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[FW] New Firmware 2.3.26

So I was trying to get the new 2.3.20 firmware and I went to the Archos website. But it looks like there was a new firmware posted this morning. 2.3.26.
I don't know how to direct link, but i'll try.
http://update.archos.com/8/gen8/gen8_2.3.26/firmware_archos_android_gen8.aos

Version 2.3.26 - April 21st, 2011
Wi-Fi: fix cannot scan on an access point above channel 11 regression
Phone tethering: fix TCP/IP header compression setting crash
System stability: avoid Android reboot in case of missing audio
Media library: fix media libray not updated on hard drive based A70
Notification: decrease low battery notification volume
Application: attempt to solve Pandora application not able to switch songs
Application: solve music lag in applications using OGG format
Bluetooth GPS: increase compatibility with 3rd party applications
Display: avoid white/black screen happening sometimes when switching back the display on

Thx jknut, i'm such a noob I forgot to post the changelog. I usually wait till theres a uruk version, but i'm gonna install now cause i'm fairly sure we'll get uruk in a couple of days.

Techngro said:
Thx jknut, i'm such a noob I forgot to post the changelog. I usually wait till theres a uruk version, but i'm gonna install now cause i'm fairly sure we'll get uruk in a couple of days.
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Not that much of a noob, you posted the link to the firmware that should end my buggy horrors
Thanks jknut for the changelog

Hi, I have one question.
If I have the permanent root from churli (I'm sorry if I miss-spelled it..), do I just updated it regularly? I used to update all the firmwares by just downloading the firmware right on my A70 and install it right away.. but will that work if I have the root? I just rooted my A70 yesterday...and I'm a newbie haha

sw6lee said:
Hi, I have one question.
If I have the permanent root from churli (I'm sorry if I miss-spelled it..), do I just updated it regularly? I used to update all the firmwares by just downloading the firmware right on my A70 and install it right away.. but will that work if I have the root? I just rooted my A70 yesterday...and I'm a newbie haha
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I just followed Steps 2, 3, 4 of Chulri's post. Chulri already has the new files for "fw 2.3.26 +rw" for Step 3. I like the optional Step 4 because I don't have to worry about holding down the volume button everytime I boot to get root.

Hi,
Has somebody tested this new release?
I updated to version 3.2.20 last week and I was very happy when I realized that cinema plugin was not required to play all the formats which I was not able to before the update (AAC, AC3, MPEG2, etc)
Can somebody confirm if this has not been "fixed"?
Thank you.

Well I have tried this new release and all I can say is bootloop, oh and to top it off I think that my right speaker has blown.
Archos I hope you're reading this, you need to sort your firmware releases out. Whilst you're at it Gingerbread would be nice. If you can put it on the Arnova with inferior hardware you have no excuse but to port it to the 101.

toyface said:
Well I have tried this new release and all I can say is bootloop, oh and to top it off I think that my right speaker has blown.
Archos I hope you're reading this, you need to sort your firmware releases out. Whilst you're at it Gingerbread would be nice. If you can put it on the Arnova with inferior hardware you have no excuse but to port it to the 101.
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I just noticed the update when I went to the archosfans 2.3.20 bugs thread to report wifi drop powersave disabled while running tunein radio...
OTA update went fine, just waiting for A43 to charge up, then I'm going to do the A32 as well...
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Power LED blinking -> UI batt meter (and About Device) say 98% charge...
had this once with 2.3.20 showing 97% when LED blinking but next charge and thereafter showed 100% when LED blinking...
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I had this Problem from the first day.
LED blinks and the battery show around 90%.
If i unplug the power the status goes to 98-100%, most 100%.
If i reboot the device with plugged power, the status is 75-90% after restart.
Sometimes the status falls to 87-91% if i plugged the power in.
I can live with it, but it is annoying.

did they remove bluetooth PAN tether ? I had dun/pan option while setting up BT tether with 2.3.20. but now no more that option. the probken for me is, i am using cdma phone(bell htc touch) but with BT DUN the Archos cannot dial CDMA number #777. I set bell APN (pda.bell.ca) it's not working. Actully even if it works I worry about it because it may charge me more.
Before with 2.3.20 , it worked perfect with BT PAN and my phone set to Internet sharing.

This update cleared up my waking-up issue.
It's pretty much an instant on now after the monitor idles off. Before, (after being off for more than a few minutes) it was a crap-shoot as to whether or not the screen would come on and I often had to fight with it and double, triple, quadruple tap the power button to get things alive. No longer.

still reboot cycles problems when charging the 101..problem started with these last 2 updates.

twit.tv app FCs all of the time with this fw...
I wonder why they released this one OTA as it seems to be more broken than .20 was...

youtube and many other flash video played in the browser hangs after about 15 seconds or so. Soemtime this causes the whole system to freeze requiring forced reboot.
This is the worse build so far, my A70 was most stable at 2.1.08.

