Fairphone 4 bricked when going back from iodéOS to FPOS

[yvmuell]

The worst is that Fairphone just does not seem to know about this problem, seeing recent comments which leaves me puzzled the least

Question about returning to Stock OS

Thanks for the explanation. I will have a look in the next weeks and see, if I am going that route or just wait for the updated images from FairPhone. Just received info from support: Blockquote I was referred by out department that, technically, Fairphone OS is not supposed to brick because of locking with older security patch. However this hasn’t been tested for the last few updates, so we can’t guarantee it. If you don’t want to wait for the next update, you can try locking the bootloade…

Fairphone 4 software issues

Hello loseyourself! Hmmm, I’m not sure I fully understood your question. But if I got it right, your complaint has to do with the fact that locking the bootloader may brick the phone. If that’s the cause, then we’ve confirmed it before: installing software with an older security patch than the one you had before will trigger Android Rollback Protection. This is a well-established security feature since Android 6 and we’ve made numerous warnings about it. It’s in our support arti…