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[Q] Help needed: tried to install Cyanogen 11, can't boot.

Hello all! So, I tried to install CM11, the one on this post.
Went into CWM, did Wipe data factory reset and formatted /system. when I tried installing the rom, it said operation aborted and it could not install it. No biggie, the post says to install cm10.2 before doing so.
So i Powered the phone off to copy the file over to the SD. To my surprise, now I can't get into CWM, Philz, TWRP, fastboot or flashmode. Whenever I press the back pin to power the phone off, it turns back on automatically before I have time to press the key and connect the USB cable. Furthermore, when I manage to do it quick enouhg, the green led lights up, but it fades away after 10ish seconds only to display the sony logo again, and a "can't recognize USB device" popup comes up in my PC. I've used flashtool with this same pc in the past, so I don't know what that is about. Also, whenever I try installng flashtool drivers again, just in case 2 things happen:
there is no xperia SP device listed and whatever i select it fails to install.
What can I do now? I had 4.3 with the eXistenZ Ultra ROM before all of this.
Damm, this is the first time this happens to me, I've been swapping roms for ever, and this is not even the first phone i do this in, had a galaxy s2 and a wildfire S before. I feel like such a noob
UPDATE!:
So I finally managed to fix it. I posted this after about 8-9 hours of trying to get into fastboot on the 3 different pcs in my household, all had the drivers at some point and i've worked with them and fastboot and this same phone previously, so I figured they'd still work. They didn't, I couldnot even get SUS to work. So i went to a 4th PC, installed SUS and the needed drivers and it only took like 40 minutes worth of tries. I'm in the software download part of the SUS, i'll keep this updated!
UPDATE2!:
So, it finished downloading but it suddenly disconnected, tried again for about 10 minutes and then got it going again. Downloaded the second time and installed it successfully. Leaving this up for future reference!
Bottomline: if you can't get into flashmode, try on as many PCs as you have available for at least 30 minutes each.

Don't use flash tools just install CM11 with CWM or something, use doomlord kernel to get CWM and install CM11 zip that's it.
Sorry locked boot loader didn't read it correctly don't use my advice .

Th3Duck said:
Don't use flash tools just install CM11 with CWM or something, use doomlord kernel to get CWM and install CM11 zip that's it.
Sorry locked boot loader didn't read it correctly don't use my advice .
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No problem, it kinda sorted itself out by brute force connections :> Dammed sony, locking the bootloaders for real. I even got the sim unlock code from my phone company and it's still not bootloader unlockable at the phone settings, even though i can now get any sim i want in it -.-

[Q] I think I actually bricked my M7

A day ago the battery got kinda low and I put it on charge. It started rebooting on its own while charging, I put it down to being low on battery and went along with my day. A few hours later I took it off charge and i was still rebooting itself after around 30 seconds being in the OS.
I thought it may be the ROM and did a wipe, after a wipe everything worked for 12 hours, it was even used outside and got real warm with no problems. Then I started uninstalling the apps that my old HTC Backup put back on and it did the same thing.
I did another wipe and just installed swiftkey (was NOT installed before) and then it started doing the exact same thing. I decided to try a different ROM in-case that would solve the problem, once I flashed a new ROM i restarted and it just took me into the bootloader and no further.
Recovery doesn't work, it just reboots. I tried plugging it in but all I get is it working for 10 seconds and then "USB Device not recognized". During the 10 seconds I still cant send ADB/Fastboot commands to it. I tried different PC's with and without USB 3.0 and 3 different cables. Before this ADB worked fine
All the drivers are correct, and I tried using HTC Sync drivers. (Even with the drivers uninstalled I get the error about it not being recognized)
Does anyone have any ideas? Or should I just sell it and move on?
Here is the screen with all the info on - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6017469/P1010831.JPG

SeanBond said:
A day ago the battery got kinda low and I put it on charge. It started rebooting on its own while charging, I put it down to being low on battery and went along with my day. A few hours later I took it off charge and i was still rebooting itself after around 30 seconds being in the OS.
I thought it may be the ROM and did a wipe, after a wipe everything worked for 12 hours, it was even used outside and got real warm with no problems. Then I started uninstalling the apps that my old HTC Backup put back on and it did the same thing.
I did another wipe and just installed swiftkey (was NOT installed before) and then it started doing the exact same thing. I decided to try a different ROM in-case that would solve the problem, once I flashed a new ROM i restarted and it just took me into the bootloader and no further.
Recovery doesn't work, it just reboots. I tried plugging it in but all I get is it working for 10 seconds and then "USB Device not recognized". During the 10 seconds I still cant send ADB/Fastboot commands to it. I tried different PC's with and without USB 3.0 and 3 different cables. Before this ADB worked fine
All the drivers are correct, and I tried using HTC Sync drivers. (Even with the drivers uninstalled I get the error about it not being recognized)
Does anyone have any ideas? Or should I just sell it and move on?
Here is the screen with all the info on - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6017469/P1010831.JPG
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Damn, sorry. Pretty sure you're out of luck if you can't connect to PC and you can't get into recovery. I'd give it straight into support now and give an excuse like update failed, randomly started restarting etc.

