Hello!
As I am not really a computer crack, I wanted to use the Easy installer to install e/os on my Fairphone 3+.
My computer is a Dell (refurbished, of course ) and I use Windows 10 and have a Bitdefender antivirus software (maybe that is relevant).
The easy installer recognizes my Fairphone 3+ so up until that I did everything right apparently.
It then downloads the IMG-e-latestFP3.zip file and tells me that itâs installed successfully. The next page shows:
OEM
update to the next version
with this link: https://www.fairphone.com/en/bootloader-unlocking-code-for-fairphone-3/ (I unlocked the bootloader according to description)
I press sound lower/start until Fastboot mode appears.
And then nothing happens and thereâs no more buttons to go further and no more descriptions. The last picture is of the phone and two green arrows where the keys for lower/start are
and it again tells me to go into fastboot mode.
My phone shows the fastboot mode with a green START on top, then âPress volume key to select and press power key to select.â
But the last thint on the menu is âDevice state â lockedâ (is this maybe the problem? How do I unlock it?)
Now because Iâm no expert, I probably will have difficulties installing this with all the commands⌠Any advice appreciated! Thanks in advance!
From Telegram: Anne: âmy phone the green START appears but nothing happens + Everything worked until they wanted me to start in fast bootmode,â Anonyme: âYou have started the Fairphone in fastboot mode, you see the green âSTARTâ but nothing happensâ
Dear Iain, I did accordingly and fastboot mode started the installation. But now it stopped midways⌠the phone does not budge any more, itâs dead and I cannot restart it by pressing the start-button. Any idea what I can do to resolve this? Thanks!
Anne, you have documented this well, I think I know the answer, but I am going to step back and let someone with Fairphone experience take over. The phone is fine, sorry if you get no answer till the morning.
No worries, thatâs absolutely okay. I am really thankful for this forum, will definitely donate when itâs done. Can I shut down my computer for the night without destroying anything then?
It is a problem.
Edit: Ok, it seems not to be a problem for the Easy Installer.
The description you linked to doesnât actually unlock the phone, this one does currently âŚ
(Fairphone rearranged the unlocking pages in the past at least once, this could be an incomplete part which only gets you the unlocking code and lets you enable the unlocking that has still to be done. How did you find this page?
I donât know much about the Easy Installer process, perhaps it is supposed to do the rest of the unlocking?)
Assuming you did the enabling part in Fairphone OS according to the incomplete description, just get the phone into Fastboot Mode and continue following the complete description from point â3. Unlock your bootloaderâ.
(If the Easy Installer doesnât do it itself.)
If the phone doesnât want to start or reboot, try to force a reboot by keeping the power button pressed for about 15 seconds, or remove the battery for the same time and insert it again, then start the phone.
When rebooting or starting the phone, remember to keep Vol - pressed along the way to get into Fastboot Mode.
Ok, in the log I see that the bootloader was successfully unlocked.
As part of the unlock one has to confirm on the phone that the unlock is ok and then the phone reboots.
And if I understand the log correctly, after that the phone was detected in fastboot mode with bootloader status âunlocked: yesâ.
All correct up until here.
The next step then would have done the flashing. It first starts with wiping the user data and that command failed because the phone was no longer in fastboot mode.
This is consistent with âbut then the blue dots appearedâ which sounds like the phone tried to boot into the normal system. Which IIRC doesnât work when the bootloader got unlocked but no wipe/factory reset was performed.
Do you remember when/why the phone went out of fastboot mode? If I donât misinterpret the log the phone was already in the right state but somehow didnât stay there.
To get things working again: are you still able to get into fastboot mode?
I donât know when the phone went out of fast boot mode exactly.
Yesterday the phone was just dead, but when I plugged it in again right now, I was able to get into fastboot mode.
Shall I go through the installation process again with easy installer? And if so, is there any advice on what I should do differently?
Yes, you could try again with the installer. It will be a little different this time because the phone doesnât boot normally at the moment.
First is to get the phone into a state that it will be identified as FP3+ by the installer.
start with the phone off
press and hold the Power + Volume Up buttons until you see this screen
press Power to enter sideload mode (we donât need the sideload functionality, but only here the install can detect the FP3+), it should look somewhat like this
Now start the installer and just click next until the step where the FP3+ gets detected. The installation files should still be there so you donât need to wait for the download.
Then the installer should ask you to reboot to fastboot/bootloader mode.
Press and hold Power + Volume Down untill you see this screen
The installer then should be able to pick up from there.
) and I use Windows 10 and have a Bitdefender antivirus software (maybe that is relevant).
Thanks in advance!
