heafod
September 12, 2020, 10:37am
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My new Fairphone 3 has just been delivered. I bought it from Fairphone so its built with Android at the moment.
Should i test that it works correctly by setting up and configuring with Android first? Or go straight to installing /e/OS ?
I am fairly techy in a Windows world and have basic linux skills but have never rooted a mobile device.
With my Windows 10 PC i am poised to follow the instructions at https://doc.e.foundation/easy-installer
A little nervous at the warning that my new Fairphone could become an unrecoverable brick. So i’d welcome your advice and encouragement!
Thanks
Ian
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No need for setup the device, because flashing eOS will overwrite eveything. You can do for testing the device, but for eOS, it isn’t needed
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heafod
September 12, 2020, 10:44am
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Thanks Harvey. OK. I will launch straight in then.
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The current available version of the easy installer does not yet have support for the FP3 if I remember correctly. You can still try and it won’t break anything but it might eventually tell you that your device is not supported.
So you might end up needing to follow this: https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3/install
There is one issue with that page that hopefully gets corrected soon: the “Installing a custom recovery” section is not necessary.
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piero
September 12, 2020, 10:51am
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Hi, @heafod
No need to root,
No risk to brick if you follow the steps
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3/install
Mission:
Install latest /e/OS on your Fairphone 3.
Prerequisites:
A Fairphone3 smartphone, with Possibility to Unlock Bootloader (you got the key from Fairphone and applied it)
Downloaded copy of latest /e/OS ROM from here .
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Patience to follow steps i.e. unlock bootloader and finally privacy-friendly /e/OS ROM on your Fairphone 3 phone.
Let’s roll.
Warning: This process will completely wipe all data in the internal storage of your smartphon…
heafod
September 12, 2020, 12:20pm
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that’s helpful. Thanks Ingo_FP_Angel