After using my fairphone 5 with /e/OS about half a year (self-installed), I recently wanted to root it.
After i flashed the magisk patched boot.img file to my phone, It wouldn’t boot.
Why i think my data isn’t lost
I can still
acess the bootloader
use fastboot
What i can’t do
boot normally
access recovery mode (when i try to access it from the bootloader it just puts me back in the bootloader)
use adb (because apparently the device needs to be booted)
What i need help in
I want to use my phone again, and keep my data.
I think its still possible to reinstall /e/ without deleting user data, but I’m very new to this kind of thing, and I don’t want to screw up even more.
This is where I need advice.
installed e/OS on phone
normally would show “the bootloader is unlocked”… screen when starting or rebooting
then fairphone with “powered by android”
then bootloader screeen again (?)
then murena start animation and the os
selected reboot from fastbootd (was a menu with white screen and colored e logo at top, 4 options navigateable with volume keys)
got stuck (bootloader is unlocked → fairphone powered by android → bootloader is unlocked again)
looped multiple times, phone wasnt acessible through adb or fastboot, couldnt turn off fully
got really hot so took out battery
tried starting again
same thing
took out battery again
got to know that you can boot into bootloader with POWER+VOLUMEDOWN
Day Three
attempted to use bootloader to flash normal boot.img to phone
couldnt access adb but fastboot was possible and did write to boot_b partition
but still wouldn’t boot normally or to recovery mode
then downloaded community A15 community Image (dont know which my phone is)
unzipped
flashed its boot (i did fastboot flash boot boot.img, and fastboot flashed to boot_a this time)
now the device wont get stuck in boot loop, but instead boot straight into bootloader.
So any rescue attempt cannot deal with different Different Build Types. Nor will a mix of Android version work. Which of these was used for the install? What was the motivation to try different?
Just asking to try to establish if rescue the phone is an option or leave that on one side and concentrate on the data.
In your very long report you say that you have no response to
adb devices
… to copy the contents of internal storage to the working directory of your PC you would normally
adb pull -a /storage/emulated/0/
This is potentially a very large transfer of files. You might use ls to explore internal storage after