Android 13 on the Fairphone 3(+)

[AnotherElk]

@anon9989719

Have they. I didn’t see any mention of that?

@Marta_Artigas

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.

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@anon9989719

I’m using the Beta

Beta testing is independent of the official rollout, I would think.

[anon9989719]

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

@Marta_Artigas

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

[Alain_Guillet]

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

[patzi]

@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 seconds and app freezes. And it keeps freezing until I stop it. going back out of the app list doesn’t help.

[paolo-caroni]

@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.

[patzi]

@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.

@Alain_Guillet

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

After disabling auto-rotate I no longer have my phone going dark. App freezes still happen but I did not have to restart the phone. Only thing I am missing auto-rotate right now .

[Mic57]

Hi,

Yes my phone freezes once or twice a day since I updated to A13.
It’s the first time I have such an annoying bug after an update

I had to put back some settings manually ( ring tones, mobile data abroad,…) That was not a problem

It also needs a certain time after reboot until I can enter my pin code…

[Casshio]

Who the hell designed this.
I just updated my phone and it’s so bad.

Why is everything so big like the toolbar icons or the font within the options (which I can’t resize as it changes the size of everything else making everything tiny…)
Why does everything take up so much space/straight up block out the screen. Why are the color schemes I can choose from all pastel, why isn’t there even a simple white. Why does my wallpaper shift randomly no matter how I set it. Why the hell is the clock placement on the lockscreen so off.

This looks and feels unbelievable terrible.
And I can’t customize it in any way that comes close to how it previously was. Feels like someone is forcing their odd taste one me. Nice.

I don’t know how to go back.
But I am gonna try. Jesus Christ.

[anon9989719]

This has been discussed at length if you search [Material You]

have a look at this topic

FP3+: Issues with Android 13 update

For my 2 cents: For me, this update went much better than I expected. No major hassles so far, in particular no connectivity probs, no extreme batt use, and no perf probs I may confirm, and even my tasker stuff seems to be happy with no mentionable efforts (except a bunch of std adjustments, of course). At the end of the day, most problems I see in getting accustomed to Google’s design changes, and the immediately nasty things seem to be limited to the widgets I use to show my BT connection…

[anon9989719]

@Casshio

Who the hell designed this.

Ask Google, they designed and employ the GUi artist

[Casshio]

Is that so? Really looks like the new Fairphone asthetic tho. Especially the pastel color schemes.

[anon9989719]

Nope. It’s a Google ‘Update’
https://www.howtogeek.com/734388/androids-material-you-theming-is-great-but-dont-expect-samsung-to-use-it/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/qgh8r6/material_you_widgets_are_inconsistent_and_ugly/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/ri59oa/thanks_i_hate_it_material_you_monet_made_my_phone/

[AnotherElk]

@Casshio

Is that so?

Yes, Google introduced this in the Android 12 base for all Android OSes, it came to custom ROMs with Android 12, too.
I’m using /e/OS and got this with Android 12 a while ago. Fairphone skipped Android 12 on the Fairphone 3/3+, so Fairphone OS users are getting it now after the upgrade from Android 11 to 13.

Android 12 preview: first look at Google’s radical new design

[simonbor]

Hi all!
If I want to upgrade to A13 with a fresh start, should I first upgrade to A13 and then perform a factory reset or should I first perform a factory reset and then upgrade to A13? What is the best way to start again (fresh with a new install of Android 13)?

[anon9989719]

I don’t think it matters at all. But be aware of the lack of fingerprint support for many banks and the weird [Material You] interface.

I’d say a factory reset and upgrade.

Ensure any SD card you use is formatted as Portable not Internal

[TimW]

For what its worth, my FP3 works fine after the update. No higher battery usage, no freezing, everything runs smoothly - so I’m happy. I’m also quite happy with the new look. I use Lawnchair, so I am not sure what is down to that. As yet I’ve had only one issue with the dial tone that has gone into hiding and has been replaced with a big silence, but I can live with that.
Thank you to the programmers who have done all the work.

[Volker]

@simonbor

What is the best way to start again

First update and then do the factory reset. This makes it really a clean start (doing it otherwise might again mean imported legacy data). If you think that doing a factory reset at first may improve the update process, then why not doing a factory reset, then the update and finally another factory reset…

[simonbor]

Thanks (also @anon9989719!)

Just upgrade to A13 (first reset than upgrade), now still installing some apps. For now only my banking app is not having fingerprint anymore (PIN is still okey for me). Bitwarden is functional and more apps that I use.

[Solarius]

The update went smoothly; however, this old issue (which was fixed in A11 later in a patch) returned after updating to A13:

Software Update: 8901.4.A.0016.6

While this update seems to be working fine, I just want to report in, that after updated my FP3 to Android 11 the phone won’t bring the mobile data link up after booting: switching the airplane mode on/off fixes the issue after each boot (country: Finland, carrier: Elisa).

[xardasjhh]

I had a similar issue (but with multisim). It seems that Android 13 changed something with the mobile data logic. For me mobile data can’t be activated for two sims at once. But it was, coming from Android 11. This lead to a complete deactivation of mobile data. Temporarily, this was fixed by going to airplane mode.

But after deactivating mobile data on both sims and activate one again, the problem was fixed. Maybe the last action could help you, too.