Hello, I have very similar questions as in this thread: Is it possible to solder the internal microphones away? However I would like to physically remove / deactivate both microphones from the Fairphone 3, not 2. I also wanted to know, whether I would really need a heat gun / soldering iron. This…

Update: The “operation” seems to have been successful. Both microphone checks via the integrated check up tool failed (as intended ^^). Only a single slight “pop” sound is played back at the beginning and nothing else. I opted for both silver boxes, which actually were covers, as you can see on thes…

Fairphone 3: physically disabling the microphones?

Discuss The Products

anon9989719 June 1, 2021, 9:54am 6

An option may be to get another top module with the older camera and test out disabaling.

4 Likes