Help please phone stuck in orange state Nothing CMF-1

[HPH]

Thanks for your suggestion however, at this stage I am looking at a device that is not recognised by my computer.
My strategy is to firstly get my computer to recognise the device. Any suggestion is very welcome.

[mihi]

Check drivers in Windows of the need update. If you go to bootloader (fastboot) a driver is needed, if you later go to recovery a driver is needed. You might need to do it manually not use the auto installed.

[aibd]

@HPH

installed the latest Git for windows

Those are probably ok; we are only using a very small part of its capability, so just watch out for any error from the Command prompt output. The first test will come when you run

fastboot devices

@HPH

My strategy is to firstly get my computer to recognise the device.

You probably won’t get Windows to recognise the device usefully without fastboot and adb which are found in platform-tools [1] as it stands in Fastboot mode …

Referring to the 4 part instructions from the install page …

@aibd

Unzip your download and extract. Confirm that extracted directory contains …

bin-linux-x86 directory - which contains linux tools including fastboot and adb

[1]

You are now in a position to run

fastboot devices

This is the test to see that Windows does recognise the phone. [2]

Another test is to open a Device manager window, with the phone connected in Fastboot mode, does the phone show as a Problem device . If yes Windows update is expected to fix this.

Edit. It may be a good idea to keep a Device manager window open when you run the script flash_tetris_factory.sh – if the script should fail at any point check the phone has not newly become a Problem device – again Windows update is expected to fix this if a different driver has become required for fastbootd.

[1] To add clarity bin-linux-x86 directory this is platforn-tools, aka Android Debug Bridge, provided within the download. As long as you are in the directory as specified, Windows now has access to these tools from the command prompt.

[2] Should fastboot devices fail with “command not found” please move up a directory so that you are now in bin-linux-x86 and use

./fastboot devices

[piero]

As showed in one of your post, the bootloader is already unlocked (by the /e/ installer).

[Marcosch]

HERE IS SOLUTION!!!

Hi. i used the easy installer for my cmf phone 1. Now it is in the orange state and i dont know what to do. Please help.

Hi there. I had the same problem with my new cfm. I spend hours on trying e os and then other os and nothing seemed to work. I just got stuck in the orange state loop. At the and i installed e OS again and didnt expect any solution to my problem… Buuuuuuuuuut in the orange state loop it is mentionned that the phone will shut down after 5 secondes. This message comes twice when you turn the phone on. By the second time it also sais, that you can push the power button to going forward. So when i d…

So I hope!!!

[ieder1]

Did jou manage to install e/OS/ @HPH?
I had quite the same problems but managed to install it ‘by hand’ a few days ago. Had the same error at the end of the web-installer on my Phone 1, like many others…

[HPH]

Hi mate,
that’s fantastic, congrats. I am still in the process to get the install set up. I had chosen the phone for the installer option. With the install failing I am where I did not want to be.
Thanks for the motivation

[ieder1]

That’s to bad. I know the feeling.

Here are the puzzles that I had to solve before it worked:

• while my usb-cable worked fine with adb I had to change it before it worked with fastboot
• the first time the phone was booted to fastboot I had to install the special USB-driver from MediaTek via Windows Update > optional updates
• (I had to boot to recovery mode using power+volumeUp and navigate to Recovery mode (if I remember it right) and select Apply update from ADB) forget this part, see below.

After that I could proceed from step 4 on Install /e/OS on a Nothing Nothing CMF Phone 1 - “tetris”.

I had to do this twice before I got the phone working.

P.S. When installing Bash, just proceed with the preselected options.

[piero]

@ieder1

I had to boot to recovery mode using power+volumeUp and navigate to Recovery mode (if I remember it right) and select Apply update from ADB

recovery mode is not mentionned in official instructions for this device !

and it is not needed for new install… (for this device)

[ieder1]

Ok, you made that clear @piero.
So you recommend following the instructions from the second part: ‘Installing /e/OS’?

[piero]

if the bootloader is already unlocked, YES of course.

[ieder1]

Ok, there you go @HPH. I wish you good luck.
Keep us updated.