Hi, I have allowed myself to move your and @Ingo’s posts here so more info on this specific problem can be found in one place. Rae is already notified and will bring it up in an imminent meeting with the team.
i have the same issue… flashed the newest image and now i am stuck at the black “fairphone” boot screen. system.img gives me the same invalid sparse error as mentioned above… sadly i flashed it before finding this thread
Hi again thanks for taking the issue into account
So my phone was (badly) rooted making it impossible to OTA update like @lothar_muc
My initial objective was to manually flash the update without wiping my user data.
After bricking the phone with the provided update, I’ve just wiped my phone and reinstalled the last working update and performed OTA unrooted then root again
I hope future OTA will be released quicker and without bugs
That correct, I should have mentioned that my phone was rooted with modification on /system so I was out of luck for OTA
Reinstalling the previous version and performing the OTA allowed me to bump my phone to A.0084
The manual install page now links to a new archive which contains a better system.img:
It is 2.7GB large and simg2img produces a raw image without any errors. The resulting image can be fsck’d and mounted (loop device under linux) successfully.
To summarize: The new image should be good, at least as far as I can tell without really installing it (I currently have lineageos running).
In this case, it shouldn’t be hard even with a small team, after all users (each a team of 1 person) simply using the file as intended found out it’s bad without too much trouble.
But we’re all just human.
Hopefully the process gets improved, so that the same thing can’t happen again.
Thanks to all of your fast responses my issue is solved.
The linked Unlock steps worked like a charm, managed to flash the new A.0084 (ending with _r2), bootup and everything.
Couple of notes:
This time the installer did not lock the bootloader itself, not sure if this is intentional or not.
During setup WiFi connected, but stated there was no internet. After skipping some of the setup steps connected again manually from the settings menu and I have internet access (same network).