Fairphone 4 can't boot into recovery
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I recently installed Ubuntu Touch on my Fairphone 4, and I'm trying to reinstall Android. However, when I try to boot into recovery or fastboot to reinstall it, it doesn't work. I've tried power and volume up/volume down, but neither worked. It just shows the warning message stating that the bootloader has been unlocked, then boots into Ubuntu, no matter how long I hold any of the buttons. I've also tried using "adb reboot fastboot" but the phone turns off and does nothing while the command just hangs. Is there something else I need to do to boot into recovery?
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@pineheap Boot into UT as normal. Then start the Terminal app, enter your password or pin code to gain access. Next enter
sudo reboot -f recoveryAgain enter you password / pin code (you will not get any visual feedback when typing). And you should reboot into recovery mode.
Although, I don't think that is the mode you need to be in to reinstall Android.
To enter the bootloader (which is the mode I believe you need to be in) do:
sudo reboot -f bootloader -
@arubislander Thank you, this worked! And thanks for the correction, I tend to mix the two up from time to time.
