Anyway it’s feature that supports Fairphone’s brand goals:
sustainability (phone can rest all night long which is 1/3 of life-time)
privacy (phone is disconnected from any services during the night, only BIOS level processes are running usually like kind of Wake-ov-LAN or some watchdogs to switch on when alarm occures)
benefit is that phone is restarted every morning (funny fact is that some brands offer scheduled restart but not switch on/off, which seems to be pure intention of spy practices)
Please, could you, users of FP 3, 4, 5, comment and at the best case… place screenshot of setting for Android and/or e/OS?
It‘s merely the other way round. A scheduled restart means the phone is never really shut off, something is running all the time to make it possible. Phones without this functionality are completely off.
If you are really worried about spying or tracking, you would have to remove the battery from the phone (which you luckily can do with a Fairphone).
That there’s even a way to bring a Fairphone 3/3+/4/5 to boot itself from “powered off” to ring an alarm should logically tell us that it’s not safe to simply assume it’s completely powered off.
The internet tells me recent iPhones when supposedly powered off still behave like AirTags so that you can still find your misplaced iPhone. They supposedly even save the last bit of battery for this feature before the battery really runs out. Surely nice for convenience, like so many features are.
If you really worry about spying or tracking you get the picture. It’s an interesting rabbit hole to go down .
But apart from that, yes, when “powered off” at least not much is running and at least connections should be few, so battery gets saved (if the saving surpasses the increased battery use of the boot process) and the phone can rest for a while. Additionally, a reboot cleans up some things, so the phone is in a more fresh state to use afterwards.
I am also very interested in this feature and have been thinking the same, that it would match a Fairphone well. Especially to turn it off at night to save energy also of all the wireless infrastructure that it would otherwise be connected to, would be great. Does anyone know whether a feature request like this has already been sent to the FP team?
Also, after reboot, your entire user partition is encrypted until you log in again, so while the Five Eyes and China might be listening to you sleep (how, er, exciting?) and taking photos of your bedroom ceiling, they couldn’t spy on the contents of your phone.
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