Here a list of all new features for android 14: 29 Best Android 14 Features (New and Upcoming) | Beebom and that is not only for google pixel sinxe ir does exist on various brand such as samsung. I think the fairphone team simply forgot to add them when they build their stock rom… I’m really disappointed to see how fairphone did with android 14…
It seems the list you linked is for Pixels. It says
Let’s look at the 29 best Android 14 features as of Android 14 December Feature Drop.
I just realized after i did some digging and that was extremely upsetting… Turn out it was because of an annoying bug related to authentication required… Hopefully that google will stop horsing around with their “exclusive” feature to their own products without mentioning it will not be available for other brand of phone, that ain’t HOW to sell their android… 
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it will not be available for other brand of phone, that ain’t HOW to sell their android
Google also sells smartphones and has a team dedicated to the Pixel experience. In the announcement, it was written Feature drop so this is something only for the Pixel experience.
Your demand is like saying everything in Samsung UI should be in Android.
Hey @PSZ ! I don’t know if this is related to your experience, but I am in Europe, and I noticed that after the Android 14 update my FP5 doesn’t anymore choose network automatically even if the setting is on. As somebody who lives in two countries (daily commute), it is frustrating that I always have to choose the network manually, and if I don’t do this, I am stuck with no connection.
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Hello
The plans for this feature are in the works, I still have no clear answer to share
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Hi.
How can I start the update on fp5? When I look for a new update, it is only android 13 visible
Thx.
Hi,
I have a FP5, but so far no update yet (country: Belgium). Is this logical, it seems many people are already on it but checking updates shows me no update …
Franky
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Same here, it is odd, bought the fairphone on day one
Same here in Sweden, no Android 14.
As always, it is a staged roll out and some providers are late with their release approvement So be patient, if the update works with your provider, it will come soon.
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You can fix this with a smartwatch! I know, horribly expensive boat anchor that needs charging far too often – but not all of them are like that! A bunch of smartwatches are getting built on smaller microcontrollers, with correspondingly (hugely) longer battery life and lower price: e.g. the PineTime on my wrist cost me £30, the battery lasts about a month (and it charges in a couple of hours), and whenever a notification turns up that I’m interested in my watch vibrates and shows me at least the first 64 chars or so of it (and you can constrain what notifications get forwarded to the watch in a variety of ways). No need for a notification light!
Downsides: uh, none, really, unless you want an all-singing-all-dancing smartwatch with its own store. Free software, hackable hardware.
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I haven’t noticed any further issues since I tried that suggestion I mentioned from another discussion and cycled through the different 3g 4g network settings. Basically, I set my cell connection to use whatever the lowest one was, tried to call voicemail, failed, and then stepped up through each next one.
I don’t remember the step-by-step results, but when I finally did get back up to 5g with everything on, it seemed to be working again. No problems since.
This may well be behavior that is particular to my area (Seattle) or network (Mint). Maybe not, though.
My fairphone 5 that sits in a (powered) dock for most of the day no longer displays the Always-On time screen, as you removed the feature for “battery drain” considerations.
Revert the short sighted decision, re-enable the option for Always-On!
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Welcome to the community forum,
and please also complain to Fairphone support directly, so that customer complaints about this issue visibly accumulate there.
This at least is a clearer metric for any company to act on than users posting in a community forum (while that might help, too, of course).
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FP should work with their wording. I got this email a week ago and I’m still unable to upgrade to Android 14:
I guess I can wait a bit longer, but I hope it’s not forever. Bought my FP5 via the FP-shop, so no provider involved. I’d also guess that 80% of buyers don’t care for the update until they get it, but the other 20% could at least get a “force update” option?
You’re wrong. It’s the provider installed on the primary SIM in your phone who decides about the timeliness of your updates. Some people tried speeding up updates by turning on the phone with a SIM from a different provider.
That sounds dangerous. If the update is delayed, it is (hopefully) delayed for a good reason by the provider. Now imagine the support and PR sh*tstorm if people forced updates and the basic functionalities stopped working. Don’t even hope for such function in the future.
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Thanks for the info that my apparently slow provider still has an impact on my separately bought phone. Didn’t know that. It should then also work to update the phone without a SIM? (I quickly tried and didn’t succeed).
Well if you force an update, it’s kind of at your own risk and doesn’t go under auto-updates… Even for regular updates/upgrades it’s recommended to do backups and so on, so I don’t really see the difference to be honest.
This is a bit unclear. I think the consensus was that the phone somehow remembers the last provider even when you plug out the SIM. And this name is then sent to the update server which rejects the update.
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Wonder how the phone chooses if you have 2 SIMS from different providers?
One who offers the update, and one who doesn’t? Does only half your phone get updated? 
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