Hello everyone!
I recently rooted by phone and now I've been trying to remove the Vodafone bloat-ware from my handset using the titanium application. Unfortunately after so-called uninstalling, the application still remains, why can it be trashed?
The crap strikes back..
You either got to DEBRAND or FLASH to generic to get rid m8, Its vodaphones firmware, but just debrand (i did have a vodaphone x10 until I exorcised the daemon) update to RB2A026, and root, get rid of all the crap, or just debrand and lose the vodaphone crap, but be left with sony ericssons crap lol
Andiiboy said:
You either got to DEBRAND or FLASH to generic to get rid m8, Its vodaphones firmware, but just debrand (i did have a vodaphone x10 until I exorcised the daemon) update to RB2A026, and root, get rid of all the crap, or just debrand and lose the vodaphone crap, but be left with sony ericssons crap lol
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Would reflashing the phone with SEUS do the job? Or would i need to achieve this some otber way, sorry I'm not entirely sure how. Is there a tutorial?
Thanks you.
The crap strikes back
If you go back a page you will see some links to forum threads, read these, for flashing you will need to have java6 21 (32bit) runtime enviroment (JRE) and java6 21 (32bit) development kit (JDK) installed on your pc (fbrlashing wont work on 64bit OS unless you have them as it doesnt work on 64bit version) when you done that find the thread NEWBIES GUIDE TO ROOT GIVING YOU THE LATEST FIRMWARE, you will only need the first file (this will flash you generic uk rf16 firmware and as such its standard, no vodaphone crap, after that use SEUS to update to R2BA026 and ySeaou can root this, theres a video on one of the threads that shows how to set up the path for the java.
But be aware this voids your warranty, just take time to read the threads ive linked and the NEWBIE THREAD, any q's just ask
heres the link to thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755332
Thanks for the help fellas.
I don't worry about the warrenty thing - one could always claim/demand a replacement if anything should happen to this one. Ain't that why we insure our mobiles?
Anyway, I've managed to debrand my phone by using this tutorial in Win7, took a couple of goes (it's all about timing) then updated the firmware without all the bloatware (only SE stuff) and so far the phone seems to be happy. Now, I'm just about to re-root the phone and take out all the useless crap I don't use before I install the stuff that's actually useful
Curious. Why can't service providers, provide us with mobiles, like they left the facory? I mean, seriously, who actually uses all that crap?? Ain't it like buying a PC laptop and doing a new install minus all the bloat?
Hey guys.. Since updating to 026 I've notice something a little odd, though it doesn't affect the physical workings of the phone.
Under the notifications tab, my mobi always report there's "no service", yet the signal indicator is on max (four bars) !!! The phone continues to work.
Anyone else notice this??
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I recently had a lot of updating problems after rooting my phone and deleting some unwanted applications. The supposed method of un-rooting which is to use Update Service or PC companion to repair or re-install the software back to its original state does not work for everyone. In fact, there are lots of folks I discovered trolling through different forums who experience the same hazards. This leaves me feeling that it might depend on whether you bought the phone sim free or you got it subsidised by a mobile carrier. Its possible the contract phones are prevented from updating after rooting in a bid to stop de-branding.
Well, its just my thouhgts. What do you guys think is responsible for this anomaly in unrooting. I had to flash my phone back to the generic uk firmware with Omnius to get it to update again. As things stand I will not be rooting my phone again.
Love to root
I rooted my e10i for 3times and reverted back with SE PC companion to its original state without any difficulty. My only problem after rooting was, the system was not stable. frequent reboots were happening(looking forward to fix that). Still i love to root again for these three things.
1. for deleting SE favorite apps.
2. for paid apps( which not yet available in my country)
3. Enabling wifi hotspot
[email protected] said:
I rooted my e10i for 3times and reverted back with SE PC companion to its original state without any difficulty. My only problem after rooting was, the system was not stable. frequent reboots were happening(looking forward to fix that). Still i love to root again for these three things.
1. for deleting SE favorite apps.
2. for paid apps( which not yet available in my country)
3. Enabling wifi hotspot
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You misunderstand the point of my post. It was not to examine the pros and cons of rooting. I know rooting brings a lot of added benefits and functionality to the phone. I too rooted to use wifi tethering. My point is that rooting might not suit all phones. My argument, that it might depend on whether you got the phone sim free or through a contract.
It seems that rooting is making it problematic for upgrading of phone irrespective of locked or SIM free as is under discussion in the latest firmware thread. But the interseting point of this thread is zodiac100 has updated his phone through OMNIUS.
So zodiac100 will you please describe tthe process of upgrading through Omnius in detail or point us to the thread (English) where it is detailed in case some of us may find it useful now or in future.
Edit : I have read your advice about flashing by Omnius in another thread. Thanks for that. In Omnius site I couldnot find E10i phone but simply E10 with no picture. Is it the same phone?
Hi XDA,
this is my first post, sorry if this sounds a bit spammy, I'm at a loss for how to root and flash for my X10 and hoping someone can help me finally get everything sorted...
