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[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
I have no issues with camera at all.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Camera is fixed in the latest update here. It's actually very good imho now (at this price point)
[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
Yeah its not too bad. My problem is with multi tasking and low brightness. Finger print scanner is a bit crap but for £180 cant complain
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Multi tasking yes, low brightness I'm getting totally the opposite - I can't get brightness to go low, low brightness is medium for me

Finger print is as good as any finger print I've seen (which isn't great)
[General Questions and Answers] ShortsYoungster:
Where did you find this out?
[General Questions and Answers] GOONER13:
Asked them on Facebook, should be this week.
[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
I have just asked Umidigi on facebook and they have no idea about update
[General Questions and Answers] Bunjit:
Yeah, nothing on the umidigi community forum either. Not being able to use nova is a nightmare.

I'm now getting major bugs with photos.

- photos all pixelated and duplicated

- synching with Google photos messed up

- Images won't attach / send via wassap

Any ideas?

https://pasteboard.co/I5htvOO.png
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
I hear you about not being able to use Nova.

Waiting paitently for this update - i really hope it's incoming
[General Questions and Answers] GOONER13:
Took this from an Umidigi forum, it works

:As for quickstep issue, all you guys have to do is to remove the package and it'll work flawlessly, even with custom launchers(I'm using Nova).

This is only temporarily until you factory reset OR OTA update the device.

1) Download minimal adb fastboot package from here: https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=962187416754459552

2) Go to Settings > System > About Phone and tap on "build number" about 8 times. You should see a message saying: "You are a developer now"

3) Back to the previous menu and you should see now a new item called "Developer options", go there, find and enable "USB debugging".

4) Now connect the phone to the PC via USB and select "Transfer files" on the phone.

5) Open a command line and go to the directory you extracted the adb tools to.

6) Run the command "adb devices", your device should shown. If not, you need to check the drivers.

7) Run "adb shell"

8) Run "pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.launcher3". It should show "success".

9) Reboot the device and you will be able to multitask until either factory reset OR update.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
AMAZING, thank you.

Nb for others - it goes back to the old, pre-pie way of task switching (big long vertical list), but tbh, i'm happy with just being able to use Nova without a crash right now
[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
yes this worked for me too. fantastic
[General Questions and Answers] springerdingding:
Thank you so much, good to have multi tasking back!

I was getting worried about this phone but at the price it's great. Since the update a couple of weeks ago, I've now got engineering mode available which has helped to tweak the call volume up a little (not massively) and now have multitasking back, thanks again

I was also finding certain apps like 'Dual Sim Selector' would need reseting but have sinced turned off 'Duraspeed', 'Battery Manager' and 'Battery Saver'. One of them was killing it becasue it works now but I haven't bothered to work out which because the battery is so good anyway
[General Questions and Answers] GOG_Equipment:
Hello, i got this F1 from ebay and some crappy accident came to me.

i install addtional memory card + 1 simcard. All work and read perfectly.

the problem is simcard tray can't eject ...i;ve try many way to make it out, but it stuck.

i worried to using any other pin simcard can effect to lcd or other part.

any one could give any suggestion. should i dissamble it ???

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
It is quite deep. I would carefully use a pin
[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
Had this from Umidigi this morning
[General Questions and Answers] Crowland:
I use Google camera 5.1

https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/MGC_5.1.018_FinalMod_v4.apk
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Awesome, thanks for the link - seems to work a treat!
[General Questions and Answers] ShortsYoungster:
Has there been any update on newer Magisk versions, or flashing GSIs? The forum is super hard to navigate.
[General Questions and Answers] GOONER13:
Update!
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
So... new update and I don't seem to have Quickstep back... any ideas how to revert it? I'd quite like to get back to the new sideways multitasking now it's fixed...
[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
Just had update too. Im keeping Nova as its better
[General Questions and Answers] Kaiser8802:
Hi and sorry for bothering.

I already have mi Umidigi F1 all set up and rooted. Whats the best way tu update to V1.0_20190316??

