diff --git a/implementations/main.cpp b/implementations/main.cpp
index 56df2c8..693085f 100644
--- a/implementations/main.cpp
+++ b/implementations/main.cpp
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ namespace {
 
 // Bumping this is what publishes a package: the registry answers 409 for a
 // version it already has, which a build treats as a no-op.
-constexpr const char* Version = "0.2.3";
+constexpr const char* Version = "0.2.4";
 
 bool g_verbose = false;
 // 500 ms was the research harness's pace, chosen so a human could read the
@@ -952,6 +952,24 @@ void UnloadStale(qcomtee_object* loader) {
     qcomtee_object_refs_dec(p[2].object);
 }
 
+// The loader's verdict on the image itself (IQSEEComCompatAppLoader.h in
+// Qualcomm's securemsm-kernel), for the codes a phone in the field has produced
+// or plausibly will. Named because the first field report was a bare 12: QTEE
+// refusing an image whose signature or per-segment hashes do not check out,
+// which on this device means a trustlet that is not the active slot's own.
+const char* LoaderVerdict(qcomtee_result_t result) {
+    switch (result) {
+    case 11: return " ERROR_PIL_ROLLBACK_FAILURE: the image is older than the anti-rollback state allows";
+    case 12: return " ERROR_ELF_SIGNATURE_ERROR: QTEE refused the image's signature or segment hashes;"
+                    " the trustlet is damaged or not this slot's build. Re-derive it from the"
+                    " active slot: /usr/lib/fp6-vendor-blobs/extract --refresh";
+    case 13: return " ERROR_METADATA_INVALID: not a QTEE trustlet image";
+    case 16: return " ERROR_ALREADY_LOADED";
+    case 28: return " ERROR_ELF_LOADING";
+    default: return "";
+    }
+}
+
 qcomtee_object* LoadTrustlet(qcomtee_object* loader, const std::string& path) {
     UnloadStale(loader);
 
@@ -981,8 +999,8 @@ qcomtee_object* LoadTrustlet(qcomtee_object* loader, const std::string& path) {
     p[3].attr = QCOMTEE_OBJREF_OUTPUT;
     qcomtee_result_t result = 0;
     if (qcomtee_object_invoke(loader, 1, p, 4, &result) || result) {
-        std::println(std::cerr, "loadFromBuffer failed, result={}",
-                     static_cast<int>(result));
+        std::println(std::cerr, "loadFromBuffer failed, result={}{}",
+                     static_cast<int>(result), LoaderVerdict(result));
         return QCOMTEE_OBJECT_NULL;
     }
     std::println("trustlet loaded from {} ({} bytes), distName='{}'", path,
diff --git a/packaging/20-focal64.manifest b/packaging/20-focal64.manifest
index b27cadd..75fb90e 100644
--- a/packaging/20-focal64.manifest
+++ b/packaging/20-focal64.manifest
@@ -6,7 +6,15 @@
 # there is no version of this that is our own code.
 #
 # Not one file: image/focal64.mdt plus focal64.b00..b08, placed at each ELF
-# segment's p_offset. Slot A first, slot B as fallback. The sha256 is of the
-# reassembled image and is the one QTEE has actually accepted since
-# 2026-08-24.
-mbn modem_a,modem_b image focal64 /usr/lib/firmware/focal64.mbn 1930c490d67e6f006ec346d3bee9f73d812bc0b7374bfc112873dc97ebb6cd68
+# segment's p_offset. The extractor tries the ACTIVE slot first (its TZ is
+# the one running) and the other slot as fallback.
+#
+# No sha256 pin ('-'): Fairphone re-signs this trustlet every Android
+# release, so a whole-image hash matches exactly one build - six builds, six
+# hashes, one trustlet - and the pin 0.2.3 shipped (16.82.0's) left every
+# unit on another build without a sensor (two of two field reports,
+# 2026-09-11). The extractor verifies the structure; QTEE verifies the
+# signature and refuses a damaged or foreign image (one flipped byte ->
+# ERROR_ELF_SIGNATURE_ERROR, measured 2026-09-03), and the daemon names that
+# verdict in its log.
+mbn modem_a,modem_b image focal64 /usr/lib/firmware/focal64.mbn -
diff --git a/packaging/APKBUILD b/packaging/APKBUILD
index 458a0aa..1320d3c 100644
--- a/packaging/APKBUILD
+++ b/packaging/APKBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # Alpine, so an APKBUILD that compiled from source could not be built by
 # anyone but us either.
 pkgname=fingerprintd
-pkgver=0.2.3
+pkgver=0.2.4
 pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Fingerprint daemon for the Fairphone 6 (FocalTech FT9391 behind QTEE)"
 url="https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/fingerprintd"
@@ -30,10 +30,12 @@ license="GPL-3.0-only"
 # trustlet out of the stock modem partition on first boot. Without it there is
 # no matcher and the unit stays inert on its ConditionPathExists -- so this is
 # a real dependency, not a nicety. It is an FP6 device package; so is this.
-# The mbn directive the fragment uses arrived in 1-r2; the extractor before it
-# exits on an unknown directive, which on a first boot would fail the blobs
-# unit after the audio fragment had run and before this one could.
-depends="dbus glib libc++ fprintd-pam fp6-vendor-blobs>=1-r2"
+# The mbn directive the fragment uses arrived in 1-r2; the unpinned form
+# ('-' as the sha256, active slot first) and --refresh arrived in 1-r3. An
+# older extractor would read '-' as a hash and refuse every image, which on a
+# first boot fails the blobs unit after the audio fragment ran and before
+# this one could.
+depends="dbus glib libc++ fprintd-pam fp6-vendor-blobs>=1-r3"
 # The versioned provides both satisfies plasma-workspace's fprintd dependency
 # — its Users KCM is the fingerprint enrolment UI and speaks exactly this bus
 # name — and EXCLUDES the real package, which is required rather than tidy:
@@ -55,9 +57,11 @@ subpackages="$pkgname-agent $pkgname-systemd"
 # traced against an x86_64 build host
 options="!check !tracedeps"
 source="fingerprintd-$pkgver.tar.gz"
-# apk swaps the binary on disk and leaves the running daemon alone; the
-# script restarts it so an upgrade does not leave the old code answering.
-install="$pkgname.post-upgrade"
+# post-install: reassemble the trustlet now, so a fresh 'apk add' has a sensor
+# without waiting for a boot. post-upgrade: re-derive it from the active slot
+# (heals a hand-placed or wrongly pinned file), then restart the daemon --
+# apk swaps the binary on disk and leaves the running one alone.
+install="$pkgname.post-install $pkgname.post-upgrade"
 
