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[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
Please, anybody who's registered at Facebook. Please drop Fairphone a message, someone should take care about this thread. More than two weeks no news, no answer, not anything.

We have currently 2,347 views on this thread. Without making progress like answering questions, supporting the devs, we won't be able to keep up the motivation of a lot of people who worked and will work in the future for free for the project, which is still a good idea, for the customers and last but surely not least for the company Fairphone. Folks, let's get back to work!

EDIT: I am not registered at this so called social network. Also, please one message should be enough. Be polite, of course.
[Fairphone 1] joemier:
Thanks for understanding, benkxda. I'd like to apologize again to the XDA community for the lack of (and delay of) communication during the end of 2013. I hope you can take this apology sincerely, so you understand we take the XDA work seriously and are really thankful already for what you've done.

Indeed, the mentioning system would be really helpful for me. If you have a collection of questions - please send them my way. Right now I'm gathering information about the bootloader for XDA.

Thanks again for all the time and resources XDA has put in already!

Best,

Joe
[Fairphone 1] f1lml33:
I don't want to spam (i'm just a lurker on XDA, because i'm not a developer), but I have to say thank you all for the great work! Soon i'm a Fairphone user and I can't thank you enough for all the informations and effort you guys on XDA are putting in (especialy [MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION])! I learn a lot about openness and how things run in the mobile-world. Like I learn a lot about resources and manufacturing from the Fairphone guys. It's great to understand things better behind the devices we use every day.

Let's make the Fairphone to something even better then it already is!

And thanks to [MENTION=5382171]joemier[/MENTION] to getting back here :)

Respects from Switzerland.
[Fairphone 1] fjxda:
Serial Number

Hi,

as you may know from the OP, the Fairphone with the first firmware version does not correctly report its Serial Number.

I know at least one app, thats very important for me, that does not finish its registration process and does not run because of this.

After searching and trying how to get the fairphone to initialize with the correct serial number, I finally gave up, decided that I need WhatsApp and do not want to give WhatsApp access to my contacts, installed XPrivacy (and Xposed) because of this... and then:

I saw that XPrivacy can fake the serial number for the apps you select (and you can even select that ONLY the serial is faked by Xprivacy, and ONLY for one app, so it has no side effects. And you can input your real serial number into XPrivacy if you want!).

With the correct serial number faked by Xprivacy, my favourite navigation app does now work fine.

I hope, that fairphone / kwamecorp will fix the serial number issue (as well as the other issues with google maps library and the red in the images) in the next firmware release [MENTION=5382171]joemier[/MENTION]
[Fairphone 1] hanzano:
Ah...good to know that xPrivacy works. I wanted to test that when I get my Fairphone (should arrive tomorrow or Tuesday :fingers-crossed:)
[Fairphone 1] MarcoToo:
So what file system is used on the internal flash storage? YAFFS?
[Fairphone 1] joemier:
Hi K_W,

I can confirm that USB On-the-Go (OTG) works with the Fairphone with a separate microUSB to USB adapter cable. I've seen for myself that it works with a mouse, keyboard, external storage, and so on. I'll confirm that we put it on our channels.

Thanks for checking.

Best,

Joe
[Fairphone 1] fjxda:
ext4
[Fairphone 1] markuswallgren:
System language

Hello, I'm waiting for 7 Fairphones for me and my staff.

Just to be prepared, I would like to know if there is a Swedish alternative in the languate settings? If there is not, can I in some way help translate? I've done some translations before in Wordpress-plugins.
[Fairphone 1] haiag:
[MENTION=5275521]JoeMI[/MENTION]r Thanks for all the answers so far.

Can you tell us, why there is a limit of 1 GB for app installation?

As far as I know Android 4.2 can already have the same partition for apps and media?

And 1 GB isn't enough (my current phone has 1 GB and some updates report storage problems, I already stored the biggest part on my sd card)

Regards
[Fairphone 1] globuli:
Not in mine, but Swedish Keyboard is available.
[Fairphone 1] haiag:
Sorry I meant [MENTION=5382171]joemier[/MENTION]
[Fairphone 1] boronian:
New video report from Deutsche Welle (english)

Hey together,

here a youtube link to a new video report, maybe you want to add it to the first page [MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION]?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Zk3TMEuJw

Cheers!
[Fairphone 1] Jeronimous:
Google Play

Hi all,

Today I received my Fairphone. At a certain point the introduction-thing asks for superuser permission, to download and install the Google apps. I gave that permission, and very shortly it displays "Permission granted " and "Permission denied". It reboots the machine, and gets stuck with an Android on the background, and the message "No command". When I press the power button for a while, it opens some kind of menu, but I can not do anything there. Removing the battery was the only thing left, and the device booted correctly.

