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I am waiting for the Pro1X and have been reading the fxtec forum. People have sent their device to be repaired without getting any information back in four weeks. It seems that not getting a response from the team is a rule, not exception. A bit alerting.

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So who in here still thinks they will be holding the device in their hands some day? Covid and Chinese New Year, I think we've had these before (last year, cough, cough). By now I call Jolla Tablet (or Turing Phone) on this story.

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Do you guys live in the same planet as the rest of us? Even in Portugal that the things are not so bad as on other countries, we have companies with 30% of workers on active. Give them a break and let them explain and try to fulfill all your wishes. It is not easy on a small company like theirs. Even Samsung is getting caught on this lack of people and eletronic parts

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There is a fuzz and buzz on Fxtec forum cause people do not get in touch with the staff. I myself take this as an adventure with a crowfunded preorder for Pro 1 X. I'm in on something new to me. I understand what you deutch1976 said about the world situation, but I still hold on my right to be alerted while waiting for a product with what people are exoerincing many problems without being able to get in contact with the company who sold them the product. I am a chen fan for what he was brave enough to start. I think the problem here is that they should have given a clearer picture of themselves as a very small company with very little staff - which would have of course led to a situation where they would not have got as many orders and customers as now.

Presuppotions of customers, image what Fxtec has given about them, hopes of the customers, hopes of the Fxtec team, the world situation... Nice combo.

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The news of last week was that all backers with the engraving perk where called to send their svgs until feb 11th.
Just so the impression does not arise there are no signs of manufacturing moving forward at all.
The production videos from last two igg updates showed keyboards being mass assembled.
Also TheKit confirmed just yesterday what we had speculated regarding the promised developer devices. Some of those where indeed sent out in November as announced in a summer update.

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And we have new update:
https://link.indiegogo.com/view/5348...17523/c3262997

Important points

• They are very close to manufacturing (again), in a week the last factory comes out of quarantine and can be contacted
• Prototypes will be sent out next week to developers

When the prototypes arrive this will be a good sign for all those who have doubts on if FxTec will deliver.

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New update, trial assembly has begun and they have videos to proof it!

https://link.indiegogo.com/view/5348...bceef/d7c1f189

Videos can be found here
https://player.vimeo.com/video/693595634
and here
https://player.vimeo.com/video/693596818

My hopes are up that my device will arrive within the next two months!

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So we can hope that the device will arrive roughly 2 years after announcement. Not bad at all considering covid and everything.

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Several new updates have now been posted suggesting a fast progress.

The last one (Update 40) shows a batch ready to ship in boxes. 707 Devices are ready they claim.

But only with Android. Lineage OS and Ubuntu Touch are still not available and people who have ordered them can choose between keeping their choice and waiting, switching to Android and receiving their device soon.

Update 38

Update 39

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The mail I just got says every device will now be shipped with android 'cause they can't guarantee any dates for LOS or Ubuntu which are community dependent.

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Was confirmed in the IGG comments too :(

Must continue using my old broken phone and not be tempted by the shiny google tracker... Almost certainly not in batch 1 anyway so maybe by the time it arrives whoever the mystery devs are will be finished.

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I think it is the right choice they made. They don't need to hang on with the devices and they may have more time after that to concentrate on support for users. The faster they get working devices out of their hands the better. Also they get off the stress of waiting for the LOS or Ubuntu to be ready, get off from storing or shipping the devices. I believe it is a question of mental health for all of them, how this Covid messed up everything for them. It id a miracle what Chen could do, pushing through this all.

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My doorbell just rang!

I will report back when i had time to look at it.

Very first impressions:
- Shock because on the box it says QWERTY Layout, but QWERTZ is inside :)
- Stock Android indeed

Yesterday they sent instructions to lock the bootloader if I want to have full Google support on the phone. No thanks. Its great that they ship it unlocked. The way it should be.

Of course I eagerly await the release of other OSes for the device!

Edit: if you have any questions regarding the device,
just post them here and I will try to answer.

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Congratz! Mine also arrived this morning.
The build quality is awesome imo. Even a bit better than on Pro¹.

Make sure to backup your persist partition.
It holds the device specific keys so stock android can do advanced auth things. SafetyNet still works. But those auths that check the device keys will not if you loose the original.
Tested for you :D
I manually flashed the persist image that was delivered in the stock EDL flashing files. To fix the sensors which where altered by sailfish os. That worked. But i should have done this with a persist backup from my device from before the sailfish flash. Since the stock persist does not contain the keys.

Even if you don't plan to use android. It might raise the resale value.

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BTW. The Pro¹ X is now available with very short waiting time. People have bought one now after being told by F(x)tec service they would still be in batch 2 and thus only have 2-3 weeks "delivery".
I'd check with service@fxtec.com but it looks like buying now from the webshop could mean the shortest wait for a prawn ever.

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Have you tested cellular and wifi connection? It seeems there is hopefully only a firmware problem but maby has said that at the moment the device is almost useless because the poor connection.

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That's highly overplayed or worst case depending on network coverage or coming from a phone with very good reception. I am living in a rural area and did not notice such major problems.
To me it seems the reception is comparable to Pro¹ when i lay both devices side by side and observe a signal strength app.
Its not great, never was on Pro¹.
And the antennas being covered by hands when in landscape does not help in that aspect.
No idea what can be done in software. What i noticed is both devices switch cell towers very frequently when comparing to a XA2 on same network.

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Fxtec forum has a lot of complaints and fxtec team has said it is a known issue.

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That would be great indeed.
Maybe i just learn the german coverage is better than i thought.

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This indeed seems to be a problem. Attached a picture of the FxTec and a Mi 10 Lite (lower midrange std Android phone) side by side and their GPS reception. As you can see the FxTec has significantly worse reception which also resulted in a much worse time till a fix was made in airplane mode. (within a second vs 10s of seconds with near perfect conditions)
FxTec to the Right

For cellular it also seems to be true. Attached an image of the same two phones with SIM Cards in identical networks. The FxTec is slightly worse with -93dBm vs -91dBm, if touched it goes to -99, the other phone is not much impacted by touch. A good old Nokia beats both of them easily in the GSM network.

In urban Areas it should make little difference, but I wouldn't rely on it in the mountains.

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Have been reading Fxtec forum and really can't wait to get my device where nothing seems to work well :)

1. Camera app sucks, raw not working with default camera neither 4k video
2. Speaker gives tick sound, no stereo audio recording (if I understood correctly) and poor audio of recordings
3. Cellular, wifi and gps unbearable poor.
4. otg not workin
5. hdmi not working
6. keyboard problems a lot
etc.

Many are hopefully correctable with a firmware update and many are cause some are corrected using Lineage Os. Hope they get things fixed. Still good job Chen, you made it! It is out!!!

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Also I didn't post that here because I simply cannot maintain multiple identical threads, but:

https://community.fxtec.com/topic/36...th-sailfishos/

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It seems, that LineageOS 20 for Pro1 X is ready:
https://download.lineageos.org/devices/pro1x/builds

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There has been an unofficial build on XDA before. Quite stable as far as I know.