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 that users can now build Android 13 (QSSI as of now) images and flash them onto their Fairphone 5.
You can find instructions for browsing, viewing and downloading the source code on code.fairphone.com.
This build includes updated QSSI 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.
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!
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Update: We’re happy to report that we’ve now published updated source code for Android 14 as well (QSSI as of now), with which users can build their own images and flash them onto their Fairphone 5. We’ve updated the instructions for browsing, viewing and downloading the source code on code.fairphone.com.
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Update June 2025: Adding buildable target tree
Hello all,
Continuing our Android open-source progress, we’re delighted to inform you that the tree for QSSI Android 13 and 14 is now available. Users can build both trees (QSSI+target) from sources.
The target tree includes the Android kernel and vendor sources allowing users to build essential boot and vendor images required for booting and running the system.
The target tree is based on Android 11 with changes to support running a QSSI based Android 14 system. The target tree we can publish excludes some proprietary components that are required for the phone to work. For those we publish a binary blobs package instead. The public source tree also does not contain proprietary third-party apps such as the Google Mobile Services. We’ve also added our documentation to help users get started with the build and flashing process on code.fairphone.com.
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