Fairphone champions long-term support of older phone models with Android 13 update of Fairphone 3(+) Fairphone, the Dutch social enterprise building a market for ethical smartphones, has announced that the Fairphone models 3 and 3+ will be receiving an update to Android 13. Beta version roll-out has…

For me, the upgrade to A13 seems to be totally uneventful. I’m not a fan of some of Android’s design choices, but I’ll live with them. And of course, I’m happy that my Fairphone is again on a ‘current’ Android version. There is one thing I find annoying though: I see a sort of ‘sunburst’ fade-in a…

since the update to 13 my phone keeps freezing, requiring me to remove the battery to restart it. Is this happening to anyone else? any suggestions?

[image] brekerr: any suggestions? [image] Random freezes (screen unresponsive) while scrolling (started after Android 10 upgrade) In-place upgrades to a new major OS version (as opposed to cleanly installing the new version from scratch) can cause weird behaviour of all sorts. This has not…

[image] AnotherElk: Since Fairphone stopped the Android 13 rollout for the time being because of the fingerprint sensor situation, Have they. I didn’t see any mention of that? That’s the A.016.0 version I’m using the Beta A.019.0 version on one phone, so it seems the roll out is ongoing but …

[image] anon9989719: Have they. I didn’t see any mention of that? [image] FAIRPHONE 3 and 3+ A13 - Fingerprint sensor update We have stopped the roll-out (at 10%) of the update, for now, to make sure the information for the end users is well-written and clear enough. [image] anon998…

AH! I had read the topic too quickly, as is often my bad [image] FAIRPHONE 3 and 3+ A13 - Fingerprint sensor update We have stopped the roll-out (at 10%) of the update, for now, to make sure the information for the end users is well-written and clear enough. @hayao @igor-cali

If you have auto-rotate activated could you deactivate it ? It worked for some.

[image] Alain_Guillet: Do you have automatic screen rotation activated ? If so, could you deactivate it ? Also with auto rotate I can easily reproduce freezing gadgetbridge when opening the list of apps for notification filtering gadgetbridge -> notification settings -> app list wait a few …

@patzi This is strange, I use gadgetbridge and LineageOS 20 (android 13) without any freeze or problems. I’m sorry but I’ve never used the fairphone version of android, one of the reason I have bought my fp3 because have a good custom ROM support.

[image] brekerr: since the update to 13 my phone keeps freezing, requiring me to remove the battery to restart it. Is this happening to anyone else? any suggestions? besides app freezes ( see above ) I had these as well. [image] Alain_Guillet: If you have auto-rotate activated could you d…

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anon9989719 July 14, 2023, 9:04am 78

AH! I had read the topic too quickly, as is often my bad

@hayao @igor-cali