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What an interesting turn of events. Way to go, @claude0001 If this is indeed the solution, there is absolutely no way I could do it myself. I couldn't solder two telephone wires together, let alone parts/wires of a circuit board, etc. I SUPPOSE that fxtec might take on the repair as warranty work, if only because said work would produce a phone (the original idea) rather than a pda/hpc that many folks are currently sentenced to.

This is the best fxtec news I've heard in a very long time. Nice find, fingers crossed.

If not for the fxtec forum, you might not have bought a Unihertz phone. The forum works in mysterious ways. 🙂

The security angle hadn't occurred to me; I thought App Blocker was more of a battery-saving issue, though I didn't spend much time researching it before disabling everything.

@Rob. S. I believe your Whatsapp issues are from the Titan's overzealous App Blocker. I kept wondering why Status Bar Mini Pro had to keep being restarted. In App Blocker, you can exclude apps from AB's monitoring, which worked with Status Bar, but I eventually disabled App Blocker completely--these devices already give plenty of battery life.

@Rob. S. Great news. You know, I had done the same thing, simply installed my Pro1x stock backup onto the Pocket. I wonder if that prevented wifi troubles on my device. But why would that be? @raymo I too am content with the Pocket. Sometimes the small screen gets in its own way when browsing, but most of my go-to sites render well. And thanks for posting the Drive link; nice to have it in this thread. I find the panel very small, font and icon-wise, and use Status Bar Mini Pro for time, date, and battery percentage. It's a lot of hit-or-miss setting up width and placement of th

It would appear so :)

I'm sure my phone will blow up right after typing this, but I have yet to find this wifi issue on my Pocket. Anecdotally, my system update seems fresher--Titan_pocket_20220928--than others'. But I don't know the exact date of the latest Slim update. I'm so sorry to hear this. Yes, do take @Hook's advice; there are some real pros over at Discord Titan, starting with the ROM developer. A place just as friendly as here.

Ah, understood. So I can understand further: are you having wifi trouble with both Pocket and Slim?

@EskeRahn My Pocket Build number is Titan_pocket_20220928, so I do seem to be ahead of you. Do you have a generous data plan that would permit you to OTA via data?

@Rob. S. and @claude0001On my Pocket, I'm using the BB kb apk, along with Key Mapper to modify certain keys. The best feature of the BB kb is the ability to scroll with the kb rather than the actual screen. I'm not certain which Unihertz Rob. S. finally picked, but I imagine the BB will work on the Slim as well. The Pocket (and probably the Slim, too) natively offers a collection of key remapping. For instance, since I don't do much with emojis and can map special characters with Key Mapper, I turned the Sym key into a TAB, very convenient for document editing. I'm almost certain tha

@EskeRahn Good point about the P's square screen and the occasional app that might not play nice. Though the screen is square, I do find that rotation can produce missing buttons, especially if the buttons (i.e. Save) are at the bottom. Are "Android market" and "Play Store" the same, or do I have something mixed up? If not, I am able to update Play Store apps manually with the P, without too much screen difficulty. I run my go-to apps--TextMaker, HanDBase, RSS readers--and don't app-hop much, if at all, and thus far, display has been okay. I've been using the P as my daily for over

@Rob. S. You might end up relatively content. A Unihertz ROM maker talked me out of the Slim, to the Pocket instead, based on the kb. Since @EskeRahn owns both, he might weigh in on the kbs vs screen size, but I'm sold on the Pocket, despite a 3.1" screen and an aging Android 11. I've played with the idea of going custom Lineage, but prolly won't actually do it. The Pocket is now my daily and the few phone calls I get, I can't afford to miss, so I'll stick with stock, which has yet to fail me.

I'm still in my window of return for my new Pocket, so I'm not going to flash anything yet. But is Gargoyle hard to install? And can users flash back to stock Android 11?

That makes sense. I hadn't thought that they could've had a number of phones in tow. A kb slab easier to produce than a new design of clamshell or slider, for sure. But Planet does seem to have committed some unforced errors, starting with the sky-high price. I realize it's niche but costing over a USD grand, given the beta bugs of any new device...

Absolutely agree. And all of the Unihertz phones are so reasonably priced. How do they do it? Just poked my head over at Planet's home page--even though they don't have them, they're still selling the Astro for $1043. Eeesh.

EskeRahn: single-handedly keeping the world's economy intact 🙂 Though I bought the Gemini and Cosmo, I too passed on the Astro, both out of price and problems with the previous hardware. I don't regret it, as many Astro backers don't have their phones and may never will 😞

Ah, I had not known you owned the Pocket as well. As for your investigative approach--while I had the SIM inserted in the Pocket, I had disabled its data for app updating, so I don't believe Google update could've updated through it. I did check the "mobile data usage" and saw that Play Store had only been accessed by wifi.

@EskeRahn Wow. This is the first I've heard of this issue, and here you are, with it 😞 Upon investigation, I just found 11 updates on stock Android and went through a wifi-only update and all went well, every one. Nor have I seen any issues browsing on wifi. Granted, my experience was not based on 90+ waiting updates... I'm in the US, state of Maryland, using Verizon FiOS. I wonder if the Pocket uses slightly different internal hardware, though I can't imagine such a case.

I've been using the Unihertz Titan Pocket since last Thursday, and I do believe I'm sold. The 3.1" screen takes getting used to, but Unihertz has thrown in a bunch of customizations, from display resizing to key remapping. It's perhaps too thick and heavy for its size, but I knew that going in, and the kb itself is very manageable. Fast enough CPU for my needs, long battery life, and good support over at Discord, whose members have found prompt response and delivery of replacement parts from Unihertz. Most gratifying is when you pay for the phone, it's actually delivered. I had not been f

Many, many thanks, and congrats on the strong battery, despite its drawer banishment 🙂 In the meantime, in a Unihertz custom ROM discord forum, the moderator's comments convinced me to pull the trigger on the cheaper, smaller Titan Pocket. I was skeptical at first, but he was kind enough to install TextMaker and post a screenie (I'm a TM fan) and it looked good in the square screen. He owns both the Pocket and the Slim and said for doc editing, the Pocket was the way to go. Media display, given the P's screen size, obviously tougher, but I use a phone for phone and writing, and mostl

Thanks for weighing in.

My apologies for necro-bumping, but I'm giving the Titan Slim some serious thought, and I was hoping to check back with folks who have now owned it for a while. My scouring of on-line reviews tells me you get what you pay for: modest price = mediocre camera, antiquated cpu and Android version (though I've found Lineage for Titan), and a plastic body. I'm no power user so I can live with such drawbacks. My main question is "how to map a TAB key?" Is that possible? The Slim's shortcuts seem more app-oriented than actual remapped keys. @EskeRahn's post seems to tell me no true remapping

Over in fxtec pro1x discord forum, a post-er says a beta tester just uploaded results that might entail a software workaround for these hardware difficulties. Best to remain skeptical, but I do want to see where this goes.

I've been brooding about this since angst is telling me that given PC and fx woes, this may be the end of any new physical kb phone production. I was startled to read that PC only had 3000 Astros to produce. PC's buggy hardware, poor Linux development, and spotty customer service made me shy away from backing the Astro, but I was stupidly certain that others would not be so wary. I'm no entrepreneur, but 3000 strikes me as a why-bother number. And I don't know the ultimate production figures of the pro1x, but it appears to be on the edge of well-we-tried. Production outside of China, whil