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another advantage of the glorious fairphone

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My fp4 has been very disappointing so far tbh, after a year or so of using it it’s slow unresponsive and the mic doesn’t work

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It’s not supposed to do that. My FP3 got unresponsive after a while as well. The trick was to open it up and gently tighten all screws.

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Im curious, why would that help?

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I’ll give it a go I can’t see how that would help but maybe it’s a loose contact to the touchscreen or something

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I have experienced that the microphone is in a weird spot on the left border of the phone, frequently where my fingers are placed when calling. So maybe check if you’re covering it too!

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That may well be it actually I’ll try keep that in mind

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4 points

Isn’t the point of the FP to be able to change parts easily?

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You can’t change the CPU or memory afaik.

I could replace the mic but if it’s breaking every year I’d be better off just buying a new second hand phone of better quality every few years

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I have no issues like that. Maybe your microphone is damaged. What has been bugging me is the top speaker sounds terrible.

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It may well be, it’s possible I got a drop of water in it after washing my hands or something which might’ve done it but I’d be pretty disappointed if that’s enough to break it

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for this reason I waited for the Fairphone 5 which is responsive, has an oled display and the components Work without issue. have had it for a year and am looking forward to still using it in 6 years from now

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Seriously, I’d also recommend to unscrew the screen and screw it back together. For me it made wonders. And if this also doesn’t bring you anything, you should text support - in the end you have a warranty for a reason, right

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It’s a fp4 so older and I got it second hand so unsure if the warranty still applies

Will definitely try with the screws though

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8 points

waiting for the framework phone

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The few advantages you mean, wouldn’t mind the FP if they’d use a processor that wasn’t years old and at least performed better than the Tensor G2 (A processor highly regarded as absolute crap)

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The fp4 has an ok cpu with a Snapdragon 750, and fp5 is pretty good, has a QCM6490.

Not the best value for money though considering the price of similar spec phones 😅 (except that will be worth it if you end up needing to replace the screen)

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