When I set up my new Fairphone 4 with Android 11, I selected DuckDuckGo as my search engine. This is now used in the bottom search bar on the home screen. Now I can't find the place in the settings to change this to something else in the settings. And searching the settings for "search" brings up nothing :-/ Where can I change the search engine for the search bar on the home screen? This is what I need to find again: https://www.android.com/choicescreen/ The EU forces them to provide me with a choicescreen so that I can decide freely which search engine to use by default. But like for cookie banners, the EU guys are not the brightest when trying to control Megacorps, so they seem to allow Google to hide that screen very well. All descriptions I found refer to changing the search engine in a browser only. (It is lamented elsewhere already what a pita it is to have the search bar down there, but it seems we cannot get rid of it. In case someone knows better, that would suit me as well.)

On my Samsung Galaxy A14, I could configure my fingerprint for use within apps (such as banking and qualified electronic signature apps) but not for unlocking my phone. This is my preferred setup as I do not want to be able to unlock my phone solely with a fingerprint. However, on my new Fairphone 4, which runs a closer-to-stock version of Android 13, I can't seem to locate an option for this. Surely, there must be a way to achieve this, **somehow**?

I recently switched my phone carrier and the new one has a network with a pretty long name. It shows in the top left of the screen, in the status bar. Since the name is long, it pushes other notifications to the right and they get cropped (my phone has a notch for the front camera). The best solution for me would be to limit the size of the mobile network name (using ellipsis ... if it's too long), but it seems to not be possible. As a second-best solution, how can I hide the network name? I use Android 12 on a Fairphone 4, so it's pretty close to stock Android.

On both Android phones I own (all systems up-to-date), MS Teams calls are not usable, since the caller voices are all squeaky. I have the impression that a compression algorithm in the background is not doing its job properly. The phones are a Fairphone 4 (with the latest eOS) and a Fairphone 3 (with the latest iodéOS). The problem occurs every time someone calls, both with and without video. Everything else seems to be working fine, just voice is unusable. Some internet searches reveal that the issue might not be related to MS Teams itself, but I doubt that, since normal calls and VOIP works just fine. So the question is: is there a workaround, some package that I’m missing, or is MS Teams plainly incompatible with de-Google-d operating systems?

Devices is a Fairphone 4. I am following [this guide](https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP4/install) . I managed to do the "OEM unlock" and then rebooted into the bootloader using adb reboot bootloader. At this point however, no fastboot commands work. fastboot devices gives no output. Other commands hang with the message `` The android device is plugged in to a NixOS device using [these settings](https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Android) .

I have been attempting to install /e/ OS on a Fairphone 4 in accordance with these instructions: https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP4/install and I am stuck on Step 6 of **Unlocking the Bootloader**. No matter what I do, I get results like this when attempting to use the fastboot flashing ... commands:

./fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability
FAILED (remote: 'Unrecognized command flashing get_unlock_ability')
fastboot: error: Command failed

I've gone through multiple Troubleshooting guides. None have helped. Here are some of the notable details and things I have tried: - I've tried on both MacOS and Windows, the result is the same. - I've tried multiple different USB-C cables with both MacOS and Windows. - I've tried installing the tools using Homebrew on Mac, then uninstalled, and installed using the official Android Studio process. The result is still the same. - I've gone through and switched out the default driver on Windows for the Google one, as recommended here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fairphone/comments/slk2qd/e_installtion_troubleshooting_guide_fastboot/ the result is still the same. - ADB works perfectly. - The device "lists" perfectly:

./adb devices -l
   List of devices attached
   XXXXXXXX               device usb:2097152X product:FP4eea model:FP4 device:FP4 transport_id:14

- I have done the OEM unlock process. - Fastboot can clearly see the device when I boot to fastboot (./adb reboot fastboot):

./fastboot devices
   XXXXXXXX      fastboot

- Version information in case it helps

./fastboot --version
   fastboot version 33.0.2-8557947
   Installed as /Users/XXXXXXXX/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/fastboot

I'm clearly missing something, but I've gone over the instructions and various troubleshooting guides in detail and I cannot figure out what I missed. Does anyone have any ideas?

I just got my Fairphone 4, and, overall the device is nice, but I can't get used to the notch. Since the display aspect ratio is super tall anyways and I can use a bit more bezel on the bottom as well (for a keyboard attachment that I built and used on my last phone), I figured, I'd use wm size over adb to just reduce the screen's vertical resolution and thus create bezels on top and bottom. But after I did that, this is what happened: Sorry for the bad picture quality. What happened is, it didn't remove the rounded corners and/or the notch, it just moved them farther down. So apparently, the OS doesn't seem to render the pixels behind the screen cutouts at all, and when I made the used screen area smaller, it just moved those dead zones with it. Even if I shrink the vertical resolution to 1000 pixel (which is less than half), the behaviour stays the same. Is there a way to disable that functionality? I want to end up with just a square display area. It would be best if I can get that only with adb/onboard stuff. If you are recommending an app for that, it should be one that doesn't have ads/microtransactions.