Solution to Fairphone3 bootloop - (revised text 15-05-2025) The Problem The phone had a bootloop. It booted nearly to login, but than it stopped and rebooted. Then thankfully there was an update available. I installed it via adb sideload. After the update the bootloop was gone and I could enter …

fastboot did’nt work anymore ? With fastboot still working, there is a much easier solution available. But it depends on an active Google cloud backup.

fastboot is working fine, but apparently there was no cloud backup and it was also not my phone. How could it be fixed with fastboot and cloud backup?

This works in 3+ steps: Unlock the phone flashing the devinfo partition Flash the phone with stock image User defined restore using google backup Manual restore of signal chat from SD-card or cloud backup … This takes more time, but is much easier for regular users.

I guess you are referring to this? [image] Fairphone 3 unlocking without oem unlocking Development With a bit of luck and community support, you might even get to do this yourself wink

[image] FPbonn: This works in 3+ steps: Unlock the phone flashing the devinfo partition Flash the phone with stock image User defined restore using google backup Manual restore of signal chat from SD-card or cloud backup … This takes more time, but is much easier for regular users. I did n…

Ok - I understand. This are two different requirements and approaches.

A Solution to Fairphone3 bootloop on stock firmware

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yvmuell February 28, 2025, 7:37am 5

I guess you are referring to this?