JohnnyD
December 20, 2024, 2:16pm
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Have been following this thread as well? Essentially the wrong USB cable was the culprit. It sounds a little bit like this is the case with you as well.
Hi, I recently got a Fairphone 5 and wanted to install e/os on it. I had thought I could do it through the easy installer but found out after buying that wasn’t an option yet. Anyway, I wasn’t too put off and read the instructions carefully and then tried to step through them.
Long story short, the installation didn’t work. It’s stuck in the bootloader menu (it gives me the four options start, restart bootloader, recovery mode, power off, but choosing any only loops it back to this screen). It …
Furthermore there are other/similar forum threads here discussing the topic of “returning back to FPOS” you may want to check out as well.
e.g.
Hello,
I have installed Ubuntu Touch (maintained by Ubports) and I wish to go back to FPOS and relock the bootloader. I am unsure how to proceed with this because I am aware of risks with locking the bootloader after flashing different OSs. How would I proceed with this? I received my FP4 with the Android 11 version of FPOS, but I am wondering if there is a flashboot command that can confirm this.