S20 still gets monthly updates and got Android 13 in January. Maybe it’s an outdated argument? They seem to have improved.
https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/security-updates
Nokia is transparent and following a 2.3 and a 3.4 they keep what they promise, G22 is on Android 12 april patch, but got an updated kernel 5.4 (comparing it to FP 4 on 4.x same subversion as march)
And the phones mentioned aren’t even close to flagships.
If it’s changed then fair enough but I remember Samsung taking a long time to bring new OS updates (ie 12 to 13 and so on) Let’s see what happens when they launch the Fold 5 with A14 and how long it takes for A14 to follow through to it’s predecessors.
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They made big promises to maintain updates for 3 years and OS updates in the beginning and then failed to keep up. And I don’t remember saying that Nokia,Pixel and Oppo had flagships in my post?
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Please stick to the topic here, which is the current update and not general update “behaviour” of Fairphone or even other companies.
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Fonts are also bigger than before with “display size” set to “large”. Seems like an improvement to me.
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They won’t be able to fix that with the default launcher. I had the very same behavior on my old LG V30 running PixelExperience based on Android 12. This is the behavior Google wants and IMHO you can only change that by using a different launcher.
I use(d) Nova for many years , now so the decision was pretty easy for me. 
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A bit late this time, but here is the usual link to the ota.zip for those that need it.
Have fun 
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Thats not new to Android 12, so I’m wondering what changed for Piramidon, is it rather the at a glance issue, which is neither new to this update?
@Piramidon if you dont need the Google App, deactivting this removed the search bar since Android 12 (guess thats because of the at a glance bug, so no solution forever)
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If you have a problem with the car, you don’t solve the problem directly by buying a second car.
It’s a workaround at best, but not the solution to the problem.
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It is more like when you own a Mercedes Benz and you do not like the star logo in the front grill. Hard to fix that.
The Google search is part of what Google thinks a launcher from Google should have. If you do not like it, you will have to use another launcher, that is not provided by Google.
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I must have misunderstood something, I took it so seriously that this is a bug and not a feature. So did I misunderstand that?
6 posts were merged into an existing topic: Wallpaper and style’ setting (Material You) missing in FP4 version of Android 12?
No update (I checked manually again this morning) for me. Fairphone bought in France but I’m currently in Iceland; I’m wondering if your actual location has an impact in receiving the updates ?
7 posts were merged into an existing topic: Wallpaper and style’ setting (Material You) missing in FP4 version of Android 12?
An additional change I seem to notice is that the Google search bar is no longer getting replaced by “At a glance”. It stays in place beyond midnight (rather than turning into a pumpkin ) Further discussion here.
If you disable the Google app, then in place of the search bar you get the “At a glance” widget straight away (requires reboot).
I have posted this info here, because it’s about a change brought with the sw update.
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So if I understand correctly this update will enable the feature and I have no way of changing or disabling it?
Is there a way to downgrade my phone to the previous version?
Hi,
I applied this update OTA and my FP4 rebooted a first time, did something in background, rebooted again and keeps on showing the fairphone animation in a loop.
I tried a reboot (through keys combination and then choosing to reboot on system), but I get the same behavior again.
Is there a way to get this small update of 71.25 MB and apply this last via ADB?
I wasn’t able to find this small update.
Any hint is welcome.
Thanks!
dom
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