Download ROM and flash every partition? Every partition except recovery? or just flashing the UMIDIGI_F1_V1.0_20190124_20190316-1508_update.zip will do it? Will I lose my Data? Ive had bad experiences the minute I try to restore from Nandroid backups so I dont rely on them.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Keeping Nova too, but you lose some features without quickstep installed (even if you're not using it) such as new sideways task switcher

Not the end of the world but since it's working now would be nice to have it back
[General Questions and Answers] kimi280396:
For everyone who deleted quickstep app use adb and enter the following commands:

adb devices

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.android.launcher3

reboot

Done, everything works great :)
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
legend!

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
For some reasons i keep getting random vibrations like a message or notification etc but nothing there. I can be using it or not. Very strange
[General Questions and Answers] Craigmri:
Guys, in a time crunch to buy a new phone. I want something high end without spending $1000 and stumbled on the Umidigi S3 Pro Ceramic.....Sony Cameras, memory galore, Battery etc....For $279 seems like an amazing phone. Am I better off spending more and getting a name brand?

Craig
[General Questions and Answers] OC-Freak:
My main issue with umi is updates. After 3-4 months you will most likely not get more updates. So going with something like xiaomi is safer in the long run for security updates. Having that said I've ordered the s3 pro myself since I'm interested in seeing what umi has to offer. I will also order redmi note 7 pro when it is released in global version, only drawback is the missing NFC support.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Since the latest update I'm really happy with my F1 but I do miss the clean Android of my MiA1 and regular updates

I do wonder if there are work arounds should that happen in future, guess not other than rooting?
[General Questions and Answers] dimitar.petrunov:
Does anyone.know if it is possible to use latrst magisk for rooting?
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
There is a serious issue with the Umidigi F1. This issue is regarding RAM management. When I switch between apps, the apps has to reload the page with one of three outcomes:

- Reload the app, go back to the same spot (very rare)

- Reload the app, go back to the top of the current page (rare)

- Reload the app, go back the main page of the app (90% of the time)

This is frustrating. I am sure that 4GB of RAM along with Stock Android could save the opened apps status in the ram. Anyone got a fix, or facing the same issue?
[General Questions and Answers] OC-Freak:
Just got an F1 to play around with, first observations:

+The screen is really good for an LCD panel.

+The phone is fast and looks amazing.

-The camera is terrible, problem focusing, taking crap shots indoors, when zooming in on images they often have a lot of small artifacts all over the images. Macro shots are about impossible to do.

-The fingerprint reader is terrible, even after adding same finger a second time it has like 50% success rate.

My second umi phone and my second disappointment (The first was umi super which was decent (beside the sub-par camera) at the time, but it died after 3 weeks).

The camera (or the app) was the real let-down, I've not had an phone taking this bad photos out of the box for several years. My daily-driver redmi note 5 pro is lightyears ahead.
[General Questions and Answers] dimitar.petrunov:
disable duraspeed in settings
[General Questions and Answers] jonezy8873:
Yep bag of ****. I have sold mine and gone back (was going to sell) Huawei p20 pro.
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
Both DuraSpeed and Battery Saver are OFF.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
I've been seeing your issue as well on a few apps. Most are fine, but Microsoft apps particularly bad
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
I have this issue in several apps like YouTube, Spotify, Whatsapp, 9Gag, Amazon, and GooglePlay store just to name a few. I can't seem to post anything on the Umidigi Forum so I've sent them an email. Someone should post this issue on their form. This completely ruins the experience for me. Might have to buy another phone if they don't fix it.
[General Questions and Answers] djvinniev77:
so I have this phone as well, and I have noticed some issues with ram management where the app needs to "refresh" rather than take you back to its original instance when you left it, kind of annoying.

