Vendor Name: FAIRPHONE
Device name: Fairphone 4
Device CodeName: FP4
Version 3.0.1-a144-20250607798722-offiial-FP4
I had some internet issues (see here), but now solved !
No things else to say
Hello,
yesterday the 3.0.4 update came via OTA, thanks to the team for that. Unfortunately, the problem with the permanent VPN is still there. It is not selectable.
Is there any information on this?
Hi all, I am new here.
I wanted to ask some help, please please please. I am stucked in recovery and I cannot switch on my phone (a fairphone 5), because my device decided unilaterally to update from v.2.8.
I donāt know anything of phones and computersā¦
I have read your messages, but I am still stucked in sending the update to the phone.
I downloaded the update, my phone and computer see each other, adb is installed on my computer, I opened openshell, and I am stucked there :
PS C:\Users\Pierre\Documents\adb\platform-tools> ./adb sideload C:\Users\Pierre\AppData\Local\Temp 621cab0f-daa0-47f7-9daf-494d5d63ab44_platform-tools-latest-windows.zip.b44
adb.exe: sideload requires an argument
Could you please (please, please !) help me?
Have a good evening !
Elena
Hi @ElenaAAA welcome to the /e/Forum.
(I should not give you my āfirst guessā advice, but I have) ā Please can you give a little more description. The unilateral action might sound like the System Updater proposed an update ā¦ something then failed (??) ā¦ Using your own initiative you are trying yourself. To what extent is your Fairphone 5 running or not running normally.
I also would really need to know your build_version_string, with a non-running phone that is not possible. I guess you might be running
e-2.8-t-20250321478215-official-FP5
^ T = Android 13 ^ an official build
To give you specific advice we need to know for sure is it
Android 13 (T) and is it an official build, it would be if bought from Murena.
Some specific reading ā¦
Here is a part of this thread where I gave similar advice Post #329, Post #436 and Post #437 all this based on the expert solution provided in Post #203 please read the posts at least briefly to help understand your position.
āRequires an argumentā means that the object you want to sideload is missing; this object would be the OTA_PACKAGE, that is the e-filename.zip of your download. But your download should not contain a leading IMG- in the filename.
The easiest way to make your download available to adb sideload is to download your e-filename.zip straight into your platform-tools folder that is
C:\Users\Pierre\Documents\adb\platform-tools\
Now the correct command is
adb sideload e-filename.zip
using the full name of the downloaded e-filename.zip
You would be able to collect an FP5 official OTA_PACKAGE from
ota.ecloud.global/api/v1/FP5/official
My first guess might be that you search for
"url": "https://ota.ecloud.global/official/FP5/e-3.0.4-t
to provide the most recent
Android 13 (T) and is it an official build.
Please come back to confirm the specifics if any uncertainty.
Good luck
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First of all, thank you for your help.
I am SO happy to tell you that I have SUCCEEDED ! I didnāt believe my eyes !
As other persons in the forum, the phone was bought with e/OS pre-installed. I bought it in Fairphone website, more or less 3 months ago. I guess the version was as you said.
Have a very good summer !
Elena
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Hi again,
unfortunately I have a little problem with the installation of all applications, without exception (bank appli, spotify, proton mail & calendar, mail from work, ā¦). Is there any solution ? It doesnāt work (I tried to switch off).
Good evening,
Elena
Perhaps try writing out the story in you own language, does it start from this event ? what did happen then ? or is it not relevant ? has the new problem only started today ?
ā¦ then use DeepL Translate: The world's most accurate translator to paste it here.
Is this just an App Lounge thing ?
What, it wonāt Power down ??
Hi,
Iām afraid I was misunderstood.
Now I have the os murena that you kindly pointed out to me in your post above and as a system it seems to me that everything works perfectly, except that I canāt install any application on it.
What I meant was that Iād already tried switching off and on again several times and removing the battery, to see if that would have solved the problem. But unfortunately the problem (I canāt install a single application on my device) remains.
With the help of deepl ha haā¦
Have a good week,
Elena
The default App Lounge seems to have problems from time to time. There is this App Lounge FAQ. Especially after your update, taking each step and reboot the phone after each step and turn off all Advanced Privacy might bump it into effective use again.
In my experience the step in the FAQ where you logout of App Lounge, clear storage and accept T&C again plus reboot can be important.
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- Vendor name: OnePlus
- Device name: Nord
- Device CodeName: avicii
- Version of previous /e/OS: 2.9-s-official
- Not rooted
Installation of 3.0.1-s-official went smooth (upgrade already done in June but forgot to report it here).
No (unknown) issues!
- Vendor Name: Google
- Device name: Pixel 6 Pro
- Device CodeName: raven
- Version of previous /e/OS: 2.9-t
- Not rooted
Installation of 3.0.1-t went smooth without issues.
Functions not tested, because immediately started upgrade to 3.0.4-t.
Thanks!
Updated a few days ago to 3.0.4. Revolit decided to work (theres another thread specifically for revolut) but the Duolingo mic access issue stil persists. Also, it seems the issue with rhe settings becoming unresponsive after searching in them has also been fixed.
Thanks, this is really working out the App Lounge situation
we did 2 upgrades at the same time, jumping from from 2.09 to 3.04 - official version on Fairphone 5ās. No problems yet - all looking fine.
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Installed first dirty update of 3.0.4 from 3.0.1 and creating new user is slowing down the entire system. Itās somewhat better than in 3.0.1, but still unusable.
Then I tried clean installation of 3.0.4 without encryption, just went to recovery and āFormat system partitionā and then āFormat data/factory resetā. Then installed clean 3.0.4 version and the results were the same -creating new user slows down the whole system and there is even popup āUI is not respondingā or similar. The only help is to restart the whole system.
e/os 3.04 Upgrade - FP5 - I did find one problem but, is trivial. I thought that I would try out the new Proton Lumo AI app and that does not seem to work. I get a message about Google Play not being enabled, However, it may not have worked in version 2.9 that I was using previously, either.
Hi all,
Thank you for your help, but despite all the tips youāve kindly given me, no application can be installer on my Fairphone 5.
Does anyone have the same problem? Does anyone have the any other ideas? Thank you !
Elena
Have you checked recent app-lounge threads? There are many reports of failure for the past weeks including a day not working for me Anonymous account not working - #9 by aibd.
It is worth reading some of these recent posts. For instance App Lounge hangs on many "common" apps.
Most of us have more than just App Lounge so there is a fallback on bad days.
You should find that you can install F-Droid from this link. Download with your phone then give necessary permissions for the system to install the .apk.
Once done you can install Aurora store from F-Droid. Maybe App Lounge even works better with Aurora store and F-Droid installed !!
Fairphone 3+ (FP3+)
Went from 2.9-t (if I recall correctly) to 3.0.1-t.
It was OK for one or two weeks, but today I started getting āunable to resolve hostsā errors from seemingly all apps trying to resolve hosts (F-droid trying to update repositories, an RSS feed reader trying to fetch dataā¦) except the default web browser. For example, the RSS reader complained about being unable to get the IP for xkcd dot com, but I had no problem browsing that same website with the web browser.
Switching WiFi off and on did not fix the issue, nor did using mobile data.
A reboot fixed (temporarily?) the issue, and now Iām in the process of installing 3.0.4.
I vaguely remember seeing stuff about connection issues on v3 but oddly enough, I fail to find relevant recent posts mentioning host resolution failures. 
Edit: My āPrivate DNSā setting, after update to 3.0.4, is on āAutomaticā. Dunno if I should fiddle with this if the issue occurs again.