Warning, Complete NOoB! Ok here's the deal, I'd like to use this flash tool to flash a new ROM to my Sony X10 using my Mac. I found wine and am having trouble because I don't understand prefixes or how to make them. My Mac's stats. 2 Ghz Intel Core Duo Memory 2gb 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM Mac OS X 10.5.8 And I have Wine 1.1.44 , tried Update and says I am using the latest version. When I try to start the flashtool I just get a Full Screen Checkered pattern, tiny black and white squares. I used the default option and not the mini OSX App option. I have marked this thread so I'll get notifications upon replies. Also if helpful I can video what happens and throw that on Youtube. Oh yeah, The Flash Tool link.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=920746 Thanks in advance.
I just installed Flashtool-0.5.0.0beta-setup.exe (https://github.com/downloads/Androxyde/Flashtool/Flashtool-0.5.0.0beta-setup.exe) in Wine 1.3.33 on my Fedora Linux host. Then I ran this command from my Linux bash shell: wine C:/FlashTool/FlashTool.exe A window popped up and is running now, titled "SonyEricsson Xperia Flasher by Bin4ry & Androxyde". I can interact with it, though I don't have any phone to plug in. It sounds like you didn't get this far. Are you sure that 1.1.44 is the latest version of Wine that you have available?
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rizzo <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Warning, Complete NOoB! > > Ok here's the deal, I'd like to use this flash tool to flash a new ROM to my Sony X10 using my Mac. I found wine and am > having trouble because I don't understand prefixes or how to make them. >Check if there is a native version of this program for the Mac. Wine usually cannot be used for this purpose for two reasons: 1. Wine runs as a userspace program and does not allow for the running of special Windows driver software. 2. These programs usually require direct access to the hardware. See #1 above for why this does not work. If you really need to flash the phone, you will need to use Windows in some form to do it or a MacOSX native program. James