Locked out of FP3 w/ password protection (openlauncher & simplekeyboard)

[AnotherElk]

@Alex.A

I don’t think that specific constellation is a problem.

On the Fairphone 3 it is a known problem …

Is there any alternative to the default Dialer app - that works on FP3?

The issue is only when the phone has been booted but not unlocked yet. Once you unlock and re-lock everything works. (That’s also why you will only notice the issue after a reboot) My solution to get rid of google gboard was to change the lock from “password” to “pin” and use a long custom pin for unlocking. Unlike passwords, for which the lock screen invokes the system keyboard, for pins, it uses its own pin entry interface (and it also does for emergency numbers and for SIM pins if the SIM is…