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[Fairphone 1] Donat.Callens:
repartitioned phone not restorable

After repartitioning my phone with this method, I am unable to restore the backup performed with the default recovery. My old backup (prior to resizing and thus smaller) can be restored however. So, the new, bigger, internal space cannot be backed up and restored from the default recovery. CWM is thus on the menu for the people who did this change...
[Fairphone 1] MicroDroidXDA:
Well no I didn't because I expected it would say that the Google Apps are already installed (which they are, they just don't work). Obviously, it doesn't say so. I'm gonna try when I'm at home.

Gesendet von meinem FP1 mit Tapatalk

Edit: It worked :) thanks

But I'm just curious: What does the widget do other than me? I mean it also just boots into recovery and installs the zip file, which is exactly what I did when I tried to install it manually. Why didn't that work?

And another question: I'd installed Google Keyboard for gesture typing. As soon as I'd flashed the GApps, it was gone, and now I get an error when I wanna reinstall it? o.O?
[Fairphone 1] 9x6:
I've lurking around here for a while - consider this me saying 'hi' as requested a while back.

After reinstalling from the widget, I needed to change my firewall configuration to get it to connect, even though it connected fine before the update. Just mentioning it in case you are using a firewall. if I remember correctly both the Play store and a system service needed to be enabled - sorry for not being more specific, I didn't think to take notes.

Also, to cut a long story short, I had issues downloading the update on my phone. I downloaded it on my computer, copied it to the fairphone and applied the update from recovery. This probably isn't a solution for AOSP users, as I'm assuming installing the update will revert the system back to fairphone OS (though being a noob, I don't have clue). In case anyone does need a link to the latest update zipfile for the update: it's stored in the xml file in a zipfile called latest.zip in the ota folder under fairphone.com (I can't post links).
[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
Just wanted to let you know that the Fairphone (ok, not the phone itself but its creator Bas van Abel) was nominated for the Rotterdam Design Public Prize.

I would suggest, read more about why he is nominated and vote for him. Vote button on the upper left.

I'll catch up other posts later, when I'm at home.
[Fairphone 1] FlamingoKid:
Hello,

I have been reading this thread (and some others on XDA) for quite a while now, but thought it would be nice to say hello.

I have received the FP1 about two weeks ago now. Hope to use its open design in the future. Previous phone is a nexus s which I now used to install firefox OS on. Would be nice if firefox OS could be installed on the FP1 some day too.

I used to be a Java developer, so I know some stuff, but phone development looks very challenging to me, so kudos to all the devs out here. Hope to be helpful in the future.

One question (on topic): I had two or three freezes with the FP1 the last weeks (had to pull the battery). Not been able to reproduce the situation. Has anyone experienced the same? Maybe there are some logfiles where I can dive into to find the reason of the crash? I haven't been able to find the logfiles on the phone (using OI Filemanager, rooted mode).

I am using the standard Fairphone software (update 1.1) with google apps.
[Fairphone 1] mudar1771:
I had to reinstall the Device Manager app after the update. It was simply uninstalled by the update!

And just confirming what other users reported: after the update, one needs to reinstall google apps using the default launcher (Fairphone OS) and the provided Google apps widget...

EDIT: replying on the new thread
[Fairphone 1] drcyber:
and now you see FP1 in the Device-Manager? For me the APP was still working, but i couldnt see my FP , i saw just my other Android Devices.

i tried the Browser Version and the apps on several Devices.
[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
Heads up, folks.

Check this out: https://xdaforums.com/fairphone :victory:

Thanks for creating this forum to [MENTION=2235607]svetius[/MENTION].

And very big thanks for helping to get a forum goes out to [MENTION=4716493]laufersteppenwolf[/MENTION] and hopefully you'll visit us, if you have some time for us. :laugh:

We have our own forum now. So let's get some threads started :D

EDIT:

Hi. Maybe this tool can help you: [APP] Intelli3G - 2G/3G/4G Toggle and battery saver for stock android

EDIT:

I see. You also reminded me about the law... it's not everywhere allowed. I would not say generally not requesting features, but the most features can be added by apps or Xposed modules, what also works very well. Thanks for your thoughts.

EDIT

Maybe this guide from [MENTION=5101348]nikwen[/MENTION] can help you: [GUIDE] Debugging apps

EDIT:

This is the post which will be sent to Fairphon: Requests to Fairphone - (forwarding on Monday, 03 Feb 2014)

EDIT:

...another edit...

