"Expecting the device to be in the bootloader" isn't that helpful

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

phablet-tools 1.1+14.10.20141002-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu 14.04

1. While the phone is not in the bootloader, try to use ubuntu-device-flash.

What happens: It displays "Expecting the device to be in the bootloader... waiting", and just sits there.

What should happen: either
(A) it should reboot the device into the bootloader automatically; or
(B) it should offer to reboot the device into the bootloader when you press a key; or at the very least
(C) it should tell you that "adb reboot bootloader" is the command to use.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[公输目 (yue937)]

+1

[公输目 (yue937)]

and I think, it should be run as root...

I run $ adb reboot bootloader
and then ubuntu-device-flash, displays: "Expecting the device to be in the bootloader... waiting", and just sits there.

[luckj (luciano-forlani)]

The same for me with a meizu pro 5. I'm stuck to this and nothing more happens

[Christoph (maggiv8)]

The same for me with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (SM-T217T).

[Bike To Australia (bike2australia)]

Same, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Samsung Rugby Pro (SGH-I547c). Attempting install of Ubuntu Touch stable.

[Bike To Australia (bike2australia)]

More info - $ adb reboot-bootloader
 works fine
$ ubuntu-device-flash touch --channel=ubuntu-touch/stable/ubuntu --bootstrap
2016/10/17 13:21:31 Expecting the device to be in the bootloader... waiting
 waiting for 40 minutes... time to go to work!

[QDe$Nik (qdesnik)]

sudo ubuntu-device-flash touch --channel=ubuntu-touch/stable/ubuntu --bootstrap

[Curtice Gough (curticegough)]

Exactly the same problem I have with my Moto X First Gen