[ROM][MTK][STOCK] fairphone FP1 kitkat 4.4.4

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ralf_xda

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Yep, it runs very stable. I use these builds since November without significant issues. And I am very happy that we get security updates virtually as fast as the Nexus users (thanks again, Chris!).
 
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StachelRobby

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Modify device permissions to allow apps to write to MicroSD

Could you please integrate the KK4.4 SD-Card-Issue-Fix in your release.
It ist described here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2684188 and it is just one additional line in /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml

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Could someone please explain in text or non-dead links how I'm going to get the Xposed Framework running with this ROM.
There are some features (battery-line instead of symbol/percent, extended volume control, extended power-off-menu, etc) I dont wanna miss.

Thanks a lot in advance.
 
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joergschulz

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StachelRobby said:
Could you please integrate the KK4.4 SD-Card-Issue-Fix in your release.
It ist described here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2684188 and it is just one additional line in /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml

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Could someone please explain in text or non-dead links how I'm going to get the Xposed Framework running with this ROM.
There are some features (battery-line instead of symbol/percent, extended volume control, extended power-off-menu, etc) I dont wanna miss.

Thanks a lot in advance.
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see post #104 and, again, some pages before that. We don't need to repeat this.
You' might need to reinstall xposed after every new rom; don't forget to clear cache before installing that beast.
 
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StachelRobby

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With this Xposed Installer mentioned in #104 pointing to #67 pointing to another thread the GravityBox KK doesnt work. It says it cannot connect to the Xposed framework....
 
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joergschulz

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one issue: crash when alarm turns phone on and is set to sleep

So, after weeks of using this current version daily, I finally stumbled over one issue:

The alarm turns on the phone in the morning.
If I accept the alarm, everything goes fine and the phone turns itself on completely.
If I set this alarm to suspend / repeat, the android process crashes, I must remove the battery to restart.

How can such a behaviour be debugged - or: it might even be impossible to fix it because of the unresolved state of the phone while it turns itself on and the alarm is running.
 
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joergschulz

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:( Google Play Store crashes - I'll come around with logs one of these days (not that Google remains important for me, but there might be others)
 
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joergschulz said:
:( Google Play Store crashes - I'll come around with logs one of these days (not that Google remains important for me, but there might be others)
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You need to reinstall gapps every time after installing an update. This is not CyanogenMod where that step is not needed.

Chris

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Gwendal

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Quick message to tell that I haven't had any problem so far with the ROM. I don't use/install gapps, so maybe that helped.

Thanks a lot for your work :)! and especially for all the security updates that keep being applied very regularly. That's a huge improvement as compared to the original Fairphone OS, for which security updates take ages to arrive.
 
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stereok

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Just wanna say thanks for your work. I am so glad that somebody ported 4.4.4 to FP1 with the latest security patches.
BTW: I did a dirty update without a wipe by sideloading 0.9.5 over 0.9.4 and installing gapps nano aftwardswards. I did wipe the cache after the update and haven't had any issues so far. :good:
I am thinking of customizing my boot animation. Where do I find the bootanimation.zip?

Regards,
Markus
 
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mayjestro

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Hi guys, wanna say thank you für kitkat on my fairphone :) I just flashed the "recovery.img" with the app "flashify" in the playstore. After that i installed in the recovery the latest .zip file from the sd-card. At first I took the wrong launcher (the 3dimensional house"), so i can't add apps or widgets to the "desktop". But now i realised, I should take the pixel-house :)

All looks good, and the fairphone now is really fast! Thank u so much Chris!!!

EDIT: There is one thing, I can't remove the "Google-searchbar" on the homescreen? Is this normal??
 
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koerma

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Hi to all.

Does anyone know if Bluetooth 4 LE now works with the current fp1-kk444-CH-0.9.5?
With fp1-kk444-CH-0.9.4 I have problems with some BT 4 LE devices like fitbit flex. According to some research this is a bug.

thank you.
 
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    This is Android 4.4.4 kitkat compiled from scratch from some other device sources that you find on the web. Adapted to fairphone FP1(U).

    It includes various security fixes on top of 4.4.4 - but most likely not all. Major security hole detectors are green now (VTS, Bluebox, Zimperium).

