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[Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 Questions & Answers] bombermanCC:
It's been available for about 1 week

I bought a black MiPad 4 (3GB+Wifi Only) about a week ago. It's wasn't available on Gearbest at the time and the "pre-purchased" option was at 800$ cad but they did have it on AliExpress at a decent price (300$cad)

Here's a link to the AliExpress page:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Ori...958.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.43f24c4d0lB66W

Hope this helps people buy it at a decent price.
[Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 Questions & Answers] ph0t0gr4ph3r:
I already bought a 4/64gb model and applied to have bootloader unlock
[Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 Questions & Answers] minilandl:
did you manage to boot a GSI of Lineage or something similar
[Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 Questions & Answers] ph0t0gr4ph3r:
Haven't gotten permission to unlock yet
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] hamdir:
Hello everyone, i thought to create this thread in order to discuss information about this awesome device

please post relevant news you find in here
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] hamdir:
Vivo Reveals Its TOF 3D Sensing Technology At MWCS 2018
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] hamdir:
Vivo Nex teardown showing the camera mechanism

you will notice strong similarities with the OnePlus 6 teardown and even the mechanical part pushing the camera is similar to the OP6 lever for the mute button, the OP6 is more tidy overall but i guess this is an effort to appease it's worldwide audience

https://www.myfixguide.com/vivo-nex-teardown/

Nex

OnePlus 6

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/OnePlus+6+Teardown/109826
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] paatha13:
First details review from tech site.

https://www.androidauthority.com/vivo-nex-review-875140/

Vivo Nex review: Frustratingly imperfect, undeniably desirable

Pros:

Futuristic bezel-free design

Solid OLED display

Competitive camera

Excellent performance

Eye-catching camera mechanism

22.5W fast charging support

Really good wired audio

Cons:

Problematic software

China-only release

Under-performing battery

Unreliable fingerprint scanner

No IP rating, NFC, wireless charging

Well as everyone imagine i'm not surprised from their observation.

Really good hardware with problematic software experience.

One nagative that didn't expect was that AOD does not support third party app notification but only limited stock app.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] DrG0nz0:
That's just not true. He simply didn't manage to find the right setings to make it work. I have my push notifications working fine for Whatsap, messenger, mail and a few others. You do however have to turn the push notification app's one by one, but you only do it once.

The same thing goes for the launcher. After you manage to create a VIVO account you can install nova launcher (or any other) and it will work perfectly (mine already is).
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] paatha13:
Well you know that a lot of us we are not from China and activating an account is painful with current situasion.

We don't have chinese number to do that.

I'm familiar with chinese OS like MIUI and i know to setup it but that doesn't change the complicated chinese skin it's far far away to more simplify stock or near stock experience like Oxygen.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] DrG0nz0:
I never said it was easy! I'm Portuguese, living in Switzerland, so no chinese contacts from my end xD

Try to enter some foruns, meet someone, maybe look around in your nearest University ESN (erasmus student network). After a few days looking online I found a guy that did it for free, 5min in a chat room with him to give me the code was all it took.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] paatha13:
Well actually in my city there's many chinese resident living and working and many many tourists coming also but it's kind frustated to involve to such situasion with people that don't know for just activate a chinese vivo account:D:p

Good idea university but it's many years since graduate.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] DrG0nz0:
Once again, never said it would be easy :laugh:

Just think that you will never see that person again, whatever the answer is when you ask them to. If it works, great. If it doesn't, better luck next time and move on. It's just all about how bad you want to get rid of the chinese blootware and launcher that comes with the phone. :o

No matter how many years you graduated, it's easy to do a quick search in facebook for "ESN 'yourUniversity' " and try to ask someone for a favor in exchange for a couple of beers. You would be amazed how many great people exist ;)
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] monoke:
Regarding that android authority battery under-performing critique. I wonder if the fps activation sensor constantly polling for phone movement has an affect on battery.