I bought my phone in Australia second hand, unlocked from a carrier, but with bloatware out the wahzoo... to make matters more complicated, I now live in Germany.
I have tried to root and flash my X10 on a number of occasions, following the advice found here, but have not been able to get it working due to weird combinations of carrier restrictions, region variations and general lack of experience. It appears as though there are at least 8 different OS versions for the Xperia X10 (or is it X10i?) and I don't even know which mine is.
Can someone please point me in the right direction? I have tried ~5 methods found here and have always encountered an unknown error that doesn't seem to occur for other users...
Thanks!
TomFromAus said:
Hi XDA,
this is my first post, sorry if this sounds a bit spammy, I'm at a loss for how to root and flash for my X10 and hoping someone can help me finally get everything sorted...
I bought my phone in Australia second hand, unlocked from a carrier, but with bloatware out the wahzoo... to make matters more complicated, I now live in Germany.
I have tried to root and flash my X10 on a number of occasions, following the advice found here, but have not been able to get it working due to weird combinations of carrier restrictions, region variations and general lack of experience. It appears as though there are at least 8 different OS versions for the Xperia X10 (or is it X10i?) and I don't even know which mine is.
Can someone please point me in the right direction? I have tried ~5 methods found here and have always encountered an unknown error that doesn't seem to occur for other users...
Thanks!
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First, do you have SEUS and Update Service from SE installed on your computer? You need these two software for the drivers for the phone, otherwise Flashtool would not be able to do anything.
Dear All,
I need a little help and wondered if you guys may be able to point me in the right direction please?
I had an S3 which I stupidly smashed to pieces a few weeks ago. While it was off being repaired, I did something bad.. real bad. I bought myself an iPhone 5!
Anyway, I’ve decided to keep it and sell the S3.
Now here’s the thing.. The S3 is running a custom ROM (I think it’s Omega or Wanamlite) and is rooted. But the new buyer wants me to restore it to the original Samsung stuff and have it like it was when bought.. So minus root and rocking the official Samsung firmware.
The thing is that I no longer have Windows XP on my Mac or any way of getting it so I want to know if there is a way of just getting everything back to normal either on the phone itself or just via a Mac OSX app (Mountain Lion)? I’ve never really done this before and used to use the Windows app but the only Windows machine I now really have access to is a work one which won’t let me install anything.
Also, does anyone know how I would do this - as in remove the root – and where I’d get the official Samsung software from?
Thanks in advance for all your help and merry Christmas.
Phil
I think you can try it with mobile odin... But first read please the instuctions
Now before anyone responds by telling me to search the forums I have spent HOURS on XDA going through innumerable forums clicking on dead or misleading links and have not found anything that will help.
My old x10 crapped out on me and I need to reflash it so that SEUS will recognize it. I know what I am doing and have done this before. I have the latest (and multiple copies of older) version of flashtool. This all started with 2.1 randomly shutting down irrespective of what the battery level is. I have had this happen in the past and EVERY time a reflash resolved it.
ALL I need is either the official Rogers 1.6 or 2.1 stock rom. There seem to be HUNDREDS of dead links here and this has become a uber frustrating situation. I have flashed X10a_3.0.1.G.0.75_AMERICA-US GENERIC 1233-8200 which 100% solved the reboot issue but now my sd card is no longer recognized. And please don't tell me to try other cards as I have used 6 different capacity and speed cards and none are seen in the phone but ALL work on my pc and on my xperia T. I am using the original 16GB card that the phone came with.
For some reason I can get roms for every other carrier except Rogers so I am suspecting Rogers had them pulled, but SURELY someone here has what I need and can help.
Once I can get it back to stock I can use SEUS or PC companion to update and I will take care of the rooting later, if at all.
So here it is, I am asking VERY nicely...BEGGING in fact...can ANYONE help me get a stock ROGERS rom for my x10?
Following http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmX-IYNYqL8&hd=1 was of zero help as the page shown in the vid has been edited and now does not have any of the links for the firmwares, only the flashtool.
I honestly thank you for any help you can offer here. My kids want\need their phone back and there is no way I can afford to replace it right now...and frankly I shouldn't have to replace it if all I need is the rom. I do apologize if I am coming off like a jerk. That is not my intent. I am just SUPER frustrated and running out of time and searches on XDA have become less than friendly over the past few years...too much content to dig through and too many old/dead links.
After reading and reading and reading I am officially stuck hopefully someone or @stifilz can help. Hoping that i just missed something after reading too much info.
UK Sony Tablet S region changed when ICS came out for early update from US. Decided do JB update yesterday the flasher V3 got up to the end of data transfer part and tablet froze up and all coms went. left it for a while but nothing. After a hard switch off it hung at the sony logo. Got into recovery and did factory reset to try clear any issues or so i thought. Still hung at logo. Downloaded various ICS files and renamed to update.zip and tried to reflash. They all fail with the E: Prohibit error, occasionally error failed to mount system1.
I've attached my recovery log if anyone can help sort this il be a happy man.
