Rob. S.

Inware says "BENGAL" for my Pro1X, which is the codename for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 SM6115.

Some time ago they said, they'd ship those after they would have shipped the phones... Waiting for a spare battery myself, too (while not really feeling like disassambling the botttom part of a Pro1/Pro1X ever again)...

I can top that. September 2019 here 😉 Of course I can be more relaxed about it than others as I've been happily using a pre-owned Pro1 since February 2021, replaced half a year ago with the Pro1X that I had ordered via Indiegogo in October 2020 (and lately with an Expansys-bought QWERTY Pro1X to replace my QWERTZ phone...). Good news is, they still exist, they are delivering, and chances are that we do get our phones eventually...

EDIT: SOLD! Selling my QWERTZ Pro1X, 8/256 GB, on ebay (https://www.ebay.de/itm/204264891886, 599 €, more images there), now that I've switched to an otherwise identical QWERTY device after roughly six months of use. Happy to answer any questions per PM.

I do see the point...

The good news is that this could mean they actually have some of those batteries and that you actually could get one... I'm still waiting for the one I've ordered and paid for on IGG in 2020, shortly after ordering the Pro1X I've been using for the last six months.

Not to rule out the possibility that it's a Sailfish or phone issue, but I've frequently been having problems with MMS—ever since my first theoretically MMS capable phone... Often it was an APN setting that was missing or amiss. That said, MMS as such has started being phased out at least in parts of this world. My primary mobile carrier (Vodafone Germany) has switched off MMS on January 17. No more MMS for me.

Interesting idea. Goes beyond what I know of that stuff, unfortunately...

😄 Indeed; a bit of patience might be in order. I'm still waiting for the Pro1 (later changed to Pro1X) I ordered in Sept 2019. (I did manage to get a pre-owned Pro1 early in 2021, though, and I received another Pro1X ordered from Indiegogo in Oct 2020 about half a year ago, which I've been using since then...)

Wife with FP3 (plus easily added FP3+ camera upgrade) here, too; excellent device (stock Android with exemplary update/upgrade service, though thinking about moving to an ungoogled alternative ROM). If it wasn't for the keyboard, that would be what I'd use, too. FP with hardware keyboard would have been be the greatest... I had been hoping for a bit of that originally from Fxtec... but that would inevitably have been clunkier and even more expensive.

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That is a really interesting observation. And this points towards software/firmware and not hardware! I mean the most likely common denominator is that it works when not switching bands. So it could really be the band-switching that is flawed! Unfortunately I can report that while the Pro1X is rarely switching band at all when on Vodafone around here, it still loses connection frequently, every few minutes for long enough durations to prevent normal usage. The only good thing is that the LTE Discovery workaround mostly works for me. (And that mobile Wifi routers exist, for that m

I can only add that for me, in Germany, with either Vodadone or T-Mobile as the carrier (the third of three German carriers, Telefónica/O2, may be a different story, I have no such SIM card to try), the device is usable for both telephony and mobile internet access with some but no too severe connectivity issues, at least since I've been running the LTE Discovery app in "No-LTE cycle" mode. (Until I installed LTE Discovery I used to carry a mobile Wifi router with VoWifi enabled on the phone, which I still sometimes do and which of course makes for an even better and actually quite perfec

Thanks everyone! Found it. Unlocked bootloader. Should have checked (and re-locked) before spending the better half of Sunday to set the phone up 😉 With the perspective of moving to LineageOS sooner or later, I guess I'll just leave it unlocked for now...

Ah, sounds good then! Right, it's similar with me and I've moved to QWERTZ keyboards on most of my devices including PCs. Unfortunately there's no German QWERTY layout for the Pro1X...

I was wrong with Netflix being the only app affected; Google Pay's doesn't work either, it doesn't accept any payment method "on this device". Same problem that needs special treatment on rooted LineageOS, but this is the first time I've seen it on unrooted stock, and that "special treatment" also requires root which I don't have... @jakfish, does your Play Store also say "device not certified"?

This is weird, I have a QWERTZ Pro1X that has Google Play Protect certification ("device is certified"), and an otherwise identical QWERTY Pro1 ("device is not certified") (Play Store -> menu -> Settings -> About), both unrooted stock Android 11. Just noticed because I didn't find Netflix on the QWERTY one. Any ideas about how to get the "certified" status? What do your devices say there? For now, Netflix seems to be the only app I have problems with and they can be easily overcome, but who knows...

Thanks, that might be a viable workaround. Unfortunately I do need ä, ö, ü, ß quite frequently... But for you, wouldn't the "Czech QWERTZ for physical QWERTY" variant of the FinQwerty layout collection be an option? If I should ever have some time left, I might try and add what I need to FinQwerty myself, but something like that (some time left) doesn't seem too probable for the near future...

Hmm... Worked, but what exactly is it that is backed up there? It was just a 160 MB sized file, much less than what I copied via ordinary file transfer. Seems both file sets overlap, but some stuff is missing in one, some in the other?

While German letters did work for me with FinQwerty on the physical QWERTZ keyboard, did anyone manage to get a usable US-International layout with German letters for the physical QWERTY keyboard?

See title; did anyone do this and succeed? Any caveats? One it QWERTZ, the other QWERTY, otherwise they're identical...

Although search does not turn it up, they still list it (one review, five stars, "bought one from here and from the igg. Best phone ever"), but it looks like the contingent they got from Fxtec would be sold out now...

After some days of trying the LTE Discovery app in No-LTE cycle mode, I've found my LTE connection to be still poor, but at least usable for both the phone and the laptop with casual internet access. At least no more timeouts in the middle of a payment transaction or something like that. (Still taking the mobile router with me most of the time, but now it is not catastrophic anymore when I forget it 😉)

I got the Pro1X I ordered in Oct 2020, but I didn't get the Pro1 (later changed to Pro1X) I ordered in Sept 2019 yet. So while you're not alone, devices actually do get shipped, albeit only in small numbers currently as far as it is known. If you eventually get the phone and don't want it, you can always sell it, though. There's more demand than supply and despite Expansys HK currently offering limited numbers rather cheap, unused devices still sell well on ebay (for up to $750).

Oh come on. @mattock kindly informs us that he found a way and found it was a fairly easy operation. Don't put more into it. I agree that @mattock didn't warrant becoming chided for his helpful comment. Unfortunately, though, I also have to agree with @steff that, despite mattock's suggestion, changing the battery definitely is a far more dangerous operation than I would have thought before opening the Pro1 myself to replace the broken USB connector. While I'm far from being a precision mechanic, I wouldn't call myself clumsy, either. But I managed to destroy the fingerprint sca