Fairphone 5 - "bricked" boots only into fastboot

[rik]

@Just_a_Human

I read in this post Booloader relock limbo on Fairphone 5 - #17 by rik
about both needing to lock_critical as well as locking the bootloader, anything else i should be aware of?

I don’t believe you need to lock_critical explicitly? I think that you just need to fastboot flashing lock. I see that @AnonOnion just successfully re-locked their Fairphone a few days ago, any comment, @AnonOnion? Booloader relock limbo on Fairphone 5 - #25 by AnonOnion

@Just_a_Human

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?

The question is what FPOS version was on it before you installed iodéOS? I think v7.4 should be released in the next week, you could wait for that to be “double sure”. So install v7.4 then lock (but again, after you relock the bootloader all userdata will be, by design, wiped out).