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[General Questions and Answers] Libra420T:
hey using activity launcher for RCS, I noticed I can select engineer mode. I then selected band mode which then ask Sim 1 or 2. I noticed with Sim 2 that some bands (gsm and wcdma) were not turned on when they should be. Also 4x4 mino is off by default. I switched it on and literally doubled my data download and upload. All of this is a FYI. also I did a bunch of other tweaking with different settings. considering setting menu itself does not offer these types of option. big fan of activity launcher. and yes of course I got RCS to work.

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one more thing

Has anyone figured out a way to force dark ui in settings without root, or roms?
[General Questions and Answers] tekweezle:
To look at some other settings that might be helpful, go to the phone dialer app and dial *#*#4636#*#*

This will get you to the phone information menu
[General Questions and Answers] Libra420T:
nodoubt definitely more detail in engineering mode, but still sweet. did u check mobile bands? I was talking about. go give it a look

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I can't believe Sim 2's bands weren't all on?...

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all gsm and wcdma is on. but LTE I only use band 2,4,5,12,17,66,71. I turned all other bands off. and again made my speeds a little faster. I'm assuming less consumption, but not totally sure....
[General Questions and Answers] tekweezle:
Does the Umidigi have bands 66 and 71? Any way for you to verify that?

That would be big news to some people. Band 66/71 phones for T-mobile are not very common yet.
[General Questions and Answers] Libra420T:
nope 66 71 are my bad I was dreaming of my future F2 :laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] tekweezle:
Just an FYI, I had my phone running with 2 Sims. 1 on Verizon and 2nd on AT&T. The issues I would have is that coming out of deep sleep/power save/mobile data disconnected for long time, my phone would either

Default to first alphabetical choice among apn selections, preferred network would default back to global instead of LTE only(needed for Verizon for some reason). *#*#4636# #* would only let me modify the preferred network on Sim1. Usually a reboot fixed everything.

Since then, have been running with just the Verizon sim in slot 1, no issues in a while.
[General Questions and Answers] Libra420T:
Does anyone know how to force flash light to work? its disabled at 15% and below, which is stupid!
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
I asked this a while back, it's an Android restriction apparently. Totally agree tho, I need a workaround too
[General Questions and Answers] Libra420T:
hey messages updated and my RCS is no longer working and the activity launcher trick is no longer working...? yes I followed the steps as directed but no luck...? anyone else experiencing this?
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Anyone have issues with auto updates on Play Store?
[General Questions and Answers] KingKRoBot:
Hmm I have issues by sliding notifications. It acts like long pressing on it.
[General Questions and Answers] adamiscoolization:
Yep had it since I got the phone, looked for solutions online before to no avail, tell us here if you fixed it.

It's like checking the fridge, now I just check for updates habitually every day :)

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Nope I also wanted this but what I've tried hasn't worked. You got it done?

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I assume you got it working again, but no I haven't had that problem, but RCS does crash in the background when I'm not using it. When I'm using it I've had no problems.
[General Questions and Answers] krouri:
I am getting google play updates regularly.
[General Questions and Answers] tekweezle:
Just FYI

I recently moved my phone service from page plus to red pocket CDMAV. Everything works with default apn now.

I can use vzwinternet instead of tracfone.vzwentp.

Don't have to do *#*#4636#*#* to change preferred network to lte only. Currently set to lte/cdma/umts so phone steps down to cdma/non HD voice if I am in a low service area.
[General Questions and Answers] mrjahvi:
What drivers did u use?
[General Questions and Answers] gargamelxda:
Very long time That I havent the phone. I think that I found it at NeedRom but I am not sure. You can search last MTK drivers at web

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[General Questions and Answers] KingKRoBot:
No updates anymore?

