Hey guys
For a couple of days now, my screen doesn’t auto rotate anymore. I downloaded SatStat to see what’s wrong, and apparently all sensors are broken(?). Maybe I forgot to activate something, but as far as I can remember, the last time I used SatStat, everything worked straight ahead.
(I can’t attach a screenshot atm, my phone has other issues too atm, but on the sensor screen every field is filled with a —)
Every topic I found regarding this issue is from 2016, so I doubt that that’ll help a lot…
No, I’ll do one at the weekend, I have too much to do right now. I should also reinstall Android 7 because there are a couple of things wrong on my phone (no signal strength bars or wifi or any icon on the right side of the notification bar except the clock, incompatibilities with apps that worked before, …)
Hey,
I am experiencing the exact same issue and I’m curious if the software reset helped in your case before resetting my phone.
Actually, I’m pretty sure that (in my case) the problem is hardware related: When the problem started (about two or three month ago, still under Android 6), it only occurred every other day or so, seemed more like a loose contact. Now, the problem is permanent (which is really annoying since the leftmost part of my touchscreen is not working, making it impossible to type a ‘q’…)
I am using the app Sensors, and since this problem occured, it only shows proximity, light, and magnet field as sensors, accelerometer, gyroscope, and others do not appear at all anymore.
Cheers,
Philipp
In the last month, I installed LineageOS and whilst I did that I also wiped the internal storage (I don’t remember exactly which partitions, but I think everything except the MicroSD card) and even re-formatted it and the sensors still don’t work.
And for a couple of days now the standard Download manager also doesn’t work (meaning I can only download anything via apps that handle downloads externally).
I don’t know what to do, and while I still can use my phone, functionality is pretty limited…
The problem appeared after I updated from 18.04 OpenOS to the Nougat beta (I don’t remember which exact version, 18.10.something), so it also happened on OpenOS (I reverted to the official version in January, which also didn’t help).
I can’t imagine a software update causing a hardware failure, so it has to be some missing drivers or something I guess…
Hi,
I’ve been experiencing the same problem for a few days. Tried everything I could think of : re-flashing modem zip, new Lineage clean install (I’ve been running Lineage for quite a while), other roms like /e/ and FPOOS. Whatever I do, it doesn’t work and Satstat says my accelerometer is non existent…
I also took the phone apart and cleaned all modules and connectors. Still no accelerometer.
It really seems hardware related, which has got me slightly pissed as I’ve been a happy FP2 user for 3 1/2 years and wasn’t intending to change for quite a while.
I’ve filed a support request.
Does anybody have an idea, or should I try and find a second hand core module?
Hi @Stanzi !
Thanks a lot for the advice. I hadn’t come across that topic during my search in the forum.
Will try this afternoon and tell you wether it worked.
Finally managed to install Ubuntu. The manual procedure didn’t work (couldn’t find the commandfile in the folder), so tried the installer again and it worked immediately, probably thanks to all the drivers I had installed for the manual procedure.
Anyway, still no accelerometer with Ubuntu…
Have reverted back to my lineage 16 backup with the same prolem. Really think it’s hardware related on my phone.
Got to think about my next move now…
Thanks for all the advice!
OK, so got a very quick answer from support offering to replace my core module with a new one for 223€. Slightly expensive in my view…
My contact at support also suggested contacting a Fairphone Angel locally. Despite the fact I don’t think there is one near where I live, I don’t think she/he would be able to do much more than I already have (no offense!).
My best option is probably to keep an eye open for a second hand Fairphone. For roughly the same price as the new core module, I’d also get a few more pieces just in case…
The other easy move would be to consider buying a non Fairphone device, but that would mean all I’ve done with my partner these past years (trying to reduce waste in the household and paying real attention to what we buy and the impact it has, not easy with three children!) would have been for nought if we step out of the path as soon as it becomes slightly difficult. Have to be a bit more imaginative than that!
Any other ideas?
Glad the installer worked afterall.
For anybody else stumbling upon this … please read the instructions thoroughly … you will have to create the commandfile yourself, else it will not be there.
I did create the commandfile and put it in the right folder, but the installer (well, when I typed the command lines) never found it. I checked it was the right format (.txt). Must have got it wrong somewhere, but can’t figure where!
Ah, my bad then.
Would have been interesting where it went wrong, they really change the instructions if you can give them explanations for improvement.
