It’s now :five: years ago that Fairphone released the FP3 and the first buyers got ahold of their devices in September 2019. So time to ask who has been holding on to her or his FP3 for a full five years so far. This is the place to get your badge from the Fairphone Community Forum @moderators . …

[image] Thoense: I know, we love FP for its many years of Android updates, but what good are they if they cause trouble or make the phone sluggish? Apart from personal security concerns you might assess as you like, they provide necessary security updates hopefully helping to keep your phone …

[image] AnotherElk: a clean install from scratch should behave fine regarding speed and responsiveness. Are you referring to a fastboot Flashing of Fairphone OS, as per Install Fairphone OS manually – Support ? Since this means to configure everything from scratch, like on a new phone, I’m n…

If you cannot warm up to the idea right away, you might want to gradually move everything you can from your internal storage to a microSDXC card in your phone (if prompted to format it, do not format the card as :no_entry: “phone storage”). The more you have shifted to the card, the smaller the “eve…

I got my FP3 (it’s now 3+) on 27 Aug 2019 and it’s still my daily driver. Would be very nice to get a badge :star_struck:

It’s refreshing to see I’m not the only one sticking to phone from 2019 :smiley: Mine went through some mid-age crisis and went from FpOS to /e/ to Ubuntu to DivestOS and sadly after closing back to /e/. As of hardware I changed back camera to 3+ module and replaced cracked main frame (thanks to c…

Based on that moving to 4 years badge and granting the badge, if this is a misunderstanding let me know [image] Anyone love their FP3? (= no issues) The Products I have been using the phone for 2 weeks now and I would like to share my opinion compared to previously used B…

Hey yvmuell. I think I missed my 4 years badge in november 2023 and 5 years in november 2024 :slight_smile: So I think I put that correctly into “5 years and counting” :slightly_smiling_face: My contribution you mentioned is from November 2019.

since March, 14th I’m also in and its still my main phone; further using more and more functionallity - last the NFC capability What I see in the meantime (I guess since my phone got four years) is that the glue of the top cover (screen module?) is slowly loosing its functionality. Should I invest …

[image] wolle: What I see in the meantime (I guess since my phone got four years) is that the glue of the top cover (screen module?) is slowly loosing its functionality. Should I invest into a newer screen module - would this make since, although this behaviour is happening very slowly in my obs…

[image] Mixigodo: Take a look at these threads Thanks a lot for these valuable tips.

My FP3: 5 years and counting

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yvmuell March 13, 2025, 1:30pm 25

Based on that moving to 4 years badge and granting the badge, if this is a misunderstanding let me know