[Xperia 10 II] Re-flashing doesn't work: getvar:secure FAILED (remote: 'GetVar Variable Not found')

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#1

REPRODUCIBILITY: 100%
OS VERSION: 4.4.0.68 / debian bullseye
HARDWARE: Xperia 10 II
UI LANGUAGE: English
REGRESSION: No idea

DESCRIPTION:

I’ve installed Sailfish yesterday and am now running into some issues I want to see if a reset can fix. Reflashing fails, apparantly because fastboot no longer gives a specific variable.

PRECONDITIONS:

Sailfish X is already flashed to the device

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Install Sailfish X on the device
  2. Try to flash again
  3. Get the error

EXPECTED RESULT:

Re-flashing works

ACTUAL RESULT:

Re-flashing fails

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Flash utility v1.2
Detected Linux
Searching device to flash…
Found XQ-AU52, serial:XXXXXXXXX, baseband:, bootloader:
Found matching device with serial XXXXXXXXXX
Fastboot command: fastboot -s XXXXXXXXXX

fastboot -s QV710R0P3A getvar secure
<< getvar:secure FAILED (remote: ‘GetVar Variable Not found’)

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#2

OK. so I thought that maybe this was an issue that flashing is only possible when the device has Android installed, so I reflashed Android using newflasher and then tried to flash Sailfish again.

I’m running into the same issue there. It seems there is something going on with fastboot. If I run the fastboot command myself it works:

fastboot -s XXXXXXXXXX getvar secure

But then if I run it again, it’ll fail at some point and the phone reboots. This is likely what happens during the flash script, which is why it fails to flash.

#3

Sounds like you have the infamous USB3 problem (like so many others).

#4

You’re a lifesaver! I had already tried different cables, but hadn’t thought to try another port. Switched to a different port and now it seems to be working.

#5

No worries, but please consider searching first.
There are now 14 search hits for “getvar:secure FAILED” seemingly across as many threads.

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#6

I’m glad you were able to resolve this. I’m going to close the topic as it’s resolved, but if anyone wants to add more discussion to it, please message me and I can open it again.

#7