I tried installing LineageOS to my Fairphone 6. I followed the instructions as the guide said. When encountering a problem, I asked Claude, and even with its assitance I could not install it. Here’s its resume of the problems and steps taken until now. If anyone knows how to proceed it will be very …

[image] David_Ch: I followed the instructions as the guide said. [image] David_Ch: Flashed recovery.img to both recovery_a and recovery_b The install guide doesn’t say it this way , or was this in the output you got from the command? (Just pointing out, I don’t have an FP6 and I don’t…

Thanks for the response. You’re right, the “recovery_a/recovery_b” flashing wasn’t from the official guide, it was a solution proposed by Claude after “fastboot flash recovery recovery.img” (the guide’s actual command) didn’t get me into recovery. To clarify what I actually followed from the guide…

[image] David_Ch: Given the bootloader version string, is it possible the FP6 doesn’t have a separate recovery partition at all (i.e. “recovery-less” / recovery merged into boot, common on newer Android 13+ devices with GKI)? If so, would selecting “Recovery mode” from the bootloader menu even b…

Thanks for this thread, very helpful for confirming the recovery.img step (which I did flash from the start, so that part’s covered on my end). I’m stuck at a related but different point: after flashing boot/dtbo/init_boot/vbmeta/vendor_boot/recovery (all OKAY), selecting Recovery mode (or Start) a…

[image] David_Ch: Anyone run into this specific retry-counter/unbootable state and know the command to reset it? Flashing again should reset the count(s), says the internet.

Found the problem! When downloading boot.img, it got downloaded with this name but the contents of dtbo.img for some reason (same SHA256). I tried downloading it again, and after 2 tries it finally downloaded the right one. Thank you for your help!

Problem installing LineageOS

Help Fairphone 6

AnotherElk August 23, 2026, 1:54pm 4

It seems straightforward …

If there is _a and _b for recovery in FP6, does it make a difference if you do fastboot set_active other (to switch the currently active slot to the other one) and try again getting into recovery?