Thank you Moritz, Irina and IKlaus for your kind help and also Freibadschwimmer!
None of the fastboot commands could be executed. The only thing that at least BEGAN to do something was the partition command. But of course () it failed.
I found again the recovery wiki for the FP1 and executed it as I did it before by installing the ota.zip from the sdcard in recovery mode.
The new thing to me was the advice to now execute the factory reset AFTER the reinstalling!!!
And that worked!
After a despaired week I got a working phone again and of course Iâll root it now
Jesus bless you all!
Barney
Thank you, Irina,
sorry, I donât use google any more.
I tried again with adb push and pull. But again that didnât work because of insufficient user rights as far as I understand it.
But I followed Freibadschwimmerâs hint (?, jedenfalls: seinen Tipp ), to edit the platform.xml with the Amaze-Editor. Worked phantastically without brick
Good night!
Iâm glad to hear you have a working phone again, and finally managed to get write permissions for the SDcard. So in the end all your patience and persistence on solving the issue paid off. Well done!
Hi,
I softbricked my FP2 and had contact with the support but they seam not to be happy at all, about some people try to change their system.
The reply was that i should better not push them. (i rewrote them that i didnât get an answer within 8 days, so i wrote again and asked if my question wasnât clear or if they need more informationâŚ)
Seams not that i will get help from the Fairphone support Team so im asking hereâŚ
What i wold like to have is any OS on my phone. Doesnât mater if its a Fairphone OS or a FreeOS.
The momentary status is, the phone doesnât boot now. I can see the chargerscreen (batery geting filled blue) when pluged to a wallcharger. But normal booting doesnât show any screen at all (stays black and doesnât vibrate when pwr button pressed).
But im able to get in to fastboot mode some times and i can get the device nr. with fastboot devices so i think it not totaly broken.
Iâm sorry to hear that. As long as you can still connect using fastboot installing the offical FP2 OTA image should be possible. Have you tried that already?
Hi, Thanks for the helpâŚ
what i did: I loaded this file to the sdcard: http://storage.googleapis.com/fairphone-updates/FP2-gms36-1.1.7-ota.zip
and performed a flash from sdcard. Unfortunately after that, the phone showed the withe screen âloadingâŚâ for 3-4h befor i pushed the pwd button and the phone whent black and a reboot or recoverymode wasnât reachable anymore.
I think you or I might confuse recovery/fastboot. Can you still boot the phone into the fastboot mode or the recovery? How does that look like? How did your fastboot command line looked like?
If fastboot still works: Try to install a recovery first
If recovery still works: Try to install the OTA (works with the default recovery) or the Stock Android (needs different recovery).
Iâm not sure if the OTAs are complete âfullâ FP2 software versions (1.1.5, 1.1.6 and 1.1.7 exist) or just partial upgrades. If all fails, I (or others) can send you a recovery that should be able to install the stock Android. But itâs important to know what your phone can still do and how it can be âreachedâ.
Im not able to reach recovery
Im able to reach fastboot and see a device nr. with fastboot devices
I wold love to get a recovery and install a stock Android.
Thanks!
Try this first:
Installing stock Android + recovery: You can just install the stock Android (no other recovery needed) using the stock build images (they contain recovery.img*, boot and system) using fastboot flashall.
Hey there,
the link is not by me, but by @Max_S. He ported the TWRP recovery and as far as I know itâs the latest version. I flashed it just 4 days agp and it worked fine on my FP2, so if there is no valid recovery on the phone at the moment, I would second @fp1_wo_sw_updatesâs suggestion on putting one there. I believe I mentioned that earlier in this threat somewhere already
I believe, the ota does not include the recovery, so probably flashing the TWRP and then using it to flash the ota stock system is the best way to goâŚ
Good luck and keep us posted!
Hi, and many thanks for the Help here.
If I wold get the .img files - whats the order to flash my phone?
Do i start with the recovery.img or wit the boot.img and what all do i need to flash. Whats required?
Well, I donât think that the order is that important (but Iâm not entirely sure). Iâd try
$ fastboot flash boot boot.img
$ fastboot flash recovery <insert name of TWRP recovery image here>
$ fastboot flash system system.img
If that doesnât work, replace the last command by
$ fastboot -w flash system system.img
or even flash more images as some people have tried with self-compiled versions:
Edit: @fp1_wo_sw_updates If thatâs possible, nice! Though I thought fastboot flashall only works if you have a build environment which was set up properly (with android-info.txtpresent and so that flashall knows which device to flash etc.).