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Hi,

I bought an Xperia XA2 and SailfhishX license and tried to install SailfishX from Ubuntu 14.04 following the instructions at:

https://jolla.com/sailfishx-linux-instructions-xa2/

Until step 4.7 (fastboot OEM unlock), everything worked fine. It took me a combination of attempts to get the phone unlocked. The the fastboot command never ended cleanly but hung in unresponsive but the phone eventually was unlocked.

The flash command did not work, the connected phone (with blue light) is recognized by my Ubuntu laptop (lsusb), but the flash.sh command says there is not connected phone.

Then I found the information at https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012031854, I used the indicated commands to force USB3 ports to USB2 mode temporarily. This gets me one step further, i.e. fastboot recognizes one devices. But:

pvde@alicante:~/SailfishX/Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.2.8-h3113-0.0.7.13$ bash ./flash.sh Detected Linux Searching device to flash.. Found 1 devices: CQ3001NBST Fastboot command: fastboot -s CQ3001NBST
Flashing boot_a partition.. sending 'boot_a' (17724 KB)... FAILED (remote: unknown command) finished. total time: 0.001s

If I re-run the command, no device is found, and the connection light on the phone switches from "blue" to "green", briefly going through red.

Checking further, if I connect the phone and run "sudo fastboot devices" a few times, it reports the device a few times, then drops the connection. I repeated this also on another laptop also running Ubuntu 14.

So I'm lost, and wondering if I need a Windows computer, is there more chance of success?

The instructions talk about a USB hub. I don't have a separate USB hub and connect my laptop directly using the Sony USB cable, is it necessary to get a USB hub? I tried other cables, but apparently the Xperia is a different type of micro-USB as my other older micro-USB cables don't fit.

Any suggestions? My Jolla 1 is unstable so I can't use it any more and I don't want to leave Sailfish.

Pim

Hi,

I bought an Xperia XA2 and SailfhishX license and tried to install SailfishX from Ubuntu 14.04 following the instructions at:

https://jolla.com/sailfishx-linux-instructions-xa2/

Until step 4.7 (fastboot OEM unlock), everything worked fine. It took me a combination of attempts to get the phone unlocked. The the fastboot command never ended cleanly but hung in unresponsive but the phone eventually was unlocked.

The flash command did not work, the connected phone (with blue light) is recognized by my Ubuntu laptop (lsusb), but the flash.sh command says there is not connected phone.

Then I found the information at https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012031854, I used the indicated commands to force USB3 ports to USB2 mode temporarily. This gets me one step further, i.e. fastboot recognizes one devices. But:

pvde@alicante:~/SailfishX/Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.2.8-h3113-0.0.7.13$ bash ./flash.sh Detected Linux Searching device to flash.. Found 1 devices: CQ3001NBST Fastboot command: fastboot -s CQ3001NBST
Flashing boot_a partition.. sending 'boot_a' (17724 KB)... FAILED (remote: unknown command) finished. total time: 0.001s

If I re-run the command, no device is found, and the connection light on the phone switches from "blue" to "green", briefly going through red.

Checking further, if I connect the phone and run "sudo fastboot devices" a few times, it reports the device a few times, then drops the connection. I repeated this also on another laptop also running Ubuntu 14.

So I'm lost, and wondering if I need a Windows computer, is there more chance of success?

The instructions talk about a USB hub. I don't have a separate USB hub and connect my laptop directly using the Sony USB cable, is it necessary to get a USB hub? I tried other cables, but apparently the Xperia is a different type of micro-USB as my other older micro-USB cables don't fit.

Any suggestions? My Jolla 1 is unstable so I can't use it any more and I don't want to leave Sailfish.

Pim

Hi,

I bought an Xperia XA2 and SailfhishX license and tried to install SailfishX from Ubuntu 14.04 following the instructions at:

https://jolla.com/sailfishx-linux-instructions-xa2/

Until step 4.7 (fastboot OEM unlock), everything worked fine. It took me a combination of attempts to get the phone unlocked. The the fastboot command never ended cleanly but hung in unresponsive but the phone eventually was unlocked.

The flash command did not work, the connected phone (with blue light) is recognized by my Ubuntu laptop (lsusb), but the flash.sh command says there is not connected phone.

Then I found the information at https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012031854, I used the indicated commands to force USB3 ports to USB2 mode temporarily. This gets me one step further, i.e. fastboot recognizes one devices. But:

pvde@alicante:~/SailfishX/Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.2.8-h3113-0.0.7.13$ bash ./flash.sh Detected Linux Searching device to flash.. Found 1 devices: CQ3001NBST Fastboot command: fastboot -s CQ3001NBST
Flashing boot_a partition.. sending 'boot_a' (17724 KB)... FAILED (remote: unknown command) finished. total time: 0.001s

If I re-run the command, no device is found, and the connection light on the phone switches from "blue" to "green", briefly going through red.

Checking further, if I connect the phone and run "sudo fastboot devices" a few times, it reports the device a few times, then drops the connection. I repeated this also on another laptop also running Ubuntu 14.

So I'm lost, and wondering if I need a Windows computer, is there more chance of success?

The instructions talk about a USB hub. I don't have a separate USB hub and connect my laptop directly using the Sony USB cable, is it necessary to get a USB hub? I tried other cables, but apparently the Xperia is a different type of micro-USB as my other older micro-USB cables don't fit.

Any suggestions? My Jolla 1 is unstable so I can't use it any more and I don't want to leave Sailfish.

Pim

Hi,

I bought an Xperia XA2 and SailfhishX license and tried to install SailfishX from Ubuntu 14.04 following the instructions at:

https://jolla.com/sailfishx-linux-instructions-xa2/

Until step 4.7 (fastboot OEM unlock), everything worked fine. It took me a combination of attempts to get the phone unlocked. The the fastboot command never ended cleanly but hung in unresponsive but the phone eventually was unlocked.

The flash command did not work, the connected phone (with blue light) is recognized by my Ubuntu laptop (lsusb), but the flash.sh command says there is not connected phone.

Then I found the information at https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012031854, I used the indicated commands to force USB3 ports to USB2 mode temporarily. This gets me one step further, i.e. fastboot recognizes one devices. But:

pvde@alicante:~/SailfishX/Sailfish_OS-Jolla-3.0.2.8-h3113-0.0.7.13$ bash ./flash.sh 
Detected Linux
Searching device to flash..
Found 1 devices: CQ3001NBST 
Fastboot command: fastboot -s CQ3001NBST 
 
Flashing boot_a partition..
sending 'boot_a' (17724 KB)...
FAILED (remote: unknown command)
finished. total time: 0.001s
0.001s