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So i rooted my phone using the universal root in this forum, the day after i accidentally updated android and it broke the root, also i have noticed some bugs. I am trying to put the phone back to how it was when i got it in the post. i tried a "factory data reset" but it didnt do what i am trying to do, just deleted all the apps etc. Any ideas how i can do this? I dont mind if i have root access still.
Cheers!
Read my signature, the bigger link. I'm sure you'll find the info on rooting FRG83 there (because I've put it there).
Okay i think i need some help, i have downloaded the official rom an put it on the sd card but cant work out how to flash it, im holding down the track ball and resetting but cant see the option to flash anything, is this because it wasnt rooted properly where android updated?
this sux on an epic scale. when my phone was ****ed.. no one posted with a signature that had information about how to install stuff to phone without unlocking bootloader .
grrr...
dude read the wiki... its all there
Ive been reading this tutorial: /showthread.php?t=614850 but not sure how to run the commands on steps 8 - 13
To make it even easier, these are the words you need to concentrate on looking for:
Jack_R1 said:
rooting FRG83
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I supposed my post would say it clearly enough that your idea of restoring the ROM to the older version won't work.
Just managed to root it, then got totally lost, might have to leave it like this..
Yes, that was the idea. Root it, and stay with it. If you post the bugs, they might have solutions / workarounds.
Plus, it might be a good time to try custom ROM Or even customized plain FRF91 you were looking for.
Okay so, since I'm sort of new, I wanted to ask a few questions:
1. Is it possible to root xperia x8 with manufacturing date 11w48? At least at 95% chance. I'm a bit scared of the bricking part...
2. If it is possible, what kind of "ROM" (if I understood correctly) should I get?
3. If I get hard bricked/soft bricked what's the chance my phone will be still usable.
That's about it. Please don't rage at me for "OMG USE SEARCH BUTTON" type of thing.
I have tried doing it but no results found. Just threads and posts of people updating their.. ROMs I gues? Correct me if I typed anything wrong there.
But yeah, help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Okay so, since I'm sort of new, I wanted to ask a few questions:
1. Is it possible to root xperia x8 with manufacturing date 11w48? At least at 95% chance. I'm a bit scared of the bricking part...
2. If it is possible, what kind of "ROM" (if I understood correctly) should I get?
3. If I get hard bricked/soft bricked what's the chance my phone will be still usable.
That's about it. Please don't rage at me for "OMG USE SEARCH BUTTON" type of thing.
I have tried doing it but no results found. Just threads and posts of people updating their.. ROMs I gues? Correct me if I typed anything wrong there.
But yeah, help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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1. You can safely root your x8 regardless of when it is manufactured, you will not brick it
2. You have 11w48 so it is very risky to unlock your bootloader, i suggest you flash ROMS that is for stock
3. If you get soft bricked you can flash the stock firmware back using flashtool or SEUS, if it is a hard brick, you need to go to the nearest Service center or use a JTAG
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Thanks a whole bunch. I thought I cannot root because of my manufacturer date. But what is a flash ROM tho?
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Thanks a whole bunch. I thought I cannot root because of my manufacturer date. But what is a flash ROM tho?
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you can root your phone. but you can't unlock bl.
when you root your phone, you cam install cwm recovery. simply dl a rom for stock kernel and go to recovery and install(flash) the rom. remember to check the instructions first.
Just because i don't doesn't mean i can't.
All what I found until today was that if I cannot unlock BL I cannot install CWM recovery.
Maybe it is related to model - mine is Sony Xperia J. Y2012.
There is no fastboot available.
Am I wrong, can I have CWM, nandroid backup etc on stock ROM as only such one I may flash ?
F308 said:
All what I found until today was that if I cannot unlock BL I cannot install CWM recovery.
Maybe it is related to model - mine is Sony Xperia J. Y2012.
There is no fastboot available.
Am I wrong, can I have CWM, nandroid backup etc on stock ROM as only such one I may flash ?
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this is for x8. not sure how it works on J. but yeah we don't havt fastboot either. but we can install cwm even with a locked bl. again that's for se x8.
edit: my advice is go to your phone's subforum. you'll get your answers there.
