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    Cant install on FP2 - "Failed to enter Recovery"

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      • K Offline
        kribor
        last edited by kribor

        FYI I'm new to ubuntu touch and android tools although I am a developer...

        So I went about trying to flash my Fairphone 2 (latest 1.5.1 update) with Ubuntu Touch. I'm on ubuntu 16.04 and I first tried installing tools as specified in the official Ubuntu docs: https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/devices/installing-ubuntu-for-devices/

        It seems that adb and fastboot from the ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa is not up to date however since I adb and fastboot would not work with this version. Thus I downloaded the android SDK and got adb and fastboot to work. To get the ubuntu-device-flash to pickup the proper adb/fastboot binaries I moved repo-sourced binaries and symlinked the binaries from android SDK to /usr/bin/<adb|fastboot>

        Finally thinking I was good to go I ran (as root):
        ubuntu-device-flash --server=http://system-image.ubports.com touch --channel=ubuntu-touch/stable --device=FP2 --bootstrap

        Having already downloaded the files with previous runs it seemed to start working outputting:
        2016/07/26 17:34:27 Device is |FP2|
        2016/07/26 17:34:28 Flashing version 8 from ubuntu-touch/stable channel and server http://system-image.ubports.com to device FP2

        Until I got: "Failed to enter Recovery"

        It appears that nothing happened at all... I was afraid I had bricked the phone but it just boots back into Android as usual after reboot.

        Any ideas on how to move forward?

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          marc
          last edited by

          Hi,

          i think you forget the "--bootstrap"

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            kribor
            last edited by

            Hi Marc,

            Actually, I only forgot it when writing the post. In reality I tried both but the one without bootstrap goes nowhere since it appears to require adb which is not available in bootloader mode..

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              marc
              last edited by

              try this:
              https://github.com/ubports/wiki.ubports.com/blob/master/Installation-of-ubuntu-touch-on-fairphone.md

              but SIM Cards are not working and this "fix" also not working 😕
              https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/urfkill/+bug/1321627

              sorry for my bad english
              greetings

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