Is this phone almost perfect
[General Questions and Answers] Libra420T:
Yes for the specs and price only. but no more software or security updates.
[General Questions and Answers] KingKRoBot:
I think i will stop using this phone if my banking apps wont work anymore. ?
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
No updates. It's far from perfect. Fingerprint reader is flakey, banking apps dont work, support is non-existant, camera is broken on many devices (doesnt focus properly after a while)

I'm still using it but just got my wife a Redmi Note 8T - that phone is far more nearly perfect than this on imho and on par pricewise
[General Questions and Answers] Libra420T:
see it's completely different for me. I have no issues with banking apps, fingerprint works fine, camera focus is fine. Remember it's a $180 phone. I for one moved on to OP7T. but for $180 it's a good phone....
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
I disagree - the Redmi 8T is a $180 phone but is QA'd significantly better. I wont buy am Umidigi again.

It seemed a good deal, it was for a bit, but it's lifespan is far less than any other phone i've had
[General Questions and Answers] tekweezle:
There's always a possibility that you will receive a lemon when dealing with imported electronics. Best to buy on a site with a good return policy like Amazon, test the hell out of it and return it if within the 30-60 day window if unsatisfied .

My S3 Pro has been pretty good overall, battery life has remained good. Some quirky behavior like time zone needs to be set to gps and automatic time zone disabled or battery life drops like a rock.

Other 2 umidigi phones in my care, a F1 and F1 Play have had minor issues but still working. The core benefit of having 2 day plus battery life is still there.
[General Questions and Answers] Kangburra:
On the Umidigi forums there are lots of people with the same problems, so either there is a problem with the phone or their testing, either way they are shipping defective products. I will never buy another Umidigi product and I actively discourage people from doing so every chance I get.
[General Questions and Answers] Boomyz:
Hi! All,

I got a Umidigi Play F1 and when I go to the front camera the flash Icon disappears and I cant get the screen to light up when taking selfies at night. From youtube clips the camera app is way different now and was there on the previous version, seems a bit dumbed down now that the original one..

Its on V1.0_20190709 EU version update, yet there is further updates but one OTA update to them ?
[General Questions and Answers] tekweezle:
On my S3_Pro, the flash icon also disappeared when I put the camera into selfie mode. Must be a feature....

Last OTA update for the F1, F1 Play and the S3_Pro was about September 2019. Sadly I don't expect anything further.
[General Questions and Answers] Boomyz:
Yeah its weird. I can see later updates on the Umidigi site but you cant download them OTA and cant do it manually the menu's on a hard reset are all in chinese. GGRRR very frustrating.
[General Questions and Answers] tekweezle:
Do you have a link to these updates? I can't seem to find them on the community site(no surprise there).

Then again some of the updates might not be for your exact phone so it would be dangerous to install.
[General Questions and Answers] Boomyz:
I cant post links as I dont have enough posts/replies so if you search google with the below the first link will take you to where the updates are

UMIDIGI F1 PLAY FORUM

UMIDIGI F1 Play (EU) V1.0_20190903 ROM - SPFT + OTA release - Dont get this update OTA

UMIDIGI F1 Play V1.0_20190903 ROM - SPFT + OTA release

UMIDIGI F1 Play (EU) V1.0_20190726 ROM - SPFT + OTA release - Mine is on this update

UMIDIGI F1 Play V1.0_20190726 ROM - SPFT + OTA release

+Loads of other updates
[General Questions and Answers] tekweezle:
No worries, up to date on all 3 umidigi phones in my control. Not expecting anything further at this point.

Too bad that these phones have been orphaned by the manufacturer. The hardware in my opinion is very good.
[General Questions and Answers] KingKRoBot:
Bye Bye Umidigi ? Hello Realme 6.
[General Questions and Answers] mantarkus:
I'm still using my F1 and I'm very happy with it. For less than $200 I don't need all the bells and whistles, besides I can install Magisk and EdXposed and treble ROMs to add more features. But best of all for the price and quality, it has the bands I need, something missing in other similar priced phones.
[General Questions and Answers] Kangburra:
I have stuck with the Bliss 11 ROM and it's made it a good phone, no glitches like the stock ROM and the battery is still great. It's the support and software they need to work on, the actual phone is great.
[General Questions and Answers] kallum7:
Hi All I have a umidigi s3 pro and I have dropped it and smashed the screen would anybody know if i orderd a f1 screen would it fit on the s3 pro because the s3 pro screens are expensive and the f1 screens are not. and the f1 and s3 pro are pretty much the exact same phone
[General Questions and Answers] tekweezle:
My S3_Pro suffered a mishap as well. I ordered a screen and frame combo assembly from China for about 76$. Taking a while to get here, hopefully I will be successful in replacing it.

