How to switch from FP Open OS to Android 6?

[Friek]

Hi,
I would like to switch from FP Open to Android 6 (on the FP Community Phone).
I would do this:

1. Download theFP OS 1.13.0 (OTA Switch) to SD-card
2. Download the Adroid 6 Update File to SD-card
3. Download newest FP Updater .apk
4. Install FP OS via TWRP.
5. Install Updater.apk
6. Install Android Update via Updater.

Would this work? We’re at a café and I don’t know if we have WLAN.

[paulakreuzer]

I think that should work.

[Amber]

I have done it. My workflow in opposite to your suggestion: I have copied only the corresponding OTA files to SD card and have let the switch done by the updater App. It worked seamlessly.

[paulakreuzer]

@Friek

We also tried installing Android 6, but that didn’t quite work out.

Oh no. What went wrong?

[Friek]

Good question, next question. I myself didn’t do it. @bennett: can you say, what went wrong?

[bennett]

Updating through the updater as well as through recovery both ended up with an error message saying “unexpected contents” were encountered.

My guess is that this is somehow related to @bravido’s problem

@bravido

I’ve tried 4 o 5 times in the last 2 hours, and after the downloading and the reboot, the installation fails saying “unexpected contents”. I’ve cleaned the cache partition, and the Updater app data and cache data, but every time I try it ends the same. Anyone else out there seeing the same issue?

[NCols]

Hi there,

I have Fairphone Open OS installed, but would like to switch back to the normal Android, and install Android 6.0.

Could someone please share a working step-by-step process in order to achieve this?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Kind regards,

Nicolas

[freibadschwimmer]

Two replies come to my mind:

First: if the reason for the switch is to get on Android 6, then you should note that the next update of FPOOS will be a Android 6 as well.

Second: if you want to proceed anyway, I would suggest to first switch back to the last FP OS 5.1 (with the official OTA-switch file; i.e., by using the updater app), and then simply upgrade your FPOS to the latest version, hence upgrading to Android 6.