[General Questions and Answers] cnfuzd:
Hi All, Noob here...

This is a my "Thanks" to the forum and especially LeOS dev(s)! And to help people looking for a nice *SMALL* smartphone.

After 2 weeks(!) of study online I took the plunge to buy a new KKM3 (Cubot KingKong Mini 3) , (Stock Android12,20221206) and then install Custom Leos20-GSI (Android13, Sept2023) on virgin phone.

It took me four attempts, first gave no WiFI. 2nd & 3rd "boot-looped" (my bad I think) from which I had to recover by using SP Flash Tool to re-flash latest Offical Cubot firmware. Scary, but worked out no problems.

KKM3 has beautiful display but, as others noted, a pretty lousy quality camera.

IMO lack of fingerprint sensor is the worst aspect of the KKM3.

Stock Cubot firmware has insanely comprehensive hardware diagnostics capability

Trick: You can bypass the inital Android setup questions by tapping each corner clockwise..

Anyway. I now have LeOS-20-GSI (September 2023) installed and running. Leos comes bare bones, (no Google Play = good!) so I've added carefully curated selection of apps for browser, camera, maps, music, messaging, notes, calendar etc etc. Wonderful!

Not yet tried any cellular/dual SIM cards.

Phone works GREAT! Mic quality got compliments from Signal contacts.

I plan to use as daily driver. Most everything works except:

1) WiFI did not work after flashing first LeoS. I found and issued an adb command supposed to fix that, fiddled some settings, then rebooted: VOILA! WiFi!!

2) I cannot get Facial-ID to work. The app tells me to center face in the circle, but then nothing happens except coloured dots whirling around the circle. I removed screen protector; changed camera app; rebooted but no difference.

3) Settings -> Permissions-Manager shows all items stuck, displaying "Loading..." . I think a minor issues as there are other ways to access these permissions via apps.

4) I wish it was possible to scramble the Login PIN screen (see grapheneos)

EDIT: Found te setting it hiding off screen, duh! Settings>Security>ScreenLock>Scramble.

Questions for LeOS devs and gurus:

a) Please note my loud appreciation of your project aims and what you have offered to us? I am really grateful.

b) What happens when next security update is released - will I have to reflash all over again and lose user data in process?

c) Ideas/Prospects to get FaceID (2) working?

d) Will LeOS-20-GSI support cease once Leos for Android 14 released?

e) How to change icons on LeOS apps? (I'd prefer monochrome)

If any interest I can send "logcat" and "getvar all" logs for both the Stock KKM3 and LeOS-20-gsi. Also output of Treble-Info.

Happy to run tests. IMHO this nice cheap phone deserves ongoing support.

Thanks again to all contributors..

Refs:

ROM:: LeOS-20-VNDK-arm64_bvN.img (September 2023, I've lost download link!!)

https://leos-gsi.de/

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