Upgrade worked flawlessly 
Thanks for all your work on this ROM
Pete
I also have installed 0.9.5 and it works good!
However, I think that the App-Switcher is much slower than with the official Fairphone OS. I searched a bit in the internet and found that it could be the Swap. The original Fairphone OS has no Swap but this rom has 500 MB Swap (You can see that with the app âOS Monitorâ).
Is this true?
If yes: any idea how to disable the Swap?
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Dear all,
Did anybody succeed in using the Estimote BT LE beacons with the 4.4.4 ROM? I experience the same problems as with Fitbit activity tracker: the device is visible in the list of Bluetooth devices, but the app does not recognize/ find them.
Apart from connecting to Bluetooth LE devices, the ROM works very well for me. Unfortunately, the BT LE functionality is one of the main reasons for me to use Android 4.4.4.
Michel
Hi Michel
Sadly I think this is a problem with the BT LE stack in the ROM. I have experienced similar problems with my Garmin VivoActive which also uses BT LE to connect to the phone. Sometimes it will connect, but not reliably, and, if it does manage to connect, the connection gets dropped after only a few minutes, and automatic reconnections donât work.
Iâve kept the ROM as the other stuff makes it very much worth having IMHO, and I can sync with my Garmin via a laptop rather than the phone.
Sorry I donât have good news for you.
Pete
Yes, I also have the feeling that the âhardwareâ is somehow around, but that there is a problem with the software layer. According to the info I found, BT LE should work âsomehowâ with both phones. But maybe Iâm reading it the wrong way. Iâm sure there is a way to debug this somehow, if you have the right tools. I think MTK/Android is not using the standard stack anymore. So I guess all we can do is wait for the last MTK FP1 release from FP.
Hi all,
Just installed the ROM two days ago, thanks @chrmhoffmann.
Thanks @fp1_wo_sw_updates for the HOWTO. Eventually I can add a section on how to do it WITHOUT a working USB port (dead on my FP1), using adb over wi-fi.
Overall the ROM sounds good but I have two minor problems:
a) I use the two SIM cards (private/pro) and need to be able to send SMS with both of them. The stock messaging app before the 4.4.4 ROM was dealing it correctly asking with SIM card to use before sending an SMS. And I was using Textra, more fun, for my private SMS. Here comes my problem: the 4.4.4 ROMâs stock messaging app (1) needs to be the default messaging app exclusively, and (2) doesnât bother with dual SIM. Any hint?
b) I was using Gmail with multiples accounts, among them my pro emails directly in gmail through the Google add-on âExchange servicesâ. It does not work anymore : (1) the 4.4.4 ROM comes with an older version of Exchanges services which is not detected by the current gmail version, (2) I canât succeed to connect to my pro email account with a newer âExchange servicesâ add-on. I fixed the matter by installing the Outlook app, which works fine, but it was not (at all) my first intent! 
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This would be cool, even for other purposes, as there are quite a few FP1s without working USB port.
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Feel free to do so!
The tender FP1 usb port is very very annoying and it still makes me angry that this wasnât fixed for the replacement boards or FP1U. I have several other devices with usb ports soldered directly to the board I use daily and they still work. On a phone this part should be very solid or very easy replaceable. Also itâs very sad that FP is not publishing any numbers to quantify this problem. Together with missing software it totally kills the longevity of the FP1.
If I recall correctly MTK modified the google apps to make them work for dual sim. Can you try using the apks from the official FP1 rom? Check the description for the launcher, maybe the same will work for other apps as well. But this is just a guess.
You should be able to use IMAP with Google and multiple accounts, I think. But maybe I misunderstand your private/pro setup. I would try to avoid exchange or only use it with the Outlook app for the one account you really need to use it with. IMAP should work out of the box with most other applications.
Did you also flash current google apps?
I am using Exchange without any problems with the standard E-Mail app (not the gmail app).
Oh yes, I forgot to mention the cursed opengapps 
There is a tiny hint for them in the howto.
I flashed the last version of nano gapps, but itâs a hint. Exchange services is not part of the nano package and maybe the version I added is not fully compatible? I will investigate.
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Nice idea, but I canât see any âMessaging.apkâ in FP1-Fairphone_OS_v1_8_7_OTA_2015081400.zip. Furthermore, I donât remember any âDefaut SMS appâ entry in the âWireless & networksâ system settings. I guess it came with 4.4.4?
Sure, but my company uses Office365 and Iâm comdemned to follow the rule and use Exchange. I am just seeking a solution to have it in Gmail beside my other email accounts.
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In FP1-Fairphone_OS_v1_8_7_OTA_2015081400.zip I saw a
./system/app/Exchange2.apk
But I have no clue what this apk is doing. Using a full âopengappsâ release will maybe work even better. But I think the dual sim functionality is mostly MTK work. But I donât remember anymore. Searching the forum might help.
I donât know what packages are part of what zip that I flashed. But I am using the latest version of this ROM with opengapps nano and I can successfully access an Exchange Server 2010. It works when adding the account via the E-Mail app or the settings --> accounts. I can sync e-mails, contacts and calendars.
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I tried again: it does not work even for the Email app coming with the ROM. I get an error like âCanât connect to the serverâ. I guess itâs due to a trick with Office365 compared to a company âlocalâ Exchange server. One thing I noticed: when adding an account via Settings menu I donât have an âExchangeâ option: I assume itâs the âCorporateâ option.
On Gmail side, with just the nano package added to the ROM, I canât even get an âExchangeâ option when adding a new account. I tried also with IMAP and POP settings but got the same kind of âCanât connect to the serverâ error.
Done! Feel free to edit it if (I probably missed some formatting trick).
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I put some explanations in the most recent â[FP1] USB connection not workingâ thread.
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When I open the add account dialogue in the settings it looks like this:
But maybe there are differences depending on the system language.
This value is used in various places. Iâve discovered:
adb shell: this is the hostname (eg.shell@ahong89_wet_jb2:/ $)- Spotify
- MTP
It seems to be set in /system/build.prop:
shell@ahong89_wet_jb2:/ $ grep ahong89_wet_jb2 /system/build.prop
ro.product.model=ahong89_wet_jb2
ro.product.name=ahong89_wet_jb2
ro.product.device=ahong89_wet_jb2
ro.product.board=ahong89_wet_jb2
ro.build.product=ahong89_wet_jb2
ro.build.description=ahong89_wet_jb2-userdebug 4.4.4 KTU84Q eng.chris.1457550852 test-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=alps/ahong89_wet_jb2/ahong89_wet_jb2:4.4.4/KTU84Q/1457550852:userdebug/test-keys
# from out/target/product/ahong89_wet_jb2/obj/CUSTGEN/config/system.prop
shell@ahong89_wet_jb2:/ $
But I donât know which of these can be changed without damaging something.