Hisense A5C, A5 Pro CC, color e-ink phones

[ferlanero]

Originally Posted by darkrat

Hallo,
here my 2 cents about my setup of A5 Pro:

• for Italian networks, I installed 4G Switcher from Aurora and selected LTE/UMTS auto (PRL) as preferred network

What are the supposed benefits of changing the GSM connection settings?

Originally Posted by darkrat

• as launcher AIO Launcher is perfect

Similar in concept to AIO is Olauncher Clutter Free, we are also working in make this app eink friendly (eg. minimizing animations, no icons only text, resizable text, only black and white colors...)

it's worth a try:

https://github.com/jooooscha/Olauncher

Originally Posted by darkrat

• app for calendar: Business Calendar 2 from Aurora

For calendar I use Simple Calendar Pro from F-Droid. It's really customizable as other Simple Mobile Tools.

Originally Posted by darkrat

• for email fairmail from GitHub, but I'm not happy with it, it's a good email app but not "eink" friendly

I'm agree with you, but still I have not been able to find any better.

Originally Posted by darkrat

Now I would like to find a way to cancel chinese characters in calls management... Any hint?

Take a look at "Simple Contacts Pro" & "Simple Dialer" in F-Droid. Both combined completely replace the needed of any Chinese app for dialer in the A5 CC Pro.

At this point I also would like to add the best camera app I have been able to test on this phone Hedge Cam 2. Try on: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hedgecam/

[Markismus]

I ran into problems with Fairmail for the 2-step authentication that has been forced since May, iirc. Wasn't able to log in using an app password. So I switched to Edison mail.

I really like the simple dailer and contacts app: Great to be rid of the Chinese characters. Hedgecam is also a great improvement.

I use Etar and DAVx5 for calendar and contacts (together with OpenVPN to and Radicale on my homeserver.) Will give simple calendar a try, though.

For the launcher I am liking Niagara Launcher. However, I have configured Vision launcher and it will take some time to tune Niagara.

What I am irritated about is the Gallery app. I can't seem to find anything. [Italics]Does anyone know a better alternative?[/italics]

[ferlanero]

Originally Posted by Markismus

I ran into problems with Fairmail for the 2-step authentication that has been forced since May, iirc. Wasn't able to log in using an app password. So I switched to Edison mail.

I really like the simple dailer and contacts app: Great to be rid of the Chinese characters. Hedgecam is also a great improvement.

I use Etar and DAVx5 for calendar and contacts (together with OpenVPN to and Radicale on my homeserver.) Will give simple calendar a try, though.

For the launcher I am liking Niagara Launcher. However, I have configured Vision launcher and it will take some time to tune Niagara.

What I am irritated about is the Gallery app. I can't seem to find anything. [Italics]Does anyone know a better alternative?[/italics]

For gallery app, try Camera Roll: GitHub - kollerlukas/Camera-Roll-Android-App: Simple Galley App for Android, with lovely Material Design. - https://github.com/kollerlukas/Camera-Roll-Android-App

Super customizable app very suitable for eink screens