"Tap to wake" (still) not working

/e/OS Devices Fairphone
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This seems to be an elusive topic. I’ve seen threads of people who can’t enable it, people who can’t disable it, people who can’t even find the settings, …

My situation:

  • Fairphone 5
  • With Fairphone OS, Android 14, “Tap on wake” (double tapping anywhere on the black screen to wake up the phone) was working more or less reliable. I used it daily as my phone’s buttons are often not reachable in its bike mount.
  • Now with /e/OS 2.8 (Community) the setting is still there, it is turned on, but it doesn’t work at all.
  • AoD, Always on Display (aka “Always show time and info”, available on /e/OS but not on FairphoneOS) does not seem to impact the behaviour whether it’s turned on or off.
  • Battery saver on or off also makes no difference.

I’m quite missing this functionality. I would submit a bug report on GitLab, but it doesn’t let me register (probably because my e-mail address uses the newer top-level domain .gent).

Anyone in a similar situation who did manage to get this to work?

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So, as an update: I don’t know what changed, I’m not aware of any updates since, but out of nowhere this started working. With and without AoD, I can now smoothly wake up my phone by double tapping the screen. Nice.

(I did install Google TTS to get Duolingo working again, but that can’t be related, can it?)

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I would like that, too. Had it on my Blackberry for years. But I would never like to have an always on display because of energy consumption.

I use another method because of that, based on the proximity sensor. In the FP3 the proximity sensor is somewhere near the top edge. So when I move my hand near this edge the screen is activated. This is done by an app called WaveUp (F-Droid). Not always good (for instance in a pocket), that’s why you can switch it off, but works well in the very most cases and reduces the use of the hardware button a lot.