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    PRO1, LineageOS 16.0 Official Builds: Discussion

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    On 5/31/2025 at 1:49 AM, diejuse said:

    Is possible to add black theme?

    Sorry for answering so late, I do not check this thread very often any more.

    In Settings, navigate to Display -> Advanced -> Style and set Style to "Dark". Then, on the same page, set "Dark mode" from "Default" to "Black".

    Unfortunately, the default launcher and other system apps (contacts, phone, gallery, ...) are not yet prepared to pick up a dark system theme. This is Pie after all 🙂. You should be able to find suitable third-party substitutes in most cases, though.

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    LineageOS 22.x Official Release for Pro1 (QX1000)

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    11 hours ago, EskeRahn said:

    But as you keep the 16.0 alive, we can hope that  you, or someone else with the suitable knowledge, can keep the 22.1 alive, if the 22.2 stay broken....

    It would be far easier to stay with lineage 21.0: That branch still gets patched with ASB fixes upstream, so all you'd have to do is fetch the source tree and make the build, which is piece of cake. Basically all you need is a Ubuntu virtual machine with enough storage and RAM.

    Because of the new QPR release scheme, staying with 22.1 is more complicated: Only the latest QPR (22.2 as of writing) is getting patched according to the ASB. 22.0 and 22.1 are not and I'm not sure if the available ASB patches for 22.2 could be directly applied to them. At least in the long run you'd probably have to backport all the patches yourself if you wanted to stay with some intermediate QPR.

    Anyway, I'm not going to do either of these things, sorry. Imho, distributing an unofficial ROM really makes sense only if you daily-drive it yourself. Otherwise bugs, like the one here discussed, slip through unnoticed far too easily. Since I keep my Pro1 on LOS 16.0, those builds are the only ones I feel comfortable distributing.    

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    LineageOS 22.x Official Release for Pro1 (QX1000)

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    9 hours ago, EskeRahn said:

    I wonder if it is like AICP a nice project that was just made horrible by some crucial bugs.... 😣:classic_sad:

    Not that I have anything constructive to add, but in LineageOS's defence: They are stuck forever with the Linux kernel version and drivers that shipped with the original Android 9 OS. As the divide between increasingly modern Lineage/Android userland and the base Linux OS amplifies, bugs like this become more and more likely, unfortunately. 

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    Pro1-X with Linux

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    On 4/12/2025 at 1:33 PM, EskeRahn said:

    22.2 is the newest on the Pro1, and most likely on Pro1X on next release in a few days

    Thanks. Yes I know that. But the doc linked above lists almost nothing for the new 22.2 branch (yet?), while there are quite specific instructions for 22.1, that's why I asked about that one.

    As I am routinely self-building, I feel confident to compile any of the officially-supported branches and thus think I do not depend on the pre-made ROMs from the LOS build farm. However, I hesitate to ditch one of my working installs just to find out that AVF has simply not been ported (or may not be possible at all) for the Pro1 ...

    Pro1-X with Linux

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    Has anyone tried running a GNU/Linux distro through AVF in recent versions of LineageOS?

    As can be seen from my signature, I am running old(er) versions of LOS on my Pro1(X)'s. The main reason for this is that I have relatively complex Linux-in-rooted-chroot setups in place, that are notoriously difficult to migrate to different Android releases.

    AVF introduced in Android 14 and 15 could be a game-changer for me as it - theoretically - enables official support of Linux-Distros in containers, potentially making my hand-made solutions obsolete.

    However, it is not clear to me if AVF is enabled in all LOS releases. In official Android, it seems to be limited to specific devices/SoCs. So what about the LineageOS 22.1 ports for the Pro1 and Pro1X? Do they include AVF or not?

    PRO1, LineageOS 16.0 Official Builds: Discussion

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    Here's another one. The ROM dated '20250326', available at

    https://findus.zwergenschaenke.net/~puma/linux.html#lineagepro1

    gives you my latest unofficial build of LineageOS 16.0 for Pro1 (qx1000).

    To make the thread more accessible, I'll recapitulate the full list of enhancements with respect to official every few months. So here it comes:

    • Backported AOSP fixes up to the "1 March 2025" ASB (official LOS 16.0 stopped updating in January 2022).
    • Improved keyboard behaviour, partly backported from later LOS releases (code changes can be found in my local patch tarball).
    • Several more improvements with respect to the upstream LOS 16 tree (GPS fix, touchscreen margin control, ...) as documented in that same patch tarball.
    • Updated graphics driver stack (using the same blobs as LOS21 & 22).  
    • Updated bundled WebView to Chromium 134.0.6998.95 (important for those running without Gapps).

