@sixwheeledbeast Not to nitpick here but the Toyota Tacoma had 2 recalls to swap the chassis that did just that. You might have got a new vehicle if they agreed to buy it back.

@gpatel-fr @FlavioMala, indeed the newer Bluetooth stack had the side effect of breaking usb_tethering. I could fix it by applying a small patch and recompiling the kernel. The patch is attached to the issue.

Ok, second time is the charm I switched USB cable (it was probably bad), ordered wiping user data and used 24.04-stable for flashing... Flashing worked the second time and now I'm on UT on my FP5

@Escain said in Any solution to get decent photos?: my picture with 12.6MP is usually between 2 and 3MB, but that could depends on the details on the image. I tried with a zoom and the image is indeed smaller at 2.8 Mb - as could be expected with a zoom done in software, there is less detail. I played a bit with the zoom (never used it before, for doing near distance photos I find much easier to actually get the phone nearer to the object) and it can indeed throw the focus off, but doing the video/still image switch fixed it. @Escain said in Any solution to get decent photos?: several hypothesis compression: my guess is not, 4.5 Mb for a jpeg image is not very aggressively compressed if at all. beautifying filter: there is nothing of the sort in the app code, as it is using QT controls it could be integrated in these controls, don't know. problems with zoom: this could be the more likely idea. Maybe you could give a try to the photo app in Waydroid. When faced with the focus problems, before finding the switch to video trick, I found that it focused properly immediately for near distance photos.

Hi Martin, sounds perhaps stupid but I have a FP4 and from time to time the same issue and switching off/on flight modus helps. Best+Good luck, Gerd

I just received another call, and I experienced almost exactly the same behavior. The phone didn't respond to the power button, and the screen wouldn't turn off. However, after a reboot, the brightness level was normal, and everything is functioning as expected now. I'm currently on 24.04-1.1.

@halucigenia Great that you worked it out, you can mark the thread as solved (convert it to a question if necessary).

@sixwheeledbeast Hmm good to know, thank you!

Dear all, I solved the "backup-issue" by mounting my Pixel 3a XL into my linux drive via ssh by sshfs [user@]host:[dir] mountpoint [options] (see also https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-mount-a-remote-filesystem-over-ssh-with-sshfs) Once the phone is a "normal" drive in the linux-system, rsync can be started normally and no rsync-daemon on the UT-device is necessary. Best regards Jörg

@killclique said in Guide to charge limiting your Fairphone 5: point me in the direction to make systemd unit file without changing the system from read-only? I gave some directions here for another hack and it's enabled on my phone since several weeks already. I don't know if it could really work (as you'll realize surely if you copy it as it is it will randomize your wifi Mac address, a different concern) since I have no real urge to do this at the moment. I'm unsure if it's really useful in fact, I'll have to ask a question on the Fairphone forum (and get an informed reply...) and I'm not even registered on their site.

@wgarcia Hi ! Sorry, I'm not sure to understand what you mean. This aGPS function (Xtra download) only download ephemeral, like tell Vlad. So it is a pure GPS function and it don't use WiFi or Bluetooth or scanning near cell tower. For the test please disable all GPS improvement system : So in Android settings : Improve Location Accuracy = off and Wi-Fi scanning and Bluetooth scanning = off and not in High Accuracy mode. So you need to put you Android in Device only GPS to be sure to disable all other functions. It just download a satellite map at this moment. And we just need Internet data (mobile data or Wi-Fi) just one time a day. You can download the data in your home and use GPS after. We use SatStat to download aGPS (the first option in the menu). So you can do the experiment as you share at the top of the topic, or like this : I prefer this way, because we are sure that it don't use other function that ask an external server to give the location. Open Waydroid Disable GPS in Waydroid Start SatStat Download aGPS in SatStat (the first item (Recharger les données AGPS in French) like in the Vlad picture) Wait 30 seconds and after Turn off Wi-Fi and Mobile data Close SatStat Go outside Enable GPS in Android Start SatStat and look, verify that it found GPS (at the bottom) and look at the TTFF : Time To First Fix. It should be quicker than 1 minute. Is it possible for you to test it ? Thanks a lot

@gpatel-fr Perfect, thank you!

@enki Bug in the Bluetooth? That type of issue does happen intermittently. Try disabling bluetooth then rebooting, on reboot wait for the phone to settle for a few minute before enabling bluetooth and trying again. https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/reference-device-ports/android11/fairphone-5/fairphone-fp5/-/issues/14

@gpatel-fr Thank you. I will follow that bug-report.

@Escain What android version did the phone come with? V14. I think that the issue was because I setup a fingerprint on Android before I installed UT. After several reboots and I don't know exactly what, it started working. Now, everything except GPS seems to work. Thank you for your help

@kugiigi Yes, I've noticed that too reading around forums. This is why I'm looking into open source+hardware solutions like Modos (https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor) and others, although most don't support touch yet. Honestly, considering you're getting a 75Hz refresh rate monitor that's actually e-ink in 2025, the prices don't look that bad, although do correct me if I'm wrong. There are even ways to add touchscreen support to any monitor, but that's a whole different story, and won't be worth getting into until UT develops touch monitor support.

@mango Thunderbird and firefox will probably eat your ram.

@Azura did you wait up to 20 Minutes like explained in the update blog? my FP 4 needed about 5 Minutes to reboot. have a try again and wait, maybe with installer without wipe...good luck.