(Why) Do I need Network-based location? (specifically: µG UnifiedNlp)

[Roboe]

For microG to impersonate Google Services, it needs signature spoofing. Just use Tingle.

To know more about the Android security model, or why this is needed, check other posts of mine like this one quoted below:

Strange F-Droid microG Services Core update behaviour

There’s no problem at all, just a naming issue. First of all, FP Open does not include microG. You should have installed it somehow (or you have GApps installed, read below) Android versioning Every Android app (i.e. a single APK) have two versions: One, a readable one, a text string, for users to easily understand Two, an integer one, the real version number. This is the version the Android Package Installer uses to reject downgrades, and the version stores like F-Droid use to broadcast up…

Sadly, Signal and other bunch of free apps depend on crappy proprietary GMS to work.

About your update concerns, Tingle patch (i.e. modifies) the system, so when you update the system to a newer, pristine version of FP Open, you’ll need to patch it again. But so far, you won’t have any other problem with the Fairphone Updater.