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.

    • Boeddabart@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Different launcher does indeed fix the issue, but that’s such a shame because i really like the stock ones already.

      • 0oWow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        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.

        • Boeddabart@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          4 months ago

          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…