Week 16 : 2021: Development and Testing Updates

[AnotherElk]

@JosepMSH

A few days ago I used the Updater from the my Fairphone 3+, when the installation finished and restarted said that a problem ocurred and told me to do a factory reset.

For the record: At this point it would have been worth to try to just go back to the prior state of the OS before the update …

FP3 latest update corrupt, doesnt work

The Fairphone 3 is an A/B device. It has two slots for the OS (A and B). While you use one slot, updates get installed to the other slot in the background. If you are familiar with the fastboot command … fastboot getvar current-slot … should give you the slot which now doesn’t boot … or “INVALID” if something went even more wrong. fastboot --set-active=a or fastboot --set-active=b … will set the slot for the next boot. Try whether the phone boots with this. The data partition is shared betwe…

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@JosepMSH

This time I used the Ease Installer, everything ok, but now I’m at 0.15q again and the updater doesn’t give me the option to update to 0.16q.

What can I do know?

You can just wait.
@aibd is right, via the Easy Installer you are on the stable release channel now, the update will come a bit later there than on dev.