rooting the phone with linux works like a charm... you need the sdk from h t t p : / / developer.android.com/sdk/index.html (sorry i can't post correct links)... i haven't tried flashing it yet because i'm waiting for the official update in switzerland

Originally Posted by munzli

rooting the phone with linux works like a charm... you need the sdk from h t t p : / / developer.android.com/sdk/index.html (sorry i can't post correct links)... i haven't tried flashing it yet because i'm waiting for the official update in switzerland

I guess you are talking android 1.6 for the rooting from linux with android sdk tools (adb?)

Originally Posted by mr_cos

I guess you are talking android 1.6 for the rooting from linux with android sdk tools (adb?)

exactly... as soon as i have 2.1 i'll post what method i used

This is driving me crazy. I am also trying to install the 2.1 update with virtual box (non-free 3.2.10) on Mini Pro.

I am unable to get a proper USB connection to the device although it shows in the filters settings when I boot the VM it remains greyed out.

Can anybody else report success?

Sony Ericsson deserve a big slap for this.

Update: Sorry to solve my own problem, but isn't this so often the way after you ask for help:

I had to add my user to the vboxusers group, after which the usb connection worked fine.

Originally Posted by munzli

exactly... as soon as i have 2.1 i'll post what method i used

adb works great in Linux, both for 1.6 and 2.1, but the problem is there are no flashing tools available to update.
As for rooting the phone, the program I used in 2.1 (superoneclick) seems to be a gui for some batch process in adb, hence maybe reproducing all this steps in adbshell (pushing the necesasary files, running rageagaintshecage, getting the mountpath...) one could root the phone the same way...

It looks like the superoneclick author will add linux support in the next release. :)

forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682

to bad the USBFlash.dll is from sony ericsson. we'll never know what the library does.

but i just played through the game of updating using a virtualbox windows machine... works like a charm. wrote down the simple steps to get it done here: h t t p : / / munz.li/?p=110

Originally Posted by munzli

but i just played through the game of updating using a virtualbox windows machine... works like a charm. wrote down the simple steps to get it done here: h t t p : / / munz.li/?p=110

Excellent howto, good work

Originally Posted by mr_cos

It looks like the superoneclick author will add linux support in the next release. :)

forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682

Good, I hadn't seen that before. And well, looks like it's already supported. I just installed it,
you have to run the .exe file through mono. I tried and looks like working correctly, it detects the phone... but mine is already rooted so I'm not sure...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=537