Hello there,
before hand - I know the difference between a soft bricked phone and a hard bricked one - I went to the Recovery Menu several times before to reset my userdata. But now I cannot even do that.
What happened?
I tried to install the latest update Kola Nut 1.8.7 to my Fairphone, because I wanted to fix the Stagefright thing. So first tried to let the installer do the udate for me. That did fail. It started to download the updated. Then a message shows up Cache is full. Then when I tried to press the Install button another message displayed Cannot find /cache/update_xxxx.zip.
I started to investigate a solution for that issue, but was unable to. Most hints I got were directed to: “Perform a manual update.” So this is what I tried to do yesterday.
The article Manually install Fairphone OS for the Fairphone 1 was rather helpful and I was able to follow the steps 1 through 11.
The Problem
The phone does not start and will not enter recovery mode again. All I now see is a blue screen, nothing else. The only way to power down the phone is via removing the battery. Then when I try to start the phone into recovery mode (holding the volume up + power key for 10 seconds), I again get a blue screen. Nothing else.
So I started to search about what to do with a hardbricked fairphone and came up on a page on XDA Developers that deals with the topic. When I try to download the described software I steadily get the note from my Firefox that this page has been reported for unwanted software and is therefore blocked.
This is why I post here to get help. I am reluctant to download ransom-ware that may or may not help me with the problem.
Do you have any other ideas?
Otherwise, it is a Fairphone 1. I could hand it back to the company for recycling and get a new one. The two years are over But that way not my inital plan …
Update 1
I searched the XDA Developer forums a bit, I found a more recent release of the SP Flash Tool. When trying to download this, no hint about unwanted software and my virus scanner keeps silent.
Update 2
The drivers do not work with Windows 10. The installation aborts. Used my laptop, still running Windows 7.