# Fairphone 5 - "bricked" boots only into fastboot

**URL:** <https://community.iode.tech/t/fairphone-5-bricked-boots-only-into-fastboot/7586>\
**Category:** Installation Help\
**Tags:** Fairphone5\
**Created:** [23 January 2026 15:32 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/fairphone-5-bricked-boots-only-into-fastboot/7586 "2026-01-23T15:32:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Just\_a\_Human](https://community.iode.tech/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@Just\_a\_Human](https://community.iode.tech/u/Just_a_Human)\
**Post date:** [26 March 2026 17:17 UTC](https://community.iode.tech/t/fairphone-5-bricked-boots-only-into-fastboot/7586/11 "2026-03-26T17:17:30Z")

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So here we are again.  
I just got my unbricked Fairphone 5 back yesterday and wanted to give this another shot.

So installed iodeOS 7.3 on the Fairphone yesterday and that worked great.  
But i didn’t lock the bootloader, yet.  
Instead i just booted into the OS first and made sure both “OEM unlocking” and “USB debugging” are checked before trying anything.

I think i read yesterday something about checking get\_unlock\_ability in fastboot mode as well before trying anything.

Might be me being a bit paranoid, but i don’t want to mess this up again, especially since this whole support ordeal took quite some time.  
I read in this post [Booloader relock limbo on Fairphone 5 - #17 by rik](https://community.iode.tech/t/booloader-relock-limbo-on-fairphone-5/7394/17)  
about both needing to lock\_critical as well as locking the bootloader, anything else i should be aware of?  
Also i am not sure about the security patch level, my settings say i have a vendor security patch level of 5 February 2026 and an Android security update with date 1 February 2026, so should i wait for the next version of iodeOS before locking again?

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