I rebooted my FP3 and it entered the initial setup screen, as if I had reset it

Using /e/OS Setup
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Hello, I just got a new FP3+ today, I installed /e/OS on the phone. I was in the process of migrating everything from my old phone manually, I had already moved all of my 2FA and contacts. After I was about finished, I powered off the phone to finally move my SIM card, next time turning on the phone it once again entered the setup screen and asking for my language, with everything I had done in the previous boot lost.

Could anyone help me restore the configuration I had? I’m mainly concerned about my 2FA as I have no way to access them now.

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Once I powered the device off after setting everything up, I did also go ahead and lock my bootloader, as I had not yet locked it on the first power on.
I did go through the setup process on my second launch again, and after rebooting the phone multiple times after, it doesn’t seem to repeat itself.

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I’m sorry that data is gone.

Both, a unlock and relock cause a userdata reset/wipe.

In the instructions it’s part of one step that prior wiped userdata, so there is no warning this resets userdata.

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I seem to remember that the fastboot command itself displays a warning about this, but it was a relatively long time ago for me, and the adb and fastboot commands are in active development and change in detail all the time, so I’m not sure.

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Thanks for the reply

Makes sense for bootloader locks & unlocks to have userdata wipes, just didn’t occur to me when doing what I did. This one’s on me. I’ve managed to recover most of my 2FA, so I think I’ll be fine.

Thanks once again for the responses. I appreciate it. I’ll be more careful next time.