You can check to see if the particular app you have has a setting under Standby Apps in developer options (4th option from the bottom)

You should see a list of your apps, all have some preset config on it as one of the following:

Active

Working_set

Frequent

Rare

I think you can tweak your app to stay Active so that it doesn't have a need to refresh when switching back to it. I look at most of the apps I use and many have WORKING_SET as the configuration. I don't see any issues with them. That may be the minimal setting to set it to.

I'd like to see if that works for you. So far, no issues with this phone for me.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
Thank you for the tip. I've tried that. All of the apps I mentioned are set to "Active", yet I still face this "refresh/reload" issue to either the same page (some times same spot other times top of the page), or go completely to the main page. Other thing (not a big issue, just a minor inconvenience) is that whenever I restart the phone, I have to reactivate "Sound Enhancement" and Gboard haptic feedback/vibration.

Other than that the phone is great and snappy and the battery is a godsend.
[General Questions and Answers] cobyman7035:
is the new F1 play version rootable? its just coming out 200$usd

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/UMI...?spm=a2g0s.13010108.99999999.9.4aeb321eWULxRy

thx
[General Questions and Answers] gazm1990:
Loving my Umidigi F1 apart from the multi-tasking. I have duraspeed and all battery management options off and it's still terrible. If I restart the phone it seems ok for a few hours but then it starts having to reload even the last app. Any solutions or is everyone having this issue?
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
I've been looking for a solution for a while but alas nothing yet. Emailed the Umidigi tech support, but I couldn't post a thread in their forum. Could you do that? Or at least update us here if you find a solution.
[General Questions and Answers] MagicianPe:
Have you Greenify installed? When I had it, I did experiment that problems. After removed it, all start working ok
[General Questions and Answers] KingKRoBot:
Hello there I have notification issues. I didnt get any notification sound on Messenger Lite. Etc...
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
Go to Settings > Apps > Messenger Lite > Notifications: make sure that they are enabled to your liking.

Then go to the app itself and make sure your notifications there are enabled as well.

If you experience latency in receiving notifications, turn off battery saver, and disable DuraSpeed. Standby intelligent power saver won't cause latency.
[General Questions and Answers] KingKRoBot:
Thank you but it doesnt fix it. After reinstalling mes. lite notification it works again.

Another contra is Android P multi Window. I can not change split screen size. On android 5 - 8.1 you can change it.
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
Resizing split screens works for me. Just make sure the apps you're using support split screen.
[General Questions and Answers] KingKRoBot:
Realy? I cant resize my split screen. For example XDA and Youtube it stays always on half I cant resize it.
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
I just tried split screen YouTube and Whatsapp. It worked, I had YouTube in the top half (50% of the screen). I could resize it to 75% of the screen or 25% by swiping up/down the split line. I'm using "Evie" launcher with the 20190316 software update.
[General Questions and Answers] KingKRoBot:
I tried with Evie launcher but wont work. Maybe because of deleted Launcher3. Do you have Android P task manager with vertical sliding or legacy task manager with landscape sliding?
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
I did not deleted Launcher3, just switched to Evie as the default launcher. I have the landscape/horizontal/left right sliding.
[General Questions and Answers] riceboyler:
As a note, there is another thread detailing how to install GSI (Project Treble) ROMs on the F1. These allow you to have pretty much everything you could want from Pie. I've personally been running on Resurrection Remix since Thursday with great success.

A couple of notes:

1. WiFi Hotspot doesn't work on any of the GSI ROMs

2. Different ROMs seem to have different strengths and weaknesses.

3. The beautiful thing about the MediaTek powered phones is that they're pretty much impossible to brick. For instance, as part of my exploration, I accidentally completely wiped the storage on my phone (no system, data,etc) and I was able to flash it back using the SP flash tool.

Another cool thing to search for is Pie Notch which makes a battery indicator or teardrop notches. It's still very early in development, but works pretty well.

I'm hoping enough people pick these up for a dedicated forum. For the money, these phones are powerhouses. All of my co-workers thought my phone was an OP 6T until I told them otherwise...
[General Questions and Answers] KingKRoBot:
I think our battery life get increased by using Lineage OS or roms like Slim OS. ?