 package() {
 	cd "$srcdir/fingerprintd-$pkgver"
diff --git a/packaging/build-package.sh b/packaging/build-package.sh
index d93d8ca..3d22785 100755
--- a/packaging/build-package.sh
+++ b/packaging/build-package.sh
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ rm -rf "$PKG"
 mkdir -p "$PKG"
 cp "$SRC/packaging/APKBUILD" "$PKG/APKBUILD"
 # install= scripts are read from the aport dir, not from source=
-cp "$SRC/packaging/fingerprintd.post-upgrade" "$PKG/"
+cp "$SRC/packaging/fingerprintd.post-install" "$SRC/packaging/fingerprintd.post-upgrade" "$PKG/"
 mv "fingerprintd-$VER.tar.gz" "$PKG/"
 sed -i "s/^pkgver=.*/pkgver=$VER/" "$PKG/APKBUILD"
 # a throwaway signing key: phones trust the registry-signed APKINDEX, not
diff --git a/packaging/fingerprintd.post-install b/packaging/fingerprintd.post-install
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4e50c81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging/fingerprintd.post-install
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
+#
+# The trustlet is not in this package: fp6-vendor-blobs reassembles it from
+# the phone's own modem partition (packaging/20-focal64.manifest). On an
+# image's first boot its unit does that before udev; on a phone that is
+# already running, do it now, so a fresh 'apk add fingerprintd' does not wait
+# for a boot to have a sensor. --if-device makes this a quiet no-op inside
+# build/CI chroots; --refresh re-derives the file from the active slot even if
+# one is present, and never removes a file it cannot replace.
+#
+# The daemon itself starts at the next boot: its unit, module load and
+# tmpfiles arrive with the -systemd subpackage, after this script has run.
+/usr/lib/fp6-vendor-blobs/extract --if-device --refresh || :
+exit 0
diff --git a/packaging/fingerprintd.post-upgrade b/packaging/fingerprintd.post-upgrade
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 8dd66b5..8b5a1d4
--- a/packaging/fingerprintd.post-upgrade
+++ b/packaging/fingerprintd.post-upgrade
@@ -2,14 +2,20 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (C) 2026 Catcrafts®
 #
-# apk replaces /usr/bin/fingerprintd on disk and leaves the running daemon
-# alone. The phone is then a working matcher running the OLD code: the journal
-# says MATCH and whatever the upgrade added is dead until a reboot, which is
-# how 0.2.2's FingerMatched signal first presented (fp6 journal, fingerprint
-# lane, 2026-09-05). Restart it if it is running.
+# Two things an upgrade must do on a running phone. First re-derive the
+# trustlet from the active slot: 0.2.3 pinned one Android build's hash, so a
+# phone on any other build has no trustlet, or a hand-placed one, and
+# --refresh replaces it with the phone's own (fp6 journal, fingerprint lane,
+# 2026-09-11). --if-device keeps this a no-op inside build/CI chroots.
+/usr/lib/fp6-vendor-blobs/extract --if-device --refresh || :
 #
-# try-restart: a daemon that is not running -- no /dev/tee0, no trustlet --
-# stays not running. Inside a build or CI chroot there is no systemd to ask.
+# Then restart the daemon: apk replaces /usr/bin/fingerprintd on disk and
+# leaves the running one alone, so the phone would keep matching with the OLD
+# code until a reboot (how 0.2.2's FingerMatched signal first presented,
+# 2026-09-05). A plain restart rather than try-restart: a daemon that exited
+# on a refused trustlet is not running and must come up on the re-derived
+# file, and the unit's ConditionPathExists lines keep this inert on a phone
+# with no trustlet or no /dev/tee0. No systemd inside a chroot.
 [ -d /run/systemd/system ] || exit 0
-systemctl try-restart fingerprintd.service 2>/dev/null || :
+systemctl restart fingerprintd.service 2>/dev/null || :
 exit 0