Install Fails in normal and advanced Mode: I always get a Dead Android with Message “Fehler” (Error). No Error Number at all. Different WLAN (at home and at Work). Had to switch off by pressing 10 seconds Power Button (or waiting about 2 Minutes then the Phone starts by itself). I really don’t know why updates fail since Androis 6 (had also massive Problems when installing Androis 6). I Think i just wait till someone find a fix, today i don’t have time to test more.
Sorry to hear that you had that situation again.
As I said, it is not fixed in this update, beta-testers will see the fix in a couple of weeks.
It does not make the bootlooping-after-disabling-Google-App behaviour worse, it just did not change it. The same restrictions from 17.04.8 still apply.
If you decide to disable a system app, things might break as Android informs you.
Yes, it has been acknowledged with the April update but not everything can be fixed right away - we can only do so much at once.
Our primary focus is on monthly security patches. Whatever we have time to integrate in, we do. I am sorry you had yet the same problem though.
If you are talking about the download time, then it depends on your connection speed.
If you update from Android 5 (Fairphone OS 1.11 or Fairphone OS 1.13), the update file is about 500MiB.
If you update from Android 6 (Fairphone OS 17.04), the update file is about 200MiB.
Fairphone 2 cannot update to 17.05.2. Phone downloads the update, than restarts and after a short while gives an error message. I have to take out the battery in order to restart the phone. What can I do?
I just upgraded to this new release and now I’m having wild ghost-touch issues. Not the slightly annoying kind, where it would jump all over the screen while touching/dragging something (I had those too, in the beginning). But the kind where it basically seems to trigger/react to random touch events, although I’m not even touching the screen. I think the FP1 used to have a similar problem? Unlocking my SIM was an adventure…
Any ideas as to why this might happen and how to fix it?
Hi @Gerd
i have the same Problem with the Fairphone Update, ist completely impossible. Just dead Android after reboot (see my message above). No Error number, just “Error”.
Everything i Tried fails with Dead Android
I tried several different installations nothing helps
Normal Install -> Dead Android
Advanced Mode -> Dead Andoid
Download full version (FP2-gms-17.05.2-ota-from-1.13.0.zip) -> Dead Android
Reinstall old Version (FP2-gms-17.04.8-ota-from-1.13.0.zip) -> Dead Andoid
Clear Fairphone Updater Cache & Data -> Again Dead Andoid
As I am not willing to reset my phone to factory default (the Working setup with VPN and everything else took me more than one day)i will probably stick with my initial Marshmallow version. I used my old xperia mini pro 4 years without security updates so i can live with that but i am a bit disappointed. The update Problem starts with Android 6 (also had massive Problems there). I never had the Phone rooted and installed every Update since i got my Fairphone (one of the first 17418).
If Someone find a solution i will try again but i don’t have the time to spend so much hours to get my phone working. I just want to use it.
Greetings Heinz
Is there a reason why the update doesn’t include the latest Android Security Patch level? My phone says it is up to 1st May 2017 when the latest issue is 5th May 2017 which is what I have on another device.
The announcements point out that “2017-05-01” is the string for the “Partial security patch level” while “2017-05-05” stands for the “Complete security patch level”. I do not know either why…