Wow. I am having the exact opposite experience with this firmware. I find the browser and flash to be very solid. Before I could never play even youtube mobile in HD without it freezing and forcing a hard reboot.
Also, i'm having less general freezes.
I am still having absolutely no luck whatsoever with tethering to my Android phone (cliq). It's driving me crazy cause this was one of the main reasons I went with Archos.
Have you guys done a full reinitialization? That's what I did and, even though it's a pain to reload all your files, it might help with many of the problems you are having.

Techngro said:
Wow. I am having the exact opposite experience with this firmware. I find the browser and flash to be very solid. Before I could never play even youtube mobile in HD without it freezing and forcing a hard reboot.
Also, i'm having less general freezes.
I am still having absolutely no luck whatsoever with tethering to my Android phone (cliq). It's driving me crazy cause this was one of the main reasons I went with Archos.
Have you guys done a full reinitialization? That's what I did and, even though it's a pain to reload all your files, it might help with many of the problems you are having.
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As a matter of fact I did an Android reset to get away from some of the problems I was having with bootloops and such. This has helped with the general performance of the 101, which I'd say is down to the 64mb swap file I now enjoy.
I did have a couple bootloops until I enabled a lock screen pattern unlock and I have now experienced nothing but fairly good performance

It seems that 2.3.26 is different from vesions before

Need more language for External Keyboard Layout such as Thai

jakkrith said:
Need more language for External Keyboard Layout such as Thai
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You'd probably be better off posting in the archosfans.com forum's bug list thread for 2.3.26 as Archos employees actually monitor that site and have actually even started some of the buglist/fw release threads... i.e. I'm not sure that they're even aware of the xda-devs gen8 section and even if they were would they bother to read it...

anyone else experiencing freezing lately?

This is my second Ph-1 and it is starting to freeze multiple times a day. I read the previous post regarding Nova causing these issues, I am using the stock browser and so far, so smooth. I really dislike all the "whiteness" of stock and the lack of customization.. but it is worth it for a smooth experience.

twflys said:
This is my second Ph-1 and it is starting to freeze multiple times a day. I read the previous post regarding Nova causing these issues, I am using the stock browser and so far, so smooth. I really dislike all the "whiteness" of stock and the lack of customization.. but it is worth it for a smooth experience.
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Side loaded any apps?

I've experienced this issue lately. Yes I am using Nova as my daily driver. I just restarted the phone and issue went away. Hopefully it stays away. If it pops up again I'll report back.

I've had my phone for about a month now. I have had Nova loaded since day one but just recently have experienced the freezing and reboots. It is very random for sure. I may try a run without Nova if it happens much more.

Charkatak said:
Side loaded any apps?
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Nope, nothing sideloaded...

I am using Pixel 2 launcher for over a month and I like it.

I've had crashing on Beta 2 quite a bit with Nova. OTAing to Beta 3 reduces the crashes to once a week using Nova, which is pretty okay.
It's usually when I try to unlock the phone or am in the middle of doing something that everything just times out and reboots :s

Still on nought and have noticed bout the past week or so have had 2 freez ups. I'm using nova also. Rooted with magisk and viper and a batt mod.

twflys said:
This is my second Ph-1 and it is starting to freeze multiple times a day. I read the previous post regarding Nova causing these issues, I am using the stock browser and so far, so smooth. I really dislike all the "whiteness" of stock and the lack of customization.. but it is worth it for a smooth experience.
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Wow... I've had my Ph1 for over a month, running Nova.(not rooted, don't feel the need to) .. and I've had no issues at all... I'll admit I can recall a few hiccups (nothing major) when I first received it, but after all the updates, mine is running top notch... I understand that this phone had a rough launch... and a butt load of updates... But I honestly can't complain about my experience....

