Introduction:-
Hello Friends ..
Here is my guide helping you to how to install flashtool on ubuntu for 32bit or 64bit
There are many guides but still its incomplete and even i need to search out many things to install it and other requirements , so i decided to post a guide so that will help me and you too
I hope this guide will help you
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Building Environment:-
Maybe you will ask why to build environment , so here is the reply in next steps we will require libusbx and that we have to compile , so compiling requires development environment
So now copy this command and paste it to terminal :-
$ sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg ccache lzop flex bison gperf build-essential zip curl zlib1g-dev zlib1g-dev:i386 libc6-dev lib32ncurses5 lib32z1 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32ncurses5-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev:i386 libreadline6-dev:i386 lib32z-dev libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos python-markdown libxml2-utils xsltproc readline-common libreadline6-dev libreadline6 lib32readline-gplv2-dev libncurses5-dev lib32readline5 lib32readline6 libreadline-dev libreadline6-dev:i386 libreadline6:i386 bzip2 libbz2-dev libbz2-1.0 libghc-bzlib-dev lib32bz2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev squashfs-tools pngcrush schedtool libwxgtk2.8-dev python
Compiling libusbx :-
Congo , you have successfully built environment and here you need to compile libusbx to run USB
now you need to get libusbx click here to download
extract it to home directory , rename it to libusbx and enter this commands :-
changing directory to libusbx
$ cd libusbx
configuring libusbx for compiling
$ ./configure
now lets compile
$ make
and this will install it
$ make install
Setting up udev rules:-
Now connect your xperia device , its better you connect with USB Debugging On
and enter this command :-
$ lsusb
there you will find something like this :-
Bus 00x Device 00x: ID 0fce:xxx Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
now open new window of terminal and enter this command :-
$ sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules
and new gedit window will pop up and there you have to paste this lines
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce", SYSFS{idProduct}=="xxxx", MODE="0777"
replace that xxxx from previous command output
Installing 7zip for extracting FlashTool:-
Now you will require p7zip full to extract FlashTool achieve file
enter this command :-
$ sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
Time to run FlashTool :-
Here you will require to download flashtool you can get it from its official homepage :- flashtool.net
now extract it to your Home directory not desktop
Copy /usr/local/lib/libusb-1.0.so.0.1.0 to FlashTool/x10flasher_lib/linux/lib64 and FlashTool/x10flasher_lib/linux/lib32.
and copy/replace this to FlashTool
Now type this commands in terminal
changing directory to FlashTool
$ cd FlashTool
Login into superuser
$ sudo su
Run Flashtool
# ./FlashTool
Enjoy ! I hope this guide help you
Credit:-
Sony for great devices
Androxyde and Bin4ry for FlashTool ,run file patch (Androxyde)
All other packages for giving great environment to compile
BryanRG1996 for his guide
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