Just because i don't doesn't mean i can't.
Thank you. I understand that lot of things is device dependent but thought there are non-breakable rules, like gravity,
and what is possible to do under certain circumstances was one of them.
Need walk through XDA forum once more, maybe there is a hope.
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Thank you. I understand that lot of things is device dependent but thought there are non-breakable rules, like gravity,
and what is possible to do under certain circumstances was one of them.
Need walk through XDA forum once more, maybe there is a hope.
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there probably are a few unbreakable rules, but not being familiar with your device i can't guarantee that it's safe or it would work.
Just because i don't doesn't mean i can't.
Despite lot of reading I still am missing knowledge.
Question is:
What is fastboot ?
I found more than one definition of it and compiled into my own.
1.
Of course fastboot.exe is Windows binary (part of flashtool pack) which does certain type of work.
This is not what we are interested in.
2.
I concluded that:
- fastboot is one of modes into what android device can wake up. Just like linux can boot in different ways or Windows into single mode.
- this feature is encoded into boot.img, it is not separate android application.
- boot.img will work only with related kernel.img. They are like love and marriage (which is like horse and carriage - Bundy's).
- Sony sometimes disables stock boot.img to boot into this mode then without replacing boot .img it is impossible.
More comments ?
Fastboot is protocol used to update the flash filesystem in Android devices from a host over USB. It allows flashing of unsigned partition images.
Just because i don't doesn't mean i can't.
Okay, I got one more last question. Is this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=906195&nocache=1 okay to use for rooting? I'm still trying to find the LATEST safe ones =/ I wonder if this one is okay.
Um, I tried that one it didn't work. It said some stuff are missing, then it exited randomly etc.. Can someone give me a link or a short/long guide which I can use that's latest? I do have some X8 drivers in a .zip file but no idea how to install them. Thanks in advance.
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Okay, I got one more last question. Is this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=906195&nocache=1 okay to use for rooting? I'm still trying to find the LATEST safe ones =/ I wonder if this one is good.
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I rooted mine with this
Means its safe
Sent from my X8
Having few issues with the SuperOneClick thing... It sometimes randomly exits, tells me that some stuff are missing etc. Any help? =/
I've been using TWRP ever since I have rooted mt ONE. Over the last few days its been crashing while trying to install any zips at all.I can do a nandroid restore but nothing else. When I try to install any file it just goes to a black screen and reboots the phone.
Any ideas of what could be causing this and how to repair it also.
Thanks
I've also just replaced TWRP with clockwork mod touch and that is doing the same thing. I am now at a stage where I cannot install anything via the recovery method.
What is my bet options for starting afresh as my phone is unlocked with HTC dev and rooted also.
I'd like to go back to the beginning and start again.
Thanks
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I've also just replaced TWRP with clockwork mod touch and that is doing the same thing. I am now at a stage where I cannot install anything via the recovery method.
What is my bet options for starting afresh as my phone is unlocked with HTC dev and rooted also.
I'd like to go back to the beginning and start again.
Thanks
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This seems to becoming a more and more recurrent event, though I cannot say for what the correct solution is, check these two threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2435499
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2423817
one of them had to fix a corrupt partition, the other just reflashed and wiped again and again, and it worked.
If something works out for you do share!!
Thanks for that,I'll redownload my favourite Rom and try again without trying to update the Kernel,everything was fine as I remember before I tried the kernel update.
I'll let you know how I get on in a while.
potsykate said:
Thanks for that,I'll redownload my favourite Rom and try again without trying to update the Kernel,everything was fine as I remember before I tried the kernel update.
I'll let you know how I get on in a while.
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Though the reasons are still unclear (at least to me ), it seems that flashing a custom kernel while still in recovery immediately after the ROM does work. Of course, make sure you're flashing a compatible kernel to the ROM; the version numbers of the custom kernels do not correspond to the ROM versions, and I've seen some that flashed an incompatible kernel, just because the version numbers looked similar.
Good luck & keep us posted
PS: If you do solve it, please update the main thread title to include [SOLVED]. thanks
Thanks for the two links,after reading them and doing a fresh install off my rom. Wiping cache,delvick and data I seem to be able to install zips again from recovery without the black screen and reboots.
