Unlocked warning on startup - recent installation

/e/OS Devices Fairphone
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I helped a friend install EOS on a new FP6 today through ADB and can’t lose the ‘Unlocked’ warning message.

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It was pretty straightforward, the ‘phone booting to EOS at the end of the installation. However, an ‘unlocked’ warning came up to I went back into ADB and did the critical lock command. The warning still showed up so I checked the lock/unlocked setting in Developer Options and it’s locked. I went back into ADB to re-issue the critical lock command figuring I’d hit the wrong vol up/vol down button but it failed with the error, ‘already locked’.

It’s not a deal breaker, the phone works perfectly but the error message persists.

Any thoughts?

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You did not overlook that the locking process is two stage Install /e/OS on a Fairphone - The Fairphone (Gen. 6/Gen. 6+) - "FP6" | /e/OS documentation

  • lock critical then
  • lock the device

But you had fully ruled out anti-rollback before attempting to lock?

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I thought I had followed all the steps but clearly I did something wrong.

  • Locked critical
  • Went to lock the device but it was already locked

I will probably

  • unlock the device again,
  • then unlock critical,
  • then boot to boot loader
  • then relock critical,
  • then boot the device
  • Then relock the device.
  • Then reboot…

Pfff. Or just leave it unlocked !

Yes, I checked the security patch dates and they’re fine.

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“adb” is not so usefull to install /e/ on a FP6 but “fastboot”..
What about :

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