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[Q] Getting back to stock - with root

hi all
I think I probably know the answer to this but just to make sure..
I have for a long time had gregs Assaye-V2.0.1, which was great but was starting to slow down somewhat. so for my sins I tried with CM 10(.1 i think) still not quite sure about the differences between cm10 versions, but I digress.
anyway I put cm 10.1. I tried both FXP and so called stable CM release and its been a nightmare.
GPS problems, camera problems, browser problems - basically multiple reboots daily making the phone pretty much unusable. so thinking that I would like to get back to the beginning. I would like to maintain root and retain CWM but avoid the standard bloat that comes with stock roms.
Happy to bung a custom kernel on there, not after massive speed as I don't play games, battery life and reliability are paramount for me.
I wonder if someone could recommend the best way to go about this, and possibly a FTF/Kerne/ROM to go with that recommendation.
is it worth re-locking the bootloader for instance? can you even do that and maintain root.. ? so many questions - sorry I have gotten rather out of touch.
I would stick Assaye on again but seems it hasn't moved for quite some time and not sure if there is a better option.
any help very much appreciated
just to be clear - my current situation is:
Xperia T bought from Phones 4U
rooted
unlocked bootloader
currently running CM 10.1
thanks
nat

Thanks for using my rom, I hope it worked fine for you
In order to go back to stock you MUST relock the bootloader. Or you can flash doomkernel (which is for stock roms) and before you let it boot properly go into recovery and flash a stock based rom
If you relock the bootloader your phone will bootloop on CM if you try to turn it on, don't worry, just run pccompanion and force a repair of the software.
Then your phone will be exactly the same as when you took it of the box, so you can start again..
EDIT
My rom never updated because it was always just for me, and I was happy with it, now I have a Z1 and my daughter has my T, she hates my rom ;( and insists on CM

hi greg
thanks for the reply
guess I would be happy with a stock based rom to retain root. could you recommend one - other than your own?
which as it happens I am bunging back on as i type this...
thanks

also how do I set the buttons back to the original ones..?
sur eI have asked this before but cant find the answer...

To get back to original stock then once you have locked the bootloader just run pccompanion and force a repair of you r software in software update,
To get the button back to stock just push a stock systemUI.apk to system/app or better still install xposed framework and xblast module.
I think it works on the T, try it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401
then with the xblast module you gat a choice of buttons plus a load of other options as well

hi
so, I flashed the ftf re-lock bootloader.
all appeared to go well but....
I have been trying to no avail to get pc companion to run a repair.
the phone will not turn on, all I get when i hit the power is the led flashes red briefly twice, I can keep holding the power and it will keep doing a double rad flash every second or so.
when I plug into the pc - as part of the repair process - ie. holding down vol + power. I get a windows sound for connecting then another for disconnecting - I havent of course actually pulled it out at this point.
any ideas?
guessing its just not getting the green led for flashmode thus pc companion is not going to run a repair...
any other suggestions..?
thanks
edit: seems it has connected with a green led now.. however - it does not stay connected long enough for pc companion to fully download the update and i have to start all over again..
is there any way I can download the update separately and sort it that way..

Leave it on charge on your wall charger for the rest of the day, then try pccompanion later tonight

hi
thanks for the replies.
I had left it charging all last night. seems that it will only stay in flashmode for a short time, which isnt long enough to complete the flashing
the downloading part of the pc companion had completed and it was doing to pc -> phone bit, but never completes as green light goes off before it finishes..
I will leave it charging again overnight, but fear the worst.
presumably flashing a stock ftf with flashtool would achieve similar results?
will give that a go too and see how it goes..
hoping that I could run pc companion after doing that if it works?
n

xda-nat said:
hi
thanks for the replies.
I had left it charging all last night. seems that it will only stay in flashmode for a short time, which isnt long enough to complete the flashing
the downloading part of the pc companion had completed and it was doing to pc -> phone bit, but never completes as green light goes off before it finishes..
I will leave it charging again overnight, but fear the worst.
presumably flashing a stock ftf with flashtool would achieve similar results?
will give that a go too and see how it goes..
hoping that I could run pc companion after doing that if it works?
n
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if lfashtool works then yes...but not sure what your issue is here...

finally success, managed to use flashtool to flash parts of the ftf at a time, left it charging overnight and booted up fine in the a.m.
then have just ran pc companion to get a fresh stock one on.
thing is even though I have done that, it has still kept all the random folders on the internal storage, is there any way to clear them. PC companion says it will wipe them but it doesnt seem to have done so..
thanks
nat

xda-nat said:
finally success, managed to use flashtool to flash parts of the ftf at a time, left it charging overnight and booted up fine in the a.m.
then have just ran pc companion to get a fresh stock one on.
thing is even though I have done that, it has still kept all the random folders on the internal storage, is there any way to clear them. PC companion says it will wipe them but it doesnt seem to have done so..
thanks
nat
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Backup everything you want to save to your pc, then format internal storage in settings
Glad to hear you have it working again

No lock screen when pressing power button, but do have power/shut down menu?

