133: Fingerprint reader is back in action!

133: Fingerprint reader is back in action!
This is a photo of my phone, watch, and notepad I took back when I got the phone. They're all the same screen technology, which earned me the nickname "kindle guy" to a few individuals, but honestly I'm alright with that.

My minimal phone has had a faulty fingerprint sensor since like May (I got the phone in April), so I've just gotten used to putting in the pin every time, but I'm pretty looped into the online community of early adopters for it, and the reports had been pretty good that factory resetting the phone solved the issue, so I finally bit the bullet tonight to do exactly that, and it worked!

I've spent the last hour and a half or so reinstalling and re-signing into all of my stuff, which wasn't quite as bad as I was expecting (everything was automatically reinstalled, because I ran a backup immediately before resetting it). I'll have to get used to having fingerprint access again, because it's something I didn't have for longer than it was something I did have. The fingerprint sensor gave out genuinely like a month into me having the phone, which was an apparently long-winded software bug that they've now fixed the root cause of, but it didn't apply retroactively, so I had to factory-reset to get mine to reactivate.