Yes, I also think this is the problem. I can disable the random MAC access for every WIFI connection, (gear icon on the connection) but I don’t understand how to disable it for the hotspot…
My Fairphone 3 has become almost unusable since installing Android 13. Some big issues I have experienced;
I can’t take screenshots anymore. Whenever I take a screenshot, I get an error notification that simply reads ‘Couldn’t save screenshot Can’t save screenshot’. I have an SD card with about 100GB of storage available, plus my Camera app works fine, as do video recordings. But not screenshots. I hate how little information that the error notification gives. Tapping on it does nothing, there’s no error code or log information to tell me why I can’t take screenshots, just that I can’t.
My SIM card does not activate after a reboot. If I reboot now since updating to Android 13, I must call someone, wait for the call to fail due to the phone not recognizing the sim card. About 30 seconds to 2 minutes later, then I get prompted to enter my sim PIN. Only then does my 4G, SMS etc. work. On a similar note, the phone doesn’t seem to keep track of time while it is switched off, so if I reboot, I will have incorrect date and time until I do my little ritual with the failed call, or get Wi-Fi. I don’t remember this being a thing before the update.
‘Failed’ Reboots. I don’t know how else to describe this phenomenon, but I have been getting an issue, where if I reboot the phone once, the first time, it will just boot into a Black screen. I can access notifications and go to settings from there, but no other apps will work. I can only get black screen. If I go Settings > Apps > and launch a random app, it just goes to black screen again. I have to re-reboot to get actually be able to use the damn phone, only after the second reboot do I get all the expected behaviors and functionality.
Random apps crashing on launch. Sometimes apps will just not launch or immediately crash. Apps like KDEcoonect and Zorin connect, whether they are installed via Google Play or F-Droid, they will not launch no matter what. There have been other cases of apps not working, but these are the most recent ones I’ve seen.
Some apps not working with fingerprint sensor. This one is just confusing to me. Some apps have no issues whatsoever with using the fingerprint sensor, such as Bitwarden. I use my fingerprint as a faster login to access my passwords etc. But my banking app N26 will not work with my fingerprint, when I try to enable biometric login in the N26 app, it just says ‘error occurred’. N26 said there’s no reason from what they can see that it would be the app, especially since this function worked fine before switching to Android 13.
Toggling Bluetooth On or Off brings the phone to an absolute crawl for several minutes. This one is particularly frustrating, for some reason, toggling Bluetooth on or off makes the phone almost freeze for at least two minutes. I always forget about this when I am about to listen to music on my headphones or in my car. I go to settings, go to enable Bluetooth, then have my phone basically freeze for a few minutes. No indication of how long it will take or if it will unfreeze so I can actually go to my music app and play some music or whatever.
With all that said, is it just easier to revert to a previous version of Android? Can someone point me in the right direction on how this can be done. I rely on my phone for so much, and I love my Fairphone 3, I love what Fairphone themselves are trying to do. But there are just too many bugs and too much frustration that comes from using my phone now.
What is the last update on your phone ? Did you try in safe mode to see if there is not a problem with an app ? And are you ready to try a factory reset in case nothing else works ?
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Is your SD card configured as internal or portable memory?
Sounds like internal, what could cause some of the mentioned problems. See sdcardguide
(Regarding the problem with the fingerprint sensor see above. As a workaround you might consider to install lineageOS.)
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Just FYI, MC_sickle334: I’ve moved your post and the replies about the SD card here because the other thread is solely about the fingerprint issue in A13 on the FP3(+).
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The settings app says I am up to date
Android Version: 13
Android Security Update: August 5, 2023
So a quick update after seeing you mention SD card issues. I managed to reformat my Samsung SD card as external, and it has solved my Screenshot issue.
Had the error notification gave a bit more info about what was causing the problem, it might not have been such an annoyance. But in any case, it does seem that using an SD card as internal storage on Fairphone 3 can cause screenshots to not work.
It has also helped with app performance. KDEconnect no longer crashes on launch.
Edited to add also, reformatting SD card has also helped with those ‘failed’ reboots I mentioned above. I had no idea that the memery card would impact performance this much.
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See sdcardguide .
It’s a more general Android version thing than a particular Fairphone thing, but yes, Fairphones are affected, too, and badly.
I don’t know why this is even still offered to unsuspecting users as a formatting possibility. It made a limited kind of sense in the beginning of smartphoning when built-in storage was a real bottleneck, but it was a bad idea technically back then already to chain together sturdy built-in storage and a flimsy SD card in a flimsy card slot. And recent Android bugs obviously don’t help with this either.
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