I hope the instructions for opening the unit is the same as the F1, I could only find videos about it on YouTube. Basically take a heat gun and pry off the cover from the back.
[General Questions and Answers] kallum7:
Will you let me know if it works
[General Questions and Answers] Libra420T:
I can not seem to get this phone unlocked.

I tried the adb commands "adb reboot Bootloader" but that brings my to a screen with nothing on it except bottom left corner saying (fastboot mode). unlock commands don't work. Y is this, someone please help
[General Questions and Answers] redvern:
yeah with a vernee mix2(helio p23) I was able to use maui meta without even rooting the phone. it was very easy.

So do you think without rooting the phone and flashing it with a rom maui meta won't work?
[General Questions and Answers] redvern:
you should be able to turn this on and off in settings. if not I might suspect that this phone doesn't have a proximity sensor.
[General Questions and Answers] gargamelxda:
I have a little experience with Mtk phones.... I dont know. Sorry.

With this phone I have flashed complete stock rom with flashtools with the bootloader unlocked and the process LOCK the bootloader and restart it with the google assistant... like the first time with the bootloader locked. I have tried to flash the complete rom except recovery.img changed to twrp.img and then restart phone in twrp, format data, install magisk 17.3 and no verity. Then when restart to system the bootloader is unlocked and the system prerooted :) After first initial setup install magisk 6.x apk and the phone is rooted¡¡¡
[General Questions and Answers] jimberkas:
does seem to be a proximity sensor problem on this phone. i see the option to calibrate it, but not turn it on or off. calibration fails every time

edit: proximity sensor seems to be working now. calibration said it failed but after reboot, it does seem to be working correctly.
[General Questions and Answers] redvern:
how bad is the camera? I've seen selfies with purple lips :) can it be solved in an update? though my experience with these small chinese phone manufacturers is that they usually don't fix anything later on.
[General Questions and Answers] jimberkas:
I'm no camera expert, really never expected much from a phone camera. but I'd call it a bit below average. I currently have LG V30+, Essential PH-1, Huawei Mate SE, and the F1 and it definitely finishes last in the camera department. Seems to struggle with the focus and fairly often the results are pretty over saturated colors, about what I expected. Many reviews seem to think this could be fixed with software updates, but I'm not expecting much in the way of future updates!
[General Questions and Answers] Veiran:
Any one try to install Generic System Images (GSIs)? This is device supports Treble, so it's conceivable, I think.

I did try, though, and ran into problems via the device's apparent encryption. It's stopped me from doing practically anything aside from unlocking the bootloader and rooting.
[General Questions and Answers] dubt17:
Have you rooted and used the dm-verty decrypt?

Wanted to know as well!
[General Questions and Answers] Veiran:
Yes. I have root.

I guess to be more specific, my problem is that TWRP (3.2.3-0 by Ghost45) doesn't recognize storage as having a usable partition. When it asks for a partition to flash image, I only see nvram, Boot, and Recovery. I do not have any proper zips to use instead; they're all invalid formats or something.

I've also tried using the fastboot flash methods and they haven't worked.
[General Questions and Answers] DevSquad:
:eek:

That's a sick battery...however it seems a bit weird it thinks it has over 10,000mah haha

Thanks for the screenshot! Would love to see some more in a few days if oyu can!
[General Questions and Answers] tommyl1:
Hi, do you know how to add battery % next to the battery icon in the bar? There is no option in the Android 9.0 ( F1 has pure android, I think - no adds). % is visible only during charging and locked screen.

- and the other issue: GPS location icon is not displayed on the bar. Disappear after 5-10 second.

