UPDATE: donāt install 0.8.1 unless you have a tbeam. Someone reported a bug with a ttgo lora and it would affect any board without external ram.
Ok seems pretty solid to me, might as well release it to you brave souls. I think it fixes the loss of BLE paring bug:
Major changes:
)ok - in addition to that device release - there is also an app release up for alpha/beta test users:
You can use this android app to update the device code over BLE. ONLY DO THIS FOR TBEAMS in this build. the enclosed firmware wonāt work on other ESP32s.
Changes since 0.7.93:
ok 0.8.2 of the device code is out to fix the problem @thomslik noticed on any board that wasnāt a tbeam. Iām not going to bother releasing a new android load with it right now. So if you donāt have a tbeam, donāt use the built-in BLE update for now
actually - alas, after 36 hrs, one of my three phones just got prompted to re-pair so the bug isnāt fixed by the easy ājust update to pull in a bunch of OS fixesā ;-). Iāll work on it again tomorrow.
No one needs to install this device load (though it is harmless). The android load has good fixes though.
Loaded 0.8.2 onto my tbeams and running 0.8.02 on my Huawei (running Android 7.0) I found the setup went well. Texts, maps work and all the new info additions were present. I have stopped using 5.1.1 - it was not working well with 0.8.02 - I sent in a few bug reports which I think you can delete.
On my Huawei it seemed that to send a text to both tbeams I had to select them in turn and wait for the message to be sent. I had one text error: we donāt yet have our myNodeInfo but this cleared after a few minutes. Otherwise App worked very well.
loaded 0.8.02 android application on S20+ 5G, running Android 10, and upgraded unit FW OTA. unit is a tbeam V0.7
now battery level is 207% 
there is also an antenna symbol with a ?
will see if the BLE behaves
thanks! tbeam 0.7 voltage sensing isnāt in yet:
left the unit running for a day and BLE did not forget the pairing.
will run more test later.
btw, i read of up to 8 days running on one battery, but i am getting 24 hrs or so with a good quality 2500mAh cell
will test the current later on at the bench
well, connected to the bench PS and wow. this unit is power hungry. consumption oscillates between 100 and 200mA but at start it goes above 400. no wonder the battery lasts a day or less.
and btw, battery level on the android app went back to 254% so all is good
Hi
your battery usage looks aligned with my TBeam v1.1. With a 3000mAh battery I am getting just short of 48hrs
Paul
Filed a bugreport from Blackview BV5500-plus running Android 10.0 Q and Meshtastic Android version 0.8.02 with username Myr_BV55.
Program operating absolutely fantastic but 2 small remarks:
OTA update T-beam 1.0 to 0.8.1 (as presented by blue button, does not present 0.8.2 yet) was very very slow. Progressbar advancing at mice speed (5 minutes for about 2 mm) and after doing something else or sleeping phone) it had not moved but another mill. When I sent a message, the progress bar had disappeared but couldnāt continue update (grey button) without quitting and restarting app. Restarting app gave blue button and pushing on it continued the upload progress bar where it was before, but upload continued at same slow speed. In total I restarted about 15 times to get to the end of the update progress, which retruned āfailedā. So Iāll flash 0.8.2 direct over USB.
after restarting Meshtastic 0.8.02 or waking phone up from sleep or bringing it from background to foreground, the first message being sent is well received by all devices (connected different Lora32v2 and another Tbeam1.0 and running 0.7.9, 0.7.10 and 0.8.2 devices together OK), but on the message screen on the departing Android (this phone) comes up double.
Filed a crash report from Blackview BV8000-pro running Android 7.1 and Meshtastic Android version 0.8.02 with username VK07. Was running Meshtastic Android version 0.8.02 on both phones and connecting to Tbeam running 0.8.2 while all four devices were running 0.8.2 (all flashed over USB)
Besides this, all good, iām really impressed!
galaxy a8 2017, 0.8.02, firmware 0.8.1 tbeam 433
Default setings
the map is updated only after restarting the application.
(maybe you should make the refresh button so that the data in the application is updated.)
the signal level is also displayed incorrectly (if there are difficulties in moving to%, it may need to be done in db or else)
the text in Russian is incorrectly formatted in the application tab (āsend a reportā)
bug report recently sent.
thanks @luxonn - that does look ugly ;-). Weāll fix sometime in the next 2-3 weeks.
Can do, and can try iOS as well
Hi yaāll - brave alpha testers requested for testing:
THIS IS AN ALPHA RELEASE (with an especially big changelist). If you are not an alpha tester you probably want 0.8.2 instead.
0.9.1 - Fix #266 (the āesp32 loses BLE pairingā bug). Other benefits:
This was a lot of work and (unexpectedly) sucked up the last 1.5 weeks of development time. Iām going to take a 1 or 2 day break (while waiting on reports from you brave alpha testers). But after the break Iāll reply to the forum posts and email questions that have piled up during this slog of a bug. Iāll also fix the few (and easy) bugs remaining in the 1.0 release bucket, so that hopefully we can get this release out and then start work on the cool new features/ideas/cleanup weāve discussed for āafter 1.0ā
NOTE You will need to re-pair once 
after installing this new load (because it is keeping different device signing data than the old Bluedroid based implementation)
Just updated one of my devices. Messages are no longer getting through.
When both device where updated they started working again.
Didnāt do a rigorous test but sitting at my desk it seems like it is taking longer for the messages to be received, and much longer for a ACK to come through.
433 firmware
works good. messages seem to be transmitted better in poor reception areas
App Firmware - 0.8.03
Device Firmware - 0.9.1
Hardware - TBeams
Cleared app data and āforgotā Bluetooth connections just as at starting measure. App connected up beautifully and messages flowing freely. The only issue I had was it took a long time for the location to be displayed on the map even with the node having had GPS lock for 5 mins or so. Does the message payload include location and battery status etc? I assume when you send a message all those parameters get sent as well and the map should update? Also the last known connection time on the People tab I assume should update with a message ACK being received but it doesnāt appear to.
Excellent work and so far the Bluetooth connection is stable as!
essentially the only changes in this release (compared to 0.8.2) should be bluetooth related. Nothing in the protocol/app etcā¦ changed.
