🇳🇱 Fairphone 6 with broken volume button

[rien333]

Selling my FP6 with a broken volume button for roughly €20.

For more photos, the original dutch listing text, and the current asking price, see this listing.

Translated text from the listing (a LLM did the translation for the most part, but I manually checked it):

Fairphone 6, just over 5 months of use. The top volume button is completely loose; the other isn’t yet, but there’s a risk it will come loose too. Otherwise, light signs of use, nothing noteworthy. Includes the official case, from which the volume button has also fallen off. Unfortunately, that button is lost.

Reason I’m getting rid of it (instead of, for example, repairing it): on my first Fairphone 6, the volume button came loose after 1–2 months—never had that happen with a phone before. Sent it in for repair, got a completely new model — extremely odd from a sustainability perspective If your handy it shouldn’t be too difficult repairwise, I think.

On this second model, the one I’m now selling, the volume button also came off after 1–2 months (see last photos). Ironically, the same thing happened with the case (see photos; I unfortunately lost that loose button). To me, that goes against Fairphone’s vision, and it’s more hassle than I want to deal with.

The real kicker is a kind of bootloop it sometimes gets stuck in (sorry for the technical explanation, but know what you’re buying). My guess is this happens because Android enters the bootloader menu when you hold down the volume button, and the broken button sometimes gets stuck in a state where it’s constantly “pressed.” With a bit of effort you can get out of this loop, and repairing the volume button might solve it entirely.

In short: an offer for an enthusiast—maybe for parts, experiments, or some other unusual use?

Other notes: it currently has LineageOS installed, which is, roughly speaking, a Google-free open-source variant of Android. For about €10 I can install any OS you want (I think the original was e/OS?), but doing it yourself isn’t that hard either.

Strongly prefer pickup over shipping (I live right next to Utrecht Central Station, NL). Shipping is negotiable though (send me a message I guess?)

[Lidwien]

I have interest for my Fairphone Angel activities.
Only the first opportunity to collect it in Utrecht would be Friday 29th of May.
If this sounds good enough, please send me a PM for further details.

[anon17376979]

Did this happen while the phone was in the case? I’m asking because I use a fairly tight third‑party case myself (after the FP case turned out to be unusable), and I can’t really imagine anything happening to the buttons inside it.

Maybe you could have it repaired one last time, get another case for around five euros, and give it another try?

[rien333]

@anon17376979

Did this happen while the phone was in the case

First time no, second time yes. I’ve already switched phones, and did not like how the company handled my issues (sending me a new model for a minor issue, having to talk to a chatbot to resolve my issues, a case that breaks within a couple of weeks). Plus the random bootloop caused me to oversleep one time. And all of that for a phone that is not even that good hardware wise?

This is was all frustrating enough that I just bought a secondhand Samsung phone, which wasn’t all that expensive, runs Android 16 (!) by way of lineageOS, and I’ve been using happily for two months. But thanks for the tip.

[ArthurA]

Hello,

I am interested in the FP6, jammer that iy is not working properly…. I am also in Utrecht, if it is not reserved yet I’d be happy to buy it