Fairphone 5 with e/os/ 3.0.1-t-20250606498724-official-FP5

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Dear valued and appreciated e/os/ community.
First of all I want to say thank you to all the contributors here.

I am promoting the FP5 with e/os/ in my environment (family and friends) with success.

I was asking myself what are the pre-requisites to lock the bootloader after the installtion of e/os/

I checked if i can lock the bootloader but i got the get_unlock_ability: 0

.\fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability
(bootloader) get_unlock_ability: 0

is there an other way to lock the bootloader without brick the phone?

Looking forward for all your inputs.

Br,
Alessandro

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The function of this command and how it works within the device is described on this page of Source . Android Lock and unlock the bootloader.

Is this question a follow on from FP5 stucks in boatloader mode - #3 by aibd and is it the same phone? and has it remained unlocked since?

If yes the real hazard of locking is described (answered) Install /e/ on FP5 with newer Security Patches - #13 by aibd.

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Hello aibd

Thanks a lot for sharing me the documentation of “Lock and unlock the bootloader”.

I was just wondering, if i will lock the bootloader now, if it will reset my phone.
It wouldn’t be that grave, would only need 1-2 hours to setup everything again on the phone.

It is unlocked since the beginning… I wasn’t that aware about it as i had the OEM unlocking not enabled - though this would lock the bootloader…

So locking the phone will delete all data, is this also like this with the newest build of /e/os?

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:white_check_mark: Correct.

The phone will come back with the “First start wizard” as if it was a fresh install.

Nothing has changed about the lock and unlock with recent builds.