Help installing on XA2 - stuck at - Flashing vendor_b partition.. < waiting for device >

Thanks for the comments, I got the SW binaries from the link in the readme file (on linux) and it linked to: https://developer.sony.com/file/download/software-binaries-for-aosp-oreo-android-8-1-kernel-4-4-nile/ And I can only assume this is the correct version ? I have no idea how I'd even be able to tell if this is right or wrong.....

I've downloaded the SW binaries again and replaced the first one I downloaded, run through the procedure again and exactly the same result, stops in the exact same place, dowsn't matter if I leave it 10,20,30 minutes or press enter when the phone starts, tried all sorts, stopping now until I can get more info.....

Do you have a possibility to try and flash with a windows PC? Maybe worth a try?

No...................... the instructions are dreadful and I wouldn't trust windows to pull the skin off a custard.

Can you elaborate some more for me ? you downloaded platform tools and did what with it? what do you mean by " I had to adapt the "flash.sh" slightly to use the downloaded version" ? It's a folder with 16 files in it but no instructions ...........

i will try:

1. download and extract platform tools
2. you find the "fastboot" tool in the new folder "platform-tools"
3. now navigate to your extracted Sailfish OS folder (Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.0.8-h3113-0.0.7.11-FIXED/) and open the file "flash.sh" in an editor
4. go to line 34 and enter behind the "=" the absolute path of the "fastboot" tool form the downloaded "platform-tools" directory. In my case the line looks like: " FASTBOOT_BIN_NAME="/home/michael/Downloads/SailfishOS/platform-tools/fastboot"" If there is an whitespace in your path, escape it.
5. go to line 166 and deactivate the "exit 1". The line should looks like: " #exit 1;"
6. now try with the updated flash.sh

The line (34) now reads FASTBOOT_BIN_NAME=/home/dave/Downloads/platform-tools/fastboot it had $1 previously at the end, I removed this, is that correct ? and no "" marks ?

the path ist correct. but you need the " at the beginning and end: FASTBOOT_BIN_NAME="/home/dave/Downloads/platform-tools/fastboot" and yes, replace $1 with the full path in quotation marks

Hung again with a slightly different terminal result, top of the terminal this time I get this (even though it carries on)

dave-desktop Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.0.8-h3113-0.0.7.11-FIXED # bash ./flash.sh

Detected Linux Searching device to flash.. Found 1 devices: CQ30009HG8 Fastboot command: fastboot -s CQ30009HG8

md5sum does not match, please download the package again.

If you look at the original terminal output I posted first, it doesn't say this, so I should replce the sailfish image file off the Jolla site ?

Hello, thanks for the reply, so I just copy/paste the individual lines into a terminal and do them in that order 1 by 1 ? Never done this before on a phone, dozens of linux installs but only on laptops/pc's so I don't want to get this wrong ! I've never seen this option anywhere, is this just the shell script broken down as opposed to automated ? cheers. Dave

Ahhh you've put both windows terminal commands in ? So for linux the command without ./ ?

Edit: Yes I worked out it was, still, it's hung at the third line ................. I'm giving it 5 minutes to see if it recovers but I've watched videos where the whole process doesn't take that long ..........

If it stalls what do I do ? Stop the terminal/unplug the phone/power down and wait 15 seconds before starting again from scratch or run the last command again without closing the terminal?

dave-desktop Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.0.8-h3113-0.0.7.11-FIXED # sudo fastboot flash boot_a hybris-boot.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'boot_a' (17772 KB)...
OKAY [  0.439s]
writing 'boot_a'...
OKAY [  0.000s]
finished. total time: 0.439s
dave-desktop Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.0.8-h3113-0.0.7.11-FIXED # sudo fastboot flash boot_b hybris-boot.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'boot_b' (17772 KB)...
OKAY [  0.461s]
writing 'boot_b'...
OKAY [  0.000s]
finished. total time: 0.462s
dave-desktop Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.0.8-h3113-0.0.7.11-FIXED # sudo fastboot flash userdata sailfish.img001
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
erasing 'userdata'...
OKAY [  2.526s]
sending sparse 'userdata' (514030 KB)
Stuck here now !

This is practically lines 203-211 broken down to single lines. The problem in my case was that the phone started too early - just before the last line or just when the execution of the last line started - and ended up with white Sony logo. When I run commands line by line, black screen and blue led stays until finished.