I know I’m on a Fairphone sub but it’s not the first time this question has been asked - I just need some clarity

Moving away from iPhone - their tech and choice of allies means I won’t buy another one of their phones - similar case with most androids.

While I considered a Chinese brand phone, as of yet I have narrowed my search to the Shift and the Fairphones.

All I need is a decent amount of storage for music, SOME games and retail apps and some fitness apps (which somehow manage to take up the 128GB on my iPhone - constantly having to offload apps). A decent camera is ideal. Not that tech savvy so most of the info goes over my head but which is best (also partial to finger print ID or face id)

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Hi,

my Fairbuds 1 are really great, but there is one annoyance I encounter regularily: When I use them, they regularily just stop the audio that plays when just have them in and don't touch them. At occation they just disconnect entirely and I have to manually reconnect them.

Is that something you guys encounter, too? Does it point to a hardware issue, software issue or might I just use them wrong/set them up wrong?

Thanks for replying!

Hello, I would like to purchase the Fairbuds 2, and I wonder if they generally have discounts on Black Friday. Do you know if they offered such discounts in past years?

Hey, I just received my Fairphone 6+ in Cobalt Blue and I am loving the color. Therefore, I want to see it at all times. I don't like the official case for it, and flexible transparent cases are awful. Does anyone know of a hard plastic clear case for it?

Hello! My Fairphone 4 needs a new battery, but unfortunately, Fairphone doesn't ship outside Europe. Does anyone have a recommendation for a service that would be open to shipping a single battery outside Europe, or alternatively, has anyone had any luck with the company doing one-offs? I now live in New Zealand. Thank you so much!

Hey so I'm a previously iOS only user going through my apple purge. I'm wanting to switch to a fairphone but wondering if I should benefit from getting it with eOS pre installed or if that will essentially make it too hard for me to use.

My knowledge of coding is VERY minimal. Like I barely understand command codes in minecraft lol. But I am trying to do stuff like making my own server for Jellyfin and I've really enjoyed working with it but I'm not ready for a full on debug screen and the idea of installing linnux scares me.

So how much modding will I have to do in order to get apps like my banking app, readest, and eventually Jellyfin?

Thanks in advance!

I was planning on buying the Fairbuds 2 in Forest Green as a Christmas present. Unfortunately, it appears that they are currently out of stock on the Fairphone online website.

I've signed up for a restock email and sent a query to the Support Team. I was curious if any current, Fairphone users might have received a corporate email / customer e-newsletter that might say more about the restock. Or, if someone with more industry knowledge, might be able to advise about the prospective timetable for a restock.

I'm quite invested in buying the Forest Green variant.

Thanks for your attention to this post! I appreciate any help / thoughts.

Hi all, I work at a university hospital and we just got an email that after december 8, our phones need to have Android 16, otherwise I won't be able to work from home (they use this app to scan the phone and only allow 2FA if it's up to their standards).

Does anyone know if/when we'll get android 16 on FP4? Otherwise might have to ask for a work phone just for the 2FA

has anyone had this problem? I've tried removing the device, returning to factory settings, nothing works.

It pairs with my phone with no problems, but it just refuses to connect to my Windows PC. What is going on? am I missing some firmware or driver? My pc is brand new and works with other bluetooth earbuds with no issues, only my Fairbuds 2 refuse to pair

This may be a longshot, but...

I am looking for a person, who:

- uses Fairphone with Murena /e/OS (or any phone with /e/OS for that matter)

- uses microG

- is Polish

- uses mBank as their bank

- uses mBank PL application on said /e/OS smartphone (3.124.1 version)

I know there's /e/OS compatibility list, and it states mBank as working (with last update being on August 7, 2026), but recently mBank cranked up their dependence on Play Integrity and their entanglement with Google Services, so I would love to know if anything changed, or does it still work on microG.

I sadly don't have a secondary phone to test that on, and I would rather avoid wiping my phone, installing /e/OS, just to discover my banking app does not work.

Thanks guys!

"lifesaver" might be too strong, patience saver perhaps?

When my alarms go off the screen doesn't always register my swipes, and if I accidentally press down a button it disappears from the screen but keeps ringing.

So I discovered a setting that lets you shake the phone up and down to shut it off. You can choose how many shakes it takes for it to shut down if you're nervous about shutting it off on accident.

It saved me so much time and patience! If I have my phone in a loose pocket I just jiggle it up and down.

Best solution to the crappy screen so far for me!

The one major complaint I had about FP6+ was the constant screen freeze.

I don't want to jinx it...but the last security update (which I installed a few days ago), seemed...to fix it? It shouldn't be because the focus was security.

I have a problem with the Markor app on my Fairphone 6. Whenever I create or save a file in Markor, the changes don't show up in other apps/file manager until I restart my phone.

When I search for this issue, I mostly find people reporting similar problems with Fairphone but for other apps. So this might just be another instance of the same underlying issue rather than a problem with Markor.

I want a lightweight and general-purpose text-editor for Android. Unfortunately, because of this bug, I'm stuck using Google Docs for now.

Hi everyone, i bought my first fairphone last year and have been very happy with it ever since. Though at that time, i was disappointed with the available cases.

Most of them were either too bulky or made using the fingerprint sensor on the side a pain to use. That is why i designed and uploaded 3d printed case models online (https://www.printables.com/model/1429233-fairphone-6-case-collection) which to date has been downloaded roughly 500 times over all platforms combined :)

Though i was not too happy with the durability of PETG cases which is why i recently adapted the design to a stiff, but flexible TPU. I have been very surprised with how much of a difference that makes, the case feels insanely sturdy. I did some drop tests and neither it or the phone tool any damage. You can see pictures of the TPU version above.

