I ran the updater, left the phone connected and on the charger, came back 4 hours later, that should have been sufficient to finish the update.
Now, I am not a tech fanatic nor do I use my smartphone for play or have a smartphone because I am an addict, I use my phone for work, to make money for a living. I don’t have the time to play around with incomplete beta versions. What I need and expect for my money is an update that works and when I return to the phone I expect it to work as smoothly as before.
It had taken me quite a while to set it up for my best use. Most of that was centered around google cloud. Not a single google service works anymore. Especially the missing connection to the cloud has made my working day a pain and a waste, having to lug around a laptop to acces the data I usually get via the smartphone from our cloud.
Anyway, the whole OS is heavily google dependent, one can’t then release an update that kills google services…
Would you bet against me if I said that not a single serious smartphone market player would go public with such an update? Why? Because I, the paying customer, need google. What I don’t need is having to waste HOURS to get it to work AS BEFORE. What good is an update if it wastes my day? Why should I even have to mess with this issue?
A smartphone that does not perform is by that very fact unecological.You want to think about the implications. This under par update alone has made me leave a carbon foot print today that drowns every environmental benefit the fairphone may have saved over the last two months.
And ONE more IMPORTANT THING:
When a forum is hosted on a homepage, it is legally the responsibility of the registrant. What is fairphone then doing? Offering digital space out of the kindness of its heart? Not know there is a fairphone forum on their site? The excuse that the forum is run by volunteers and out of fairphone’s responsibility is invalid. IF the forum is really independent, it should be on its own homepage. As is, this is an official fairphone forum for all practical purposes simply because the legal evidence makes it so. Be that as it may,
So there is ONE thing that you can’t do, offer a fairphone forum on the fairphone site and then decline any involvement.
Other than that, I still can’t get google to work. Have tried everything, from reboot to re-install to re-update, nothing.
And the very last thing I accept is hiding behing “we are do-gooders” to sulk about valid criticism.
If this thing doesn’t work by tomorrow worktime it goes in the bin.