Rob. S.

Wasn't @DieBruine the sender? At least here in Europe, I think the sender is the one responsible for the package and its delivery, and it's his job to open a claim with the parcel service if it didn't reach the destination. The addressee has not part in it and no legal means towards the parcel service. (I once had a dispute with Hermes – with the difference being Hermes never claimed successful delivery of the package –, and I needed to go through quite some paperwork, and it took quite some time and the parcel never showed up again, but in the end I at least got sufficient compensation..

Interesting; I asked for a replacement screen on March 16 and heard nothing since then, didn't even get an autoresponder mail. The only good news in your report seems to be that FxTec actually seems to have replacement screens (or at least had some in early March). Did you write to info@fxtec.com or support@fxtec.com (don't know whether this matters, asking just in case it might)?

I've just installed the brand new Android beta of Softmaker Office, which some may know from the desktop as an alternative for MIcrosoft Office with good compatibility that is also available for Linux. For desktop there's an already well-featured free version and a full-featured commercial version. For Android there will be two such versions as well. Right now, the free time-limited beta (general availability is expected for May) has, or so I believe, all features. The first impression is quite nice. I would hate having to use a screen keyboard, though 😉 https://www.softmaker.com/en/

Seems if you can still find one on ebay, it may already be modded to take a SIM card, like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/174709456691 But I guess the specs are too low now for still being usable, the Photon Q is 8 years old now and has only 1 GB of RAM. In 2016, when I had been overusing my second HTC Desire Z aka HTC Vision for so long that it wasn't usable anymore, I thought about getting such a modded Photon Q instead, but I decided that it wouldn't have been enough of a progress over the HTC for me to bother even then. Also, its 4G frequencies didn't include the band used here in Ger

Or an Elephone U Pro with intact display, then at least the display could serve as a spare for the Pro1 😉 (That said, I just had a quick look and didn't find any used ones, only a few new ones for 300+ €, and stock Android doesn't seem to go beyond Android 8...)

Good news indeed! Although I see some additional "7-10 days" there in the video for "internal redesigns" because of unavoidable differences in the new PCB, if I understood it correctly...

Bummer...

Lately, my 'Chargies' began misbehaving, or rather the Pro1 (which I've found to work as well with the device as my Moto Z3 Play did) started failing in trying to connect (which goes through bluetooth). In trying to analyze the situation at one point I tried switching bluetooth off and on – just that it didn't come on anymore. The bluetooth symbol lit up in 'connecting' state but went gray again after after a few seconds. Only after a reboot bluetooth became usable again – only not for long. 'Chargie' connections began to fail again soon, and switching bluetooth off required a reboot for it to

Yes, indeed! Thank you very much! I just hope the problem with international characters 18.1 obviously has can somehow be either solved or worked around; until then, I have to stay at 17.1...

Yes, but – if I understood this correctly – as it is missing a device specific key which they would need to get from the manufacturer, something which only is being attempted when a device-specific TWRP is really 'done' and fine to get the 'official' status, it won't decrypt data and therefore is useless for backups, unfortunately.

Sorry, forgot the irony tags. I was commenting on the "postponed" aspect there...

Because shit happens. Just because it didn't until now, it doesn't mean it won't or couldn't. Also, people make mistakes, which, I guess, includes you, too... I completely agree, like others already did, too. Still, I'm afraid there's not much we can do to make Lineage change their policies, and getting our knickers in a twist about it doesn't help us, either. As all of this is an open source thing, I suppose it means taking things in our own hands, and finding a maintainer for continued LOS 16 and 17 updates like the one @Hook mentioned for that Samsung phone. Perhaps there are more p

@claude0001 I guess I have an – if only faint – idea of what you're doing there... And, sure, if that were what I'd need in a phone to be able to use it productively for what I do, I might even try something like it myself. I just wouldn't get my expectations up as to its working in a stable way for a longer period of time. Neither would I rely on such a massively tweaked system as my single phone... Incidentally, after three to four years in productive use, right now I have to upgrade two Linux servers the OS versions of which stop being maintained. Even though it's a fairly normal thing

@lawliett No, that's definitely not glass, it's a flexible plastic, just like the one I ordered earlier – the delivery of which has been been postponed, with the new estimated period already nearly over, too. (If it was specifically designed for the Pro1 instead of the Elephone, one might suspect that might be to better fit the specific device.)

Does 18.1 (using US or US Intl layout) let you select special characters on the screen on long-press of a character, like à á ä etc. when long-pressing 'a', like 17.1 used to? That never seemed to worked on web pages, but it would be better than nothing. Did you have to somehow remove OpenGapps or something before flashing MindTheGapps?

No idea why the postponement... Perhaps they want to reserve themselves the option to make small changes to the screen should the redesign of the Pro1X require them. (Whether or not that might introduce incompatibilities to existing devices – which would be, of course, bad for those who wanted the screens for existing devices...) On 16 March I asked info@fxtec.com whether they could send me a spare screen for my Pro1, but I have yet to get an answer (or even an acknowledgement of receipt, like the ones I used to get for earlier mails on other topics). That's why, in the meantime, I o

Ok, I see! Thanks.

I'm not sure I understand this, could you elaborate a bit further? (I don't have much experience with root and Magisk; the only device I have had Magisk on so far didn't get any system updates anymore anyway – and with the latest Magisk app update Magisk itself has stopped working there, too, but that's something else again...). Do you mean whenever there was a LOS update you needed to flash Magisk to the inactive slot?

That's something I would be interested in, too. LOS 17.1 was painless for me so far with OTA updates – but then again it was non-rooted, no Magisk, just LOS + Gapps. Now that today one of my mandatory banking apps (mandatory even for entering internet banking on the PC) has stopped working, complaining about a modified software/firmware, I'll need root plus the stuff that hides both root and the fact that it's an alternative ROM rather sooner than later. I guess changing the update procedure to sideloading the updates like @Hook has been doing would be ok for me, although I'd be even

Just on a side note, I have rather small hands and I still like the size of the Pro1... The screen can't be big enough for putting it to good use, and it didn't really take long for me to become comfortable with typing with my thumbs.

That would explain @ivoanjo's experience with 18.1. I'll be staying on 17.1 for a bit longer, then, I suppose.

How did you resolve your bootloop?

Surely looks like a defective camera to me. There's no way a phone camera with its huge depth of field could render one corner halfway sharp (bottom right) while blurring the rest of the image if there wasn't something bent out of shape in it.

I did. Nothing seemed to change. None of the built-in layouts seem to do anything. With LineageOS 17.1 and physical keyboard set to US Intl., I can use Sym + ' and then e to get é. Or Sym + " and then a to get ä. No root here.