Personally I find that a really strange question. Are you saying people should not solve problems when other potential problems remain unsolved?
Sure, if a part of the phone breaks that cannot be replaced, you canāt use it any longer.
But what if there is no hardware defect but you are forced to stop using your still functioning phone because a) your company requires a patchlevel no older than 1 year or b) apps important to you no longer run on Android 7?
There are still benefits. All products deteriorate, even people. Yet cars still get updated software, and people like me of some 73 years still learn. My body may be deteriorating at a notable rate but I keep my mind as up to date as possible. It, my brain is still usefull and what better way to use my body that to have an improved brain.
Of course with any finite system there is only so much more info that can be stored and some programmes require too much memory, but cognitive ability takes up less space.
So as I age I remember less and calculate more. If the apps on the FP2 are not overloading the memory or cpu then updating the logic could be very useful
Just copied a link from another post which details the OS update procedure, which I found very interesting.
āletās do a quick recap of how Android makes it to your smartphone. First, Google releases builds of AOSP (the Android Open Source Project) to everyone. This doesnāt run on a phone yet, though. First, your SoC (System on a Chip) manufacturer (usually Qualcomm) has to get hold of it and customize Android for a particular SoC, adding drivers and other hardware support. Then, that build goes to your phone manufacturer (Fairphone, in this case) which adds support for the rest of the hardwareāthings like cameras, the display, and any other accessoriesāalong with built-in apps and any custom Android skin work that the company wants to do.ā
I just saying that updating the software should go hand in hand with the possibility to also replace broken parts off the phone, not stop making themā¦
Thereās has to be an economic limit to having a new batch of modules made and of course there are a number of modules, sure it would seem useful but then resources are limited and the new FP3 takes the lions share of the funding ~ it really couldnāt be any different.
The notion must be that there are enough FP2 phones that still have years of usability that will not require repairs and new modules and for those owners updated software is an option to have enhanced use of the phone.
There is the option of buying spares from disused phones, Iāve seen a number of FP2s being sold here and mentions of Ebay as a source
Awesome 
I wonder if the firmware modem files were updated respect to the last Android7 image, and if we could generate a new modem.zip to update the phones running LineageOS 
And it its not so nice coming to the hospital for a hip replacement greeted with āno they stopped making those, so, you can get a wheelchair instead!ā
Well, there are countries, where you are greeted with: āSorry, you are too old, you wonāt get a new hip anymore.ā
Your comparison seems a bit (very) far fetched nevertheless. Or do you compare yourself to a smartphone?
Believe me Iāll be taking the wheelchair so not a good analogy
I want something reliable that I can repair myself
But if you need the chair to sit in, how do repair it?
Answer: get a second chair ā¦ just like people getting a second FP2 so they can use its parts to fix the first one. 
No, the analogy is on you.
That strange comparison makes it look like a person is no longer āof useā when sitting in a wheelchair instead of getting a replacement hip; as the phone isnāt working any longer, when the bottom module is missing. And a simple workaround for all of its functions is hard to come by.
@anon9989719 simply stated, that updating the brain (OS) is worth it, even if parts of the body fail.
So, quite the contrary to the wheelchair argument.
And @amouns statement to take the chair just proves it.
Sitting on the floor while doing the repairs, maybe as well.
When I broke my display (three times really; clumsy me), I didnāt get me a spare phone, but went along for a while without one. Unbelievable as it might seem, but it worked. 
Though I have to admit, that I am not dependent of the phone business wise or socially. Therfore itās clearly not the way for everyone.
Hi @oli.sax,
We donāt have any updates on the modem, so the 19.11.2 version is still the latest. Itās unlikely that the modem files will ever change again on FP2. We have some changes in the proprietary blobs only, and we keep them updated with every (source) release.
We have a first confirmed install of Android 9 ā¦ although after a bumpy road earlier today:
Additional information from my side: The final release candidate 21.01.0-rel.1 for the beta testers weighed around 1 GB (and this official release should be no different from it), so indeed make sure you have a good and stable connection when the update is offered to you and you start the download.
Haha, updating went fine here yesterday too. Already opened two bug reports. One on the issue wrt. decrypting I mentioned earlier. The other one is (sadly) a more generic observation: itās less stable. With Android 7 I had a reboot roughly once a day, usually at night when itās on its charger. With Android 9 I get reboots every few hours, even when left completely unattended and not plugged inā¦ I would have blamed the usual ājust after an upgrade your power consumption goes upā hiccup of Android upgrades, but today itās been cool and holding out all day on a full charge. Still: reboots.
Massive thanks and congrats to the whole of the Fairphone team and community for this update - I canāt imagine the number of hours that have gone I to making this happen. Been running my FP2 for over 5 years which always seems like such a short amount of time in the bigger picture, and yet apparently a lifetime in the world of technology.
Looking forward to playing. Hereās a shot to confirm it (hope thereās no confidential data there, ha):
Thank you for your answer, karsten
Honestly itās not clear for me what are the āproprietary blobsā , I was guessing itās included in the modem.zip file (*) but after reading your message it seems not
However you answered my question, no update on the baseband version 4437.1-FP2-0-08 to be expected in the future.
Best regards,
Olivier
(*) modem.zip contains the following firmware:
emmc_appsboot.mbn NON-HLOS.bin rpm.mbn sbl1.mbn sdi.mbn splash.img tz.mbn
BLOB is used as an abbreviation for ābinary large objectā. Any firmware or closed-source driver fits the bill. The modem is one device that uses such blobs, but so does the GPU, the camera, etcā¦
Yep, Iāve been deliberately keeping it to 16, though.
From my experience in the past, I prefer to keep to the āstableā versions, as the new versions tend to have (more) bugs, probably also because of the new features introduced. Yeah, all software has bugs. But Iām using this phone daily. also to make calls, so this is actually critical.
Iāll probably need to update soon, though, as it appears the support/maintenance for version 16 has stopped. (Maybe Iāll make an image with TWRP so I can revert if needed)
With LineageOS only one official version per device gets supported, so for about a year now only 17.1 is supported on the Fairphone 2, and as soon as 18.1 goes official (in LineageOS terms), only 18.1 will be supported.
So, whatever Fairphone are doing has no consequence for LineageOS 16 anymore.