Hey guys n girls,
Basically my S3 doesn't sleep anymore the screen stays on 24/7? I can't lock the screen using the power button and it doesn't even lock it's self? Even timed lock doesn't work it just stays lit all the time. It's really annoying when I need to sleep at night too plus it chews the battery and will run out before morning so I have to put it on charge when it doesn't need to be charging.
I've wiped and done a factory reset and it does nothing to fix the issue. I've reinstalled fresh both 4.4.4 and 4.4.2 and both still have this issue? I'm about to flash back to 4.3 or even 4.1.2 if I have to.
Yes I've checked the file inside /efs/imei and it has the text "No" which I believe has been the fix for most other people with similar issues? However one striking difference between my issue and most others I've read on XDA from various Samsung devices is this: I still have access to my power menu and my phone doesn't look to be in safe mode?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Sent from my chalk and slate

I think is a hardware related issues. Have you tried taken the battery out? This probably won't do a thing but would not hurt to do so.
Also update your software using KIES just reset using it too.
Hope it helps...

Cheers bud. I have been around here for quite sometime now (no spring n00b is what I am saying) but cheers for your response.
For anyone suffering the same fate....I couldn't find a solution so I pretty much did:
1).a nandroid backup;
2).then titanium backup (just incase and for when I restore later on);
3).I then wiped via recovery;
4).then flashed 4.1.1 stock via Odin;
5).flashed recovery via Odin;
6).rebooted into stock ROM; checked that I DID in fact have lock lock via power button (which I did - as I thought);
7).flashed 4.4.2 via CWM zip in recovery;
8).signed into accounts (*unchecked restore data* THIS IS A BIG MUST! If you are new here make sure that no old data is interferring Google sets the checkbox to restore previous data by default - NOTE: Put your phone into airplane mode ASAP after first boot and signing into your Google account, uncheck sync which is ALSO set by default, then uncheck restore application data).
9).restored via titanium backup (only restored the absolute necessary i.e. text messages, calls and contacts);
10).Go through the tiresome restoration process via Titanium backup (invest in Pro if you have to - it's certainly worth while!)
Now enjoying fresh working firmware with power button locking the lock screen as it should. Have no idea what caused it and I guess I will never know? All I know is that it wasn't the usual suspects when it came to my issue (it never is actually)

[Q] Bricked Xperia Z

Hello,
I think I did something really wrong with my Xperia Z. I rooted it a month ago, I have the latest stock rom. Yesterday, I downloaded an app called Flashify on the play store who claimed to be able to flash recoveries and zips directly from phone, as long as it was rooted. I tried to flash the purexaudio mod to my phone, and since then it has become unusable. It first started to be very hot, then laggy, which forced me to shut it down. Now everytime I turn it on, it is usable for barely two minutes, before it becomes really laggy and nothing works or it freezes. Some actions directly crash my phone, such as opening the developers settings. I looked at the RAM usage on the phone's settings and the RAM is filling up progressively until the total 1.8GB of RAM is used and my phone freezes. I really don't know what is causing this.
It gets even worse, as I've managed to factory reset my phone with the sony PC companion, but the problem is still there. I can't access reccovery but I can access fastboot mode. However, neither Flashtool or fastboot command shell will flash a recovery for me (I get an "access denied" error). I can't flash the stock kerne with Flashtooll, I have the message : "Processing of loader.sin finished with errors." (I had this problem when I rooted it but I really can't remember how I fixed it).
I'm really anxious about what I've done with my phone, I hope someone could help me recover my phone as I honestly don't know what to do at this point...
Thank you so much in advance.

