Sailfish OS for Fairphones devices

Hardware Adaptation
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Would it be technically possible to imagine AAS working on a FP, of course if a license could be available for it?
Thanks

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If like me you cannot connect to WIFI then I found a workaround fix for the FP5 using WPA2(AES)-PSK and connection to WIFI with the new 5G router worked.

The default was a higher setting WPA3(AES)-PSK but I couldn’t connect to this either 2.4GHz or 5GHz so figured it must be the security setting then.

You could always hide this network at home if you want more security if you have that option in your Router Admin settings.

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AFAIK, you get less security, not more…

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Yes i meant less but if you don’t want to show this outside your home to the wider public, its the only way i could establish a connection presently other than a wired connection which worked without changing the settings.

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Known connman problem for years. We can only :folded_hands: it gets fixed by next release.

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Is Android 13 not supported both by FP4 and Waydroid? Did you try that and what happened if you did?

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Any further updates planned for FP5 this year. Do we have to keep using the instructions ssu re .., zypper ref, zypper dup or can we check via settings?

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Any news about port Fairphone 6 ?

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Is the Fairphone 4 a good choice? According to op everthing works? except some minor bluetooth issues?
Or better get a OnePlus 6?
Or has someone maybe other recommendations?

best regards

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If you need VoLTE where you use your device, then know the OP6(t) doesn’t have that at this time. If you don’t need that, the OP6 and OP6t are very nice devices with good performance and with a form factor a bit less “chunky” than the Fairphones.

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Works for me (and my family - three daily used devices) with out big problems :grinning_face:. FP5 should have the same state but with longer HW support …

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thx for your input, still not sure what to buy.
what would you choose?

either OnePlus 6 “Refurbished” for about 100-150€ (sometimes <100) for 128gb (no sd but better cpu and gpu)
or Fairphone 4 new for ~200

edit:
took the Fairphone 4 because modem supports 5g and it has a sd card.slot. Also new instead of refurbished (although this isnt a real issue for me).

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There is now a bit more work for Fairphone 6 needed because LineageOS development moved to new Android version (version 16) so I need to add support for that into Sailfish OS. Hopefully it’s similar amount of work as version 15 was.

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thanks mal, installation on FP4 was without issues (except couldnt get twrp to boot [with fastboot boot], was stuck in fairphone boot logo screen but could still use fastboot? but didn’t really matter anyway).
Just unlock bootloader, download zip, extract and run flash.sh

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It is the same for my two FP4, with TWRP the only way is to “fastboot flash”…

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I read something about changing active slot, never heard of that before. Tried but still failed. But again, didnt really matter as it was stock os with only first time setup done (so no need to backup anything)

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The easy way is to flash on both slots :wink:

fastboot flash recovery_a twrp.img && fastboot flash recovery_b twrp.img

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@mal
regading fingerprint:
messed around a litte wondering why fingerprint isnt working, for some reason decided to restart fingerprint service and now suddenly:

[defaultuser@Fairphone4 patch-restart-ofono]$ systemctl status sailfish-fpd.service
● sailfish-fpd.service - Fingerprint Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sailfish-fpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2025-11-03 11:29:40 CET; 10s ago
  Process: 28611 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -f /run/systemd/boot-status/init-done || sleep 5 || : (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 28620 (sailfish-fpd)
   Memory: 808.0K
   CGroup: /system.slice/sailfish-fpd.service
           ├─28620 /usr/bin/sailfish-fpd --systemd
           └─28636 /usr/libexec/sailfish-fpd/fpslave --log-to=syslog --log-level=4

also now in security settings add fingerpring entry shows up ?? (didnt try yet though)

edit: ah ok, after a short while it crashes again

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Hi y’all!

Coming from the other thread about usable phones, the question about Location / GPS came up.

I see satellites (and a working compass) with gps info, but why are they not used, nor a location resolved?

There were testimonials about FP4 working, and I generally don’t care that much about location, but gotta ask, is this expected to work on the FP5?

Anything I can or should do to help debug?

Thanks, loving the port still!

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I just found a reason why assisted location was not working at least on some devices and I will test the code also on Fairphone devices to see if the changes will help on those. Slow location lock is probably due to non-working assisted location so it doesn’t download satellite data from internet but instead only gets it from satellites which is slow and location can be obtained only after enough satellites have gotten the needed data.

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