I’ve been horrified to discover that on A15, the system now ask for my pin or fingerprint each time I connect my phone to USB and activate USB storage to copy files on a computer…
What was before a very fast and simple gesture was transformed to a nightmare routine…
I use USB storage for my personal work likely 15 to 30 times a day.
And my phone cannot stay connected for long, I need it to move around, so I can’t keep the USB storage activated until I need it 10 minutes later.
Also given the fact that the fingerprint sensor is very bad on the fp5, 2/3 of the time it needs minimum 2 to 3 fingerprint pass to detect the fingerprint, this annoying feature literally makes me loose time during my day.
Please, to the developers, give us the option to disable this annoying feature.
It doesn’t serve any purpose, the phone was already unlocked with the same pin or fingerprint literally 10 seconds before I activate USB storage…
If anyone know how to bypass this…
Ps : I don’t want local network or cloud based solution, or even USB keys.
The only thing I want is to be able to use my phone USB storage simple without entering my pin each time…
This is the kind of little details that is slightly convincing me to not pursue with this phone brand in the future… this and that annoying volte notification we can’t delete…
Fair, why get these annoyances from Fairphone if you can get them from other vendors, too?
That’s what you get when your Android is more or less a stock Android - but Fairphone really didn’t invent these features, they just could potentially work around them, however risking their Google certification (at least for the fingerprint/pin issue I could imagine that). While I could imagine that at some point in time we’ll get the volte notification removed, I think chances are low for the USB storage thingy - as annoying as this may be for you personally, unfortunately. But you could at least try if via the developer options you can get to what you want.
Fair, why get these annoyances from Fairphone if you can get them from other vendors, too?
I have also a Xiaomi note 10pro 5g, under Android 15, that I mainly uses as a 5g router, and the feature is disabled.
I guess it’s possible. It’s just that the fairphone developers apparently don’t want to. For what reason? Why giving the users the maximum personalization possibilities is not the default developers mindset ?
I’m very disappointed with Android in general with this new version.
And announcement for the future is really frightening, like the way they want to forbid people to install apk not greenlisted by Google…
The bare minimum an “open” and “fair” brand like fairphone should do is give the users the possibility to root their phones, without having to modify anything or unlock the bootloader…
Instead what they give the users is the option to buy the phone with /e/OS pre-installed. I know this doesn’t mean “rooted”, but it will make a difference here and there and will probably diverge from Google’s ideas. Now, which other phone vendor offers alternative operating systems?
May i please suggest steering back to the original topic as stated in the title (or perhaps changing it if the aim of the discussion is different)
I understood it’s the standard Android feature.
@lamnatheshark i assume changing the phone or the OS are quite radical steps but of course we all want the phone that works for us ..
In the meantime may I ask whether there’s any particular reason your fingerprint scanner’s not reliable? Has it been like that from the beginning With and without a case?
I use fingerprint on my FP5 like 30 times per hour and it’s pretty reliable, fortunately.
My work recently introduced MFA authentication and while it is definitely a good thing ( we had some users vulnerable to phishing) it might be annoying if you need it for many simultaneously opened websites.
Anyway I am afraid your choices at the moment appeared limited, requesting a software modification if successful will take time.
Perhaps you could look at your fingerprint scanner to check for any issues?
At this point, regarding the fact that I also have the volte notification issue, and that we can’t rollback to A14, or ignore update notifications (which will create more and more notifications that I can’t block) I think I’ll definitely drop Android…
I’m going to get a pinephone or something that I can control almost entirely.
Gosh, it shouldn’t be difficult to understand that some users want the control of their products…
I had a similar problem on my FP4 (A13) when connecting to my car USB. I solved it by changing the default USB configuration (i.e. mode) in developer options to the one I wanted. If the re-prompt for pin is linked to a change in USB mode, then this might solve your problem.
