Hello,
I am looking for a method to root my xperia z, without loosing my apps, contacts and options. My bootloader is open.
My android version is 4.2.2.
All the information you will need, find you in the attachment.
Greets Stefan G.
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Muschmusch said:
Hello,
I am looking for a method to root my xperia z, without loosing my apps, contacts and options. My bootloader is open.
My android version is 4.2.2.
All the information you will need, find you in the attachment.
Greets Stefan G.
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Just flash DoomKernel via flashtool. It is prerooted, it has recovery included.
Since you are unlocked, it is as easy as pie.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2172888
Or just use his Easyroot method
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327472
You won't lose any data via these methods, although a backup always comes in handy if something goes wrong.
Can anybody help me out in downgrading my xperia z c6602 from android 4.2.2(10.3.1.A.2.67) to android 4.1.2..
thnkx for your precious answer.
Its very simple mate.. Just download the latest Android 4.1.2 firmware and flash using Flashtool... Thats all
Btwn y u revert back to Android 4.1.2 ?? Any specific reason ??
Rajeev said:
Its very simple mate.. Just download the latest Android 4.1.2 firmware and flash using Flashtool... Thats all
Btwn y u revert back to Android 4.1.2 ?? Any specific reason ??
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actually,iam having issues with wifi and i read somewhere that the issue was not present in 4.1.2
so i was thinking to downgrade.. by the way thnkx for the reply
vikash1994b said:
actually,iam having issues with wifi and i read somewhere that the issue was not present in 4.1.2
so i was thinking to downgrade.. by the way thnkx for the reply
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Oh thats sad.. But i dont have any Wifi Problems dude.. 4.2.2 have better performance and Battery life... And more developer support..
vikash1994b said:
actually,iam having issues with wifi and i read somewhere that the issue was not present in 4.1.2
so i was thinking to downgrade.. by the way thnkx for the reply
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Wifi maybe is worse on 4.2.2 (and above..) but more stable when it comes to connection stability..
My own experiences though!
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Oh thats sad.. But i dont have any Wifi Problems dude.. 4.2.2 have better performance and Battery life... And more developer support..
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I have successfully flashed 4.1.2 but still it did not fix,
I'll be going to service center for repair,
Will it be repaired in warranty I bought this phone on 01-11-2013
Destroyedbeauty said:
Wifi maybe is worse on 4.2.2 (and above..) but more stable when it comes to connection stability..
My own experiences though!
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U r right,bt my wifi doesn't work after sometime of inactivity,it's switched on but doesn't connect for that I have to switch it off and again switch it on
Rajeev said:
Its very simple mate.. Just download the latest Android 4.1.2 firmware and flash using Flashtool... Thats all
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Does it need rooted or unlocked phone to do this? i want to downgrade just to root phone and the upgrade back..
BlueSky_Vincent said:
Does it need rooted or unlocked phone to do this? i want to downgrade just to root phone and the upgrade back..
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No, it neither requires root nor unlocked bootloader
Just flash a older ftf using flashtool.
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could you please explain this steps (Just download the latest Android 4.1.2 firmware and flash using Flashtool) because it will be my first time to play around with firmwares and i dont want to f*** up my phone I want to downgrade my xperia z because from the time on i upgraded to jelly bean 4.2.2 the Phone and Contacs icons disapeared and i think its because i backed up my phone on Titanium Backup two firmwares below 4.2.2 and then after upgrading two times it restored automaticly the backup from the Phone and Contact Apps and the new update doesent support these old versions...
also the icon disappearing thing happened on my previous firmware ( before i upgraded to 4.2.2, so in my first updrage after the firmware i backed up ) always when i turned my phone off , but then i just restored it each time from Titanium Backup, with restore App+Data, and i justed wonderd why this is happening...now when i try to restore it from Titanium Backup it stucks in the loading process..
pepeace said:
could you please explain this steps (Just download the latest Android 4.1.2 firmware and flash using Flashtool) because it will be my first time to play around with firmwares and i dont want to f*** up my phone I want to downgrade my xperia z because from the time on i upgraded to jelly bean 4.2.2 the Phone and Contacs icons disapeared and i think its because i backed up my phone on Titanium Backup two firmwares below 4.2.2 and then after upgrading two times it restored automaticly the backup from the Phone and Contact Apps and the new update doesent support these old versions...
also the icon disappearing thing happened on my previous firmware ( before i upgraded to 4.2.2, so in my first updrage after the firmware i backed up ) always when i turned my phone off , but then i just restored it each time from Titanium Backup, with restore App+Data, and i justed wonderd why this is happening...now when i try to restore it from Titanium Backup it stucks in the loading process..
