This indeed is interestingly close to my timings. Maybe, I was a little earlier. Today, I tooted about it at 12:17 CET, which would be 11:17 UTC, so must have happened maybe around 11 UTC? Friday was also some time around noon.
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Fastboot screen comes if volume down button is keep pressed while rebooting
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Same here for me.
ca. 4 p.m. CET
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Shortly after I completed the 2nd factory reset I started hitting issues again. This time shortly before the phone crashes it displays a message “LocationServices keeps stopping”. Regardless of whether I “stop the app” or ignore the alert the restart occurs a few seconds later.
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I had no issue on Friday.
Today the reset loop startet at ~8:30UTC.
Anyone an idea how to fix this?
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Hmm, could after all be related to:
But why do some only get it with second accounts and some with the main account without even having a second one? And why did it start – at least for the people in this thread – quite suddenly without a system upgrade or something like that?
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Yeah, same issue with my FP3+. Have contacted support. Let’s see what they’ll tell me to do…
Btw. I don’t have a second user account on that phone.
Having the same exact issue. I also contacted support
Hate being dependent on support that might or might not answer timely. 
We are already seven, so not an isolated issue at all. But it also does not seem to hit absolutely everybody.
What else do we have in common? My provider is Vodafone Germany. It’s an FP3 without Plus purchased March 2020. I actually did not change much in the settings between the first factory reset and it now not working again.
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Same for me,
- FP3+
- Vodafone DE
- 2 Years old
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Same here. Happened a few days ago and had to reset. Again today about 21:00 GMT+1.
Spain, stock FP3, latest updates installed, Operator DIGI Spain.
Looks like a software issue IMO, Im gonna try to downgrade to an older version to see what is going on.
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Vodafone again?
did anyone try to run the phone without SIM?
Yes, doesn’t help at all after the problem started to appear. Also reboots to factory reset 20 seconds after unlocking the screen without SIM.
My very wild guess was: Since it worked for me for six days after the last factory reset, maybe they are sending “something” over the air only sometimes and that triggers the problem starting.
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Who is they?
However good its not another Vodafone Germany issue as it also happens in Spain😉
Tried all possible combinations: With/Without SIM/SD card/flight mode/safe mode 
Did another factory reset. Problem reappeared this time within 10 min after factory reset…
Next idea: Unlock bootloader, downgrade to previous firmware version. I know that one has issues with bluetooth, but if it at least let me use my phone again…
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Never done that. Is there a good How-To including links to where to download older versions?
The network providers? Don’t know exactly what they really can or cannot push over the air, but since I learned that they can hold back OS updates, I thought maybe they can also push settings that result in this.
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done the downgrade to previous version…didnt even last 10 minutes before the factory reset started.
Thing is, my wife which also has the same FP3 (bought both at the same time), same update, same SIM card company, has no issues at all 
Installing lineageOS for now, cant have no phone due to work. This sucks
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Hi and welcome to the fourm:
Note Yvmuells post above
DIGI Spain uses Vodafone
This issue just started appearing for me as well now. I have only a TelekomDE sim in my fp3, in the SIM2 slot, so it’s definitely not a vdfn issue.
I wasn’t even actively using the phone at the time it happened, so it’s fairly likely that it’s some OTA stuff.
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