It would be nice if Sailfish X would be extended to Fairphone devices.
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Been advocating for this since my 10iii daysā¦ Itās a perfect opportunity, imo.
Though, question for this port; does Waydroid work?
Thank you @mal for maling the Fairphone models capable of running SailfishOS.
I replaced my FP4 with a FP5 today. My first impression what a solid work you have done! Then came the speed, beautiful screen and th
So looking forward to playing with v5.1 on thiid phone.
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Last week Iāve decided to reflash sailfish os, because I had some issues with my phone not loading when it onces charges fully, unless I reboot. Instead of seeing fastboot after flashing, I saw black light and EDL mode on my fairphone 5. Since I couldnāt find any useful files, Iāve decided to send it to some random phone fixing store near me. They said that they can fix it. 300$ down the drain and brick still existsā¦.
I am thinking about getting fairphone 6, since postmarket os supports it. @mal Is there any chance that sailfish will be ported there in any near future ?
Be careful with Fairphone 6 and other operating systems.
My fairphone fried, it just stopped charging and usb-c port, cable or charger change didnāt help
What I read from forums is that itās common on e/os and that the motherboard is fried.
My greatest fear is they get to know I changed android to e/os and that voids the warranty. And I couldnāt reflash android, because I couldnāt move power nor data through the port. Reflashing the original os would have returned the warranty.
Though the positive thing in the Fairphone frying is that I was forced to dailydrive Sony 10 II with Sailfish and it strengthened my resolve to move to J2 and Sailfish. With J2 I donāt need to fear I lose my warranty because I wanted to move away from spyware.
I like the idea of Fairphone, but it breaking after few months of use isnāt good. Also, itās my first phone I have to send to a warranty repair.
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I am unsure about this : I know that some manufacturers can detect reflashing, there are some alterations upon first flash (resulting in wrting the number one instead zero in some files), that are permanent. At least in the past, Samsung had such a implementation to detect alterations of the original firmware and refused warrenty.
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Thanks for the tip. I mostly check if device is somewhat high end and supports postmarket os. I would like to get kernel updates, that sailfish os wont get.
Iāll wait and see if my fp5 can be fixed near me. I already contacted their support about it. If not, Iāll simply buy new fp5.
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Yea, itās always important to know what you are buying and research well the good and the bad of the phone.
I didnāt and just thought Fairphone would be fine with e/os because they sell phones with that. And I never thought the phone would fry because of the e/os.
A lot of mistakes were made on my part, but I learned from it (I think and hope).
But can imagine how amazing Sailfish would be on Fairphone 6! I really hope people will continue working on all of these amazing ports!
Hi Mal, any updates on the SailfishOS port for FP6?
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Iām also interested how the fp6 port is going. I got my fp6 back from the repair and I just miss sfos.
E/os is nice, but I just like sfos ux. Also, some of the android apps work better on sfos than in e/os.
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Letās suppose that mal (who is a Jolla employee AFAIK) is extremely busy polishing Sailfish OS 5.1 and the Jolla Phone 2.
Fairphone Gen. 6 may have to wait until Julyā¦ Please be patient. 
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Ooo, yea understandable that people at Jolla will have a lot on their plate with their own products.
Most important to me in the end is, that things with J2 and the new update go well. Especially because both sound to be something amazing!
Zypper dup??? Is SailfishOS based on OpenSUSE? 
Iām not best person to answer as I donāt understand software that much, but at least I can confirm that Zypper is used a lot with different functions
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I would guess that zypper can be used with any rpm-based distro provided the right repositories are configured (which is obviously the case here).
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Let me say directly. Nobody could forbid you to Install AAS Packages from the Jolla C2 on the FP5. And guess what? They works. But buggy. There are many things which need further investigation and correction.
What i found so far:
- Network / DNS Problems
- Most web browser donāt work
- camera doesnāt work in Android Apps
anything else seems to work. of course it need to be said, that the whole process is unfortunately illegal, even Jolla said it will tolerate that, when you already bought a licence
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Ofc, but I just donāt see it used other than on OpenSUSE
I flashed stock rom FP5.TT4H.A.162 ( latest android 13 ) and flashed sfos alpha 3. I donāt know if my issues exist on alpha 1 or alpha 2. I did not update to sfos 5.1. I had these issues:
- MMS not working. I couldnāt receive any mms nor send any ( T-mobile Poland. APN was set correctly ). These issues never existed on official ports like sony 10 3.
- Buggy SMS. Sometimes my phone would mark sms as āsentā, while sms would be received by other person few hours later. Sometimes I would not receive SMS at all or other person would not receive my sms at all.
- Missing calls. When some1 would call me and my phone had its screen off, it would take 3 signals while calling me, before my phone would react at all. If other person decided to cancel a call around third signal, my screen would turn on, but I wouldnāt get any information about missed call, so I had no idea if I missed something or not
- Sometimes apps would just stay in the background. i would be playing music, kill the app without stopping music and still hear it for next few minutes. UI would react, but backend wouldnāt. This was really rare ( once per 2 weeks ) and would stop happening after reboot.
Does any1 else have similar issues ? If not, what android version did you flash on FP5 ?
Thank you, Mal, for your wonderful work. I have a C2 and I recently installed sailfish on Fairphone 4. It is very wonderful, despite the lack of some features, the age of the browser, and the absence of Android. Please continue. Thank you again.
My question is: Are we waiting for the release of 5.1 soon or is it still a long way off?
I also want to ask if anyone of you has successfully installed and run Waydroid on Fairphone 4 and show me the way.