My wish list for /e/

Browser doesn’t support extensions.

Therefore I ask you to open a ticket so that the integration can be discussed or implemented directly in the browser.

I share this feature request here as it was posted elsewhere. I think it would be a useful feature for App Lounge.

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Man! You know much about Android. What a pleasure it is to have you in the community!

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As of /e/OS T (Android 13), the built-in AOSP keyboard has an option to activate a digit row.

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What a surprise! My wish is real.
Jul '22

Not sure if Android13 is responsible or the developer team, anyway, very nice!

Chargingcontrol found in Settings > Battery

Best regards

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Hello,

Did you figure out if this was because of Android 13 or if it was a specific dev from /e/ for your device (which is?)?

Hi MaMaTT88,
I’m not sure, but it seems that this feature only became possible with Android13 and the developers have now implemented it.
My device is an FP3 (+) with 1.19.1-t-dev.
Best Regards

Hi,
my wish for the /e/ OS would be:
implementing an option to limit the recharging (i.e. to 85% of the battery capacity) in order to extend battery life. This option is already available on standard Android OS (I saw it on the Samsung device ‘Galaxy A32 5G’). So hopefully you will add this option soon. Actually I waited for that you would implement such an option after a while and expected it kind of. I bought an Fairphone 4 with /e / OS also because of ecological reasons. It would be very nice to have a longer battery life. Besides that I don’t have any complaints. The FP4 and /e/ OS work great! Thanks for developing and publishing the OS and thanks for your efforts in degoogling! Cheers
Edit: I am using the actual version
1.20-s-20240220382012-stable-FP4

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In the posts just above it seems this is possible with the newer android base that is coming.

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https://spot.murena.io is not a relevant, well-known, successful search engine provider. The current standard search engine in the e-browser delivers very unsatisfactory results! Cobbler, stick to your last!

Adding other search engines in the browser:
https://search.demoniak.ch/
https://www.startpage.com/
https://metager.de/

The first search engine mentioned here is a searx instance in Switzerland. Switzerland has very strong data protection rights. Depending on the country selection, a different searx instance could be chosen here: https://searx.space/

Yes, that’s always said. But Switzerland has also a long tradition in mass surveillance (since 2006, if I remember well). Switzerland has been a European pioneer in data retention for future reference and does this without interruption still today. And you will never know for what. Nobody talks about this.

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Thanks for this objection, those who avoid Swiss servers may prefer to use https://freesearch.club/ in the Netherlands.

My biggest wishes is to be able to add widget on the desktop !!

/e/OS supports installing a launcher of your choice, other launchers offer adding widgets on the home screen :person_shrugging:.

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/e/OS brings everything I daily need, is really reliable now, and I’m pretty happy with it on my FP4! (Thanks to the whole team).

Maybe the only “must have” missing feature would be a “kinda” fork of Android Auto that will enable to mirror apps on cars infotainments (especially navigation). But I know it’s pretty hard to set up due to Google’s proprietary APIs.

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If possible, Please add the Signal-FOSS app to the App Lounge. It is an Signal-App alternative fdroidrepos://fdroid.twinhelix.com/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=7B03B0232209B21B10A30A63897D3C6BCA4F58FE29BC3477E8E3D8CF8E304028

Maybe also Molly https://molly.im

I am using /e/OS on a FP5 and i really love the cooperation that you have with Fairphone (hope you will keep it up)!

My wish would be:
Have you considered to release a small Android phone in this cooperation, e.g. in iPhone Mini size? As there is a lack of offer in the market, Eric Migicovsky opened up an online petition on this (https://smallandroidphone.com/) and it is highly supported by many (>40000 followers), including me.
As a side effect, /e/OS could likely win more users/get the attention of the community that desires smaller smartphones again, which comfortably fit into a pocket and are more easy (+ healthier) for one hand to hold.

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I think there is not enough demand for small phones. One of the last ones was Zenfone from Asus (worse is they also made bootloader unlock impossible…) and the succesor to it is a bigger phone now. But I am all for that Murena releases a smaller phone or even kickstarts it again. It would be an instant buy from me.

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I’m almost done migrating away from /e/ but I thought it might be worth it to leave one last post here.

I would have liked to see murenacloud blossom and come along further in the past few years, but it seems to have degraded instead. My wishes for all you /e/ users: sync that actually works across all features: photos/docs/contacts/calendar/etc, 100% reliably with little downtime. Email/Snappymail that performs faster than it does, and servers that are rarely down and not afflicted with ‘request is aborted’ error messages, or murenacloud servers just being down period.

/e/ OS is one of the better offerings out there, but the phone ↔ murenacloud synergy is just not good enough to waste anymore time on. I’ve found that using Lineage again and ‘rolling my own’ is just about equal to all the additional band-aids I’ve had to use with /e/ OS as it sits.

I’ll keep an eye on /e/, who knows it may come around the corner. Hopefully something else comes along before that.

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