UMIDIGI Z1 Pro V1.1_20170804 ROM - SPFT + OTA release

Frrank

Hello everyone.
I received my red Z1 Pro a week ago.
The phone is nice, thin, CPU speed is very fast and has a lot of memory. I installed a LD 128GB SD card that works perfectly. The AMOLED screen is very good but difficult to see in direct sunlight with adaptive brightness on. I did not installed the provided screen protector because gorilla glass is hard and easy to clean. Microphone and sound quality is good and loudspeakers are OK.
I saw the internet reviews that emphasize the bad quality of the camera, but I am satisfied with the photos taken with the 20170804 firmware revision. Sure it is not the best camera around but good enough for a smartphone and with similar quality compared with my old ones. I have not tested the bokeh effect yet.
Fingerprint reader is fast, however the screen takes more than one second to turn on, either with the reader or the on/off button.
There are still some things to improve:
1. Phone app priority. Incoming calls only ring the bell, the screen remains black, you have to unlock the phone and start the phone app to see who is calling and answer the call. Terrible!
2. If you receive a notification (incoming mail, message, etc) while in a phone call, the vibrator moves and the screen comes on and off every few seconds. Then your ear will press any button on the screen call like hang-up, line wait, mic off, etc. Only solution is hang up and start the call again. Uncomfortable!
3. Fast charging (MTK Pump Express plus 3) is amazing with the provided UMIDIGI charger at 7.5V 1.5A. But standard USB chargers (5V-2A) or PC-USB do not charge the phone at all because it only accepts some 200mA from those devices (I tested 5 chargers / PCs with similar behavior). So I recommend to get a spare MTK PE charger.
4. Screen turn on time. More than one second is an eternity when looking at a black screen in a hurry.
5. Preinstalled email app of Android 7.0 is Gmail, that does not handle IMAP accounts independently. It tries to link IMAP accounts with Goggle accounts in the same inbox and gets confusing. I installed a third party app to handle the IMAP accounts, but I will prefer that the standard Android email app would be preinstalled.
I am satisfied but not a lot with this phone, as it is now. I hope that firmware revisions improve the phone behavior.
Frrank

mraquinn

bencebacsi replied at 2017-9-1 06:21
What's your signal strength and link speed?

I'm sitting 6ft from the router.  I tried splitting the SSIDs by frequency and if I was connected to either one everything was fine, when I combined them again I get the issue - it's as though the phone is trying to switch between them, but the option to select a specific frequency only isn't availble in the wi-fi menu.

bencebacsi

mraquinn replied at 2017-9-6 04:06
I'm sitting 6ft from the router.  I tried splitting the SSIDs by frequency and if I was connected t ...

Then it's not about your phone. Don't set the same SSID for the 2.4GHz and 5GHz network.

mraquinn

bencebacsi replied at 2017-9-6 09:08
Then it's not about your phone. Don't set the same SSID for the 2.4GHz and 5GHz network.

It is about my phone - every other phone and device I've had works fine, it's only this one that doesn't.

prc.kailas

\n\nplease add manual focus option. and the calling screen. it would be nice.

Funkfreaker

bencebacsi replied at 2017-8-25 07:02
I'm afraid your case cannot be investigated remotely. It's most probably a software related bug, s ...

I want to try the sp flash tool. But I am curious if there is an new ROM update in the making for the z1 pro? The latest of the crystal is from 20170903. Otherwise I will wait till a new ROM for the z1 Pro is out. Could you say something about it?

Funkfreaker

Is there a way to put a timer on eyebrowe mode? So it will go on automatically at a specific time. I can now only put it on or off manually. Thnx!
Or do I need to make a separate thread for this?

bencebacsi

mraquinn replied at 2017-9-6 16:42
It is about my phone - every other phone and device I've had works fine, it's only this one that d ...

That's the most basic knowledge about a dual band WiFi router setup to give different SSIDs to the 2.4GHz and 5GHz signal, even the routers offer different names as default. That doesn't make sense if you were lucky with another phone - I don't know how anyway if that also has dual WiFi band support.

bencebacsi

Funkfreaker replied at 2017-9-7 03:12
I want to try the sp flash tool. But I am curious if there is an new ROM update in the making for  ...

As far as I know, a UMI OS update is in development for the Z1 Pro but I know nothing certain about it at the moment.

bencebacsi

Funkfreaker replied at 2017-9-7 03:22
Is there a way to put a timer on eyebrowe mode? So it will go on automatically at a specific time.  ...

I'm sorry but you can't do that.