But no Google stuff yet. The downloads are in the list, but I can not open them. In the downloads-folder, there are two zipfiles. So how am I going to get Google Play on it?

Thanks for the help!

Jeroen.

---------- Post added at 07:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:36 PM ----------

Oh, and I also wiped it, and did the whole thing again with the same result.

---------- Post added at 08:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:46 PM ----------

After 3 or 4 more attempts it works!
[Fairphone 1] globuli:
DW... I work 500 meters from them and eat in their cantine... ;)
[Fairphone 1] joemier:
Fairphone has "open bootloader"

I'm happy to confirm to XDA that, yes, Fairphone has an "open bootloader"! The bootloader does not check any signature of the boot partition image, so it qualifies as open.

We didn't have much time to try it before, but we just flashed a boot and Android image from a random Chinese phone (Micromax it was) with the same chipset, and the phone actually boots and starts Android. :)

You can see a little video here of the phone booting with an alternative image.

[YOUTUBE]HD2sk0hWJV4[/YOUTUBE]

If there are any issues with the bootloader, we will be happy to further look into it and perhaps provide an updated version later on.
[Fairphone 1] globuli:
I did an initial test on power consumption of the Fairphone (more details: http://loco-toys.de/devices/fairphone/#power).

Nothing too informative yet: with 2 SIM-cards and the display on at lowest brightness, the current is around 118 mAh (=16.9 hours with 2000mAh). Will try to get more meaningful data.
[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
Thank you. I like the idea, that's why this device should be as good as possible. And if something is not working, you know where to search or ask for a solution. Everyone can learn from this relationship from XDA to Fairphone/Kwamecorp. And maybe they keep on track of fair devices and are able to offer more products.

At the moment, the CES in Las Vegas shows us a lot of new consumer products - I saw several presentations and some stuff is really interesting but most of those are absolutely expensive crap. Fairphone will do it better :)

Added your experience to the OP. Thanks for sharing.

Today is your day... share your impressions.

That's neat. Thanks for checking. I also tried mouse/keyboard and USB flash drives with my devices. Last one is probably the most common case. But I also booted up a micro WiFi router via USB-OTG (very low power consumption device with micro USB as power plug). Added to the big OP.

If you need the language, we have to include Joe. If your Swedish keyboard is enough, it's fine. Just let us know.

Grand, added. Thanks.

But now all your Google Apps where installed correctly? Can you publish those apps/zip files. Somehow I am interested ;)

Germans would say "boah, geil", my Australian friend would say "tech-b*ner!". These are good news. No signature checking and therefore open for other ROMs. We just have to find a few guys porting something like Ubuntu Phone on Fairphone? But honestly, if there is a CM port available, the ROMs based on CM usually increase dramatically for a device. I saw this growing ROM community at the S3 LTE.

Thank you, I like that kind of blog posts. Great to have it in English, too.
[Fairphone 1] markuswallgren:
Swedish language needed

Yes, I definitely need Swedish in my phone - I've ordered 7 phones for my staff, and some of them need swedish os. Highly prioritated! Oh and to include [MENTION=5382171]joemier[/MENTION]
[Fairphone 1] Ahzriaz:
Hi my Fairphone arrived

Hi all, been looking around on xda for my Sensation and have been following this thread the last weeks for info about the Fairphone. Yesterday it arrived and have been playing around with it.

* First I had the problem with installing the play store (language set to English) but the second try it worked.

* Swiping pulled out the Fairphone menu all the time so changed the launcher very quickly to Nova Launcher.

* Got an AnTuTu score of 13546.

* Can notice it is faster then the Sensation in browsing and apps installing. Haven't played any games.

* You can turn in off but your alarm clock still works.

I am not a developer but if there are any questions or things you would like to know I am willing to check them and post the results (as long as there is no real danger to the phone, so no drop tests :p)

Kind regards
[Fairphone 1] haiag:
Today I got it!

Will be on my way the whole day.

