Android 11 has arrived! When will we see it on our 3's and 3+'s!

[AnotherElk]

@By_D

If Q3 really will be the A11 update then i’ll think is gonna be on June or the End of July or maybe even on August.

You seem to have different quarters in your year than everybody else.

[By_D]

Oh.
I made a Typo

I mean Q3 starts from July to September. Lol

[By_D]

@AnotherElk

You seem to have different quarters in your year than everybody else.

Haha Lol it was just a Typo

[Jay_P]

@abittner

Please do NOT wait another year once again until maybe an Android12 eventually appears. If the hardware is Android11 capable, the SOC, CPU/GPU, components etc then please do so. And do it now.

Guess what, Android 12 is out.
I’m no expert regarding development of Android, but I do know there’s a lot of investment needed to build it. Now that 12 is out and my FP3 still has Android 10, do you really think it’s smart to put all this effort in an OS that’s technically speaking not new anymore? I would just take a breath and work on Android 12 for Fairphone instead.

[anon9989719]

@abittner

Instead Faiprhone should very much frequent, visit, listen and take into very careful consideration this whole forum and its fruitful discussions.

Hi @Jay_P your comment refers to a post almost year ago so Android 12 wasn’t available then, so @abittner wasn’t behind the times

However that post by @abittner was rather demanding and I wonder if they actually contacted Fairphone with their complaints.

So we wonder 11 or 12. It’s largely down to what Qualcomm can get their Snapdragon 632 chip to do Android 12 may be a step too far.

The following link shows some of the criteria for Android 11 then you get to the 500,000 compatibility tests

android-11-cdd.pdf

[hayao]

Hi,
I’ve seen that Android 11 for FP3 is under beta test.

Do we know the estimated general availability date for that update ?

Samuel

[tretkowski]

As always: When it’s done.

[Alain_Guillet]

There are 2 ways to work in informatics :

• When it is ready which means when we think it is good enough ;
• At a given date but then the software can be released with a lot of bugs.

Even if the first possibility will always have some bugs, I would prefer to wait a bit and get something usable rather than having a unusable Android 11.

[hayao]

I’m a software developer so I really understand what you mean.
I agree with you that “When It’s done” is the best answer but as far as I’ve experienced it is always combined with some time range estimate.

Anyway, I will indeed wait for the release to be stable enough to be deployed on our great FP3. .

Thanks everyone for their passionate answers to my, I thought, innocent question.

[yvmuell]

Here the official statement, have not seen any update since then

Android Updates for FP2 and FP3

Hi everyone , I’d like to share some happy news with you all. We’re really excited to announce that our 6-year-old Fairphone 2 is being upgraded to Android 10 – that’s 7 years of software support. An industry first for Android devices! We’re pleased to be able to provide our Fairphone 2 community with yet another software upgrade, reaching our goal to provide at least five years of support from launch for our phones and with the Android 10 upgrade, we’re going beyond that to …

[anon9989719]

It is going through beta testing now

[joe.is.asking.2]

@anon9989719 Is the beta test still ongoing or can we expect Android 11 to be available on FP3(+) soon?

[anon9989719]

@joe.is.asking.2

the beta test still ongoing

Yes it is still ongoing with no indication of how happy Fairphone developers are, but I don’t see it happening in the next few weeks or months

Soon ?? What’s that

[joe.is.asking.2]

Thx for the feedback.

Well at least the current version is stable (and patched) on the FP3(+)

By “soon” I would expect early 2022 as announced by @formerFP.Com.Manager

[martine]

Since I missed the deadline for the Android 11 beta I’m curious about the progress for this first major version.
Are there users on this forum who have the beta version and how does it compare to android 10?
And for Fairphone; when will this version roll out to regular users?

[yvmuell]

I moved your topic to an existing one, to avoid duplication. This is a user forum, so Faiphone might not be answering your question here.

[anon9989719]

Hi martine. You can see from the above some info.

I do have the beta version and it seems fine, although there are some minor issue that are being worked on so it is still not being publicly released.

There’s no indication of when Fairphone will deem it fit, so they don’t get a lot of complaints about this and that.

But as I said I find it ‘perfectly’ usable so fingers crossed hopefully it will be weeks rather than months.

[martine]

Thanks for the reply. What kind of issues are there with the beta right now? I’m curious if there is a way to obtain it .Is that possible?

[anon9989719]

I’m not going to discuss the issues whereas that may serve your curiosity it would just add useless information to be generally consumed.

And there is no way to obtain it outside the beta testing group ‘officially’