After a big update (9.2.A.1.199) on mine Sony Xperia T, everything seemed to work perfectly.
On a Sony video, I've seen the "Winter theme" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.knowit.mobile.wintersnow), and I have installed it.
When the lockscreen is activated, the smartphone went into boot-loop, and I can't enter anymore! :crying:
I've a lot photos and stuff on internal memory, what can I do to recover my stuff and reset the phone?
p.s. The smartphone is unrooted.
Maybe I can delete the theme? How can I delete without loss other data?
Can I flash a recovery?
After thousands of reboots and trying the fastboot mod + flashtool (without doing anything useful), I've removed the SIM card and, after a while, the phone rebooted and, in "some way", it worked again!
At that point, I've removed the "Winter" theme and selected a standard theme.
Remove the SIM card and try some reboots without making any hard reset
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Hello, i have an xperia z c6606 rooted 10.3.1.E.0.191 firmware 4.2.2 jellybean and my company is tmobile.
its the water resistant xperia phone so i cannot open the phone, its just abunch of slots on the sides. i dont have a micro sd card but it supports it (if a sd card can help my problem) o and my bootloader is locked
so thats all the information i know about the phone. heres my problem.
i used the "Font Installer ★ Root ★" application from the google play store.
i tried to install dark wedding font and it asked me to restart. after i did i just get the loop reboot where it shows the sony logo then xperia logo then redoes the boot again. im pretty sure it ruined my font folder and made it so i cant start but im not sure on what to do to try to fix it. im new to android and used the kingo one click root so i dont have exact insider knowledge on what to do.
i searched google for answer but either they are outdated (links dont work) or they mention other things in which i cannot figure out what to do.
i have a flash tool from d-h.st/Kb8 (thats a url)
and downloaded a stock rom from forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2511188
the rom is a ftf file and i have no clue what to do with it :3
If anyone could help it will be much appreciated.
(my computer runs ubuntu 12.4/windows 8 incase my computer is needed)
p.s. yes flashtool and rom is on my computer. blah
i just half ashed what i was doing a yolo'ed it and used the flash tool and tried to flash the rom onto my phone while in flash mode. it put the rom on and removed all my stuff which i dont mind. i just have to make sure my phone is fully functional. if not. ill edit this post.
Yup all fixed. sorry for wasting room on the forum. i really was lost. but i yolo'ed and BOOM yolo is the key to all lifes problems.
Hey guys,
as I did not find any matching solutions to my problem (and due to the fact that I can't post within developer forums yet), I opened a new thread. If there has been similar questions like mine with working solutions, then I am sorry to doublepost the problem.
I have a Sony Xperia Z1, model number C6903. I rooted it today, following this method
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aq9YTlfCgc
taken from this original post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2572988
I followed the tutorial step by step, rooted the device properly (worked fine, checked with the root basic app checker or whatever its called), and then wiped all data from it using dualrecovery. After that, i put the .290 software onto my sd card and flashed my phone using dualrecovery - as the tutorial said. Finally, I used Flashtool to flash the C6903_14.2.A.0.290_Stripped.ftf onto my phone.
After this process finished, I wanted to boot my phone.
That was when things got weird: The sony logo appeared for a short time, and then it powered off / rebooted itself. Sony logo appeared again, switched off again and rebooted for another time. But it would not do any more than that... seems like its catched within an endless loop or something.
What I tried to solve this problem:
- enter dual recovery: this worked at the beginning, I could switch my phone off and get it out of the loop
- flashed it again (first with dualrecovery, then with flashtool)
- after that I could not even get into dual recovery mode
- then I tried to flash the .534 ftf firmware onto my device, because with that it worked properly after root. But every time I connected my phone within flashmode to my pc and started the flashprocess, my phone disconnected after a short time and booted into the endless loop again
I don't know what else to try, so I ask you guys for help. Should I leave the phone within the loop for a couple of hours hoping that it starts eventually? Should I try to flash again? Is there any other possibility to enter dual recovery? Should I maybe flash an original sony firmware on it?
Thanks in advantage for your help and time,
flamingo
It sound slike you did everything right, I would repair using pccompanion and start again. Make sure you do every step correctly and in order and don't miss anything
Let us know how you get on
gregbradley said:
It sound slike you did everything right, I would repair using pccompanion and start again. Make sure you do every step correctly and in order and don't miss anything
Let us know how you get on
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Thanks for the very quick reply. I've just done that, and all went properly! I am now back on .136, and the device works perfect. Think I'll continue with the 4.4 Kitkat instead of the .290, as this did not work out all to well...
Thanks again for your quick and very good advice!
flamingo
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?
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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?
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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
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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
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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.. :|
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
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
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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..