird. My phone seems to be fine now at all brightness levels.

It's not clear, but if you want an official answer, you need to email [email protected]. Before the phone came out they projected security updates would come within 90 days of being released. Since we currently have the September update, that clearly hasn't happened. I would expect the upcoming OTA from IdeaLTE (their software developer) to bring us more up to date, but it too has been delayed by the Coronavirus. I hope not much longer. This may all go much smoother once they are caught up and phones are in general availability. Again, none of this is official, just guesses.

My point of view as well, I'm afraid. 😉 I only have a "lockscreen" to keep from accidentally launching icons when pulling my phone from my pocket and it opens with just a swipe. I didn't keep a padlock on my old physical datebook with a lot of personal information. Why do I need to lock my phone? (I know how people would answer that question-- but I really don't like being inconvenienced 😀). Still, on principle, if there is a fingerprint reader on the phone, it should be made to work properly.

I suspect the January OTA did some fixing of this. I used to get the greenish grey wash effect when I lowered my brightness past 50% when I first got my Pro 1 in December, but I don't get it anymore and the black rectangle in David's post above looks fine at all brightness levels.

I believe there is a "flashall" batch file in the zip, although I didn't use it because before I give up and flashed everything, I was trying peicemeal flashes to try to preserve userdata. I am not much of an expert on doing this (I had help from folks over in the unofficial discord channel). Just wanted to be clear about that. 😉

I appreciate people posting these updates as either I've fallen off the email list or people who have received their phones no longer get updates. Lol. I may have my phone, but I'm still interested in what is happening and want to see everyone get their phones.

I wish I could help you. It happened to me back at the beginning of January (posted in this thread). Right after it happened, I managed to brick the phone, so I restored factory images from October, took all the OTAs including the new January one and the SMS problem went away. I didn't do anything differently. I wondered at the time if it was tha January OTA that fixed it, but I assume you have that, It's unnerving not knowing what caused or fixed it because I realize it could happen again, but so far it hasn't. The only thing I can think of is to try different "Preferred Network" en

The only thing I can't quite figure out in your test setup is, if you have Netflix, CBS or YouTube. a Roku box and a big TV, why you would ever be casting them from the phone. 😉

AT&T uses VoLTE, Probably the MVNO is capable too. However, I have no idea how you know when you are or aren't using it.

I have an LG smart TV with WebOS, but I cast through my Roku box (probably Chromecast works similarly). When I look for devices to cast to, the Roku box just shows up (in fact, mt TV doesn't, but I don't think I ever set anything up on it for casting). So my very uneducated guess is that anything that is on the same network as the phone and provides streaming service to the TV will work. I only cast from one source and that apps built in casting capability works flawlessly. I have no need to cast Netflix or YouTube or stuff like that-- they are already provided by the Roku box.

Yes, just as mine shows as a Moto G6. That will always be the case, it will show as whatever phone it was muled on (or at least some Verizon approved phone from your past) as the Pro 1 (or QX1000 is not in their data base and likely never will be unless F(X) Tec works that out with Verizon. That's not likely to happen with this phone. Could happen with a Pro 2.

This isn't a criticism, just a statement of personal preferences. I much prefer the natural flow of having shift reassigned to, well, shift, for the number row and such, not only because that is what I'm already trained to do, but because the shift keys are easier to use than the Fn (arrow keys). The color coding doesn't even really enter into my thinking. I'm not asking you to do this-- I already have that with FinQwerty. I know several people have been wanting the F Keys, so I imagine there are going to be folks quite happy with your efforts. It's great to see the continuing com

Not exactly a protective case, but it sure does add some texture, This is a matte black DBrand skin intended for a Note 10. Didn't have to do a lot, The camera fit fine and the microphone hole was *almost* right. I trim the width and that's about it. My production skills with trimming are not the best, but the matte black color hides most of my flaws. It definitely gives the phone more grip while leaving the nice feel of the phone in your hand. I wasn't brave enough to try a cutout for the F(x) Tec logo. 😉

I don't do twitter. 😉

Or Verizon ignored them. 😉

No. Most sites will tell you that because these IMEIs are not in their data bases. There's a whole process F(X)Tec would have to go through to make that happen. It doesn't mean the phone can't operate on their network, You can try putting in the SIM. It may just work , or you may need to talk to customer service. I believe people have been successful with T-Mobile itself. Check the first post in this thread and then read through the thread for details.

I'm not sure. I'm thinking Hello Kitty has a Pro 1. 😄

I'm a little puzzled by this comment and may be misunderstanding. You can get to settings via the gear icon on the start menu and once launched, you can pin it to your task bar. As I've said, the task bar is really my Windows UI. Everything I use fits there. There's some very old legacy stuff like Device Manager that won't pin, but you can find it by right clicking on start.

No, the orientation thing is handled in the slider settings. The only things you lose in a new launcher are the assignment of apps to keys (which I decided didn't matter to me right now because it has the flaw of adding the key-presses from the held down key to any app that opens in input mode (like an app asking for a password or a document in an editor) and the particular way the launcher is set up to not stretch and distort widgets (which I don't find worth it without more features in a launcher).

Overcome By Events... sorry, I should have just said "outdated" 😄

Is this of any use? I would have thought the update would have already been provided OTA, but I don't know (and no longer have Windows 7). Since I had Nexus devices when I had Windows 7 I have no idea if it could read larger cards or not. 😄 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/976422/the-capacity-of-a-secure-digital-sd-card-that-is-larger-than-32-gb-is Or is that page OBE?

I haven't used it since years ago when it was "Classic Shell" but you can try "Open Shell" and see if it does enough for you. https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/ I only use Windows for very basic stuff anymore and have no patience for tweaking it any more. I have all the programs I use on the task bar (including the depreciated "Command Prompt" DOS box they don't want you to use anymore) and, really, the task bar is my UI.

It has been disabled because of some problems it created. They are working on it. Don't know time scale, With the phone closed, yeah, power button or fingerprints. With FinQwerty (not to sound like a broken record) the Sym key will wake. I know the default keyboard started out with the Esc key being wake, but I'm not sure that didn't go away later. Been too long since I used the default layout so I'm fuzzy on some things.

I do think there is a way to get rid of that notification, but I don't remember how.

Uncheck all keyboard language boxes and you will be back to default where ? and / will work again. Finqwerty is really a better solution, IMHO https://github.com/anssih/finqwerty/releases