What OS Are you running? 8.1? I would suggest using a Linux Live Disc or Windows 7. its much more reliable.
I am pretty sure you need hboot 1.56+ for windows 8 to work correctly in Fastboot

SeanBond said:
A day ago the battery got kinda low and I put it on charge. It started rebooting on its own while charging, I put it down to being low on battery and went along with my day. A few hours later I took it off charge and i was still rebooting itself after around 30 seconds being in the OS.
I thought it may be the ROM and did a wipe, after a wipe everything worked for 12 hours, it was even used outside and got real warm with no problems. Then I started uninstalling the apps that my old HTC Backup put back on and it did the same thing.
I did another wipe and just installed swiftkey (was NOT installed before) and then it started doing the exact same thing. I decided to try a different ROM in-case that would solve the problem, once I flashed a new ROM i restarted and it just took me into the bootloader and no further.
Recovery doesn't work, it just reboots. I tried plugging it in but all I get is it working for 10 seconds and then "USB Device not recognized". During the 10 seconds I still cant send ADB/Fastboot commands to it. I tried different PC's with and without USB 3.0 and 3 different cables. Before this ADB worked fine
All the drivers are correct, and I tried using HTC Sync drivers. (Even with the drivers uninstalled I get the error about it not being recognized)
Does anyone have any ideas? Or should I just sell it and move on?
Here is the screen with all the info on - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6017469/P1010831.JPG
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usually when it boots into the os, then reboots after 30sec or so, the radio is borked. the radio is the last thing to load in the os
if you can get into the bootloader as it shows in your pic, you need to select FASTBOOT. what you see in the pic is youre in HBOOT mode, and that will not connect to a pc that way. ADB will not work in the bootloader in any case, so dont even try that. You should have your recovery.img file ready, get into the bootloader as you show, and select FASTBOOT. then flash your recovery with command-- fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
however, if your radio is hosed, flashing a rom wont help you. You should probably do a RUU. Many RUU's work off fastboot mode, so get into that and start the RUU.exe

[Q] GT-N7100 multiple issues

Hi guys, first of all this is my first post here and won't be my last.
I am an Apple/iPhone long time user and want to tryout Android, just because I think it's time for a change , without knowing if I could get used to the new OS and wanting to spend as less as possible on this "endeavor" I bought a second hand Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100 from a friend, the phone worked perfectly when I bought it, it had Android 4.1.2 on it and I wanted to update it to 4.4.2, did some research on the net about this (learned about the locked bootloader - this wasn't an issue for me coming from the iPhone) and updated the phone using Kies - and this is were the fun begins.
The update failed, and the phone was softbricked but could still go into download and recovery mode, after reading a few hours on the internet, I used Odin to flash a 4.3 stock rom for the n7100 which I downloaded from samsung-updates, the software got installed on the phone but it was very laggy (with the phone opened but locked, when I pressed the power button it took about 7-8 seconds for the display to light-up, the animations were very sluggish and phone was unusable).
I installed another ROM, using Odin, this time a 4.4.2, with the same results (every time I reset to factory setting and wipe cache from recovery - this didn't help).
I then installed clockwork recovery and rooted the phone then installed cyanogenmod 10.1 which worked almost ok but if i locked the phone after a few seconds the phone would restart, wipe cache/restore factory settings didn't help, i installed it again hoping it would be just an issue with the installation but had the same result, phone would restart.
I've followed all tutorials I could find related to this phone and this issue, installed several patches, reinstalled several stock roms, installed Criskelo rom, all with the same result, the phone is very very very slow and freezez after a while or it restarts after i lock the phone.
So, let me just give u some history on the phone, enumerate the symptoms and where I am right now:
History:
The phone was bought from Vodafone Romania, was never rooted and was never updated (before me ) and still has 3 months warranty.
Symptoms:
- Phone is very slow, unusable
- Freezes after the display is locked
- it is not recognized in windows, when I connect it i can hear the windows connect chime but the phone storage is not mounted, in device manager the phone is recognised as "cdc communication interface" which is not installed - i have the samsung drivers installed, and i have tried on other PC's with the same result, I also tried with several data cables - same thing - the phone works ok when in recovery/download mode
- sometimes when the phone is connected to the PC and the screen goes dark a gray battery appears with a "wait circle" and the phone freezes
- in recovery the phone displays 14 bynaries downloaded and also knox warranty void 1
- most of the roms freez in the language selection screen - i boot-up the phone (after i do a restore factory settings) the installing application dialog appears and then the language selection screen appears, then after 5-6 seconds the phone freezes - the freeze is not triggered by something I do it's triggered by time, after 5-6 seconds no matter what I do with the phone the phone freezes, if it makes any difference, exactly before the phone freezes the display brightness goes to the maximum setting.
Where I am right now
- I installed another stock rom, 4.4.2, it worked acceptable for a few minutes (it got passed the initial setup with no issues) then i left it on the desk, the display went dark and the battery thing happened again and the phone froze, i restarted the phone in recovery, did a factory reset, when the phone started it froze on the language selection screen.
I am at this for about a week now and I have no more ideas and no more patience, and run out of threads and tutorials to read, I am 1 step away of using the phone as a paperweight so please help, any idea would be appreciated, even if it's to enlighten me about what happened and telling me that the phone is bricked.
I am willing to try anything even if it is risky and can totally brick the phone, this is not my main phone and it's purpose is to help me understand android, and help me not make the same mistakes next time.
But, if it's possible I would like to fix the phone because even though it's pretty old it's still an ok phone.