Well I made it almost 8 days this time before it restarted on its own while sitting on my desk. I usually like to reboot my phones every so often but I wanted to see how long it would go this time. DARN lol!!!

qwahchees said:
I've had crashing on Beta 2 quite a bit with Nova. OTAing to Beta 3 reduces the crashes to once a week using Nova, which is pretty okay.
It's usually when I try to unlock the phone or am in the middle of doing something that everything just times out and reboots :s
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Oreo beta 3 crashing often for me. Nova printer has been my launcher for a long time. Will try to uninstall it and run another launcher to see if that helps.

rootnooby said:
Oreo beta 3 crashing often for me. Nova printer has been my launcher for a long time. Will try to uninstall it and run another launcher to see if that helps.
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Tried Apex launcher and pixel launcher. No real difference. Phone is difficult to unlock. Takes a long time. System UI crashed. Oreo beta 3 seems overall buggy for me.
Is there a way to troubleshoot whether or not I could be having a hardware issue as opposed to a software issue?

rootnooby said:
Tried Apex launcher and pixel launcher. No real difference. Phone is difficult to unlock. Takes a long time. System UI crashed. Oreo beta 3 seems overall buggy for me.
Is there a way to troubleshoot whether or not I could be having a hardware issue as opposed to a software issue?
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Have you tried to factory reset and see how it acts? I have had no issues like that with OB3.

Warlord721 said:
Have you tried to factory reset and see how it acts? I have had no issues like that with OB3.
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I've seen temporary freezes, like a 1-2 second delay but they're pretty rare. Not sure what some others are labeling a freeze. Does that mean 10 seconds, a minute, they need to reboot?

Jank4AU said:
I've seen temporary freezes, like a 1-2 second delay but they're pretty rare. Not sure what some others are labeling a freeze. Does that mean 10 seconds, a minute, they need to reboot?
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I've tried a factory reset and that didn't seem to resolve the problem at all. In fact, it seems like unlocking got slower after the reset. The only things outside the box I am doing is using the Google camera app, running an app called layout to hide the navigation keys, and running an ADB command that makes the screen slightly larger by moving the top parameters of the screen up closer to the notch at the top of the phone. I guess I can do another factory reset, restore my applications, but don't install Google Camera or make any adjustments to hide navigation keys or change screen size.
I may do that, or just wait for the official release of Oreo which I hope is soon!
If anything here sounds like a hardware issue, I would appreciate your thoughts. Thank you.

rootnooby said:
I've tried a factory reset and that didn't seem to resolve the problem at all. In fact, it seems like unlocking got slower after the reset. The only things outside the box I am doing is using the Google camera app, running an app called layout to hide the navigation keys, and running an ADB command that makes the screen slightly larger by moving the top parameters of the screen up closer to the notch at the top of the phone. I guess I can do another factory reset, restore my applications, but don't install Google Camera or make any adjustments to hide navigation keys or change screen size.
I may do that, or just wait for the official release of Oreo which I hope is soon!
If anything here sounds like a hardware issue, I would appreciate your thoughts. Thank you.
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But what kind of freezes are you getting? Is it more like brief lag or a complete freeze? If so, what's the duration?

Jank4AU said:
But what kind of freezes are you getting? Is it more like brief lag our a complete freeze? If so, what's the duration?
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For example, when the phone has been sitting a few minutes I pick it up, touch the fingerprint sensor and get no feedback. The phone seems dead. I push the power button and nothing happens. I can do this several more times and then the phone may, or may not open. When it is working smoothly, I tapped the fingerprint sensor quickly and hear the"click" sound immediately. About 50% of the time this does not happen. If I had to estimate the amount of time it freezes or lags, it is certainly in excess of 10 seconds.
Many times I am forced to hold the power button down until it reboots.
In other cases, I may be in the middle of using the phone, it will start to lag and freeze, and then automatically reboot itself.

rootnooby said:
For example, when the phone has been sitting a few minutes I pick it up, touch the fingerprint sensor and get no feedback. The phone seems dead. I push the power button and nothing happens. I can do this several more times and then the phone may, or may not open. When it is working smoothly, I tapped the fingerprint sensor quickly and hear the"click" sound immediately. About 50% of the time this does not happen. If I had to estimate the amount of time it freezes or lags, it is certainly in excess of 10 seconds.
Many times I am forced to hold the power button down until it reboots.
In other cases, I may be in the middle of using the phone, it will start to lag and freeze, and then automatically reboot itself.
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I'm on the beta 3 release and I'm not experiencing that at all. Fingerprint unlocks in under 1 seconds almost every time. You may want to try a clean install without your other "enhancements". Personally, I'd do that just to get some stability and/or reliability. That may also save you time once the 8.1 beta drops because if you can determine that's the culprit, you'll know not to install that stuff on the next beta.
Honestly, as finicky as this phone has been for some users, I wouldn't install anything other than normal apps from the Play Store. I'm really holding off on rooting until the 8.1 beta drops so I can still get the ota as soon as it's released. Then I'll start playing with custom ROM's, etc.
I've only had this for about a week, coming from a Pixel. Flashing that phone was the worst experience of my life, looking forward to trying it here.

