After i got my Fairphone back from the repaircenter (they thought there was something wrong with it), they told me it was an intended design. However, i see other people mention they don’t have it.
Having worked in tech, though not as familiar with phones, I want to ask a question no one else has, which may be silly of me:
It’s not a background, is it?
Haha no, it is not.
Alright… you’d be surprised how often a power button isn’t pressed, or tower/monitor is not plugged in. Sometimes the fix is the simplest possible solution.
True! And to be honest, i kinda checked it again after your comment… (With no luck)
is this everywhere on the device?
Try a different launcher like Nova Launcher or Smart Launcher.
Different launcher does indeed fix the issue, but that’s such a shame because i really like the stock ones already.
So it might be that Fairphone is not aware how to make the notification bar transparent. It’s a setting in android development they can enable. (Disclaimer: I’m not a developer.)
With that in mind, they seem to be saying it was intentional to hide their lack of knowledge. It’s simply unreasonable that any developer would want such a hideous defect permanently at the top of the home screen.
On a positive note, I believe android 15 is supposed to correct this when the developer does not.
I agree. Sadly the Fairphone 5 is still running Android 13… A14 is “planned” to released this summer
Fairphone is dropping some balls when it comes to software. So much that in its current state, i can’t recommend the Fairphone 5 at all. Plenty of issues. They need to hire better developers/software designers and probably more of them too.
I’ve had contact since november, and only a few weeks ago (after i had to sent it to the repaircenter in France, i live in the Netherlands) they could tell me it was “an intentional design choice”; so the notificationbar would be more visible. I sent it to them because of the hue, because they first said; “it looks indeed suspicious”. So… Yeah…
I’m wondering if it would be a jab at possibly trying to help burn-in issues? Having a bit of light around the pixels of static icons and text maybe would help minimize the noticeability?
That was actually one thing i also thought! But then i thought, why only do that on the homescreen? Because even the lockscreen misses that “feature”.
