[1772809859708] Dear fellow travellers, I got my first fairphone. It is FP6 with Android, but I bought it to steer away from Android and iOS, so decided to change the OS to e OS. It is not brand new, but it has not been used by anyone so there was no data on it and I decided to give it a try and …

I would just start again with the installation, as long as its unlocked you should be able to get out

Thanks for the reply. You mean, install it manually? This step by step installation required some interaction with the phone, but now I can only do it via the PC, right?

I dont understand, however you did it just try it again.

Like yvmuell said, you could try the web-installer again from the beginning. If this does not work then I would suggest to reinstall FPOS and then try to flash e/os manually following this guide [image] A clear guide to install /e/OS on your Fairphone Guides […

Thanks, both of you, for being so responsive. Sure thing, I will try that, but I don’t know what I did wrong last time and wouldn’t like to repeat that. Now that I am reading about these rollbacks, maybe it has sth to do with that? I read somewhere that when deinstalling the previous OS, it should b…

yes indeed, the SPL, security patch level, of e/os should be equal or newer (as more recent) than what it says on the phone. Examples: Device SPL: 2025-06-05 | /e/OS SPL: 2025-05-01 (Rollback: 2025-05-05) → Will brick the device Device SPL: 2025-06-05 | /e/OS SPL: 2025-06-01 (Rollback: 2025-06-05…

Thx, no going back, I will wait for the new e OS SPL; I can still use my old phone for the most basic stuff, some digital detox has never done any harm. I will keep you posted if the problem got solved.

[image] Gyddanzc: but I don’t know what I did wrong last time and wouldn’t like to repeat that. Maybe nothing, however I dont know what step 22 is. the webinstaller isnt perfect. As long as you dont lock the bootloader the SPL isnt doing much, so could be older without doing harm. If you want…

Ah yes i remember reading that. You can indeed install e/os but not lock the bootloader, and wait until the next update to lock it.

Installing e OS on Android FP6 - troubleshooting

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piero-e March 8, 2026, 10:29pm 18

Hello @erichuizinga, Welcome to the Fairphone users forum.

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