Does this hapen for you guys if you switch from gesture navigation to 3 button navigation? This no longer happens to me on 3 button navigation and I can use a custom launcher - Lawnchair - just fine.
This mitigates the issue because the “swipe from bottom” gesture that makes the multitasking pane go crazy is not present with 3 button navigation. You just press the multitasking pane button instead of swiping.
You may need to do again what I wrote, and add some variation (do it, reboot, do it again). I know that’s dumb but since my last message this issue did not appear again on my phone so I assume you must be close. And I use gestures from the beginning.
Hi I have the same problem for halfe a year now. In adition to all the sugestet fixes i also tried a reset and a manual flash of Fairphone OS. Nothing worked. I can confirm that using only quickstep it works fine and using 3 Button navigation also works, but bove is sadly not an option for me. I hope Fairphone has a fix soon. My Friend using the same Louncher with his Fairphone has no Problem what so ever. Maby it is a Hardwareproblem of some sort? Our some variation in the Chips they use that trigger the Problem.
The Problem persists even under Android 14.
With Navigation Bar instead of gestures the problem is almost gone, but under heavy multi tasking it’s reproducable.
I really prefer gestures controlls.
@all did you report to Fairphone by contacting support?
I did months ago report this but nothing happend.
I also contacted a support and I am very disappointed with Fairphone. They have a nice mission, but they can have fairest hardware on the planet (which they probably have) but when software is mediocre and support doesn’t communicate its all for nothing and it is kinda destroying their mission. I would convert my wife to Fairphone but how am I supposed to do it when she sees I am having critical issues (like also a battery drain that I had before).
For the time being I installed CalyxOS on the phone and now I don’t experience the issue with multitasking pane. So for anyone who is a bit technical I would recommend. And you will have more private phone as well.
To Fairphone I recommend to hire developers to improve the software side and really commit to it, otherwise you will never gain “normies”. And support should communicate more and should also have some presence on this forum.
Thanks a lot! This worked for me, having smooth Nova launcher experience now after almost half a year of torture.
I also have had problems with multitasking for some days (Android 14, 5th of july update) It started with empty multitasking, which was only fixed by restarting and now I’ve seen the left scroll bug, but this one seems be more random as it fixes itself without a reboot.
This isn’t really a fix but this issue finally brought me to install a custom ROM (LineageOS). I figure it’s easier to hide the custom ROM from my banking app than having to deal with this issue.
It’s disappointing that FP is hiding behind “this is a community forum so we don’t post official responses there, please write to support”. I wish this was the issue Linus spoken about in this video, because then it’d get actually fixed.
I also had this using Quickstep and 3 button mode till B.034 update, after that it happend so far only once with B.041 update.
Likewise – same issue with same navigation mode – although more frequent (probably 1 or 2 times per week).
@ats, I think you’re right at Navigation bar - "recently opened applications" (square icon) suddenly stops working (Fairphone 5, Android 14) - #5 by ats – looks like the same problem.
First i write about “fix”, that appeared to be only temporary
Next i write about a little simplification putting QuickStep icon on desktop , for completeness in details:
Now i write about prepare gesture for direct ForceStop QuickStep 
Is need:
in ConnectBot set new connection:
su -c "am force-stop com.android.launcher3"; exitin FNG
or simply create desktop shortcut, hold desktop and add “Widget”
Interesting that many people only seem to have this problem now. I’ve had this issue since I bought the device, which was a few days after launch.
I’ve used several launchers (Smart launcher, Niagara, Lawnchair, Stock) and I’ve always had the issue. I only have this issue (and quite a few others, one of which called emergency services once) on the stock Fairphone OS, not on Lineage or Calyx.
I love my FP5 but the software still really needs some work.
I also have this problem, I’ve managed to capture a lot of logs while it happened and sent it to Fairphone during the FP5 beta programm, no progress so far…
I allways have to go to settings, search for gesture navigation, activate it, then deactivate it by enableling 3 button navigation and it’s gone for a while (maybe this workaround was mentioned several times)
I started to have the same issue when I enabled “Desktop Mode” under the “Display” settings. Yesterday I disabled it, rebooted the phone and the issue was gone.
Now, after ~1 day, the task manager still works fine.
Genius that was it!
i suppose then desktop mode will be removed by the next update to fix this issue
Love this! Since a week no issues anymore. Before that I had to force quit Quickstep daily.
Wow, I think I had the desktop mode on when this started happening (I have different system now). We will see if others have same success, but you basically outdid the fairphone support.
After 1+ week I confirm that this solved the issue for me.