Fairphone 5 (fairphone-fp5)

Everything is working Except

Audio

See audio the dedicated page on this topic for a write-up of the current state of development. Help welcome!

No internal speakers or microphones are currently working. You can get all sounds (except call audio) via Bluetooth or USB peripherals, or through HDMI/DP (via USB-C dongle).

Audio via HDMI/DisplayPort works but currently needs a workaround. After plugging in the external display, you will need to restart pulseaudio (killall pulseaudio) to get it recognised. Audio should work after this.

Audio path:

CPU via I2S (quinary) to AW88261FCR: speaker (and echo reference back)
CPU via SoundWire to WCD9385: microphones (AMIC1, AMIC3, AMIC4), Type-C audio (WCD_HPH & AMIC2), HAC (WCD_AUX)

A few links for current development on audio:

GPS

Hotspot

Fingerprint

No driver for the fingerprint reader.

Camera

Selfie and wide angle cameras are working. The main camera does not have a driver yet. You need to have all cameras physically installed to use any of them.

High battery consumption / Overheat

Suspend settings could help

turn off mobile data.

Wiki

Manufacturer: Fairphone

Name: 5

Codename: fairphone-fp5

Released: 2023

Type: handset

Chipset: Qualcomm QCM6490

CPU: Octa-core (1x2.7GHz Cortex-A78 + 3x2.4GHz Cortex-A78 + 4x1.9GHz Cortex-A55)

GPU: Adreno 643

Display: 1224x2700

Storage: 256GB

Memory: 8GB

Architecture: aarch64

OS: Android 13 / Android

postmarketOS: yes

Category: testing

Mainline kernel: 6.15.0

Uptime score: 10425.8

Device package: device-fairphone-fp5

Kernel package: linux-fairphone-fp5

Features

Name	Status
Flashing	Works
USB Networking	Works
Internal storage	Works
SD card	Works
Battery	Works
Screen	Works
Touchscreen	Works

Name

Status

Flashing

Works

USB Networking

Works

Internal storage

Works

SD card

Works

Battery

Works

Screen

Works

Touchscreen

Works

Multimedia

Name	Status
3D Acceleration	Works
Audio	Broken
Camera	Partial
Camera flash	Works

Name

Status

3D Acceleration

Works

Audio

Broken

Camera

Partial

Camera flash

Works

Connectivity

Name	Status
Wifi	Works
Bluetooth	Works
GPS	Broken
NFC	Broken

Name

Status

Wifi

Works

Bluetooth

Works

GPS

Broken

NFC

Broken

System on a Chip

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G/778G+/782G (SM7325)

Snapdragon 778G (SM7325), Snapdragon 778G+ (SM7325-AE) and Snapdragon 782G (SM7325-AF) are premium mid-range Qualcomm SoCs released in 2021 and 2022. Additionally the IoT variants Dragonwing QCM5430 and Dragonwing QCM6490, and a compute variant Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 (SC7280) exist.

It is part of the Kodiak family of Qualcomm chips and has the codename Yupik.

Modem bugs

The OpenIMSd project aims to bring VoLTE (4G voice calls) to Qualcomm based phones (like the PinePhone) running Free Software Mobile Operating Systems including postmarketOS, Mobian, … We will create a daemon which runs in parallel to the Modem Manager, which configures the baseband via QMI and brings up all the required services to be able to place VoLTE calls.

Display

Screen resolution modes: only 1224 x 2700 is currently supported.

Screen refresh rates: only 90Hz is currently supported.

No Always-On-Display mode implemented by any graphical user interface.

Flashing

Open a bootloader

Follow next guide: https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/10492476238865-How-to-unlock-and-re-lock-the-bootloader

Unlock Bootloader via Fastboot:

Run next command

fastboot flashing unlock

or in the menu by using usually by holding Volume Down + Power

Flush OS

The easiest way is to use Web flasher.