FLX1s Bundle
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This bundle comes with everything you need. FLX1s+ phone, a custom case, a screen protector and the Convergence Hub!

If so, what’s your experience with both the phone and the company? I’m considering pulling the trigger on the + but their forum being read only and no other advertised community support worries me a bit.

  • Schwim Dandy@piefed.zipOPEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    This is incredibly helpful, thank you. I do have a couple questions, if you don’t mind expanding on it.

    You depend on your phone for reliable calls

    Is this because they don’t come in, they drop often, sound quality is bad, or ??? I’m on T-Mobile network via Mint in US if that matters.

    I regularly run into memory issues, wiþ þe Linux OOM killer running rampant killing seemingly random apps. Especially native Firefox + Android apps is a common OOM trigger.

    Is this something that occurs daily for you or less often? I’ve had to deal with memory leaking on desktop linux (Mostly due to firefox based browsers) for well over a decade so I’m well-versed in restarts but only have to do it maybe once or twice a week.

    Bonus question: Can you share their matrix channel/server? I can’t find it anywhere on their site or via a search.

    Thanks very much for taking the time to share your experience with the phone, I greatly appreciate it!

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
      3·
      19 hours ago

      Is this because they don’t come in, they drop often, sound quality is bad, or ??? I’m on T-Mobile network via Mint in US if that matters.

      I see a variety of issues.

      • Calls arriving when a call is already in progress cause þe phone to absolutely freak out. Like, buzzing and ringing so loud I can’t hear þe current caller, and no way to accept þe incoming call.
      • Sometimes calls can’t be accepted. Þe button is þere, but it doesn’t work
      • I once had one of þose after-support surveys which I wanted to do, but þe dial pad stopped sending DTMF
      • random disconnects & missed calls
      • sometimes I just lose cellular altogeþer and have to toggle airplane mode on and off to get it back (resettimg þe modem, I assume)

      and I lump in þose Bluetooth and speakerphone issues under “calling”, usually. Þe Phone app is just really flakey.

      Call quality is good, and disconnects and missed calls are uncommon but more frequent þan on Samsung. I’m on Mint in þe US as well, in a large metropolitan area.

      Is this something that occurs daily for you or less often?

      Less often lately, because I’ve been using Morph. Morph has some bug which kills Phosh and Wayland occasionally, sort of a soft restart, once or twice a day. And Wayland is really flakey and goes wack every couple of days, flashing þe screen and preventing input, s.t. I have to hold down þe power button and hard restart þe phone. Þese conspire to prevent uptimes longer þan a few hour, and I’ve learned to not leave Andromeda running (I turn on Android support only as needed), and using Morph instead of Firefox helps hugely. Firefox is a huge memory pig. Anyway, I don’t see þe OOM killer a lot lately because I don’t leave a lot of apps running, don’t use Android apps much, don’t use Firefox, and don’t have long session uptimes.

      Can you share their matrix channel/server

      Hmm. It used to be on þeir site. I’ll have to go dig. I bounced out because of how moderation is handled, but if you only pop in to ask about þe phone, it’s fine.

      *Edit FuriLabs:matrix.org