Answer by carepack for Jolla MUST provide a linux flash tool for SailfishX
@phklrz here's youre guide: http://sailfishmods.de/2017/10/howto-sony-xperia-x-teil-2-sailfish-os-community-installieren/ hint: use google translator. theres no hack. all done with official tools. Only...
View ArticleComment by lakutalo
There will be but quite a few novices using Linux *and* being eager to flash a new phone *and* wanting SailfishOS who are *not* used to wearing safety glasses or living in occasional pain. No further...
View ArticleComment by Fuzzillogic
@lakutalo funny, but *usually* the tools like Emma are meant to be used by relative novices, and can perform some basic verification and sanity checking before allowing the user to do something stupid....
View ArticleComment by lakutalo
The words *Windows* and *robustness* used in such close manner are quite a stimulus for my sympaticus. I wonder why it made me laugh spontaneously.
View ArticleComment by coderus
flashing is always straightforward. you do not need to control values e.g. pressure, voltage, current during process. just click and run into vault, in case of explosion. happy flashing!
View ArticleComment by Fuzzillogic
Does the Linux method come with the same ease of use, the same robustness and same support in case something goes wrong as the Windows solution?
View ArticleAnswer by coderus for Jolla MUST provide a linux flash tool for SailfishX
the main way to flash is linux since beginnig. windows way was just added 26 september.
View ArticleComment by phklrz
@carepack I'm a linux user, not a hacker or a developper. Having read forums on xda or maemo, it doesn't seem to me so straightforward to flash a firmware on xperia devices. More, I want a...
View ArticleComment by carepack
@phklrz What's the point? You can flash via linux easily. Other ways to get sailfish on it already stated above. For which crowd you're speaking? It looks like jolla can't never do it right for some...
View ArticleAnswer by RodSeq for Jolla MUST provide a linux flash tool for SailfishX
Surely good to have Linux support but Windows support is sufficient to start
View ArticleComment by JoHe
Great, there is a wiki by @Edir already: https://together.jolla.com/question/169025/sailfish-x-install-flash-on-linux/
View ArticleComment by DarkTuring
@olf so am kinda lost here, i want to do it the Linux way and have an unlocked bootloader with an older android build: What do i do with all this... cd $ANDROID_ROOT/flashing/SailfishOS-*/ MATCH='You...
View ArticleAnswer by olf for Jolla MUST provide a linux flash tool for SailfishX
Hey folks, please don't freak out over the fact, that the official way of flashing phones from Sony's Open Device Program (e.g. the F5121 aka Xperia X) is...
View ArticleComment by elastic
The point isn’t that this can’t be done - there are plenty of ways to get access to windows but the point is that this shouldn’t be needed. When the Sailfish X was advertised first it was clearly...
View ArticleAnswer by ScumCoder for Jolla MUST provide a linux flash tool for SailfishX
I am an architypical Microsoft-hating Linux maniac and even I disagree that this is an issue. Just download a free trial of Windows 7 from MSDN, install it on a virtual machine, flash your phone, then...
View ArticleComment by Spark
I somehow also think that everything will be fine in the end. However Jolla shows the usual miscommunication which to me is part of the reason why jolla is still "only" kind-of-a startup. This is not...
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