Problem on Fairphone 5 - cannot setup password/pin/pattern

[piero]

@piero

to much forum activity in my taste

we are talking about missing informations

@piero

Remove all Gogol accounts, screen lock or SIM lock from the device.
before the OS switch…

that leads to feature not working frp

@piero

piero : solution should be to unlock e-3.3, install FairphoneOS, remove the screen lock,
reinstall e-3.3 or e-3.4, then relock the bootloader.
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user : I’m a bit afraid about brick it,
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piero : not if you keep the booloader unlocked.
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user : Okay great thank you for your time !!
I have fixed the issue with your help, Now I can use the fingerprint and use password

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and false information (for the second month at minus)

displayed 4 days before the release that leads to bricked devices

@piero-e

@piero-e

After having installed /e/OS, and after the successful reboot into it, I checked my unlock_ability in fastboot, and it returned a 1. Further following instructions on the /e/OS website, I booted into fastboot again, issued the two commands fastboot flashing lock_critical and fastboot flashing lock and rebooted only to see a message that my phone was corrupt and would not boot.

I booted back into fastboot and did fastbook flashing unlockand fastboot flashing unlock_critical, and it seems to have worked, since the fastboot screen says "DEVICE STATE - unlocked.

@fonfan

On the e/OS/ download website it said SPL 2026-01-01.

it will be for e-3.4-a15 that is already out from “community branch”, but will be released soon from “official branch”

this one was lucky :

@fonfan

@fonfan

Thank you for all you r answers. From what you say I can safely conclude that I have involuntarily bricked my phone. I have flashed /e/OS 3.3 onto my phone. I have no idea how something like this can happen at all: I swear an oath that when I followed that link on the FP5 /e/OS install page (see screenshot obove) stating that what I would find was on SPL 2026-01-01 I found to .zip archives of /e/OS 3.3 with suspicious file names as for the SPL dates. I trusted the info on the preceding page, however, thinking that they know what they are doing.

And after having read your posts, I went there again, and lo and behold: all of a sudden there were three .zip archives, the top one being 3.4!

I am downloading it at present, and I will try to flash this onto the phone now. Hopefully this will work. My Fastboot output is as follows, which looks good to me: