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[Android General] stazz83:
Yes, but not only. See the screenshot: Umidigi official on Facebook states that there's also some improvements to the camera. From my experience, the autofocus is better and faster.View attachment 4751588
[Android General] cy-rock:
Since they don't do release notes it's hard to get ^^

.. But you are right focus is faster for me a well.. Battery logo with percentage seems clearer to me with 4G logo

Hopefully we'll see recording in 4K and better ram management.

It's encouraging!

Spotted issue with Bluetooth, logo nothing showing doscibnected when requested
[Android General] golias:
Hi Guys, also got this phone recently.

With the newest OTA firmware update, one thing I noticed that had in previous posts been mentioned, is that now the 12MPixel photo option is available in 16:9 format.(where previously it was 8Mp that was the maximum available for 16:9 formats - 48Mp is still only 4:3 format)

Also appreciated the update with battery percentage being displayed on the top
[Android General] cy-rock:
Got this answer on umidigi forum:

Both are in progress but the 4k video recording might not can be enabled. The 16:9 photo output can be 8k resolution, so about 33MP.
[Android General] kekstyle:
I was disappointed to see that the Widevine DRM is L3 and that the phone is not EMVCO certified for contactless payment. for the rest it's a very good phone but there is still some way to go to appear better.
[Android General] golias:
I agree that it coming only with Widevine DRM L3 is a bit frustrating, it should have been L1. Regarding the contactless payment capability its a hit-and-miss thing. On certain countries where contactless payment systems are widespread then its a bit of a big miss. For countries where its still non existent, people will not notice its not there.
[Android General] ghost45:
New update will be in the next weeks..
[Android General] czech24630:
Received my S3 pro from umidigi direct may 1st. love it, super responsive on all fronts with att straight talk. Only problem is it will not acknowledge sandisk ultra micro xdsc-uhs-1 256 card. Tried replacing with smaller sandisk ultra cards to no avail. Settings say that slot is empty. will not let me toggle on. Please help !!!

Czech in Alabama
[Android General] divinestyler:
Just received phone this past weekend. I really love it. I tried the camera prior to OTA update and indeed, it needed a lot of work. I compared stock camera app vs open camera and it was the latter that produced better photos and video. After update however, stock camera was much better performance and I prefer it now over open camera. So much so, that I set stock camera app as default photo app. I was worried before I received the phone that I bought a lemon, given the reviews I saw. After receiving it however, perhaps my standards aren't as high but I am very pleased with my purchase of this phone. Snappy, no lag, very responsive finger print sensors and face detection unlock. Camera can still improve but it sounds like more updates are planned to be released (crossing my fingers!).
[Android General] kekstyle:
do you know if umidigi will provide regular updates?
[Android General] croquettelehamster:
Hello everyone,

I am currently wondering if my brand new Umidigi S3 pro has a screen assembly issue.

Am I the only one having the notch "spilling" over the screen in Landscape view with apps such as Adobe reader or Chrome ?

I would really appreciate to read your feedback about this problem . Assembly issue ? Software issue ?

Please note that I do not have any issue in portrait mode.

Thank you for your help.
[Android General] divinestyler:
Just sharing reply I received from Umidigi:

Hi, thank you for supporting UMIDIGI. The next update for the UMIDIGI S3 Pro is scheduled between May 15 – May 22. This new update will add some new features, such as AI scene, bokeh effect improvement, AR, night enhance mode and selfies with bokeh function … And of course, we will add auto-focus function for video shooting in the next update. Camera works faster after the last update. Thank you for helping us get better. We will try our best to provide the best quality technology to users. Thank you for helping us get better.﻿
[Android General] cy-rock:
thx for the heads up, this phone is becoming more and more exciting
[Android General] totmakina:
Hello friends. my S3 pro is already in Spain ... I hope it does not take long to receive it. I am anxious to have it in my hands and enjoy it. Update it and install twrp of our friend Ghost, make the first backup and try with the GSI. Will it be possible?
[Android General] vekye:
will this twrp works on Realme U1 also ?
[Android General] golias:
I dont think I can even see that without a magnifying lens.
[Android General] croquettelehamster:
I sent a message to UMIDIGI about this issue. There were quick to reply, the customer service / online presence seems to be very good for a small brand like them.

Here is their reply :

"Hi, Actually that's not an issue, all UMIDIGI phones with waterdrop screen (F1 , F1 Play, S3 Pro) works as the same.

You can just see the edge of the notch screen at that point.

Thank you for contacting us."

What is the next step for me ?

I want to :

1) Check by myself if their statement is really true.

2) Check if the brightness is more homogeneous / more uniform, on the screen of another unit when brightness is set at 100%. Indeed, even if I never enabled the adaptative brightness feature, the luminosity of the screen keeps changing slightly in some areas at random. Yes, you have to be really focused on the screen to catch this, but this is really annoying and weird when you are reading a document.

I therefore ordered a second S3 pro that will be delivered on friday and will check by myself if I these issues are found on another unit.

Anyways, the S3 pro is a great phone, and such issues are perfectly acceptable considering its price.

I will write an update friday or saturday with the second unit in hand.
[Android General] OC-Freak:
Same on the umidigi f1 (since they have the same screen/build), you can see just a bit of the notch in some apps like adobe acrobat, it's just like a few pixels. but it is there if you look for it :P
[Android General] Capt.Obvious:
Does UMIDIGI have anywhere on their site we can log issues or possible bugs. Has anyone experienced this issue?

- Verizon SIM card is being seen as a Sprint SIM card, affecting connection of a a call and sending a text. There is no way to access APN or Network Operators under Mobile network settings to attempt to address it.﻿
[Android General] raghav2984:
Having issue with camera. Suddenly the icon is missing. Any ways to install it? WhatsApp and other camera app is working, which means library is still available.

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Also can anyone suggest how to update firmware/rom without losing installed apps and internal storage?
[Android General] croquettelehamster:
In order to update the firmware of your phone to the latest version (if it's not already updated), just go to :

Settings >>> System >>> About Phone >>> Wireless update

In the worst case, you could also use your google account and the backup feature to save your app data and other important stuff before performing a factory reset.
[Android General] raghav2984:
I had rooted my phone. So cannot wireless update.
[Android General] cy-rock:
download update here and flash it from your internal memory card.

Check instruction first, also you can use SP Flash tool

happy flashing
[Android General] raghav2984:
Infact I don't see the wireless update menu in the about phone option.
[Android General] wxppro:
No APN setting for Xfinity Mobile (Verizon)

I had a similar issue. I used an Xfinity Mobile SIM. It works fine for voice and SMS. Xfinity Mobile uses Verizon's network. The phone correctly recognized it as Verizon. But there is not a menu item for APN setting, rendering data unusable. This is really weird. Any idea how we can bring back the setting?

The APN setting is shown for an AT&T SIM, regardless in SIM 1 or 2.
[Android General] mannzac1:
I have been running tests using working Verizon SIMs. From what I can tell, Verizon doesn't certify Umidigi for their network. This means that you have to use work arounds. By turning VoLTE off, you can still place calls and the S3 can use LTE data. Sending sms/mms is the difficult part because Verizon locks APN settings with their SIM cards. To get around this, I put in a ATT SIM and updated the APN and replaced the SIM with Verizon again. This seemed to work, but the messages took longer to send than to receive. If anyone knows of other work arounds, I'd be interested.

Long story short, this phone might be compatible with CDMA networks, but Verizon doesn't want to be compatible with this phone.
[Android General] Chrisdorum:
hey guys, and also thank you for the guide it worked for me and i got magisk and all that stuff going (for people stuck at *waiting device* the solution for me was to install minimal "ADB and fastboot" and use the universal google driver that comes with another pack called "minimal_adb_fastboot_1.4.3" you can also get it with the android SDK (this one will work for sure but a bit heavy handed)

One important thing is also that Recovery and bootloader are two different things and the recovery (dead android and text saying no commands) is where TWRP will replace it it is not where you do the fastboot commands and nothing will happen there with ADB that is in the bootloader!

You need to boot into adb reboot bootloader then perform the rest of the steps and when you get to the point where you need to reboot after flashing you need to wait 3 seconds during the black screen then hold power button + volume up then release power button while still holding volume up until you return to TWRP and finish the rest.

put magisk on your phone, its easiest to put it on an external sd card because you will be formatting the data on the internal memory

ON ANOTHER NOTE!

Does anyone know of a working Gcam APK with working HDR+ ? cheers! :confused:
[Android General] stazz83:
Yes, they do. You can report bugs and issues through this page:

https://www.umidigi.com/page-BugReport.html
[Android General] rpmccormick:
I think I get mine later today, even though Singapore post. Great tracking too. I have real T-Mobile so hopefully it works well and with good 4g speed without needing to mess with APNs. We will see. Do we have Root & Recovery for S3Pro already? ...and a way to apply OTA updates on rooted? Sounds too good to be true.

Thank you so much Ghost! I am excited.

Can someone make a All-in-1 Windows toolbox to easily install drivers and update firmware? Maybe I will volunteer to eventually, but too busy with work right now.
[Android General] ghost45:
In every device with right root isn't possible to apply the ota upgrade.
[Android General] ghost45:
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[Android General] rpmccormick:
Sorry, I didn't mean actual OTA updates. I just meant you can flash the OTA update.zip right... or do you have to flash the whole scatter file?

Anyway... why the heck can't you do actual OTA updates on root. I don't understand why TWRP hasn't figured out how to allow that after all these years. Having to flash firmware updates is the only thing that makes me hate rooting a phone (ROMs I understand, but why not make firmware update automatically after a confirmation prompt saying you might need to upgrade your ROM after the FW update?). Probably a discussion for a different thread, please ignore.

I hope they come out with some more Camera updates this month.
[Android General] croquettelehamster:
Here is my update :

1) I can confirm that the notch issue is not a real issue (in the sense of a manufacturing issue), my second Umidigi S3 Pro has the same problem. Testimonies of other users also mention the same problem.

This is really a design issue. The "notch issue" case is closed for me, I was picky and can live with it.

Props to UMIDIGI, they did not lie to me.

2) The brightness issue was real. Yes, it was subtle, hard to see at a glance, it was like if brightness, set at 100%, was changing randomly between 90% to 100% in random areas of the screen, making some kind of luminous little waves. You may not even be aware of it until you focus on a document or an app with a single color background. Thankfully, the screen of my second S3 Pro provides a steady and homogeneous brightness.

My first UMIDIGI S3 Pro was therefore sent back through Amazon on saturday afternoon and I was immediately refunded.

The second S3 pro is perfect. No brightness issue, not even a dead pixel (my first S3 Pro had a single dead pixel at the center of the screen).

God bless UMIDIGI for opening a shop whose logistics and services are managed by Amazon !

Had I ordered it on Ali, the whole process would have been a pain in the ass ! It would have been feasible, of course, because Ali offer guarantees, but I would have had to wait a few more weeks.
[Android General] ghost45:
The principal problem is that.. If the rom is different from the original through the right root probably will be too several mistakes after the upgrade...
[Android General] Chrisdorum:
I know for a fact that xiaomi phones annoyingly updates itself and ovverides everything which was the source of some frustration when i suddenly had MIUI 10 and google cam stopped working because they removed the camera2API support in the rom
[Android General] Capt.Obvious:
After some testing, my experience has produced slightly different results.

My cause of the issues was installing an app that has a db of APN settings. 6 of them being different Verizon types. The default selected (which was not 'vzwinternet') did not work well the Network Preference. I only had access to web, and sending text 2x each text with no confirmation and no receiving.

Since I was not rooted I couldn't simply enter APN settings under 4G and remove the unwanted APNs. Factory Reset may or may not have cleared the db file on the phone, and I wasn't aware of the backup and restore apn bd app to try yet.

Using a 3G Verizon Sim Card in conjunction with my 4G Verizon Sim Card I gained access to APN settings under the 3G Card to change the default selected settings to match vzwinternet settings, and entered the engineering mode to select the Network Preference that matched a Verizon supported phone. After that (with turning off Enhanced LTE) everything work with one quirk.

- Texting became fully functional with no issues when the signal is in 3G. When in 4G, messages are received successfully. When sent, they arrive to the recipient but on the host side the text remain in a sending status and eventually says the message wasn't sent successfully. So it seems the server is simply not sending back a confirmation on 4G.

