Since support can't help me I am turning to you guys. (also first post yay ;D)
I'd like to use the Fairphone as device to run my Apps I develop for android.
Since I own multiple android devices I can point out, that the FP1 is the only device suffering from this problem.
Problem:
The FP1 just spews hundreds of logcat messages per second, even Android Studio can't keep up with all the lines the FP1 produces. I'd provide a log, but I can't possibly sort through all the lines it produces, possibly leaking information I don't want public, because I can't even grasp what might be output. (2 Minutes of Logcat is 47272 lines of output)
I'm getting output for every single decoded and/or scaled media, SSL certificate checks, what the LED is doing, basically every little step my phone makes. I even get Log.wtf() outputs o_0
And the spam is so agressive I can't even find my debugging messages between all this.
Possible Cause/Replication:
I've tapped the "build number" (settings > about phone) quite a few times while playing around with the phone, problem is I don't know if it was like this by default or if this is a general problem with FP1.
I've tried until now:
I've written FP-Support twice now, first request got lost, the second pointed me here :/
I since reflashed it via SPFtool because I tried fixing this by deleting /system (don't ask -.- brain fart), but the output persists.
I have played around with the cmdline tool called xlog (/system/bin/xlog) which can filter some of the output of logcat, seems MediaTek specific, don't know if FP1 specific. That has toned it down quite a lot, but some of the vital Exceptions are also filtered out. That left me puzzled for a while because my App crashed and I did not get any output via logcat, what I did wrong. Also: some outputs seem to be caused by a binary called logwrapper which forwards stdout, stderr messages of cmdline tools to logcat. like netbsd-lib output for DNS resolving. It's started via init, so I can't do much about it and some messages won't even filter via xlog.
Has anybody experienced this and/or knows a fix? I'm stumped
If not, can you replicate so we can suffer together? o_0'
best regards
David
Hi,
einsweniger said:
Since support can't help me I am turning to you guys. (also first post yay ;D)
The FP1 just spews hundreds of logcat messages per second, even Android Studio can't keep up with all the lines the FP1 produces. I'd provide a log, but I can't possibly sort through all the lines it produces, possibly leaking information I don't want public, because I can't even grasp what might be output. (2 Minutes of Logcat is 47272 lines of output)
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The thing to look for is how to lower the system log level. The loglevel is set in /init.rc using the loglevel syntax (in the ramdisk)
http://elinux.org/Android_Debugging#init_logging. Our next builds will have a lower logging level and you can not modify this easily until we can build our own kernels/repack the kernel.
Q&A for [ROM][UNOFFICIAL][WIP] Cyanogenmod 11 (4.4.4 - kitkat) for fairphone FP1
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Bluetooth functionality
Hi, Chris,
amazing work! I am so glad to see that finally someone managed to get CM 11 running on our Fairphones! One question: Is it correct that Bluetooth functionality is still missing? Just asking because the WIKO Stairways, which you also seem to take care of, has a very similar hardware architecture and as far as I understand, the CM 11 ROM provided by you already offers bluetooth functionality. Is there a big difference between these two devices?
Apart from the missing bluetooth functionality I am very tempted to try your ROM ...
Keep up the good work and thank you!
Next steps and what can we do?
Thanks, Chris, for your great work. It's awesome to see that CM on Fairphone is possible after all.
The list of known bugs/missing features still includes some items which are a show stopper for many users. I'm one of them. Therefore I'd like to see some progress in these regards. IMHO it would be of great help for potential contributors if there was some sort of coordination on what has to be done.
Chris, do you mind elaborating what the issues with the known bugs are? What are areas which you already work on? What are problems which someone else could tackle? And, most importantly, where should one start?
I'd like to try and give it a go. However I know already that I'm not likely to get very far unless I can discuss issues and get some help. So, what are you currently working on and what do you suggest to start with?
Regards,
jftr
Error during installation of Cyanogenmod11 on Fairphone 2nd batch
Hi,
I have a Fairphone 1 but the second batch (FP1U)
I follow the install process of Cyanogenmod11 here but I had this error during flashing :
HTML:
set_metadata_recusrive: some changes failed
E:Error in /external_sd/cm-11_FP1-ota-UNOFFICIAL-FULLOFBUGS-0.2.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborded
(you can this the attachment)
I could restore a backup, but I'm ready to restart flashing if you have idea to pass this error
Spheerys said:
Hi,
I have a Fairphone 1 but the second batch (FP1U)
I follow the install process of Cyanogenmod11 here but I had this error during flashing :
HTML:
set_metadata_recusrive: some changes failed
E:Error in /external_sd/cm-11_FP1-ota-UNOFFICIAL-FULLOFBUGS-0.2.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborded
(you can this the attachment)
I could restore a backup, but I'm ready to restart flashing if you have idea to pass this error
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A short Google search suggests to update Clockworkmod to the latest version. Have you tried that?