Miui 10 would be awsome. I love their gestures.
[General Questions and Answers] riceboyler:
I just realized that I mentioned the GSI rom thread, but didn't link to it: https://xdaforums.com/android/development/psa-project-treble-t3917284?nocache=1

FWIW, these things are virtually impossible to brick thanks to the Flash Tool. I've tried 4 different GSI Roms, just to see which one I like best, and the flashing process is as smooth as silk. All of the memory issues go away in the GSI roms, because there is no DuraSpeed or hypersensitive battery management, and I'm still getting ridiculous battery life.

Note that Hotspot is still broken, but other device supporters have found a workaround: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=78468656&postcount=311
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Do banking apps still work with fingerprint if you do this?
[General Questions and Answers] leogalski:
That is awesome to know! Please keep sharing your experience with these other ROMs! :) I plan to do the same next week and look for the best one for F1. Really this is a beast of a phone for the price, and with a few OS tweaks it should run smooth and be reliable for everyday use.
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
So what is the best ROM in term of ram management/battery life/stock experience? I might install a custom rom just to escape the ram management.
[General Questions and Answers] riceboyler:
That's like asking what the best car in the world is. ;P

I've been very happy with Resurrection Remix. I'm right now at 75% battery and I've had 4.5 hours of Screen on time since charge (according to Accubattery). That doesn't include 2 hours of tethering while on the train.

I'm not saying it's the best of everything, but I really like it. :) . (That being said, I'll probably flash over to Bliss tonight because they just released a GSI, and I used to use Bliss on previous devices).
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
Haven't used custom roms in years so my experience is lacking. I've also read that BlissRom is the most favorable. I'll wait a while for an official Umidigi update, if that doesn't happen then I'm definitely switching to Bliss. Please let us know how the experience with Bliss goes.
[General Questions and Answers] riceboyler:
Flashed Bliss this morning. It's pretty! So far, battery life isn't as good as Remix, but given all the downloading of backups, that's not surprising. It does feel a tad slower than Remix, but again, that could be due to optimizations needing to happen.

I love that Gapps is included. Made life a ton easier. I'm gonna stick with it for a few days and report back.
[General Questions and Answers] riceboyler:
So, after a solid day on Bliss, I have found it to be slower, use more battery and require more restarts that Resurrection Remix. I'm gonna switch back...
[General Questions and Answers] GOONER13:
Tried RR, couldn't get any apps to work, not even Simplegapps. Been on Bliss for a few days now, not bad, seems better when I don't restore settings/apps from previous bulids.
[General Questions and Answers] Crowland:
Great work.

Please can you tell me does the dual Sims work with RR and have you tried to flashing camera2 API on any Rom ?
[General Questions and Answers] riceboyler:
I don't have dual SIMs to try as I'm one of those weird Americans who only has one carrier. :) . I have put the Camera2 API on all of these that I've tried with success, but honestly I'm finding that Open Camera does a FAR better job of using it than GCam. YMMV.
[General Questions and Answers] Crowland:
Please can you tell me did google camera night sight work ?
[General Questions and Answers] riceboyler:
Honestly, didn't even try it. I don't think we have the hardware to support that though.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
Do you have any comparison to show?

I really don't like the UI on open camera and in my usage didn't find a huge difference but if it is substantially better I'd move
[General Questions and Answers] riceboyler:
I absolutely agree the UI is worse, but GCam wouldn't even do 16MP for the rear cam, only 12MP. Open Camera did the higher resolution. Also, I'm finding that after the Camera2 API has been turned on with Open Camera (in the settings), it is MUCH quicker to focus and tends to do a far better job with light handling. GCam was taking forever to autofocus and the light balance was always way too dark for my tastes.
[General Questions and Answers] Crowland:
Thank you for your info it helps a lot any open camera setting you can recommend ?
[General Questions and Answers] riceboyler:
Glad to help where I can. I haven't tweaked Open Camera again since I switch to Bliss and I'm not by any means a photographer, so I mainly just play with stuff until I like how it looks.