I'm excited how it will be :)
[Fairphone 1] bwildenhain:
Source code

Hi,

after sending another mail to Fairphone I received the following mail today:

Dear Benedikt,

i got the confirmation we will be publishing the Linux Kernel sources under GPL today, the latest tomorrow. You will be

able to find it in our Support centre under the category downloads.

Regards,

Miquel Ballester

Product Strategy

Finally, they seem to follow the Linux Kernel's licence :)

Regards,

Benedikt
[Fairphone 1] haiag:
After having the Fairphone a short day, some impressions.

I did not have some installing problems with gapps (or maps api, DB navigator works fine)

My front facing camera shows 5 Megapixel, my rear camera has 6 Megapixel.

Can anybody else confirm this? [MENTION=5382171]joemier[/MENTION]?

Changing from CM I miss some features, so I hope CM will come to Fairphone soon.

My first impression is really positive. I like the quick launcher!

Where can I upload pictures here?
[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
I also use a third party launcher. Usually they're more powerful and customizable.

Very close to my AnTuTu result. Important thing is to provide also the version of the app. The HTC Sensation is an oldie, definitely cannot compete with the Fairphone ;)

The alarm functionality is very nice.

Cannot find it now, but will be available hopefully very soon. Thank you for this good news.

Strange behaviour, maybe Fairphone changed something in their installation procedure, probably not the Gapps file packages. Can you provide these gapps files by uploading to a public available storage?

I don't upload images directly to XDA, because they have a maximum in size (kB) and dimensions (pixels). I use abload.de and include the URLs to the uploaded files.
[Fairphone 1] haiag:
Here is the screenshot to show the 6 MP. Does anyobne else has only 6 MP instead of 8?

I startet in English, logged into WiFi and downloaded and installed the gapps (No SIM, No MicroSD).

Afterwards I changed the Language to German.

I did not find the gapps files on my phone.
[Fairphone 1] Ahzriaz:
The Sensation is old but the GPU score is higher then of the FP. Also the memory for apps is a bit higher. But the cpu of the FP is a lot better.

[MENTION=5452757]haiag[/MENTION]

On my FP I have the following options:

Front camera: 1.3M - 2M - 3M - 5M

Back: above + 8 M

Strange yours misses the options. When I change the language to Deutchs I still have all the options.

What is the resolution of the pictures? (yuo can find it by opening the picture and press settings -> details)
[Fairphone 1] haiag:
I found the answer.

When I use the fullscreen mode, then the maximum MP-option is 6. Back to 4:3 mode it is 8.
[Fairphone 1] joemier:
Linux kernel source

The Linux kernel source is on its way.

We're just finding the right place to store them online. We still expect to have them up today - hopefully by afternoon CET.

Best,

Joe
[Fairphone 1] Hyst:
Nice. I just wanted to say, I am glad to see that communication did improve drastically. In several posts (Fairphone forum and here) you guys were admitting that you messed up with communication. I think people accept your apologies and appreciate your honesty. The daily delivery updates in the blog is the right step.

I hope you don't feel like coming into enemy territory anymore. And I hope that when everyone got the Fairphone, the custom rom development will go through the roof. I think one good thing to push that would be an own Fairphone subforum here on xda. Does anyone know how and where we can ask for one?
[Fairphone 1] asmaron:
Absolutely agree with that! FP is back on the right way now. :good: Thanks for preparing to share the source code with us!

Thats a good question! I think [MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION] knows more about that. He seems to be very active on XDA. So maybe he can tell us or bring this questions to the right moderators.

[MENTION=5382171]joemier[/MENTION]: I've some questions about the workers welfare found. I wrote some post on the FP-Forums over there. Maybe you can have a look at! Thanks indeed!

Regards,

Asmaron
[Fairphone 1] markuswallgren:
Swedish language needed

So, again, I have seven Fairphones on their way here for my staff. It's very important to have a swedish translation of the operating system in the phone. Can you [MENTION=5382171]joemier[/MENTION] inform me on how this issue is taken care of? I would be glad to have the answer for my staff that the translation is coming up.
[Fairphone 1] fredflegel:
Got my Fairphone

I received my fairphone yesterday and i am quite impressed. Performance is solid for me, Screen looks great!

I did not install Gapps, trying to live without them for a while. Synced my Contacts and Calendar with Davdroid (from the f-droid.org repository). Firefox runs fast, but crashed once for me and did not play youtube videos (internal browser did). Alarm features are very welcome and liked automatic shutdown and turn on. Both features worked fine.