    NOTE: PHONES CAN BE LIFE SAVERS. DON'T RELY ON THIS PHONE AS YOUR SOLE COMMUNICATION MEANS. I HAVE NOT TESTED EMERGENCY CALLS, NOR CAN I GUARANTEE THAT THIS PHONE WILL WORK IF YOU ARE IN DANGER. CARRY ANOTHER PHONE WITH YOU. DON'T GO FOR A 3 DAY HIKE ONLY WITH THIS PHONE!

    Without much ado...

    To install...
    - Flash the recovery from here: https://basketbuild.com/filedl/devs?dev=chrmhoffmann&dl=chrmhoffmann/fp1-kk-stock/recovery.img
    - Boot into recovery and flash the rom, eg. with adb sideload. Download here: https://basketbuild.com/filedl/devs...mhoffmann/fp1-kk-stock/fp1-kk444-CH-0.9.7.zip MD5sum: 9140c93ff8f2b8327fdd330d2448c16f
    - I guess you also want to flash some KK gapps that can be found somewhere (e.g http://opengapps.org/?api=4.4&variant=nano)
    - You might also lose your IMEI like me? Don't PANIC! The IMEI's are noted on your FP. Remove the battery and write down the numbers. Then once you have booted the phone, follow this simple tutorial to fix this: https://www.facebook.com/fXDAdev/posts/448292925303711

    Bugs:
    - IMEI loss when flashing from stock FP1. No clue why this happens. Are we somehow overriding some NVRAM?
    - CTS is complaining about some issues. https://christianhoffmann.info/2015.11.29_16.17.03/testResult.xml
    - As this is a merge of 4.4.4 into the MTK stuff, watch out for more bugs than the previous release. Not merged: the new 4.4.4 dialer screen (we stick with 4.4.2 dialer as the modifications are too heavy), chromium does not support wml anymore (who cares?).
    - You most likely need to wipe to install this when coming from the previous KK version to 4.4.4. Email app e.g. seems to crash without.
    - Playstore version of Google Authenticator does not work (see https://github.com/google/google-authenticator-android/pull/4). Use the OSS version https://github.com/google/google-authenticator-android/releases - this is not specific to FP1 but seems an MTK issue.
    - A dirty update (without wipe) from 0.8 on an encrypted device seems to reboot once during the "Android is upgrading" dialog
    - Sometimes the lower part of the homescreen launcher seems to lose transparency.

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.9.7 (you might want to check if there are new gapps here as you need to flash them again at same time: http://opengapps.org/):
    - Android Security Updates from Google bulletin 1-MAY-2016 (https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html)
    - Kernel CVEs including the mediatek wifi ones from https://source.android.com/security/advisory/2016-03-18.html, CVE-2016-2549, CVE-2016-2847, CVE-2016-2547, CVE-2016-2546, CVE-2016-2545, CVE-2016-2384

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.9.6 (you might want to check if there are new gapps here as you need to flash them again at same time: http://opengapps.org/):
    - Android Security Updates from Google bulletin 2-APR-2016 (https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html)
    - Kernel CVEs including the one from https://source.android.com/security/advisory/2016-03-18.html, CVE-2015-7550, CVE-2016-0774, CVE-2016-0821, CVE-2016-0723.

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.9.5 (you might want to check if there are new gapps here as you need to flash them again at same time: http://opengapps.org/):
    - Android Security Updates from Google bulletin 1-MAR-2016 (https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html)
    (incl. the kernel fixes that Google only publishes for Google One / Sprout - ported to MT6589)

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.9.4 (you might want to check if there are new gapps here as you need to flash them again at same time: http://opengapps.org/):
    - Android Security Updates from Google bulletin 1-FEB-2016 (http://source.android.com/security/b...016-02-01.html)
    - Kernel CVE CVE-2015-8785

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.9.3:
    - Android Security Updates from Google bulletin 1-JAN-2015 (http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html)
    - Some kernel CVEs (CVE2015-8543, CVE2015-8575, CVE2015-7509)
    - Attempt to fix German's E-PLUS on O2 roaming

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.9.2:
    - Fix that you can now call funny numbers like *143# without phone application crash
    - Fix to be able to add contacts to SIM card

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.9.1:
    - several kernel CVEs (CVE-2015-5697, CVE-2015-8539, CVE-2015-8215, and a few more without CVE yet)
    - the december 1st security advisory bulletin skia issue introduced in 0.9.0 - aka as the dilbert bug - is fixed now

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.9:
    - android security bulletin https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2015-12-01.html
    - also update gapps if you install them: http://opengapps.org/?api=4.4&variant=nano

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.8:
    - google location providers are used now, which should enable network location provider (in case you installed google apps).