Here is more information regarding the issue (Unfortunately I can't post any links yet, so you have to remove the space after http)
http ://android.stackexchange.com/questions/62982/flashing-cm-11-i-get-set-metadata-recursive-some-changes-failed
http ://stackoverflow.com/questions/19860479/set-metadata-recursive-failing-on-android-install
"set_metadata_recursive: some changes failed" : solution
I have found the solution in a french forum : remplace the "update-binary" file inside the ROM : /META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary with the version on the forum below
forum-generationmobiles.net/t73067-astuce-regler-le-probleme-du-message-d-erreur-dans-le-recovery-set_metadata_recursive-some-changes-failed-25112013
Settings crashing and other bugs following
I have a series of problems at hand with my FP1 that has Cyanogenmod. I would be very grateful if anyone here could help me out with any of them, as FP zendesk etc. couldn't.
Firstly, the Systems settings menu and now even Manage apps -menu don't open. When I try, they just flash quickly on the screen without allowing any time to even read them. This problem started smaller last winter and then disappeared, but now it has come back and is getting worse and causing other problems. First it was just the system settings menu. But now it concerns also manage apps. I can't even make a downloaded new app work because the phone doesn't let me allow them any superuser rights from the settings.
-The first time this happened I could reformat my phone. But the problem now is that I don't want to loose all my stuff, so I want to do backup first. However: - the phone doesn't detect the SD-card that is inside. -I have Cyanogenmod instead of Google, so backing up using cable+Google Plus is not an option. I downloaded MyBackupPro for this, but the phone doesn't allow me to grant it superuser rights so I can't use it. So is there any other way to backup my phone?
-Now another problem that costs me actual money (I hope that my operator will compensate it later) is that some bug is "sending" non-existent SMS to some Finnish numbers and to one number abroad. In reality there are no SMS sent but on the bill it shows as if I had sent for example 2-4 text messages at the same time. Avast! Mobile security virus scanner didn't find anything. I aimed to remove some of the apps I had lately installed, in case that some of them had brought a bug along, just to notice that I can't even access the apps menu anymore in order to do so.
After schecking detailed call reports from my operator, I also noticed that all the sms that are a couple of rows longer, are sent as 2< messages. So even when I think I sent one longer message, at the bill it is counted as two or more..
Fortunately I could create a bugreport, which I will try to attach here asap (apparently need to compress it first...). It is a few days old, but soon after that I took the simcard off so & haven't used the phone much offline, either, so I guess the report should still be quite up-to-date (?).
So it would be great if someone that can interpret the report/ othwerwise has a clue what this could be about, would tell me their advise in terms of where I might start solving this bunch of problems!
(Should be the last time when person like me who doesn't understand much about software buys an alternative phone and installs an even more alternative operating system for it..and then finds herself in a mess like this with no idea how to get out..)
I'm sorry to hear that. It seems you thoroughly infested your phone with malware. I strongly suggest you reflash to get rid of the malware in its entirety.
Regarding backups: If you feel comfortable using the command line, you could try to connect to your phone from your computer using adb. There is a backup command and you can just copy files directly.
Good luck
Thanks for your reply!
I only use command line when I have step by step-instructions for it, not independently. . . Fortunately the link you gave seems to have quite clear instructions. I'll check that soon!
Try with Helium
AinoV said:
Thanks for your reply!
I only use command line when I have step by step-instructions for it, not independently. . . Fortunately the link you gave seems to have quite clear instructions. I'll check that soon!
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I would use Helium for you backup. It can use cloud storage as backup destination. This solves your SD card issue. You also can use your PC to enable the backup without having root. This solves your root issue.
Thankyou for your expert tips!
I couldn't install neither Helium nor Android SDK that is needed for ADB , because as I said the phone settings don't open so that I could have allowed any app superuser rights.
(Actually in safe mode the settings do open but that, in turn, doesn't show any appstore available so that I could download anything new.....)
But fortunately I could upload all my photos into Dropbox and eventually managed to download and use a simple app for SMS-backups --> Dropbox. All the rest doesn't matter so much, as the apps I'll need I can download again.
So, now the backup problem is solved and I can proceed to the reformatting phase. It's probably wiser that I choose the default platform (Google ) this time in order to avoid further headaches that easily come when going too alternative with too little skills for that!