Battery is outstanding. I have Action Launcher but stil no way to customize a lot (like bar icon color like in miui).
[General Questions and Answers] tommyl1:
Edit: sorry no option to edit previous post:

- GPS icon is displayed only during navigation. Otherwise system remove it form the bar even if is working... (close navigation, drag bar and you see green GPS icon)

At this moment the camera is one big disaster.

- selfie is to bright. Open Camera apps form store help a lot.

- recorded movies are displayed with big noise like with some filter.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Agree. Camera is terrible. They're apparently working on a fix

Not finding issue with videos or selfie tho. Only blue on rear
[General Questions and Answers] Veiran:
It does not have Pure Android; it's slightly modified. Some options taken out and some added in.
[General Questions and Answers] tommyl1:
Can you give some examples?

About GPS location icon is not displayed on the bar: GPS icon is displayed only during navigation. Otherwise system remove it from the bar even if location is working... (to see it please close navigation, drag bar and you see green GPS icon on green but no ican in the bar)

About issue with recorded movies displayed with big noise - this is caused by MiraVision. I put own settings and this is why all recorded movies have been played in low quality. Once I turn on default option, movies looks fine. Strange...

Selfie are much better in other apps like Open Camera or Footej Camera. Original soft makes to bright fotos.

I copied this to Umidigi forum to alert developers.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Update on the battery, still running at double capacity somehow!

Camera still crappy, hoping for an update soon

Otherwise I'm very happy with this phone!
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Just got a system update. First test and it seems to have fixed the camera
[General Questions and Answers] jimberkas:
no way! i just checked about 8 hours ago. Been hoping for some camera improvements. Thanks for the update.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
I'm tentatively saying that. I've only taken 3 pics in slightly different conditions to where I was really seeing the issues
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Colossal fail in the new update - can't multitask with Nova launcher, Quickstep crashes.

Works fine with stock launcher
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Just confirmed issue with action launcher and apex launcher too, so definitely an issue with the new update

Edit, something else I've noticed is that the icons in the notification bar are much miss you squashed together on the left hand side now, and on the right hand side the icons are much more unevenly spaced

Far more livable with than not being able to switch apps
[General Questions and Answers] KingKRoBot:
I wont root my phone but there are some issues like launcher issue or task manager issue.

Some people has red text above on right site after flashing update.

Is it possible to root my phone whitout destroying fota function?
[General Questions and Answers] Veiran:
The red text issue is solved for me. Bencebacsi (the community manager as far as I can tell) posted this: https://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=18634
[General Questions and Answers] nmset:
I could only extract the kernel from the boot.img file, which doesn't seem to contain any initramfs. Does any one know how this phone boots ? Where can the initramfs be located ?
[General Questions and Answers] Kaiser8802:
Hi. Followed the short tutorial on rooting (Thanks for it) but when I try flashing recovery I get the "invalid preloader" error. I updated via OTA 03/01/2019, build version still says UMIDIGI_F1_v1.0_20190124. Is it posible that the old scatter file does not match after OTA update? If so can any one share or leave links? I cant download using the umidigi comunity links

BTW: Love the phone so far. Need root to use AFWall+ to limit APPs from using mobile data... In Cuba is a new thing and prices are still Hi

Hope the F1 gets supported here on XDA

Thanks in advance and sorry for my english and poor explaining :rolleyes:
[General Questions and Answers] gargamelxda:
You can try to flash last stock rom BUT IN FLASHTOOLS CHANGE THE RECOVERY FOR THE TWRP with firmware upgrade option. I had do it and all work fine.

Once flashed dont turn on phone. With volume up and power boot in twrp, format data and flash magisk 17.3 and no verity (you must put it in microsd previously). Then reboot to system and after first configuration install magisk apk 6.x.x.x

You must have the phone clean and rooted.

I dont have yet the phone. I have sold it but this method work for me last time.

Yo will tell me.