Sorry wrong forum. You need N7100, not the n7000. Good luck.

Sony Xperia SP stuck on Sony logo screen, can't open recovery, flashtool also fails

Having gotten a spare Xperia SP, I decided to venture into the realm of flashing custom ROMs. This was the first time I did anything of this sort with an Android device. So, here is what I did to it today:
At first, I successfully rooted, installed recovery and flashed CM12. After fiddling with it for about an hour and not finding anything super exciting, I decided to try out other ROMs. I did a facotry reset, wiped the data and cache, and was about to flash CM11 (I forgot that it required an unlocked bootloader, which I don't have, and the recovery console told me so). Maybe at this point I should have just reflashed CM12, but I chose (not even sure why at this point) to exit recovery instead. After this, the phone keeps getting stuck on the Sony logo (although on the second attempt to turn it on, it did display a screen showing that wrench icon, indicating some sort of configuration activity going on, but never moved past that either). I tried flashing two different stock ftf roms with flashtool, both fail with this error: Processing of system.sin finished with errors. One of them will cause the phone to shut off after about a minute on the logo instead of remaining stuck on it indefinitely.
Maybe I should mention that this phone did not exactly work flawlessly for some time, even before I started experimenting with it. Here are the main things that I can remember it doing:
-Lags on even the basic functions, apps often crashing, despite doing a very recent hard reset.
-Battery drains very fast sometimes (like going from 55% to 0 in about 2 hours with almost no usage).
-A few months ago, it would periodically freeze and reboot itself, but that problem seemed to disappear with time.
Did I do something stupid to that phone, or are there internal/hardware problems that have manifested themselves in this way? I won't be horribly upset if I killed it (after all, knowing that something of this sort may happen was exactly the reason why I was not doing all this on my main phone), but I certainly would like to get it back up and running.

Download Flashtool v0.9.18.6 from official site.
Option 1: Flash stock.
or,
Option 2: Flash tangerine-7.1.elf via 'fastboot mode' to directly get TWRP, then flash any ROM you want.
https://dl.cubeserver.eu/TechnoSparks/tangerine-stuffs/tangerine-7.1.elf

nandan21 said:
Download Flashtool v0.9.18.6 from official site.
Option 1: Flash stock.
or,
Option 2: Flash tangerine-7.1.elf via 'fastboot mode' to directly get TWRP, then flash any ROM you want.
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Thank you for your reply. I have a few questions:
I downloaded the flashtool version that you mentioned (from the official site), but avast detected malware in it. Should version 9.19.8, the one I tried yesterday, work fine?
What is exactly considered "stock rom"? Is it exclusively the version your phone came with, or is it firmware of any version/carrier branding, as longs as it is made for your phone model by the manufacuter?
It looks like my phone actually won't stay in flash mode. I select fastboot mode in flashtool, a window pops up asking me to plug in the phone. I press the volume down button and plug it in, the LED glows bright green, but nothing happens in flashtool. After a few seconds, the LED goes red and the Sony logo appears on the phones screen (as if it was going to turn on), and my computer makes a sound as if the phone was ejected. The phone shuts off a minute later, goes into flash mode again, and the cycle repeats.