I wanted to show you a small selection of alternative Android app stores:

AndroidPIT App Center (browse this market)

Amazon App-Shop (browse this market)

F-Droid (browse this market)
[Fairphone 1] dbrgn:
Same problem here. This also means that Google push services don't work anymore... :/ I reinstalled the GApps, but that didn't help either.
[Fairphone 1] asmaron:
Very very nice! Thanks to all and esp. to you [MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION]!

Regards,

Asmaron

...sent from my atrix via tapatalk
[Fairphone 1] simsalonaut:
Woohoo! Triple-nice, thanks [MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION] and everyone involved! Here's to many different threads and a flourishing community!

So I guess we should stop posting to this long thread now, but I can't help it just one last time - and I also don't know whether this is a legit question to be forwarded to Joe, so maybe you can help me figure out where to put this issue:

I've emptied out the battery about 20x now, but as we've discovered, it is always stuck at 14% for hours. If the phone is turned off during that time, it will get crazy hiccups, like the one shown on the right/below:

I am well aware that Joe & his crew might not be able to do/tell us anything about this, but maybe someone can shed a bit of light on this issue for me: Is this purely a hardware glitch of the battery itself? Do some sensors / parts of the measuring software need to calibrate themselves first? Is everyone experiencing this or just the few that have reported it here?

I guess we could start a thread in the Q&A forum now, where we line up & organize fresh questions for Joe every week, since I am sure there are other things the community is wondering about - like when the kernels will be completed so that ROM work can be started.

But for now, I am more than happy with the development - most of us have had their phone for less than a month and already the community is growing, discussing and helping each other out much more than I would have anticipated. :highfive:
[Fairphone 1] gurbach:
FP reverse tethering with Win XP

Hi! Sounded encouraging, but on Win XP SP3, it seems some pilots are missing, (MT 65XX Android Phone or RNDIS...)

I also tried FP support posts about "MT 65XX" but to no avail.

Thanks for that...
[Fairphone 1] mexmorris:
[MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION] thanks for your work and congrats for the New forum.

Please add this request to Joe:

Serial Number

I have a problem with the serial number of my fairphone (123456789ABCDEF) which I think prevents my navigation app (Navigon europe) from registering, in effect it does not work. I found following post on xda: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49144479&postcount=183

The 1.1 update did not solve the problem. On the other hand i could not manage to do the workaround with xprivacy. It did not work for me, maybe I did something wrong. I spent more than 50€ for my navigation app, so I would like to run it out of the box without any tricks.

I already posted this to fairphone team, but no news so far. So please help to solve this bug. Tanks!
[Fairphone 1] fjxda:
Once you have installed xPosed and xPrivacy correctly, you should delete Navigon application data (or uninstall and re-install) so it will initialize with the new serial number. For me, it even worked with the "DEFACE" serial number, that xprivacy uses as default - but you can change this value in the xprivacy setting. With the "DEFACE" serial number, this anoying speed-camera addon is always enabled, probably because someone else using xprivacy has enabled it for this serial number.
[Fairphone 1] Unrelashade:
Did I understand correctly that the MediaTek driver code is now available? How about replacing the petitions for that with the link to the code, [MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION]? :)
[Fairphone 1] Tovok7:
Where did you get this information from? It would be awesome, but I didn't see anything like this.
[Fairphone 1] Tommcal:
Help with Fairphone

Good morning everybody, Fairphone is awesome, i recieved mine yesterday...but something is not going.

I explained what's happening to me here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49927491

Can somebody go and read, and maybe give me an advice? :)

Tc
[Fairphone 1] Unrelashade:
I probably misread something here... or maybe I didn't realize the provided sourcecode is incomplete. (Also, what are EPO files?)
[Fairphone 1] Tovok7:
Too bad, yes the kernel source is incomplete and there are other modification to the Android base system done by mediatek, so the cahnges to see a custom ROM are slim at the moment.

These files are used for Extended Prediction Orbit to improve the time your GPS needs to get a fix.
[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
Requests to Fairphone

Added to the request list.

Added to the request list.

Added to the request list.

