Since updating to the OS6, on my Fairphone 5, I’ve had quite a few issues. I’ve been on IodeOS since 4.8 or 4.9, I think, and I have enjoyed it all up until now.
Since the update, my phone chews through battery. I constantly kill apps when I get the chance, but it’s not enough. Even using the “battery saver” option seems to make it worse. It gets me through about 1/2 a day, even if I’m not doing much on the phone at all.
Also, via USB now, it connects to nothing. If I plug it into my computer, my phone starts to charge. However, the computer never sees the device.
Since this update, there is also no more video out. I have used it to play videos for a group that I gather with, but now to no avail. It doesn’t see that it’s plugged in. It doesn’t ask how I want to deal with the device, it doesn’t ask if I want to do video out, nothing like it used to.
Also, a lot of the options that used to be there in Developer Options are no longer there, particularly for this video issue. Any ideas? Others having troubles with the new update?
There was a bug in LineageOS which should be fixed in iodeOS with the next update: [FP5] Fairphone 5 does not reach Deep sleep on LineageOS 22.1 and drains battery (#8211) · Issues · LineageOS / issues / android · GitLab
I hope the update is coming soon because its really stressfull to charge the device all the time.
I don’t have the other problems though. My fp5 connects to my linux pc without an issue.
For the deep sleep bug, you could switch to Beta channel. There seems to be no issues so far for people but it will be still at your risk.
Have you made shure that once you connect through USB you enabled data Transfer etc via quick settings or Settings -> Connected Devices -> USB?
I have it set so that it says the default USB connection should be connected as File Transfer. Changing that option has done nothing.
In the Settings > Connected Devices, there is no USB option present, even when I plug the FP5 into my computer. Under that heading, I only show Media Devices, Other devices, Bluetooth timeout, Saved devices and Connection preferences. All of the first 4 settings are Bluetooth connections.
In the Connection preferences menus, all it shows are 4 things - Bluetooth (this can be toggled to turn on Bluetooth), NFC (same toggle), Cast (not connected, because I’m not casting over the network, and Printing.
No USB option in sight in this menu at all.
Make sure you are not using AOD (always on display). That will wreck battery life, I don’t think the chip they used in the FP5 actually supports any kind of sleep whilst the display is on (and never will).
Video problem might work with 6.1 since there was problems with media in 6.0
USB is a weird one, works fine for me, maybe try changing the USB connection mode under development settings to default to file transfer and see if that works?
Redarding AOD I though the fix Fairphone provided will be included into LineageOS and so in iodéOS as well? Like posted by you in the outher thread @rlees85 → [FP5] Always-On Display issue (pixels not black) fixed in iodéOS? - #3 by rlees85
Apart from that, my FP5 battery life is okayish with iodéOS.
I discovered a little strange issue since 6.x, that the tiles in quick settings are German (as well as the responses in the lock-screen like “Zeichne das Muster” [I use a pattern]) even my device configured to English. I can put German up in the settings and then English again and all settings are English again, but it does not stay like this. No clue why.
@Smojo sadly not. I think that fix just fixes the fact the screen doesn’t go fully black in certain situations and maybe saves a bit of battery during screen on time.
The AOD is still smashing battery, I’ve tried it in 6.1 and afaik Fairphone haven’t (and won’t) bring AOD back into FPOS. The reason being the CPU still won’t sleep when the AOD is on, even if the phone is face down with the screen off.
I also had this, but for only about 2 hours. I’m on 6.1 now. The battery son seems better, but I still can’t connect via USB cable.
Yeah, I haven’t been using AOD at all.
I’ve changed the USB settings to several different options, by to no avail. Sometimes, though, even after it’s changed to something else, when I go back into the setting to change it, the option is already set to “No data transfer”. Going back to check that now, same thing, even though I’m sure I had it at “File transfer” last.