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[General Questions and Answers] andydir87:
NFC Payment

Servus from south Germany! :)

It's my very first post here... I hope someone knows how to solve my problem:

I got the U Pro almost 2 weeks ago. I'm extremely happy with it. There is only one thing which makes me thinking about "buying another phone":

NFC Payment seems not to work with the U pro! Well... maybe it's only my device or I don't know how to activate it probably.

Before I had the Elephoen P9000 for almost 1,5 years. By using the app Seqr I was able to pay with NFC at many many Shops in Germany including Rewe, Lidl, Aldi, Globus, Netto, ... and many more.

But now with the much more expensive U Pro it doesn't work any more.

Does anyone knows about this problem or know how to solve it?

Tanks!

Andreas
[General Questions and Answers] arhornberg:
Hi Andy,

how does it refuse to Work? Does the App Close or does the payment terminal reject the "Card" .

Tomorrow I will try payment with boon. (Worked flawlessly in my p9000 aswell). Installing ans Setup worked so far on my uPro.

I'll give a Status Report.

Greetings from southwestern germany.

Ahornberg

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[General Questions and Answers] andydir87:
Hi Ahornberg!

Neither the phone (app/android) nor the terminal shows any error or like that. The terminal just doesn't recognize it.

I'm able to choose Seqr in Android settings as standard payment app. The app recoginzes when it is not set as standard and offers to change the settings.

Everything like it should be. Except the communication between the U Pro and the terminal.

Thanks for trying boon!
[General Questions and Answers] acastrocab:
There are previus comment taking about that, payment dont work (yet) i think elephone will update it, i sent them a few email (with differents accounts) and they only replied one.

They told me that they are a small company with not too many people but they are working as mutch as possible to fix that and a few issues more (like improving the camera)
[General Questions and Answers] arhornberg:
Update:

Boon Works with my Phone at Lidl.

So either its a Problem with seqr or with your Hardware.

Have you tried General NFC functionality, like Reading or writing a Tag or Reading the Info from Your Passport or Personalausweis ( that all Works vor me, too)

Greetings

Ahornberg

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[General Questions and Answers] CharlieBros:
Considering that this phone is Treble certified, has anybody tried to install Phh-Treble on it? AOSP 8.1 on this bad boy would be the tits
[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
Projekt treble works. Security updates etc.. all possible
[General Questions and Answers] pc4096:
Hmmm NFC not working for me at shop terminals in New Zealand, also couldn't get it to do a phone setup over NFC from another phone where i know the NFC works. Might have to find a tag to have a good play.

Fingerprint reader also mostly doesn't work and bluetooth doesn't give nearly as strong a signal as my Lenovo P2, if my arm is in the way the sound cuts out.

Apart from those problems it's a pretty good phone, will have to try and work out if i have a defective phone or a software update will fix sort those issues out.
[General Questions and Answers] CharlieBros:
God damn, someone have tried it yet?
[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
Fingerprint is working great. Nearly 98% right. Every time.

You can make more then one fingerprint. I use 4 all scanned with the same finger

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[General Questions and Answers] rastone:
Hi all

Anyone knows the aperture of the cameras?Front and back.Cant find that info.Thx
[General Questions and Answers] andydir87:
Servus Ahornberg,

I created a boon. account and tried it at Lidl today. It works very well!

Seems to be a incompatibility problem with the U Pro and Seqr. Thanks for this Tipp!

Everything else works very well. Also reading Passports, identify cards, fingerprint.

The signal strength of my U Pro isn't as well as my old P9000's signal strength. But it's still ok.

