Now, I apologise if this comes off as negative and grumpy… so let me first say I still think the FairPhone is an awesome project, and am a firm believer in the cause. And I don’t want to lose my faith… but I am struggling :slight_smile: The candid “ask me about…” flyer that came with it inspired me…

So finally there are some comments from the Fairphone team in this thread. And yet not a single word is said about the actual question that initiated it. The Fairphone2 is still available for order on the site now, and we have no idea how many of these next batches of phones are broken in the same …

[image] michel_iwaniec: I think it is important to be honest here and let these people know that - in contrast to what the site is telling them - they are not really buying a working phone with their money, but a buggy test kit with almost as uncertain a future as back in September. So I am t…

[image] Zebrafax: So I am the lucky one with the only working FP2 :laughing:. Evidently not - but then that’ the entire point. Almost 2 months after the phones were delivered we still have not been told anything about how big a % of the phones are affected (it was even news to me it wasn’t al…

Sorry for the sarcasm. But the FP2 is definitely not a “buggy test kit”. And of cause it is much easier to be enthusiastic about the FairPhone project with a working phone.

[image] michel_iwaniec: So finally there are some comments from the Fairphone team in this thread. And yet not a single word is said about the actual question that initiated it. I am sorry I have no better news for you. The reason is I currently do not have information that is reliable and su…

[image] Douwe: Sadly this is not true. We are still testing the update and it is very highly unlikely it will be released coming Monday. Sorry. I’ll ask the support team how and why they thought the update would already be released. Regular, public up-to-date information from Fairphone could …

Douwe: I appreciate your response. But as others have already pointed out, it is disappointing that nothing beyond the standard corporate we-know-about-it-and-are-working on it cliche is said. And no matter how you justify it, a keep-silent-about-anything-uncertain policy is pretty much the total o…

Seeing that Fairphone now starts distributing a phone which is basically work in progress through network operators really makes me worried. Spot-on. I wonder if Fairphone realise how much damage to their brand a more mainstream sale of the FP2 could cause at this stage. Had this been any other …

Ok, so it actually seems that ghost touches are not entirely unheard of on other smartphones and tablets: https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/fixing-the-ghost-touch-grounding-issue-once-and-for-all-hint-it-was-never-a-software-problem.186235/ I might have a go at actually opening the phone to see if…

[image] michel_iwaniec: I might have a go at actually opening the phone to see if bad isolation could be the reason… has anyone else had a look? I have a nagging suspicion that FP2’s modular build might explain some of the issues that owners have encountered, and this might be one of them. On…

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