Cant install on FP2 - "Failed to enter Recovery"

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?

marc

Hi,

i think you forget the "--bootstrap"

kribor

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..

marc

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