[Q] Can anyone help me with sbf_flash in a virtual box using ubuntu?

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So I made a huge mistake and I tried flash the new Gingerbread for D2 on my D2G. Now everytime I start up my phone it goes right to Bootloader D0.11. I have done as much research as possible in the last few days and the only successful recovery I've read of is by flashing the stock D2G Rom with sbf_flash in ubuntu (RSD lite 4.7 and 4.9 both wouldn't successfully flash. It also gave the bootloader a code corrupt error when it turns on now). So anyways, I used virtualbox to make an ubuntu 10.10 VM so I could sbf_flash my D2G. I installed Ubuntu, installed guest additions, added myself to the vboxsf user group so I could get USB access in my VM, ran sbf_flash in the terminal, the ROM loads up on the computer but then tells me that it's "waiting for phone." I've tried everything that I can think of but I can't get ubuntu to recognize that my phone is hooked up to the USB drive in Bootloader mode. I don't know if there's a Linux driver for the D2G that I couldn't find, I don't know what to do. If anyone could help out it would be a life saver, thanks

not sure about d2g but try this

"Remove battery, reinsert.

Open keyboard and hold the X.

Then while holding x turn the phone on and let go of the power button but keep holding the X

You should get a little green android. Now let go of everything.

Now push the volume up and down at the same time. A blue menu should come up allowing you to clear cache and wipe/restore. "

for anyone who has trouble getting through bootloop problems

Nothing is going to help him except flashing an actual D2G sbf to the phone!

You can't flash an SBF for a D2 to a D2G no more than you would flash a microwave firmware into a Refrigerator!

He screwed up his radio because the SBF expects a CDMA radio and the D2G has a Hybrid CDMA/GSM

Impatience sometimes leads people to do very dumb things!

Registered just to reply.

Originally Posted by gdfnr123

not sure about d2g but try this

"Remove battery, reinsert.

Open keyboard and hold the X.

Then while holding x turn the phone on and let go of the power button but keep holding the X

You should get a little green android. Now let go of everything.

Now push the volume up and down at the same time. A blue menu should come up allowing you to clear cache and wipe/restore. "

for anyone who has trouble getting through bootloop problems

Yeah, doesn't work.
The phone boots straight to the bootloader and due to failed gingerbread install, well, it removes a lot of the core pieces of the D2G's boot process(aka, it has no more recovery mode available).
RSD-lite also fails at BP passthrough.

Anyway, to the OP;
After going through the past, ehhh, 4 hours or so trying to get this to work, I'm going to just say that you're not going to get it to work via virtualbox. Whenever I tried to connect the phone via USB and have it recognised in the virtual machine, virtualbox would either 1. Outright crash or 2. Give an error on connecting it.

You're going to need to burn the ubuntu .ISO to a disc and use it as a livecd and do everything off of it. Which, honestly, isn't that bad.

I used directions off of here, replacing with the .sbf from here.
For whatever reason I couldn't completely copy over the .sbf via USB, so I just downloaded while on the livecd.

In any case, I can confirm it works, which is great.

Originally Posted by Boygloyd

So I made a huge mistake and I tried flash the new Gingerbread for D2 on my D2G. Now everytime I start up my phone it goes right to Bootloader D0.11. I have done as much research as possible in the last few days and the only successful recovery I've read of is by flashing the stock D2G Rom with sbf_flash in ubuntu (RSD lite 4.7 and 4.9 both wouldn't successfully flash. It also gave the bootloader a code corrupt error when it turns on now). So anyways, I used virtualbox to make an ubuntu 10.10 VM so I could sbf_flash my D2G. I installed Ubuntu, installed guest additions, added myself to the vboxsf user group so I could get USB access in my VM, ran sbf_flash in the terminal, the ROM loads up on the computer but then tells me that it's "waiting for phone." I've tried everything that I can think of but I can't get ubuntu to recognize that my phone is hooked up to the USB drive in Bootloader mode. I don't know if there's a Linux driver for the D2G that I couldn't find, I don't know what to do. If anyone could help out it would be a life saver, thanks

The free version of Virtualbox does not support usb. VMware Player-free and supports usb (and better than Virtualbox imo). I can't post the link do a search for VMware Player 3.0.