williaam said:
Hello,
I think I did something really wrong with my Xperia Z. I rooted it a month ago, I have the latest stock rom. Yesterday, I downloaded an app called Flashify on the play store who claimed to be able to flash recoveries and zips directly from phone, as long as it was rooted. I tried to flash the purexaudio mod to my phone, and since then it has become unusable. It first started to be very hot, then laggy, which forced me to shut it down. Now everytime I turn it on, it is usable for barely two minutes, before it becomes really laggy and nothing works or it freezes. Some actions directly crash my phone, such as opening the developers settings. I looked at the RAM usage on the phone's settings and the RAM is filling up progressively until the total 1.8GB of RAM is used and my phone freezes. I really don't know what is causing this.
It gets even worse, as I've managed to factory reset my phone with the sony PC companion, but the problem is still there. I can't access reccovery but I can access fastboot mode. However, neither Flashtool or fastboot command shell will flash a recovery for me (I get an "access denied" error). I can't flash the stock kerne with Flashtooll, I have the message : "Processing of loader.sin finished with errors." (I had this problem when I rooted it but I really can't remember how I fixed it).
I'm really anxious about what I've done with my phone, I hope someone could help me recover my phone as I honestly don't know what to do at this point...
Thank you so much in advance.
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Well, that's not weird at all that you're getting "access denied" via fastboot. You said you've rooted your device, but did you unlock your phone's bootloader?

LaurynasVP said:
Well, that's not weird at all that you're getting "access denied" via fastboot. You said you've rooted your device, but did you unlock your phone's bootloader?
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No, I guess I didn't... My bootloader status in Flashtool is : ROOTABLE I'm going to try doing that first. Thank you so much for your fast answer

I have a big problem actually now, as repairing my firmware with the sony software removed the USB debugging option. And opening the "developers settigns" to turn it back on still makes the settings crash. So I have no way of unlocking the bootloader now have I?
EDIT : Okay, nevermind. I managed to unlock the bootloader and flash a custom recovery (Cyanogen recovery). But now I'm on a boot loop (Sony message then Xperia then phone restarts)
What should I do now?
EDIT 2 : Solved the problem by simply wiping all caches/data from my recovery (ended up setting up the more traditional CW recovery) + sideloading a custom ROM (Ultimate PureZ). Now everything's working perfectly.
Thank you again for suggesting to unlock the bootloader, I couldn't have flashed the recovery otherwise. Have a nice day!

williaam said:
I have a big problem actually now, as repairing my firmware with the sony software removed the USB debugging option. And opening the "developers settigns" to turn it back on still makes the settings crash. So I have no way of unlocking the bootloader now have I?
EDIT : Okay, nevermind. I managed to unlock the bootloader and flash a custom recovery (Cyanogen recovery). But now I'm on a boot loop (Sony message then Xperia then phone restarts)
What should I do now?
EDIT 2 : Solved the problem by simply wiping all caches/data from my recovery (ended up setting up the more traditional CW recovery) + sideloading a custom ROM (Ultimate PureZ). Now everything's working perfectly.
Thank you again for suggesting to unlock the bootloader, I couldn't have flashed the recovery otherwise. Have a nice day!
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You're welcome, but in this case you've made a major mistake - you didn't take TA Partition backup in which all DRM keys are being kept. Now you've erased them permanently, this will cause some stock applications to won't work (camera stabilization and etc.,).
Have a nice day you too

LaurynasVP said:
You're welcome, but in this case you've made a major mistake - you didn't take TA Partition backup in which all DRM keys are being kept. Now you've erased them permanently, this will cause some stock applications to won't work (camera stabilization and etc.,).
Have a nice day you too
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Really? :/ What won't work exactly.?. I bootloaded my phone the official way though...
And BTW that's strange but when I put my SDCard back into my phone it crashed just like before? I guess I should format it?

williaam said:
Really? :/ What won't work exactly.?. I bootloaded my phone the official way though...
And BTW that's strange but when I put my SDCard back into my phone it crashed just like before? I guess I should format it?
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Guess so. If even will update to earlier version (4.4.x) or later BE2 won't work, as well as camera stabilization (focus, well, it works, but photos are a bit like blured) and some other functions that I don't remember at the moment. It doesn't matter how did you unlock your bootloader, the fact that you've unlocked your bootloader is the most important. I'm sorry, but there's nothing we can do about it (DRM keys recover) at the moment. Maybe in a future there will be found a solution for this, but then our phone, I suppose will be like a nokia 3310 in nowadays.
Btw, you can still get some functions working, just surf this forum for unlocked bootloader functions "Get back" or sth., don't remember thread name either.. :|

[Q] Blank Screen??

