How come FP4 and FP6 are so problem ridden?

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I have an Pixel 9A, and I’ve only had minor problems that has been solved with updates. I also have an Moto G32 that works well with e/OS. And a Galaxy tab A7 that I use daily without any hickups. And I don’t think that any of these devices are officially supported. They’re all community.

But scrolling through the forum, most questions and bugs seems to be about Fairphone 4 and 6. How come? They are both officially supported. And shouldn’t Fairphone and e/OS team up to solve whatever issues that arises?

My girlfriend has an FP4, but as it is now I recommend her to stick with the stock OS. Which is a shame.

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Lot of users, lot of bugs :slight_smile: . My fp4 works perfectly. Those who do not have problems do not write. Today, upgraded to eos 4.3, android 16.

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Well! Good to hear that the Fairphone is not cursed with bugs per se :slightly_smiling_face:

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Signal, Whatsapp, Teams,….calls working fine?

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signal, whatsapp, teams, all ok

(italian) banking app , ok

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Not with 4.3-a16:

I’m also affected when using Signal. @Manoj announced an interim release.

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Asked myself the same question some times in the last weeks. Murena and Fairphone both talk about partnership. But there seems to be a lot of issues on both sides. It would be good to see both of them work together more closely on important bugs.

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It seems to be a general VOIP problem.

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Hi, please read my post completely.

Signal, Whatsapp, Teams,….calls working fine?

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I hope that it may help you to resolve the mystery: they are the most popular phone sold by Murena and Faiphone sells them with e/OS as well… many users, many problems :slightly_smiling_face:

P.S. I bet that on Graphene OS forum Pixels are the worst! :rofl:

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The biggest issue I had with the FP6 was the ipv6 wifi problem but that has been fixed with 4.3 and the fix for Google Android still has to be released so this is a Fairphone 6 wide problem.

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To be fair, apart from the chipmunk/mickey mouse on helium VOIP problem, 4.3 a16 on FP4 is running very good. For me, I can live with the odd bug providing there is a timely response with patches to serious issues like this one.

That being said, was a little surprised this glitch made it into the final build because I flagged it on one of the interim beta. But appreciate the team are super busy at work squishing bugs and don’t necessarily have the resources of Apple/Google so can’t really blame them.

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after fp4 upgrade to e/os 4.3 (A16) teams & forkgram(telegram) I have the same voice problem (chipmunk/mickey mouse) here. No issues on a14 e/os 4.2

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Hi,

I’m using a FP6 bought on the Murena shop and I’m very happy with it. Everything works fine : Signal, WhatsApp and calls (I don’t use Teams)

For the voice I installed the SherpaTTS engine, and I have a very realistic close to human voice :grinning_face: !

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this morning upgraded to 4.3.1 (FP4), voip calls (I tested telegram up to now) are ok

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Yes, I don’t know why, but the VoIP chipmunk problem reported for 4.3-a16-20260917677552-official-FP4 doesn’t affect me either - all calls in Threema and FritzFon have been and are running fine :grinning_face::crossed_fingers:t2::man_shrugging:t2:

This being said, I hit me in the past (must have been /e/OS v2 or v3) when nobody else was affected. So it’s kinda weird :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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Yesterday I tested also teams, now it is also ok

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Thanks cits74! I have posted a lot in the past about FP4 sound issues with Skype-now-Teams and having direct feedback about if 4.3.1 is OK with Teams with respect to sound is very useful to me.