Sorry to say, but I tried now several hours to install /e/os on a new Fairphone 6.
On my Kubuntu laptop
- the webinstaller in step 7 does not show the connected phone. No device found
- the manual installation does not show any devices in “adb devices”.
Sure, I tried different ports, different cables.
Maybe this is a problem with the rights management in ubuntu. I googled a lot, but did not find a solution for this problem.
Than I tried my other laptop with MS-Surface-Pro-Windows-11 laptop
Its only a little bit better, as it shows in file browser a memory device and I can copy files on it.
- the Web installer shows in Step 7 the phone in the popup window, the Phone shows the message about “Allow USB debugging” which I allow, but then in the browser the green “Connect” Button is spinning and spinning for hours and nothing happens.
- for the manual installation I tried it 50 times with different cables, ports, installing adb drivers from clockworkmod, etc, and only 2 times showed a device with “adb devices” but disappeared 2 minutes later without any reason.
Now I dont know what to do. I followed the documentation exactly, but it does not work.
I spent the whole day googling, trying different things, but now I am tired.
I wonder when even the installation process is difficult and buggy how will the os itself behave.
My idea was to buy an android device and give /e/os a try. If it works for me, its no problem to donate and support this work. If not I am able to revert to android. This is the same routine somebody does with an ordinary laptop and any linux distro.
