While trying to install certain apps from the Applounge on a Fairphone 5, the installer gets into an endless loop and is not installing. I went through the “delete cache” and “delete data” for the Applounge, but nothing helped.
As the very same apps did install on /e/os on another device (FP6, OP7t Pro), I went to Aurora. To my surprise, the very same apps did not install, but this time giving the error “app not available for your device”. I then found that in Aurora it is possible to spoof your device via the settings. So when I choose to spoof it for another Fairphone model, the app just installed.
After a further search, I found on the Aurora gitlab that this was a known issue and it seems to be solved in LineageOS:
Hopefully /e/os will update the LineageOS version for the FP5 soon, so all users can install their apps again via the Applounge.
In the meantime I hope this information is of any help to all Murena Fairphone 5 users.
there was a merge yesterday to that end so v3.3 will have this. Until then Aurora Spoofing helps.
from a forum perspective AppL installation woes over the last half year was a twisted issue as it were 2 different problems at its root with one only affecting a subgroup (FP5, +), so threads and gitlab issues were all over. Hard to keep things apart without telemetry (that users do not want).