Dear all,
After the pandemic travel restrictions I took my Fairphone 3 (standard OS, all updates) with me on a first trip (to South Africa and Namibia).
Already at the Frankfurt Airport, my phone started to behave weird and suddenly beeped and rebooted. I had no chance but to switch it off. After switching it on at Johannesburg Airport, it continued with this annoying behaviour, and I switched it off again.
After arriving at my South African accommodation I experienced an erratically rebooting phone (5-7 times a day), but without the beeping. It was like described in this post.
After 5 days, I returned to Johannesburg Airport, and the phone got more weird again: beeping, constantly rebooting. I switched it off. The same at Windhoek airport.
After arriving at my next accommodation, an alleviation again: rebooting every then and when.
I tried all the things mentioned here like switching off one SIM, cleaning the contacts, checking the battery etc. without success. Of course, I cannot do a hard reset or boot into safemode because I’m on travels.
This is extremely annoying because travelling after Covid-19 makes the airport one of the most crucial moments for a smartphone (showing board passes, PCR test results, travel documents). My partner enjoyed her $4msung and I cursed my fairphone.
Anyone with an idea before I enter the next airport on Monday (besides printing out all documents)?
Kind regards
J
edit: I found the other idea of switching to Preferred network type: 3G only under “Network and internet” → “Mobile network” → “Advanced” → “Preferred network type” here. I’ll report on the results after my next airport, but I’m still interested in more ideas or if others share the same experience.