Is there a setting to deactivate the motion sensor system and just use power button to wake fps activation? I know it's still new, but could those with the phone try it and see if there's battery improvement?
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] KOLIOSIS:
Yeah,you can toggle the always-on FPR ( SETTINGS > FINGERPRINTS & PASSWORDS > UNLOCK > Show fingerprint icon when screen is off )

Too soon to do a real battery comparison,perhaps someone else will monitor the battery stats.

I stopped worrying about battery life years ago,haven't felt the need to take any extraordinary measures to get through the day with plenty to spare on a LOT of different phones.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] paatha13:
Yep exactly with majority of modern device last 2 years will get satisfied battery life through all day except if you are playing games all hours or continuous uses mobile data and GPS.

Don’t we all forget that at the end of day all of us charging the device to next day.

No matter you got 20 or 40% battery left at end of the day, you always charge the device for next day of usage.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] DrG0nz0:
Yes, that settings exist. Actually, you would be surprised about how much they actually let you costumize all the actions and buttons, similar experience in that field to Cyanogen.

Regarding the battery drain, I haven't felt it yet....a good intensive use of the phone brought it to 30's% at the end of the day, wich is fine by me.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] paatha13:
Newl fresh arriva detail review from GSMarena.

https://www.gsmarena.com/vivo_nex_s-review-1785.php

Pros

Futuristic nearly bezel-free design

Innovative and entertaining motorized selfie camera and under-display fingerprint solutions

Amazing 6.59-inch notch-free Super AMOLED display

Great battery life, fast charging

Very loud speaker

Good audio quality

A lot of value-added features in Funtouch OS

Good, if not really impressive, image quality

Cons

No ingress protection rating

No expandable storage

No NFC

No wireless charging

Very unreliable performance on the under-display fingerprint reader

Funtouch OS is badly organised, chaotic and difficult to use. Many features are not regionalized

The camera has noticeable issues with noise, especially in low-light conditions

No 4K@60fps or 1080p@60fps video capture
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] emilrune:
EDIT: re. review quote below - see post above for the link and further info :)

Echoing several of the other early online reviews. Amazing hardware and engineering, let down by an (by Western standards) obnoxious OS and interface. I continue to be of two minds...
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] paatha13:
Yes unfortunately I knew from beginning before read all those reviews that Funtouch OS will be the No1 issue with Vivo.

Especially for western standards.

This heavily ios inspiration skin is totally frustrating.

Fortunately I'm familiar with the very closely to Vivo OS MIUI skin from Xiaomi and with third party launcher and some tips I can deal with it.

I really appreciate that Vivo offers gesture navigation and on screen and off screen gesture as Oxygen does.

But again i wish Vivo followed more stock experience like for example Oxygen OS

Hope future software update improved a little bit total experience.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] kwongwt:
The nex should be available in Hong Kong in July. It would have an international ROM.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] paatha13:
If international rom meaning more closed to stock UI it's very welcome.

Otherwise if it is only few bloatware app less than Chinese rom and few more western language support doesn't make any different to Chinese.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] kwongwt:
I am not sure about this. I didn't make it. :D

But I am quite sure that the UI will be the same, with full English menu and Google preinstalled.
[Vivo Nex Guides, News, & Discussion] paatha13:
Yea that's will be eventually the only differences between 2 version at the end and nothing more special.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] DoR3M3:
I'm trying to install the f-droid privileged extension OTA zip, but after flashing it in TWRP, when I open F-Droid, the 'Expert mode' in the settings doesn't show it.

Steps I took....

1. Installed the FDroid.apk downloaded from https://f-droid.org/en/

2. Booted into TWRP and flashed the org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ota_2070 downloaded from here;

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ota/

Here's the actual path to the OTA zip;

https://f-droid.org/repo/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ota_2070.zip

Rebooted back into ROM, which by the way is AOSiP 5.6, started F-Droid for the first time, went to settings, Expert Mode, and nothing... :(

So here the developer puts out the OTA zip to flash in TWRP, it's mentioned here;

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/privileged-extension/

Then it's not working, or I'm missing something? Does anyone know how to do this manually? When I look at the site for the OTA it says this, Fixed OTA ZIP for Android 8.0 Oreo, and the custom roms is Oreo 8.1.0, so maybe this isn't supported?