The phone feels really good (i like that it is heavy). I uploaded some unboxing pics to flickr: flickr.com/photos/benimnetz/sets/72157639528081595/.

PS: Golem.de has review online as well.

Thanks to fairphone for the fast progress with kernel sources!
[Fairphone 1] dbrgn:
I'm experiencing strange glitches with the touchscreen when putting the Fairphone on my bed with the USB charger attached.

youtube.com/watch?v=2yCBnQU02Co

(Unfortunately I can't post/embed the link directly because I have less than 10 posts here. Can maybe some mod edit the post and enable the video embedding?)

- When holding it in my hand with the USB charger connected or when laying on the bed without the charger connected, everything works fine.

- If I put it on my bed with the charger connected, the touchscreen goes crazy when touching it.

I'm not sure what the problem is, possibly it's because my mattress contains silver for anti-bacterial reasons. Or maybe it's differences in electric potential when touching the back side (= holding it in my hand) while being connected to the charger. Does someone else experience these issues?
[Fairphone 1] Milltach:
Because I was reading that there are many software glitches, I thought about one thing:

why did they not just use Cyanogenmod or something similar? That would save development costs and CM is right stable

(ok I have to say that 10.2.0 stable is the worst und most buggy thing I have ever seen BUT updates are hopefully coming soon => and here again: there would be no dev costs for fairphone)
[Fairphone 1] drcyber:
I dont have my Fairphone yet, but i had such Problems with my Xperia-Arc, in this case it had something to do with the GND of the Charger. With some it was not useable , other Chargers worked better. Did you try another Charger ?
[Fairphone 1] dbrgn:
Right now I'm using the original HTC Desire charger. I'll test another one tonight :)

It's not really a problem for me, I was just wondering why it happens.
[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
Ok. Did it preselect German or English as the system language?

Can you provide an up to date AnTuTu benchmark with the Sensation? What I found on the internet were "old" benchmarks, but all far below the Fairphone's GPU power.

Thanks for sharing another solution. I cannot see, why there should be a limit to 6 MP because of the fullscreen mode, though.

Sweet. It's getting closer... :) :good:

Yes, communication has a good flow. I like that.

About the subforum: A few days ago I asked a Moderator about the Fairphone, if it is possible to get a own forum for it. He will check that. Meanwhile you can suggest a new forum for our device in the thread *** New Device Forum Requests ***. I already did as well as two others.

This thread has currently 29,102 views (at least tomorrow we reach 30,000) and 214 replies to the OP. And the device is not delivered to all customers now. Also, the sources for the kernel are coming soon. So for me it's the beginning and we already have enough attention, also in the press. And don't forget, we have Joe Mier from Fairphone in here, also [MENTION=5465780]KimHansenDenmark[/MENTION] from Kwamecorp.

[MENTION=5382171]joemier[/MENTION], if there is no chance to get it done by Fairphone, can we get this done as a community driven translation? We can ask the guys in the translation thread. I guess, this is quite a lot to translate.
[Fairphone 1] Ahzriaz:
AnTuTu on Sensation

[MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION]

Just updated AnTuTu to 4.1.6 on the Sensation.

Screenshots are attached.

Sensation still seems to have better GPU.
[Fairphone 1] bwildenhain:
Source has been published

[MENTION=1656095]benxda[/MENTION]

It has just been published :) at www.fairphone.com//downloads/softwa...urce code_Package 1_Linux Kernel_GPL_L.tar.gz

(Or www.fairphone.com -> Support -> Downloads).

[MENTION=5382171]joemier[/MENTION]

However, the Kernel is still incomplete, the included build (alps/kernel/build.sh) script complains about the file ./mediatek/build/shell.sh missing, but there is no folder alps/mediatek :( I hope this can be fixed soon.

Regards,

Benedikt
[Fairphone 1] joemier:
Fairphone OS Linux kernel source code package

Here's our next step in providing developer resources. Happy to present to XDA: Fairphone OS Linux kernel source code package. Please let us know issues, problems, questions!

We've put together this package with all our downloads of Fairphone OS and stock Android 4.2.2.

We're eager to see what you all can do with it. Thanks for your patience as we got it up. Enjoy!
[Fairphone 1] fjxda:
Thank you JOE! Thats really cool. I think it went quick (even if I was told the roms would be available this week, I didn't believe it - yeah - I need to appologize that I didn't trust you). Most vendors don't provide images at all, so I am really happy that you do. Thanks!

