Fairphone

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7289776

Because mine isn't anymore: https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/6353

I'd like to get some confirmation on this.

It's being rolled out in stages so you, like me, may not have it yet.

I am looking at getting a fp4. (Pretty seriously, I am typing this on an older phone because I listed my newer phone on eBay to switch) I want a good, privacy focused operating system to run on it and was wondering what you all run and what your experiences have been. My main concerns are:

1. Support - I don’t want my operating system maintained by just 1 or 2 random people on github.

2. Features - I want the basic stuff to work but am concerned about the fingerprint sensor and cameras.

3. Privacy - I want something ideally completely degoogled.

4. Stability - I don’t know much about android but I use Debian lts if that tells you anything about the kind of update schedule I want.

I know this is a lot to ask of an os but do you have any recommendations?

• Fairphone 5 will be presented in the next few days, price: 699 euros
• Focus on green construction, 70% fair trade and recycling
• Increased modularity for easy repairability
• 8 years software support
• 6.46 inch OLED display, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB internal memory
• Improved camera with two 50 megapixel sensors, 4K video
• Battery capacity of 4200mAh, Bluetooth 5.2, WiFi 6E, IP55
• Performance on August 31st, availability at the end of September

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I am looking for a new phone. Coming from the Sony midrangers, because they have a headphone jack. I love the FP philosophy. I don't see their devices having headphone jacks, though. Is there any talk of that being introduced?

Just noticed a funny bug, if I place my phone (FP4) on my work badge, it buzzes and then reboots to some "can't boot android, do you want to factory reset? y/n" screen. Anyone else seen this problem? Is it a feature maybe?

I just opened a map and it's off by >45° again. Doing a calibration makes it a good bit better but still quite jerky and rotating the device 90° (i.e. using a wall for reference) still does not result in a 90° turn in the compass.

Does anyone else experience this? Please include the ROM and version used.

Edit: Should have mentioned this is a FP4. Other FPs are entirely different hardware.