Now, the time to switch the OS of my FP2 starts coming. Although meanwhile there are many alternate ROMs/OSes besides the vendor Android images, it’s very hard to determine whether an OS found runs on my FP or a specific model. Is there a method to check, a set of requirements (besides x GB RAM and…

If you search the forum you will find many options, see [image] pencil2 Operating Systems for Fairphones Guides pencil2 This is a wiki post and a list of all dic:operatingsystem that can be installed on the following Fairphone models (wikipedia OS list can be found here …

[image] Nepumuk: hard to determine whether an OS found runs on my FP or a specific model. In general if an alternative OS build does not state exactly that it is made for a specific phone it won’t run on that phone. Those phones are not generic enough to have one OS build to cover more than o…

I think Sailfisch and Ubuntu might be a bit too “special” however Lineage and e/OS both work well on the FP2. I never tested divestOS. When you want to stick to GoogleApps LineageOS is the way to go. In the list you should have links to the forum topics to start with.

Most if not all of them require Google. If I had no problem with it, I could use the default Android…

[image] Nepumuk: Most if not all of them require Google What do you mean by “require Google”? If I look at the list, basically all alternatives do not require Google by my understanding.

If you haven’t previously installed adb and fastboot, you can download them from Google. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/FP2/build#install-the-platform-tools

[image] Ingo: What do you mean by “require Google”? [image] Nepumuk: If you haven’t previously installed adb and fastboot, you can download them from Google. You are aware that most of the OSes in the list are still Android OSes and thus are based on Google’s Open Source Android base A…

The Fairphone B. V. portrayed the Fairphone Open OS as ”completely de-googled“. Reading your post – as you are one of the most active users, as far as I can overview it – Fairphone Open OS (looks like a false-branding of the ”product“ FP Open OS. A user/consumer/private individual using tools like …

[image] Nepumuk: Fairphone Open OS (looks like a false-branding of the ”product“ FP Open OS. Personally, I would agree, I have a real logical problem applying the term “degoogled” to anything using Android. I use Android nonetheless, I picked my poison. In reality, the questions for me are: …

Nice write up ~ thanks :slight_smile:

How to find out whether a mobileOS runs on a specific FP version?

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If you search the forum you will find many options, see