Exept i pressed the five buttons and it didn’t work.
I am still in the reboot loop.
Have I missed something?
Was there any official statement or information to customes outside this forum?
Unfortunately “quickly pressing 5 buttons” does not seem to work for many affected users! So the topic is far from being solved.
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I looked hard and couldn’t find anything besides in this forum.
And that is not ‚official‘?
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Maybe, but I think 99% of the Fairphone users do not know it.
Because the most of them need only a running phone.
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Sure, but those users, who are having problems, looking for help are coming to the forum. Here is the communication, workaround and hope that this problem is fixed now by Google.
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And you think that these then all install android studio to install / change something on the phone?
Do you install Microsoft visual studio when you buy a Windows laptop?
Sorry, but not everyone who uses a cell phone is a developer or a freak!
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I didn’t need ADB. All the step by step provided were enough.
→ Start the phone, enter sim pin but not android. Long press the share nearby in the drop-down menu, enter pin. Press deactivate. Boom no more reboot. Then go down, open play store link for Google play service, update. Boom problem solved forever.
There is not freaking thing there,
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Sorry, I do not understand … which drop down menu?
The drop-down menu on the lock screen. Swipe down on that screen and follow the instructions.
Thank you, this was what I tried first.
But I’m not able to do it within 8 to 10 seconds …
So let’s wait until the problem is solved by Fairphone / Google.
Till now my phone reboots like before.
Hello,
If you do not already have this shortcut on the dropdown menu, you will have to do it in two step as me: one to add it to the shortcut list, the second one to use it to deactivate Google Services.
For the first step, on the lock screen, swipe your finger from up to bottom in order to see the menu on the top of the screen (where you can enable or disable WiFi, 4G,…). Swipe again to fully open it (on FP 3+ it is fully opened the first time, no need for a second swipe). Then long press the “pen” on the bottom left of this menu.
Your phone will ask for unlocking. Do it, and then search quickly for the logo of “share nearby” (kind of horizontal DNA, Google it if you are not sure). You will have to scroll down because the first icons displayed are the one already in your menu. When found, swipe it on top (long press and swipe), to add it to your shortcuts. Perhaps you will need one step to find it, then restart, then add it to the menu when you will know where it is.
On the second restart, before unlocking, you can long press this icon in order to go directly on the right place after unlocking your phone (as already described above) 
I hope it can help 
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I am in the same case.
Play Store re-activated 3h ago. It updated 9 apps.
So far, so good.
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@Nobody
Thank you now I was able to enter the Google Play Service.
Trying to uninstall the updates I get the message, that the uninstallation of Google Play Service failed.
Then the mobile loops again …
Hi did you get it sorted? I disabled before uninstalling updates. You don’t need the 3 dots for disabling and it buys you all the time you need.
Except that the phone goes a bit crazy telling you all the things that won’t work now you’ve disabled. Once you’ve uninstalled back to the original play version, everything works again, but you need to disable autoupdates.
For me it is not fixed(FP3). I do not have a second user on my phone!
I enabled the playstore ~8 hours ago after i read the statement that the issue is fixed, but the issue is back.
The version the phone installed after enabling the playstore is 22.44.16.
After the Issue first occured i used version 22.02.21 linked in this thread installed with adb.
I am going back to this version since the uninstall updates Button for the google play services does not work for me…
Also is there a way to install such updates immediately and not having to wait until 2am to see if its still broken or not?
EDIT: I might have forgotten to reanable background data usage, if this is an Issue…
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Hello Gillian,
Thank you for asking.
I have been able to follow the workaround. However, I do now have no acces to the Google play store (it is no longer in my applications list) and Google Services is still on ‘disabled’.
Is this how it will be from now on or is there a different solution? I tried to follow the topic, but there is too much information for me.
Thank you in advance.
I believe you used the adb workaround previously?
To bring back Google Play Store you’d need to re-enable com.android.vending.
Details on how to do that (and other steps to take to remove the workaround now the unwanted update’s no longer being pushed can be found here: Stock fp3(+) (factory reset) boot loop (workarounds in first post) - #315 by JohnLBevan.
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