Tring to install SFOS 4.1 on an old Xperia X using Win10 (19042), using the following instructions:
Q1 - "OPTION 1: If your device has its bootloader locked:"
Instructions are effectively: update your device, and don’t worry about whether the bootloader is locked, then move onto step 2…
Pretty sure when I installed SFOS 3.2 on an XA2 Plus using Win7 a few years back i had to unlock the bootloader via some code on Sony’s website. What is going on here?
Q2 - " 2.4 Find the ‘S1Boot Fastboot’ device in the tree. If it is not correctly installed, it will show a warning sign."
Instructions are effectively: go find the driver, and when you do find it update it manually using the extracted files from the driver zip you previously downloaded…
… but i’m not seeing a “S1Boot Fastboot” listed in Device Manager to update. What is going on here?
You still need to unlock bootloader if you scroll down to Q4. Your Xperia X was in “bootloader mode” with “blue LED” when trying to load appropriate driver? Another trick used to be to install “Xperia Companion” from Sony which will install needed drivers.
Your phone will likely not show Android updates if it is unlocked, so thus updating Android is split in Option 1 and Option 2.
Unlocking comes in step 4.
You misunderstand. If it shows “S1Boot Fastboot” (at least without a warning sign), the correct driver is installed. If it either does not show that name, or shows a warning sign, you replace the driver.
I suggest you try using fastboot with any driver that claims to be correct before trying to replace it… but still.
the forum seems to be stripping out the unlock code part of the command text, but it was there (obfuscated).
are you supposed to keep the chevron brackets when you add the unlock code in, or, strip them out?
either way, i get the “unknown command” response, and restrating the device does not indicate the device now has an unlocked bootloader as is the case with my XA2…
I stopped using Widows over 10 years ago, and especially with the forum eating parts of your command i can’t really say much.
(use `backticks` or the formatting menu to get proper code formatting)
But maybe try with CMD?
NOTE 1: Windows 10 PowerShell requires the commands in the following way, e.g. “.\fastboot.exe devices”
b) If you use the Windows PowerShell:
./fastboot.exe -i 0x0fce oem unlock 0x<insert your unlock code>
NOTE: If the commands above should fail with an error message about the “-i” option, please try using the shorter command variants below:
b) If you use the Windows PowerShell:
./fastboot.exe oem unlock 0x<insert your unlock code>
C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Users\Me\Downloads\Sailfish_OS-Jolla-4.1.0.24-f5121-0.2.2.43
C:\Users\Me\Downloads\Sailfish_OS-Jolla-4.1.0.24-f5121-0.2.2.43>fastboot -i 0x0fce oem unlock 0x<xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
C:\Users\Me\Downloads\Sailfish_OS-Jolla-4.1.0.24-f5121-0.2.2.43>fastboot 0x0fce oem unlock 0x<xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
