I use it as my only phone and I am happy with it. Performance is low, some website cause issues but overall I get done what I need to. Keeping it up-to-date once @mal provides an update seems crucial though, so you’d definitely sign up for a quite a bus factor.
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Thank you both.
I like SFOS the best of all operating systems I tried so far, it always feels like “home”. But I need to be able to buy tickets via Deutsche Bahn and the like.
And as I see it, SFOS is not in the pipeline for FP3 or even FP4…
But sorry, this is getting off topic, I’ll leave here now 
I did just start building the FP3 again and will also try FP4 porting hopefully soon (so far I have only used Sailfish OS on FP4 for mainline kernel testing).
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So there is hope 
Cool, I’ll follow this closely
I have been able to buy DB tickets from my FP2 via SFOS most of the time since I got it. The main issue seems to be that the SFOS browser is usually quite outdated and not considered by big tech, so you’ll have solve Google’s Captchas when logging in to prove you’re not a robot for not using Chrome and might run into a ‘Too many requests’ error when Cloudflares DDOS-protection agressively filters uncommon browsers. This has happend to me even from my desktop Linux computer though using ‘niche’ browser like qutebrowser and is neither specific to the FP2 nor to SFOS.
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There is now Sailfish OS 4.4.0.72 available in the repos, please update to it. Main improvements in it are some browser related fixes and OAuth2 support for Microsoft Exchange accounts which is now required if you need such accounts, more information at [Release notes] Vanha Rauma 4.4.0.72 - Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum. I will update the release image soon.
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Hi mal,
does Waydroid (https://github.com/sailfishos-open/waydroid) work on the FP2? Or is it too old/doesn’t meet the requirements?
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I read on the SailfishOS website that with Sailfish 4 they support Android apps targeting up to version 10. On paper this is huge!
Can anyone confirm that this works with Fairphone 2 as well?
Android App Support is only available for officially supported devices with a purchased license.
Thanks! Seems like it is possible with some tinkering: WayDroid on SFOS? - General - Sailfish OS Forum
Will try that and report back.
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Thanks for the update(s) again @mal !
I’m still struggling with a battery that’s dead within 24 hours, recently i was testing with the connmanctl command and found that the command conmanctl technologies lists my GPS as “Powered = True”, even when “Location” in the GUI is switched off and no app is using GPS.
If this statement from connmanctl is true that could explain why my battery drains and we can’t find anything on the software side. Is it normal for connmanctl to report the GPS as powered? And if not, how do i change it?
@juri.gagarin.ii apart from the battery drain issue i’m having (which seems to be specific to my device) SFOS is my favorite mobile os. There is no Apple/Google spyware to worry about and is does everything i need
The link https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris/Install_SailfishOS_for_fp2 doesn’t load, I always get timeouts. Has it moved?
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I can confirm that https://wiki.merproject.org does not load and I could not find any information on the wiki being moved to another service/URL.
In pinged the maintainer of that wiki, waiting for answer about the situation.
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There is a copy of the instructions from May 2022 (I think) at archive.org.
I just assumed that things would not have changed so much since that time and proceeded and ended with a working device.
Thanks a lot for your efforts!
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Only relevant change since that version in archive is the new release which is 4.4.0.72, otherwise instructions are the same. The installation zip is in the same folder as the previous one linked in there.
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I experience a rather high battery drain. OK, the battery is old so a short life is expected, but I also see that there is constantly a high load on the processor (I don’t see it with ‘top’ but in SystemDataScope. It seems that it doesn’t depend on WiFi or mobile data, as this also occurs in flight mode. Flight mode yields about 18h of idle battery life. I also removed the SD card, but that didn’t resolve the situation. I also re-flashed the phone, but that didn’t help.
Firstly I thought that this might be just normal behavior, but then to my surprise I had a time span without this high load and a much lower battery drain. Unfortunately I can’t reproduce the circumstances that lead to this situation which is a pity because reproducing it might make the phone last for one day or more…
Is there something that is known to cause high CPU load and reduce battery life which I didn’t think of?
EDIT: maybe it’s not a high load but a lack of sleep? I admit that I have difficulties interpreting the diagram of SystemDataScope
I’m not aware of any specific conditions when such issues would happen but if the device is not suspending that would cause a lot of power drain. If you happen to see such in the future please provide logs, at least “journalctl -b --no-pager” output and output of dmesg. Hopefully those will tell why it’s not suspending.
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Thanks for the reply. At the moment it is behaving more than well - I put it to flight mode yesterday evening at about 90%, and some hours ago I switched on Cellular data. Now I am at 73%.
I will try to gather the information when it starts eating battery again.
In my experience, if a service disappears without a warning an stays dead for a week without any response by the maintainer, it is very likely to stay abondoned. @mal: Have you thought about alternative places where to host the installation instructions? If you’d explicitely license them under a license that allow so (e.g the FDL), the community could also mirror them to avoid the dependence on a single (hosting) service.