Everytime I wanted to change firmware for my Xperia phone, I used to reboot into Windows 7
Recently I feel lots of Blue Screen Of Death in Windows 7 (think due to nvidia driver problem), and did not want to reinstall Windows 7
I tried flashtool in Ubuntu Linux and it worked, I changed firmware in my Xperia phone!! Thanks XDA devs and Flashtool devs
Here is how
Download flashtool for Linux from (Refer, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588586)
http://androxyde.github.com/Flashtool/
http://www.flashtool.net/download.html
After downloading the linux version with extension tar.7z, unzip it
To do this, install p7zip, p7zip-full from synaptic or from software center
Unzip the Flashtool folder,
Add this rules to following file (create this file by copying existing 70-persistent-net.rules as follows,
sudo cp /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/80-persistent-usb.rules)
sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/80-persistent-usb.rules
and add
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce", SYSFS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777"
Before running flashtool install ia32-libs
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
To run the flashtool enter the directory where the 7zip got extracted and run FlashTool as super user
For e.g I did this
cd Downloads/FlashTool/
sudo su
Recently I feel lots of Blue Screen Of Death in Windows 7 (think due to nvidia driver problem), and did not want to reinstall Windows 7
I tried flashtool in Ubuntu Linux and it worked, I changed firmware in my Xperia phone!! Thanks XDA devs and Flashtool devs
Here is how
Download flashtool for Linux from (Refer, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588586)
http://www.flashtool.net/download.html
After downloading the linux version with extension tar.7z, unzip it
To do this, install p7zip, p7zip-full from synaptic or from software center
Unzip the Flashtool folder,
Add this rules to following file (create this file by copying existing 70-persistent-net.rules as follows,
sudo cp /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/80-persistent-usb.rules)
sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/80-persistent-usb.rules
and add
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce", SYSFS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777"
Should look like this
Before running flashtool install ia32-libs
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
To run the flashtool enter the directory where the 7zip got extracted and run FlashTool as super user
For e.g I did this
cd Downloads/FlashTool/
sudo su
./FlashTool
It should look like this
I choose to install a firmware to my Xperia phone and Flashtool in action
After installing new Firmware my phone screen looks as below
