Fairphone 5 (fairphone-fp5)

Fairphone 5

Manufacturer	Fairphone
Name	5
Codename	fairphone-fp5
Released	2023
Type	handset
Hardware
Chipset	Qualcomm QCM6490
CPU	Octa-core (1x2.7 GHz Cortex-A78 & 3x2.4 GHz Cortex-A78 & 4x1.9 GHz Cortex-A55)
GPU	Adreno 643
Display	1224x2700
Storage	256GB
Memory	8GB
Architecture	aarch64
Software
Original software	Android
Original version	13
postmarketOS
Category	testing
Pre-built images	yes
Mainline	yes
postmarketOS kernel	6.12.0
Unixbench Whet/Dhry score	10425.8

Features

Flashing	Works
USB Networking	Works
Internal storage	Works
SD card	Works
Battery	Works
Screen	Works
Touchscreen	Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration	Works
Audio	Broken
Camera	Partial
Camera Flash	Works
Connectivity
WiFi	Works
Bluetooth	Works
GPS	Works
NFC	Broken
Modem
Calls	Partial
SMS	Works
Mobile data	Works
Miscellaneous
FDE	Works
USB OTG	Works
HDMI/DP	Works
Sensors
Accelerometer	Works
Magnetometer	Works
Ambient Light	Works
Proximity	Works
Hall Effect	Works
Haptics	Broken

Contributors

• Z3ntu

Users owning this device

• BEEDELLROKEJULIANLOCKHART (Notes: Daily device)
• Cosmo (Notes: postmarketOS edge / Plasma Mobile)
• Crashniels (Notes: Stock)
• Deathmist (Notes: Porting Ubuntu Touch)
• Linmob (Notes: postmarketOS edge)
• Mariob (Notes: Running Gnome 46 via postmarket ~ Transparent)
• Mtvec
• Tjikkun
• Tommi
• WhyNotHugo (Notes: Ex-daily driver. Murena edition, stock.)
• Z3ntu

Boot modes

By holding various button combinations while booting, the device can be made to boot into different modes. Unplug from USB, power off the device and press and hold the below buttons to enter the specific boot mode.

Boot mode	PWR	Vol+	Vol-
Fastboot	Y	N	Y
Recovery	Y	Y	N
Download	N	N	N

Installation

It is important that you upgrade your phone to the latest available firmware before start tinkering with it.

Bootloader unlock

Before installing postmarketOS you have to unlock your bootloader.

• Locate the IMEI 1 number in Settings > About.
• Locate the serial number in Settings > About > Model & Hardware.
• Get the unlock code from Fairphone.
• Enable Developer Options: Settings > About phone > Build number (quickly tap 7 times)
• Enable OEM unlocking: Settings > System > Advanced > Developer Options.
• Reboot to fastboot according to boot mode instructions.
• Connect your device to a PC using a USB Type-C cable.
• Get the SDK Platform Tools from Android.
• Open a terminal and type: fastboot flashing unlock

WARNING: This will erase all your data on the device. Please back up important data before unlocking the bootloader!

• Follow the instructions on your device's screen.

Now use any of the following 3 installation modes.

UBports Installer

You can use UBports Installer v0.9.8 (or later) to flash a prebuilt image of postmarketOS onto your Fairphone 5. Just select postmarketOS in the OS selection and choose the desired UI and lean back!

Web installer

You can use the postmarketOS web flasher to flash a prebuilt image of postmarketOS onto your Fairphone 5. Follow the instructions on the page.

Web installer does not work with Firefox or Firefox based browsers like Librewolf and Mullvad. You need to use a chromium based browser. If "Give access" fails, try running as root. If the page crashes during installation, try freeing some RAM.

Manual install

You need to erase the dtbo partition for the current slot with fastboot erase dtbo.

The rest of the installation is standard, but because the device contains A/B slots, you must watch out for the correct slot being active.

The device does not contain a system as you might be used to, it contains one super partition which contains system/system_ext/product/vendor/odm partitions, in _a and _b variant each. This concept is called Dynamic Partitions.

You have a few possibilities to flash the postmarketOS rootfs:

• userdata partition (212 GB usable space): fastboot flash userdata rootfs.img
• super partition (5.63 GB usable space): fastboot flash super rootfs.img
• SD card: pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs --sdcard /dev/$blk_dev

Return to stock

• Get the official firmware from Fairphone and extract the archive.
• Flash the whole firmware by running the flash_fp5_factory file.
• Boot into fastboot and check locking ability with fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability.
• If it gives “0”, switch slots with fastboot set_active other reboot bootloader.
• Flash the whole firmware again by running the flash_fp5_factory file.
• Boot into fastboot and lock the bootloader with fastboot flashing lock.
• Follow the instructions on your device's screen.