So I have a Sony Xperia Z1 C6902
And I've been messing around with ROMs, since I didn't know what exactly I wanted I've been installing a lot of different ROMs for about two-three days. I ended up using Slimroms as the ROM and RockZ1 as the kernel. I specifically used that version in particular since I wanted to use KitKat instead of Lolipop.
So after a while of using it, I found out it somehow became not rooted, and I couldn't install SuperSU properly (what with updating binaries and such) and this phone had a previous owner who had the bootloader unlocked and everything unlocked previously with this ROM
So I decided to try to root it using this method then when I went to flash C690X_14.4.A.0.108_KernelOnly.ftf as part of instructions, my phone ended up being stuck on a Blank Screen somehow?
The thing about the Blank Screen is that upon booting, the Sony screen shows up, and then nothing else. However, I can lock the phone, and when I unlock the Sony logo dissapears and I get a completely blank screen. I could touch certain areas and get some kind of feedback on what I assume is the PIN screen. So I just assumed that means the ROM isn't compatible with this kernel, so I flashed C690X_14.4.A.0.157_KernelOnly.ftf ahead of instruction since I couldn't normally access the phone to use Debugging because of the lock PIN.
On boot again, it still didn't show anything, so I just tried a Hard Factory Reset using the red button on the phone. That didn't resolve my problem whatsoever, but when I booted it again and touched the blank screen, I get Phone Dial noises?
Help?? The phone isn't bricked as far as I'm aware, since it can still boot and such, but I can't get into recovery to flash other roms or kernels, and I don't know what to do.
Update, I suppose. I tried the Sony PC Companion method, with repair phone/tablet, and it just gave me an error saying I have modified software and it didn't do anything about it.

Unecessary post, apologies

Unecessary post, apologies

Check Fail error

Hello, XDA community,
Since I couldn't find a thread here discussing this problem, I'm starting one now.
Everytime I start up my phone or whenever it runs out of RAM and tries restarting background services/apps, the "First Time Start" application reappears in the taskbar (it actually is com.sonyericsson.startupflagservice) and then the screen opens up the "Check Fail" screen (image attached). Tried looking at ADB logcat at boot, nothing useful (will try again soon). This problem began occuring since Jan 22, when I first started my phone. The phone is not rooted nor messed with (bootloader still locked). Contacted Sony for that, they suggested the obvious and costly solution, to bring it to them so they could examine and fix it, but is there a manual fix? I want to know exactly what is causing the problem and be able to fix it for myself only, since this phone isn't that popular where I live. I have nothing against Sony fixing it, but most probably they won't even explain what caused it (and it happens for me to be a curious person). The phone is bought at RDE.lt , which is a general tech shop, not a phone vendor, and thus no warranty is given.

To be honest, I would fix this by reflashing the phone, either reflash the current firmware (Country and provider the exact same as before)
Or flash a new firmware which is not buggy. It is known that firmwares are not the same as some of them are buggy mess.

Kizoky said:
To be honest, I would fix this by reflashing the phone, either reflash the current firmware (Country and provider the exact same as before)
Or flash a new firmware which is not buggy. It is known that firmwares are not the same as some of them are buggy mess.
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Tried reflashing through Sony PC Companion, no go. If I try FTF flasher, is unlocked bootloader a must? I have flashed ROMs before on Huawei u8160, Sony Xperia X10 mini e10i and Xperia Go st27i, but most of them were custom, so I'm unsure if I have to unlock it now.

Paul!us said:
Tried reflashing through Sony PC Companion, no go. If I try FTF flasher, is unlocked bootloader a must? I have flashed ROMs before on Huawei u8160, Sony Xperia X10 mini e10i and Xperia Go st27i, but most of them were custom, so I'm unsure if I have to unlock it now.
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Download a firmware from XperiFirm
And flash it with Flashtool
It does not require an unlocked bootloader as it is not a custom ROM

Solution
Hey guys. I got the same problem on 20.1.A.2.13, tried to flash the 20.1.A.2.19 twice, tried factory reset but nothing happened, after starting the phone I always got the Check fail message. The problem is caused by the Startup Flag Service 2 (com.sonyericsson.startupflagservice), but I got a solution for the problem. Because it always shows up after the systemboot, we simply just have to prevent it from running at startup.
I used SD Maid (Pro or simple version doesn't matter). Go to App Control, than type in the search box: "startup", tap on it. Tap on Toggle Autostart Components. After that switch the On to Off and reboot the phone. Thats all

Hello, im having the same error. I have installed sd maid. I have searched startup and clicked on it however there is no toggle autostart components option.

Karnivaldoll said:
Hello, im having the same error. I have installed sd maid. I have searched startup and clicked on it however there is no toggle autostart components option.
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Look again, but if it isnt there try SD Maid Pro.

Zsenyka said:
Look again, but if it isnt there try SD Maid Pro.
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i had installed sd maid pro,but not find anything on "startup"

I have same problem, CHECK FAIL CHECK FAIL whatever I do (Flashtool or pc companion).. Phone works for 2-3 days and crash...
Right now Im testing custom rom...if phone stay alive for next 5 days I will share links tips and rest of it..