FP3 : Fairphone Open OS?

[aj_greengo]

Did you check the last posts that were merged into this thread?

/e/ for FP3 (Google free OS)

Good news @everyone The e-foundation is close to release of an open source google free OS for FP3 check their website and get a firste glimpse on at least a working bootscreen of /e/ OS on the FP3 https://twitter.com/e_mydata see post from 19.03.2020 I didn’t know them til yesterday but got their OS running on a non-FP Android phone and it looks great and has all the perks you’d expect and wish for. At least that’s true for me. They seem to know what they are doing and I’ll happily tr…

It’s not an official open OS by Fairphone but it comes with all the perks why most of us are waiting for it

[redruM]

ey thank you!
I did not see that… I’m a bit confused by the forum here tbh…
thx

[Herve5]

Alas no news here of Fairphone Open…

[Ianto]

+1 to that, mohican.

[Lidwien]

As Corona (Covid 19) is disrupting the whole world it will definitely delay the development of an Open Os for the Fairphone 3,
For the people of Fairphone, please take care of yourself, health is more important than an Open Os for the Fairphone 3,

[Dosenheini]

@Lidwien

delay the development of an Open Os for the Fairphone 3

Do you know if there is a development from Fairphone?

[Lidwien]

@Agno

In the press conference(45’50’’) they were asked about alternatives OSs (Sailfish). They replied that “at launch” they won’t be available but they are in the roadmap. Moreover they say the bootloader would be locked but unlockable.

@Vinnl

There’s a TechCrunch article that says:

Out of the box the phone comes with Android 9 preloaded. A post-launch update will make it easy for buyers to wipe Google services off their slate and install the Android Open Source Project instead.

and

The handset comes preloaded with a vanilla implementation of Android 9 (Pie). But as noted above buyers will be able to switch for a non-Google alternative — via an updater that will let them wipe and install the Android Open Source Project flavor of the OS. (The updater will come post-launch, according to van Abel, who notes that around 5% of Fairphone users opt to go full open source.)

I can’t tell where they are in the moment. I don’t know.

[JulienGarrigue]

@mohican

only if it can come without Google !

Hello @mohican at e.foundation, they already develop an OS named /e/OS which is 100% totally free from Google! it’s been 2 years the team is working on this OS. It’s now compatible with 90+ phones, including the FP2.
And the good news is, according to the last news, they are currently working on FP3: /e/OS (@e_mydata@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

So keep an eye on this

[Herve5]

On Fairphone’s own Open website, nothing new for one year now…
Untill people understand having its own root access to one’s phone is the only way to prevent others owning it, we’ll probably stay with ‘the system most users prefer’.
Which is also the one that flows Fairphone financially, for if this minuscule flock of us concerned was to do it, the handsets would probably cost ten times more.
But all in all, here we keep stuck with our models 1 and 2…

[mohican]

Don’t worry; /e/OS is developing support for Fairphone3 and it is more de-googled than Fairphone Open was.
See this topic: /e/ for FP3 (Google free OS)

[floflo]

Is there any news somewhere regarding porting Lineage OS to FP3 ?

[Volker]

@floflo

news somewhere regarding porting Lineage OS to FP3

See here:

[ROM][UNOFFICIAL] LineageOS 16.0 for FP3

Hey @michlx, you have access to the UART, right? Do you see messages from the bootloader here? I’m currently checking for flashing with TWRP. However it seems like bootloader rejects to boot the slot afterwards for some reason.

[AnotherElk]

@formerFP.Com.Manager @lorahaspels: Are Fairphone still “currently investigating the possibility of making Fairphone Open available on Fairphone 3”, or does the new partnership with /e/ take the place of Fairphone Open OS on the Fairphone 3?

[Herve5]

@AnotherElk

Are Fairphone still “currently investigating the possibility of making Fairphone Open available on Fairphone 3” , or does the new partnership with /e/ take the place of Fairphone Open OS on the Fairphone 3?

Very significant question. Given that nothing at all happened on Fairphone Open for more than one year, I’m pessimistic.
Now, the presence of F-Droid on /e/ is at least a very big relief, compared to Sailfish implementations for instance. And unless I was mistaken, cheking the bugs in /e/ Fairphone developments led me to a single one (on sound), which too is very positive.
But I fully agree with you and am intensely waiting for the answer to your question!!
H.

[AnotherElk]

@Herve5

Given that nothing at all happened on Fairphone Open for more than one year, I’m pessimistic.

I just asked to perhaps bring closure to this topic.
/e/ seems a reasonable choice if they wanted to do such a partnership, and now that the partnership is there, why commit resources to an own Open OS? I could understand that.

@Herve5

Now, the presence of F-Droid on /e/ is at least a very big relief

/e/ is an Android OS, and F-Droid is an Android App, you should be able to install and use it on every Android OS.

@Herve5

compared to Sailfish implementations for instance.

Sailfish is not an Android OS, and the Android compatibility solutions on Sailfish were and are not perfect. To compare that with Android makes not much sense. Sailfish is working fine for itself.

[formerFP.Com.Manager]

Hi @AnotherElk,

Thanks for tagging me. To answer your question…we don’t know yet. Making an alternative OS is resource consuming, so we don’t know right now if and when we can start doing that. What we know for sure is that this partnership will be super beneficial for our users to have a real and robust alternative to the stock Android.

[AnotherElk]

Thanks for the quick reply.
I’m shocked to learn Labour Day is not a public holiday in the Netherlands. So, keep up the good work today while most of us are loafing around (I guess), much appreciated .