Thanks folks, for your contributions and for your congratulations. I am really pleased. This is a community project and the benefit is, that you get a better device. As pointed several times, I don't own a Fairphone, but I like the idea behind and maybe one day we can create a thread suggesting hard- and software components, we wanna see in the next device, whatever this may be.

Please check what I added and if it's reasonable. The following thread is available in the OP as well. Talking about the OP, it is just full. I get often this message now: "The text that you have entered is too long (30049 characters). Please shorten it to 30000 characters long."

Please open new threads with guides, like I added in the OP's section "Mods, hacks, solutions". You also can modify and maintain it if necessary.

Requests to Fairphone - (forwarding on Monday, 03 Feb 2014)

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[Fairphone 1] mudar1771:
I think you can strike this one out :) There seems to be a solution for the Device Manager issue by resetting Google Play Services...
[Fairphone 1] drcyber:
But nevertheless the guys from FP/Kwame should look for a solution to avoid such Problems in future releases.
[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
I think, we can have a solution or workaround, which is quite good. But to help all other Fairphone users out there who are no hackers by far (like my brother), we should handover our information to Fairphone and they have to bugfix these issues.
[Fairphone 1] chrmhoffmann:
[MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION] please add the issue that facebook, twitter app lose their logins after reboot to the question for FP.

Chris
[Fairphone 1] drcyber:
[MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION] and the 14%-bug should also befixed

(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2631004)
[Fairphone 1] JYPDWhite:
Hi,

I also have this freezes. But I didn't needed to pull out the battery. The watchdog of android is checking that the OS is hanging and restart it.

But it can take several time for the watchdog to check that the OS is hanging. In this time your phone seems to be death.

But you can notice that your phone is going to hang. If you want to change the volume and the slider don't appear your phone will restart in the next one or two minutes. If you turn the screen of during this time you can't turn it on till the phone reboots.

But at my phone this are all warm reboots. So only the AndroidKernel rebooted and I didn't had to enter my SIM pin again.

I had this annoying behaviour on my Galaxy S1 with Stock Firmware and only a change to CM helped me. But I hope the FP team will fix this. If they need more detailed information (tracelogs or something) they can contact me. I have about one reboot per day. So if there is a way to produce logfiles for the developer i would gladly help the FP team.
[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
Added. Please check all the entries listed in the single post, which will be sent to Fairphone tomorrow.

Requests to Fairphone - (forwarding on Monday, 03 Feb 2014)
[Fairphone 1] markuswallgren:
Seems like my old ZTE headphones communicates with FP. Was able to answer call with button on cord.
[Fairphone 1] JYPDWhite:
Another issue is that I can't send an bulk sms to a group of people anymore. I'm using Handcent SMS and there I have a group of 29 mobile phone numbers. And in the past (on my galaxy S1 running CM) I could send such bulk sms. But the Fairphone OS has a securtiy setting turned on and If I try to send a bulk sms the a PopUp appeared and tells me "Handcent SMS is trying to send a large number of messages" "Allow" "Dissalow" (translatet from german, don't know the exact english sentences). Then I have to push Allow but the message appears again immediately. So I have to push the Allow button several times and even after that not all SMS are send.

On Cyanogenmod there was a Setting where I could enable or disable this feature and also configure the ammount of messages which are abke to send in a amount of time without getting warned. It would be great if this setting find his way into Fairphone OS.
[Fairphone 1] killersky4:
I got mine !

Hi,

I received my Fairphone friday, and like some people here, it is my first smartphone.

I want to try to use my phone without Big Brother Google, so I use F-Droid and I found many great apps.

I do not understand the aim of the Blank Store if you need a Google account ?

I would like to try Firefox OS or Ubuntu OS as soon as possible.

Thank you for the help in this thread and in the wiki.

I made a mistake, I deleted the big icon of "Peace of Mind" , now I only have the tiny version.

Is it possible to get it back ?

PS: Xposed is wonderful ! I installed some modules, we can do marvellous things (I am just a bit afraid to brick my phone ... )
[Fairphone 1] ilikefruit:
Thanks for showing mercy!

It took me a while to figure out, mostly I had issues with being a Mac user, but I already had a few virtual machines with Windows so that got solved, but it took a while to find the right drivers and then putting the phone in the correct mode.

So if anyone comes after me here is a summary:

Use SP_Flash and the Fairphone OS download above.

