Hi there - I have had a FP2 for a while now and there are a number of issues as explored elsewhere in this forum (battery, random restarts, microphone, display etc). I’m not complaining about these, they are rather expected in a phone of this age. I know I can try and tinker with each issue separate…

There are no parts of the FP2 that can be reused in an FP3, if that’s what you’re asking. You can get an FP3 with a €40 €75 discount if you give your old FP2 to Fairphone, or you can sell or give away your old phone to someone who needs it - those are your options, essentially.

So I find that we get 75 Euros in repayment when we recycle a FP2 [image] Recycle your phone - Fairphone Phones are small devices, but forgotten ones are a big problem. With your help, we can change that, and show the way toward a truly circular economy. That …

The way I read it, the materials will partly be reused, but not the device as a whole. I wished Fairphone could recover sold out FP2 12 MP camera modules this way, but I doubt their recycling partner does that.

While I have no inside knowledge, I have to imagine they salvage parts before they ship the phones to the recycler. Cameras as you said, maybe motherboards. Old screens, bottom and top modules aren’t really refurbishable as they almost always have mechanical wear and tear. I wouldn’t be the worst i…

The problem with selling secondhand modules is the warranty. Fairphone as a company has to give some warranty on secondhand goods. And that creates a problem. This was the reason that they couldn’t sell secondhand Fairphone 1 parts in the end.

They did sell refurbished FP2 though.

Yes, but that was a whole phone. The costs for ‘refurbishing’ just one module and then selling with warranty are to high compared with a new module.

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