Fairphone 5 not recognized in fastboot mode on any computer

[AnotherElk]

@3dav0d3

1. I do net this typical Windows sound when connecting the phone in fastboot, while I do get this in normal mode.

Since the phone is not seen at all, I can also not install any driver or whatsoever.

@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.

… of course fastboot mode still needs its own drivers, installable with the phone connected to the computer in fastboot mode.

To access Control Panel in Windows 11, just search for it with the task bar search or the start menu search. To easily find Programs and Features as well as Device Manager, just change the view in Control Panel from categories to anything else (selector is top right in the window).