Sailfish OS for Fairphones devices

Hardware Adaptation
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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€¦ Itā€™s a perfect opportunity, imo.

Though, question for this port; does Waydroid work?

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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 Iā€™ve 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 couldnā€™t find any useful files, Iā€™ve 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 ?

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Be careful with Fairphone 6 and other operating systems.
My fairphone fried, it just stopped charging and usb-c port, cable or charger change didnā€™t help
What I read from forums is that itā€™s 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 couldnā€™t reflash android, because I couldnā€™t move power nor data through the port. Reflashing the original os would have returned the warranty.

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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 donā€™t 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 isnā€™t good. Also, itā€™s 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.

Iā€™ll wait and see if my fp5 can be fixed near me. I already contacted their support about it. If not, Iā€™ll simply buy new fp5.

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Yea, itā€™s always important to know what you are buying and research well the good and the bad of the phone.
I didnā€™t 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!