Hi,
Can you tell me in which thread can i find this answer?
Thanks
@albertako the fix has already been released:
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Well, Paul, your comment this is the answer for everybody who is not yet affected, who want but have not run Storage Upgrader so far. It is good to say this again, to promote that now there are working upgrades.
The second sentence (“we are still working on solution”) is for those who have already upgraded and stuck in some or another loop. And I have answered this part to Lisa, because she has done the storage upgrade and cannot put any other OS and GApps, like me. Better to wait for us, until Fairphone releases a fix, unless someone is techical-affin and wants to try out somewhat risky way.
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This Solution worked for me, there where just these differences: after installing the 1.6 image I had to reboot before the fairphone updater recognized that there is an update. And after the following online update there was another after one more reboot (both to 1.8.5…). After this I installed the Google Apps and it was successful.
I still hope there will be a more simple solution for other users who aren´t able to do all these steps. And I hope we all can have more trust in official updates nevertheless these are online or manually. Because I onliy did what fairphone officially wrote before and this is what caused this problem… 
But for me it is solved - thanks a lot.
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I have a problem reinstalling Google Apps after update to Kola Nut 1.8.5. Here’s what I’ve done:
- Successfully updated from Kola Nut 1.8 to Kola Nut 1.8.5
- Ran Kola Nut 1.8.5 Storage Upgrader (hadn’t previously done so under Chery (1.6.)
- Successfully rebooted phone
- Followed instructions to re-install Google Apps (tried both through widget as well as Fairphone Updater)
- Restarted my phone (saw system updating screen etc)
- After restarting my phone, no Google Apps are installed. Instead I am reminded again to install them.
I’ve tried installing the Google Apps for at least 10 times now. Nothing seems to work. Can anyone help me? Many thanks in advance.
Moritz
When did you do step 2?
Before or after Rick posted this (May 22, around 13:00):
It was last weekend, so before Rick’s post you are referring to.
Ok then you have options:
- wait for the solution the fairphone team is still working on
- contact support, maybe they can work out an individual solution for you
- try this solution at your own risk.
But be aware: 2 people already screwed up their phones trying this solution.
So, the problem I described is something that’s known and on the radar? I have no problem waiting for an ‘official’ solution by the FP team.
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Yes it is. And I think waiting for the official solution is a wise decision.
Let’s all hope it comes soon. 
OK cool. Great news. Luckily I have a phone I can fall back on, so not exactly in a rush. Even thought, using my FP is of course the preferred option 
Thanks for the super fast reply, by the way, on a SUNDAY!
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Any news on this? Google services are quite important for catching your location (scary anyhow)…
I was just asking the same question in the staff category of the forum but I guess at 22:00 on a holiday they won’t answer.
But if you are uncomfortable using Google services for location it might be a good idea to look into µg Unified Nlp and Free Location Databases.
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Thank you, will look in this later on
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Hi Paul,
what I always wanted to know: Do they work with GApps installed? I mean, you suppose to have other µg Nlp services installed, but I dont use Google location services anyway. Can I just override these µg with the one from F-Droid?
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I found a good solution for me which I want to share with you. Of course, I cannot take any responsibility if you follow my instructions. Use at your own risk, you are yourself fully responsible for your phone.
I came from 1.6 with old partition layout and have installed 1.8.5 Storage Updater without first installing 1.8.5. Here I stuck with old Recovery console which then could not find any content for /sdcard and with non-working GApps (first to mention Google Play, but all other Google services are practically affected due to this).
I usually work on Linux, so I wanted to find something without requiring Windows. All I needed was USB cable which connected my Fairphone to my Computer, and ADB, which you can find as part of the Android SDK available from Google working on any both Windows and Linux. On Linux, there are preconfigured Packages available for e.g. Debian from its repository.
Fairphone has integrated the 1.8.5 Recovery console in the new Storage_Upgrader_1.8.5 in the main directory as image file recovery.img. This makes it very simple to install:
- Download & Unzip FP1-Fairphone_OS_v1_8_5_Partition_upgrade_2015-05-12.zip to your harddrive
- Copy the recovery to the device: adb push recovery.img /sdcard/
- Run Shell into device: adb shell (if it doesn’t find your device you turn on “USB-Debugging” in Settings->Developer options)
- Become root inside adb: su
- Go to location of your image file: cd /storage/sdcard0/
- Flash recovery image: dd if=recovery.img of=/dev/recovery
- Exit adb shell: exit
Now you have a working recovery console which detects your sdcard and can install contents from it. I continued via adb, which is also working nicely. Since GApps need to work out I have now continued installing 1.8.5 for unified storage. This file contains patches for making GApps work again (same as the new Storage Upgrader, but I cannot run the whole Upgrader package any more, and I was unsure how to run the patch):
- Download FP1-Fairphone_OS_v1_8_5_OTA_2015-05-07.zip for FP1U - Mid-2014 (2nd batch) & FP1 with unified storage
- Reboot into Recovery (Power button + Volume up), press power button to enter menu, select “apply update from adb”
- Flash new Fairphone OS via adb: adb sideload FP1-Fairphone_OS_v1_8_5_OTA_2015-05-07.zip
- After copying the OS to the device the recovery console will automagically start installing it. The progress bar will take a while to proceed from around 30% till 70%.
- I have unzipped the USB cable when flashing was finished. The recovery showed its main menu and I chose: “reboot system now”
My Apps which I have installed from F-Droid in the meanwhile remained existing and working, now I could proceed with installing GApps with the installer provided by Fairphone.
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Great, this worked for me!
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Good question. There is actually a version of µg Nlp for GAPPS devices on F-Droid but nobody could confirm that they work yet. (How would one know if Google provides the location anyway.)
But I suppose it’s also somehow possible to uninstall Google’s NLP and then install the GAPPS-free legacy version.
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I just tried µg Nlp for GAPPS devices on F-Droid and it works without the GAPPS installed. My backend is from mozilla.
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