The Fairphone 2's factory reset ... or the lack thereof

[AnotherElk]

@Patrick1

As I know what a factory reset should do (and usually always did for me) is setting everything back to the “factory” state without any individual setup, just as it left the factory.

I had the very same expectation based on the meaning of the term, further strengthened by the fact that my backup phone (Windows Mobile) does exactly that when it does a factory reset.

Well, on to practice then with the Fairphone 2 …

Porting LineageOS to FP2

I just did a factory reset from within Fairphone Open OS thinking it would reset my phone to a somewhat near initial state … wrong, OS and TWRP are the same and encryption is still there, only every other user-related stuff is gone and the OS starts with the initial setup. Dear diary, “factory reset” nowadays seems to be a funny thing not 100% related to the term I once knew, I’m feeling old … So I wiped everything in TWRP and formatted data again to get rid of the encryption. …