Hello, Yesterday I received the update to the the latest version of Android 13 . In the description, the February patch and some bootloader improvements were listed. However, after installing it and restarting, the phone got stuck on a loading screen. <!> Your device is corrupted. It can’t be tru…

Normally the phone should fall back to the other slot/previous install by at least trying to reboot into system at least 7 times.

It didn’t work. I pressed the power button, after the message and the 30 seconds, I selected START, the phone showed again the message and the fastboot page, I repeated the selection and the same result happened for around 10-11 times. I also tried for about 5-6 times to select POWER OFF from the …

Please try at least 7 times to reboot, So power off and then on.

[image] Pandalf: I repeated the selection and the same result happened for around 10-11 times. I also tried for about 5-6 times to select POWER OFF from the fastboot page and restart the When its not falling back to the other slot you can read and try this [image] Fa…

I have the same problem. I have never neither installed anything else then official fairphone OS, nor unlocked the device or the like. What is the solution to get the phone working again?

Well read above and confirm what you already tried.

I tried the power off / reboot cycle now more than 10 times. I wonder why it still shows 6.A.039 in the fastboot screen, however the phone installed update 6.A.040. Is it possible to re-apply the update manually? As far as I understand the above mentioned procedures in Device is corrupted after la…

That I think will not factory reswt however I advise to read everything carefully [image] Fairphone 3 unlocking without oem unlocking Development I possibly have an easy way to unlock without factory resetting. play_button Thanks to @Ingo for checking that Th…

I didn’t find a solution yet, i tried powering off and restartingfor more than 10 times in a raw as suggested by Lidwien but it didn’t work. i tried using edl as written in the two discussions suggested by yvmuell but not having a linux I faced problems, even if it seems that my phone enters in the…

Hi, this is kind of a metoo. My Fairphone 3 is corrupted since the update yesterday evening. I wonder if its the update that corrupts devices. I will reach out to Fairphone if this is a known issue.

Device is corrupted after latest Android 13 update

Help Fairphone 3

yvmuell March 18, 2026, 7:19am 6

When its not falling back to the other slot you can read and try this