Fairphone 4 - stuck in bootloader / fastboot mode after 'easy installer'

Hi all,

New here, wanted do de-google and bought a Fairphone 4 and used the online easy installer. All worked very well on the Opera browser on my macbook and completed the easy installation online with all the steps. But when finished the phone stayed in bootloader mode/ fastboot mode: The menu with the options ‘Start, Restart bootloader, Recovery mode, power off’. But whatever i select it brings me back to the same menu.

Device state is ‘unlocked’

Don’t know what to do and can’t find a helping topic. *I am new to this, so hope you can help me out.

If more information is needed, please let me know

Hi @Bas88 welcome to the /e/ forum.

Here is another thread just like yours Fairphone 4 /e/OS installation locked in FastBoot Mode marked Solved found by following the hashtags fp4 + eosinstaller (you might also check out the hashtag Web Installer too.)

The answer is just follow the manual install instructions Install /e/OS on a Fairphone FP4 - “FP4”.

The phone is unlocked, the flash process has presumably run to a certain point … but failed to complete; there is no documented way to find a log of exactly the problem but the phone “safely” reverts to Fastboot as system and Recovery are non working.

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