is 5G already supported on Fairphone 4?
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I've tried Ubuntu touch ~2 years ago, but had to revert to Android as 5G hotspot is my main use of a phone. Unfortunately the supported features page doesn't mention 5G at all, so I'm not really sure any work on it has been done.
Could you let me know if 5G data can be activated?
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@gumowy According to the settings on my Fairphone 4 with Ubuntu Touch, only 2G, 3G and 4G are available:
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@jilly Are you in stable channel? On the Fairphone 5 devel, 5G already works so maybe it'll just be a matter of enabling it unless there's more complicated things to do.
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@kugiigi Is that on 24.04 though?
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@kugiigi
The thread is about FP4, not sure it has same features working as FP5 ^^ -
@Lakotaubp I had to put back my extra sim to it and yeah, it has 5G
@Keneda I'm just saying that since the FP5 has it then the FP4 might get it too since from what I gathered from previous discussions about this is that 5G is much simpler to implement compared to VoLTE. I don't know the technicalities so I may be wrong too
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@kugiigi My Fairphone 4 runs on 20.04 stable channel.
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@jilly You could ask the question for our q&a here https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10790/ubuntu-touch-q-a-159-call-for-questions
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I've just installed, no 5G option. I'm also waiting for it as I don't have the old cell types available near me, only 5G.
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@Lakotaubp said in is 5G already supported on Fairphone 4?:
You could ask the question for our q&a here https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10790/ubuntu-touch-q-a-159-call-for-questions
I missed the date, was the question asked? I have skimmed through the YT recording, but I believe it was ignored.
What is the way to submit a bug against the device documentation as it falsely advertise that data is working on FP4? I can't use Telegram (mainly because I really don't want to, if you have to ask).
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@fair The question has been answered by Marius yesterday night during Q&A 159.
5G on FP4 should land on Noble first release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5WoMfkB8pA&ab_channel=UBports
The question comes at: 37:20
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@stanwood Thanks will check out the q&a tomorrow. Any mention of it arriving in 20.04.
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@stanwood said in is 5G already supported on Fairphone 4?:
The question comes at: 37:20
woohoo, that's a really great news
by the way, they said porting code to openssl 3.x holds them down. Interestingly there's a nice feature to use new openssl lib with old client code by specifying the api level
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/ba90c491254fd3cee8a2f791fc191dcff27036c1/Configure#L70-L74
but obviously updating the old apps is a better choice long term.
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@fair That's interesting. 5G is very new and usually, only 3G/2G is shutdown. Even 4G is gone in your place?
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@kugiigi said in is 5G already supported on Fairphone 4?:
Even 4G is gone in your place?
It depends on the operator. Sure there is one having solid coverage of any signal anywhere around, but it costs 4 times more. I don't miss the slow pre-5G access anyway.