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I'm using e/OS on a fairphone 5 and it's OK. You have to put up with some extra work if you don't want to rely on Google stuff. Banking apps can be a pain, I can update some apps I installed via Aurora only of I tell Aurora to pretend it's a pixel instead of a fairphone. Other than that, I got the stuff working I use the most and I've never used a lot of the "convenient" stuff like voice assistant or Google drive or whatever so switching to fully degoogled wasn't as hard as I imagine it would be for someone deeper within Google's grasps.
I use fairphone 5 with /e/os and echo these comments in the most part, although would go higher than OK to that it works well for me.
All my banking apps (UK based) work through aurora store, which might be luck. I have had difficulty with a few others I slightly miss (mainly Citymapper). I use Foss alternatives on f-droid as much as possible and for others I add a link to their website on my homepage, which mostly works the same but can have features missing (Citymapper has less options).
I did find google maps has better traffic than any other apps so sometimes I use GMaps WV from f-droid to check which route is best, then try to actually learn those routes or use another maps app for navigation.
where there any wiki's or blogs that showed you how to do this?
Hey eldavi
here are the guides to install e/OS on fairphones
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3/official
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP4/official
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP5/official
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP6/official
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or use the e/OS installer:
Ive not used thos so cannot comment on how good or bad it is.
https://e.foundation/installer/
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or e/OS devices list:
https://doc.e.foundation/devices
I dont use the App Lounge or the e/OS launcher
I remove App Lounge via ADB and install either droid-ify or neostore, then install lawnchair
It a decent custom rom.
OH WOW!!! the murena store gave me the completely wrong impression.
thank you!
glad to be of help
Do you mean the pretending to be a pixel part? Just click on the gear icon in Aurora and you should see an option to do that. You select the device and then Aurora restarts and you can try if the app can be installed afterwards. If not try a different device. I only had one sparkasse app that absolutely refused to be downloaded from anywhere else but Google play. For banking apps in general you'll find a list of working apps somewhere on the e/os forum.
putting e/os on fairphone 5; murena and the e/os project site implied to me that it only supported fairphone 1 the last time i checked.
They sell the fairphone5 with e/os preinstalled, and there is an official build for fp5 including install guide (which is what I followed, just make sure to use official and not community build as you can't relock the boot loader with the community versions). https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP5/install
i must be going crazy; i could have sworn i read a comment yesterday of them only considering supporting fairphone2, must less fairphone5.