cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43965516
It is worth noting that both the hardware and software of Fairphone is heavily dependent on a Chinese company T2Mobile.
For those looking to avoid both US and Chinese companies, then the Jolla phone is the way to go.
I’ve been using a FP6 for over a month and I have no idea what you could be referring to
Yeah, same here. If I had to highlight a negative, its the poor placement of the volume keys, esp, because I’m left handed… But the positives far outweigh the one annoyance. I love this thing. I fwwl like it’s actually mine, and not just locked down.
Interesting, I would have guessed that being left handed would make the placement better. I’ve heard people don’t like the button placement but it doesn’t bother me. I have an iPhone for work as well and as far as I can tell the buttons are in the same place so 🤷
I keep hitting the volume key with my thumb and somehow getting the sound on mute. But its about learning new muscle control :) It would be cool if their were a software update where it would require a double click to activate the sound.
Sometimes after using the camera, the taken photos will just disappear.
Often my screen will freeze up and the ohone becomes entirely unresponsive until I turn the screen off and on again.
Sometimes the screen won’t even turn on at all and will then suddenly unlock and register every single swipe and tap I made on the off screen registers at once.
Then sometimes when idle the phone will just randomly crash and reboot.
A genuinely awful experience I have to say.
I think you should send it in for warranty, if you still have it.
I don’t think it’s worth it. A lot of these issues are well known on the Fairphone forums so they’re clearly not specific to my phone. The second I find a suitable replacement I think I’m done. I like the idea of a Fairphone but they’re on their sixth device now and still can’t manage stable software.
tbh this seems to be a hardware issue. the software is supposed to be the same for each phone of the model, and there are a lot of them where it just works.
Weird. Which model and OS is this happening on?
Fairphone 6, stock Android 15.
Could be a hardware issue. I am running the same and haven’t seen any of that stuff. Sucks that you have though
I think you should send it in for warranty, if you still have it.
Fairphone 5 for ~ 1 1/2 years. Not a single bug encountered…
I keep reading comments like this though. Are people just expecting too much?
I don’t think it’s expecting a phone to not crash constantly and actually save the photos I’m taking.
It sounds like a faulty device to me. I recommend reaching out to customer support at a minimum.
I agree with you on that. But I’m either reading that the phone is shit or it’s perfect. Makes it very hard to decide if I should be spending 600 quid on one.