UMIDIGI C2 - The One-Handed Pocket Friendly Flagship Unveiled

foobar

Hello everyone,

I have just received a brand new Umidigi C2. The phone is ok but I am disappointed by the impossibility to use the Nova launcher.

I have several phones with an identical interface and I need to change the home launcher. I sincerely hope that an upgrade to allow to change the launcher will soon be available as promised. Or just a simple Android stock firmware, with no add-ons.

Regards, Foobar

alexey2206

Hi,
The C2 comes with Efuse partition protection?

JohnnyBishop

pete2 replied at 2017-11-13 07:38
Yes unfortunatly the shitty thing seems to reactivate itself.

There seems to be a suggestion (a so called tip) showing up once in a while to enable this thing. I use to ignore it.
Not sure what exactly Umidigi benefits from pushing this, for spying on us or for ads, not sure.
In Android world it is not that important who US, China, Russia or Israel is spying on us.

For the sake of freedom from these corporations like Google and their Android I would definitely go into agreement with Umidigi to mod their build to disable spying in exchange of some agreed ads I have to look at.
Smartphones were never created with security in mind. They are just turning to security now, because of frequent privacy rows and the banking sector intereseted in pushing their banking apps.

But still users have to balance between adware and spyware. I would definitely go adware way as long as it is well arranged with user community.
Umidigi has to think of it better otherwise market adoption of your phones is not going to be good and people go back to Carphone Warehouse.
I would suggest creating Umidigi app where people go to get introduced to new Umidigi phones, read some specs and then be presented with some adds, but pushing some screensavers with adds is compromizing you business.

Perphaps someone should continue the Cyanogenmod way and find different ways to raise revenue instead of regular adware practices.

JohnnyBishop

bencebacsi replied at 2017-11-12 13:12
Hi,

To update you all on this.
It looks like due to that Google Contacts Sync bug one of my contacts I think the last one in alphabetical order turned rogue and it was swallowing other contacts edited or created since the bug was introduced.
You can distinguish it by the number of phone numbers assigned to it. Over time it will increase.
To resolve this issue I have deleted this contact from my Contacts then things return to normal.

I hope this helps.

Anisiocs

It was so bad to select recent apps, you had to hold and wait a second to get it. Now, using fooView it's OK.

bencebacsi

DIMON38 replied at 2017-11-16 10:23
Что известно о новых обновлениях UMIDIGI C2?
Когда ждать?

Updates are not scheduled but you always can find them here: http://community.umidigi.com/forum-166-1.html

grossteub

Come on, no way to change default launcher and delete that info widget you really should change this !

bencebacsi

grossteub replied at 2017-11-29 23:27
Come on, no way to change default launcher and delete that info widget you really should change this ...

I already many times reported this request to the developers, even before the first owners started to use UMI OS based models. We'll see what happens.

Anisiocs

grossteub replied at 2017-11-29 23:27
Come on, no way to change default launcher and delete that info widget you really should change this ...

Info widget You can disable it going to settings - tree dots show all apps - find him (don't remember the name) and close, disable.

grossteub

Ok thanks guys.
Can't find what app to disable though.