Regards

Andy
[General Questions and Answers] mzsquared:
Finally! U Pro has arrived, so I can put my frustrations behind. I like this phone, feels nicely in the hand, has bigger screen but smaller overall dimensions than my current Moto Z Play. Same length but slimmer, the curved edges make a whole world of differences. Didn't have much time so far for "the new toy discoveries", went right on figuring out the 'stock' lte bands. I have two sims at home: TMobile and AT&T(sort of, it's a free FreedomPop I keep it as 'just in case', emergency kinda thing - having totally free phone #, 500minutes for calls and a 200MB data:laugh:, can't use the data, it may trigger the "free" to end and that's the catch of being 'free'. The FreedomPop uses LTE B25, 26 and 41 and I made the phone work, functional, but only somewhere around 2/2.5 GSM according to a Network Cell Info app from Google store. Same with Tmobile sim. Tried DFS Qualcomm Tool, it sees the port that the phone is on, but no interface, have to wait until there is a root.
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
Congratulations bro glad you like wish you best luck with this phone

Cheers
[General Questions and Answers] mzsquared:
Thanks Maherabed, the phone is really cool!
[General Questions and Answers] UNDR8D83:
just got mine and the girlfriends delivered today...and all i gotta say after owning so many chicnese phones from the early days is that china has def come a very long way in their quality.

camera still needs work as they all do but all the other features outweigh that
[General Questions and Answers] Venipa:
I've been using the u pro for 2 weeks now and I'm totally fine with it didn't have an issue with it.

Regards

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[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
Same for me.

I am just waiting for the firmware. Then I can build my rom for it

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[General Questions and Answers] mzsquared:
Get "CPU X" app from Google Play, I use the free version, it shows most of the details I need. I was using it today while charging the Upro battery. Stock charger is pretty good, had 45% at the beginning, at that level the charger was giving an output ~2500mA, it took about 25 minutes to get ~78% at which point the current went down to ~ 1500's and keeps dropping. Needed 40 minutes to get 90% and just before 60 minutes the LED went green. I could also monitor the temperature on CPU X, the hottest it went was about 44C during the high load of 2.5A, than it dissipated as it should.(ambient ~ 22C?)

I have that CPUx's gadget on home screen, gonna try to attach screenshots. I put on external microSD all my music today, some 18GB of it. Over 2500 songs.

Found on line Galaxy9s wallpaper too.

[IMG="Lckscrn"]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pFulmG5ok5879Jtz52W_AJ4oRkEJyTtR/view?usp=sharing[/IMG]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D48Fdj5OkYDuMnHRqFLP0VcgcB71H0S0/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10KKw6uCswUhrke0WJT9qa8tbm_azXe_7/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITgFnimYiUxqM3cNeW2eJ4f1QgmLkahj/view?usp=sharing

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this one missing:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6HF__LeLu3Hj7kjPzhN0hZ0s1a-wR1u/view?usp=sharing
[General Questions and Answers] htmcrp:
Anyone can clarify/confirm? I installed the safety net checker and the test failed.

Is it because the U pro is not (yet) approved by Google or because I installed apps from "unknown sources" or both?
[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
The first one.

Wait until we have root. Then it's fixable

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[General Questions and Answers] htmcrp:
Thanks eton as usual for your insight.
[General Questions and Answers] UNDR8D83:
also just letting you guys know....DONT USE FACE UNLOCK if you value your security haha

the phone can be unlocked with a picture of your face! i tried it simply by taking a selfie with another phone than putting that pic in front of the U PRO n boom it unlocked
[General Questions and Answers] arhornberg:
Hi everyone,

is anyone experiencing a constant Location Symbol in your Status bar? Even after denying all Location Services and switching Off Location, it stays in the Status bar.

After a Restart it is gone, but it Comes Back after some time (minutes to hours)

