The headline says it all - the FP4 isn´t the perfect phone. In fact, it has some minor to major issues one comes across over the years… and either overcomes them or is content to just live with it.
The major flaws are (to me)
- the ghost touch issue, which i fixed by reseating the screen and heightening the pressure on the connector.
- the weird behaviour when using dual-sim. sometimes, it takes ages to find a new network connection when changing countries or after just driving through a tunnel… sometimes it just works fine. can´t figure out why it behaves like that.
Minor flaws:
- camera sub-par, compared to even a pixel 4a… but it does the job.
I really was thinking about buying the fp5 to get rid of these issues… but then I remembered what I wanted to achieve in the first place when buying the fp4: keep a phone for YEARS. It´s two years old now, and will surely get me through another 3, if not more. one just has to learn to be contend.
What’s the ghost touch issue, I think I have it.
Me too I think? I haven’t read about it, but my fp4 sometimes registers random touches in the lower center of the screen. Like someone is randomly tapping on the screen very quickly for a few seconds. The touches are all on a straight vertical line.
I turned on dev mode to see screen touches, can confirm, all on the the vertical centreline. I though it was waer ingress damaging the digitiser ribbon or something.
What’s the fix?
There is no fix i know of :C
That’s honestly not the worst, I was about to buy a new screen assembly and replace it. Would have been annoying if it hadn’t of worked.