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Factory reset is in settings. (I haven't gone looking for recovery because I haven't studied how to do that yet).

Yes, I see what @Gon009 is describing, although i don't often lower my brightness. And how bad the effect is varies-- not as noticeable with photographs (though still there). What it seems to be (and I'm not technical enough to describe this in terms of what the pixels are doing) is that, as brightness lowers, there is a gray-green wash over everything. I'm thinking it could be that the brightness slider is yoked with contrast adjustment so that rather than losing just brightness, you are lowering contrast as well. And/or saturation. Hopefully this is software rather than hardware.

So, the upshot of this thread is that the title is clickbait. They aren't ignoring anyone's refund request. 🙄

@Erik, thank you for stopping in and your interest and for getting us whatever information you can, even if things are changing fast.

I'm not sure why they would refund sales tax-- my impression was that would be for anyone who was charged a Tarriff, and we weren't, as far as I know. I guess they are so ready to please they are doing it anyway. <shrug> Won't get a request from me. 😉

I agree. The problem is it's hard to always sort out this question of Google bug vs F(x) Tec bug, but in this case I suspect it is a Google bug. I think the problem is a lot of Devs out there aren't giving a lot of attention to Landscape orientation because it is so unusable on a slab except for pictures and video.

Oddly, on mine, the gear for settings is at the bottom of my screen and easily tapped. So whether this is a bug or not, it depends on what resolution you have your screen set at. I always set my display size in settings to small and pick an even higher resolution (small = high dpi, I believe) if it was offered.

Yeah, sorry, I did get this mixed up in my head. I really have to remember to review things on my phone when trying to help. It is indeed button vs icon, not locked vs unlocked. It's just that the locked vs unlocked almost makes sense. 😉

On #1, to clarify, is this all apps or just some? Clearly it still works with the launcher. Which apps. Most apps I use it works fine, but some, like Discord, require Autorotate to be on. That's not a bug in the Pro 1 but a problem with the apps programming. #2 confuses me. Yes, if the notification shade is longer than the screen, you will have to scroll. Why is that a bug? #3 I believe that's another autorotate button popping up. Not sure that isn't also Pie rather than F(x) Tec. #4 That is the way the new fangled home button in Pie is supposed to work. You can get the o

He lost me with: (By the way, that's "horizontal slider") On the hinge... it takes a bit of training to finally get it, but you will, and once you do you will be grateful because the reason it is initially so hard to do is because a) the hinge is very strong and b)there is absolutely no wobble or looseness in the hinge. This is an industrial strength hinge that isn't going to wear out. I now can open it one handed. I love the hinge!!!!! Let me assure you that the Android Authority review does not get it It's not perfect (what is), but F(x) Tec get most everything that

Ran into the non-responding keyboard. Restart solved it. I'm only bringing it up to point out that, having been spending a week putting the Pro 1 through it's paces and hitting this only once makes it a *very* infrequent issue, which means it's going to be damn hard to figure out. Have I mentioned what an amazing, premium phone this is. Nothing wrong with an 835 SOC, that's for sure!

The Playstore has often refused to download Netflix when I have had devices with bootloader unlocked, rooted and an alternnate ROM. I don't know which or what combination of those sets it off since I always had all three conditions, though I now suspect it's bootloader unlocked since I am not rooted. Netflix is not supposed to work with rooted devices I believe. I have found inconsistent results on that. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't work when I'm rooted, I find an older version of the apk I have kept archived works. It may be that using Magisk, when I get there

Just be aware those instructions for enabling Unknown Sources don't apply anymore. Just download the apk. It will ask you to enable Unknown Sources for the specific app doing the installation. It is no longer a global setting. 🙂

That means your bootloader is unlocked (or you are rooted). Safteynet won't offer it to you. I simply obtained an apk from a reliable source. It works fine. APK mirror has it.

Don't abandon the forum. Just abandon this thread (if you click on Eric's profile, you see just his contributions to this thread 😉 ).

Unfortunately, the Alt up/down is inconsistent. It behaves that way in to the text editor built into Explore (non-rooted version of Root Explorer) but doesn't in the text editor built into X-plore. However, I am usually using full document editors like Textmaker and jotterpad, and they don't seem to recognize Alt up/down. A pity. I'll see if I can get something likr the button remapper app to help with it, but I suspect the problem is at the app level.

Apparently I must not be familiar with some aspect of standard navigation in Android. Can you give me examples or point me to what I am missing? I'm sure I'm being an idiot here, but I don't know how to get what I want with this keyboard.

If you haven't done much with the phone yet, try a factory reset. But first, did you try restarting the phone after the last update (shouldn't be necessary, but...)

One thing I'd like to see, since I do a lot of document/manuscript/large text file editing is to add the equivalents to PgUP, PgDn, Go to top of document, Go to bottom of document. Seems to me this could be accomplished by using, say, Ctrl or Alt with the up and down arrows. Already Ctrl-left arrow and CTRL-right arrow can be used to jump a word. So I'd like to see something like (doesn't have to be these exact combinations: ALt-right arrow - Jump to end of line Alt-left arrow - jump to beginning of line Ctrl-up arrow - Jump to top of file Ctrl-down arrow - Jump to end o

Yeah, now that I understand the two step, I have finally been able to start doing it one handed (on a surface, lol). Getting much easier now. (until tomorrow morning when I have to relearn it again. 😄 )

I was a little oversimplifying with my previous description and I suspect I am doing what you describe here. What I experience it as is that when I give a quick push with my thumbs, the screen travels a very short distance, my fingers grip the rear causing the rear of the screen to ride up on the fingers. Then without lifting the back any more (I find it fights you if you try to do that) a second harder push from the front snaps the screen back and into place behind the keyboard. The first few times it's really clumsy and awkward, but pretty soon it's a quick and simple two-step. Then a

I have found it really helpful on opening the keyboard to grip it completely on the left half, one thumb near the left edge and one thumb in the middle. It allows me to provide more force without firing off the camera and I'm just more confident with it. I never ever used or trusted autobrightness on Android. I am quite capable of adjusting my own appropriate brightness and is almost always a lower setting than autobrightness. I tend to distrust anything in Android whose function name starts with "auto" 😄 Also, I forgot to comment above, the screen does very well in direct sun as

Great review, @zurvan2 I agree pretty much with everything. This is by far the best Android phone I have ever owned (previously a title held by my Nexus 5 which I had 4 years). Although I felt this way long before I had a Pro 1 to hold in my hands, I just shake my head at people saying that the phones specs are aging. The phone has exactly what it needs to create a completely premium experience. On the fingerprint sensor, I just find it difficult, but not a problem as I prefer no to use it. In fact, I have my lockscreen set to swipe. I also plan to carry it without a case. Despi

I just tested this using Nova Launcher and the DejaOffice Month view widget. I have the widget on it's own homescreen page filling the entire screen in Portrait (sorry, no screen shot-- too lazy to blur my calendar) and it rotates into landscape just fine filling that screen as well (and, like many things, is more readable in landscape).

If I touch that gray bar at the bottom of your screen and push up with my finger, it scrolls up to reveal the color palatte.