No message about allowing access to phone on phone screen
So phone is powered up running android 10 with ‘allow USB debugging’ enabled? You plug it into installer when requested and it doesn’t confirm identity of phone? If that is case power phone down and try using platform tools again to check your connection with ‘fastboot devices’ command.
Yes android 10. Will try tools but it has been a long day. Need sleep. Busy all day tomorrow so will attempt tomorrow evening. Thank you once again.
Good evening.
Opened platform tools in terminal. Pressed vol+ and power buttons on phone. Blue light on phone then plugged into pc. ‘Waiting for any devices’. Turned off phone and tried again holding the two buttons but just get a single flash from led but it is green. then phone boots into android.
in a terminal, type
adb devices
does the device connect?
if so, then type
adb reboot bootloader
to get into fastboot.
The phone is turned off. When I try vol+ and power together nothing now happens. If I press power a fraction of a second before pressing vol+ I get a single flash of white led followed by one vibration which is then followed by three vibrations but the phone stays off. I can still turn it on just by pressing power button. Should I be pressing both buttons at this stage.
I now have a blue light on the phone
Should I retry auto installer or attempt to manually install iode.
Thank you. Can I run the auto installer. I began to do the manual install but there is a choice of files. i.e. Iode 5.8 or 5.9. Do I need the sha file for linux mint or just the standard zip.
Tried auto and it worked. Thank you everyone.
What happened here was a forced shut down because you were pressing both volume + and - simultaneously whilst holding down the power button. It’s important to keep your eye on where you place your finger on the volume button when you are initiating fastboot or flash modes. Not sure as to why you were pressing the power button too though. Worth remembering if you find yourself in a situation where the phone won’t shut down.
What we really need to do is to produce a basic ‘novice user’ install guide for every manufacturer listed in the official iode supported devices list. For this to be effective it would require a classified section on the forum where they could be listed as stickies. I don’t mind writing the Sony entry but never having had any of the other phones on the supported list, I feel it would be best left to those that have.
Any chance any one?
It would certainly have saved me a lot of time and stress but how many novices are brave enough or have the time to go through the process where they have to learn about Android Debug bridge, Fastboot, OEM unlocking, Bootloaders and Bootloader unlocking first. They then have to contemplate the possibility of completely killing the phone or incurring significant charges from Sony to undo any mistakes they make. The disclaimers that you have to agree to on the sony web site made me have second thoughts. After all these things you then have to have the courage to run the Iode installer which again warns you that you may ruin your phone in the process. When I had started the auto installer I suddenly remembered that the battery on my laptop does not work and that we have frequent power cuts. A very concerning time for me. So. Would the time and effort required to write comprehensive instructions be worth it or would it be better trying to write an auto installer that actually ran like the video shows on the Iode site.
The thing to bear in mind is that the installer has been configured for all supported devices with no specific manufacturer in mind. For the XA2 I found it was a breeze but I had already unlocked the bootloader and only had to enable debugging and plug it in. It doesn’t appear to be as straight forward for every phone. My suggestion was really all about giving new users all the information they needed at the manufacturer level to get them to that ‘plug and go’ stage with maybe a flash-all backup for the times when the installer for whatever reason has its own ideas about the game. A lot of the stuff you see from the manufacturer is just scaremongering to put you off straying. The biggest bricker of smartphones believe it or not is Screwgle. The nnumber of phones out there that are FRP locked is enormous. If a phone has not been reported as lost or stolen after 3 months it should become eligible for FRP unlocking. Stop all these people taking phones that they threw in a draw a couple of years ago and dumping them on to the second user market as working devices without factory reseting them.
As a novice here are my thoughts. The Iode team need to up their game and actually respond to queries from potential users. There should be a list of phones on their web site on which Iode can be installed completely automatically as per their video (if any actually exist). Prospective novice users should be steered towards these phones and be made aware of the basic knowledge requirements for installing Iode on any other phones that are supported. The whole ordeal reminded me of typical french companies and when I found out that Iode actually is french my heart sank because I have quite a lot of experience of them. A truly quality organisation has a very simple ethos. ‘Say what you do and do what you say’. Unfortunately the french find this extremely difficult and my personal impression of Iode is that it doesn’t quite hit the target.
I have already brought it to every one’s attention that this board is about as friendly toward new users as a junkyard dog. Didn’t go down very well either. Apart from the ongoing d1ck measuring contest for techies which seems to come as standard these days, it’s no different than almost every open source site I have ever been on. An awful lot of which are no longer in existence. Pointed that out too but no one seemed interested. Having been a lurker on here for the first six months and then became an active participant for only a little more since I decided to load up an XA2 with 5.5, I think its fair to say that in terms of an active community it’s pretty much dead, cos there doesn’t appear to be one.
Sorry if it is me who offended you. I got the help that I needed but don’t know enough about android to contribute. I can only relate my personal experience.
Not at all… it’s just that sometimes I think iode (itself not just the OS), isn’t really ready for general release yet. We can only hope that it happens before the next great open source android project comes along and/or the techies have gotten bored with iode.
Please can we avoid descending into racist comments in this forum?
Complete nonsense IMHO, and the opposite of my experience here
a gentle warning to @Alan944T: comments in this forum about people’s origins being determinant of them being a certain kind of person will lead to a ban.
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