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Upgrading to Android 6 from 1.13.0 with manual method

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#1

Hi there!

I am currently trying to upgrade to Android 6, finally, after having it put off for way too long. I have TWRP installed and XPosed (which I uninstalled previously for the upgrade, just to be safe).

I already manually updated to 1.13.0 from my previous version via TWRP, which worked just fine.
Now I am trying to upgrade to 17.10.2 via fastboot, following this guide.

First of all: the flash.sh looks a bit differently for me and I couldn’t find the exact phrase to delete, so I deleted this instead:
SHA256SUM_CMD="${SHA256SUM_BIN} --status --check SHA256SUMS"
and:
${FASTBOOT_BIN} -s ${sn} reboot
hoping that these would be correct.
(Indeed, without deleting the first line, I got a validation error, but when I deleted it, I get “validation complete”.

My problems now occur while running the flash.sh.
It looks like this:

$ sh flash-for-unix.sh
** Fairphone OS 17.10.2 Manual Flashing Script **

Validating files...
Validation complete.

and then it just stops. There is no error or anything, it doesn’t abort, but it also doesn’t go farther than Validation complete and I really don’t know what to do. Can anyone help with this?

Laura

#2

Please post full flash-for-unix.sh, so we can say you which commands are needed. They look like fastboot flash <partition> <image>. (Or ${FASTBOOT_BIN} instead of fastboot).

#3

this is the whole original flash-for-unix.sh:

#!/bin/sh

ROOT_DIR=$(dirname "$0")
IMAGES_DIR="${ROOT_DIR}/images"

# Abort the script (and wait for a key to be pressed).
abort_now() {
  echo
  read -p "Aborting now (press Enter to terminate)." a
  exit 1
}

# Validate checksums. Abort on failure.
# Arguments: <validation command>
validate_checksums() {
  echo "Validating files..."

  # The digest files feature relative paths
  (cd "$IMAGES_DIR" && ${1}) \
  || {
    echo "ERROR: Checksums do not match."
    echo "Please download the manual update image again."
    abort_now
  }

  echo "Validation complete."
}

# Flash an image to a partition. Abort on failure.
# Arguments: <device serial number> <partition name> <image file>
flash_image_or_abort() {
  ($FASTBOOT_BIN -s "${1}" flash "${2}" "${3}") \
  || {
    echo
    echo "ERROR: Could not flash the ${2} partition on device ${1}."
    echo
    echo "ERROR: Please unplug the phone, take the battery out, boot the device into"
    echo "ERROR: fastboot mode, plug in the phone, and start this script again."
    echo "ERROR: (To get to fastboot mode, press Volume-Down and Power until the)"
    echo "ERROR: (Fairphone logo appears.)"
    abort_now
  }
}


echo "** Fairphone OS 17.10.2 Manual Flashing Script **"
echo

case "$(uname -s 2> /dev/null)" in
  Darwin)
    FASTBOOT_BIN="${ROOT_DIR}/bin-darwin/fastboot"
    SHA256SUM_BIN=$(which shasum)
    SHA256SUM_CMD="${SHA256SUM_BIN} --algorithm 256 --portable --status --check SHA256SUMS"
    # The 'md5' tool available on Mac OS X cannot validate a digest file…
    MD5SUM_BIN=
    MD5SUM_CMD=
    ;;
  Linux|GNU/Linux)
    FASTBOOT_BIN=$(which fastboot)
    SHA256SUM_BIN=$(which sha256sum)
    SHA256SUM_CMD="${SHA256SUM_BIN} --status --check SHA256SUMS"
    MD5SUM_BIN=$(which md5sum)
    MD5SUM_CMD="${MD5SUM_BIN} --status --check MD5SUMS"
    ;;
  *)
    echo "ERROR: Unsupported operating system (${OSTYPE})."
    echo "ERROR: Only GNU/Linux and Mac OS X systems are supported."
    abort_now
    ;;
esac

if [ ! -x "${FASTBOOT_BIN}" ]
then
  echo $FASTBOOT_BIN
  echo "ERROR: The 'fastboot' command is not available."
  echo "ERROR: Please install the 'fastboot' tool from your package manager."