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.7:
    - National roaming should be fixed (at least as good as CM). If you still have issue with national roaming, send me your mmc/mmn data.
    - Use original FP1 lens parameters for fm50af lens - does this improve the auto/manual focus issues that some people reported compared to stock FP jellybean?
    - Attempt to fix the problem where sometimes the scrollbar and recents screen stopped working and screen locked despite having higher screen timeouts.
    - Full CTS result: https://christianhoffmann.info/2015.11.29_16.17.03/testResult.xml

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.5:
    - SELinux enforcing
    - Camera app now shows all resolutions
    - adb now requires acceptance of adb key

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.4:
    - ro.adb.secure set
    - browser default pages revisited (removed wrong thumbnail).
    - removed MTK root CAs that are not in AOSP
    - fixed remaining security false-positives in VTS and Bluebox Trustable - all green now
    - USB default setting should be MTP now

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.3:
    - More CVE fixes (e.g CVE-2015-3845). VTS and Bluebox Trustable are almost green. For some reasons they still think "Stagefright" is not fixed. Zimperium nevertheless shows all stagefright OK. Edit: found out why. It's false positive as MTK reports errors in MPEG4Extractor differently than stock.

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.2:
    - Netflix issue fixed with new blob from E3
    - Some CTS issues fixed
    - More security fixes CVE-2014-7911

    Changelog fp1-kk444-CH-0.1:
    - Upgraded to 4.4.4_r2.0.1: Yay! That was an insane amount of work. The following "shortcuts" were taken:
    -- Chromium sources taken from AOSP - MTK added wml but it was too much work to merge this back in
    -- Email app sources taken from aosp - MTK customized something there esp. exchange sync, is that really giving someone problems?
    -- Dialer app taken from MTK without 4.4.4 updates - that stuff is too heavily customized also for dual sim, and 4.4.4 revamped the UI, so this was just too much work for now.
    - Latest security fixes up to November 2015. Security fixes also for wpa_supplicant_8 (thanks to Michael Bestas for collecting them for CM)
    - Kernel sec fixes
    - FP1 power profile xml (does this actually change anything)

    As usual some credits:
    - @Santhosh M : for some advice on the modem/baseband
    - @keesj and fairphone for ___providing___ me a fairphone that replaced my own broken one (never figured out why it doesn't boot anymore)
    - @CyanogenMod and koush for superuser stuff that I kanged into the MTK stock
    - @CyanogenMod for the stagefright fixes

    Let me know if
    - it works also on older FP1 (without U).
    - you have problems with your IMEI, too
    - if you find other major issues
    - if you think I am missing some security updates
    - i had some issues getting the "phone" part of it work. Somehow it started working - not sure what it was. If you don't get the phone (call, etc.) to work, check your IMEIs first.
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    0.7

    0.7 changelog:
    - fix the R - oaming symbol for some virtual operators (like Free in France)
    - Use fm50AF lens params from original FP - does this make auto focus better?
    - Fix lock screen issue (thx @Quallenauge for the reproducible test case from Google Maps navigation). This fixes at least one pattern that broke the slider and recents screen. I am not sure if this fixes all those issues, but I hope so :)

    Give it a go!
    Chris
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    chrmhoffmann
    0.9.6 released. Changelog see OP.

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    chrmhoffmann
    0.9.1 released...

    It fixes:
    - several kernel CVEs
    - the december 1st security advisory bulletin skia issue introduced in 0.9.0 - aka as the dilbert bug
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    chrmhoffmann
    0.9.4 released. Changelog: See OP
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