Being a rather new FP/Android “client” I do suffer from lack of technical skills to be able to reinstall such a formatted and cleared phone. I can access TWRP controlling FP2 from my Win10pc, and are able to access TWRP page with multiple menus on my phone. But “swipe to factory reset” only leads to…

[image] gb de pencil2 Installing the Fairphone 2 from scratch in case of failure / Komplette Neuinstallation des Fairphone 2 im Fehlerfall Guides Updates could go wrong, upgrades could go wrong, own experiments could go wrong, any given thing could go wrong … and the Fairp…

Well this did not help a lot. Reaching the Team Win Recovery Project, the recovery fails, as mentioned. Lack of recovery image?

A factory reset removes user data. This effectively means a reset of the OS to default settings. It does not do a reinstall of an OS, restore a wiped system partition, or roll back the OS version to an older version. If you wiped your OS, a factory reset will not bring it back. The guide that @Anoth…

[image] torstein: Well this did not help a lot. Reaching the Team Win Recovery Project, the recovery fails, as mentioned. If you only did something that you mentioned before then I guess you didn’t follow the guide completely. Which step gives you trouble? Perhaps something in the guide can …

Brilliant, even doable for me. I had a mixture of fastboot and TWRP installed, but SDK update made it workable. No, at least, I’m back to where I started. Thank you!

Lost recovery option and operating system om my FP2

Help Fairphone 2

AnotherElk February 19, 2019, 11:16pm 2