Rob. S.

Interesting indeed. There are quite a few companies at that address according to https://www.192.com/places/wc/wc2a-3/wc2a-3th/. They don't list F(x)tec, though, whatever that means.

Yeah, I fear Hacker's keyboard is more or less abandoned, but it still works... I'll have a look at Unexpected keyboard, looks interesting. I thought by choosing "purple" I had bought the purple glass version of the phone, which I wanted because I didn't like the faux leather looks of the black one. Turned out I didn't get purple glass but purple PU – which is even better, as it doesn't add thickness or weight like the glass one does. It's a silky smooth surface not at all prone to attract dirt. That said, knowing my luck in handling expensive handsets, I'm using the phone with the includ

For what it's worth, the manufacturer says the display is good for 400,000 folding actions... First impressions of the Magic V2 are good. It even replaces the Android tablet I used for some time before it broke. The one feature that makes it an alternative for a slider keyboard phone is that the on-screen keyboard still leaves more than enough screen real estate for whatever app I'm using. I'm trying "Hacker's Keyboard" again right now which used to be what I used when I didn't have a physical keyboard, and while it is quite old-fashioned and restricted in its features compare

For what it's worth, on asking whether I might still get my phone, I was told they were currently confirming users' addresses in order to resume further shipping... And there was a hint towards more updates appearing on IGG at some point.

Maybe it also was a thing between the specific connectors I've been using (and am still using on a lot of other devices) and the Pro1/Pro1X. Other than most other devices, like, for example, the Titan Slim phone, the connector used to have some play when inserted into the socket. With my next phone (ordered the Magic V2 from the manufacturer's shop yesterday when I saw they have a 300 € discount right now) or when I get one of the Fxtec phones back to use, I'll try to make sure to use a connector that fits tightly...

Yes, I know – I've been using them on all kinds of devices for quite some time now, starting with the Pro1, but at least the type I used didn't prevent the Pro1 socket from breaking...

I'd be in, if it'd actually give us a good chance to get us a working device. I've got similar reservations as @EskeRahn and @SchattengestaIt, though. And I fear that, even if there was a real chance for success, as of March 2023 there won't be enough people left (who'd still give a feck) to raise enough funds.

Time flies... And here's the bottom line after five months of using the Slim as my daily driver. At this point, both my existing Pro1 and Pro1X are shelved; the Pro1 because of defective buttons and fingerprint reader [comparably minor issues] and a defective orientation switch [major issue], the Pro1X because of a broken screen that I didn't yet venture to replace with the one Aliexpress spare I still have, plus the ubiquitous connectivity issues that forced me to carry a mobile wifi router wherever I went just to be able to use it at all. One Pro1X, dating back to my Sept 2019 Pro1 orde

I wish I hadn't read that. (That said, it's of course not much more expensive than two Pro1/Pro1X phones were, either, let alone if you paid for three and only got two [so far]...) How does typing work? (Unfolded, I take it the lower half cannot sprout a physical keyboard, can it?)

Good idea to save the content here someplace else. While the XDA page seems a good place for continuing this. Still, I'm undecided; as long as we post here, there's still a remote chance someone closer to the company will be reading it at some point...

Is that the correct code? I tried it on my current daily driver (Titan Slim) and it did nothing at all, while VoLTE is actually enabled and working for both SIMs in the settings...?

From past experience, Fxtec's email answering is highly erratic. Sometimes they answer, sometimes they don't. If they do, sometimes they answer fairly quickly, sometimes it takes time, sometimes a lot. Fact is, they're not well, they don't even seem to be able to bring up the necessary funds for shipping the phones they didn´t ship yet even though they got them back from the previous shipping company with which they had trouble (and which itself, as it seems, has gone out of business in the meantime).

Latest findings suggest that it might be a combination of 1. disconnected springs between the antenna connectors on the PCBs and the bottom part of the metal casing, and 2. where you live and what bands your provider's network uses...

Just by the way – same day (25 Nov 2020) I ordered a spare Pro1X battery I haven't heard anything of yet, I also ordered another Indiegogo offer, a portable guitar amplifier, and after the announcements of severe delays following Covid and the ubiquitous supply chain problems, things had gone very quiet until just recently. But lo and behold, today I got a tracking number at least for the thing itself...

As bad as the situation is for @kif, this at least is a piece of information that was missing until now. I would have thought they'd have included that patch routine in the Pro1X stock ROM, too... And it is seems a good thing I didn't venture to replace my broken Pro1X screen with my the last Elephone replacement screen just yet... @Hook's recipe actually sounds like the one promising option that remains. Maybe someone with a Pro1 that's defective enough in other parts to still be useful could offer it as a service? 😉 I'm afraid I can't offer mine just yet as it is still kind of work

What you write sounds great, but are you sure that's what it's supposed to mean? I don't really think the battery is that thick?

That's easy, all Pro1 phones which haven't been delivered yet have been converted to Pro1X phones 😉

Mine didn't, either. The order status also didn't reflect an earlier change from QWERTZ to QWERTY.

#36**1 September 20, 2019 Processing (Pro1, later changed to Pro1X. I must have been one of the last few of that batch who didn't manage to get their devices much earlier. I *did* receive another Pro1X, ordered in October 2020, though, in the meantime.)

I guess that should be "to remove #"?

I missed to celebrate the 4th anniversary in September...

@claude0001 👍 Fully agree!

Yeah, too bad... Still, there are a lot of old SteamDecks out there, and cheaper non-OLED ones continue to be sold, too. At some point their owners might still decide to upgrade them with DeckHD, which really seems sensibly priced.

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-3-out-now-with-ota-support-for-pinephone-and-pinetab-devices

The one workaround I've found for my old Pro1 with LineageOS which has the same problem is to use the 'Rotation Control Pro' app which I already had installed anyway. I disabled 'per app settings' and now I manually switch between portrait and landscape with the app's controls.