Greetings

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Edit: this time it Took 2 hours to Come Back.
[General Questions and Answers] htmcrp:
Yes I observed that too. However it happens rarely, that's why I didn't give it much attention. Might be a bug.
[General Questions and Answers] mzsquared:
I saw that 'location on' yesterday and somehow It turned my attention to the Service app(blue cloud). It looks like sort of telemetry tool for Elephone. Well, it offers firmware uploads and support etc.., but I can get that over the web. Anyway, after I cleared cache and data (two locations - it's also listed in System - top right 3dots in Apps) I disabled/force stopped that app and so far, I don't see the 'location on' anymore. Could anyone confirm that? Also noticed that the app, even in disabled/forcestopped, still consumes memory. Not an issue w/ 6GB, just an observation.
[General Questions and Answers] Alkis30:
Do you think that Elephone will actually release a software update and improve camera perfomance ? They did such a great job in all other areas of U Pro (screen, build quality, software optimization) ... why the hell they left camera out of the effort they put on it to produce something special ??? I did not expect of course a camera on the S9 / Google Pixel 2 standards , but.. this ????
[General Questions and Answers] darkjura:
Install Google pixel 2 camera apk mod v6 for time being and wait for updates belive me it does a lot of difference.
[General Questions and Answers] otonieru:
Can you post some sample images taken using Google Cam ?

Oh, and, is portrait mode working as well ?
[General Questions and Answers] darkjura:
Bokha and portrait work great and apk link is in this thread in pages before and it doesn't need root. Only slomo' doesn't work and you have to tweak the settings I found it on you tube tweaks for mi5 and it is great.
[General Questions and Answers] Alkis30:
Does anyone has Galaxy S8+ also to compare the screen with U Pro and tell us the differences ?
[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
My wife has the new s9 since yesterday. And all I can say is that the design of the u pro looks better . The screen is a bit bigger.

Also the brightness is very good , it's a bit brighter then the galaxy s9 .

And the u pro has very good colours. Similar to the galaxy s9

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[General Questions and Answers] DragonFlye:
Face unlock does not unlock?

Is it me or is my build missing something? On this video from Elephone at 33 seconds, the user needs to activate "unlock screen" when face recognition has been done. This probably will actually unlock the screen when your face has been reconized.

Only I'm NOT seeing this option. Elephone must have deleted this function in its last update. Now, when unlocking using face recognition, it only show the "unlocked" lockscreen. I have do an

extra

wipe to actually get to my home screen.

After initial use, I did my updates (now on 20180211-121554), so I can't confirm if FR actually unlocks the phone. Can anyone confirm it did work in previous versions?
[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
Face unlock works.

Settings/security/smartlock/face unlock.

I only use face unlock :D

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[General Questions and Answers] DragonFlye:
Yes I know it works, but does it unlock your phone (when completely black) straight to your home screen or does it it just show your lockscreen?

Perhaps I must be doing something wrong....or I'm missing something crucial. When using the fingerprint sensor, a positive id unlocks the phone and goes straight to the home screen. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in order to unlock my phone using FR, I need to:

press the power button

(phone unlocks using FR) I very briefly see the user pictogram, then the lock pictogram

need to do a swipe to get to the home screen
[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
For me it goes directly to the Homescreen..

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Ah sorry.

I have to swipe up to get into Homescreen after face unlock detected my face

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[General Questions and Answers] DragonFlye:
Ah! So it's not really unlocking the phone straight to home like the fingerprint unlock or the original Elephone video.

Wonder why Elephone changed this in its updates....
[General Questions and Answers] darkjura:
They did not change it, lots of videos are with preproduction beta software elephone is having an issue with Android oreo and sd660 that is why camera and battery aren't yet optimized to its full potential and they are better on elephone u with mtk chip and nougat. Hope they solve those problems soon.
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
I faced this little issue but after restarting my phone the location sign gone

It's a tiny bug :laugh:

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They didn't change any thing it's same as before i think they are trying to copy iPhone x in this movement

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I suggest you guys to use this Google pixel camera ported it's alot more better than elephone's camer

https://www.xda-developers.com/pixel-2-portrait-mode-port-non-google-android-oreo/
[General Questions and Answers] htmcrp:
I installed the updated version but it keeps crashing. Actually blocking the phone. Need to do a hard reset.
[General Questions and Answers] Alkis30:
I installed it also and it works great ! No crashes or anything weird at the moment.