I know there is Magisk Module and NanoDroid for F-Droid, but for now, I'd like to figure out why this OTA zip is not working?

Also can anyone explain, what the Pros & Cons are of installing manually VS using NanoDroid-Fdroid or Magisk?
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] apexashwin:
Install fdroid priv extension from magisk
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] DoR3M3:
I already know about using NanoDroid-Fdroid or Magisk, I'm just trying to figure out why this won't work manually.

It seems now after looking at this, the DEV hasn't updated this for Oreo 8.1.0 that the custom roms are using, so I'm working on it...
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] apexashwin:
:p
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] DoR3M3:
LOL, you always give me a funny face... ;)

Anyhow, as I was looking around I found a issue on the Mi A1 that the developer is working on, in case you'd like to follow it, or anyone else interested in this for the Mi A1.

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/privileged-extension/issues/43
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] apexashwin:
Never used it but yea I'll check it out for sure cuz I've been hearing about fdroid alot
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] DoR3M3:
Well, it's the App to use, there's also YalpStore.

This is about MicroG/FakeGapps, using a rom with No Gapps, no Google Play Store, etc...

It's taken me a little time, but I've figured out how to do a nice clean Custom Rom install with NoGapps, and use MicroG.
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] apexashwin:
I really wanna use my phone Google free but iam afraid cuz most apps i use check for licence and it requires Google play. . wish i can do something about this
[Xiaomi Mi A1 Questions & Answers] Mati2tysiace:
Hi guys. I have some problem with my a1. Generally it is a great phone., but after first attempt of rooting with magisk

(i think that was that moment) some apps stopped working properly. After this i returned few times on stock rom (april), install RR rom (btw i love it), and still apps like GCAM, nova launcher, PUBG, gallery from RR has stopped work.

Sometimes games like fallout shelter and PUBG work if I wait long enough. But if i lock my screen during waiting for app to start, its all black and its works with delay. Once, after installing RR rom and Franco kernel all works properly for few days, but after first rebooting, apps still didnt work.

I dont know what to tell you more so ask me and please help ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] klepto:
Sleep mode screws up programs, some times it even turns off the sound by mistake. I have turned it off for the time being, is there anything else that better than sleep mode that I can use?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cuboosh:
hmm i have no issues with sleep mode here.. what rom u using..
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] the_passenger:
uncheck "Turn off device if not used for"

if you dont know where it is, search for it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] klepto:
I am using the default at&t tilt rom.

I have turned off the sleep function, hopefully the battery won't drain

too much.

Thanks for the help
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] nufsaid:
If I was having that much trouble out of sleep mode I would reflash and cross my fingers.
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] Achillias:
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding lately about the Vivo Nex and the possibility to use a third party launcher on this phone.

Currently it's not possible, except when you have a Chinese phone number to create an Vivo account.

I'm just wondering for myself (interested in buying it) how can we users still unlock this phone. Maybe a central topic with tips would be a good idea for this community.
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] KOLIOSIS:
Got mine this afternoon,spent very little time w/it,just enough to get Google installed:

You can use Nova,but,you can't make it the default launcher,I tried in the settings,it will not allow for the stock launcher to be replaced,relegated to non-default status,w/o logging in to a Vivo account.

Until that is bypassed,or,you create a Vivo account,it's easy enough to place a shortcut to Nova wherever you want on the Vivo desktop & it'll take you to Nova desktop.

It's one extra step/tap vs a normal default launcher selection,but,not as big a deal as it's being made out to be..................

EDIT:

[MENTION=9264509]Achillias[/MENTION]

I was able to get another launcher to stick as the default,using a "Public" VIVO Account,provided by VIVO Support:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76958313&postcount=42
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] ibreukers:
Just a heads-up, I bought my Nex in Shenzhen a few days back. Didn't fiddle around with it much yet either but what I do know now is that having a Vivo account (used a friend's Chinese cellphone number) does not let you fully use 3rd party launchers.