For the others: Maybe you ask whats difference between AOSP and Fairphone OS. At least I did. Ok, so I checked which files exist in one package and not in the other:

$ diff -rq FP_AOSP FP_OS | grep -v "sind verschieden."

Nur in FP_OS/system/app: FairPhoneHome.apk.

Nur in FP_OS/system/app: FairPhoneHome.odex.

Nur in FP_OS/system/app: FairPhoneIFixIt.apk.

Nur in FP_OS/system/app: FairPhonePeaceOfMindApp.apk.

Nur in FP_OS/system/app: FairPhonePeaceOfMindApp.odex.

Nur in FP_OS/system/app: FairphoneUpdater.apk.

Nur in FP_OS/system/app: FairphoneUpdater.odex.

Nur in FP_AOSP/system/app: Launcher2.apk.

Nur in FP_AOSP/system/app: Launcher2.odex.

Nur in FP_AOSP/system/app: QuickSearchBox.apk.

Nur in FP_AOSP/system/app: QuickSearchBox.odex.

Mainly, AOSP contains the stock android home app (launcher), FP OS contains the fairphone home app (launcher).

So FP OS, is what was installed on the phone on delivery.

If you flash one of these images, the google apps will be removed from the phone. Probably, there is NO factory reset (=deleting user data) necessary, to remove the google apps. Flashing the image is enough.

Hope that helps.

Another tipp: If you have already bricked your phone, you will not be able to copy the files to the internal SD-card and the recovery application is not able to read from the external SD-card.

But in this case, you can still install the firmware with adb sideload

www.google.de/search?q=adb+sideload

(You will need to install adb, either by installing the http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#download or by installing adb from your linux package manager (ubuntu). A recent version of adb is needed, as adb sideload is a newer feature).
[Fairphone 1] globuli:
That's simple to explain, the "fullscreen" is just the original 4:3 with top & bottom chopped off. So from the 8 MP the camera delivers, only 6MP make it into the picture.

Cheers!
[Fairphone 1] Tovok7:
So now that the sources have been published, who's interested in porting CyanogenMod to the Fairphone?
[Fairphone 1] MoreThanADev:
hmm, I may be mistaken but, only kernel and bootloader sources were provided today (in adition to the peace of mind widget and other fairphone OS customisation) and I 'm not sure this is enough for a port.

Maybe someone can tell me I am wrong ? :D

Anyway very recently xda seems to have been making very huge progress with custom OS on MT6589 soc (very similar to the MT6589m FP have), let 's hope these progress will keep going and will be easily ported to Fairphone.
[Fairphone 1] dbrgn:
[MENTION=5382171]joemier[/MENTION] any plans to release the mediatek sources? Without them, not much will happen here...

If I'm not mistaken the mediatek kernel modules were written explicitly for Linux/Android. In which case, according to Linus Torvalds, they would have to be licensed under the GPL license:

(source linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/proprietary-kernel-modules.html)
[Fairphone 1] boronian:
I didn't see someone posting the google apps already, so I uploaded them from my freshly started phone (received this morning. Woohoo!). Is there a place on XDA or related services for long time storage (if wanted), where I could move the zip archive to?

For now here a temporal link

Is this all there should be or are you missing something? I wonder a bit, because the files are so small...

Cheers!
[Fairphone 1] mrueegg:
successfully mounted external partition to /data

it was acctually no bootloop. logcat just showed it could not start the core services and init stopped. i accidentially left some older apps in the partition on the sd-card. after whiping it externally i could boot with the given setup. (started like a factory reset.)

so i have mounted /data to /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 (an extra ext4 partition on my sdcard). but still, /storage/sdcard0 points to the internal FAT partition (/dev/block/mmcblk0p8, aka /emmc@fat, aka /dev/block/vold/179:8) while /storage/sdcard1 points to the external FAT partition (/dev/block/mmcblk1p1, aka /dev/block/vold/179:97). even though you can set your prefered storage location in 'system settings/storage/default', there are still some apps not respecting that. so i would like to either switch the two partitions (which seems to be quite difficult to what other try to acheive) or to simply merge mmcblk0p7 and mmcblk0p8 in one partition so that no internal FAT partition exists.

and still wondering how i could unbrick my first device.

martin.