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Brother you cannot restore system apps from different version of android.
Nd to downgrade first download a ftf of your country and download flashtool and install it
Second- paste the ftf in fimewires folder of flashtool folder(c:\Flashtool\firmwares)
Third-open flashtool
Fourth-click lightning botton on the top left. And select flashmode.
Fifth-click the firmware on the left
Sixth-uncheck appslog,cache nd data on the right if downgrading(to prevent bootloop nd this wipes your internal storage)
Seventh-click flash nd wait for sometime till a box pops up saying connect in flashmode.so to connect in flashnode hold volume down and connect in pc nd then let the process finish.
After 5 min it will flash and you will see flashing finished.now you have successfully downgrades yoir fimeware...enjoy
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im pretty much a noob so i have some questions..ftf is a firmware like jely bean 4.1.2? what firmware is 2 times below 4.2.2? where can i find an original sony xperia Z firmware like this (i live in germany if this is importand )? and if i downgrade to the firmware i made the backup what should i then do to proceed with an upgrade whithout having problems again? i mean should i erase first titanium backup and then downlaod it after i updated and then make a new backup or something like this? And was my prediction right of what the reason was that the calling app kept disapearing by rebooting my phone?
vikash1994b said:
Brother you cannot restore system apps from different version of android.
Nd to downgrade first download a ftf of your country and download flashtool and install it
Second- paste the ftf in fimewires folder of flashtool folder(c:\Flashtool\firmwares)
Third-open flashtool
Fourth-click lightning botton on the top left. And select flashmode.
Fifth-click the firmware on the left
Sixth-uncheck appslog,cache nd data on the right if downgrading(to prevent bootloop nd this wipes your internal storage)
Seventh-click flash nd wait for sometime till a box pops up saying connect in flashmode.so to connect in flashnode hold volume down and connect in pc nd then let the process finish.
After 5 min it will flash and you will see flashing finished.now you have successfully downgrades yoir fimeware...enjoy
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if you also could post my a flashing tool for xperia Z and an original sony firmware it would be great
pepeace said:
if you also could post my a flashing tool for xperia Z and an original sony firmware it would be great
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Flashtool- https://unrestrict.li/flashtool
Which android version do you want 4.3 or 4.2.2
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If i flash the latest version (say the Jelly Bean 4.3) can i then restore from my backup all tha apps+data, not the system apps as the calling app, without having problems? Also can i then restore my Contacts (Contact Storage)? If so please the latest version
vikash1994b said:
Flashtool- https://unrestrict.li/flashtool
Which android version do you want 4.3 or 4.2.2
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pepeace said:
If i flash the latest version (say the Jelly Bean 4.3) can i then restore from my backup all tha apps+data, not the system apps as the calling app, without having problems? Also can i then restore my Contacts (Contact Storage)? If so please the latest version
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First of all bro ftf are firmware packages.and you can get any ftf in general section of xperia z forum but you need to search a bit.
Nd if you are using titanium backup,since 4.3 cannot be rooted for now, you meight need to flash a prerooted rom and then restore your apps/data from.TB..nd for contacts,measage you can use gcloud which can be found in playstore.
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And btw here your offical stock Germany firmware http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2622713
Nd prerooted rom- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2590088
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Oook..So first i have to install the rom and then flash the ftf? My phone is also rooted now...with changing the rom will it be automaticly unrooted? Also the rom you gave is just for UK i think, or is this irrelevant and just the ftf needs to be from my country? :/ And do i need to create a recovery.img file?
Sorry for these questions..as i said im pretty much a noob on this things
Also gcloud cant find any contact becaus e they are non...they just exist as an titanium backup backupfile which i cant restore because its an system app..:/
vikash1994b said:
And btw here your offical stock Germany firmware http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2622713
Nd prerooted rom- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2590088
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Oook..So first i have to install the rom and then flash the ftf? My phone is also rooted now...with changing the rom will it be automaticly unrooted? Also the rom you gave is just for UK i think, or is this irrelevant and just the ftf needs to be from my country? :/ And do i need to create a recovery.img file?
Sorry for these questions..as i said im pretty much a noob on this things
Also gcloud cant find any contact becaus e they are non...they just exist as an titanium backup backupfile which i cant restore because its an system app..:/
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Bro it does not matter which country rom you are using,,nd for installation just flash the rom in custom recovery before that wipe everything data,cache nd dalvic cache nd after instillation power off your devuce ns flash the kernel from the ftf but before flashing once read the installation procedure of the rom.