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That is fantastic ! I did not expect to be brighter than galaxy s9 !!
[General Questions and Answers] UNDR8D83:
i too have to swipe to get to home screen

skeleton1911: did you enable pattern unlock? as without enabling any security measure the face unlock section is grey'd out, also are you on build 20180211?
[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
I use pin

If you don't use anything .smartlock can't work. So it's normal that it is greyed out.

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[General Questions and Answers] TheBus:
Hi all, i'm planning to buy the elephone u pro. I don't understand if it's just rootable or not. Reading the topic it seems no. My needs is to remove adware and pass CST test for my bank app (in my current samsung s5 with lineageOS magisk do the job well)

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
It will be root able , when elephone shares the firmware

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[General Questions and Answers] jimibxl:
hi

here are 2 pics i took today with my u pro, i found them relly not bad.

what do you think?
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
I used pin code as well but still i need to swip up to go to home screen

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It's good during day light but when you use google pixel mode you'll find big difference in pictures quality
[General Questions and Answers] jimibxl:
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It's good during day light but when you use google pixel mode you'll find big difference in pictures quality[/QUOTE]

i will try then tommorow

did someone succed to take pictures with bokeh effect?
[General Questions and Answers] UNDR8D83:
yer just tried with pin too and still have to swipe up
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
i will try then tommorow

did someone succed to take pictures with bokeh effect?[/QUOTE]

This is simple test between the original cam and gpixel mode at night
[General Questions and Answers] UNDR8D83:
bokeh works brilliant on the stock camera app

but for overall picture quality i recommend the modded pixel2 googlecam, the picture difference is amazing along with portrait mode which is pretty much auto bokeh for face shots, bokeh effect for non human shots i use stock camera app
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
I agree with you bro 100%:good:
[General Questions and Answers] jimibxl:
can you tell me where you find bokeh effect on stock cam app? thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Bonzai2000:
At the top right side use the aperture.

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[General Questions and Answers] DragonFlye:
Getting back on the whole unlock thing.

Besides the extra swipe up to actual unlock after face recognition, on a complete "dark" phone, shouldn't Face Unlock work without having to push the power button first? Noticed that Google voice unlock also needs a push on the power button to work.

Don't have any reference but do other relatively stock android phones have that feature?
[General Questions and Answers] jimibxl:
that's what i used to take both pictures, there is no bokeh effect lol, i even noticed that this mode doesn't save all photos, i have to take aroud 10 to get one saved.
[General Questions and Answers] Martbuc:
On my elephone u pro doesnt run google mod cam☹️
[General Questions and Answers] Bonzai2000:
Yes I known, same here but as far as I understand this is the bokeh mode and sometimes with much passion it works.

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[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
You have to give permissions for the app

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[General Questions and Answers] htmcrp:
I like to suggest, that the camera enthusiasts start a separate U pro cam, forum in order to avoid overlapping discussions. As I mentioned earlier, I buy a phone with a camera and not a camera with a phone. Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] htmcrp:
Anyone using a full screen dialer? I tried a few and they work, except I can not answer incoming calls.
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
I created a new group on Telegram if you guys like the idea you can join us

It will be a group only talk about our elephone u pro there we can help each other faster than here find solutions for some issues and also teach the new buyers how to use all the features in this phone

My greetings to all of you

This is the link to join the group directly

See you all there ?

https://t.me/joinchat/GxIBOhKXi5I6bsNWOm6LFg
[General Questions and Answers] mzsquared:
See if that works: Settings>System>Advanced settings and uncheck, turn Off "Flip to silence ringer". I don't have sim in my upro right now, can't test it by myself.

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Thanks, I'll definitely check in.

