Problems to flash Sailfish on Xperia 10 IV (fastbootd menu)

REPRODUCIBILITY: 100%
OS VERSION: Android 14, Windows 11
HARDWARE: Xperia 10 IV
UI LANGUAGE: german/english
REGRESSION: -

DESCRIPTION:

I follow the step-by-step instructions in “How to install Sailfish X on Xperia™ 10 IV” (via Windows 11), but the flashing of Sailfish X (point 8) cannot be completed.
The Windows script does not continue to run, I end up in the fastbootd menu on the smartphone after Rebooting into fastboot at the Windows script.

PRECONDITIONS:

at CMD:

  • fastboot devices
    [serial number] fastboot
  • fastboot getvar secure
    secure: no
  • fastboot getvar unlocked
    unlocked: yes
  • fastboot getvar version-baseband
    version-baseband: 65.2.A.2.179

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. start with blue LED on the phone the flash-on-windows.bat
  2. at CMD:

Searching for a compatible device…

The device is unlocked for the flashing process. Continuing…

Found ‘SW_binaries_for_Xperia_Android_14_5.4_v3a_murray.img’ that will be used as vendor image. Continuing…

[folder]>fastboot.exe -s [serial number] reboot fastboot
Rebooting into fastboot OKAY [ 0.004s]
< waiting for [serial number] >

  1. fastbootd options on phone are reboot system, enter recovery, reboot to bootlader, power off
  2. after waiting ~15 minutes I click on any of the four options
  3. at CMD:

fastboot: error: Failed to boot into userspace fastboot; one or more components might be unbootable.

ERROR: Failed to execute ‘fastboot.exe -s [serial number] reboot fastboot’.

FLASHING FAILED

Please go to https://forum.sailfishos.org/ and ask for guidance.

EXPECTED RESULT:

flashing of Sailfish X

ACTUAL RESULT:

the phone starts into Android

MODIFICATIONS:

no

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

  • tested it with german and english language at the phone
  • tested it with different usb cables and inputs at the laptop
  • tested it several times with the same result

I am not a programmer at all and would be grateful for any help!

Hi, I confirm, it behaved the same way for me, Vbox/Win10 and on PC/Win10.
I used Win as a replacement solution, because the USB did not work properly for me on Linux, everything is here Xperia 10 IV flash 4.6.0.15 faulty

Thank you. but this was a solution for flashing via Linux?! Because I have no idea what I can do in Windows 11.

I also ran into the exact same problem with Xperia 10 IV. Flashing from new win 11 laptop and old win 10 laptop. No difference. Then flashing AOSP with Emma. Ok. Tried flashing several times but no luck. I also tried running fastboot commands from flash-on-windows.bat from a cmd promt skipping the first one “fastboot reboot fastboot” whitch starts gui mode on phone. Most off them executes successfull except flashing “vendor_boot.img”.
Output from console.

fastboot flash vendor_boot_a vendor_boot.img
Sending ‘vendor_boot_a’ (328 KB) OKAY [ 0.016s]
Writing ‘vendor_boot_a’ FAILED (remote: 'Flashing is not allowed for partition
')
fastboot: error: Command failed

fastboot flash vendor_boot_b vendor_boot.img
Sending ‘vendor_boot_b’ (328 KB) OKAY [ 0.016s]
Writing ‘vendor_boot_b’ FAILED (remote: 'Flashing is not allowed for partition
')
fastboot: error: Command failed