I explained you why and you didnt answer my question and accusing the forum=user again for being silent…
No one will confirm such, as again, we are user, no staff.
I explained you why and you didnt answer my question and accusing the forum=user again for being silent…
No one will confirm such, as again, we are user, no staff.
Well, sorry for that I was not intending to target any particular user, just the lack of support in general. I was very frustrated by the lack of support from Fairphone, and I was assuming that the company had a few staff (marked as Angels) around on this forum. Apparently that is not the case.
Anyway I have finally succeeded updating to 0025 and then to 0026 with the files linked by @TeamB58
Thanks.
So you simply used the method described under OTA Sideload in the support article you linked in your OP, step by step, twice (once for each file) and it all worked fine w/o data loss, correct ?
Yes, just followed the guide twice, no data loss.
I had to press another time the volume up + power button in the bootloader to reach the menu, as in the description but apart from that everything went as described.
I am using Linux, so I had to install ADB manually. For Win and Mac I believe ADB is in the zip file.
Just to update you all, 4.A.0027.1 is released and support page is now updated. A full OTA file is also now available that can be used to sideload from any previous Android 11 version.
Cool…
waiting for someone to report success or failure before I attempt on my wife’s and my own devices … you never know
I attempted the Sideload process.
There must be a problem with the content of the sideload_update batch file on Windows:
This bat file says "start bin-msys\git-bash.exe -c “./sideload_update.command”
but in .\bin-msys, there is no git-bash.exe file, but there’s a PortableGit-2.35.1.2-32-bit.7z file.
Can someone please clarify what I should do before attempting something I may regret ?
Should I simply extract in place the 7z file with all its content and subdirectories ???
Oher gotchas or misplaced files I should know before proceeding on Windows ?
a little confirmation would be appreciated
Not sure, I was using Linux. But you could install ADB (Android development tools) and simply use that.
I see there is a 0028 update now, but I’m not sure how to install it (from Windows)…content is very different compared to the 0026 to 0027 file, e.g. no sideload_update.command file…
How do I ?
Help appreciated
I’d also like some clarification here.
Of the OTA downloadable files available, the only one for 0028 says it’s for 0026 → 0028. But I’m on 0027!
Seems a bit confused.
I eventually threw in the towel and went the Android 13 update route…only one password management app now crippled due to [expected] fingerprint limitations, but overall responsiveness of the phone sometimes significantly slower (i was afraid of this), e.g. incoming phone call screen visible and reactive about 2 seconds after initial ringing is unacceptably late.
Just nudging this topic. Has anyone updated an FP3(+) to A11 0028?
I’ve discovered that the download that says for 0028 from 0026 is wrong, the actual download filename says to 0028 from 0027, so it’s a typo on the web page. 0027 to 0028 is what I want. But the zip file contents are completely wrong, there’s no sideloadable file, and no sideload script.
Should this ever have been put on the web page - is build 0028 even a thing?
PS: I have no intention of going to A13, I’ll take whatever risk A11 might present until the phone is too old to use. My wife updated to A13 (by mistake), and doesn’t like it - slow response, doesn’t like the new UI. And I also have a LOT of apps that use fingerprint, I’m not prepared to lose that feature.
I came back to this, and eventually worked out how to do it, and the mistake Fairphone have made in publishing the file.
If you look at the one of the previous update zip files that works (e.g. the 0026->0027 one), it contains the update scripts, and 3 folders. One of these is ota-packages, and this contains the actual update as another zip file. It has the same name as the outer zip file, but without “-manual-sideload” at the end.
The file that has been posted as 0027->0028 is the INNER zip file, not the whole thing. So to install it, download 0026->0027, unpack it, then replace the inner zip with the downloaded 0027->0028. Then run the update in the normal way. Bingo - you will be running 0028.
I’ll send a message to Fairphone support on this, they don’t seem to have noticed (maybe no-one else is actually still running AOS 11 and bothering to update it?!).