Unfortunately the worst part in this, is the Orange App Center WILL INSTALL even if you use the stock FPOS provided by fairphone.
It seems like somehow the activation of this bloatware for Orange France user is somehow integrated in the default FPOS.
Last time I switched back from LOS to FPOS using official images (in August) the bloatware installed itselft right at first boot.
There really isn’t any other way than to root the device to get rid of those things.
Real dirty move from Orange, but I’m not surprised as bloating devices with crap is a second nature to this company.
I still get seizures remembering Galaxy S (first of name) Orange customized Touchwizz… Fully orange themed, laggy as hell and of course not modifiable…
So it seems they hooked their bloatware into the bootloader. Does anybody know if there is a way to flash the stock fairphone bootloader onto a FP4 without voiding the extended warranty?
It’s not hooked into the bootloader, the app gets shipped with stock FPOS and if you start using Orange it get’s activated.
There is similar functionality for Telekom and it could be used for other carriers Fairphone is partnering with (haven’t looked in a while).
If you want to get rid of it, you either have to root your phone, or have a look at the #oslist for alternative ROMs that won’t ship with that kind of bloatware.
Putting that aside - let’s say I do root the device and use an alternative OS. My warranty is the void? If I encounter some hardware issue, would reinstalling FPOS reinstate my warranty?
Well it fairphone does state that it voids but european law says otherwise.
The European Free Software Fundation concluded that rooting or flashing the device could not be considered as a valid reason for voiding the guarantee as long as they do not cause irreversible damage.
The problem is said law is blurry enough so that constructor can bend it and force you to prove that rooting the device was not the cause of the defect.
So technically you should be fine provided you’re ready to fight your case with Fairphone should anything happen after you rooted your device.
to flash another system you must unlock the bootloader
-normally you would lock it afterwards
-for the FP4 there is a bug that causes that get_unlock_ability is set to 0 (it should stay 1) and therefore if something goes wrong once locked you might end up in a bootloop and only FP can reflash FPOS
Hello.
I am new user. I have a problem. Each time the phone is restarted or started, Orange Belgium applications are reinstalled or reactivated. I have never installed them myself. These are App Center Orange, Orange Manual Selector, Orange TV and My Orange. How to solve this problem? The Fairphone was purchased directly from the manufacturer’s website. Thanks.
I have a similar issue with Orange France, it started right when I installed the Orange eSIM, they started pushing stuff onto my phone: “Hey, you haven’t got enough useless operator apps, let us help you with that!”
Seems it’s an Orange thing if Orange Belgium does it too…
I managed to get rid of most of that trash, except My Orange, which comes back each time I reboot my phone. It asks me to configure it, I quit it, and it stays put till the next reboot…
I’m afraid we can’t do much except hope they eventually fire the marketing idiots who thought of this joke, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
If you mean amoun’s post above mine, it links to a 2017 thread linking to an article long gone, by a user long gone. Comments let me suppose what it was about, but I wouldn’t call it “information”, especially since that thread is 6 years old and the official (?) statement has been since removed. I’d call it “history”.
Long story short, I for one still don’t know for sure who is to blame for this, but then again I don’t care, I just want this “My Orange” app to leave me alone. Some Orange apps are indeed useful to me and I keep them, others, for instance a second Play Store (!), isn’t.