I’m about to install /e/OS on my brand new FP5. It’s my first installation and I’ve not used the phone so far - not put any sim card in it so far.
I’m a little bit worried about this warning in the FP5 installation guide:
Warning: Make sure that you can send and receive SMS and place and receive calls (also via WiFi and LTE, if available), otherwise it will not work on /e/OS as well. Additionally, some devices require that VoLTE/VoWiFi be utilized once on stock to provision IMS.
First of all, as I’ve not put any simcard in my FP5 I guess I don’t comply to this warning at all. I would really love to avoid puting my simcard in the phone until it’s under /e/OS. Could this be done with another simcard or does it have to be done with the futur simcard?
I can see how to send SMS over 4g or wifi but I have no idea what LTE is and how I can force my phone to send SMS through it. Same goes for VoLTE/VoWiFi
I would really love to get extra information on this warning if possible.
it’s a blanket statement warning on all devices that helped some users of (in my experience) older and different manufacturers with operator services device registration. I don’t think a FP5 benefits from this procedure in 2024. It gets enough quality assurance through Fairphone already. The same modem partitions FP official delivers come with /e/OS.
The warning ends up in the wiki / docs via text-template-snippets. It’s about getting the IMEI registered in the operators network with a vanilla / stockrom state, as the operator might have certified it to let it onto its network. After it’s allowed the theory goes you can’t be denied (sub-)service registration.
If it’s not a 2018-2020-era device of a period when VoLTE got popular and operators might have rolled out support by device type / identifiers I’d ignore that warning.
I’ve alreardy checked that, in fact I connected the phone to wifi and did android upgrade before reading that part in the install guide so I’ve been waiting since 1 month for the new /e/OS version (2.2) which should be on the same level of security than the actual android on my FP5 but thanks for pointing this out!
I’ve proceeded with the install guide and I’m now stuck at the flashing step: when I launch the script “flash_FP5_factory.sh” it detects my FP5 and seems like starting to send things but the first one never end up. Here is the log:
./flash_FP5_factory.sh
*** Fairphone 5 flashing script ***
INFO: The procedure will start soon. Please wait...
Note that this will detect and flash only on Fairphone 5 device.
INFO: You are using a Linux distribution.
INFO: Looking for connected device(s)...
INFO: One Fairphone 5 in fastboot mode found (serial number: 7e1e5e8e).
Sending 'bluetooth_a' (3356 KB)
I’m on a ubundu laptop and every other step went fine. Any ideas? I’ll start looking for the right place on the forum to actually post this message.
