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Everything posted by Rob. S.
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The contrast issue with the Proยน led me back to this subject that actually has bugged my with all of my phones so far. Color calibration (which includes contrast calibration if done properly) of mobile devices has been a problem with Android since it came up; the makers of Android either didn't give it a thought or maybe they decided end users shouldn't be tinkering with it. Only lately new approaches that change the overall color rendition have appeared through overlay functionality (like the multitude of night mode apps), something that tends to get in the way of other things, though.
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No one seems to really have a clue yet. I hope software can fix it, even though @divstar's comment saying his new replacement screen seems to display contrasts better feeds the suspicion that it could be the hardware. There still might be a way to adjust things through software, which, if there is any, probably would have to be done by the manufacturer, as proper color/contrast calibration of Android devices has never really been open to the end user to the best of my knowledge.
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@Hook I guess I see your point, but I'm not even sure that it would be easier for F(x)tec personnel to take notice of a new bug in the pinned thread than it would be to notice a new thread. It's of course unfortunate that not even the features of the (commercial and thus being paid actual money for) forum software have been used, i.e. by creating several forums, one of which could be reserved for bug reports. This is something that still could be quite easily improved and implemented, by the way. [Correction: There actually *is* a category called "bug reports", but as this forum is
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Ha! Didn't even know of that one yet. Excellent! ๐
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Yes. it is. @divstar here with a broken screen/glass on the Proยน already replaced it successfully with a spare part for the Elephone!
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Never! Termux running vim - or nothing at all! *g*
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Ah, ok, thanks!
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Right, but one big thread containing all bugs anyone might have found gets less and less practicable for someone to comb through, and it gets less and less sensible to suggest someone should before they may be allowed to mention something themselves โ the more so as forum search always only finds so much... And it hasn't been officially "confirmed", either. As others already suggested, things would probably be different if F(x)tec would set up a real bugtracker...
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It seems they did.... Just tested in Android. YouTube search "Stereo Test". Headphones are OK though. Hope they can swap them it in a software-driver... And hopefully in a way that doesn't swap the channels in the headphones instead ๐
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Just a guess, contrary to Magisk it does nothing to conceal it and therefore makes you unable to use apps which check for root?
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I've been following these reports rather anxiously because this could be a dealbreaker for me. I use my phones mostly with a substantially dimmed-down screen, and if that would cause parts of the image to disappear, the phone might actually become unusable for me. (The same would be true if the speaker volume for phone calls could not be reduced below a level that leaves my phone contact audible for my surroundings, but I've seen this complaint only once so far and I still hope it's only that single device, not a general problem of the model?) Unfortunately, your comparison image doesn't
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Now that's an idea I wasn't thinking of, but sounds plausible! There is of course a substantial gap between the slid-out screen and the keyboard's upper edge, something that wasn't the case with any of the sliders I had before...
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I have no idea what "remote wipe" in e-mail is, but on mobile I've just migrated from K-9 mail, which used to be something like a halfway viable compromise for me so far, to FairEmail (a recommendation I got in these forums). Reason: FairEmail not only supports PGP/GPG encryption (something that I increasingly feel to be a good idea in these times of every company and every state trying to spy on everyone regardless of where someone is situated), but also multiple identities per mail account with different SMTP server settings (just like Thunderbird does for ages). It's the only Android e-mail
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I guess because the latest orders satisfied so far, of which we know, are around no. 32xxx, still pre-orders, dating back to August. I suppose you've got yours because, after a lot of earlier excitement about devices not being shipped in the proper order, like three small retailers getting a handful before all pre-orders were served, Fxtec feared things might get too calm around here, so they sent you that no. 42xxx phone before everyone else got theirs to make things more lively here again! ๐
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@mcdinner Thanks for the heads-up... Sounds not too promising... I guess I might just as well keep mine and give it a try.
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Well, well, well. Somehow I half suspected that, at some point, I might regret it, back when I chose the refund for my IGG payment for the Moto Keyboard Mod... ๐
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So you not only have no evidence whatsoever that their motivation was anything other than they said, let alone that it would have been malicious, no, you're even suggesting an intent that could obviously never have been achieved by that exact action. So you're effectively accusing them not only to be malicious, but also phenomenally daft. Don't you see that such accusations may say more about yourself than about the subject?
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That doesn't answer my question. Where exactly would be the financial gain in that? The devices obviously have already been paid. No observer of the market will care whether the device came five months later than anticipated or six, even if someone except the few who actually ordered and their immediate surroundings would even notice. In another post I already offered the question asking where exactly the line has been drawn between pre-orders and orders, something that hasn't become totally clear until now either. It may well be, for example, that the whole of August went into the 'pre-
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I'd be interested in what exactly you would think their financial gain was in there for which someone would purposefully make such a decision, as opposed to it being just another effect of things not turning out as planned because of a long queue of unforeseen circumstances.
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I ordered a QWERTZ because, as a German, that's what I'm used to. And it's a German QWERTZ to boot, with the umlauts where I expect them to be. That said, I had second thoughts right after I ordered, because I remembered that I find myself getting used to QWERTY keyboards with US-international layout superimposed, too, which tend to make sysadmin and developer tasks easier because all those square brackets and braces and stuff are reached more easily. Then again I became happy with my QWERTZ choice again when I saw the 'shifted' design of the Proยน's QWERTY keyboard ๐
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From what has been mentioned here, the latest pre-orders to have been assigned stock so far are from around July/August โ now it begins to look more like my September order indeed was an order and no pre-order?
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I guess it was in November that I've been told here in the forums that every order before general availability, which, as I seem to understand, still isn't there yet, qualified as a pre-order with regard to the still-ongoing processing of manufacturing and shipping, including mine, which is #36xxx, submitted on September 20, and was already filed as 'order', not 'pre-order'. I would guess, though, that a device ordered today wouldn't really qualify as a pre-order anymore, or would it? So they would have had to draw a line somewhere between September and January for what is a pre-order and what
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Memory Cards. Recommendations and Suggestions.
Rob. S. replied to MickH's topic in Pro1 - Thoughts & questions
Indeed; it's just a matter of installing it (and buying it; it is $19.95): https://www.paragon-software.com/home/linuxfs-windows/#overview โ supports ext2/3/4 with read/write access and btrfs and xfs with read access. -
Memory Cards. Recommendations and Suggestions.
Rob. S. replied to MickH's topic in Pro1 - Thoughts & questions
Some do, some don't. It is not easy to find out which do, though. It's an ongoing subject for users of the Raspberry Pi computer, where the operating system sits on a Micro SD card, brutally shortening the card's lifespan if it doesn't do wear levelling. Some e-book readers seem to wear cards surprisingly fast, too, probably because of many, possibly unnecessary writes on special sectors. I've already killed four cards in Raspberry Pis and in my old Sony ebook reader, fast enough but cheap Transcend cards (i had been using Transcend flash cards for photography for many years without any p -
Seems I have overlooked the thickness part... I still need to get the phone, but this doesn't look good, thanks for the hint. Probably will need to get the 511309 instead.