If I had more than one phone, I’d definitely try!
I don’t think this ROM is currently meant to be better than FP OS. It’s part of a valiant attempt at figuring out how to implement an OS update. There seems to be some interest from Fairphone devs as well, so who knows, this may bring an official update a tiny bit closer. If quoted question above is you wondering whether you personally should bother installing: if you have to ask, probably not.
Thank you chrmhoffmann!!!
So BT does not work?
GPS works, but no A-GPS?
Is this correct?
I downloaded the files yesterday but the counters remained to 1 so I suppose there are many more downloads than the counters actually say 
I hope to try it today or tomorrow, thank you for your precious work
Bye!
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There seems to be some interest from Fairphone devs as well, so who knows, this may bring an official update a tiny bit closer.[/quote]
Yeah that sounds like a probable thing. Would be interesting to see a fully functional 4.4 update.
[quote=“Johannes, post:12, topic:10788”]
If quoted question above is you wondering whether you personally should bother installing: if you have to ask, probably not.[/quote]
Well, to be honest, to me it’s pretty clear there’s no benefits for me to install this ROM, but a lot of other people seem to immediately jump on the possibility of installing this on their phones and I wasn’t sure what’s in it for them?
I have not installed it yet because I prefer to build the ROM myself and so far I have not understood what sources/build chain was used. This comes to mind:
Definitely software. If this problem was solved it would be a real game changer for a lot of people who’d like to use Bluetooth LE gadgets / Android Wear.
But:
To be a bit more precise:
Chris
Hi. So it’s based on newer “found” libbluetooth_mtk.so & libbluetoothem_mtk.so bin blobs I assume? Does the 4.4 BT debugging (packet logging) work with those? Thanks!
BT debugging has always worked on stock FP1 but not the standard way. It needs to be enabled via engineer mode.
Hi! Installed yesterday night and got up & running only this morning after several problems with restoring my backups and/or deleting data…some of them my faults to be honest 
I confirm I have no problems with the following services/devices:
)I didn’t try yet WIFI and Bluetooth because had no time to test them, I’ll report something tonight or tomorrow morning.
Again thank you very much @chrmhoffmann for your great work
I see, I never tried that but I see them in “Secret Codes”.
Regarding the " … what’s in it for them?" question I wanted to clarify if the used BT software in the ROM is newer, so that maybe some of the problems with BT could be fixed. As far as I see it, there are two BT “stacks” the one made by MTK and the one Android is mainly using. Maybe there is some progress in the BT area with the new ROM from chrmhoffmann if it uses newer MTK libs?
Does that mean you received blobs from Fairphone after they had licensed everything? Apparently Fairphone itself is currently busy with getting FP2 out of the door so it would be awesome to hear that them having aquired the licenses at least helps community (in this case you) to continue working on builds.
BTW: I had asked ages ago in the CM for FP1 thread over at xda-devs whether there is anything one could help you with. I would be happy to provide my humble debugging and programming experience.
Hello Chris,
Testing 4.4.2 so far is a real joy. GPS, Bluetooth, Dialing and 3G all work so there is not much stopping me from trying it for a longer while. In terms of Bluetooth I tested connecting to a headset and connecting to a BT keyboard/mouse combo.
I installed the FairphoneHome apk to get more of the Fairphone feeling and so far things work quite nicely.
The biggest problem so far is visible in the browser where due to a misconfiguration (DPI settings?) I cannot click the accept/reject location sharing when the browser is requesting this.
I also would like the browser startup page to have a little cleanup but this is really details. Next up we will try running CTS/Security tests and compare that to the official FP1 release.
Thanks for the hard work!
@keesj: where did you get the FairphoneHome apk? Did you grab it from the last 1.8.7 OTA zip file?
I ask this because the first time I started the phone after flashing the KK image, it blocked during startup by switching continuously between the “Android” splash animation and the “starting” image of the Fairphone launcher (don’t know why given that I supposed it would be wiped away from system partition), so I thought the launcher was incompatible with KK.
After this I wiped the /data partition and then I was able to start the system, but I ended up with the Launcher3 Android standard launcher. So can you confirm installing the Fairphone Launcher (or recovering from a TB backup) will be feasible?
Thank you very much, bye!
What I was wondering: Is it really necessary to wipe the data partition? Shouldn’t an Android update only override system files (like a FP OS update)?
thanks @chrmhoffmann!!
As far as I have no idea what’s the meaning of flashing a rom, I will wait a little before trying.
But it seams that I will not need to buy another phone to use an android watch.
If you want to get the fairphone home apk I suggest you do the following:
goto https://fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201189497-Fairphone-OS-multiple-versions-
Download FP1U and FP1 with upgraded partition layout (1.8.7) and get the FairphoneHome.apk from the system/apps folder of the zip. While the code is open source I did not find a public repository with the most recent code.
This is the same thing I thought, so my first try was simply flashing the image and restart, but it didn’t start the home, looping between the two splash screens as written previously. After this I wiped the /data partition and it started well but after restoring some settings and apps from a TB backup (luckily I backup everything some days ago!) the phone app became crashing cotinuously deregistering both SIMs every 5 seconds (I had to put the phone in flight mode to be able to use it); I don’t remember what caused the crashes, my main suspects are some system settings and xposed framework, but I hadn’t he time to investigate deeper.
Bye 
Please, nobody should start flashing any experimental builds like this without having backed up everything that is not replaceable. I even backup everything each time I update using official channels.
