Reset and downgrade

[Maryamu]

Hi, I had quite some issues after the upgrade like many others, and I just want to know:

• what does a reset do to your phone?
• how can I downgrade to 1.6 again?

Thanks!

[Stefan]

1. A hard reset erases ALL of your data. A soft reset does not, only system files are overwritten (FP OS or Google Apps e.g.)
2. A downgrade is as far as I know a soft reset and thus should not erase any personal data. A backup is always recommended. Here is how to install OS version 1.6 manually.

I’d like to hear another opinion on this though. Can you, @Chris_R, confirm the above?

[Maryamu]

Thanks for the answer! In the meantime I found your link (sometimes I’m a bit lost on the forum), but that does scare me a big deal. I’d rather go with the flaws and wait for a better 1.8 in the meantime

[seran]

Hi Maryamu,

I did a downgrade to 1.6 and it worked fine except an error message I kept getting. I described problem and solution here:

[Solved]After downgrade from 1.8 to 1.6 Fairphone Upater won't lauch and other problems

Hi, I installed 1.8 today and couldn’t reinstall google apps. Unfortunately I thought I just do a rollback, because everything was fine before. Now I keep getting the error ‘the process android.process.media has stopped’ in all different places. For example when I try installing the google apps via the widget or starting the FairPhone Updater. So I’m not even able to go back to 1.8 anymore. Do you have any suggestions other than a factory reset? Not even sure if that would help. I’d lik…

There’s also a tutorial for that problem:

Fairphone | The phone that cares for people and planet

After fixing this issue, everything works fine. I only lost my start screens, but I wanted to clean them up anyway and now I did

[Maryamu]

Hi Seran, thanks for the answer! Can you explain what you did to downgrade? I wouldn’t even know where to start. Cheers!