Jank4AU said:
I'm on the beta 3 release and I'm not experiencing that at all. Fingerprint unlocks in under 1 seconds almost every time. You may want to try a clean install without your other "enhancements". Personally, I'd do that just to get some stability and/or reliability. That may also save you time once the 8.1 beta drops because if you can determine that's the culprit, you'll know not to install that stuff on the next beta.
Honestly, as finicky as this phone has been for some users, I wouldn't install anything other than normal apps from the Play Store. I'm really holding off on rooting until the 8.1 beta drops so I can still get the ota as soon as it's released. Then I'll start playing with custom ROM's, etc.
I've only had this for about a week, coming from a Pixel. Flashing that phone was the worst experience of my life, looking forward to trying it here.
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Thanks. Good points. I'll take your advice and clean flash.

The phone is less than 6 months old, getting hard freezes. requires restart by holding power and vol down.
Happens almost everyday while watching youtube and trying to switch to any other application.

Serious lag and stutters afger may patch

So guys, all of mi user might have updated their a1 to latest patch and i was womdering that if its only me who has been facing issue like some serious lag and stutters ? Even it stops responding while using phone normally , although it was flawless in previos patches but this patch totally messed up my a1in terms of performance and battery, now.the phone feel like its a low end phone rather than a mid ranger.

I'm on may security patch and the phone don't present any lag or error as you described. Probably you need yo perform a soft reset after the update. I hope you can solve these problems.

abdullah-baig said:
So guys, all of mi user might have updated their a1 to latest patch and i was womdering that if its only me who has been facing issue like some serious lag and stutters ? Even it stops responding while using phone normally , although it was flawless in previos patches but this patch totally messed up my a1in terms of performance and battery, now.the phone feel like its a low end phone rather than a mid ranger.
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I don't recognize any of Your issues...
Neither this or any earlier Oreo update/patch has caused any issues of any kind.

abdullah-baig said:
So guys, all of mi user might have updated their a1 to latest patch and i was womdering that if its only me who has been facing issue like some serious lag and stutters ? Even it stops responding while using phone normally , although it was flawless in previos patches but this patch totally messed up my a1in terms of performance and battery, now.the phone feel like its a low end phone rather than a mid ranger.
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I would initially clean the cache. O does not have a setting to do that in bulk but you can use built in Xiaomi's Mi Explorer, MIUI's Cleanup utility in Mi Explorer, uncheck items you don't want to delete in bulk.

abdullah-baig said:
So guys, all of mi user might have updated their a1 to latest patch and i was womdering that if its only me who has been facing issue like some serious lag and stutters ? Even it stops responding while using phone normally , although it was flawless in previos patches but this patch totally messed up my a1in terms of performance and battery, now.the phone feel like its a low end phone rather than a mid ranger.
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Yep I'm definitely experiencing this as well. I'm not rooted or anything just running stock, noticed the phone laggs and hangs on certain apps after 2nd May update. I've had to force reboot twice now.

Leong428 said:
Yep I'm definitely experiencing this as well. I'm not rooted or anything just running stock, noticed the phone laggs and hangs on certain apps after 2nd May update. I've had to force reboot twice now.
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Same case ! Facing all sort of issues after 2nd may patch !

Same here. Sometimes when using any app like Twitter for example or just texting the phone will freeze for 2-3 seconds and be totally unresponsive until it recovers. Happens super frequently and wasn't a thing before the 2nd May patch.

Well no problem here, running latest firmware (V9.5.13.0.ODHMIFA) Must be your phone. Try factory reseting your device, it may help.

abdullah-baig said:
Same case ! Facing all sort of issues after 2nd may patch !
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You tried my suggestion? or you don't want to bother?

kudos1uk said:
You tried my suggestion? or you don't want to bother?
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Tried , lets see how it goes. But cleaning junk doesnt seems to sort out firmware issue.

abdullah-baig said:
Tried , lets see how it goes. But cleaning junk doesnt seems to sort out firmware issue.
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I don't think there are firmware issues, I have no issues and nore do most people who have installed the patch, in fact most people are reporting better performance after the second patch, especially better battery.
It's not unusual for apps to miss behave after an update and clearing the app cache is the simple solution if you don't know which app is causing the issue.

new pie update 47.2.A.8.24

with February security patch.
new fix bugs?

