I find it very useful to be able to turn on and off mobile data quickly - I use this when travelling to avoid/limit roaming data charges, and also to preserve battery (I still want to get phone calls and SMS so airplane mode doesn’t help). On FP2 you can’t do this (or not without a lot of clicks to enable/disable). It seems like in 5.1 it’s a vendor specific feature so it would need to be put in a Fairphone build, I think.
A widget, or having this alongside Wifi/Bluetooth toggles in the top swipe down settings would be great.
I actually still have my SIM in my FP1 so I can’t test this on my FP2, but isn’t this toggle right there in the notification panel (slide from the top down)?
It’s quite a few touches, and that only works for one SIM - I have to repeat for the second SIM! THen it’s the same long set of actions to reenable.
I’m not sure how to do this more quickly from the lockscreen - what is the workflow there?
This seems a popular feature on phones in general, and a lot of android users previously used widgets for one-click toggle, but they were removed (in more recent android) for security reasons I believe.
Ah, thanks paulakreuzer! I had been doing this through settings which takes more clicks, I hadn’t used the notification panel toggles so much… Still, it’s longer than it used to be because I used to use a one click widget
On older Android versions there are mobile data toggle widgets that don’t need root, but on 5.* there aren’t… so for those of us who don’t want to root, we’re back on the multiple clicks
