From the very beginning Open Source software has been an important topic for Fairphone – it’s part of our history and DNA.
On every smartphone we produce and sell – we publish as much source code as we legally can. And we share all this information publicly with our users and community on our Fairphone Code Website.
As part of our ongoing Open Source journey we’re delighted to share updated source code, with which users can now build Android 15 images and flash them onto their Fairphone 4.
You can find instructions for browsing, viewing and downloading the source code on code.fairphone.com.
This build includes updated “QSSI” and “target” code, along with other components licensed under open-source agreements, excluding proprietary components. Please note that proprietary third-party applications, such as Google Mobile Services, are not included.
An interesting experiment that we have attempted this time is that of a shared QSSI tree which allows building not just Fairphone 4 but also Fairphone 5! This is an experiment for now that we have tried and the outcome has been positive so far. The current Android 15 QSSI source tree is feature complete for Fairphone 4, but does not contain Fairphone 5 specific features.
We’d love to see your ideas and improvements! You can submit patches and contributions to our public Gerrit instance.
Feel free to discuss the release and let us know if you have any questions or feedback!