Hello, I cannot use Live View on my new FP6, the button is greyed out. I did some research and discovered that you need to have Google Play Services for AR installer, in order for Live View to work. And, sure enough, that app is not on my phone. But what’s worse, when I tried to look for it on t…

Indeed, quite shocking. One wonders who Fairphone designs their phones for. Seems to be an incredibly narrowly defined user group. If all the needed technology is present in the phone, what would it cost them to enable this?

I started my cool off return because of the usb 2.0 port which bugs me more than i expected, and now realized that the phone does not support arcore either. What started as a great phone experience ended in a terrible multi purpose device experience. Everything past basic phone use is leaving a sou…

I just tried to use the ToF sensor of the Fairphone 6 to build a point cloud app for it. But it was by the life of it not possible to access data from that sensor. I would be very happy if that changes with a firmware update. E.g. please include goolge play ar core.

Sounds like a request to the Fairphone support as this is a user forum where only from time to time some Fairphone staff looks into.

[image] JohnnyMauser: E.g. please include goolge play ar core. This is one of my major gripes as well. For some reason they dont enable AR Services, even though the phone has all the hardware it needs.

In case you want to look at older topics on ARCore (for the previous models), I think these are the most relevant [image] No AR Support ? (Google Play Services for AR / ARCore) Fairphone 5 Hi ! I wanted to use a local map app ( https://play.google.com/store/ap…

Thank you for linking them. I did read them before, it is just a shame that ARCore is still not supported.

I’m very sorry to read that. I was about to buy a FP 6, but now have to turn to other options. I found this thread when I googled why the FP 5 shows an error when you try to launch an AR app. I do, on occasion, develop AR apps and a phone which cannot run any AR app is therefore not an option for m…

Same here, I’ll soon replace my Fairphone 3 and I’ll have to consider another brand :frowning:

Just came here to find out that Fairphone fails again. Reason 3 to me why my next phone will not be a FP. :frowning:

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In case you want to look at older topics on ARCore (for the previous models), I think these are the most relevant