Downloaded Nova from Google Play Store, ADW from VIVO's own App Store and BB Launcher just to experiment. As soon as you set another launcher as default in settings menu (Settings - More Settings - Apps - Default App Settings) it will warn you it may destabilize your phone to switch launcher. You can however still confirm.

Press the navigation bar Home soft key however, and you're back in VIVO's own FuntouchOS launcher and in default settings menu reset it to FuntouchOS aswell.

To me placing a link on the home screen to another launcher is not a solution or suitable workaround. I simply press 'home' too often.

So unless there is some other Vivo account I haven't figured out yet given all the lack of possibility to change from Chinese to anything else in the Vivo app store, this is not the solution.

Love to hear anyone's thoughts and ideas on the matter!
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] KOLIOSIS:
One other thing regarding 3rd party apps, App stores:

I was able to side-load Amazon app store, but, couldn't install any apps from it, getting the same roadblock (need a VIVO account).

EDIT:

[MENTION=6060549]monoke[/MENTION] [MENTION=2772746]ibreukers[/MENTION]

The Amazon App Store works as usual,once you get a VIVO account set-up:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76958313&postcount=42
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] monoke:
Had a feeling this Vivo account nonsense would be restrictive for certain apps as well besides launchers. What other side loaded apks from the Web has anybody tried? Any issues with those?

This is pretty much an oversized Chinese iphone if they restrict those too.
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] KOLIOSIS:
Yeah, I try out a lot of phones & this is my 2nd consecutive one w/o Google natively installed, the other being the Xiaomi Black Shark.

However, I had no issues installing apps from any source with that one.

This will be the last such phone for a while, I've had my fill with the nonsense already.

Great hardware,BUT the software & U/I is atrocious, reminiscent of COLOR O/S from back in the OPPO FIND 7 days.....

Perhaps things will be better once I get a Chinese SIM & unlock some of these permissions, but, until then, I recommend anyone considering this phone to hang on to your money until more is known in regards to working around the 3rd party app restrictions.

EDIT:

Getting a VIVO Account set up w/a Chinese phone number,or,a public Vivo Account (contact VIVO Support) will allow for default launcher to be changed & more ease of apps to be installed outside of the Vivo store:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76958313&postcount=42
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] emilrune:
Jesus what a mess:rolleyes:
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] ibreukers:
My mistake!! I wasn't paying enough attention obviously and I succeeded in installing a 3rd party launcher (Nova)!

So here's the order of things that in the end worked for me:

1. Set up Vivo account (no way around that I'm afraid)

2. Settings - More Settings - Applications - Set default apps - Home Screen and then set the launcher of choice and confirm

Then the settings I failed to locate before

3. Go back to Settings - More Settings and select Security and under menu item Device Management select in both 'Device manager' aswell as 'Replace the System Launcher' the launcher of your choice and confirm.

4. Once that is set and confirmed you are back in the Settings - More Settings menu and from there on out I longpressed the On-Off button and rebooted.

Voilà ! All good to go and ready to make full use of this awesome phone!
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] Achillias:
Your name suggests that you are Dutch by any chance?
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] ibreukers:
Yes that's correct ?
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] KOLIOSIS:
Found a work-around to get apps from the Amazon App Store to install:

1) Download the Amazon App Store App with Chrome.

2) Set up/sign in to the Amazon App Store.

3) From another device, also log in to the Amazon App Store, download the apps you want to use on the NEX.

4) On the 2nd device, use an APK Extractor app & upload to Google Drive, then, open the Google Drive app on the NEX, d/l from Google Drive

PROFIT!

EDIT:

Side-loading Google Dialer crashes the Funtouch O/S Launcher,stuck on the lockscreen,until you swipe-up to access settings & uninstall Google Dialer. :(

EDIT #2 :

[MENTION=7619677]paatha13[/MENTION] [MENTION=2772746]ibreukers[/MENTION]

Once you are able to change the default launcher to anything but the stock FunTouch Launcher,the (system) launcher crashing is moot,3rd party launchers are unaffected by installing the Google Dialer.

