You might want to consider a warranty return if you’re not happy and, as you say, your battery is draining & other things are impacting your use of Mudita Kompakt. The reason that Support has not responded because they are trying to figure out what could be happening. They first option they asked me to pass on is that you factory rest your phone, which could help sort out the issues. HOWEVER, since you said you preferred not to do that, they are most likely looking for other options & causes for your issues.
I’ve asked several of our devs & they are equalizery as baffled by your issues. Since they don’t have the phone in hand, they cannot check which settings might be inadvertently causing your issues. We don’t want you to be unhappy & stuck with a device you don’t use. So, perhaps it’s worth doing a factory reset.
I am with you - no side loading. I now intentionally only do forums or access internet when on my desktop or using my laptop. It is truly liberating once your body adjusts…took me more than a few days. Sad, I know. The good news is that I got over the addiction and associated withdrawals. Never happier.
The reason why I don’t want to do that is simple: I haven’t changed any settings on the Kompakt that could affect the browsers. A factory reset would only result in losing all settings and data, and then I would have to set it all up again. Since I now know that I can at least access websites through the search engine, I know that the data is coming in. I just can’t get to it when entering an URL directly.
@urszula Thank you SO MUCH for your efforts. Somehow we (either your team or I) will fix this. While I still use my old dumbphone for now, I’m sure it will get to the point when the Kompakt works well enough to be used as my main phone. If not, I can always buy a cheap new dumbphone for 50 Euros. But if I want to use apps, the dumbphone won’t help. As the saying goes: “I’ll just hang in there”
You could backup via the desktop app prior to the reset, then restore.
No, the Kompakt is different and so much better - I just enjoy the ecosystem as is. I, to borrow a Light Phone term, do not want to be connected to the infinite (e.g web). The e-Ink and overall feel of the Kompakt is truly special. I like the camera, the warm light, the maps, music, and notes. I have a Punkt MP02 but that is the def of frustration. Beautiful but so painful to use. Kompakt is intentional, not dumb. And, if I ever have some sort of crisis, I can always get the aurora store. But then, I really do not want to tweak with setting or connect to the infinite
As I’ve mentioned before my immediate needs - group messaging and music folders - will (likely) be taken care of in the next 30-45 days. My wants (voicemail notification) are all on the roadmap.
One think I picked up from the forums, I do not select “adaptive brightness” as on. 99% of the time, just keep it on very low or off. I have yet to run to an instant where I have to have it fully or even mid brightness setting. Something a dumb phone cannot do.
Hey! I had some similar browser issues in the beginning – I would type a URL or search term into the address bar, hit Enter, and nothing would happen. I could select a suggested search, and follow links on the page from there, but I couldn’t directly use the address bar.
Mine turned out to be a keyboard issue! I downloaded Futo keyboard and haven’t had any problems since. I also tried EInkBro, with and without Futo keyboard, and didn’t have the problems that I had with other browsers. I doubt this is the whole problem in your case, but it might be part of it?
That’s interesting, thanks. I haven’t tried a different keyboard yet, maybe I should. But why would another keyboard work better ? What is the technical background ? Again it makes no sense lol
In my case it seemed like the “Enter” button on the stock keyboard just wasn’t doing what it was supposed to do, at least inside the browser – I have absolutely no technical knowledge to explain this, and just stumbled upon the solution without trying, unfortunately!
This is EXACTLY what I’ve been suspecting all along, but somehow tried to deny it, because why would it work outside but not in the browser ? Maybe it’s yet another stock app issue. How many are there now ? Must be hundreds
How many of them will be fixed ? Maybe 5 or 10, if we are lucky
I’ve seen this general phenomenon occur with Android before, it can be such a pain lol. Basically what I’ve observed with Android is that, when an app isn’t behaving correctly, it can be another completely unrelated app that is somehow causing conflict and making your browser not work right. And then it can become this giant horrible guess-and-check process to try and find out which app needs to be removed to restore functionality on the bugged app, which usually involves uninstalling each app one at a time and testing the bugged app in between until you find it finally starts working normally. This may or may not be the case here, but I had this happen with my Samsung Galaxy S10e about a year ago. I bought a third-party home launcher called Minimalist Phone and I immediately went into settings to make it my default home launcher. Right after I did this, I had this bug that would cause a dialog box to pop up every time I pressed my home button asking me if I wanted to make Minimalist Phone my default home launcher. Every. Single. Time I pressed my home button. It took me a few more months before I discovered that another unrelated app simply being installed on my device was causing this bug, somehow. I still don’t understand it, but after I uninstalled several apps that I was no longer using, all of a sudden that bug just disappeared and I stopped getting that annoying dialog box. I don’t know much about Android, but it seems to me like it can just be weird like that sometimes. Sorry this wasn’t really helpful, but your situation just reminded me of that problem I had before. It could be another sideloaded app, but you would have to painfully guess and check to find out which, if it’s similar to the situation I had.
I understand this, HOWEVER, please consider that perhaps some of the sideloaded apps you have might have affected some settings. That’s why our team has suggested the factory reset.
Our team also suggested this, and as a result, also suggested doing a factory reset. Yes, it’s a pain but then when you start with a blank slate, and just sideload a browser first, without any other apps causing potential conflicts, then you can see if the problem was solved or not.
If those apps had tried that, I would have spanked them harder than I would have spanked someone who uses the word “ICE” in every post
By now I’m even allergic to words like “RAIN” or “SNOW”
The browser issue persists without any other apps involved. It persists on the Mudita stock launcher, and I don’t have any other apps (including 3rd party apps) running at the same time. To me it looks more and more like a browser issue itself, maybe some security feature that is enabled by default in all the browsers. This would also explain why the Chinese browser works, because their security might be protecting THEM, not the user
Can’t be. The other browsers already had the issue BEFORE I installed the Chinese browser. In fact, there are many people who love Via. It’s fast, light-weight, and also works great on e-ink. What I miss though is the option to add some of my favourite add-ons.
