Quick start guide?

I don't think there is a quick start guide currently. What do you need help setting up?

When should I load the battery for the first time:

1. Load first, then use. OR
2. Use till empty, then full load. OR ...

I generally use it till it drains down to nothing and then do a full charge.

There are some things that I couldn't figure out within the first week of exploring the phone:

- What / where is the multifactor authentication mentioned on the home page?

- The home page also mentions that "VNC is installed and configured" but I couldn't find it (and I wonder whether VNC is possible with Wayland).

- The hardware side button is mapped to Home key, which doesn't seem to do anything useful, is there a way to remap it and/or use it in some way?

- What's the fastest way to restart the Android subsystem if it crashes or freezes (restarting the whole phone is too slow in some situations)?

- Is it expected that the fully charged phone lasts no more than 4 days on battery when it is completely idle? If not then how can I examine what's the problem when `top' shows no obviously problematic processes and all the power saving settings are enabled?

pdm said

- The hardware side button is mapped to Home key, which doesn't seem to do anything useful, is there a way to remap it and/or use it in some way?

There is "Assistant button" section in the settings now.

pdm said
There is "Assistant button" section in the settings now.

  

I am looking forward to see this in an update. Is this in the Settings app? Under which area?

There are apps on flatgub that handle MFA, and also GTK clients for Bitwarden, such as Goldwarden. You can also run such apps in Waydroid.

There are working solutions for VNC on Wayland. I'm not sure if Furilabs has integrated something yet, I haven't looked on my device, but you can check the system settings.

Hardware key now has a settings page in the system settings if you update your system. It gives a lot of useful options, like taking a picture, opening the camera app, taking screenshots, or running custom scripts.

In most cases you should be able to kill an android app from the Waydroid panel in system settings. Otherwise a quick reboot will do. They intend to improve on it further, but currently have a lot of other things to work on.

In interest of having notifications come through, the device currently does not use suspend like android does. It simply goes into a low power mode which includes it using only one core. This means it's running at all times, so four days is actually impressive considering. I'm am sure this will be improved on eventually once higher priority issues are resolved.

pdm said
There are some things that I couldn't figure out within the first week of exploring the phone:

- What / where is the multifactor authentication mentioned on the home page?

- The home page also mentions that "VNC is installed and configured" but I couldn't find it (and I wonder whether VNC is possible with Wayland).

- The hardware side button is mapped to Home key, which doesn't seem to do anything useful, is there a way to remap it and/or use it in some way?

- What's the fastest way to restart the Android subsystem if it crashes or freezes (restarting the whole phone is too slow in some situations)?

- Is it expected that the fully charged phone lasts no more than 4 days on battery when it is completely idle? If not then how can I examine what's the problem when `top' shows no obviously problematic processes and all the power saving settings are enabled?

  

I will update the home page to remove the incorrect info. Most was added before we released and due to priorities we didnt complete some wishlist items.

Reboot android from the Settings>Android page by toggling it off/on.

4 days. I think it can go to 7. I havent tested mine lately. Ill start a test in a day or so.

There is no guide. The phone should be intuitive. That is what it is for the most part. It will get better. What kind of guide do you think is required considering you got set up without one and replaced your android phone the the FLX1 in a day?

Having the phone intuitive is certainly preferred. I just gave examples of things that I couldn't figure out even after some effort, thank you for clarification.

Brian Aberts said
There are apps on flatgub that handle MFA, and also GTK clients for Bitwarden, such as Goldwarden. You can also run such apps in Waydroid.

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Otherwise a quick reboot will do.

As I understood it, the (planned) MFA feature would be more than a password and token manager, something like an encrypted container or so.

Is a quick reboot something different than a regular reboot? The regular reboot is definitely not quick enough for the given purpose. Rebooting Android in settings as suggested by wayne looks better, I'll see how it works in real situations.

The MFA was originally intended for the website and git instance. It actually worked but there were some inconsistencies and it also created some extra hoops and hurdles which just wasted peoples time. I removed it a few weeks ago and since then there hasn't been any more issues.

Just a correction here. We don't use Waydroid. See the App related FAQ items here https://furilabs.com/faq/ for more details.

My pre-first day suggestion; over a couple of days on your existing device, make a list of all the things you do so you know to set these up on new device.

First day:

- On wifi, do `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y`

- Install ans configure your password manager

- Setup online accounts in Settings. Check email, calendar and contacts are syncing. If online accounts gives you trouble, install and use evolution

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