Unable to install fastboot driver in Windows 10 v2004

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#1

REPRODUCIBILITY (% or how often): 100%
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HARDWARE (Jolla1, Tablet, XA2,…): Xperia 10 Plus
UI LANGUAGE: EN
REGRESSION: (compared to previous public release: Yes, No, ?):

DESCRIPTION:

In devices manger, I have installed the driver successfully but in device tree it still show “Android?” I have try fastboot devices and it cant find my 10 plus device. I have tried to install the driver in Windows 10 v19xx, the problem is gone

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#2

As annoying as this bug can be, Jolla has planned to migrate TJC content to this new forum by the end of the year, so I don’t think we should duplicate our content manually.

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#3

And you think the OP wants to wait until the end of the year for a solution coming soon™?
There is absolutely no date given when this may be done (best: before starting the new forum!)

In principle you are right. But I do understand every single poster here to start a new thread for an old -on TJC- not solved problem.

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#4

I had the same Problem on a Win 10 machine and could not get the driver runnig.
The resolution for me was to try it on an older Win 7 computer - there it worked.
Installing Sailfish was a kind of computer-hopping for me, because my main system (pclinuxos) had no fastboot driver, my laptop with manjaro aborted the installation with different error messages and the same happened on a xubuntu 18.04 laptop.
So installation was ok, but finding a computer wher everything worked, was not easy.
So my advice for you is: try it on a different computer (maybe you find a Win 7 installation anywhere?).

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#5

And you think the OP wants to wait until the end of the year for a solution coming soon™?

You know that it won’t change anything.
It’s tracked by Jolla, there is not much more we can do, except helping them with the fix.

#6

The problem is not Windows 10, but Windows 10 since version 2004 (as described in the first post).
Up to version 1909 I couldn’t find any problems with the fastboot driver.
It is therefore sufficient to use a device on which the “May 2020 update” has not yet been installed.

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Sony Xperia XA2 not flashing
#7

Update your Windows computer to version 20H2 followed by the cumulative update from Dec 2020.

This makes it possible to install the fastboot driver successfully, again.

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#8

I will give it a try and report back. Thank you for checking in.

#9

For those still in Win10 2005/20H1 (and maybe duplicating content from TJC), I was able to flash SailfishX to a Sony XA2 by connecting it in Fastboot mode to a USB2 port and then using Zadig to inject the WinUSB generic driver into the “Android” device (Zadig detects it automatically if it’s the only device that is lacking a driver on the computer at that moment)