The headline says it all - the FP4 isn´t the perfect phone. In fact, it has some minor to major issues one comes across over the years… and either overcomes them or is content to just live with it.

The major flaws are (to me)

- the ghost touch issue, which i fixed by reseating the screen and heightening the pressure on the connector.

- the weird behaviour when using dual-sim. sometimes, it takes ages to find a new network connection when changing countries or after just driving through a tunnel… sometimes it just works fine. can´t figure out why it behaves like that.

Minor flaws:

- camera sub-par, compared to even a pixel 4a… but it does the job.

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I really was thinking about buying the fp5 to get rid of these issues… but then I remembered what I wanted to achieve in the first place when buying the fp4: keep a phone for YEARS. It´s two years old now, and will surely get me through another 3, if not more. one just has to learn to be contend.

  • HRkoek@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I like this phone. FP4. It’s not perfect, and two things are annoying.

    One popped up with Android 13. That’s 5g . Before Android 13, 5g was fine. For normal internet connection, it’s not very different from 4g. But, as my FP4 and my data plan and the network support 5g, I thought: why not use it. And thus I found that it works. Well, workED. As from Android 13 it makes the FP 4 crash. Sudden restart. Often. Continuously.

    Switch back to 4g: problem gone. Wi-fi: problem doesn’t come back.

    Reactivated 5g somewhere where it’s available: crash, reboot, reboot, reboot. Shutdown. Restart properly and immediately switch to 4g. Everything ok again.

    Everything? No. One little village, on the Armorican seashore… resists surrender to the Roman Empire. Sorry, this is a strip comic…

    That village on fp is named Bluetooth. FP Bluetooth only connects to Bluetooth from FP’s airpod. The old Samsung connected to my radio system for playing sound. Of course that sound was of much higher quality than the Samsung galaxy phone’s sound.

    But fp4 simple refuses to connect. The radio system is old enough to not have any interface to its Bluetooth settings. Its manual says it uses Bluetooth 4.1 and fp4 uses “up to” BT 4.2

    To be honest: i don’t mind the 5g annoyance for now, I am quite frustrated by the Bluetooth thing, though.