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Nd for getting all your contacta you need to flash that firmware. In which you took backup nd root it nd install tb nd restore all contacts nd finally backup in gcloud..
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Hi
I look after the company mobiles and we have around 30 Sony Xperia SP C5303 Mobiles
They are all on EE 4G in the UK
They run 4.1.2 (12.0.A.2.254)
Recently a few users have updated to 4.3 and now emails no longer work and the phones have become sluggish
So id like to revert back to 4.1.2
I want to keep warranty so i would like to restore from a stock rom
Id like to backup the rom from one of the 4.1.2 phones
I have read to use SUS but when i try the repair/reflash same version as suggested its not an option
The only option is to upgrade the firmware which is not what i want
Please how do i backup the firmware of our 4.1.2 phones so i can flash the ones that upgraded to 4.3?
Many thanks
The best option if you don't want to root every phone and install cwm is to use PCC to get the files if you plug one of the 4.1.2 phones into PCC and "repair" it is that an option or will it only allow an upgrade? I can do it for you I'm on EE 4.1.2 and the upgrade is not available for me yet so I can still download the 4.1.2fw if all your phones are due for an upgrade you then flash the file from PCC (there are tutorials on getting the files) with androxide and bin4rys flashtool.
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Captain Sweatpants said:
The best option if you don't want to root every phone and install cwm is to use PCC to get the files if you plug one of the 4.1.2 phones into PCC and "repair" it is that an option or will it only allow an upgrade? I can do it for you I'm on EE 4.1.2 and the upgrade is not available for me yet so I can still download the 4.1.2fw if all your phones are due for an upgrade you then flash the file from PCC (there are tutorials on getting the files) with androxide and bin4rys flashtool.
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PC Companions "repair" updated the phone from 4.1 to 4.3
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Could you upload yours and send me the link?
OK I'll do that later tonight or tomorrow
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Also to get the 4.1.2.ftf you don't let the repair process complete you interrupt it and pull the files out of PCC
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My phone is now due an update so I can't get the 4.1.2 fw if you look for generic global 12.0.A.2.254 firmware then that will work.
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I'm not sure: with the latest firmware being available, wouldn't PCC or SUS repair to 201 or 266?
When I recently flashed a 257 source from this forum, the phone notified me that there is an update to 254 (even though 266 was available then)
Maybe you can test one of the phones: flash a FULL 257 firmware (without wiping data) to see if it updates to 254.
Once it is done updating, the 254 firmware should be residing in one of your computer folders.
I was installing iHackers 4 beta sometime before and had camera problem. Camera was not focussing. So i flashed the kitkat baseband separately and then camera worked fine.
Now im on iHackers 4.1 and observed that whenever i go to UB i lose the X-reality just like the jelly bean days !!
I tried restoring many unlocked TAs and failed restoring the engine. Whenever i lock with locked TA restore i get back the X-reality.
How to solve this problem
P.S I triedflashing Z2 x-realty and Z1 x-reality for JB and build prop tweaks! too
pranii23 said:
I was installing iHackers 4 beta sometime before and had camera problem. Camera was not focussing. So i flashed the kitkat baseband separately and then camera worked fine.
Now im on iHackers 4.1 and observed that whenever i go to UB i lose the X-reality just like the jelly bean days !!
I tried restoring many unlocked TAs and failed restoring the engine. Whenever i lock with locked TA restore i get back the X-reality.
How to solve this problem
P.S I triedflashing Z2 x-realty and Z1 x-reality for JB and build prop tweaks! too
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Well it should work with unlocked bootloader... I can't see any difference with our without it...
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HellRoot said:
Well it should work with unlocked bootloader... I can't see any difference with our without it...
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Me too.
HellRoot said:
Well it should work with unlocked bootloader... I can't see any difference with our without it...
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me too i can't see any difference
Strange....
I have unlocked the bootloader on my device with KitKat , nothing happen , X-Reality remain
Same here, x-reality is still there.
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hi developers
i am wondering if there is a way to copy my entire firmware installed on my z1 with all apps and data and cache and make a ftf of it so that i can root my xperia and when i want to get back to stock i flash my own ftf with all data,apps,cache,etc..i have before root
No its impossible, what you should do is root then make a backup.
You can make a ftf, but it can not include any user apps or user settings
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