New Google Emojis on FP2

If you already use TWRP or another recovery capable of installing zip files, you only have to download a flashable zip with emoji, boot into recovery and then install the zip. If you don’t have a custom recovery installed, follow the steps below.

  1. Install the Android Debug Bridge.
  2. Download a working version of TWRP to your PC.
  3. Download a flashable zip with emoji to your FP2’s internal memory - such as this one.
  4. Turn off your phone and boot to bootloader by pressing Power + Volume down.
  5. Connect the phone to a PC with a USB data cable and in a terminal on your PC, run
    fastboot devices
    to make sure your device is connected. It should show up as a series of symbols followed by ‘fastboot’.
  6. Now, in that terminal run
    fastboot flash recovery /path/to/the/image/twrp-3.3.1-1-FP2.img
    Replacing the path with the path to your file, of course.
  7. Now type
    fastboot reboot
    and before pressing Return, hold down the Volume up button on your FP2, and only then press Return. Your phone will boot to TWRP.
  8. Use the slider to allow modifications, tap ‘Install’ and select your flashable zip file. Confirm and reboot.

That’s it!

Edit: changed link to zip to the one available from the WeAreFairphone github

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