Luca WeissSep 4, 2023

The Software Longevity Team at Fairphone (which I'm part of 😀) is excited to announce that today, following the Fairphone 5 launch, we are also releasing the source code for its Android 13 operating system.

You can find instructions for browsing, viewing and downloading the source code on https://code.fairphone.com. The source tree contains all Android and Linux kernel sources that we can publish, excluding some proprietary components.

For more details see: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairphone-5-source-code-release/99616

Open Source at Fairphone — Fairphone Open Source

Show threadHugo 雨果Sep 4, 2023
@z3ntu I hope that this phone will be available unlocked without having to sign up with Google and ask Google for their permissions! 🙏
Show threadLuca WeissSep 4, 2023
@whynothugo If you want to unlock you will need to go through the (Google) setup wizard once, but then you can unlock the bootloader and install whatever you want on the phone!
Show threadHugo 雨果Sep 4, 2023

@z3ntu Oh, so same story as the FP4; I need to sign up with the Google and ask them for permissions to install something on phone.

Same as all the other OEMs shipping Google-locked phones.

I wish Fairphone would either stop pretending to be different, or actually stop shipping this user-hostile crap.

Show threadLuca Weiss

@whynothugo As @mart_e wrote, you can also buy the phone preinstalled with /e/OS from Murena where you never have to touch this Google code if you wish.

But GMS is just something expected by at least 99% of users so it's practically impossible to ship an Android phone without it. Huawei tried and invested many many millions if not billions into building an alternative ecosystem and get apps on board and I think they have even been half successful with that.

Sep 4, 2023 at 11:13amWeb