My faire phone is starting to flicker and shut down during calls since one week. Since two days the display is starting to react by themselfe after activating the phone. Ian basically not able to use the phone and do any of the things that is recommended in the help desk because i am not able use the display by myself.
Does anybody has andy request for fixing this problem?
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Sorry for the late reply.
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/screen-flickers-at-low-brightness/11577?u=paulakreuzer
Troubleshooting Tips:
Increase the touch and hold delay:
Rule out screen & battery issues
#disassemble your phone, carefully clean the connectors
perform a battery reset as described in the #batteryguide
Update your Operating System (You can manually update as described here even if your screen doesn’t permit you to update normally).
Try to find a pattern. When does this happen?
If it only happens during phone calls than it’s probably a proximity sensor issue. Go here for more info an…
and "shut down during calls I guess is one of these:
Solution: Please follow the official troubleshooting tool .
archived text Besides a badly calibrated sensor the next most common reason for this issue is dust between the proximity sensor and the screen. For more info check <a href="https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fp2-screen-cant-be-reactivated-during-after-calls-see-first-post-for-workarounds/11874/148?u=paulakreuzer">this post</a>.
Cleaning tips:
Clean the screen of your phone, especially the part where the proximity sensor…
Today was the first time I did several phone calls with the FP2 and in maybe half the cases the call dropped after seconds or a minute. It seems to happen when I’m in the subway or first floor of a large building, but I have a strong feeling that this didn’t happen quite so often under the exact same conditions with my other smartphones. One time I barely walked down the stairs into the station and it was gone. In many of the cases the reception icon showed a decent reception (though I learned t…
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Mine has started rebooting on a regular basis as well. I’ve tried a factory reset and it doesn’t seem to help. Its rebooted about 15 times today so far. Last night the touch stopped working so I couldn’t enter my pin after a reboot, it took a lot of attempts before it would respond. Bit dissapointed.
Quick question, does anyone have the Peace of Mind thing on theirs? Mine doesn’t apart from once today when it randomly rebooted I could see it…
Please read these topics for workarounds & tips and continue there if you have further questions.
Dear Community,
We’re on the verge of launching the first update for the Fairphone 2. Release Candidate 1.2.6 (RC1.2.6) is an update to the current OS shipping with the Fairphone 2 and contains Google Mobile Services. RC1.2.6 is very likely to become the final version of this update. But before we launch it to thousands of Fairphone 2 owners, we hope to get critical feedback from our community.
Last year we did beta testing with a dedicated group of Fairphone community members, and their insig…
Oh and about not being able to take off the screen, take a look at this topic:
#The guide moved here .
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The modules of Fairphone 2 can be replaced very easily. You can already find little tutorials on Youtube:
How to replace the screen
If you run into troubles try the trick explained in the pictures below.
How to replace a module
These tutorials might also be found in different places in the future