Hi Lidwien/*,
I’ve got same problems as described by fdblvw, but I have installed the files opposite way: First I’ve installed the Storage Upgrader, then I installed KolaNut, both from the page Manually install Fairphone OS software update version Kola Nut 1.8.5 of tab old partition layout. This was my understanding how to do on this page (I used this page because the Fairphone Updater showed me my 1.6 is current software as of May 15th).
I can’t tell if the installation of the second file was successful in some way or not. It should’nt have succeeded because I understand now that this used the old partition layout. But was is really in the Storage Updater OTA file? My impression is that it already contains a full 1.85 installation but with Storage Updater. Is this correct?
Anyhow, when I tryed recently to install virtually anything (e.g. whatever ROM provided by Fairphone) manually I got either “Signature verification failed”, or “Installation failed” (manually inside Recovery console after). Using old partition layout files tell me in Recovery Console that installation aborted due to non-fitting layout, this I can expect, of course. No wipe cache, no data clean before another update has helped so far.
Now I came to some state where It turned out to be quite hard to install anything from SD card, because I could not figure out, in which directory the Recovery console looks for SD card install. Its option just shows me an empty directory. Therefore I have switched now to install via adb sideload.
Trying to install Google Apps via either notification, Widget or Fairphone Upgrade App starts downloading from within Fairphone Upgrader App, then it asks to reboot, the green Android looks like it would install something, but in the end and after rebooting once more nothing obvious happened, Google Apps and Play Store are not installed.
Fairphone Updater software still tells me that 1.85 is installed, but in contrary to the description of Fairphone the telephone status still shows me the generic number 0123456789ABCDEF, system superuser has no entry.
How can I exactly identify which Fairphone version I have really installed (I don’t trust graphical program results much), why does Fairphone system / upgrade do not show up in system settings -> Superuser unlike in v1.6. And how I could manually install Google Apps into the system bypassing the graphical Updater?
My impression is that my issues may have same reason as fdblvw issues and same as Jonathan_Schwankenso in his forum post Google Apps can’t be reinstalled.