I was following along the “Manage the bootloader” (https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/10492476238865-Manage-the-Bootloader) guide, when I hit an unexpected wall. The guide says "go through the device manager, look under “Other devices” and there should be your thing.
I don’t have the “Other devices” tab in my device manager. However, my phone shows up under “portable devices”. I updated those drivers, but the “Google bootloader interface” driver was not on that list.
So, is my phone connected in some wrong mode? Is my usb cable the wrong type? What am i doing wrong?
I understand what should be happening, but I don’t know where the issue is. I have managed to follow the steps up to that point just fine. And of course, the tech support is offline rn, so I have to turn to the community.
Ok, past that hurdle, I have managed to flash the OS (I think), but as the instructions end there, I don’t quite know what next.
Phone is still in fastboot mode. Unless the .bat file should initiate a reset, I guess I just have to reset the phone myself. But should I re-lock the bootloader first?
Don’t look your bootloader yet!
First you need to run the command:
fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability
If the outcome is 0 you will brick your phone, if you lock the bootloader.
Well I didn’t brick my phone, and I don’t think the bootloader is still unlocked, so now it’s in the Fairphone teams hands to fix what was wrong.
The flashing did not fix the issue. That could also be me doing something wrong, because the instructions were not that clear.
