Problem flashing Sony Xperia 10 III

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I’m trying to flash Sailfish X to my Xperia 10 III

Unfortunately, the flashing failed with the following error:

 user@computername:/media/NAS/downloads/X10iii/Sailfish_OS-Jolla-4.4.0.68-xqbt52-1.0.0.142$ sudo bash ./flash.sh            
Flash utility v1.2
Detected Linux
Searching device to flash..
Found XQ-BT52, serial:<serial>, baseband:62.0.A.3.70, bootloader:1322-1665_X_Boot_SM6350_LA2.0_R_49
Found matching device with serial <serial>
Fastboot command: fastboot -s <serial>
>> fastboot -s HQ619T267B getvar secure
<< getvar:secure FAILED (remote: unknown command)

My USB layout is as follows. The single USB root hub is not connected to any external ports, as far as I can tell.

user@computer:/dev$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 5986:0366 Acer, Inc Integrated Camera
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 138a:0017 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS 5011 fingerprint sensor
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:9540 Alcor Micro Corp. AU9540 Smartcard Reader
Bus 002 Device 054: ID 0fce:0dde Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB Xperia Mini Pro Bootloader
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I trief to see if the phone would still boot, and it still boots into android.
I then tried flashing again, but I keep getting the following message:

user@computername:/media/NAS/downloads/X10iii/Sailfish_OS-Jolla-4.4.0.68-xqbt52-1.0.0.142$ sudo bash ./flash.sh 
Flash utility v1.2
Detected Linux
Searching device to flash..
Found FAILED, serial:<serial>, baseband:FAILED, bootloader:FAILED
No valid devices found.

I’m not sure what to do now. Any pointers?

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As described in section 2 use a USB-bus, with no other devices on it. For your Laptop this is a USB-port which is connected to Bus 001. Or switch off all the devices (in the Firmware settings) which are connected to Bus 002 (fingerprint sensor, camera, smart-card reader) and use the same port you used before. This often helps; still other culprits may prevent flashing.

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Thanks for responding.

Unfortunately the UEFI does not offer the possibility to disable attached devices. I also tried forcing the USB 3 controller into 2.0 mode, but this somehow unified all busses to a single bus and then put all devices on that bus.

I tried moving around the cable to the different USB ports, and somehow it will always connect to bus 002. So I guess I’m stuck now.

[edit]

I installed fastboot on another computer, and flashing worked.

[edit 2]
Phone won’ t boot. Is stuck on boot screen with turqoise light.

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Use (= search) this forum.

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Try these instructions. (There are other tips in earlier posts, but IIUC they are not necessary anymore.)

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Thanks!

In the end I didn’t need to do this. I don’t know why, but flashing the phone the 5th time worked.

I did leave the USB in and did a hard reboot instead and only pulled out the USB after the phone had rebooted (but before the OS started to load), which was almost as suggested in some other topics. I had tried the hard reboot before, but only after disconnecting my phone. Somehow it did work this time.

I have to say that the overall process of flashing was quite a bit more troublesome than it was when I flashed my XA2. I did not expect it to be this much of a hassle.

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Nowadays I just disable the autosuspend whenever I flash a device, and I recommend that for everyone. With that done, all my Xperia devices behave nicely during the flashing process! (Still haven’t been able to flash my Samsung…)

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8.2 Hold down the Volume Up button and connect the other end of the USB cable to the phone. The LED should light up blue .

I had to keep on pushing the button, and run

8.4 Launch the flashing script by entering the command:

sudo bash ./flash.sh

while still pressing the button !!

Then it worked

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which samsung? i also have difficulties with my samsung accessing it through adb

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This one: