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[Alfie John <bc115ae36aaa51d1b00782159d233390@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 07:12:55AM +1000, Michi Henning wrote:
> I've been experiencing similar things. Trying to flash from my Vivid desktop
> is useless, I never get anywhere, with things failing randomly (and almost
> always). Flashing from a VM on my Macbook Pro works better, but also fails at
> random every now and then. That's when trying to flash a Nexus 4.

I'm on Debian Jessie, and am running Ubuntu Trusty under VirtualBox. At first,
flashing would also fail at random times for me too. After some debugging, I
realised that sometime after the inital fastboot flash, VirtualBox drops the
USB connection.

So if flashing under a VM, select the USB device to connect, but then keep an
eye out for any connection drop because you'll have to reselect the device
(usually happens when the black fastboot screen changes to the Ubuntu logo).

As a note, the USB device name changes here too (I can't recall, and am away
from my machine). During fastboot, it seems like it's the name of the USB
chipset manufacturer, then once the Ubuntu logo is displayed, the device name
changes to BQ E5.

Hope this helps.

Alfie

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