However,there is no setting (AFAICT) to change the default dialer app,so,at least for now,incoming calls will go to the stock dialer,but,outgoing calls,the Google Dialer works just fine.
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] DrG0nz0:
THIS!! :good:

I managed to do the same in mine and it works. When in step 3. "replace the system launcher", after login in into VIVO account uncheck "tap the home button to lock the system home screen" and it's good to go! Thanks man
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] MixEvo:
I just contacted Vivo on Facebook and they gave me a account,it took a few tries but it worked and I'm using Nova and it's fantastic
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] Achillias:
Wtf? How have you done it.
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] paatha13:
Can you please be more specific ?

What exactry did you ask for ?

Something like this

"hey i've recently purchaced a Vivo Nex S phone can you provide me an account to activate so replace stock launcher with third one"

And how exactly activate the Vivo account?

Did you provide them your full name,address and telephone number.

Since activating requires chinece number how did you do the activation.

Give same details to clarify the situasion.

Edit: Just ask them too and i'm waiting their response.

Welcome to FunTouch OS.:D

Well as i understand it's even more complicated and worst user experience than my familiar MIUI that also had many glitches but always found some kind of workaround to resolve many issue but Vivo own skin seems worst.
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] mahst68:
Sent a request to both vivo.com/en & vivo.com.cn via messenger and posted on vivo.com.cn page. Will report results if I get a response...

If anyone else is successful, please outline for everyone the step by step procedure you did, who you contacted or emailed, etc. - this might be the solution we all need!! :highfive:
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] paatha13:
Well who would imagine we would get to the point of contacting OEM manufacture to simple asking their permision to raplace stock launcher with third one:laugh::laugh:

Well done Vivo you really know how surprising people all around the world:D:cyclops:
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] MixEvo:
I just asked them if I could create a account through them since I'm in the US and don't have a CN #,and they gave me a "public" account to log in to they mainly just said don't save anything to the vivo cloud,or change anything. Which I thought was cool of them
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] KOLIOSIS:
Regarding setting up a VIVO Account,did you use a pre-paid SIM & if so,was it voice & data/voice only/data only?

If you did use a pre-paid SIM,could you list which one you bought & where you purchased it from?

I don't mind too much having to take this step & getting a SIM/China phone number,odd as it may be,the price of admission venturing into uncharted waters,I suppose.............

One other thing I'm curious about (just thinking out loud):

I wonder if this registering a VIVO account sticks after a factory reset/bootloader unlock,akin to a SIM Unlock?
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] Achillias:
Guys it's true Vivo do help you with a public account! I just got one. So it seems that if you contact them and don't screw it up by changing the password you will be able to use this phone at it's full potential.

So the issue actually got fixed by it's self.
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] KOLIOSIS:
Got the link for the contact information?
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] Achillias:
Talk to them on FB or email.
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] MixEvo:
Just message them on Facebook, they were extremely friendly and helpful
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] KOLIOSIS:
Just shot 'em an email via the English site support/contact..... How long was it before they got back to you?
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] Achillias:
Within an hour of 2.
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] paatha13:
You can try this services also.

https://www.loyomobile.com/

You just need to sent them your passport so activate the SIM card to your name and then shipping to you.

Activation in required to work international roaming.

As for your last question well someone already activate Vivo account should perform hard reset and setup device from beginning and see if could use the same account by just log in and having access third party launcher.

It’s only way figure out what happened.

I haven’t got any response since yesterday late afternoon.

I’ve contacted via Facebook page and through email too.

Could you give us the account since it’s the same to everyone?

Even via pm and not publicly.
[Vivo Nex Questions & Answers] Step666:
So, next question.

Do we just need to log into the Vivo account, disable a couple of settings then we can remove the account?

Or do we need to stay logged in to be able to keep using 3rd party launchers properly?

Because if it's the latter, I think I'd prefer having my own account instead of using a public one.