Software Update: Android 11 for Fairphone 3 and 3+

[fairpete]

thanx for your help.
OpenCamera works, but is way to simple for me.
I am also looking for inductive charging (which FPs do not have), so sadly I think I have end this fair experience.

[yvmuell]

Did you upgrade from A10 to beta and from beta to official A11 or directly from A10 to A11 official?

@fairpete

OpenCamera works, but is way to simple for me.

I always had the impression that Open Camera has more options for manual settings etc, so what are your missing?

Reg wireless charging I think we have reports in the forum, that there are ways to use it with FP3 have you searched for options?

Software Update: Android 11 for Fairphone 3 and 3+

So far only those have issue that had SD card selected as storing location before the upgrade. As this feature is no longer available that might be the root cause, so I would advise everyone to change the storage location to internal before upgrading. And if not done, this need to be reported to Fairphone

[anon9989719]

@yvmuell

Did you upgrade from A10 to beta and from beta to official A11 or directly from A10 to A11 official?

Yes directly from A10 to A11 official

I have another FP3 that went from A10 to A11 beta but it is the same.

In fact the version number of the beta is the same as the official All 0010 and the beta version cannot be updated to the offical public version as it says it has the latest update. ??

So it appears the A11 beta wasn’t changed and release as public, though I did note there is an 0011 version.

[anon9989719]

Just to add to Yvmuell views both of which I support.

True even the FP4 doesn’t have built in wireless charging but you can use an adapter if is very important, clearly not ideal if you have to carry it around. Presumably that is why people want that option, so as not to have to carry a cable for charging ~as there is no other benefit. In fact only detriments to the phone and ‘waste’ of electricity OH! there’s probably more.

On the Open camera, as said, there are lots of options.

Not trying to get you buy a Faiphone I wouldn’t do that to anyone who doesn’t put Fair trade as the priority and then I wouldn’t have too.

[yvmuell]

@anon9989719

the beta version cannot be updated to the offical public version as it says it has the latest update. ??

Its the first beta for FP3 i think ,so no idea. On the Fp2 if I remember correctly you would have to install the official Version manually when you was on beta. And yes i dont not really expect a difference, but with IT stuff I would never say never, so therefore my question😉

[TobiasF]

I updated. I did not experience major problems. Some minor things:

• With some apps, the permissions were messed up which those apps didn’t like and refused to work properly. Adjusting the permission settings helps.
• The “Downloads” settings menu in the SoundCloud app was not working. So I reset the app, after which the menu began to work. The offline tracks were downloaded anew.
• I didn’t like the smaller size of the elements on the screen. Thanks to @littletijn for the tip!

@littletijn

I noticed that all the element on screen are a bit smaller than with Android 10. To fix this, I went to Settings → Display → Display size and change it to Large. After that, the size of the text and element is the same as I had it on Android 10.

• The “warping”/“zooming” effect of the wallpaper when you open the app drawer makes me seasick. Thanks to Reddit for the tip with the KLWP app!

[mueller-ma]

I applied the update and my FP3 tried to boot several times. Now the recovery tells me that Android may be damaged. I can try it again or reset to factory.

Is it possible to access files on the internal storage now? My boot loader is locked.

[LoB]

The Fairphone issue with 5Ghz ist NOT related to DFS.

[LoB]

The Android 11 Update for Fairphone seems to bei Missing one Security Update (CVE-2020-0410) according to the App SnoopSnitch:

[punyidea]

Am update from my end. A restart or two after physically removing the SD card and resetting the camera app to normal settings, it is now behaving as intended with the SD card inside. If anyone else has the issue they’re welcome to try it out

[yvmuell]

So are your saying it was patched in Android 10 before?

[LoB]

I guess so. The app checks the claimed security patch level, and then checks the files if they are really on that level.
I’ve never seen it being red for a patch.

[bharath]

Hi there,
Thanks for flagging this issue. This CVE was reported and addressed in 2020-10 Android bulletin and is already part of the source.

We shall check again and address it in the next release.

Thanks.

[delanthear]

I can’t get the fonts back as they were so I don’t think its just a font size change. Looks very different

[anon9989719]

Hi there’s also the display size.

So a combination of Display Size and Font Size may work.

I currently have both on large.

[larsomat]

Made the over the air update today on my FP3 and first impression is very stable and menus are significantly faster than before. Great job! Many thanks to the Fairphone team! Looking forward to the next years with my phone. Overall I do not regret the change from formerly Sony to Fairphone

[delanthear]

yeah, played with both but neither get it back. Its either too small or large/bold. I’m get used to it, but it’s annoying

[anon9989719]

@delanthear

Its either too small or large/bold.

The reasoning was, in the beta group, was to align with the FP4. I did point out the the FP4 has a slightly larger screen etc. but ???

[yvmuell]

@anon9989719

The reasoning was, in the beta group, was to align with the FP4

strange approach… I got used to it, but also find it either to small or to large…

[lespowl]

Thank you so much for that solution!
Had the same problem with ISP/Network vodafone.de and your fix did the trick.
(What a weird world to live in…)