Official LineageOS 17.1 for Fairphone 3/Fairphone 3+

[dk1978]

@mapfeld

and random reboots anymore.

I have to warn you: I also experienced some reboots during longer phone calls (>30min). That was in summer when using the unofficial LineageOS build. This might be a problem we cannot solve as normal OS developers - I think the bug may be in inaccessible baseband or modem code.

[mapfeld]

@dk1978

I also experienced some reboots during longer phone calls (>30min).

Thanks for the heads up, @dk1978. As I successfully avoided to be involved in calls > 5 mins yet, I will confirm upon encounter.

[Grimmwolf]

@dk1978

@Grimmwolf

It is much longer and actually tells you to factory reset and includes many more steps.
Which one would be correct?

I wouldn’t know, I didn’t write the Fairphone support articles.
If the longer instructions work for you, then they are better right? I unlocked my phone in spring, at that time the bootloader did not need an unlocking code.

I will consider updating the Lineage OS Wiki link to point to the longer instructions if we don’t run into other problems.

I was hoping someone might have unlocked their bootloader recently and might be able to tell me which of the two options is the proper procedure.
I am planning on moving to the microg-lineage on the weekend (haven’t installed custom roms for a long time). I will get back to you, if and when I figured out the correct way.

[thisfro]

Bootloader unlocking worked for me with this script: Oem unlock "input verify code"

edit: I did it 3 days ago

[thisfro]

@dk1978 Thank you very much for your contributions!

do we have a dedicated thread (or something) for systematic testing? i installed the microG build and did not yet find any problems, however I did not search for them

[oli.sax]

@Grimmwolf

I was hoping someone might have unlocked their bootloader recently and might be able to tell me which of the two options is the proper procedure.

There are now 2 different versions of the bootloader unlock code, AFAIK it should depend of which OS version you had. See this post : Bootloader Unlocking Code for Fairphone 3 not working - #8 by _tmp

[DarthDavester]

I can confirm this, even though they were not reboots but complete crashes. On the official microG LOS this happened to me twice during a teleconference. The screen went black and the only thing to wake it up again was a force reboot into fastboot mode. Strangely enough, this did not happen on other long calls. Still, I fear this problem is not one with the ROM, but with the FP3 in general.

[frank-bxl]

Atm. I’m running the latest FP-OS (build 8901.2A.0054.20200929) and I’m quite happy with the included camera app (version 2.0.002). Which camera may I expect in the official LOS 16.0 for the FP3?

[DarthDavester]

It is a rather basic one. However, you might want to check out this Thread, where a couple of pixel cam ports are shared. These produce in some cases even better results than the FP3 stock cam. I have tried some of them on LOS and can confirm they work.

FP3: Pixel camera app / Google Camera Port

Since the FP3 is equipped with the same camera as the Pixel 3(a), it could greatly benefit from the Pixel camera app as the stock one takes some pretty average quality photos. Apparently there are already ports for several phones (see https://www.xda-developers.com/google-camera-port-hub/ and Google Camera Port Archives - The Custom Droid), so was wondering if anyone knows anything about the chances of it being available for FP3? I’m not sure about the legality of these ports, but if it doesn’…

[f-admin]

Thank You and all persons involved so much!!!
Now i can recommend, buy and roll out new devices for my family members and friends.
I love Your work and efforts.

[hoja]

K9-mail from F-droid has a strange displaying behavior. The top and bottom bars start blinking frequently. Apart from that, it is usable. I am using the MicroG version installed with TWRP.

[lklaus]

If I remember right I need a migration zip to go from unofficial to official? It’s been long ago i needed that, where can i get one for this migration?

[dk1978]

I don’t think you need a migration build. Just try a dirty flash.

[lklaus]

Thanks. Update is scheduled for Saturday still on unofficial

[mapfeld]

Off topic: For the transition from CyanogenMod to LineageOS, a transition zip was required AFAIK. In my career of flashing custom ROMs, it was the only time I ever needed to do that.

[Alex.A]

AFAIK a migration zip was used for passing from 14.1 unofficial to official and 15.1 unofficial to official on FP2. See here:

@z3ntu

Migration zip for 14.1 testing to 14.1 official should still work hopefully.

@snevas

a. The new migration zip (SHA512 )

Edit: Typo

[lklaus]

I’m remembering it this way also, migration from unofficial to official, to account for the new keys. Still, it might be possible to ignore the change of keys… Will see tomorrow

[snevas]

Yup, this zip was however specific for my unofficial build to the official one. Won’t work for this transition. Maybe the maintainer for the unofficial FP3 build could do the same trick as I did back then (probably the zip is still usable and only the values in the script need to be changed).
I can’t test it as I don’t have the device, else I would have helped

[7adietri]

I installed the first build and so far it’s working very well!

The only problem that I noticed is that I can’t play Ogg audio files (tried the built-in music player and Odyssey). Did anyone else run into this?

[dk1978]

I confirmed that the LineageOS built-in music app (Eleven) can’t play ogg vorbis files, although some apps (such as Firefox) were working. The problem appears to be known. I was able to fix it by modifying some of the audio configuration files - it appears the the device was trying to use hardware codecs to play this format which did not work.

Fix will be included in the builds next week.