  abort_now
fi

if [ -x "${SHA256SUM_BIN}" ]
then
  validate_checksums "${SHA256SUM_CMD}"
elif [ -x "${MD5SUM_BIN}" ]
then
  validate_checksums "${MD5SUM_CMD}"
else
  echo "WARNING: No SHA-256 or MD5 checksum program is available."
  echo "WARNING: Cannot validate integrity of the Fairphone OS update."
  echo

  while [ 1 = 1 ]
  do
    read -p "Do you still want to continue? [(y)es/(N)o]: " a
    if [ -z "${a}" -o "${a}" = 'n' -o "${a}" = 'N' ]
    then
      exit 0
    elif [ "${a}" = 'y' -o "${a}" = 'Y' ]
    then
      break
    fi
  done
fi

sn=
look_for_a_device=1

while [ 1 = 1 ]
do
  serial_numbers=

  for sn in $(${FASTBOOT_BIN} devices | grep fastboot | grep -oE '^[[:alnum:]]+')
  do
    product=$($FASTBOOT_BIN -s ${sn} getvar product 2>&1 | grep -oE 'product:\s+FP2')
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    then
      serial_numbers="${serial_numbers} $sn"
    fi
  done

  case $(echo $serial_numbers | wc -w | grep -oE '[0-9]+') in
    0)
      echo
      echo "WARNING: No Fairphone 2 found in fastboot mode."
      echo "WARNING: Make sure that a Fairphone 2 is connected."
      echo "WARNING: To check for devices, type '${FASTBOOT_BIN} devices'."
      ;;
    1)
      echo
      echo "One Fairphone 2 in fastboot mode found (serial number: ${sn})."

      sn=${serial_numbers}
      break
      ;;
    *)
      echo
      echo "WARNING: Several Fairphone 2's in fastboot mode connected."
      echo "WARNING: Please connect only one Fairphone 2."
      ;;
  esac

  echo
  while [ 1 = 1 ]
  do
    read -p "Do you want to look for a Fairphone 2 again? [(Y)es/(n)o]: " a
    if [ -z "${a}" -o "${a}" = 'y' -o "${a}" = 'Y' ]
    then
      break
    elif [ "${a}" = 'n' -o "${a}" = 'N' ]
    then
      exit 0
    fi
  done
done

echo
echo "Proceeding to flash the device."
echo
flash_image_or_abort ${sn} rpm "${IMAGES_DIR}/rpm.mbn"
flash_image_or_abort ${sn} sbl1 "${IMAGES_DIR}/sbl1.mbn"
flash_image_or_abort ${sn} tz "${IMAGES_DIR}/tz.mbn"
flash_image_or_abort ${sn} modem "${IMAGES_DIR}/NON-HLOS.bin"
flash_image_or_abort ${sn} splash "${IMAGES_DIR}/splash.img"
flash_image_or_abort ${sn} aboot "${IMAGES_DIR}/emmc_appsboot.mbn"
flash_image_or_abort ${sn} boot "${IMAGES_DIR}/boot.img"
flash_image_or_abort ${sn} recovery "${IMAGES_DIR}/recovery.img"
flash_image_or_abort ${sn} system "${IMAGES_DIR}/system.img"

echo
echo "Flashing successful!"
echo "Your Fairphone 2 will now run **Fairphone OS 17.10.2**."
echo
read -p "Press Enter to reboot the device and complete the installation..." a

${FASTBOOT_BIN} -s ${sn} reboot

and i just ran sh flash-for-unix.sh in my terminal (in the directory that i unpacked the manual files into).
Thank you for trying to help, I appreciate it!!

#4

Hey!
It sounds like you know your way around fastboot, so I’d suggest following the same path I did and leaping straight up to Android 7 with LineageOS. Its now officially supported by the Lineage developers, and from the experience across the community, runs very well on the Fairphone. The caveat is that you have to do a factory reset, so ensure you make a data backup if you decide to go for it.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/FP2/install

:slight_smile:

#5

put this inside your .sh and it should work (delete the other stuff)

fastboot flash rpm rpm.mbn
fastboot flash sbl1 sbl1.mbn
fastboot flash tz tz.mbn
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot flash splash splash.img
fastboot flash aboot emmc_appsboot.mbn
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img```
#6

Thank you both for your suggestions!

@anthony: that sounds interesting, I might look into that. thank you for your suggestion!

@retsifp: thank you for your help! when I tried it out, I got the “waiting for device” message. I figured out how to solve that problem, and then after that could actually use the original script as well, so the reason it didn’t work must have been a permissions problem. what you posted for me failed because it couldn’t find the files, they were in a sub folder called “images”. thank you lots though, without your suggestion I would have never figured out the permissions problem!

For everyone having maybe a similar problem,
this is my solution:
The issue was that my laptop didn’t have permission to access my phone.
I am using Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu 16.04), so with this handy guide I managed to fix the permissions.
After that “fastboot devices” works without sudo, and also finally the bash file could work!

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#7

May I suggest to you this guide for the future?

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#8

thank you, this is very concise, I’ve saved it!

#9

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