This just makes it worst. If the issues are across FP 4, 5 and 6, why didnt they pick this up before rolling out the update?
Why cant they fix it even quicker because its affecting all their flagship phones?
We dont want the latest Android updates. Just security and stability patches. If it aint broke dont fix it.
Alas this update has made using the phone lot more annoying than it should be.
Better communication from the company is the bare minimum. Its been 3 months of investigation. This aint some deep conspiracy. Tell us whats wrong. Offer interim solutions or rollback patch (oh wait, you cant because you cant downgrade from A15 to a lower Android)
Any way to roll back to Android 13? That was stable for me at least, nowadays it’s a pain to try and listen to Spotify. If I lock the phone with something playing, it might continue to play, or it’ll kill the app in a few mins. But what most certainly will kill it is playing something while you try to open a different app, say Snapshat, Discrod, Reddit etc.
Still having very irritating issues with Strava being killed after allowing “Unrestricted” background usage. At least if it’s music that’s playing, you notice (obviously still very annoying), but in this case you only notice when you realise it hasn’t been tracking you for the past x-hours.
Android 15 has turned an amazing phone into one I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. Love the hardware but 15 has broken my phone!
Mine’s still being killed all the time - can’t use 2fa to make purchases, music / audio players randomly stopping / not all photos saving / constantly (at least once per day) dropping the permission of Zepp to send notifications to my watch.
Also found I can’t pair my Bluetooth with any device that uses pincode matching.
Found the below help page on how to roll back to a previous version of Android - that’s going to keep me busy this week.
I’m sure they did pick it up. They just didn’t care. Even before Android 15 landed on the FP4 this issue was reported in the closed beta group. The answer boils down to
“While it does appear to be related to default Android 15 behavior, we haven’t reached a final conclusion yet. We’re still actively collecting feedback and data to thoroughly understand what’s happening and whether any tuning or improvements are possible on our end.”
So they may or may not plan on doing anything about it, because I refuse to believe that this is unfixable.
Thanks for the link - I really don’t have time to be spending on this, but may have to make some time somehow, since as of now I haven’t noticed any particular benefit from the new Android and the current behaviour is making the device less than adequate.
Me too. We would had heard if every Android phone sold since A15 (September 2024) was unusable. It’s more likely a feature of the OS which wasn’t handled correctly (somehow. I’m not a developer). After all this issue apparently affects the FP5 and FP6 too, which means it’s not a quaint old FP4 issue, it has something to do with Fairphone’s A15 implementation.
And Fairphone’s silence is so deafening it doesn’t bode too well, does it.
I have the same issue. Very annoying when running with Strava and Spotify. Very annoying when verifying payments and switching from bank app back to a crashed chrome. I had to use a laptop to make the payment instead of my phone.
It was the straw that broke the camels back. I’ve bought a different phone.