Partition layout

fdisk -lo Device,Start,End,Sectors,Size,Name /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 232.26 GiB, 249384927232 bytes, 60884992 sectors
Disk model: KM8F9001JM-B813 
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 524288 bytes / 524288 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 0821EE0A-71A8-3C12-DB9A-CE6A85674BF8

Device       Start      End  Sectors  Size Name
/dev/sda1        6      261      256    1M traceability
/dev/sda2      262      293       32  128K fpconfig_persist
/dev/sda3      294      325       32  128K fpconfig
/dev/sda4      326     1349     1024    4M oembin
/dev/sda5     1350     1351        2    8K ssd
/dev/sda6     1352     9543     8192   32M persist
/dev/sda7     9544     9799      256    1M misc
/dev/sda8     9800     9927      128  512K keystore
/dev/sda9     9928    10055      128  512K frp
/dev/sda10   10056    11591     1536    6M study
/dev/sda11   11592    11623       32  128K swversion
/dev/sda12   11624  1584487  1572864    6G super
/dev/sda13 1584488  1584503       16   64K vbmeta_system_a
/dev/sda14 1584504  1584519       16   64K vbmeta_system_b
/dev/sda15 1584520  1588615     4096   16M metadata
/dev/sda16 1588616  4785543  3196928 12.2G rawdump
/dev/sda17 4785544 60884986 56099443  214G userdata

fdisk -lo Device,Start,End,Sectors,Size,Name /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 8 MiB, 8388608 bytes, 2048 sectors
Disk model: KM8F9001JM-B813 
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 524288 bytes / 524288 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 1337EC69-5D9F-B82A-FAF4-712E5DAC1E17

Device     Start   End Sectors  Size Name
/dev/sdb1      6   906     901  3.5M xbl_a
/dev/sdb2    907   964      58  232K xbl_config_a
/dev/sdb3    965  2042    1078  4.2M last_parti

fdisk -lo Device,Start,End,Sectors,Size,Name /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 8 MiB, 8388608 bytes, 2048 sectors
Disk model: KM8F9001JM-B813 
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 524288 bytes / 524288 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 5110ED0C-0518-D18E-C5B0-B3AF5C114F1B

Device     Start   End Sectors  Size Name
/dev/sdc1      6   906     901  3.5M xbl_b
/dev/sdc2    907   964      58  232K xbl_config_b
/dev/sdc3    965  2042    1078  4.2M last_parti

fdisk -lo Device,Start,End,Sectors,Size,Name /dev/sdd

Disk /dev/sdd: 32 MiB, 33554432 bytes, 8192 sectors
Disk model: KM8F9001JM-B813 
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 524288 bytes / 524288 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 09405E76-7ABA-8F0C-8C5C-2A1F0AAA40A4

Device     Start   End Sectors  Size Name
/dev/sdd1      6    31      26  104K ALIGN_TO_128K_1
/dev/sdd2     32    63      32  128K cdt
/dev/sdd3     64   319     256    1M ddr
/dev/sdd4    320  8186    7867 30.7M last_parti

fdisk -lo Device,Start,End,Sectors,Size,Name /dev/sde

Disk /dev/sde: 6 GiB, 6442450944 bytes, 1572864 sectors
Disk model: KM8F9001JM-B813 
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 524288 bytes / 524288 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A967AD1A-77E5-28F5-B8BF-082C0AA32875

