[Tex/LaTex] Font-awesome disturbing commands of moderncv

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The usage of \moderncvicons{awesome} lowers the item symboles (blue circle) of \cvlistdoubleitem and \cvlistitem. How can they be raised to normal level again?

MWE:

% compile with LuaLaTeX

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} 
\moderncvstyle{classic} 
\moderncvcolor{blue} 

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}                     
\moderncvicons{awesome}

\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}

\begin{document}

\cvlistdoubleitem{Ultimate Frisbee}{Climbing}
\cvlistitem{Travelling in Europe, Asia and North America}

\end{document}

enter image description here

Best Answer

Update (moderncv v2.0)

moderncv v2.0 uses latest version of fontawesome, where the symbol \faCircleBlank has been replaced by \faCircleO, so 

\renewcommand*{\labelitemi}{\strut\textcolor{color1}{\raisebox{1pt}{\tiny\faCircleBlank}}}

has to be replaced with

\renewcommand*{\labelitemi}{\strut\textcolor{color1}{\raisebox{1pt}{\tiny\faCircleO}}}

Original answer (works with older versions of moderncv)

Add this line to your preamble

\renewcommand*{\labelitemi}{\strut\textcolor{color1}{\raisebox{1pt}{\tiny\faCircleBlank}}}

Complete MWE

% compile with LuaLaTeX

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} 
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\moderncvicons{awesome}

\renewcommand*{\labelitemi}{\strut\textcolor{color1}{\raisebox{1pt}{\tiny\faCircleBlank}}}

\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}

\begin{document}

\cvlistdoubleitem{Ultimate Frisbee}{Climbing}
\cvlistitem{Travelling in Europe, Asia and North America}

\end{document}

Output

enter image description here

P.S. As I said in my comment, this is not needed if you compile the document with pdflatex, but just because in this case moderncv turns the font to "marvosym"...

EDIT

To prevent errors when running it with pdflatex it is better to encase 

\renewcommand*{\labelitemi}{\strut\textcolor{color1}{\raisebox{1pt}{\tiny\faCircleBlank}}}

in a \ifxetexorluatex...\fi statement:

\ifxetexorluatex
\renewcommand*{\labelitemi}{\strut\textcolor{color1}{\raisebox{1pt}{\tiny\faCircleBlank}}}
\fi

so that the previous MWE becomes:

% compile with LuaLaTeX

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\moderncvicons{awesome}

\ifxetexorluatex
\renewcommand*{\labelitemi}{\strut\textcolor{color1}{\raisebox{1pt}{\tiny\faCircleBlank}}}
\fi

\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}

\begin{document}

\cvlistdoubleitem{Ultimate Frisbee}{Climbing}
\cvlistitem{Travelling in Europe, Asia and North America}

\end{document}
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