Install the correct driver. I used the driver here: http://d-h.st/p3m

After that I had issues with finding the right mode. The phone was just connecting-disconnecting.

So I put SP_Flash in download mode and without the battery I plugged the phone while pressing volume down.

When trying different things I noticed that if have volume up pressed the phone says it's Mediatek Modem, when pressing nothing it says Preloader and down I guess it's VCOM Preloader.
[Fairphone 1] Unrelashade:
Wanna add this to the wiki? :D
[Fairphone 1] chrmhoffmann:
Hi,

i think that power config XML file is seriously wrong and might be the issue with the battery stats? [MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION] could you please add this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49598488&postcount=337

Chris
[Fairphone 1] vertigoback:
I am actually waiting ... well for the second batch ... and to see a Firefox OS running on it. Would that be the forum to check for updates? Is there any channel "Fairphone Firefox OS Development" planned? Or would http://xdaforums.com/firefox-os rather be the address for the moment?

Thanks for all these great informations here!
[Fairphone 1] ilikefruit:
How can I deny such a request when I was given the help to figure it out?

I added the guide here: http://xdaforums.com/wiki/Fairphone...o_restore_Fairphone_if_you_totally_bricked_it

Is it explained clearly?
[Fairphone 1] Unrelashade:
Maybe both forums, but usually a ROM for a phone is posted in the development subforum of the device's forum.
[Fairphone 1] joemier:
Fantastic to see there's a whole Fairphone Forum on XDA. Special thanks to benkxda and the other vocal users that helped get it off the ground.

In other news - I received the list from benkxda and all of you, so I'll let you know when our tech guys have a response.

Cheers,

Joe

FP Community Manager
[Fairphone 1] dbrgn:
Thanks Joe :) Here's another very important issue that apparently didn't make it onto benkxda's list: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2636257
[Fairphone 1] flvlef:
I have to sell my Fairphone - I'm so sad

Hi everyone,

I have to sell mine because my company doesn't want me to use another device than the "corporate" one :crying:

I've only used it for a week but with Xposed and Gravity it seemed to be just perfect!

If you know someone who might be interested it's on eBay (search for Fairphone + Cover // I'm from France so check "worldwide" if you don't find it :)

Thanks
[Fairphone 1] vertigoback:
Thanks! will keep my eyes and ears open.

I have got this statement from the "Firefox OS" forum after asking there as well:

I can't really help there as I neither have a phone (not even any smartphone yet) nor the knowledge :/ but hoped I could at least mediate a bit and start the discussion ...
[Fairphone 1] dbrgn:
The sources are currently incomplete. See http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2636257.
[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
Yeah, I started from scratch as I have had to start somewhere.

Please mention me in the future. I will add your request to the collection.

Requests to Fairphone - (forwarding on Monday, 10 Feb 2014)
[Fairphone 1] arghwhymustiregister:
[MENTION=4857012]feherneoh[/MENTION] : could you be more precise about that? Does that mean no or probably no or could take a long while for Firefox OS?
[Fairphone 1] chrmhoffmann:
@benkxda please raise dummy power profile xml to FP

[MENTION=4465234]benkxda[/MENTION]

Please raise this to fairphone:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49598488&postcount=337

Thanks,

Chris
[Fairphone 1] simsalonaut:
What were your issues on the Mac? I'd like to add an OS X version to your awesome wiki entry, but I'm afraid I'd just list the ones that didn't work out for you, since you wrote you had problems with using ADB.

Just so I understand this correctly - the procedure that ended with your Fairphone bricked looked something like:

./adb push recovery.img /storage/sdcard0
./adb shell
su
dd if=/storage/sdcard0/recovery.img of=/dev/recovery

Is this what you did? If so, then I don't have anything to add to the wiki this time... because this is what I did to flash CWM - and it's exactly what I would do to get back to stock recovery :cyclops:

Looks like it's time for Windows, huh?
[Fairphone 1] ilikefruit:
So, yea. That's what I thought I did. Obviously, I did not that since I probably missed something small yet big like a / in the right place? After the fact the device would show up on adb devices but I could not connect to the shell. I guess because I bricked it! :angel:

What did it for me was the combination of SP flash tool and the battery/volume button. If there is another tool for Mac it would be awesome.
[Fairphone 1] benkxda:
Added and already sent.

You can find the recent and the current requests in this post.

