In general the FP2 doesn’t have a good radio performance compared to other phones according to my experience. However there are two things you can check:
Over the past months I noticed that the radio performance of my FP2 got worse and worse. I often got “no service” or “emergency calls only” despite the phone showing full signal for a few minutes when switching flightmode on and off again.
I read posts reporting similar problems in this forum and quite often the antenna connector was mentioned. When I opened my FP2 I discovered another source for radio problems:
For shielding and grounding purposes the back side of the display module is connec…
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Hi guys,
some days ago, my Fairphone 2 fell to the floor. This damaged the RF cable connecting the antenna to the motherboard. The cable is now detached from the connector (probably MHF3). I tried to stick the cable back into the connector manually, but it did not work. I read here that @PorCus managed to re-attach it. Was this referring to re-attaching the connector to the antenna board or the cable to the connector? If attaching the cable to the connector manually is possible, could someone p…
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