Software Update: FP5.UT2B.B.072.20240920

After the update, I got a notification with “Issue with SD card. Tap to fix”. In the storage settings, it shows “this sd card is corrupted. To use this SD card, you have to set it up first”.

I have good backups of everything, so not much of a loss(for me), but I’m curious if someone else had the same issue.

I can’t tell if it’s placebo, or I’m having a good day or something. But my phone just feels smooooooth after this update. Not perfect stutter-free smooth. But there seem to be muuuuuch less microstutters when scrolling discord, or switching apps. Things just slide in an out, collapse and expand without a hitch. Literally.

Oh also, flipping audio channels when rotating the phone is a great quality of life thing.
And while I never close all apps, I appreciate the button no longer being on the far left.

Good update. It makes me feel c:

1 Like

Did you try rebooting without choosing any of these options? On my FP2 I was often able to avoid formatting that way and regain access to the SD card’s contents.

The update didn’t break anything else, that’s great! But are the brightness issues going to get fixed anytime soon? And what about the stock launcher? It still overlaps the native Google At a Glance widget with a search bar. That bug is a few years old now. The brightness issues were eventually kind of under control in Android 13, but in Android 14 things are back to being buggy. Brightness that doesn’t go to 0% in a dark environment, light sensor that still fights with itself. And with DC Dimming on it’s even worse.

Could we please keep discussions in the respective topics and not start duplicate discussions here?

your link is working from about 14:00 CET :wink:

not sure if this is what helped me, but wit latest (and i think also with previous) update i press Reboot (after install to inactive slot) in System Update window, not in Magisk…

not see on my FP5, but small tip: you can always (before reformating in phone) try remove and try fix filesystem on it, with tools of your desktop OS :wink:

Yes, it was made available 1-2 hours after my post, but forgot to say anything here after I noticed and updated my phone.
I believe I did try pressing the update button in the OTA updater in the past, but I’m not sure. I’ll keep that in mind for future reference and maybe drop an update in How to root the FP5 and OTA update - at your own risk about that.

1 Like

Tried that, a couple of times, but still the warning. I’m gonna keep it there until I can attempt this:

I currently don’t have a sd card reader with me, but i will report back if I get anything :slight_smile:

but iirc I formatted it as internal storage, so probably nothing that can be recovered.

Hi, do you mean the several tries until one succeeds updating? I have understood before that the last update has fixed this behaviour so it should work properly with this update already, but it does not. Anyhow, I have tried already for ~20 times and it didn’t work out. It’s pretty frustrating this way.

Wasn’t it mentioned somewhere that automatic system update should be enabled in developer settings as workaround?

3 Likes

Yes thats what I meant and thats the current state for the current update: The fix will only help from next update onwards

And @Volker is correct, thats in my eyes the easiest workaround

1 Like

I can stand behind this too.

The screen was a bit, really just a tiny bit unresponsive compared to my old xpreia 5 but after the latest update it no longer stops responding when I touch the screen with multiple fingers at once and maybe a bit lower response rate

1 Like

Hey, does the same timeline apply for Murena FP’s?

A post was merged into an existing topic: Navigation bar disappears on A14 using FP5

The setting “Automatic Updates” in the developer section helped resolve the issue, thanks.

Murena does have its own development and release schedule, so no, the timeline does not apply to them.

It’s better if you check directly on their website for reliable information :slight_smile:

1 Like

Ay! Thats good to hear. Never thought they’d do something about this, the ticket got closed and the forum thread went idle. Good to see they worked on it, kudos FP

2 Likes

For last update the recommendation in the update thread in this forum was to try it multiple times and after the 5th retry or so it might work out. This was the case for the last update for me as well (maybe the hint with developer mode was added later?), but for this release nothing worked out, not even 30 times of retry. But the developer mode workaround actually works for me too.

1 Like

Can I just say I really appreciate the moving of the “clear all” button to the bottom in recents. Having it all the way over on the left was a minor but persistent annoyance!

It would be nice if Fairphone could look into the issue Meaghan mentioned about the wallet shortcut appearing on the lock screen when it shouldn’t. It would also be nice to be able to add a camera shortcut, either there or in quick access.