at my Fairphone 1 the message “error downloading config file” keeps popping up on a regular Basis.
How bad is that or what can I do against it?
Do have to reset the phone completely?
I have to admit that I did some adjustments to hide the Status of the phone to be rooted.
First, I had Xposed Framework and Root Cloak installed.
Now, I have uninstalled those apps and have installed Cydia Substrate and Root Cloak Plus instead.
However, I did that already some time ago, so no clue if this has to do with it.
It is a notification, white text in a dark text box at the bottom of the screen, no buttons.
It looks similar like when e.g. super user is granted from the app Droidwall
An alternative strategy is to just not have the updater running, as there won’t be any updates for the FP1 anyway. I stopped it from starting using autostarts (now gone from F-droid, unfortunately), and haven’t had adverse effects. Based on that, my expectation is that if you can disable the app altogether it shouldn’t cause any issues. If you have adb installed on your computer, and usb debugging activated on the phone, connect the phone and on the computer do:
