Memory Upgrade available?

mandolyn · October 12, 2021, 8:03am

I’m using Fairphone 3 for one year now. Everything is ok but memory could be larger. Is there a way to upgrade vom 64 GB to 128 GB?

Ingo · October 12, 2021, 8:09am

Hi and welcome to the community forum, mandolyn.

The short answer is: no.

You can add an SD card. But if you do, when asked, set it up as external storage, not internal to avoid many problems.

mandolyn · October 13, 2021, 10:22am

Thanks @Ingo . A year ago I alread knew that 64 GB will be to less memory. I’ve seen that some components (like camera) can be upgraded. That’s why I had the hope to replace (only) the maindboard one day to bring my fairphone up to date to my memory requirements. Not throwing away the complete phone. That’s why I would agree to invest in a more expensive phone.
With this experience in mind my next phone will be an other one again. It is much more expensive in short term, but I can use it years later with only a little loss of performance. So in the long term view (in my oppinion) it’s cheaper and (due to the long usage time) better for our envirment.

Incanus · October 13, 2021, 10:31am

Out of curiosity, for which application 64GB are not enough memory?

anon9989719 · October 13, 2021, 10:36am

Maybe the 64GB also holds all the media files as no SD card is mentioned

Incanus · October 13, 2021, 10:44am

This easy solution was already mentioned, therefore I asked which application does need the memory .

mandolyn · October 13, 2021, 10:52am

@Incanus it’s just the sum of all the apps. The media files are on the SD card.

Incanus · October 13, 2021, 10:55am

Thank you. Then you need to clean up a little bit .

anon9989719 · October 13, 2021, 10:56am

Some apps can be moved to the SD card, by the way is it formatted at external/portable

Maybe you can remove the cache etc. from some apps if you haven’t already done so.

mandolyn · October 13, 2021, 11:02am

@anon9989719 I know all theses workarounds (and I’m using it) but the answer “clean up” for me sounds a little bit like “format c: and you have some extra space on disk”.
Many apps I use rarely, but when I need the I don’t want to install them every time. And other apps consume a lot of memory without a chance to move data to sd.
But that’s not the point: I would like to upgrade my phone instead of buying an new one. That’s my idea of sustainability.

Incanus · October 13, 2021, 11:26am

But upgrading the core module would render a big part of the phone as unusable left over. So that’s not very sustainable either.

system · April 11, 2022, 11:27am

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