Ok. I deleted some apps, and have 2.2 GB free at this point, and I have still the same issue. Obviously, it’s not a matter of space.
Then I’d assume it’s a matter of partitions. The whole process looks much more painful…
The Update from 1.8 to 1.8.5 works very smooth.
Everything is fine (except the new screen layout, and the new arrangement ot the icons (very small indeed)).
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Well do you have a unified partition or the original FP1 “internal storage” and “phone storage”. Or even a custom setup like @daveboschma ?
Obviously the partition that the update uses has to have enough space, deleting apps on another one won’t help.
Did you in the past repartitioned the storage layout manually?
yes, as mentioned in a post above, I used one of the early solutions. I have a 4GB partition, and another one with all the rest.
I’m starting to fear that the way forward is full backup -> reset to factory settings -> start from there
other options?
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If it was a matter of space, deleting apps would help. But evidently, it’s not. As mentioned in my first post, I have “internal storage” (4GB) and “phone storage” the rest, re-partitioned with one of the early fixes. That is probably the problem.
The widget can indeed stay grey sometimes although you are connected to Wi-Fi as always (right?). This bug can be solved by updating an (any) app in the Google App store.
I installed the update, and I guess it worked out okay. But all my contacts dissapeared. Why?
If they are stored in the cloud wait a while for Google to synch them.
though a little worried about the consequences (the update to 1.6 cost me a lot of time and trouble) many of your experiences till now encouraged me to update to 1.8.5 too. I followed the digital manual Fairphone provided. Most steps were correct, sometimes something else showed up, but nothing I couldn’t handle.
One thing worried me. I clicked the widget to install GPlaystore, but at the same time the top of my screen said it was already downloading automatically. So I opened the message screen and waited till it was ready. After finishing downloading nothing happened. So I went back to the FpUpdater, to Install from here. After this download a message showed it could not find the .zip-file (file name had “-0” behind it, so second download probably renamed the file). I tried again. And again. About the third time GPlay installed itself.
So may be helpful for future downloaders of GPlay: let FpUpdater do the job, don’t follow the automatic download. Don’t know why. Good luck.
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Are you sure it wasn’t just a prompt to download/install the play store. Many Fairphone Users don’t use/install Google Apps and nobody ever mentioned that Google Apps installed by themselves.
Some showed up now, but not all of them. Maybe a third.
Did you reinstall the app store on your phone yet?
After doing this add your Google account again and wait for your phone to sync your contacts from the cloud.
Did you use multiple Google accounts on your phone?
Or maybe they were saved on your SIM card? Sometimes the small processor inside SIM cards can get stuck and not load all the contacts, usually rebooting your phone a couple of times helps solve this.
Restart the Phone, make sure you have a good connection to the interwebz and wait a bit longer.
If you played around with the partitioning yourself; yes, it is probably causing the issue your are experiencing. It is an unofficial way and we don’t support it.
You can try however to download the storage upgrader 1.8.5 manually and install it using sideload.
If that doesn’t work, try this:
- Download Storage Upgrader
- Unzip and copy cp /system/bin/fs_upgrade.bin to /mnt/sdcard/adb push system/bin/fs_upgrade.bin /mnt/sdcard/
- As root run cp /mnt/sdcard/fs_upgrade.bin /proc/sd_upgrade
- echo “–wipe_data” > /cache/recovery/command
- Reboot recovery
- Reboot recovery again and adb sideload 1.8.5 partition upgrader (to
replace the recovery)
These are basically the only options. Maybe one of our devs @keesj can help out further if it doesn’t work.
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after everything is installed, the screens were empty, so I put my widgets in again. Not happy, but ok. Then I found out the old 5-part-screen is back again, the dots in the bottom disappeared, and I can only collide only some specific widgets in the same space, but quite a lot refuse to share a space. These changes were not in the specs of the update, and I would have liked them to know.
I was happy with the option to put more widgets toghether on a single screen, and to keep together comparable widgets (GMaps&Navigation for instance). Well, I’get used to this again.
The official changelog only describes changes between 1.6 and 1.8.5 because 1.8 was withdrawn and is no longer an “official os version”. But it was mentioned numerous times that v2 launcher will not be in the new OS versions anymore.
Here is the discussion on how to get it back.
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Hello, URGENT PROBLEM
after the not working automatic update, the manual one bricked my partition and is not available anymore from recovery (not even via ADB).
Do you know an UPDATED or OFFICIAL guide to force a ROM flash?
Thanks.