When flashing my 10III I get the following error:
Failed to execute ‘fastboot.exe -s HQ61AM0923 flash userdata sailfish.img001’
How to solve?
Change your USB cable/USB Port. Check first if fastboot recognize your device with:
fastboot devices
I have now tried with a new cable and USB port, same result.
I then tried on my Linux-Mint computer and here I also gets an error, a bit more informative:
elkiaer@oem-Qosmio-X300:~/Hentet/Sailfish_OS-Jolla-4.4.0.64-xqbt52-1.0.0.134$ sudo bash ./flash.sh
[sudo] adgangskode for elkiaer:
Flash utility v1.2
Detected Linux
Searching device to flash…
Found XQ-BT52, serial:HQ61AM0923, baseband:62.0.A.9.11, bootloader:1322-1665_X_Boot_SM6350_LA2.0_R_54
Found matching device with serial HQ61AM0923
Fastboot command: fastboot -s HQ61AM0923
fastboot -s HQ61AM0923 getvar secure
<< secure: no
The supported Sony Vendor partition image wasn’t found in the current directory.
Please download it from
https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/downloads/software-binaries/
Ensure you download the supported version of the image found under:
“Software binaries for AOSP Android 11.0 - Kernel 4.19 - Lena”
and unzip it into this directory.
Note: information on which versions are supported is written in our Sailfish X
installation instructions online https://jolla.com/sailfishxinstall
Here after I did download the Software binaries file again but same error 
So what can be wrong?
Sudo bash starts probably in the wrong directory? Try going into ‘sudo bash’ first, then navigate to the directory and run the ./flash.sh there directly (without sudo)
Or just ‘chmod +x flash.sh’ and do ‘sudo ./flash.sh’
Where is the binary? Is it sailfish.img001?
Yeah you should extract the SW_binaries_for…lena.img (around 300mb) file in the same foldee
You skipped step 5.1, download the zip from Software binaries for AOSP Android 11.0 – Kernel 4.19 – Lena (latest) - Sony Developer World and extract it in that same directory and forget my suggestions
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Strange, cant see it in the Terminal window but its there in the browser window.
I will look into that after I have played some Badminton.
Because you’re not in the same directory. Start the terminal from your file manager or look for the full path of the binary.
Yes, I did that mistake to copy the file into the zip-file.
OK - that did help but a new error occur.
FAILED (remote: Flashing of userdata is not allowed in snapshotted state)
What is snapshotted state?
Solved 
I was not able to start the phone neither in SFOS or Android mode.
I therefore flash the Andoid to the phone using Emma.
I went through the installation guide one more time and now it works.
So the issue were me, I must have forgot something the first time.
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I had also Problems on my First Flash to get the right KeyCombination pressed at right time.
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