Thats the eternal dilemma with these modular phones - you trade features for repairability and fairness, but at some point we all hit that wall where we need the feature more than the ethics.
I installed LineageOS on it, but then went back to stock when I realised my bank's app didn't work. All was good until the next OS update utterly bricked it - and I really mean bricked. Loads of people on the forums had the same issue, and apparently it's happened many times before. It took well over a month for FP support to send an automatic reply to my messages, then another two weeks for them to tell me I'd be expected to pay for the repair. I ended up claiming on insurance and buying a Pixel, which happily jumps back and forth between stock and GrapheneOS.
So, how about "How to test a firmware update 101" or "How to support a phone 101" instead?
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OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y
Luv me fairphone 3 Luv me 'eadphone jack 'ate the 4 cos they removed it 'ate the 5 cos they didn't add it back on Simple as
If it was faster and the camera wasn't shit I'd keep my 3 forever
It just sucks that at some point I'm going to buy a less fair phone because the fair ones don't have the features I need.
MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Thats the eternal dilemma with these modular phones - you trade features for repairability and fairness, but at some point we all hit that wall where we need the feature more than the ethics.
rmuk@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
My Fairphone 5 lasted all of six months.
I installed LineageOS on it, but then went back to stock when I realised my bank's app didn't work. All was good until the next OS update utterly bricked it - and I really mean bricked. Loads of people on the forums had the same issue, and apparently it's happened many times before. It took well over a month for FP support to send an automatic reply to my messages, then another two weeks for them to tell me I'd be expected to pay for the repair. I ended up claiming on insurance and buying a Pixel, which happily jumps back and forth between stock and GrapheneOS.
So, how about "How to test a firmware update 101" or "How to support a phone 101" instead?
poddus@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
their next article should be "how to maintain support of a fairphone 101" because I think they desperately need a refresher
kepix@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1y
greenwashing