Hisense A5

[cartz]

Originally Posted by orebmur

Short pressing the e-ink button by default triggers a screen refresh.
No need to program anything, unless you want to modify the long press behaviour.

That doesn't work for me. Long pressing starts voice input but short pressing doesn't seem to do anything and definitely doesn't refresh the screen.

Is there a setting somewhere?

[wizz]

I have a question about the "Short press Eink button" options.
The options are in Chinese.
Does anyone have a translation of the different options?
Thanks!

[orebmur]

So apparently the short press screen refresh is not a default setting, as i erroneously assumed.

Originally Posted by cartz

Is there a setting somewhere?

Verifying 'Settings > Buttons > Short press Eink button' i had set the fourth list entry (the third chinese one after None) checked. This probably does the trick.

I wish i'd be able to read and understand Chinese.

[notwaiting]

Originally Posted by tracey1

That sounds really good. There are mainly two things I believe, I have read about the E ink Display of the Hisense phones, respectively the A2 Pro that seem a little off-putting. Apparently while using the E-ink Display, it switches to the color display after a while. And it's said to flash/refresh often while using an internet browser. Can you confirm that ?

I own an Yotaphone 2 and use the E-ink Display as my main display. The E-ink display never switches to the color display unless you don't use it for a while and the browsing experience was very neat. I do wonder what your thought on this are and do you think I could use the E ink Display of the Hisense comfortably as my main display as I have done with the YP2 ?

As the previous poster said the Hisense a5 screen is much better than Yotaphone 2. I also used to own one and loved it at the time. This phone is much more comfortable as the screen is also bigger. The Yotaphone 2 was sometimes a bit of a strain for me to keep looking at because of the small screen. The a5 even rivals it in weight despite being larger. It's much quicker browsing because of the increase in ram. In my opinion the Yota phones were also potentially unreliable, some developed lines across the screen.

[notwaiting]

Cool, you can set the eink button to toggle the frontlight.

If I don't take "none" as number one, these are the ones I could make out:

1 - unknown
2 - screen off
3 - quick refresh
4 - frontlight toggle (aka auto backlight)
5 - frontlight toggle (aka manual backlight)
6 - frontlight toggle (aka nightmode)
7 - unknown - seems to scroll down
8 - unknown - seems to scroll down
9 - toggle smooth/clear mode
10 - back button
11 - start application

[notwaiting]

Oh right, 1 is default obviously.

[orebmur]

Apparently there is no way to get rid of the default long press option of the e-ink button. Only single and double short press are listed as configurable.

[Thepilator]

How can I disable blinking in this phone? It appears during unlocking and installing apps updates.
It's giving me headaches. Anyone? Thanks in advance

[wizz]

Thanks for finding out about the different E ink button options!
Only thing to do now is to get of the really annoying long press function.
Cheers, Fr

[notwaiting]

Originally Posted by notwaiting

Cool, you can set the eink button to toggle the frontlight.

If I don't take "none" as number one, these are the ones I could make out:

1 - unknown
2 - screen off
3 - quick refresh
4 - frontlight toggle (aka auto backlight)
5 - frontlight toggle (aka manual backlight)
6 - frontlight toggle (aka nightmode)
7 - unknown - seems to scroll down
8 - unknown - seems to scroll down
9 - toggle smooth/clear mode
10 - back button
11 - start application

1. seems to bring up the music app or pause once inside it.

That's one I'll probably use actually. It's still possible to toggle frontlight holding eink button+volume.

[cartz]

My guess is that the options line up in the same order as given in the e-ink button introduction option.

I haven't time to test right now.

[notwaiting]

Originally Posted by cartz

My guess is that the options line up in the same order as given in the e-ink button introduction option.

I think number one does different things in different contexts as before.
7 and 8 have not been identified.

[porp]

For reference, this is Google translating all the options for 'short press E ink button'.

[kyteflyer]

I think I would quite like to get an A5 just to be used as a reader... I’ll always be Apple for my phones. anyone doing that?

[mobile12]

hi all,

first of all thanks for all your info, i appreciated the best apps to download for each category.

i have a problem: when the phone is sleeping, when i type the passcode, it just sometimes just returns to the passcode screen.. if i keep trying/reboot it fixes it temporarily..

any ideas? i haven't used adb or root or anything crazy, the only thing i have done is install Noroot Firewall to block some of the traffic, and i recently updated to the latest version of the software: L1657.6.08.06.00

any help would be appreciated, i just bought this thing, this is a pretty major problem.