Phone calls are broken on both the Fairphone 4 and 5. The Fairphone 4 has some issue where the microphone has really low gain so I had to almost scream and after the last update in April I just couldn’t make or receive calls any longer. It worked once I rebooted but after a few hours it stopped again. The Fairphone 5 developed a similar issue after the upgrade to Android 15, phone calls just stop working after a while.
Good maybe someone can now fix the half broken mess that is the Fairphone 5. After two Fairphones with buggy software, I am so done with them.
I have a FP3 and ditched most of the standard apps for anything else from fdroid… that helped me.
Or was it the firmware you’re referring to?
What’s the problem with it? I’m using the FP5 with Calyx custom ROM (yes, I know …) and I’m super happy with it.
Phone calls are broken on both the Fairphone 4 and 5. The Fairphone 4 has some issue where the microphone has really low gain so I had to almost scream and after the last update in April I just couldn’t make or receive calls any longer. It worked once I rebooted but after a few hours it stopped again. The Fairphone 5 developed a similar issue after the upgrade to Android 15, phone calls just stop working after a while.
Another ridiculous issue is that the background image of the Fairphone 5 keeps resetting to the default blue image.
I switched to a Pixel with GrapheneOS instead. This has its own little issues but at least phone calls work reliably on my phone.
Wow, that sounds awful, yeah, I can totally understand that you looked for something else.
The background issue is annoying, but there’s a workaround. You need to set the image as wallpaper and lock screen separately