UPDATE
Nevermind everything I wrote before, I was able to successfully re-flash stock. Turns out I did in fact have some crappy version of flashtool that didn't work, and I found anolder version without malware.
Strangely, the infected flashtool version was the one I dowloaded from the official site... Something is fishy here.
Anyways, thanks a bunch for your help!

MrDroid15 said:
Thank you for your reply. I have a few questions:
I downloaded the flashtool version that you mentioned (from the official site), but avast detected malware in it. Should version 9.19.8, the one I tried yesterday, work fine?
What is exactly considered "stock rom"? Is it exclusively the version your phone came with, or is it firmware of any version/carrier branding, as longs as it is made for your phone model by the manufacuter?
It looks like my phone actually won't stay in flash mode. I select fastboot mode in flashtool, a window pops up asking me to plug in the phone. I press the volume down button and plug it in, the LED glows bright green, but nothing happens in flashtool. After a few seconds, the LED goes red and the Sony logo appears on the phones screen (as if it was going to turn on), and my computer makes a sound as if the phone was ejected. The phone shuts off a minute later, goes into flash mode again, and the cycle repeats.
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Use flashtool 0.9.19.8 because that is what everyone is recommending now, Stock rom defines as what it originally comes from your phone which is manufactured by sony. To get into fastboot mode turn off your phone by taking off the cover off your xperia sp and use a pin or pen to press into a small dot and you will get 3 vibrations.
This guide is not written by me, so give credit to chris10286
Step 1. Download a kernel with twrp embedded im sure I used dooms kernel as far as I remember. There are many others just do a simple google of xperia sp kernel with recovery.
Step 2 . take phone case off the back hold button in on lower bottom for 10 seconds you will get 3 vibrations . good leave it at that.
Step 4 . open flashtool let it load completely. Now plug USB into your phone also have it into your PC ! Whilst plugging in hold down volume button to enter flashmode your phone should be green . hold up for fast boot mode which is blue either too let's you flash a kernel but fast boot mode requires "elf" kernel.
Step 5. Locate kernel install and then boot phone up whilst press the volume up button as its booting recovery mode will be accessed now flash rom of your choice or use Sony PC suite to go back to stock. Make sure you have stock kernel and bootloader locked or else it won't let you..
Use this thread to help you since i had the similar problem which involved my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=63660062#post63660062
If none of my methods work please ask zenith to help you or ask anyone in the xperia sp forum to help you since im not a developer but ran into a similar problem to yours.
I hope this helps you out in someway as it did me good luck.
Thanks Nandan

Thank you, I very much appreciate that you took the time to write this long post to help me out. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I found a solution to my problem - by using flashtool 9.18.6 (the one that wasn't working was actually newer).

HELP! My Xperia Z CAN'T be unbricked

Hello all,
I already thank each and everyone of you willing to help/answer because I am truly desperate right now.
Id like to note that my phone (C6603) is rooted and the bootloader unlocked (i'm not sure though), and the internal storage was 75% full...
Here is the problem :
- I was using my phone as usual yesterday, then suddenly the phone power off, shows the hazard logo (the triangle with tools in it), as if it were installing an update. It lasted for like 5 seconds, then the phone rebooted.
- After the reboot, the phone was laggy as hell. And as it lagged, it shutted down and rebooted.
- During the reboot the phone was doing the "optimizing x/264app" thing. That optimization lasted for about 30minuts. Then the phone booted, but was laggy. I tried to go to settings but couldn't open anything in it, I couldn't even scroll. Then the phone rebooted again.
- After numerous reboots and lags, the phone couldn't get past the Optimization step anymore.
- I tried to repair with Sony Companion, but it said that it couldn't find any software for my device (even though I waited for 2 hours for the download - slow internet here).
- I tried to reflash the stock rom I had in the phone: C6603_10.7.A.0.222_UA.ftf (I checked "wipe userdata" because I wanted to clean the phone anyway)
- The flashing went fine. I turned on the phone, but on screen where you usually choose the language, it freezed and rebooted.
And there we are. Stuck in infinite reboot and "optimizing" again.
I tried to reflash the ftf file but Flashtool wasn't able to do it anymore, it said "Processing of loader.sin finished with errors."
Please tell me there is a solution other than trash this phone. Please.
Thank you.