Thanks for this nice work! I was waiting long for CM on my fairphone.
Unfortunately I had to change back because of issues with the SIM management. It was not possible to switch on or off a SIM card except by going via Airplane mode and there were issues with connecting to a data network on both SIM-slots. Smaller issues were the missing BT and worse battery life than before.
Impaired battery
Summing up my problems / experiences with the battery performance after using CyanogenMod for a couple of weeks on my fp1: Over time (especially after upgrading to m11) I noticed a steadily growing loss of battery performance over time. The rear part of the device often seems hotter, especially when charging or when extensively using my phone. I can compare with my gf fp1 who uses the original FP OS. Compared with hers, the battery now seems bloated, significantly lasts shorter, shows inaccurate battery percentages (at the beginning dropping from 20 % to 0 in no time. Now even dropping from 40 - 50 % to 0).
I tried to calibrate the battery a couple of times with various apps, but the main problem with that is that I am not able to charge the battery with the phone shut down, as the phone automatically switches on when connected to an active charger. A short search revealed, that it's probably due to a kernel issue with the costum rom. Trying out other types of chargers didn't solve the problem.
Another thing I noticed, is that FPOS as well as CyanogenMod display strange MV values (2 - 4 mV while a fully charges battery should display up to 4200 MV - again see attached picture) in the app Battery calibration.
In order to figure out whether the battery is really impaired, I switched batteries with my gfs FP1. Both have been in use for the same time and both were charged with the same charging cables as well as used in similar patterns.
My battery lasted significantly shorter in my gfs FP with FP OS compared with her normal battery. Her battery worked better in mine, still it didn't lasted as long as her phone.
Another strange thing I found was that sometimes the battery doesn't only drops dead, it sometimes also gets stucked at 1 % for quite a while (see attached files). With no way to resolve this by calibrating the battery.
In all likelyhood no problem with CM as it seems to have appeared with FP OS as well see https: // forum.fairphone.com/t/battery-problem-after-cherry-1-6-update-battery-might-be-dying/
I would be interested if we could issue a bounty for @chrmhoffmann to get him working in the port again?
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from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56379896&postcount=19
I was just thinking the same thing.. maybe using www dot bountysource dot com ?
I too would be very glad to pay and/or to contribute with testing or code in order to get Android 4.3 or 4.4 on my Fairphone.
I need it because of the Low Energy Bluetooth feature, which would enable FP to talk with fitness tracker devices...
Is @chrmhoffmann or anybody else in here still interested in pursuing a full (or at least working) port of CM to FP?
Please note that at present days, there is not defined upgrade path for FP... so this would be quite an effort but also a very nice solution for the future of FP software.
Hi,
has anybody tried to build a custom rom using the SDK provided by Media-Tek?
I've downloaded the four SDK packages granted by Media-Tek. You get the SDK packages only on request from the MediaTek Support, if you are already registred at the MediaTek-Lab.
Kind regards
I've a Win Jr LTE phone & the update ran while I was out, despite telling it not to run updates without my express permission - it has now screwed up touchscreen so the phone is entirely unusable. Does anyone have any suggestions?
NB: telling me to "do a hard reset & lose everything" is NOT a suggestion I want to hear, since its not a viable option in this case, since backup on the phone hasn't worked since I got it on multiple cards & via onedrive.
I can't use browser or keyboard, anything with controls at bottom of screen is useless, there (of course) is no obvious way of re calibrating touch screen so the phone is effectively useless.
Apologies if in wrong place but the site doesn't seem to do anything other than lag, or make choices for me I didn't select.
I would strongly recommend NOT installing this (version ends. 67) as it appears as buggy as usual Microsoft efforts and has been bricking some phones completely I have since found out.
Jemma
the issue is known (by now, think it wasnt the prior cause otherwise the device should not have received the update). the problem is somehow the os uses a wrong resolution 540X960 instead of 480X854 which ****s up the touch
two options: opt in into release-preview-ring of the insiderprogram and get the .82. maybe it already fixed the problem. second option: going back...
use external display application on your pc or pair a bluetooth mouse/keyboard if its impossible to reach the insider options (be ware: if you havent signed up as insider before it may take up to 24hrs till you will find new builds)
Yeah, I had guessed it must be something like that, because the touchscreen reacts differently from one side to other and from top to bottom.
It's frustrating though because I can remember screw ups like this from Microsoft 20 years ago and they're still making same elementary mistakes, and it's not as if specs for these phones are hard to find or there's unknown multitudes of windows 10 phones out there, like with Android..
Windows 10 honestly has the potential to be excellent but if someone with 20 years IT engineering experience can't fix it for herself because the tools just aren't there then what hope non technical people? And they are just the people who will give Windows 10 traction.
