Android 14 is here. Here's what's changed - FP5.UT20.B.041.20240624

[AnotherElk]

@Furdiburd

As an extra, fairphone left out just the removal of AOD from the patch note (everything else fit in) that you get with the update promt

@Meaghan

And when you click for more, the link is broken;-)

Somebody at Fairphone clearly thought the weeks ahead would otherwise be much too uneventful at Fairphone support and in the forum .

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@ontheair

Ok. But I am using a Fairphone 3+ and I feel as I have been forgotten in this post.

Android 13 should get security updates until early 2026, if Android’s current update cycle continues unchanged. I think they’ll remember you by then .

[yvmuell]

A few fixes/changes that might be of interest and are not mentioned I think

• NFC icon has been removed from the status bar
• Adaptive Brightness should work better
• Incorrect triggering of Pocket mode by light sensor has been fixed
• Quick setting tiles to disable camera and microphone

[Furdiburd]

Does battery healt got removed for everyone else too or it just me?

I cant find it where it was before. I use the same battery when i got the phone

[Meaghan]

Hello, sorry if I misread your post.
Have you installed the update and tested all of that? What does it mean that NFC status is removed? Can I not add it there?

[Meaghan]

I think it gets removed after you swap your battery for the first time, I lost it some time ago. In my case , it was enough to open and take it out and put it back.

[yvmuell]

The Icon is no longer in the Statusbar when NFC is enabled.

That was disliked

Annoying NFC Icon in SysTray

Hey. Just got my FP5 (having upgraded from by mostly-useless-since-last-update FP3). Its only a minor annoyance, but has anyone worked out how to remove the NFC icon from the System Tray, top right. It has no purpose for me. NFC is always on. Never had that icon in any other NFC enabled phone before. Fixes I have found online for other phones fall into 2 camps: Turn off NFC (Unacceptable) Activate System UI Tuner and disable the icon only from there - I can’t seem to get this functionality f…

You can still enable it easily from the quick settings.

Edit:

@Meaghan

Have you installed the update and tested all of that?

Yes, except for the pocket mode which I dont use/need

[yvmuell]

The corresponding topic as mentioned by @Meaghan

Battery health: menu item vanished

I personally consider this setting as useless, so would rather remove it completely. If you find it useful/important you might want to inform support that you never removed the battery and its still gone. I asked FP to officially explain the set-up of this feature in a blog post or similar as there are some conditions programmed in the background, like e.g. One such criteria is that user can remove and install battery within the first 7 days after activating the phone to allow user to install…

[mgkoeln]

The update went smoothly and took about half an hour. Refresh rate seems to have been set back to 60 Hz by the update, so one might want to change it back to 90 Hz afterwards.

I’m quite disappointed by Fairphone apparently giving up on the AoD-battery-issue as I was looking forward to finally being able to use it more. Removing this feature altogether is an incredibly poor and patronizing “solution” - so, writing to the support team is the next thing on my to-do-list.

[adroid]

I was actually looking forward to the Android 14 update to be able to use the passkeys stored in my Proton Pass vault. But it seems like the “third-party Passkey manager”-feature is not yet in this update…

Or am I overlooking it? I’ve tried a few things already, like reinstalling Proton Pass…

[azdanov]

Quite happy with the update. It went smoothly.

[MaisIstKeinGemuese]

If you open Proton Pass and go to Profile and scroll down a bit it will tell you that this Device is not supported. Even if you enable Passkeys for third Party apps in Chrome, it’s still not supported.

As far as I understand it, it’s up to Fairphone to implement Passkeys into Android. Other Manufacturers like OnePlus or Oppo don’t have support either.

I am taking a wild guess here but I don’t think this Feature will be implemented in the next year because of the small Resources from FP.

[Tardigrade]

Update went smooth.

On A13 I had two issues. First one was brightness: when I set brightness at the maximum and I would lock the phone, then when unlocking the phone the brightness was set at half of its maximum even though the slider was still showing it to be at max. So I had to drag the slider back a bit and then to max again to get proper brightness back. This seems to be fixed now.

Second issue was overly compressed sound in video or sound recordings. Have yet to check if this has improved.

If no new issues show up then I’m happy!

[Juan.Bianchi]

Hello hello

I will doublecheck with the team and come back to you

[framic29]

I’m still waiting for a A14 on my FP5 but I’m interested in the apperance of the google-bar. Is there the ‘at a glance’ bar with A14 instead the simple google search bar?

[PlatinumLucario]

Has anyone here been able to update to Android 14 with an unlocked bootloader? Because I’ve had no success.

[yvmuell]

To add the bootloader is not just unlocked, the phone was rooted with TWRP somehow installed in additon

So for those wanting to comment or having similar issues please comment in the open topic for this

Can't update to Android 14, even on stock firmware

So Android 14 OTA came out very recently, and I originally had my fp5 rooted with Magisk and had TWRP recovery installed. I already read up about how OTA updates always do a validation check before installing. So my natural decision was to flash the stock partitions via adb and fastboot that I had backed up from earlier, and thought everything would work, right? Nope! When I tried to install the update on the backed up stock images, it came up with the error: Couldn’t update Installation pro…

[k3dAR]

From my usage found another changes:

1. Recents Apps has finally rounded corners (finally it doesn’t cut into eyes
2. With BatterySaver on, batt icon on topbar is not full red, but only “inside” orange
3. Battery usage graph is splitable by 2h ranges

[MaisIstKeinGemuese]

So far after a day of Android 14 I noticed the following improvements:

• Battery lasts a bit longer
• Random Performance Drops were fixed. No more lagging, it feels way snappier now!
• Battery Usage Menu got fixed for me
• NFC Icon is finally gone
• Again, I can’t press enough how much faster the phone is! It’s finally a joy to use with the 90hz!

What I still have on my wishlist:

• Lowest Setting of Loudspeaker during Phonecall is still way too loud. The Diffefence between lowest and highest Setting is too small, increase it by letting us go lower, so I can have the speaker on without anyone hearing it in a 15m Radius.
• Still no way to set different Volumes for Ringtone and Notification Tone. They are still together in one Setting.
• Please do more with the Fairphone App. FP5 is soon turning one and when I go into Phone->Discover the Modules it still shows FP4 stuff! The Fairphone App feels like it’s still in August 2023 before the FP5 launched. This feels like Fairphone already gave up on the FP5 because there are no new Stories, Tips and Tricks or even Basic Pages updated for the FP5.
• Implement Passkey support for Third Party Apps like ProtonPass and Co.

Overall the Android 14 Update brought joy to me and I even smiled on how snappy everything feels now. It would be nice if my 4 points would get adressed in the next few months as well and not next summer.

Edit: I overlooked the Volume sliders, you can set different Volumes for Ringtone and Notification now!

[k3dAR]

@MaisIstKeinGemuese

Still no way to set different Volumes for Ringtone and Notification Tone. They are still together in one Setting.

are you sure? i see different volume sliders for Ringtone and Notification only by default be both set on same level…