By the way, this thread is fine, it’s not a huge issue that will gather too many replies, hopefully.
I am on the beta testing team and this wasn’t noticed so I have informed them now.
Thank for bringing this up
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Arrived here tonight (Germany | Provider: Simply); installed right now. No Bad effects so far 
I think the last times someone asked for screenshots so I did some
Best
DonFnord
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Does anyone know if I can take advantage of this update if I am using Open Camera? Not the stock camera app.
Hi 1999
I got no clue about the Open Camera but for me the security patch level of 5th Feb 2023 was actually the more important argument
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Well it won’t hurt to try. I use Open camera, Gcam Nikita and the default.
Each has it’s advantage.
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And also, looking at the improvements to the camera in this update, do you guys think it fixes the oversharpening issue we discussed before? (link below)
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp3-camera-oversharpened-low-quality-in-video-calls/77799
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I’ve had a couple of video calls since and it’s still not great. Whether it’s changed or not, I can’t say! But when I do a side-by-side comparison with my girlfriend’s Pixel 5a, it’s night and day in difference. Her front camera in a Whatsapp video call looks soft (if anything, slightly too soft) but clean and smooth. My FP3+ looks low quality and jagged.
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Hi,
I installed the update yesterday using WLAN. Today my mobile data does no longer work. Yesterday everything worked fine. I am using Congstar in Germany.
What didn’t helped:
- Reboot
- Shutdown and start the phone
- Disable mobile data and enable it again
Edit: I played a little bit with the settings while I wrote this text and accidental disabled the SIM. After enable it again, my mobile data works again.
Edit2:
Long tap on mobile data. Then you see a slider on top to disable/enable the SIM, it is called “SIM verwenden” in German.
@Incanus:
I did not changed any settings
Did you check the APN settings?
I think it was mentioned already that this was not fixed…!?
According to another thread, you have to switch off and wait a bit to solve the problem.
Installed the update yesterday and - so far, so good, no problems 
Haven’t tried the camera yet though.
Just installed this update:
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Booting to TWRP (adb reboot bootloader; fastboot boot twrp.img) no longer works, probably due to the “improvements” for managing system partitions. This essentially killed Magisk (used for full backups of the device, mounting of etx2 partitions, AdAway a.s.o. ) for me…
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The support for a PIN-less second SIM is still broken: It always results in the PIN-less SIM being selected for telephony, ignoring any other preferences set.
I’ll admit to somewhat special requirements, but having updates break functionality is still frustrating.
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Hi!
As an FP3 owner, I would be interested to know if the fp3+ owners noticed an serious improvement in picture quality ( I am not very optimistic by the way).
As the picture quality is not really good, if the camera + would be much better now , it will surely help me to keep the phone longer…
Regards
Michel
Hi
I didn’t notice an improvement, but then I don’t use the camera for anything ‘special’.
I’m sure there is some but the video in bright light is somewhat over sharpened.
Personally if I had a FP3 I wouldn’t rush to update the camera.
ideally find someone with an FP3+ or FP3 with the 48Mp camera and take the same picture to compare.
By the way, the 48MP is a 48MPs Quad Bayer so the output is 12MPx
After the update I opened the stock camera app for the first time in probably two years, took one photo, noticed it still introduced grainy noise even in the brightly lit clouds in the sky, and decided not to bother again.
If you want better quality photos, use a Google Camera based app. Neither the updated module nor this software update improve things in a meaningful way.
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Hi. Thanks a lot for your replies! So as I expected it is not worth it to change the module.
Regards
Michel
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I updated yesterday evening.
At the moment nothing seems to have been broken which is quite a good result to me. 
One thing that always scares me is when I reboot the phone to complete the update and it doesn’t connect to the internet. I usually have to reboot twice or to play a bit with flight mode (enable it and then disable it) to have data connection working again.
This is a funny behavior that started some 3-4 updates ago and it’s till there.
Before updating I got a picture with my OpenCamera and then again the same picture after the update but didn’t notice any difference. I know this is not the right way to test a new feature but I didn’t feel like inventing a better test bench.
Ciao,
Max
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Hi everyone,
I have not installed/bought the"new" camera modules for the FP3 and was wondering if the quality improved with the last update. Comparison pictures before did not convince me to make the purchase.
Does anyone have an update on this?
See above. Nobody so far has seen a difference, and even if there is one the image quality with the stock camera app is still very bad compared with the Google Camera based apps. Use one of these if you want better image quality, don’t bother with the new module.
Edit: Back in 2020 I posted a few pictures taken with the old module and a Google Camera based app here. IMHO it’s a far cry from the stock software, and almost hard to believe it’s the same hardware.
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