While my installed apps still support Android 11, I’ll stick with it. I would like the security patches, but as manually unlocking the bootloader causes the device to be wiped, I don’t considder this an acceptable option. When the day comes A11 is not trusted by my security critical apps, I may as well try out a custom ROM instead.
Does anyone know why Fairphone won’t push the A11 updates OTA? Is it because it would cost them extra to set up another OTA channel? Perhaps there is another reason.
If you stay with A11 and manually update, another thing to considder is that the Beta testers are now testing A13 releases. I assume nobody except developers will be testing the A11 patches?
PIN unlock once a day on A13 :
When I turn on my A11 FP3 (as I do every day) it does require a PIN. Some phone services and apps won’t start until I enter it. For example, contacts. If someone calls before I enter the PIN (following startup), I won’t see the callers name. I would hope that these service and apps will continue to stay alive on A13 between the time you are required to re-enter your PIN and the time you actually enter it?
Does anyone know if the requirement to re-enter your PIN daily is over a rolling 24 hour period, or at a set time, or random?
Looking at the FP3+: Issues with Android 13 update thread, there are plenty of issues with A13. If I were going for A13, I’d wait a while.