Device      Start     End Sectors  Size Name
/dev/sde1       6     133     128  512K aop_a
/dev/sde2     134    1157    1024    4M tz_a
/dev/sde3    1158    3205    2048    8M hyp_a
/dev/sde4    3206   59525   56320  220M modem_a
/dev/sde5   59526   60549    1024    4M bluetooth_a
/dev/sde6   60550   61573    1024    4M mdtpsecapp_a
/dev/sde7   61574   69765    8192   32M mdtp_a
/dev/sde8   69766   70021     256    1M abl_a
/dev/sde9   70022   86405   16384   64M dsp_a
/dev/sde10  86406   86533     128  512K keymaster_a
/dev/sde11  86534  111109   24576   96M boot_a
/dev/sde12 111110  111141      32  128K devcfg_a
/dev/sde13 111142  111161      20   80K qupfw_a
/dev/sde14 111162  111177      16   64K vbmeta_a
/dev/sde15 111178  117321    6144   24M dtbo_a
/dev/sde16 117322  117833     512    2M uefisecapp_a
/dev/sde17 117834  118345     512    2M imagefv_a
/dev/sde18 118346  118377      32  128K shrm_a
/dev/sde19 118378  118385       8   32K multiimgoem_a
/dev/sde20 118386  118641     256    1M cpucp_a
/dev/sde21 118642  118673      32  128K featenabler_a
/dev/sde22 118674  143249   24576   96M vendor_boot_a
/dev/sde23 143250  150929    7680   30M qmcs
/dev/sde24 150930  150993      64  256K qweslicstore_a
/dev/sde25 150994  152529    1536    6M studybk_a
/dev/sde26 152530  152657     128  512K aop_b
/dev/sde27 152658  153681    1024    4M tz_b
/dev/sde28 153682  155729    2048    8M hyp_b
/dev/sde29 155730  212049   56320  220M modem_b
/dev/sde30 212050  213073    1024    4M bluetooth_b
/dev/sde31 213074  214097    1024    4M mdtpsecapp_b
/dev/sde32 214098  222289    8192   32M mdtp_b
/dev/sde33 222290  222545     256    1M abl_b
/dev/sde34 222546  238929   16384   64M dsp_b
/dev/sde35 238930  239057     128  512K keymaster_b
/dev/sde36 239058  263633   24576   96M boot_b
/dev/sde37 263634  263665      32  128K devcfg_b
/dev/sde38 263666  263685      20   80K qupfw_b
/dev/sde39 263686  263701      16   64K vbmeta_b
/dev/sde40 263702  269845    6144   24M dtbo_b
/dev/sde41 269846  270357     512    2M uefisecapp_b
/dev/sde42 270358  270869     512    2M imagefv_b
/dev/sde43 270870  270901      32  128K shrm_b
/dev/sde44 270902  270909       8   32K multiimgoem_b
/dev/sde45 270910  271165     256    1M cpucp_b
/dev/sde46 271166  271197      32  128K featenabler_b
/dev/sde47 271198  295773   24576   96M vendor_boot_b
/dev/sde48 295774  295837      64  256K qweslicstore_b
/dev/sde49 295838  297373    1536    6M studybk_b
/dev/sde50 297374  297374       1    4K devinfo
/dev/sde51 297375  297630     256    1M dip
/dev/sde52 297631  297694      64  256K apdp
/dev/sde53 297695  306050    8356 32.6M splash
/dev/sde54 306051  306051       1    4K limits
/dev/sde55 306052  306052       1    4K limits-cdsp
/dev/sde56 306053  306308     256    1M toolsfv
/dev/sde57 306309  308356    2048    8M logfs
/dev/sde58 308357  318596   10240   40M quantumsdk
/dev/sde59 318597  449668  131072  512M logdump
/dev/sde60 449669  449700      32  128K storsec
/dev/sde61 449701  449828     128  512K uefivarstore
/dev/sde62 449829  449835       7   28K secdata
/dev/sde63 449836  449963     128  512K catefv
/dev/sde64 449964  450219     256    1M catecontentfv
/dev/sde65 450220  458575    8356 32.6M vm-data
/dev/sde66 458576  463695    5120   20M mdcompress
/dev/sde67 463696  463727      32  128K connsec
/dev/sde68 463728  463759      32  128K tzsc
/dev/sde69 463760  463887     128  512K rtice
/dev/sde70 463888 1572858 1108971  4.2G last_parti

fdisk -lo Device,Start,End,Sectors,Size,Name /dev/sdf

Disk /dev/sdf: 32 MiB, 33554432 bytes, 8192 sectors
Disk model: KM8F9001JM-B813 
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 524288 bytes / 524288 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 5979A5AC-E514-89B6-D102-7D55F8A32097

Device     Start   End Sectors  Size Name
/dev/sdf1      6    31      26  104K ALIGN_TO_128K_2
/dev/sdf2     32   799     768    3M fsg
/dev/sdf3    800  2335    1536    6M modemst1
/dev/sdf4   2336  3871    1536    6M modemst2
/dev/sdf5   3872  3903      32  128K fsc
/dev/sdf6   3904  8186    4283 16.7M last_parti

Components

Component table

Component	Model	Driver
Modem	QDM5577	?
eSIM	ST33G1M2LCL9EMM9	?
Power button	PMK7325	?
Volume down	PMK7325	?
Volume up	GPIO	?
Display	BF065GBM-TK0-7DP0	?
Touchscreen	GT9897	?
Chipset	QCM6490	?
GPU	Adreno 642L	?
SD card	sdhc_2	?
Internal storage	UFS 2.2	?
Main camera	IMX800	?
Wide camera	IMX858	?
Front camera	S5KJN1SQ03	?
Camera flash	PM7350C	?
Audio codec	WCD9385	?
Earpiece	SLS1012A	?
Speaker	SLS1115D-01	?
Microphones	SM0103B-RS421-M02	?
Vibration motor	AW86927FCR	?
WiFi	WCN6750	?
Bluetooth	WCN6750	?
GNSS/GPS	?	?
NFC	ST21NFCD	?
Fingerprint	?	?
Sixaxis	LSM6DSOQTR	?
Light / Proximity	STK33562-175	?
Magnetometer	MMC5603NJ	?
Fuel gauge	PM7250B	?
Charger	PM7250B	?

Modem

Feature	5G	4G	3G	2G
Data	Y	Y	Y	Y
Call	N	N	Y	Y
Text	Y	Y	Y	Y

eSIM

Status : Broken No driver for the eSIM module yet. The eSIM module is managed by lpa-gtk available only in postmarketOS Edge channel.

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.

Audio

Status : Broken No driver for the audio codec yet. No internal speaker or microphone is currently working. You can get all sounds via Bluetooth or USB peripherals.

Camera

Only the selfie and wide angle cameras are currently working. The main camera does not work.

Fingerprint

Status : Broken No driver for the fingerprint reader yet.

Resources

• Fairphone 5: Information on how to repair and recycle - Schematics and other information

See also

• Device package
• Kernel package (close to mainline)
• Firmware package