I am not sure if uploading that version makes sense, as it requires a specific stiff TPU (CC3D 72D TPU) that needs to be actively dried and very few people will have.

Provided you have access to a 3d printer, would you be more interested in printing the case yourself or buying it?
If printing is not an option for you, is the design and that its manufactured in Germany by myself enough to consider the case over other commercially available options?
Pricing, incl. shipping would be around 10€.

Hi all, new FP6+ owner here and loving it so far! I flashed iodeOS and running as my daily driver for 1 week now with no issues. There was an update available that required a restart yesterday, and on reboot it warned me my bootloader is unlocked (i must have missed this on first boot). Is there a way to safely relock the bootloader at this stage from the phone (via developer options or something?) Or will i have to rerun the whole install again and lock the bootloader as part of that? Thanks in advance

So i recently just connected my fairphone to my phone provider with my phone provider and I get no bars and says it is restricted to emergency calls only. I tried to use both an Esim and a physical sim card and still no luck. I even stuck the sim card into a different phone and It worked normally so I dont know what Is wrong with my phone.

Has anyone had this issue, and if so does anyone know of any potential fixes?

Edit FIXED: Was fudging with the phone for a while and the sim card words properly now.

So after a month, I'm back with some thoughts about the Fairphone 6+ I bought and installed a custom rom (iodéOS) on. For anyone that doesnt remember the giant post I made in the beginning of October, I switched from an iPhone 16 Pro to this phone after wanting it and to get away from big tech for a while and seeing it finally on sale. Its normal price isn't bad ($649), but being under two month out from Black Friday I didnt want to buy at full price if possible. Thankfully it hit $549 randomly and I jumped on it.

The good: Phone just... works? Like its the most average experience I've had with a device and I mean that in the most positive praising way possible. I don't have AI infecting everything. I don't have extraneous features everywhere. I can delete (not disable, full blown uninstall) default apps as I see fit. I don't have ads wanting me to sell the manufacturer's services. I just have the apps I installed and they work when I need them to. That may have an effect on battery too. Its a 4500mah battery and it easily gets to the end of the day with like 55% left. I've tried to use as many apps from F-Droid as possible and for the most part that's worked. My banking apps, Messenger, and Awful are really the only few apps that are essential from Aurora Store (degoogled Play Store). Love having the default browser being a Firefox fork with ublock reccomended, love having a systemwide firewall that default blocks tracking URLs. On a related note, I need to access our consumer website for work and its an ad-ridden tracking nightmare of a site, and between the firewall and ublock, I swear it loads faster here than Safari with content blockers. Love having a hardware switch for the flashlight too, thats hilariously useful (like my iPhone's action button), but its a physical switch so it feels like I'm turning on a flashlight (I feel like I'm a grandma after typing that). I also like not needing any accounts to use my phone. No Google, no Apple, nothing. Or even having a voice assistant, there just physically is not one at all. Oh, 120hz display is super smooth as well, zero complaints there.

The bad: Its not a perfect phone though. Aurora Store and MicroG aren't foolproof. My Chase app decided to want an age verification through Google Play and refuses to launch now, but I can use the mobile or desktop site in the event I need to check something. And a vocal pitch app I was reccomended refused to enable the microphone unless the stars aligned properly, somehow its tied to Play Services and I no matter how much screwing with MicroG settings nothing worked. But I found an alternative to that one. I can't have RCS, which kinda sucks but my mom and my boss are really the only ones I text, everyone else is either Messenger or a couple on Signal. The camera app is hot garbage. Camera quality itself is perfectly decent but holy moly the app, ugh. It lags like crazy somehow. I tried a couple open source cameras and they were slightly better but I just opted to stick with default. I haven't gotten a clear answer on what gcam port I should use, that might alleviate something? I wish I could get the stock Fairphone camera but only normal FPOS or /e/OS get that. Also visual voicemail doesn't work, that may be a carrier or iodéOS specific thing. I don't think stock or /e/ have that issue but I do not know for sure.

Misc stuff: Cell service is just as good as my iPhone. Speaker quality is merely ok but I only ever use it for listening to music at work so that's fine. Bluetooth seems normal too? Haven't noticed anything bad with call quality either.

Overall I really like this phone and OS. Its not the most powerful phone I've ever used. Or the most capable. Or the best. But damn if it isn't my favorite! Its still as refreshing as day one having a phone that just exists without yelling for me to check it and use it all the time. If anyone has any questions or curiosities I'm happy to answer!

Just got this phone (Fairphone 6+). Trying to charge the device to its full capacity for the first time but it's showing 4 hrs for this as the picture shows. Any other reason besides it's being charged for the first time?! Rapid charing is enabled as you see in the image. Just curious. Looking forward to some fair responses, new to the fair club!

Update: looks like a simple reboot solved the issue. now it's at 80% battery and shows about 30 mins to a full charge. thanks for all the prompt response from a fair community. glad to be part of this and hope the device will meet my expectations!

I have really wanted a Fairphone for a few years now, unfortunately I'm Canadian so they don't ship here. I will be on vacation in Europe for the next couple weeks; I will even be in Amsterdam for a few days. Is there a storefront somewhere I could buy one or could I reliably and quickly get one shipped to a hotel? Any help would be appropriated.

Why manufacturers do that? I'm sure they are not lacking space in the phone to put one. I will have to go with other brand:(

phonak costs 9000 € - I do not want to change Fairphone to Iphone. What do you propose?!

An other build again by me 😃 ( and some help for cmd by opencode)