.............5 minutes later: Can't enter that site: "The address wasn’t understood Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because one of the following protocols (tg) isn’t associated with any program or is not allowed in this context." said my browser when I clicked on the green button there to enter.
[General Questions and Answers] htmcrp:
Thanks for the hint. I tried it but it didn't work. I contacted the developer of the app I am using. Waiting for a response. It might be another one of the increasing Android restrictions.
[General Questions and Answers] UNDR8D83:
did you focus in on a single point and then adjust the bokeh effect slider? also understand that bokeh mode is more for short distance you want to 'tighten' up the focus on

all the photos i have taken have saved, the file name even starts with 'bokeh_IMG_xxxxxxx_xxxx'

these are my samples i quickly snapped up and as you can see if you zoom in on the nuggets the stock camera isnt really too bad to be honest...as long as you have good lighting of course lol
[General Questions and Answers] UNDR8D83:
ok we get it we heard you the first time you bought a phone and don't care about the camera BUT some of us do and as there's no main forum setup for this phone yet, everything about the PHONE will be discussed here until there is!

if you dont like whats being discussed then use the scroll wheel on your mouse and skip till you do, its really not that hard

thank you

ps. next time you make a post maybe include 'no camera talk' in the field
[General Questions and Answers] jimibxl:
i will be honnest i am not a big photographer, even on holidays i take rarely photos. I just played a bit to see how is the quality of u pro cam.

i will try this weekend with your advise.

i see you succed very well with bokeh ✌
[General Questions and Answers] Laptapper:
Hi there, has anybody tested flip to mute ringer? For me it isn't working.

Is there a solution to get a twrp? I need root....

The factory recovery is reachable with shutdown and restart with power and volume- then immediately after green led is seen release only power and then recovery is starting.
[General Questions and Answers] htmcrp:
Yes, the flip to mute the ringer works at my device.

We are all waiting for root. According to the experts, like skeleton1911, he is waiting for Elephone to release the firmware. Have to be patient.
[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
Yep.

I am waiting also for it. Hope that they will release it soon

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[General Questions and Answers] DavidRodrigo:
Hello, i bought the phone but still not have it, i really want to know if the GCam can be installed on this phone to improve a little the camera on night shots or on any condition :P
[General Questions and Answers] darkjura:
This is GCam and yes it does gets better m
[General Questions and Answers] darkjura:
But you have to tweak a settings a little bit
[General Questions and Answers] darkjura:
Here is one more gcam taken also today
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
Yes Gcam can be installed on this phone as a normal app then you can adjust the settings inside the app to improve the quality of the photos also you can join our group on Telegram for more information and qualifications to help you faster

https://t.me/joinchat/GxIBOhKXi5I6bsNWOm6LFg
[General Questions and Answers] DavidRodrigo:
Thanks guys i appreciate it, just i need to go to the playstore and download GCam right? (sorry for my english)
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
Not on playstore buddy special XDA thread to GCam ported
[General Questions and Answers] DavidRodrigo:
And sorry again, but may you post the link of that thread please :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SI--IylDFBEW3rDeFtfKLRNSoUItKDG8/view?usp=drivesdk

And the second one Elephone u pro group on Telegram

https://t.me/joinchat/GxIBOhKXi5I6bsNWOm6LFg
[General Questions and Answers] DavidRodrigo:
Thanks so much :D nice people
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
You're welcome bro ☺️
[General Questions and Answers] Alkis30:
I can not join Telegram team ! I have installed the app on the mobile but when I search for "Elephone U Pro" it does not find anything !
[General Questions and Answers] Maherabed1986:
No need to search on Telegram just tap the link to join the group

Good luck
[General Questions and Answers] Alkis30:
Ok thanks. I joined !
[General Questions and Answers] Laptapper:
Unlocking bootloader

May be someone is interested: unlocking bootloader with starting factory recovery (see my last post) installing min adb in Windows 10 then command fastboot flash unlock (or later back with lock) then on u pro with volume choosing unlock and confirm with power. (Advice: remove any fingerprint and pin and boot password before unlocking otherwise may be a problem with starting Android) that's it have fun
[General Questions and Answers] skeleton1911:
I did that two weeks before.

And if someone don't remove the pin etc. No panic.

You will get the *enter password to start android* screen.

Also if you can't remember the password, it don't matter. After you entered 50 wrong passwords. The system will reboot and perform a fullwipe itself. After that the phone will work like normal ;)

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