I found them. Is there a way to rearrange what goes in Most Used?
@keesj: please have a look at my post about the UnifiedStorageUpdater with v1.8
here and here. Any comments?
The phone will not leave the community, the person who convinced me to buy a fairphone will tomorrow own it and I will have his smartie which is simply the more expensive version of the one I had before.
Already I need the smartphone for work. On top of that I have the most important meeting of the year this afternoon, the final submission was in a digital safe house accessible only by registered devices, the sys admin is unexplicably unreachable, I need to reassemble the whole file manually from the beta draft, at the same time I need to get the fairphone to work. By this time I’ve stayed in the office since 5, it’s now 3 in the morning… etc.
I can’t afford that kind of problem. Why did I update? Was it foolish? Microsoft and SAP keep updating all the time, it always works, a few small five-minutes niggles from time to time, that’s it. If I was trying to break into the mobile phone market, I’d follow that example, NOT issue an update that is half-baked.
I finally managed to get the file cobbled together, I have also access to the cloud again with this phone, my nerves are wreckted for days, I have no use for the aggravation. I am extremely peeved off at the undiluted amateurism of the whole thing.
A good thing now they still haven’t fixed their pay-per-bank issue, that saved us the purchase of two more fairies.
If one does noeed this phone for work and has a spare one, this is one beautiful piece of hardware (except the drop case which I had remade immediately it was so ugly). Unfortunately its software and case handling is complete and utter "*ç%&.
I love the hardware, I am so sorry to see it go. I hate everything else about, I’m so glad to see that go.
Today I will live on a truckload black coffee. Tonight, if I don’t drop dead into my bed, I will kill my punching bag to become normal again.
You are so right, (one should know from past experience that they are not to be taken seriously (yet?) and) therefore wait a few days before updating. But my mind was on the meeting, I haven’t had an update problem since the early WinXP, it was a grey winter’s day followed by a dark evening in front of my screen.
I also noted in passing that the five-screen desktop has been replaced by an abomination. Ok, if they like it, but at least give me a choice. I had 30+ apps in 7 folders on three screens, power control on the last, the first one was cooly empty, only showing the marble wallpaper. Had taken us hours to get that set up. It was the best desktop I ever had. Gone. For no reason at all, the exact same mistake so many software companies do, because, contrary to my profession where you don’t mess with it when it works, fairphone seems to be of the opinion, if it works, break it. So angry.
Yep, you understand that right, I leave off part of the steam that is still in my system from this sleepless night. But I’m already now at the stage where I don’t swear and smash things anymore.
This is my final word in this sorry affair.
Thanks for your message, it’s most appreciated, all the best and here’s hoping they will get it sorted.
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I absolutely second your input. Why to pretend anything? Fairphone has Android 4.2.2 - point. To pretend anything is not “fair”.
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@jempix I hope you recover soon!
Google play app and widget are gone too… can’t even re-install that.
Software deleted bunch of my customizations
My inactivity-sleep indicator app is not working anymore
Overall, I wonder if this update was tested in any way before release???
I asked this here and it turns out that it was a very special test… Very disappointed.
@Manuel_V we did quite some testing and also documented the fact that there was a new launcher (resulting in an empty startup screen). What is inactivity-sleep function?
Sorry, “quite some” is not enough - as it turns out now!
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So once again, your users are your test-team 
First of all: the software reverted BY ITSELF from 1.8 back to 1.6… There was no error, no message no warning, it just flipped back after installing 1.8
The Google play store AND the underlying services are disabled by the updater itself (not by v1.8 per se) … the only way to re-enable them is to manually download the APK file for the google play and afterwards re-install the google play services.
The link on how to do this is here: http://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-install-google-play-store-312812/
I’m glad to be on 1.6 again… and I’ll stay there for now. It’s totally unacceptable that one of the main components of and Android phone (the google play services in this case) is BROKEN by your update (let alone the keyboard, lockscreen and so on…)
This item should have been a so-called show-stopper during your testing process.
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“we did quite some testing”
What you did, it was tested by all of you more or less, to see if it works well. And it did so perfectly. Now, since you are a small company you can’t of course run a big public test but your own testing went flawlessly.
This is a known and well-documented testing error. Even Microsof fell for it big time when they launched Win7 and 8, an error they will try to avoid according to my tecchie with win 9.
Your test procedure is not working because you are looking at your software as hard as a sniper, i.e. one eye covered for precision.
Unfortunately this kills depth of vision.
Etc.
Why do I bother? I continue to support FP actively my way although I will wait another 18 months before re-considering its professional use.
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What is inactivity-sleep function?
You should ask @keesj - not me.
Hi,
We will probably will need to improve the testing procedure and possibly also should get a beta tester group. We did post on xda 28th November 2014 http://forum.xda-developers.com/fairphone/general/fairphone-os-1-8-release-canditate-t2955799 to get more feedback.
On of the bigger problem we have is the gapps installation that is preventing us from doing smaller releases at this point because every release causes so much trouble to our users.
Should get a beta tester group" - how to understand this? There was any beta tester group so far?
And why did you announce the release candidate version in an other forum and not here?
Sorry, very very strange.
First and foremost: I am for the most part content with the update!
One thing that I had not considered before was that I had just kept updated to the same version over and over - when I started the updater, it showed ‘Cancel’ or ‘Install’ for an old version. Checked the new tutorial - which worked well! - and realised that I should probably press ‘Cancel’. Managed to perform the update and to reinstall Google Apps, the latter after opening and closing Fairphone Updater as someone in the forum mentioned.
The largest problem I have is that the side-swipe for the menu does not work as smoothly as before - I accidentally move an icon or my calendar widget instead. Maybe a longer time before icons/widgets detatch would do the trick?
Beside from that, I can only agree that the larger icons look blurry and that an explanation on how to regain multiple pages would be nice. The new launcher/old menu-button works and certainly looks nice!
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Hello @tin you are right we normally only have internal testing and validate bug fixes with users who reported them. The XDA community has experienced / passionate developers who are used to doing things like a recovery so that seams like a good match for beta testing!
But right now we need to concentrate on resolving issues with 1.8 and I would like you to restart that discussion about where and how to improve the QA later on if possible.
I’ve updated to 1.8 and I think it’s good to note that everything went fine. It took an hour, or an hour and a half, to get everything up and running again (including setting up homescreens and the like, excluding time spent on the forum).
This is how it happened:
Download update. Wait to let it install. Install Gapps (while ignoring all the error messages and pop ups). Let it reboot and install again. Check wifi (was automatic). Log in with Google account (perhaps this occurred after the first reboot? I’m not sure). Restore backup for messages and music (the rest will be covered by Google and SD card). Restore backup for apps from SD card (that took a long time). Set up widgets and apps on homescreens. Check apps to see things are working. Post this message.
The bigger icons don’t really bother me. It does take up a bit more vertical space on the home screen (which is not necessary because there is still room to spare between different items). I have the same home screen set up as I had before, except for the digital clock: I’ve had to downside that widget a bit, which had the effect of removing the date below the time.
I’m very glad that the phone no longer has the habit of misinterpreting taps as attempted scrolls/swipes! Thanks a lot for that.
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I think the first thing would be to create a beta test group - closed or better open (to be and to stay “fair”). Now it turns out that all users are beta tester and are reporting problems. I my opinion not really a “fair” situation - or this “new” version 1.8 had to be announced as a BETA version.
I opened the Fairphone Updater, selected [Install New Version] and then [Download and Update], but it said “Error downloading Hazelnut Fairphone”. It took a while to figure out, but the solution was to click the Fairphone logo, and then choosing Kola Nut from the list.