About the Alpha candidate of Fairphone OS Macadamia 1.9.9-pre3
- This is for testing only.
- It is still unfinished and potentially unstable and going back to Kola Nut 1.8.7 is not possible without wiping the phone
- The new version includes a new launcher. That means that shortcuts and widgets on the home screen are not accessible in the default launcher of the new release.
- This update only works for phones with a unified partition layout (FP1U or FP1 after applying the unified partition layout upgrader).
- This update is provided as is.
- Do not call customer support about issues with this alpha release. Report all problems here in the forum where our developers hang out.
Update instructions
If you have installed a previous alpha release already, any update will be delivered through Fairphone Updater.
Download link:
Macadamia 1.9.9-pre3 OTA (MD5: 1519c4bb01918d1fef80e849f31d4fa1
)
NOTE: This force flashes recovery. Custom recoveries will be replaced. You can flash your custom recovery again after the update.
- Backup
- Charge to 80%
- Download the OTA package to your phone.
- Open the file with FileManager (opening it from Downloads does not work)
- Now you should either see the Fairphone Updater or you are prompted to select what app to open it with: Choose Fairphone Updater
- Wait until the updater is done with preparations and click Restart
- Wait patiently for a few minutes.
- Enjoy but beware of the rough edges.
Optional step: Install Google Apps through Fairphone Updater (MD5: 361061ecec0cd9203a0b66a6333e1b7d
).
Bug reporting procedure
If you encounter any problems with this alpha release, please don’t contact customer support but directly contact our developers here in the beta-testing forum.
- Please post in https://forum.fairphone.com/c/software/beta-testing and tag with #kitkat
- In case of bugs please provide the following information:
- Exact version you are running (there might be more alpha releases)
- What are the steps to reproduce the failure?
- What did you try to achieve?
- What happened instead?
- Kernel log and logcat from when the bug happened are greatly appreciated.
- Enable USB debugging
- Connect your phone to your computer.
- Open a terminal/shell/commandline and run
adb bugreport > bugreport.txt
- Supply us with
bugreport.txt
via beta@fairphone.com
You can also get Kernel and Android logs with adb
or with MTKLogger.
Downgrade instructions (back to Kola Nut 1.8.7)
-> This will erase all data on your Fairphone 1! <-
In order to go back to version 1.8.7 (Android 4.2 Jellybean) follow these steps (or install manually as described below.
- Backup any data.
- Charge to 80%.
- Open the Updater app
- Press on ENTER ADVANCED MODE
- Select ANDROID FOR FAIRPHONE
- Under Older versions select FAIRPHONE KOLA NUT 1.8.7 and follow the instructions.
You can also apply the downgrade manually. You’ll probably notice that they are virtually the same as when updating except for the different OTA package.
Download link: Kola Nut 1.8.7.zip
MD5: 14b573c82c945fdb6a4a587646d0e248
- Backup any data.
- Charge to 80%.
- Download the OTA package to your phone (or download it to your computer and copy it to your phone via USB)
- Open Downloads (or File Manager in case you’ve copied the file from your computer) and select the file
- If you are prompted what app to use for opening the update, select Fairphone Updater
- Wait until the Restart button is enabled and press it
- Wait for a bit until the phone reboots
- Your phone is now back on Fairphone OS Kola Nut 1.8.7 (Android 4.2 Jellybean) and all your data is deleted