What's changed, i don't know. Can someone explain?
G8341 cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi

Seems nothing new

Apps can now deleted from menu (earlier - only via draggin on home screen and then delete)

camera still works without drm keys?

sure

hello, how about battery drain after the latest update? I just saw a video recommending to do not update to Pie, because many features of Oreo and Nougat are gone and functions are limited, and a battery life is reduced. the review was made few months ago, though. are there any major changes with following updates? do you recommend to update? thank you.

Hi, what do you all think of the new Pie update?
What happens if, for once, there is a system update notification, it is being ignored and nothing done?
My first smartphone being HTC, then switching to Samsung twice, i don't recall getting system update notifications every now & then from the mentioned brands.

yesterday I have updated to this version via OTA.
today I notice GPS does not work (tested with Maps and GPS test).
does anyone have experienced this issue?

Not going to update my XZ1 to Pie. It seems Google has disabled third party call recording apps such as ACR within Pie. This functionality is very important to me in my work. So unless I'm going to root my phone in order to get around this I can't use call recording app. This is a major to me and many many others.

mattia.b89 said:
yesterday I have updated to this version via OTA.
today I notice GPS does not work (tested with Maps and GPS test).
does anyone have experienced this issue?
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No, I even noticed a better accuracy on maps

doungmli said:
No, I even noticed a better accuracy on maps
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I have done reboots, power-off and power-on with no luck
https://imgur.com/RU7zKhJ

mattia.b89 said:
I have done reboots, power-off and power-on with no luck
https://imgur.com/RU7zKhJ
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weird, I have a good precision (tested inside a building)
https://imgur.com/a/U4csZIz

I got four darker spots on camera - two are darker and two are barely noticeable. At first I thought it was a hardware issue (dirty lens or faulty sensor), but I found, that this happened to some of the different Xperia phone users before after a software update. Can anyone else confirm that?

Just updated. GPS and camera are fine and everything seems really quick. Or maybe that's because I just rebooted and I don't do that so often

I can't use my device anymore, it's laggy as hell and so bad, that no one wants to buy it for even 150€

nevenx said:
I can't use my device anymore, it's laggy as hell and so bad, that no one wants to buy it for even 150€
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Wipe your phone.

miekki said:
Wipe your phone.
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I did, but no success, I tried different kernels, but no success either

GPS, RAM and camera just work fine. No problem found in my unit.
Still hoping non root night light make a comeback ?

Anybody found a way to bring the clock back to the right side on pie? ?

New official c.27 update available on eu site

Downloading now...
Changelog:
Security
● Android security patch: May, 2020
Screen Recording
● Optimized screen recording feature
Known issue fixed
● Fixed the issue of touch failure in some scenes during PUBG
● Fixed the issue that phone restarted after the screen stuck during WeChat calls
System
● Fixed some known issues and improved system stability

I read that this firmware fix the fingerprint issue after rooting .

Fingerprint now WORKS with Root, but still no VoLTE!
VoLTE only with my Tutorial and Root.

Can someone confirm UI stutering is fixed?

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Can someone confirm UI stutering is fixed?
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It seams smoother...

For some reason update fails for me. I run it from the file manager, it reboots and starts updating, but at about third of the progress the phone just reboots abruptly. Did anyone else have this issue?

adsubzero said:
For some reason update fails for me. I run it from the file manager, it reboots and starts updating, but at about third of the progress the phone just reboots abruptly. Did anyone else have this issue?
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I did it via recovery, no problems for me, try to download file again and then try through recovery it is simple

I just downloaded it again this morning and tried with the same method and it worked this time. Pretty unusual for this to happen.

Are the delayed notification issues fixed in this update?

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Are the delayed notification issues fixed in this update?
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notifications arriving fine

Ok but did you have the problem before? Because for some users there were no issues also before this update. Judging from the xda poll the ratio is/was around 50/50.

cipargalva said:
Ok but did you have the problem before? Because for some users there were no issues also before this update. Judging from the xda poll the ratio is/was around 50/50.
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I had no issues unless the phone was sleeping, and then there was a 1-2 min delay

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I had no issues unless the phone was sleeping, and then there was a 1-2 min delay
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Same for me

Then there was nothing to fix for you

Hey!
My phone is already rooted. How should I update to this version to have root and fingerprint working?

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Did you update it? I tried, I still had the issue, did a full format and it is working fine at the moment. I hate the software optimization on this phone. It is just the worst I have used.

shash1412 said:
Did you update it? I tried, I still had the issue, did a full format and it is working fine at the moment. I hate the software optimization on this phone. It is just the worst I have used.
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No, I updated the phone to OnePlus 7T
But still till the very last moment was considering to give the x2 Pro a shot as I really liked it.