Another flashing fails on Xperia 10 III(XQ-BT52)

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Hi!
I’m new at this, exiting. I thought I must use one “old” phone to learn more about Sailfish OS
So I tried to flash my Xperia 10 III to free trial of SailfishOS.
I’m using Win11.

Everything vent well to this message in the script

ERROR: Failed to execute ‘fastboot.exe -s HQ61A91283 flash oem_a SW_binaries_for_Xperia_Android_11_4.19_v9a_lena.img’.

FLASHING FAILED

So I read another post with similar problem.
So I tried this

fastboot.exe -s 512 -s HQ61A91283 flash oem_a SW_binaries_for_Xperia_Android_11_4.19_v9a_lena.img

And got this

Sending ‘oem_a’ (343636 KB)
FAILED (Write to device failed in SendBuffer() (no link))
fastboot: error: Command failed

The phone are booting to the sailfish logo, but no more.
The LED turn green

I’m obviously doing something wrong, but what?

Any help is appreciated

/Thomas

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I reply my self :wink:

It all worked when I lowered the buffer to ‘- S 256’

Now is the phone up and working :smiley:

Btw the phone was installed with Android 13.

I followed the instructions at How to install Sailfish X on Xperia™ 10 III on Windows - The Privacy Respecting European OS and AI Solution Provider

So far everything working

/Thomas

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One more thing

I had some problem downloading from Sony websites, so I searched elswere

I found the fastboot driver from Sony here:

I found the Sony Software binaries for AOSP here:

/T

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There’s a long thread somewhere about which underlying Android installation and which SW binaries work best, and if it’s possible to combine across versions (now your sw bins are 11, phone is 13). Check it out, it’s about the 10 III specifically and it’s a long read!

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Hi

Yes I have read that post I think.

But I gave it a try, and everything works :slightly_smiling_face:

Bluetooth, Camera and more

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Had same failure, work with:

fastboot -S 256M -s HQ1234567A flash oem_a ./SW_binaries_for_Xperia_Android_11_4.19_v9a_lena.img

Thanks.