Rob. S.

Sounds good, with the caveats you mentioned, of course – but I guess it's not an option on a non-rooted device 😉 Will be interesting to see how AICP behaves in that regard.

I'm struggling a bit getting my SD card to work the way I wish. As I expect to change from LineageOS to AICP in the foreseeable future, I decided to not mount the card as internal memory (which I usually did with my earlier phones). At first, it seemed like the SD card would work after being formatted to ext4 on my laptop. But at some point it stopped being writeable for apps even after explicitly giving them write access. Apps didn't report not being allowed to write, they reported being unable to. Some tried forever until I killed them. I thought I might have done something w

Unfortunately, all attempts to identify the battery type and manufacturer and to find an alternative source have so far been unsuccessful...

Interesting. Seems we have to wait for a future in which Android/AOSP comes with a 5.7+ kernel to be able to see wider adoption of ExFAT? Paragon's payware app to access ExFAT drives seems to have its problems, and while I never had issues before with any Paragon software I used, after my abominable experience with their commercial Linux filesystem drivers for Windows which just stopped seeing any partitions and their support wasn't really helpful, either, I'm rather hesitant to give them any more money... But it looks like I might want to make the switch to AICP perhaps a bit sooner

Is there perhaps a chance to get ExFAT support in LineageOS 17.1+? As of now, it seems it isn't there, as i can't unload my camera that formats its SD cards as ExFAT, and my camera doesn't accept cards formatted as FAT32, either, so I'm out of luck (today, the camera maker's app somehow didn't function properly, either, so I had to go through my laptop...). As @tdm seems to have successfully enabled ExFAT in AICP, it looks like it would theoretically be possible? I might choose to switch to AICP at some point, but as of now I'm extremely happy that I have an excellent phone that does

Yes. Because no-one is forcing you to buy from them – or to preorder their bag on Kickstarter. You know what you get involved with beforehand.

Calling you naïve is just stating the obvious if you try to defend "rights" which aren't there, and which nobody sees except you. And you really ought to consider the possibility that when you're the only one who sees something that something might actually not exist. More importantly, please read my last two paragraphs above again. They're applicable even in the improbable case the thing you're seeing would actually exist, against all odds. In this reality we're in, we don't even need to fight about whether that "right" might somehow exist or not (and I'm not going to continue to i

Thanks, I wasn't even aware of that. That's even better, and gives even less reason to complain (as long as those updates actually come)...

How naïve and out of touch with reality can someone be? Do you really think you're the first person to think you don't get what you deserve, or to fear you might not get a product you helped crowdfund? Do you know how many people already did lose substantial amounts of money by not getting a product they helped crowdfund in 20 years of crowdfunding being a thing on the internet? And do you honestly think none of them would have thought they might have had a right to get their money back, and tried, even though every crowdfunding platform warns them of the risk that they might not, which e

This is not "blind faith", and it doesn't even matter what they "deserve", and if it would, their history would be the one and only thing to decide whether some "faith" was justified or not. But it doesn't. This is simply a situation we as customers can do nothing about, as much as we might want to jump and shout. If they would finally fold, we would be without our ordered phones and without our money. For me, that's two phones and the price of two phones. The only way I can help improve the chances that I'll get those phones (as there's no chance anymore to get the money back) is to trus

Some, yes. How many? The complaints in this forum could be an indication for how many, given that the percentage of unhappy customers who will find this forum in the end will probably be larger than average for a device like this. By the way, when "I don't really know" it is not my habit to always assume the worst. I will consider that the worst could happen, after all, but I don't construct accusations just because of the remote possibility. Most importantly, I don't let such occasions make my life harder than it already is. Patience is not only a virtue, it is good for one's own blood pressu

The thing is, if they were set out on a scam, what they're doing now just wouldn't make sense, it wouldn't be logical: openly telling not only existing customers, but also prospective customers, that they have to wait another half year for their phones if they'll put in an order now. No, they would rather be doing something more similar to what they did most of last year, it's just that they also did deliver quite some phones over time: they would try to put off customers for another few weeks, and then another few weeks, then perhaps offer some shady explanation, then stall customers for anot

Thanks, I was about to search for it, now that I am a real active LineageOS-on-Pro¹ user, but probably would never have found it by myself!

Just for the record, my first OTA update did update the security build and went smoothly, too, so if they would be the cause, they at least don't crash all the time.

Installed flawlessly via OTA here, too.

https://maraphones.com Nothing special as a phone goes, but decent enough devices helping the economy of Ruanda as an emerging African country.

I'd like that as an 8" tablet!

You obviously can only have one keyboard layout at a time, which is what that language switch is for. But you can have multiple languages for autocorrection active at the same time, for example with Swiftkey. Which also works for the physical keyboard. Typing on it needs some getting used to, just as flipping open the screen, and gets quicker fast (my hands are also rather small). With the device sitting on the desk and not picking it up, I can also open it with one hand, too, now, after having it in use for a week now.

I suppose this is the case for everyone. It is for me, too.

That's one perspective to view it, and it is completely justified. Another perspective that is just as valid is what @EskeRahn just hinted at. With the imponderables of a business like this and a company as small as Fxtec it is at least a small wonder that they still exist and not yet had to file for insolvency, in which case we as orderers and backers (while I have finally managed to get a used one, I'm still waiting on a Pro¹ I ordered 17 months ago and a Pro¹ X I ordered 4 months ago) might come away completely empty-handed, no phone, no money. Instead, they seem to be intent on doing

I'm not that much of gamer, but now that I've finally got a Pro¹ I just couldn't resist and bought two of those! I never had a gamepad before for whatever I used for gaming, whether a phone or a tablet or a PC. Now It is about time I got one, and I bought one for my partner, too, even though she doesn't have a Pro¹ (she's happy with her Fairphone and wants to use it for as long as possible). I guess it cannot hurt, especially since it's getting less and less clear how long the COVID-19 lockdown will have to continue. (Here in Germany, the infection rate is suddenly rising again after the long

OK, and now I also see why it's been given the epithet "the Clack"...

Yeah, but everybody should know by now that that's what it is when they're backing a crowdfunding campaign. It's not really a secret. And as far as I remember, backing is still voluntary. So noone is forced to go along with those conditions.

For the IndieGogo Pro1 X, I don't think there is. I seem to remember there was a precedent already that was answered with no, this is IndieGogo and we don't refund, you can sell the device after you get it. Which is the way IndieGogo campaigns usually go (after a short period of refunds being available through IndieGogo itself, if I understood that correctly). I would advise people who try to argue that companies financing new products through IndieGogo would need to offer refunds according to European law if they ship to Europe to talk to someone who is well versed in European law,

Solved it. It was the car stereo, not the phone. I went through the menus and found a "clear bluetooth settings" option. I did that – and the Pro1 connected without problems afterwards... 🙂 (The pic to prove it is here!)