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After driving around the SLC metropolitan and along the Wasatch front I had 4G the full time. Speed testing showed between 2MB-15MB on network. I went into the engineering mode and it only showed the official bands, so I cannot account for how I was getting the speed and signal I was, only that it worked, and worked well everywhere I tired it. I bet you would be SOL on a road trip though... so in typical reon fashion, absolutely nothing worked the first try for me. the syntax for commands ran in mtkclient must either differ on linux or have changed in the past month because the command to flash the super partition didn't work at all for me. i eventually figured it out (you just needed to specify which partition you wanted the image to flash to, e.g. "mtk w partitionname partitionfile.img"), but nope it didn't end there. when it came time to flash the rest of the images in the romdump, i tried using mtkclient to flash those images in the directory i had them extracted to. for some godforsaken reason, mtkclient didn't recognize which img files belonged to which partition. which meant i had to manually type out the commands to flash each image. one by one. siiiiiiiiigh. I received the F22 Pro early this week and wanted to share a few thoughts for those considering the phone.
i'm really happy with how this has turned out so far, but i definitely want to make a few more quality of life changes once i have more energy to. i'll probably write a more formal review once i've had more time to use this device daily and tweak it more. this took way too long (i did it in a virtual machine) and then i didn't even end up using the virtual machine
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I can't tell if it's just because I came from a higher-res smartphone, but something about the lower screen res gave me a headache as I was setting it up. Maybe it is an adjustment period that will pass. it came with one of those flimsy tpu clear cases preinstalled, a plastic screen protector (also preinstalled), the original box, and what i assume is a usb cable in the box which i didn't bother to take out (or oven try to find in the box) because i like to save new cables for a rainy day. or well just a day when i run out of usb c cables or something. keeps it fresh yknow. first impressions i will say, i probably should've seen this coming given the screen is the same size as the iphone 4's screen, but STILL. pictures that compare this to its older and smaller brother, the f21, really undersell the size. this thing is taller than my iphone x!
The phone has supported 2G, 3G & 4G Network facilities. Moreover, GPRS and EDGE facilities also have. HSPA, LTE-A speed on the phone. Performance: Android 12 Operating system and MediaTek Helio G85 (12nm), Octa-core (2×2.0 GHz Cortex-A75 & 6×1.8 GHz Cortex-A55) on the phone. RAM and ROM:THE BUTTONS AREN'T PROPERLY BINDED. pressing the end call button doesn't even end a call, it just turns off the phone. the make call key doesn't do shit either. seriously this thing is so annoying so the hardware seems good enough...but a phone wouldn't be a phone without good software to use on it. and BOY is the software that comes with this phone a doozy. The company has launched the phone in a single variant of 4GB/64GB. In the case of gaming, graphics, and RAM are fairly good. HD-quality graphics games can be easily run and played quite smoothly. Camera:
What did I love: The weight, the look, the feel, and the screen size. It feels very premium, like if the world never went to full touchscreens and the late 90s phones just kept getting better. It was actually wonderful and strange. The OS is really fast, the pre-loaded apps can mostly be uninstalled, or disabled. Once I installed some apps (MS Edge, Outlook, Launcher, Reddit, Snapchat, T9 & K9T9, Swipe Keyboard) things really worked amazingly well! so that rom is a complete no-go. the person who made this discovery has made a debloated version of the rom, but it seems to have gotten him in some hot water with the original modder.the only ways you can buy this phone outside of china are by the various listings on alibaba or aliexpress, OR using an import service but get ready to pay out the ass for that. the person who owned this before me bought it off aliexpress, and apparently the dudes in china who resell these have 3 versions of the phone as far as i (and others) can tell: i think later down the line i'm going to try modifying the system partition to be read/write so i can just directly install gapps there and unroot. i might also just try modifying the system images myself to manually add gapps. but that's for another day. hell i don't even know if that would work if i were to unroot after. all else fails and i might end up flashing that really scuffed google play rom by that one dude off xda. but i hope i don't have to go there anytime soon lol. honestly, i didnt want to root, but i only did so i could install gapps - there's no custom recoveries yet for this phone, so i have to make do with installing magisk modules. i found one called litegapps that can systemlessly install a barebone version of gapps. it seems to work good enough for the stuff i need it to work with. i did have to manually certify the device for play protect, but that wasn't a big deal at all. What broke my heart: Well, about 40% of the front of the device is the keypad, that is the whole show! The device came with Chinese keyboards which I think are able to take advantage of the physical keys for typing in a much more refined way than T9 traditional or K9T9. Not being able to type (very well) with the physical keys really, REALLY made my question why I was even bothering since I need to use the virtual keyboard to do much of anything.
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