Soy español si te es más fácil [emoji6]

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[General Questions and Answers] MagicianPe:
Button edge light dispersion and non uniform backlight

I bought my F1 in dx.com. It arrived last week. In general, the Umidigi F1 is responsive and fast. I'm happy with the F1, but the screen and the camera. The camera is a little below the average for his price range, I hope that this can be fixed by software. The screen is dim and the backlight is not uniform, there is a luminous smudge at the lower border near to the back soft button.
[General Questions and Answers] jimberkas:
so just got around to trying the hotspot and it doesn't work. it connects but says no internet. anyone else having this problem?
[General Questions and Answers] Veiran:
All you need to do to get past that preloader error is include the preloader bin file from the stock ROM. Go to the Umidigi website and check out the forums to get that; I can get ahold of the link if you need it.

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No. Just turned it on and my other phone was able to connect and load facebook feeds no problems. Are you sure your service supports hot spots?

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I've actually managed to solve the problem by removing the Quickstep launcher via root. A couple of things, though. First, upon doing this I was confronted with a never-ending stream of error messages before I rebooted. The reboot cleared it up and I don't see any more of these. Second, the app switcher is now back to one from an older version of Android; it's vertical and pseudo 3D cards.

This does allow me to use Microsoft Launcher (set to always) to multitask without getting that annoying error message that Quickstep has crashed.

EDIT: Adding some screens:

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AsqLR2yZd3fMiO9GKQIRNhiplqVcNA
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Nice one.

They're apparently working on a fix which they plan to roll out soon, so will hold on for that, as not quite ready to root!
[General Questions and Answers] CentralVAHere:
Try this app: "Battery Indicator Free" from Diezgames. It is ad free and does just that, puts a nice graphic of battery percentage on the bar.
[General Questions and Answers] Crowland:
This work much better for me for showing the battery % and other hidden features in pie. If anyone can find dark mode please post your finding.

Download QuickShortCutMaker from Google play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sika524.android.quickshortcut

In the search bar (in the app) type in "Demo Mode"

Click on the "System UI" option

Click on the "System UI demo mode" option that appears after clicking on "System UI"

Click the "Try" button

There you go, you can now access the system UI tuner again, without having to install nova launcher
[General Questions and Answers] bauness:
i have no access to duraspeed, it's empty.. anyone changed the resolution without root, i'm trying to do it installed adb driver but it doesnt work..why on adroid 9 you cant change resolution? so far i don't really like the phone..but the battery is huge yes..
[General Questions and Answers] :
The phone definitely has a proximity sensor, it just occasionally fails to initialize. Reboot the phone and it should start working as expected.
[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
I have had the umidigi for 24hours and found the multi task in 3rd party launcher does not work but not that bothered. Battery life is good so far. Camera isnt that bad for a £180 phone. Finger print scanner is not that good but works 60% the gesture based is ok but when on keyboard its easy to hit or swipe and go to home screen. Coming from iphone x and huawei p20 pro this is 5th of price but 90% as good.
[General Questions and Answers] GOONER13:
Apparently there's an update coming in the next few days to fix the multi task error.
[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
Ahhh thats good then. Also noticed when got the slippery gestures on, while typing if you slightly slide on a key it will send you to home screen. But i like buttons anyway.
[General Questions and Answers] Bunjit:
Yup, verified. Pretty much renders the gestures useless, constantly reads a swipe to home. They just need to reduce the capture area to 1px, like OnePlus gestures on the play store (worth a try)

It has a great screen and good battery life, but there are too many niggles right now to say I'm happy with this phone:

- camera - can be Washed out, too blue , you have to have great conditions even then its iffy, no panorama or slow Mo, weird purple glitch with video, dodgy bokeh, creates random low Res versions in G-photos.

- no custom launchers work due to multitask error

- GPS points in the wrong direction most the time

- no pie pill gestures and sloppy gestures isn't usable

- when earphones and power connected I get interference - bad for gaming

- sound in general, earpiece and speaker - just about acceptable, but both sound distorted to me

- dodgy touch screen in places, ie small corner button in game need a few touches

- glitches when deleting photos

- some light bleed at bottom right

- I've had a few crashes playing pubg

I have to keep reminding myself it's a £190 phone

But I'm coming from an Asus ZenFone 5, £50 more, but it felt a lot more premium. Fingers crossed updates fix some of the above, but I'm not holding my breath.