Bricked my Fairphone 6?

Help Fairphone 6
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Hi there,

I just bought a Fairphone 6. I then followed the tutorial on eOS’s website and installed eOS (official build, version IMG-e-3.2-a15-20251022539003-official-FP6.zip). I had no problem: unlocked the bootloader, installed eOS and rebooted. All worked fine, I played a bit with the phone installed F-droid, Aurora store, a bunch of apps etc. Then I put my micro-SD card and stopped the phone.

Today I decided to relock the bootloader for safety reasons, I never do it on my phones but eh, why not.

So I enabled USB debugging in devs options and then typed fastboot flashing lock_critical. The phone rebooted, deleted all data, no problem.

Then I enabled again USB debugging in devs options and typed fastboot flashing lock. And here was the problem: the phone rebooted and I got this message on boot: your device is corrupt and will not boot.

And indeed, the phone doesn’t boot. It just boots in fastboot mode… I can’t access the recovery nor can I of course launch eOS…

I don’t understand what I did wrong this time, just followed the tutorial….

Could you help me find a solution? Or is my phone just a brick? :sob:

I did one last thing after being stuck and I hope it was not a mistake: I reunlocked the bootloader with fastboot flashing unlock and fastboot flashing unlock_critical.

And now I have this when I type fastboot oem device-info:
(bootloader) Verity mode: true
(bootloader) Device unlocked: true
(bootloader) Device critical unlocked: true
(bootloader) Charger screen enabled: true

Thanks a lot for your help…

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Oh and of course when I type fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability:
(bootloader) get_unlock_ability: 1

But I can’t access the safemode (recovery)…

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As you could unlock again no you didnt brick it .
The version you installed has SPL 01st Oct and latest FPOS has 5th Oct

If you want to relock, you cant install an older patch level.

You need to wait for the next update, which should come the next days.

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Oh ! Can I now follow the official guide from eOS and flash with fastboot the latest official FairphoneOS image?
It says [Current] FP6.QREL.15.151.0.20251011181017_VS1P-factory.zip
Version: FP6.QREL.15.151.0
Release date: 10 November 2025
Security patch level: 05 October 2025

And then reinstall eOS without locking the bootloader?

Thanks a lot for your help, really.

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If you want to relock the bootloader you have to wait for e/OS v3.3 .

Or you can just reinstall v3.2 now and dont relock until updated to 3.3, no need to install FPOS before.

Just keep in mind locking will cause a factory reset.

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indeed, I just had to flash again eOS 3.2, it worked perfectly, thanks a lot. I panicked for nothing. :sweat_smile:

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