I factory reset my phone because I had several issues and I thought, new year, new install. This did fix several issues, except for the Google App at the home screen.
Normally, when you swipe left from the main home screen, you see a news feed from Google (yes, all those people who have alternative launchers and ROMs, you don’t have that )
I expected that a factory reset would fix this. Now, before I contact FP support, I would like to know if other people also don’t have this news feed anymore. For the record, yes, I enabled the option in the default launcher shipped with the fp5. I also enabled “Discover” in the Google app. Opening the Discover feed manually does show active feeds. So I suppose it’s Trebuchet that has an integration issue.
I don’t use FairphoneOS (iodeOS user here) but I can assure you that almost evrey bigger alternative launcher has a news-feed or something similiar. Neo Launcher for example or Lawnchair, both are free and open source by the way.
Fairphone still needs to fix it, since that’s what they ship with the phone. But before I report it, I would like to verify that this is reproducible. So if anyone else can test
I can only say that my news feed disappeared some days ago (swiping was still possible but the left home screen was empty), but I got it back after either restarting the phone or turning the setting off and on again. (Not sure what I did exactly as the problem was solved so quickly that I had almost forgotten about it.)
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