I have Xperia ZR phone. And after first flashing with flashtool, I have problems with it. Now it is powering on only with one firmware and doesn't see simcard. As i understand I have problems with ta partition. But during first flashing the phone (whit working firmaware), flashtool making backup of ta partiton in ...\.flashTool\registeredDevices\EP732161RU\s1ta\2 016-02-25_11-16-08. So i have two files after first flashing - 1.ta and 2.ta. But i don't ubderstand how I can restore them. How can i do it?
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Hello I have an xperia z c6602 I'm currently using pac man rom with meow kernel
My bootloader is unlocked and I want to go back to stock
I have a CWM backup of my stock rom. And a backup of my TA partition (i read it was useful)
How do I go back to stock? Can I just restore my CWM backup? Or I have to flash through Emma? How do I restore my ta backup?
Can someone be so kind to guide in a newbie way please? (I'm use to play around with Samsung devices. This is really different!)
plotinus said:
Hello I have an xperia z c6602 I'm currently using pac man rom with meow kernel
My bootloader is unlocked and I want to go back to stock
I have a CWM backup of my stock rom. And a backup of my TA partition (i read it was useful)
How do I go back to stock? Can I just restore my CWM backup? Or I have to flash through Emma? How do I restore my ta backup?
Can someone be so kind to guide in a newbie way please? (I'm use to play around with Samsung devices. This is really different!)
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Hello, I was on pac rom few days ago as well, then i decided to try miui which is based on stock.
So here's the steps:
BACK UP ALL YOUR INTERNAL SD FILES AND FOLDERS because flashing ftf will erase everything inside internal sd, I never did a backup, lost all the chats and messages. :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:
copy all the flashable .zip u want to your sd card.
Flash a stock .ftf file .67 / .74 will do, then root it with any method u want
then flash original kernel using flashtool
then reboot str8 to recovery and proceed to do a clean wipe then flash any stock custom rom you want.
let me know if you have any doubts or question here.
My method is
1.Backup everything, photos, messages, app data using titanium backup, literally everything you need.
2.Store backups somewhere safe, especially titanium backup file(the whole thing).
3.Flash back stock rom and wiping everything.
4.Relock bootloader.
5.Now you have a clean phone, root it again and restore titanium backup app datas,
But be sure to only restore games, apps, but not system files, it may causes crash.
6.Restore the rest of them.
xIceCream said:
Hello, I was on pac rom few days ago as well, then i decided to try miui which is based on stock.
So here's the steps:
BACK UP ALL YOUR INTERNAL SD FILES AND FOLDERS because flashing ftf will erase everything inside internal sd, I never did a backup, lost all the chats and messages. :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:
copy all the flashable .zip u want to your sd card.
Flash a stock .ftf file .67 / .74 will do, then root it with any method u want
then flash original kernel using flashtool
then reboot str8 to recovery and proceed to do a clean wipe then flash any stock custom rom you want.
let me know if you have any doubts or question here.
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Thanks for the replies! Do you know how to restore my ta backup? Or by flashing the stock rom it would be the same? If not. At what part of the process should I do it?
plotinus said:
Thanks for the replies! Do you know how to restore my ta backup? Or by flashing the stock rom it would be the same? If not. At what part of the process should I do it?
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restore ta backup is the last step basically, ( after flashing stock kernel and stock rom)
i think you used the backup ta for windows from one thread if i'm not wrong,
just restore dry run just to make sure the ta is correct and then just restore it
(the phone should be power on like normal, with usb debugging on)
for your concern, cwm backup also can be used, just restore it and it's done, but, the app data and all other things will return to the state during the time you made the backup, so the progress you did in this custom rom wil not be saved, unless you used titanium backup after you restore nandroid.
Excellent! Thanks man I will restore my backup and restore TA. And yes. I used a Windows tool to make the ta backup (don't even know what's that for. I just read it was important) haha
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Hello, i have unlocked and rooted my Xperia SP (C5303, 12.1.A.1.201), now i want to flash a custom rom on it, i've made a backup of the current rom using Rom Manager's 'Backup current ROM' option. My question is: Does this option also backup my IMEI and is it even necessary to backup my imei when flashing a new rom? also, if it is necessary to backup my IMEI and Rom Manager does not do that, what are the other ways to backup my IMEI?
Thank you.
-SibaNL
Not needed. Ur imei don't go lost forever when u flash a rom. It's by some people a flash problem with the recovery. Format first system and data before u flash a rom. Cwm or philz no imei take twrp and make all steps again. When ur want unlock ur phone read somewhere here how to back up ta.
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joke19 said:
Not needed. Ur imei don't go lost forever when u flash a rom. It's by some people a flash problem with the recovery. Format first system and data before u flash a rom. Cwm or philz no imei take twrp and make all steps again. When ur want unlock ur phone read somewhere here how to back up ta.
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I used NANDROID Online to create a backup and used CWM to flash cyanogenmod, my IMEI disapeared, i succesfully restored my IMEI from the NANDROID backup, now i used TWRP to flash cyanogenmod and now my IMEI is still there and it's working without any problems.
