It’s refreshing to see I’m not the only one sticking to phone from 2019 
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 community here I got hands on spare one), back cover and battery. And to be honest, if there was a bit more than 3GB of RAM, I wouldn’t even think of upgrading to something newer in few or so years.
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Based on that moving to 4 years badge and granting the badge, if this is a misunderstanding let me know
Hey yvmuell. I think I missed my 4 years badge in november 2023 and 5 years in november 2024 
So I think I put that correctly into “5 years and counting” 
My contribution you mentioned is from November 2019.
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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 into a newer screen module - would this make since, although this behaviour is happening very slowly in my observation?
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Take a look at these threads (and the replies on them), they may give you some ideas:
Good luck!
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Thanks a lot for these valuable tips.
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Five years for mine in August. Only feature I wish it had and doesn’t is video out over the USB but can’t have everything.
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A bit ahead but I moved it here and granted you the 5 years badge as well already
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Yep - 5 years now, 6 soon!
Pretty please can I have a badge, mods? (the bottom module’s just packed up, no-one can hear me, new one on order!)
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Got (or at least have the order bill of) my FP3 in 2020-09, so closing in on 🯰🯰🯵 years now.
Everything still works like it did on the first day (lost the letters on the backside, but that’s a feat).
AccuBattery says 91% battery health after all these years of daily use, so cycling between a 40% and 70% charge pays off it seems.
Heavy use of navigation, several messaging apps, browsing, emails, taking pictures (a better camera would be great, it’s still the original one), checking to-do lists, using Syncthing to make it a backup mirror target of my Laptop, etc.
It’s a trusty daily companion 
Oh yeah, I’d like to have the badge too, please
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No, you didn’t 
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Welcome to the community forum.
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I correct - 2020-09
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About 2 months then still … but I guess the powers that be could bestow upon you a shiny 4 years badge until then.
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So… closing in on 🯰🯰🯵 years in 2025, right? 
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What am I doing ?!?
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Okay, sorry for coming back to this but I figured out what went wrong and why I mixed up all those dates and numbers 
The FP3 was bought 2019-10.
I archived the scan of the receipt on 2020-09 (this is therefore how the file is named here)
I wrote the wrong year (2025) instead of 2019, which rightfully got pointed out.
I was confused and thought I mixed a 0 with an 5 and entered the date of the receipt (2020).
Which, however, is not when the phone was bought (2019)
Because of that all the puzzle pieces did not fit with each other and I had a feeling for some days now that something was off with the date, and I now have found out what it is
Did I lose everybody now?
Final conclusion: FP3 owner for 5 years and 9 months 
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I saw that, thanks 
Like yours, my wife will soon need a new phone and she wants to stay with FP3.
I am ready to run a factory reset on my own FP3 (I still run my Fairphone 1) and copy all her data to mine. I was hoping to find this mentioned in a list of FAQs but so far without success.
Are there any pitfalls to avoid? I’ve studied “Securely transfer all your data” at the Fairphone Shop Switching to Fairphone is easy. and read advice (somewhere?!) about backing up data first.
Michael