I switched to /e/OS on my Fairphone 5 just yesterday using the web installer. While I am comfortable working with command lines and scripts directly, I thought I would give it a try.
Apart from some Windows driver shenanigans it worked very well, but I am confused by some of the results:
a) The Web installer did not lock my bootloader. I’m confused by this since I made sure, that the /e/OS Version has a newer security patch and I should be safe despite anti-rollback being present and active. Is this as expected?
b) The web installer flashed /e/ 3.0.1-t, not the Android 14 version. I wonder why? There is an official a14 image available and on the page for the FP5 it’s listed as “U official”.
Anyways. Now after preliminary using my phone a bit, I’m overall quite happy. I just noticed, that some things I grew accustomed to are missing.
Is there a way to force slow charging and limiting the charging to 80%?
I would like to not root my system out of convenience (banking apps and the like). Can I get the same functionality back, that is part of Fairphone Android OS?
Also, is there a way to force Google Play Apps in App Lounge? If there is an open source alternative, it only serves this one. This is a bit troublesome for me as I’d like to get my purchased options from Google Pla back (FairEmail Pro, WarnWetter, aCalender Pro, etc.). For FairEmail, there seems to be no other way to get the Pro Features I need.
Apart from this, I’m quite happy how seemless the whole experience is for now. I refrain from setting up my device fully for now because of the unlocked bootloader, because of the Android version situation for now. I’d very much appreciate if some of you could give me some insight into what I might have done wrong and whether there is a way to update to 3.0.1-U? I saw, there is an “local update” feature within the settings app.
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