Has anyone managed to find any files that set environment variables like in android?
PS if someone builds an equivalent of the Nokia E7 running Android or Windows 10 let me know, I'll happily bite their hands off, much prefer a good hardware kbd.
im pretty sure there is no way on the blu devices to interop it and made registry editing possible (should be an easy task to modify the setting for the screen resolution). you could sideloading vcreg after activating dev mode, but im pretty sure it wont be able to write reg values and cant research atm where the value for the resolution is stored
vcreg works only on Lumia
I've tried the feedback and the insider updates and I can't get to either of them because of the screen. Is it possible someone could put this up on feedback for me as I'm sure I'm not the only person with this issue.. Microsoft would only have to release a very small patch fix to solve this issue..
Thanks in advance
Hi all. New to the forums. Stumbled on it while doing a general google search. Am I confused or is the fire tv powered by android? I mean that is what I am understanding by it being a topic on this website. Anyway, I have a fairly new 75" samsung tv UN75J6300 and I am trying to put an amazon fire tv box on it. I loaded kodi onto the box and instantly began testing. While flipping through various menus, I noticed that the screen went black for 2 to 3 seconds and then returned as if nothing ever happened. I haven't sat through a lengthy session to say whether it happens again or if that is it and its over. Though, I am leaning toward the event continually happening. I kind of scoured this site, as well as a few others and Im at a bit of a loss here since some are talking about one issue and then the more I dig, I see there could be multiple reasons for this.
One issue I am reading is saying that the firmware update to the fire tv is making this error. I then read that it is a (forgive me if I don't get the acronym right) hdcp is happening which if I understand correctly is a way for amazon to check to make sure you're not using pirated software or something to that effect.
Any help on this would be great and a word of warning... I am not too tech savvy. I know just enough to get me in trouble (sd flashing, software loading, etc...)
There are a few issue's most of which I've covered in the title. It allows me to download Chrome, Firefox and any other browser from the play store but if i open them they close after about 3 seconds and a box comes up saying 'Google Chrome has closed' or something along those lines.
I bought the box in more or less brand new condition off someone for £35 (good deal or what) and it came pre-rooted. Now i'll be honest, i'm not bad with computers / phones / tablets etc but when it comes to rooted devices I'm pretty clueless. With the PIPO box I saw it as more of a hindrance than any kind of help, for example the All4 app wouldn't work because the device is rooted and now chrome or Firefox won't even open for more than a few seconds. The device came pre installed with some app's on it called FX and that seemed to be the cause of the rooting?
Another thing, the dual boot option, now the reason this no longer works is my fault. I can't exactly remember what happened but if i do a reset with the pin so the dual boot screen comes up, or i chose the switch O/S option in the drop down settings menu it goes to a screen which has a large circle and Windows is stuck at 64% and the notice at the bottom is 'Windows is loading drivers and may switch on and off during this process' (or words to that effect) and i've left it overnight to no avail. It occasionally jumps to 71% then restarts and its back at 64%.
To be honest I wouldn't mind just completely getting rid of Windows and having it as a pure Android device, and surely Windows 10 is unnecessarily (If I'm not able to use it) using up a lot of space on the device.
As I said earlier I'm not a genius but if someone could guide me through what to do, i'm able to follow instructions regarding Firmware, Roms etc I'd be more than happy to switch on my device, it just go straight to Android and be able to download and use browsers other than the built in one, also i'd like to totally get rid of Windows 10 if that's possible?
Reading this back it sounds like I'm asking a lot, and I'm sorry if I am, but I don't know how to do it myself and i don't want to try and end up with a bricked device, i use the USB's a lot too to watch films i've downloaded on my PC if I can't find them on Showbox etc.
Here are the details regarding Firmware etc.
Android Version 4.4.4
IFWI Version i21
Firmware version V1.0.0_v1
Kernel Version
3.10.20-00005-gcaba818-dirty
[email protected] hash16 (Sorry the hash sign on my keyboard is a poundsign)
Mon Sept 7 19.27:41 HKT 2015
Build Number
X9 Android_4.4.4_201509081738
I dont know if it makes any difference but under Status the serial number is Baytrail0790F68D (Sorry I've just read the back of the box and the CPU is called Intel Baytrail.....derrrr)
Lastly i just want to say if someone's got a Rom / Firmware updates etc I'm capable of following instructions regarding using usb sticks and pressing download combinations on the device.
Many thanks for your time reading this (If anyone has haha) and I'd be so grateful if someone could help me out.
Thanks, Paul