As there is no specific page for the Z5 Compact - suzuran, I thought I’d start this page to raise a few, though for moment minor issues with the latest e-0.18 build dated 28 August.
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External SD card formatting - I’ve had a message on inserting a Sandisk 16 Gb card that it needed re-formatting (though it is factory-formatted for Windows when you by it) and on accepting the procedure it got stuck at about 40% and then on back-tracking to kill the formatting the card had become unreadable, so I had to take it out and recreate the partition table and format it to FAT32 before it became readable on the Z5 again. But there was still a warning that it needed reformatting. I ignored this and it seems to cause no problems of read/write access with other apps and also recognised by TWRP for a backup I made.
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OTG connection with a USB storage - using a Samsung dual connector stick that I had used for previous backups from a Samsung device, the Z5 didn’t recognise it at first. I followed advice I found on the XDA-developers site and tried re-starting it with the stick connected, and it seems to work as a notification appeared on system startup asking if I wanted to mount it. There appears to be no problem with read/write access once this is done. No message about it needing reformatting!
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Screen readability problem with the dialler - this appears to be a problem on the Lineage build as well, which is probably the source of the issue as the eOS for suzuran is built on the Lineage version.
During a call if you need to tap a number (eg. for an extension line) the screen appears to have white numbers on a white background making them unreadable. On the other hand, using the battery-saving dark mode the numbers appear on the black background but the corresponding letters now disappear as they use a black font as well! This can be seen below:
I’m not sure if I should file a bug report for this issue because while confusing at first it doesn’t stop you using the dialler as long as you know where to tap!
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