When is Android 15 coming?

[Wubbe]

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Hi,

november, 5th I ‘ve got an email about Android 15 for Fairphone 4:

“… It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. We’re thrilled to announce the official release of Android 15 for Fairphone 4 users….”

And:

“… When it is time,

→ you will receive a push notification on your Fairphone 4.

→ All you have to do is click Update Now,

→ and your device will take care of the rest. …”

After two and a half months, I still haven’t received anything. Is that normal, or should I be concerned?

Does anyone know what’s going on and what the plan is?

[piero]

@Wubbe

Is that normal,

if i remember well, it was promissed for early 2026,
we are still in the first quarter of 2026

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a15 is already available (since july) for device on the community branch…

you may want to switch from recovery mode using https://images.ecloud.global/community/FP4/e-3.4-a15-20260117570255-community-FP4.zip

[Wubbe]

OK, I Unzipped that file. What ‘s the next step?

[piero]

unzipping is not needed

[HOWTO] Upgrade my /e/OS to major Android version without loosing /data - #2 by piero

expect a signature mismatch, at this step confirm to install anyway

[AnotherElk]

@piero

community/FP4/

Are you advising to switch an FP4 to community when community will be dropped in the foreseeable future for this device? …

@Manoj

Community builds dropped for these devices

• We will be moving to supporting one build type for devices which have an official build.
• Which means we will not be linking the community builds in our documentation. While the community builds will continue to be built, they will not be linked in our documentation. They will be available for OTA updates.
• We plan to eventually have only official builds for these devices. Where devices have the same OS version in community and official we would recommend users to migrate to the official builds.

@Manoj

Vendor Device Name CodeName Official OS version Community OS version
[…]
Fairphone FP4 FP4 A14 A15

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@Wubbe

Does anyone know what’s going on and what the plan is?

Android 15 was released as FP4 community, official will almost always lag behind, I guess you are on official ([HOWTO] Give complete /e/OS version info easily for support, answers, comparison etc), in which case it would still be in the pipeline …

@Manoj

OS OTA Information

@Manoj

Under Development and Testing

@Manoj

FP4 - Early 2026

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@Wubbe

november, 5th I ‘ve got an email about Android 15 for Fairphone 4

And this was an email from Murena, not Fairphone?
Just wondering because it would coincide with Fairphone’s Android 15 release for FP4, while Murena’s FP4 community Android 15 was available since July with official obviously not ready yet.

[Wubbe]

Hmmm sorry,

You are right. It was an email from Fairphone not from Murena.

[piero]

@AnotherElk

Are you advising to switch an FP4 to community when community will be dropped in the foreseeable future for this device? …

i inform an impatient people that it is a possible thing (as reported working by @ urs_lesse)

@AnotherElk

because it would coincide with Fairphone’s Android 15 release for FP4

why it have been so long delayed…

[urs_lesse]

I would be a bit hesitant to take my one-time success as proof that this will work for the following Fairphone models in the same manner. The “starting points” I listed in my “documentation” there might also not be the exact setup of the standard official version.