Yep, so far all the zips that failed earlier are now installing.
A BIG THANK YOU :good::good:
potsykate said:
Thanks for the two links,after reading them and doing a fresh install off my rom. Wiping cache,delvick and data I seem to be able to install zips again from recovery without the black screen and reboots.
Yep, so far all the zips that failed earlier are now installing.
A BIG THANK YOU :good::good:
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Excellent
Edit the main thread title to include [SOLVED] so that others can refer to it :victory:
Hi guys,
sorry for bothering you guys, but at this point i'm pretty much desperate. I tried to root my Xperia Z since it brings oh so many wonderful possibilities with it and i was sick watching at all the bloatware floating around my screen. Anyway. Since i'm a total noob when it comes to phones i have been reading quite a lot of confusing stuff on the internet, especially here as this site was recommended to me by a friend.
Now i do have a bit of experience flashing PSPs and such, so i thought "you're not a total moron, how much more difficult could flashing your phone be ?". Guess i was wrong =)
I followed this instruction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs2iPY0J4ZA
Yeah, i know, it's a video and all. But the thing is. I've by now read different guides all explaining the same thing. And every one of them put things differently, most of them claiming it was totally easy, but most missed a few steps. So i thought a step by step video tutorial would be quite easy to follow. And it kinda was, until ...
The unlocking failed. At the point where it was supposed to say "unlocked successfully", nothing happened. Just the cmd-line and then "---", which from my knowledge stands for "proceeding". To me it was stuck. And it kept standing there for about half an hour, when impatiance kicked in. Yeah, im dumb like that. So i close the cmd and tried to reboot my phone and got a bootloop just after the logo.
So i went into fastboot again and basically tried to unlock it again. This time successfully only after a few seconds (i guess this is how it's supposed to be, since that's what it was like in the video.) Still bootlooping though.
Now at this point i'm frantically troubleshooting and kinda feel like a monkey with a wrench. It should work, but maybe i'm just doing it totally wrong, since i don't know better.
So at this point, from reading even more stuff i'm trying to flash a stock firmware onto that thing by using flashtool (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2162907). This is the firmware i found from that thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2216743 .
Now before i make things even worse. Is there anything wrong with my approach, do i need to think about anything else ?
The idea in the first place was to install this: http://www.cyanfox-rom.com/2014/01/01/cyanfox-2-0-2/
In that regard, would that be the right thing to do now ?
If you've read this far, thank you for your time and dedication to help. I really appreciate it. If you need any more information as to what i've done, don't hesitate to ask. Chances are im lurking around desperately.
First, dont worry, your phone can be repaired with flashtool. You can download flashtool (find it on Xperia Z android development section) and download FTF firmware for your phone, 4.3 is newest. and just follow simple instructions how to flash (cant search now for the link)
If you want to use 4.3 and to be rooted you must first flash 4.2.2 10.3.1.A.2.67 firmware and then follow this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2458268
Thanks a lot. Flashing worked like a charm.
However the info still says: "Bootloader unlocking allowed=Yes". From my understanding that means it's still locked ? So it's back to square one ? Add frustration to depair now... seems like i don't understand the process or something...
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Thanks a lot. Flashing worked like a charm.
However the info still says: "Bootloader unlocking allowed=Yes". From my understanding that means it's still locked ? So it's back to square one ? Add frustration to depair now... seems like i don't understand the process or something...
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It's not working. Went into fastboot again, unlocked, this time successfully in 1.0s. And again bootlooping.
What am i doing wrong ? I just don't get it. From my understanding it should work normally and i should be able to proceed to root. And this would require me to start the device normally in the first place right ? Im on here right now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327472
But to be perfectly honest, at this point i'm guessing here. :crying:
Okay, next try, same experience. Do i need to do anything else after the unlocking ?
Do i have to reboot and just go into that root thingy and start the runme.bat ? Edit: Which isn't even possible since i can't boot.
OR do i need to flash kernel and stuff.
These are basically the 2 options that i found and i'm totally confused about which one i need to do as to me both are exclusive of the other ? I think i need to solve that bootloop issue in the first place, right ?