Requests to Fairphone - (forwarding on Monday, 17 Feb 2014)
[Fairphone 1] simsalonaut:
Weird, it all went smoothly me: I just went back to the original recovery and back to CWM without any problems. Were you still able to boot into recovery?

In any case - since it worked, I updated the guides to include my unbrick procedure for OS X via ADB sideload, and the instructions on how to flash the recovery (to CWM or to restore the original image) under OS X, as well.

Thank you [MENTION=5684957]boondiordna[/MENTION] for your bluetooth contributions to the wiki!

I'm really looking forward to finding out how the Fairphone team will respond to this...
[Fairphone 1] boondiordna:
You are very welcome.

I would appreciate your help. The forum at Fairphone.com is not getting any easier to follow. And then there are the German and international inofficial web forum: can't possibly keep up.

Also: can anyone ask on the forums (and on twitter, and facebook!) for successful and unsuccessful BT connections? (Best: providing more device information than "my car audio" :rolleyes:). Best would be if they would contribute the stuff to the wiki themselves, but can't see this happening.

Yeah. I'm really frustrated by this. Our (and, to be fair: also Fairphone's) leverage is not even measurable in scale, I guess.

I would love to hear some clear words out of their mouths. Up until now, it's a black box what's happening behind the scenes. From what I gathered on other threads, MTK sources are a complete mess, and an update to KitKat seems unlikely under the circumstances.

I was really looking forward to an extended battery life. :sigh: A friend was running a Nexus and saying that KitKat is just great for his battery.
[Fairphone 1] joemier:
Job Vacancy: Software Dev and Support Engineer

Dear XDA,

You've been giving a lot of great input and comments over these last months. I'm happy to say our tech team is growing and we'd love it if someone directly from the XDA community would join the Fairphone Tech Team. You know we could use your help! :)

Read the job description for Fairphone Software Developer and Support Engineer:

http://www.fairphone.com/join-the-team/#software

*And please share in your own networks and circles!

Cheers,

Joe

FP Community Manager
[Fairphone 1] joemier:
Package 2: Linux Kernel Source Code

We've uploaded Package 2 of the Fairphone OS Source Code to our Software Downloads section.

Here's the direct download link of the package (169 MB; .gz file).

Cheers,

Joe

FP Community Manager
[Fairphone 1] MoreThanADev:
Hurray !! :victory::victory:

I 'm trying to compile right now !

Edit 1 : previously mising folder is now present !

Edit 2 : .config is now provided :fingers-crossed:

Edit 3 : compilation failed with this error :'(

...
CC fs/file_table.o
fs/file_table.c: In function 'get_empty_filp':
fs/file_table.c:36:20: error: inlining failed in call to always_inline 'fd_show_open_files': function body not available
fs/file_table.c:160:36: error: called from here
make[1]: *** [fs/file_table.o] Error 1
make: *** [fs] Error 2

is it just me ? or is it the source provided ? :(

Can anyone confirme this ?
[Fairphone 1] bwildenhain:
error while compiling

I get the same error message and didn't find time yet to investigate this issue.

Comparing with the old source file, Fairphone removed alps/bootable/bootloader/uboot/, I hope it'll be possible to install a new kernel without this without too much efford.
[Fairphone 1] bwildenhain:
gl_kal

If you remove "inline" from mediatek/kernel/drivers/combo/drv_wlan/mt6628/wlan/os/linux/include/gl_kal.h in line 1859, it continues compiling. Usually removing an "inline" shouldn't break a program, but it might be different when you are modifying possibly time critical kernel code.
[Fairphone 1] chrmhoffmann:
The kernel compiled fine for me (haven't tried running it though). I guess you had too new toolchain. Try this one:

export PATH=YOURANDROIDTREE/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-linux-androideabi-4.6/bin/:$PATH

TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=user TARGET_PRODUCT=ahong89_wet_jb2 MTK_ROOT_CUSTOM=../mediatek/custom/ make

Notice: I think that normally on MTK kernels you also have to set the TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT, otherwise pvr drivers won't load.

UPDATE: the kernel source doesn't boot when I tried to do a recovery. http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=4bv6fyWw

I had to strip a few things away to make the kernel smaller, but I don't think this is causing this... Hmmm.

UPDATE2: I tried to boot with original kernel settings and with, without TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT. It doesn't seem to boot. :(

Chris