TWRP for Fairphone 5

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Here you can find TWRP (TeamWin Recovery Project) builds for the Fairphone 5.

Please remember that TWRP is not officially supported by Fairphone!

Download:

twrp-3.7.0_12_FP5-UNOFFICIAL-20230825:

Uncompress the .gz file and then you can boot TWRP using: fastboot boot twrp-3.7.0_12_FP5-UNOFFICIAL-20230825.img

Known issues:

  • Encrypted userdata not supported

  • Vibration not supported

  • Other undiscovered things?

Please also note that Android security features like AVB (Android Verified Boot) & dm-verity might make your device unbootable if you tamper with some partitions. Keep your important data always backed up off-device!

Device repository (incl. build instructions):

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Awesome! That was fast!

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Wow. Nice to see that one provided right off the bat. :slight_smile:

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Is there any way you could provide the zip (or a modified boot.img) as well, so we can install it permanently instead of just manually booting into it with fastboot?

or am I getting something wrong here? Still used to having a recovery partition, I don’t know if I fully understand all implications of the A/B partitioning yet.

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I yet need to receive my FP5 and there is already an unofficial TWRP… This is awesome.

@rob87 Well… fastboot boot [img_file] is for testing and is indeed loaded into memory.
Flashing can be done using: fastboot flash recovery [img_file], which I do not recommend yet, since I didn’t test it myself :lollipop: … (WARNING: This might and will override your recovery)

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Indeed be careful with such advice without the device in your hands or definitive sources.
There might not be a recovery partition to flash to (as the Fairphone 3 has shown, for example).

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Hence my warning… :sweat_smile: . But still sharing it.

The More You Know The More You Realize You Don’t Know.

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FP5 does not have a recovery partition. You have two boot partitions A/B and the recovery is installed onto those boot partitions. Simply flashing with fastboot flash basically works but will overwrite the whole boot partition resulting in a device which just boots into TWRP.

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I’ve honestly not really looked into how to install TWRP permanently. I assume it requires patching the ramdisk in the boot partition (like on Fairphone 3 like others mentioned). But from searching around a bit I think these instructions should apply to Fairphone 5 (haven’t tried myself though): _includes/fastbootabinstall.html - twrpme - Gitiles

So in short, there should be an “Advanced” > “Flash Current TWRP” option, or “Install Recovery Ramdisk” option that will permanently install TWRP.

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there is no such option when booting TWRP. Just “Install TWRP App” but that’s not really effective. AFAIK the App only searches and applies updates for TWRP.