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So, I found something interesting. I made a backup with the standard TWRP and then switched to the Material TWRP and couldn't restore. I switched back to the standard TWRP and it restores fine. Just something to be aware of. :)
[General Questions and Answers] monoculero:
Double tap to wake

Hello to all. I have an umidigi f1 and i want to have double tap to wake. Is it posible? Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
I haven't found a way personally
[General Questions and Answers] mlockett7:
The only way that I've been able to do this is to install an always on display app (I am using one called Always On AMOLED). You will be able to double tap to wake with the always on display on. The only downside is that these types of apps drain the battery pretty quickly :(
[General Questions and Answers] radi0chik:
YES OMG. I started a new thread about that this morning, but I was reading through this thread and saw your post. I have the same issue. It's not bad once or twice but after a while it gets annoying as heck. Have you had any fix for it?
[General Questions and Answers] monoculero:
Maybe the DuraSpeed option from Settings?

The sound during a call is too low... I hope that will be fixed in the future.
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
No legit solution yet. Your best is to reboot your phone, and then try to keep 4 apps open at a time. I've already posted on umidigi. Here's to hoping for an update.
[General Questions and Answers] radi0chik:
Nope that and all battery saver options are disabled. My in call audio seems to be a fine level.

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if it's under 4 apps does it stay open? I've been fiddling with trying to figure it out because sometimes its fine and other times it's not. But when I open a game, and then go to read a fb post, then going back to the game, it has to relaunch-reload the entire game, it REALLY drags.
[General Questions and Answers] vaderag:
I've been noticing this lately too... Getting frustrating
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
Here's my setup with Evie launcher:

DuraSpeed off. Battery saving off. Standby saving on.

In developer options:

"Don't keep activities" off

"Background process limit" standard

With this I could easily keep 4 apps open and switch between them without having to reload or refresh. I even tried apps like Spotify, YouTube, Chrome, and Google sheets. No issues even if you left your phone for hours then came back to these apps. As soon as you open a fifth or a sixth app, the memory somehow does not remember anything and has to reload every app you open. It's not a ram issue, it's software. I've had other phones with 4GB and I'd leave +10 apps open and revisit them after 5+ hours and they'd still be in the same position.
[General Questions and Answers] radi0chik:
Totally agree it's a software issue. And I can't find any option to disable this. I use waaay more than 4 apps a day. I have all the same settings you do, and am using Pie Launcher. Which also counts as one of the "apps" - limiting me to 3 I can open at a time.
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
Yeah it's aggravating, but that battery keeps me from switching phones. btw I meant 4 apps aside from your preferred launcher, provided it's lightweight.
[General Questions and Answers] radi0chik:
My launcher occasionally does and then again sometimes doesn't have problems. But I've had several times where I hit the circle/home button and i get a blank screen of my background while it tries to load/restart the launcher.
[General Questions and Answers] soulfisher7:
Try Evie, it's smooth and good looking. I've installed in my parent's phones as well, so I they have the same experience every time they upgrade.
[General Questions and Answers] radi0chik:
I like Evie! thanks for the tip! :)
[General Questions and Answers] Johnnqtvo:
How quickly did you guys manage to unlock the bootloader?

I keep getting stuck in fastboot mode <waiting for device> and cannot unlock the bootloader. ADB works fine.

I've tried it with multiple drivers including the one from SPFT and https://www.cyanogenmods.org/forums...stall-mediatek-usb-vcom-driver-on-windows-10/

It seem like a driver problem for me, have been uninstall and reinstall with different drivers but none of them works,

and yes I have USB debugging and OEM unlocked, ADB & usb drivers installed.

Also factory reset the phone multiple time but nothing change :(

I do notice that the VCOM driver have error code 10 after installed but after looking it up, that error seem to be normal.

Any help will be much appreciate :D