After 3 years with Fairphone 5

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Hi,

I’ve had my fairphone 5 for 3 years now. I love it and I can’t see myself going back to an other os.

I listed ennoying things I encountered lately :

  1. the default video player doesn’t receive pause command from my Bluetooth headset
  2. zoom on pictures is wrong, the picture shifts all over the place
  3. my work authenticator app, duomobile, stopped working (device detected as rooted) after v4 though it might be coincidental
  4. one of my game used to launch with no internet. Now I have a message “check that google play is enabled”. Fixed by having an internet connection. also started after v4
  5. launcher widgets sometimes go in tablet mode in 2 columns and are unusable, also happens on boot. in my experience, this happens when the phone is in landscape mode and starving for memory (heavy video game)
  6. launcher widgets don’t start on phone boot sometimes (clock especialy, doesn’t appear)
  7. with firefox in horizontal, the keyboard opens on emoji page (it’s not only Firefox, it’s every app that opens with a keyboard open, my translator does that too)
  8. in the browser tabs page, the top scroll shadow is not where it’s supposed to be. it floats two times too low (realy minor, but still)
  9. I also have a feature request : I think it would be great to be able to set reminders and calendar events from contacts, for birthdays and so on

I can do more testing and provide screen captures if needed. Thank you for the great work !

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Hi

I’m in a similar position as you (bought Murena FP5 as soon, as it was available in murena store, maybe threre was even a preorder, I don’t remember exactly).

While I can’t confirm all of your problems (2. + 7.), others I don’t know because I don’t use all the same apps or didn’t encounter the same situations but No. 5 I had happen on my device too.

I’d like to add three more annoyances to your list:

  1. I had to deactivated auto brightness from pretty early on. It always was too bright for me or fluctuated, when I was in a dark environment because its own light made my face to bright so it adapted to the new brightness.
  2. I deactivated 5G, because I felt it consumed a lot of battery power. Never missed the speed benefit over 4G in the last couple years. But maybe I don’t know, what I was missing. :face_with_peeking_eye:
  3. When I click on a calender event push notification, the notification disappears, but the event won’t open. It only goes to the event, when I open the calender app to the foreground first and then click on the notification from the notifications menu.

Those are the ones I remember from the top of my head. Just minor annoyances, the where never important enough for me for e separate forums post.

Cheers.

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