I think it's absolutely clear that i need help with this stuff
Hours later i'm still trying to get this working. However it just doesn't. Bootloop keeps happening.
Since i don't know if i made a mistake or not, i just chose to try to go on about the rooting. This doesn't work either. I tried to do it like in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154310
From my understanding it's for the .350 fw,but also works for the one stock rom i downloaded earlier ? Can anyone confirm that ? I'm just guessing here, since there is no explicit information about that for noobs like me. At least i didn't find it.
Well anyway. I ran fastboot flash boot auto root blabla... and this is what it tells me:
sending boot... okay
writing boot... failed (command not allowed)
WHY ? Does this have anything to do with the unlocking process before ? Did it fail ? Am i just using the wrong fw ? Any pointers as to what i'm doing wrong here ?
I know i cannot demand any help, since you don't really get anything for it, but it really drives me crazy. So any help is highly appreciated. So please... pretty please ! Thanks in advance.
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bump - thanks for reading - let me know if you have any ideas.
If it's root you want, you do realise you don't have to unlock your bootloader?
Xperia Z
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Use this guide, easy to follow and 100% works...
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Thanks, might try that one if everything else fails. This is still a stock rom build with all the bloatware right ?
However i am trying to get to install Cyanfox (see a few posts ago). To my understanding an unlocked bootloader and root are both required.
Just to my understanding, does that mean, that my unlocking the bootloader failed ? Or why isn't it showing an unlocked bootloader in the Config ? Sorry if i am asking dumb questions, but i seem to be stuck and i'd really like to understand what i'm doing wrong.
Tomorrow a friend of mine will try to help me with all that, since he has some experience with customs on his phone (a S3 i believe). So he told me that he has no experience with the Xperia Z. I'll also would like to show him this thread for additional info. So if there's anything you can throw at us, that might help, please go ahead. Again, i appreciate your help.
Hi, I would try and get back to stock if possible..
You might want to download Sony Update Service and connect your phone up through that. If your bootloader is unlocked, then SUS wont let you go any further but if you are locked you will be able to repair firmware back to stock...
Please dont take this the wrong way but if you are new to flashing ROMs then it might be better for you to take things one step at a time.
What I mean is start off by just getting used to rooting stock ,, then try flashing custom roms when you feel more confident with the process and after you have tried flashing a few custom ROMs to see which one you like best (there are some great ROMs for locked bootloaders out there), If you really want to unlock bootloader then go ahead...
It just seems like trying to root, flash ROM and unlock bootloader all in one hit just multiplies the likelyhood of errors occuring and it can be difficult to pinpoint at what stage it went wrong..
Good luck ...
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Hi, I would try and get back to stock if possible..
You might want to download Sony Update Service and connect your phone up through that. If your bootloader is unlocked, then SUS wont let you go any further but if you are locked you will be able to repair firmware back to stock...
Please dont take this the wrong way but if you are new to flashing ROMs then it might be better for you to take things one step at a time.
What I mean is start off by just getting used to rooting stock ,, then try flashing custom roms when you feel more confident with the process and after you have tried flashing a few custom ROMs to see which one you like best (there are some great ROMs for locked bootloaders out there), If you really want to unlock bootloader then go ahead...
It just seems like trying to root, flash ROM and unlock bootloader all in one hit just multiplies the likelyhood of errors occuring and it can be difficult to pinpoint at what stage it went wrong..
Good luck ...
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I think that hit the nail on the spot =)
Thing is, i am a really impatient guy, which isn't the best trait when "taking it slow". It's more like "i want the best, and i want it now"
Of course what's best can't be answered objectively and i can't pinpoint why i decided on that specific rom, but it looked awesome to me, so i just went for it and tried to read up everything i need to know to make it work I just didn't expect to fail at the very first step... that's kinda very very frustrating.
Anyway, i'll see what we can get done tomorrow and make sure to report back. Again, thanks a bunch !
Sooo, aparently i made a mistake in the cmd line. We don't really know what i did wrong, since the KEY was correct, although i wrote ".exe", my friend didn't, and instead of typing it letter by letter, he copied it (i didn't know how, lol). And it worked at first try, no idea what i did wrong. So that's done.
