Very very soon, I hope 2.4 won?t be beta anymore!!!
Follow up of this topic: @jftr Are there any Bluetooth related changes in Kitkat that could improve microphone quality? The microphone of the bluetooth headset transmits voice well with other phones, but not with the FP1 Kola Nut.
Kola Nut is Kitkat (Android 4.4). The merging I am busy with is from Kitkat 4.4.2 to Kitkat 4.4.4. It is unlikely that we get any improvements in that regard 
Oh man, two weeks after christmas holidays and I already seem to need a few days off again 
Thanks for correcting me. Of course, Kola Nut is 4.2 and Macadamia is Kitkat.
@Stefan, have you tried the headphones with the alpha release?
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They are @konstl’s. I don’t own bluetooth headphones. 
I’ll ask in the beta forum, if someone, who is running alpha Kitkat, has the same headphones.
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Hi,
The Update or Android to version 4.4 was announced for Sept. 2016. Could you please tell me the schedule for release. I’m waiting for it.
Regards
Clemens
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The last updates were added to the first post of this topic by @Douwe two weeks ago:
Hopefully that lengthier update that Douwe mentions will be released soon. If you want to take a look at some of the beta testing issues in the meantime, the #software:fp1-beta-testing category should be readable now.
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It would be nice if it comes soon now!!! It looks like the app-making people have given up Android 4.2.2 now 
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I just want to thank you for providing this information on FP1 software updates. Personally, I find it relevant, informative, and interesting. I think this type of communication is very important to build up and maintain trust among FP users.
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any news? It’s getting a bit urgent, I really like my fairphone (and I’m proud of it), but I can’t trust it anymore, he freezes, crashes etc, to often. I don’t have many apps, but I like the ones I have to work.
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It’s not going urgent! It is a MUST to publish a reliable plan now!
And let it be the first of all reliable plans in Fairphone history! Till now (and I am one of the first 10.185 supporters as engraved in my Fairphone) all schedule were worth nothing! I am really angry about this policy! I never imagined such deception!
My alternative is an iPhone quite soon, I just got my bonus for the year …
I am waiting for this update for more than 6 month when I got my new car. The hands-free-device does not work any more as the blue tooth connection breaks. So when I use my Fairphone in the car it’s illegal!
How can you blame Fairphone for that? Just don’t use the phone…
It is indeed annoying that KitKat is still not available. But If you look at the top of this topic you see they do a lot of effort to explain what is going on. Can you direct me to the website of any other electronics manufacturer who does this?
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… because Blue-Tooth is not brought to the latest standards! It worked in my former cars well, but world is evolving and a SUSTAINABLE phone has to evolve, too (this is in the promise that was given to us crowd-funders).
Yes, they are putting effort in development but they are not giving a reliable release date after they PROMISED a release in September 2016!
I myself worked as a software developer for more than 20 years. None of my customers would have accepted such a no-planning and dis-information!
Again: I am one of the first funders of Fairphone, I still like the idea, but as I want to be able to use my phone while I am driving my car (~60.000km/year) I need a date now, to decide whether I have to change to a more reliable solution for my purposes!
I need to use my phone while driving!
Take some responsibility and get a headphone with a mic. Works better then pointing fingers and pressing CAPS-LOCK.
And really… don’t drive and make phone calls. If you have an accident are you going to use this explanation and blame Fairphone? I don’t think the police will care much for your story…
ps. this is a community forum, so no matter how loud you shout, you won’t get a date now. So better start looking for a replacement.
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It’s a sad thing, but we all bought the phone the way it was when we bought it.
We are in no way entitled to receive any updates whatsoever. (Although it would be great if that were the case.)
So, all of you encourage me to act against sustainability one of the foremost values of Fairphone!
Thank you for this! (very ironic)
I don’t believe this was the demand Fairphone started with, when it raised it Crowd-Funding. Please note that I was very, very patient when I received my Fairphone 6 month AFTER I was promised it to be delivered (with a horrible update policy on delivery schedule!).
Now I am waiting again 6 month only to get a reliable update plan for an update that seems crucible to me to do a educated decision.
Regarding the “promised” I used: Please have a look at
This is a promise!
I think you linked to the wrong topic. That is not a promise, it is a question.
And it was answered by community members with, links and
I disagree!
Please read the title!
And this title alone demands a clear update schedule in this (more or less official threat) of Fairphone!
All of you refuse to give a clear clear schedule!
Don’t you see that this schedule is important to make an educated decision?
All love to the Fairphone!
You try to steal out of responsibility!
You are not giving me the info I need to do my decisions!
The topic you linked to doesn’t contain a single post by a Fairphone employee and the title was chosen by the person who asked the question.
We are the community. This is a community forum. We don’t work for Fairphone, so we don’t have the official schedule.
Also please try to make up your mind: Do you want Fairphone not break promises or do you want them to give you a promise about when the update will be released. Because those are the only two options.
You can either expect them to make promises they can’t keep or expect them to keep promises they didn’t make. You can’t have both.
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