BraX3 - Supported Operating Systems

I understand their issues. When you’re not supported by the manufacturer, it’s a headache you probably don’t want to deal with.

In our case, that’s a bit different as they basically have access to the teams that designs and develops the code for the platform. So they won’t have to go through the porting journey alone.

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Focus on longevity? Brax3 have got durability case.
Focus on ethical source … I really don’t care about it. Privacy is more ethically important, then climate hoax, you really don’t understand that, do you?

What opportunity to be unique, instead like every one else in a the masses.
BraX3 put good stuff for price. That is more fair then ‘Fairphone’
Logically, people rise sheep to kill and eat it, sins then, sheep don’t like logic.
But so as people, are given gadgets to spy on them, monitor them, control them for usury and other purpose, that are so “good” that they have to keep secret about it. So people worry about quality of support of gadgets, that designed against their interest. Kek
Good people, good ideas. I want them to grow and I want support them with their first steps.

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What a lot of problematic comments to unpack here.
Won’t do that tho.
Anyway just to say that @plamen you could have at least be a bit more humble in the assessment and not put fully supported under iodeos where in the end there are at least 12 (and I am being gentle here) hardware problems to resolve here by software oriented solutions.
But eh who am I to judge right. You already kicked me once after all just to point out the problem and given solutions which I just learned today that in the end you were lying all along about taking the problem seriously. Good for you man.

I’m interested in what hardware problems there are that you know about with the Brax3 on iodeOS. Please share this info in detail as I believe it is important for the community to know about.

On a side note, it doesn’t look very good when you tell someone to be more humble while you are making bold claims without providing any proof, or details, and simultaneously calling them a liar.

Don’t get me wrong if you have valid concerns, I want to know what they are and I think we should all be privy to your viewpoint. Just try to be a bit less abrasive. It’ll give you more power and success in the community. We don’t want the community to go the way of graphene’s..

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well the proofs are on the beta section of the forum and in the chat. So he knows what I am talking about.
I am going to mix hardware and purely software problems.

  • The wifi is clearly badly implemented. Tye don’t want to listen so that’s fine.
  • The double sim configurations have issues in and signal strenght and latencies.
  • There are unresolved audio issues during calls in specific conditions.
  • There are/were camera issues, again in specific conditions but in the mean time it is a cheap device so you can’t ask for much. Latency management is a problem which is linked to the storage which my next point.
  • The storage is UFS 2.0 so you can’t ask much, especially for this price point. But then those devices with this kind of storage comes with a lot of limitations and latencies when it comes to background processes, active process too (like the camera responsiveness). There should be an active limitation settings, software-wise, when it comes to active and background process, since this device can’t handle everything. The price point is there to remind us of that. But don’t expect to do too much multi task with it. Simple scenario would be, VPN + orbot proxy + Invizible Pro proxy + the different messaging app background processes + fairemail, in that scenario don’t expect the device to be responsive and especially not if it needs to install updates from the aurora store. System or front end would probably crash. IT does at least a lot in every tests we ran on the device.
  • I am going to put aside the RCS implementation problem for now.
  • The routing table is clearly problematic when it comes to zerotier
  • hardware decoding acceleration for videos in browsers or elsewhere is still a problem in various scenarios.
  • Some bluetooth pairing are still a problem

In each of those points there are several problems included but that was to describe the general picture.
And overall it is fine. It totally can be a work in progress I had no problem with that and always said it since the beginning of the beta program.When I am not okey with is when we say something is a finished product when it is not and when the priority are not put properly when it comes to what “which functionality should the device be finished about and have higher priority over the other problems”.

How is it now? Better to your liking?

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Thank you for clarifying. I appreciate your input and specific examples.

Update on my ZeroTier issue on the Brax3. We have been running this network for several years without a DNS server on it and have had no issues with any type of device reaching it. Recently, only iOS devices started having problems. In an effort to troubleshoot that, the admin put a DNS server on it. I now have full access to all our resources. So the cause was not the Brax3

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Thanks for the feedback.
The issues are reported and iode team is working on resolving. Hopefully they are able to fix all - we’re supporting them in the process.

It’s normal to have some issues from the beginning. It’s a community project with limited resources. Everyone is trying their best.
A lot of the issues you listed are affecting a small percentage of users. Which is naturally going to reduce the priority for developers to fix. But we’re making sure these problems are still addressed.

Will be the same with other Operating Systems that get ported. Things will get better the more people use the product and report various issues. Thanks for sharing your feedback so far.

Maybe we can do a better job clarifying what’s meant by fully supported - that it basically supports all key features. But it shouldn’t be understood as bug-free.

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That’s great, thanks for clarifying!

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