- shortwavesurfer ( @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ) English23•14 days ago
Personally, I don’t see a problem with this as 128 gigs of storage is fine for me on a phone. In fact, I currently have a 64 gigabyte phone and I’m not using all of it, even now.
- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) English14•14 days ago
Good it exists, for people like you.
Once the OS stopped letting me use my SD card with my phone, by 256GB internal storage has not been enough for me, I’ve had to remove some stuff I’d prefer to have on my phone off it.
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English4•14 days ago
the solution to that is wanting back normal sd card support. I’ll never buy a phone without it, and I’m not just saying it. I need the removable storage that is not a USB stick but something inside of the phone, and I think this is a basic thing. it’s a shame though that in the fairphones you can only access it after getting out the battery.
- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) English3•14 days ago
Well, my phone has an SD card slot, which I bought a 512GB micro SD card to go in, and I used extensively, then about a month ago the OS stopped letting me write to it. And there aren’t any alternate OSs for my device, just Motorola Android
- SplashJackson ( @SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ) English3•14 days ago
You might want to consider googling the problem and fixing it.
- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) English2•14 days ago
Well, I wouldn’t use Google, but I have already detached it on DuckDuckGo, asked HuggingChat, and Lemmy, and the consensus seems to be that there’s no way to fix it on this device.
- SplashJackson ( @SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ) English2•14 days ago
Perhaps you can do a chargeback on the credit card? Has the manufacturer been stringing you along?
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English2•13 days ago
can you write it from a PC? or did it stop working after an update?
- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) English2•13 days ago
I haven’t tried taking it out and trying to put it in my computer, maybe I should check that
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English2•13 days ago
maybe the card is just faulty. while you’re doing that, you could also make a backup and reformat it. but, it’ll lose the factory formatting that was possibly done with a few optimized params that make it wear out somewhat slower
- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) English1•13 days ago
I already formatted it before, so formatting it again won’t hurt. Most of the things on it are already hacked up to my computer, the ones that aren’t are stuff like app data.
- rbesfe ( @rbesfe@lemmy.ca ) English4•13 days ago
What are you putting on your phone that needs that much storage? Photos or videos should be moved onto something with redundancy
- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) English2•13 days ago
I have my storage both in my phone and computer with Syncthing, I want it entirely on my phone too. I also have English Wikipedia downloaded, and about 40GB of movies/TV Shows
- sunzu2 ( @sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ) 9•14 days ago
Yeah, same here but like another commenter pointed out… some people need the fucking space.
Which is cool, let them pay the margin on the product.
A bit toxic but that’s how market is supposed to work.
- shortwavesurfer ( @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ) English4•14 days ago
Just like my cell phone plan, I get to pay $15 per month for calling texting and 5 gigabytes of data because I know for a fact that I’m not going to use 5 gigabytes of data where everybody else is paying $60 or more for unlimited.
- sunzu2 ( @sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ) 2•14 days ago
yep learning this cool trick too…
just trying to cut “margin” everywhere i can, it saves $ while really hurting “owners” hehe
- BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ) English4•14 days ago
I was curious and checked, i need 91 gigs right now, and i’m pretty sure i can easily deal with 64 if i would just unload and delete all the junk that is sitting on my phone for no reason.
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) English11•14 days ago
Since the memory and storage are soldered to the mainboard though, and that’s one of the few components that’s not sold separately, there’s no official support for turning a 6GB/128GB Fairphone into an 8GB/256GB model though.
Cant they just sell a replacement mainboard like Framework?
- sunzu2 ( @sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ) 9•14 days ago
One day if they can survive it and they are a good faith actor.
What is their selling point? vis-a-vis graphene and calyx besides, a normie can buy it and use out of the box.
- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English6•14 days ago
Fair phones do not have grapheneos support
I believe fair phones main selling point is greenwashing the normal cell phone experience.
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) English5•14 days ago
vis-a-vis graphene and calyx besides
Wat?
- xia ( @xia@lemmy.sdf.org ) English8•13 days ago
Another missed opportunity to bring back the headphone jack.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English3•13 days ago
The Fairphone isn’t a good deal price wise. That’s not what it is marketed as in the least.