    Have a lot of fun.

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    LineageOS 22.x Official Release for Pro1 (QX1000)

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    Thanks for the feedback.

    With my Pro1 still on LineageOS 16.0, this works. I can select multiple layouts under "Keyboard & input methods > Physical keyboard" and then cycle through them on the fly. Pretty cool, actually. I didn't know about this feature.

    However, on the Pro1 with LOS16, the hotkey for layout switching is Ctrl + Spacebar. Yellow arrow + Spacebar is equivalent to pressing the power button in my case, which is another pretty cool feature introduced by @tdm with his initial port of LOS.

    LineageOS 22.x Official Release for Pro1 (QX1000)

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    On 2/10/2025 at 4:15 PM, EskeRahn said:

    Indeed, it was broken long ago, then fixed and later broken again, but you are right the chances of a fix seems slim.

    OK. I just think: this sounds like a general regression in AOSP, as keyboard support in Android is generally nothing specific to the Pro1 (hence my question whether this is also observed in the Pro1-X port). I just wonder if it could be worthwhile to open a bug against LineageOS because of this.   

    LineageOS 22.x Official Release for Pro1 (QX1000)

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    10 hours ago, EskeRahn said:

    And we still can only select one keyboard layout, so no easy layout switching, for multilingual usage.

    I probably missed why you have been including this warning every week for quite some time. Is this problem unique to the Pro1 (as the corresponding qx1050 thread does not mention it)?

    Anyway, it seems I can find no open bug reported against LOS about this. So, whatever your issue is, I doubt it will ever be resolved "automatically" by an OTA.  

    [NOT FX] Androidized Blackberry Passport :)

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    11 hours ago, CornholioGSM said:

    Passport have on lineage same problem as was on FX (first custom roms) - multipressing keys. 

    Can anyone help me fix it? Will be needed to add something like key press deelay.

    The respective fix for the Pro1 is here:

    https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_kernel_fxtec_msm8998/+/318274

    Note that this is specific to the qx1000.c keyboard driver in android_kernel_fxtec_msm8998, it won't be directly applicable to another device.

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    LineageOS 22.x Official Release for Pro1 (QX1000)

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    The only way of "upgrading" is installing LineageOS 22, which will give you the equivalent of Android 15.

    Since LIneageOS re-uses most of the device drivers from stock Android 9, it is unlikely that audio or camera quality will be improved. At least I do not know of any such updates.

    That being said, a recent LineageOS will give you all those Android security patches since 2020, which is of quite some value in itself ...

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    A user found a way to charge a 'dead' Pro1X!!! (confirmed by others)

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    Posted · Edited by claude0001

    7 hours ago, cash said:

    TL;DR: I ended up getting the battery to charge after disassembly.

    Congrats. 👍

    I once documented my very similar procedure here:

    This was before the rubber-band trick was discovered, so I hadn't tested if that would have worked in my case.

    At the time, I also measured 0 V between the pins, but you are probably right, that the internal protection disconnects the cell below some critical value. My Pro1-X has been working fine since (though I do not use it much anymore).

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    Community forum is now private

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    Posted · Edited by claude0001

    This is ridiculous. I understand that F(x)tec are low on resources, but Let's Encrypt certificates are available for free! They literally would only need to run the 'certbot renew' command.

    I can only hope they will pass on the contents of this forum to the community in some way before the server goes down, otherwise all the (mostly unofficial) info on the Pro1/Pro1-X we have collected here will be lost ...

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    PRO1, LineageOS 16.0 Official Builds: Discussion

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    6 hours ago, diejuse said:

    I'm having issues with the physical keyboard since I tried installing new versions of LineageOS. I recently reinstalled stock rom but the problems persist (key repetition or no response sometimes). I'm sure it's a hardware issue.
    Do you notice any issues with the physical keyboard with this modified version of LineageOS?

    Those are hardware issues, unfortunately.

    All recent releases of Lineage (including mine) have a workaround implemented in the keyboard driver that suppresses unwanted multiple keystrokes (https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_kernel_fxtec_msm8998/+/318274).

    For the undetected keypresses, there is unfortunately no software fix. I have three Pro1s. One (the oldest) has that issue to the point where the keyboard is almost unusable, the second has one or two keys that sometimes need two presses to react. Only my most recent device has a flawless keyboard.

    All three run the same version of my LOS16 ROM. So it must be hardware issues, I think.

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    4G LTE and Extended LTE antennas not working - is there a way to run diagnostics on the internal antennas?