So i wanted to restore my TA backup and therefore relock the bootlaoder. Running on stock 4.3 .201 i flashed stock .201 kernel, then resotred my TA backup, and now when phone is booting, after couple of seconds after home screen arrives, it keep reboots. Why? Did I forget something? What can I do?
EDIT//: It kept rebooting right after FolderMount mounted its folder paths, so I decided to quickly uninstall it, and now it seems to work Kinda weird...
how to revert to stock from cm. i dont have ta. please help asap.
Download stock rom and flash it via flashtool
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Download stock rom and flash it via flashtool
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am on unlocked bootloader. no problem ryt??
dosent matter mate.
I bought this phone, backed up ta partition, unlocked bootloader, installed cm11, then iHachers ROM 4.1 (with dual recovery - CWM and TWRP). How can I return to stock, lock the bootloader and restore ta partition? (make it like it was when I bought it)
When I backed up the the ta partition, I accidently deleted it, so i recovered the deleted file with Recuva. I only managed to recover a ZIP called TA-backup-20140717... .zip, which has 6 files in it. Is this the only file needed to restore ta partition and (it is 188 KB) is it corrupt ?
I know I should use Flashtool, but I do not know which FTF to select. If I restore the phone with Sony PC Companion, will the device get bricked? Because it is rooted with custom recovery and unlocked BL.
Thanks :good:
georgevdl said:
I bought this phone, backed up ta partition, unlocked bootloader, installed cm11, then iHachers ROM 4.1 (with dual recovery - CWM and TWRP). How can I return to stock, lock the bootloader and restore ta partition? (make it like it was when I bought it)
When I backed up the the ta partition, I accidently deleted it, so i recovered the deleted file with Recuva. I only managed to recover a ZIP called TA-backup-20140717... .zip, which has 6 files in it. Is this the only file needed to restore ta partition and (it is 188 KB) is it corrupt ?
I know I should use Flashtool, but I do not know which FTF to select. If I restore the phone with Sony PC Companion, will the device get bricked? Because it is rooted with custom recovery and unlocked BL.
Thanks :good:
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Pc companion will not even start to update your phone since it its rooted and bl uncloked.
Anyway, you need to flash FTF for your device (ex. C6903), best is Generic World latest one.
After that restore backup of TA
electrash said:
Pc companion will not even start to update your phone since it its rooted and bl uncloked.
Anyway, you need to flash FTF for your device (ex. C6903), best is Generic World latest one.
After that restore backup of TA
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Thanks for the quick responce :laugh:
Is it possible to upgrade from iHackers 4.1 (Stock 4.4.2) with custom kernel, recovery and root, by only flashing the kernel and recovery FTF, restoring the TA (so that the BL locks again) and then upgrading over the air (OTA update) ? I know I will lose root, but are my data going to be deleted by upgrading from 4.4.2 to 4.4.4? I have the C6903 version.
Also, if I flash an ftf that includes everyhting (system, recovery, kernel,... ) and deletes all the data (so the phone will become like new), and choose a wrong generic ftf in this list ( http://storagecow.eu/index.php?dir=Xda/Sony/Xperia+Z1/C6903/Generic/14.4.A.0.108/ ), will I brick my phone?
I have never used flash tool (i have not even downloaded/installed it!) and i am afraid i will brick my z1...
Thank you for your help
georgevdl said:
Thanks for the quick responce :laugh:
Is it possible to upgrade from iHackers 4.1 (Stock 4.4.2) with custom kernel, recovery and root, by only flashing the kernel and recovery FTF, restoring the TA (so that the BL locks again) and then upgrading over the air (OTA update) ? I know I will lose root, but are my data going to be deleted by upgrading from 4.4.2 to 4.4.4? I have the C6903 version.
Also, if I flash an ftf that includes everyhting (system, recovery, kernel,... ) and deletes all the data (so the phone will become like new), and choose a wrong generic ftf in this list ( http://storagecow.eu/index.php?dir=Xda/Sony/Xperia+Z1/C6903/Generic/14.4.A.0.108/ ), will I brick my phone?
I have never used flash tool (i have not even downloaded/installed it!) and i am afraid i will brick my z1...
Thank you for your help
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I didnt understand first one, so i will not answer to this, i dont want make any confusion.
Yes, if you flash everything your phone will become like new, and if you flash wrong "ftf" worst case scenario is that you will need to download new FTF and flash it again with correct one.
also check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/cro...xperifirm-xperia-firmware-downloader-t2834142
it will probabl help you
i just backed up my DRM keys then i proceed to unlock my bootloader, install custom recovery and flashed CM12, i didnt restored my DRM keys, i want to install Stock lollipop on my phone but how do i restore my drm keys? i backed up on the stock lastest KK rom, the back up would work on Lollipop?
Yes, your backup will work fine. Use the TA backup tool to restore it. Flash a stock rom before restoring the backup or you will soft brick your device.
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