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Re: Are you Ready? F(x)tec Pro 1 HW Keyboard Phone

Further delays, now due to the coronavirus outbreak in China. From the official newsletter:

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I'm sure you are aware of the Coronavirus outbreak that is spreading through China at the moment, and if not here's a recent BBC news article which provides more information on the severity of the situation:

This will have a direct impact on our manufacturing and production capabilities, as the Chinese government has extended the Chinese New Year holidays until around the 9th February, and restricted public transport around the country as a precaution. This was officially announced by the Chinese Government on the 28th January. We are therefore unsure how soon, or if people will be able to return to work, as many factory staff will have travelled across the country to be with their friends and family for the New Year. This means that we cannot provide a guaranteed date to which the factory will be back up and running again.

I hope you can understand that this situation is completely out of our control, and until we receive further updates or clarity on the situation, we will have to delay our next batch of devices which were due to be shipped to customers the beginning of February.

Re: Are you Ready? F(x)tec Pro 1 HW Keyboard Phone

For those interested, here is an attempt to put together instructions for SFOS flashing/backup/restoration on the Pro¹, since they are otherwise lacking or spread across different forum posts.

Re: Are you Ready? F(x)tec Pro 1 HW Keyboard Phone

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Originally Posted by acrux (Post 1562928)

[Order #56XX] (February 28, 2019)
QWERTZ; EU
Paid: July 31th 2019.
No "stock assigned"

The Pro1 was delivered to me at January 29th. Too bad I had to leave to a business trip and had too little time to set up it yet.
So next week... No plan to run it with stock rom though but going to test with LineageOS and SailfishOS. Not sure in which order... :p

Re: Are you Ready? F(x)tec Pro 1 HW Keyboard Phone

Then try LOS first.
If you "try" the SFOS port, there is no reason to look further ;)

Re: Are you Ready? F(x)tec Pro 1 HW Keyboard Phone

I wish there was a way to boot multiple OS's, like MultiROM on the Nexus 5. SFOS is great, but I'd like to play around with stuff like Maemo Leste as well without having to reinstall everything.

Re: Are you Ready? F(x)tec Pro 1 HW Keyboard Phone

Regarding the shutter-button topic: Today I received an answer from fxtec support. The two-stage button seems to be very subtle. Even in the fxtec team not everyone can feel the two stages. In addition: The focus feature cannot be used at the moment, and shall be implemented in a future software release.

Re: Are you Ready? F(x)tec Pro 1 HW Keyboard Phone

Just for shits 'n giggles I tried the Pro1 in the shower with a AquaPac: it's borderline useless because it doesn't have a resistive touchscreen like my CF-19 or N900.

Re: Are you Ready? F(x)tec Pro 1 HW Keyboard Phone

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Originally Posted by taixzo (Post 1565055)

I wish there was a way to boot multiple OS's, like MultiROM on the Nexus 5. SFOS is great, but I'd like to play around with stuff like Maemo Leste as well without having to reinstall everything.

So far, no multiboot effort that I know of (but I hope we will have it someday too), but there is still some hope regarding effortless OS switching: nspawn/LXC/chroot within SFOS, and both Leste and PostmarketOS should boot from SD when/if there are any Pro¹ builds one day.

Re: Are you Ready? F(x)tec Pro 1 HW Keyboard Phone

Using N900 in shower? I had never thought that possibility.