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    Posted · Edited by claude0001

    On 12/13/2024 at 5:56 PM, QuestionMark said:

    Per the specs, this is a 5-G capable phone

    Nope, it isn't.

    On 12/13/2024 at 5:56 PM, QuestionMark said:

    The signal icon in the upper right corner of the screen has always shown 4G LTE -- until recently. Now it simply shows 4G

    My Pro1s (still on LineageOS 16 and located in Germany) generally indicate "LTE" or "LTE+", which are different variants of the LTE protocol. In areas where network coverage is bad, my phones drop to "EDGE" (2G, still available in Germany). You are supposed to be able to somewhat influence the protocol switching behaviour using the "Preferred network type" system setting, but I've never seen much effect while playing with this. For practical purposes, "4G", "LTE", and "LTE+" are pretty much equivalent, and indicate the Pro1 is operating at the fastest protocol family it is capable of.

    Note that even while being connected via a (theoretically) fast protocol, your effective data transfer speed may still be reduced for other reasons (weak or noisy signal, too many other users on the same tower, throttling by provider). 

    On 12/13/2024 at 5:56 PM, QuestionMark said:

    It's as if the device is not connecting on the LTE bands, and has fallen back to EVDO - the older 4G protocol.

    Note that pretty much any network protocol may be transmitted over any physical radio-frequency band. As older protocols are phased-out, their frequency bands become free for carrying new ones. Also, usage of frequency bands differs from country to country, as this is governed by national authorities. The same band that may be used for LTE in the US may still be occupied by 2G in Germany, or 3G in Scandinavia.

    EVDO is part of the 3G family of network protocols. I believe it was shortly (and deceptively?) marketed as "4G" by some US networks ages ago, but not in the rest of the world as far as I know.

    On 12/13/2024 at 5:56 PM, QuestionMark said:

    Now it simply shows 4G and the signal seems to fluctuate from 1 bar to 4, sometimes dropping to no bars. Same physical location

    The RF hardware of even a fully functional Pro1 is far from stellar. Using any App able to display the actual signal power of the radios, you'll see that the latter is rarely above -100 dBm, even if all bars are displayed in the screen corner. If your data transfer speeds are OK and your VoLTE works without interruptions, be happy and done with it. Sadly, there just isn't much safety margin in the radios for f(x)tec phones. When I'm on the move (Germany) LTE network interruptions are common with all three of my Pro1s.

    If your connection used to be better at the same location, I'd just assume they changed something on the antenna towers. As @EskeRahn suggests, they might have fully or partly (via DSS) repurposed some RF bands from LTE to 5G. As a result, your Pro1 effectively would not be able to use those frequencies any more, and be forced to revert to one of the remaining LTE ones (which might have lower signal-to-noise). Not much you can do about that.

    On 12/13/2024 at 5:56 PM, QuestionMark said:

    Is there just 1 antenna for multiple frequencies/protocols, or a separate antenna for each protocol?

    The actual antenna is the (segmented!) metal back of the phone itself. Depending on the carrier frequency, RF signals are picked-up from (or injected into) it at various locations via spring connector electrodes. The latter are distributed over three so-called "antenna" PCBs, named "main", "diversity" and "wifi/gps". The first two work in tandem to provide mobile-network connectivity. See the corresponding patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170117614A1/en for technical details.

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    Need Advice – Is This Fair? Fxtec Pro1-X Backer Experience

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    4 hours ago, Rob. S. said:

    [...] a bit of a roulette game [...]

    @Rob. S. is absolutely right. QA with F(x)tec phones - especially with the Pro1X - is practically non-existent and you may always end up with a device that has issues in core functionality. And even the "best" specimens come with shortcomings you would never accept from a major manufacturer. Unless you really want that hardware keyboard, you should avoid the Pro1 and even more the Pro1X.

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    Need Advice – Is This Fair? Fxtec Pro1-X Backer Experience

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    Posted · Edited by claude0001

    Hi @drcp,

    @Hook has written down all the essential information already.

    I just want to add that, while the black spots in the corners are standard for these screens, they do not worsen over time. I own three Pro1 and one Pro1-X: All have the black corners to some degree, but even for the oldest device they have been stable over time.

    Concerning QWERTZ vs. QWERTY: F(x)tec lost many QWERTY devices to unauthorized grey marketing by their Chinese logistics partner company, which is likely the reason they ran out while shipping to backers. If you are really unhappy with the keyboard layout: Even practically unused QWERTY devices are quite commonly available on eBay et al., while QWERTZ ones are pretty rare. Maybe you'll be able to sell yours at a good price and get a QWERTY one instead.

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