Rooting was also easy. Sadly we couldn't go on at this point, since i had to download a few more things first. So after that, i'm on my own again and, who would have thought, next problem's not far away.
Now i do have a problem flashing roms. Every rom i tried gave me a "status 7" error. Now i already searched up a solution that includes removing a few lines in the updater-script.dat. However that didn't work either. I'm pretty sure i followed the guides exactly. But at this point i kinda have to assume, that i'm even too dumb for that.
Any suggestions ?
Here's what the log says:
Mounting partitions...
Extract busybox...
Extracting firmware update image file...
Note: This may take a while (it stays here for some time, np though)
Formatting SYSTEM...
Extracting firmware update to SYSTEM...
Note: This may take a while (and again it does)
Performing finalizing tasks...
set_perm: some changes failed
Error in zip
(status 7)
Installation aborted
Maybe this might help, tell me if u need anything else
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Here's what the log says:
Mounting partitions...
Extract busybox...
Extracting firmware update image file...
Note: This may take a while (it stays here for some time, np though)
Formatting SYSTEM...
Extracting firmware update to SYSTEM...
Note: This may take a while (and again it does)
Performing finalizing tasks...
set_perm: some changes failed
Error in zip
(status 7)
Installation aborted
Maybe this might help, tell me if u need anything else
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what recovery are u using and which rom u wanna flash?
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Tommy-Geenexus said:
what recovery are u using and which rom u wanna flash?
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downloaded latest cwm via rommanager, it says v6.0.3.0
To make things simple i tried flashing the suggested stockbased rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565850)
But since i keep getting the same error with any rom i tried, i assume i'm generally doing something wrong.
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downloaded latest cwm via rommanager, it says v6.0.3.0
To make things simple i tried flashing the suggested stockbased rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565850)
But since i keep getting the same error with any rom i tried, i assume i'm generally doing something wrong.
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The recovery is probably your problem.
Try using atleast twrp 2.6.3.0 or philz touch cwm or the latest cwm
you can use the dual recovery as well
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Tommy-Geenexus said:
The recovery is probably your problem.
Try using atleast twrp 2.6.3.0 or philz touch cwm or the latest cwm
you can use the dual recovery as well
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Got cwm 6.0.4.5, worked great ! THANK YOU A LOT !!! :good::good: OH YEAH, double thumbs up ! And there's me thinking, the guide said get rom manager, the program knows where to find the latest version. Whatever, great forum, seems like i finally might have figured out what i'm doing, at least kind of
Now to exploring all the funny roms and apps. I'm so excited
PS: Since this solved, do i need to do anything else ? I've seen "Solved" being in the title. Can i do that or do i have to ask a mod ?
i saw you solved your problem but still have a look over THIS
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I haven't personally played around with the unbrick tool at all, so I can't help you on that current condition. But I would like to point out the following (my comments in red text):
Keanu73 said:
It's been a week since I attempted to root my phone.
First thing you should have done after flashing TWRP (before flashing any mods), is to make a backup of the stock ROM. This gives you a stock backup you can easily revert to, if you run into any problems rooting. etc.
I had followed through one of the guides, got up to the point where I had installed the dm-verity patch and SuperSU. I rebooted. It had soft-bricked. Problems with root are usually caused by wrong version TWRP, or wrong version SuperSU (or Magisk is also a good alternative), and wrong version DM-verity may be a problem, as well. Sometimes, the solutions is a simple as flashing the right version (but sometimes you may need to restore the stock ROM first).
So then I went into TWRP and factory reset the device. Of course, that deleted the stock ROM.
There is no "of course" applicable here. Factory reset does not in itself delete the stock ROM. All it does is wipe user data, and cache. If you went into the Advanced TWRP options, that is a different thing. What you should have done is come on here, and seeked advice.
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I haven't personally played around with the unbrick tool at all, so I can't help you on that current condition. But I would like to point out the following (my comments in red text):
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Yea... I realised this all too late..
Keanu73 said:
Yea... I realised this all too late..
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I solved the issue. It seems that my phone WAS a OnePlus 3 and not a 3T.