Just my two cents on how the installation of Murena OS went for me.
Key take aways or suggested improvements to the documentation to flash Murena os Install /e/OS on a Fairphone The Fairphone (Gen. 6) - “FP6”
- Make sure to log out of google account before flashing Murena. Otherwise, you get the “FPR Warning” on Murena. In my case logging into google did not help. I had to revert and flash stock Android and log out there. Moving one or two versions forward of the stock Android was not a problem.
- Make sure to remove PIN/Password before flashing Murena.
- When unlocking and later locking the bootloader, the device reboots. So I put it into bootloader with
adbcommands
Detailed story:
I have a Fairphone 6 with the official stock Android on it. Security Patch from August 2025 or so.
I checked out the supplied Android and was appalled about the many invasive google spyware. So I gave Murena a go.
Installed e-3.2 (security patch from October 2025). After things looked fine, i locked the boot loader. Then I realized that I didn’t log out out of google and kept the PIN. So I got FRP warnings and couldn’t set a Password. To avoid rollback problems and because stock Android and Murena had different time stamps on the security patches (5. October / 1. October), I played it safe and waited for the release 3.3 (official, not community variant). After a looong download and several restarts of the download, the installation went quite smoothly.
I worked with adb and fastboot on Ubuntu 24:04. I put these tools on the PATH. Adb complained about my user not being in the right group (while it was, I checked, rebooted). The sudo hammer helped: sudo env "PATH=$PATH" <adb/fastboot command>
Thanks for making a really good OS without google.
Good:
- Camera works (Fairphone Camera as well as the OpenCamera fork)
- AppLounge works quite well. I can install some of my paid apps.
- No quirks discovered so far (after 10 days of use)
Criticism
- The download speed to get the images is abysmally slow. With Lineage OS on my old phone the download was never so slow.
- The AppLounge doesn’t recognize some of my paid apps.
- The launcher of Murena is pretty bad, so I switched right away to lawnchair
- I quickly tried the “online installer” with chromium browser on Ubuntu. The phone was not discovered so I never tried again.
- I don’t really know why the image is twice the size of Lineage OS