I'll continue to try and debug the issue and see if I can target the address or disconnect. Once this issue is gone then I'm all good. I believe after this year, since 3G is being sunset, the Enhanced LTE (VoLTE) issue may be self resolved out of forced adaption.

(Note: These issues have also occurred (without the APN app install) on the "supported" HTC U12+. The phone is in the DB. They just refuse to sell since HTC won't keep them locked. So it possible that it's more that just a capability issue.)
[Android General] totmakina:
Hello friends:

I received my s3 pro today. I can not access fastboot mode from navigation keys. I appear "no command" and the android on the ground. I act as follows: with the phone on I press the reset button and at the same time vol +. When I restart, this appears to me. If I enter from commands on the pc, if I go to fastboot mode but the pc does not detect me devices in fastboot mode

Can anybody help me? Thank you
[Android General] Chrisdorum:
you went into recovery mode which is not the same as fastboot

use adb reboot fastboot

this is where you can use fastboot commands

little mistake its supposed to be

adb reboot bootloader
[Android General] totmakina:
Backup with twrp (ghost)

Hello friends:

Yesterday I received my S3 pro and managed to install the twrp of ghost and magisk 17.1. Install 70 applications and I already managed to create a backup of the apk with Migrate and I have created a backup now with Twrp.

I do not have much experience with MTK and I have several doubts:

- when booting in recovery I keep saying that I have the Data partition encrypted. It's very strange because I already formatted data in ext4 once or twice to install magisk.

- In qualcomm, when doing vendor backup, I only saw one vendor. In MTK I see vendor and vendor image. If I wanted to install a GSI rom, I would only have to restore vendor or would it be necessary to restore vendor image as well?

Thank you very much to all. I hope to receive your excellent help.

At the moment very happy with the S3 pro !!

totmakina

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Hello:

I had intentions to put Xposed to install Amplify and GravityBox in our S3 Pro. But it only works from Magisk 18. Has anyone updated magisk 17.1 to other newer versions in S3 Pro? Yesterday I tried to install from TWRP magisk 18 and bricke the mobile. I had to flash the rom again by Flashtools
[Android General] ghost45:
[MENTION=5545452]totmakina[/MENTION],

Do not upgrade magisk.. this problem is known.

Follow these steps...

1) install xposed framework.zip sdk 27 for arm64 under twrp mode download from here:

https://dl-xda.xposed.info/framework/

2) download xposedinstaller apk 3.1.5 from xda here:

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811

and install

3) download gravitybox 9 beta version for pie and install it

Reboot.. Enter in xposed app and give active gravitybox and check if have right root the xposed framework.. And reboot.

Now after this last reboot you will have gravitybox running at 100%.
[Android General] totmakina:
Very very Thanks!!!!!!

Its possible flash any GSI on S3 Pro??
[Android General] ghost45:
Look also here :

https://xdaforums.com/xposed/android-9-0-xposed-solutions-t3889513

but there is one other procedure because android 9 seems not supported yet and the problem with magisk is known in this pie version...

Read carefully also what have written my friend c3c076 here:

https://xdaforums.com/xposed/modules/app-gravitybox-v9-0-0-beta-1-android-9-t3908768
[Android General] totmakina:
The first part I already know Ghost. And it can not be installed in our S3 because the magisk that is installed in the Umidigi is too old ..

I will read the second part carefully. Again thank you very much for your help!
[Android General] totmakina:
TWRP, backup vendor, system

I think that my problems to install xposed and some other application more lie in that I should have done wrong with the installation of magisk at the beginning.

As Ghost said in his tutorial, after installing twrp you had to do two format data followed by your reboots and then wipe a cache and dalvik. I think my mistake was in one of those formats.

When I boot into TWRP it always tells me that I can not overwrite system. That's where my mistake lies. it's possible?

I think now that I have TWRP and I have a backup the best thing would be to make another format data, format system, wipe dalvik and wipe cache to not have problems of that type when entering TWRP.

Is that the solution?

On the other hand and as I do not know much about MTK, I have seen that when doing backup there are two vendors, vendor and vendor-image. The vendor image is the one that occupies the most. Should it be the one from which we should make a backup to be able to install GSI? or would we have to do both?

