Fairphone 3 softbricked with Usb drivers problems

[AnotherElk]

@Charles.G

Since the beginning i had problems with usb drivers and adb didn’t detect the phone everytime.

@AnotherElk

Here’s a generic driver and ADB/Fastboot repair …

• Disconnect the phone from the computer.
• In Control Panel - Programs and Features:
  Uninstall the Android SDK (if installed) and everything with “MTP” or “ADB” in its name.
• Reboot Windows.
• In Control Panel - Device Manager:
  Enable View - Show hidden devices, and then uninstall every possible ADB, MTP and smartphone device, hidden or not.
• Reboot Windows.
• Connect the phone again. (Windows should install the necessary drivers then automatically. They can be named after a different device, this doesn’t matter.)
• Download the current Android SDK Platform Tools
• Unzip the ZIP file to e.g. C:\platform-tools (you can unzip it to wherever you like).
• Add the path to where you unzipped the tools to the Windows “PATH” environment variable , so adb and fastboot could be run from everywhere without always having to prefix them with the path.

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@Charles.G

the Recovery mode ends in “no command”. Did I soft bricked the phone ?

No, this is the stock Android dic:recoverymode (<- see link on how to navigate there).