Hallo!
So I installed 1.17-s eos on my Fairphone 4 Nov 23, and misunderstood the antirollback warnings. So I installed an os based on an android security patch from october on a phone with patch from november.
Everything went smoothly until I performed the fastboot flashing lock operation. That sent me into an eternal loop where I always ended up in the bootloader. So thought that I had bricked my phone. Fortunately I could get my phone to work by running fastboot flashing unlock.
But, this meant that I have a rooted phone. This has quite a few disadvantages, especially being unable to install aps because some apps simply wont install when the phone is rooted. There is of course also the added risk of having a phone that is less protected to intruders…
I have now waited quite a while and have now upgraded to 1.19-t. And assumed that this would dove the issue, but exactly thw same thing happened even though it now 1.19 t should be based on a security patch from december… I have a few questions related to this.
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Did i brick my phone after all, is that why it doesn’ work?
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Would a complete factory restore at least fix the issue. So that can get an unrooted phone
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Is this because eos doesn’t really work with eos, at least not completely?
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Could I get out of this somehow, and stil have eos on my phone. Or do I need to chicken out and get move back to fairphone os?
Otherwise I am really happy with eos, so would be a shame…
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