Thank you very much in advance!

totmakina
[Android General] totmakina:
When booting in twrp, the message always came out that the Data partition was encrypted.

I think I can avoid encryption by flashing dm-verity.

I flashed it after flashing magisk 17.1 as Ghost says.

All restarts and starts in twrp no longer show the message that our S3 has the data partition encrypted.

I have created a full backup by twrp without giving errors.

Here I leave the link if you want to try it.

https://mega.nz/#!zIx2SaYS!mjxvVDgflaSTr9Igz-4knfnE7fnn1knqnfIetGYtzuc

Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt_12.15.2018.zip
[Android General] CAPPIE37:
bugs??

think i found a bug...

in the drop down menu/list, i was editing/re-arranging my icons,

(wifi,flashlight, location etc...) all of a sudden i got a popup,

the close app, app info one... sp i closed the app

(android system app) was FORCED to re-start.....

could not refresh android 9 no matter what....same thing over and over (close app)

it took about 10 tries to get into the main boot system

(i kept getting the dead android guy, picture)

safe mode didnt even load.....

forced to do a FULL factory reset, still works so far, but,

i really,..REALLY thought i was going to have to ship it back to

china, and wait 3 more months for its return

( took 45 days to get it).....

i had NOT tried to root it or ANYTHING, no twrp, no-nothing

very few add-on apps installed, no "new" apps, only older, FULLY TESTED ones

so, be on lookout

P.S. if we petition umidigi for access enabling code/data.......

WHAT SHOULD WE ASK FOR?

for camera access too,...

if it would ultimately SELL MORE PHONES, why wouldnt they want to help us advance developement,..

maybe they would give you guys FREE PHONES for the help

-Edward
[Android General] stazz83:
Has anyone faced the issue of suddenly getting a non-responsive screen?

The solution is to lock the screen with power button and unlock it again. Not the end of the world but can be annoying when it occurs repeatedly while browsing or chatting.
[Android General] rpmccormick:
It happened once to me in 5 days. It used to happen to my old phone (HTC 10 with custom rom) sometimes too though.

After 5 days, I have only charged it once overnight, and I still have 45%. It does get some charge while driving, but under 30min per day (and it seems to charge really slow, so that's like +3%). So yeah, actually having a 2.5-day phone (5hr per day screen-on) is awesome.

The ceramic is awesome in a hand, but slippery on a clothed shoulder as well as on any other non-skin surface (about the same as glass/plastic, but more than metal... I've never used a case nor screen-protector, ewwww).

If it is dark and the screen is bright, you notice like 3 lights bleeding on to the screen at the bottom of the LCD (kinda annoying, anyone else get that? Not worth a return though).

I have accidentally recorded a call (I don't even want that feature... need to root and change call-screen I guess?).

I don't see any issue with the notch, and it disappears in a black notification bar so well I forget it is there (when in dark-skin apps).

Camera is OK, but image-stability and focus are not as smooth and easy as my HTC 10 was. Hopefully it will get better, when is the next update? I think the OnePlus 7 Pro uses the same sensor right? (mounted on an OIS that we are lacking though). Maybe we can use their tweaks to help us out on the UmiDigi? I will root mine after the next OTA probably, I feel like that should be any day now.

I got a $700 OnePlus 7 Pro coming for my wife, or maybe a $480 Google Pixel 3a XL is a better choice for her (under $250 after they buy her old 16gb iPhone 6), but I am pretty happy with this $280 S3 Pro for me. I don't know why anyone would pay for Samsung/Apple at this point with their $1000+ phones (with lower specs). The only thing that is a bit disappointing is that my 3yo HTC 10 takes better photos, but I should expect that without OIS and laser auto-focus (is that a thing of the past now? New phones don't seem to have laser auto-focus anymore, but it is awesome).
[Android General] totmakina:
Hello friend, I am also very happy with the s3 Pro, its battery is incredible. I already did it root and right now I have stock with magisk 17. My problem now is that I want to install xposed and it gives me problems. It also gives me problems installing GSI. We will solve them already.

I am very happy with the mobile for the moment for its benefits and its price. Also the connectivity is very good.