TIA
After reading http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433323 I am starting to think a lot of these topics go unanswered and point to a flaw in the flasher, my region.prop is also missing and can only presume the tablet requires this for an update and the factory reset removes the root so cannot push another .prop over. So for all intents and purposes the tablet be fooked. I really do hope I am wrong but if i am right then why is this flashing tool still available after so many screw ups.
Well the screw up your are referring to is your own as if you had done your research you would know that trying to flash jb to the tablet s and not the xperia s will mess the tablet up as pointed out in numreouse posts and questions. so the reason people don't reply is that the questions have all ready been answered serveal times and the warings are there
rooted lighting wildfire on unoffical j.b from benni
and sony XTS rooted stock j.b thanks djrbliss
I presumed I had done enough reading beforehand as the tool said Sony Tablet S so seemed the right tool for the job. I've flashed many things over the years and never screwed one up so this is bit of a shock to the system, My first reaction to your reply was to reply don't be smart then my second was to go check tool again, then third was ah f*#k. 26 letters in the alphabet and sony had to call the next model an S too. I cant say i keep up with tablet technology so thought they same thing pre flash,I didnt expect my tablet to be replaced in market so quickly after i bought one. Oh well lesson learnt now the question is wtf can be done if anything. If i send in for repair do they spot this instantly and try hammering me for a heavy bill to fix. Its under guarantee but they do say software issue they wont touch it.
I did read a lot about these problems but only reference i can find was today on page 36 of the flasher tool post. I blame mondays and my obvious lack of cognitive skills on them.
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Well the screw up your are referring to is your own as if you had done your research you would know that trying to flash jb to the tablet s and not the xperia s will mess the tablet up as pointed out in numreouse posts and questions. so the reason people don't reply is that the questions have all ready been answered serveal times and the warings are there
rooted lighting wildfire on unoffical j.b from benni
and sony XTS rooted stock j.b thanks djrbliss
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Can it be fixed?
nkxtc said:
I presumed I had done enough reading beforehand as the tool said Sony Tablet S so seemed the right tool for the job.
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I read this article and made the same mistake:
androidadvices.com/sony-tablet-steps-update-latest-jellybean-firmware-click
I should have read the details better. I commented to the article that I bricked my device but it was apparently deleted...
The important thing I would appreciate knowing is if the tablet is completely unfixable. I just spent $150 on a new tablet but was hoping i could at least recover my tablet S and give it away.
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I read this article and made the same mistake:
androidadvices.com/sony-tablet-steps-update-latest-jellybean-firmware-click
I should have read the details better. I commented to the article that I bricked my device but it was apparently deleted...
The important thing I would appreciate knowing is if the tablet is completely unfixable. I just spent $150 on a new tablet but was hoping i could at least recover my tablet S and give it away.
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Now thats why i thought it was ok i read that site first too rather than here. Too much reading after the event not before. So who are these idiots at androidadvices.com? The advice below is from that site and is what got me to reset tablet. Now i'm even more annoyed at this.
Note: Just in a rare case if the device doesn’t boot up or show the home screen then long press the power button to turn off and then re follow the instructions.
nkxtc said:
After reading and reading and reading I am officially stuck hopefully someone or @stifilz can help. Hoping that i just missed something after reading too much info.
UK Sony Tablet S region changed when ICS came out for early update from US. Decided do JB update yesterday the flasher V3 got up to the end of data transfer part and tablet froze up and all coms went. left it for a while but nothing. After a hard switch off it hung at the sony logo. Got into recovery and did factory reset to try clear any issues or so i thought. Still hung at logo. Downloaded various ICS files and renamed to update.zip and tried to reflash. They all fail with the E: Prohibit error, occasionally error failed to mount system1.
I've attached my recovery log if anyone can help sort this il be a happy man.
TIA
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Naming the file update.zip does not help as we can not see what is fully going on. Anyway it fails due to a messed up vendor. This would make sense as JB files would mess them up. Then it switches partition and that also fails due to vendor, but a slightly different error.
Anyway installing 0042 should work as they do not rely on vendor files. This is HoneyComb 3.2.1R2 and it is ROOTABLE. From there you can use flasher again. See my signature for links
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4shared.com/zip/m-xXuCCv/signed-nbx03_001-ota-0042001.html
4shared.com/zip/03dah__B/signed-nbx03_001-ota-0042001.html
4shared.com/zip/8nuDXOQZ/signed-nbx03_001-ota-0042001.html
Hey thanks for getting back to me its appreciated. Tried all three files you sent link for. None worked it gives the prohibit/sku error. I've attached recovery files of each files attempt if you like to look at it. I've looked through a lot of your other posts and a few very similar ones as this and come to conclusion its damaged beyond repair and am tempted to use the warranty and chance my luck as its got few month left. Unlocked bootloader or the legendary files you have mentioned in another post would be useful but doubt we get to see either soon.
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Here's a shot in the dark...As tablet was originally a UK model and was changed for ICS is there any possibility that it has somehow defaulted back to UK and file signed-nbx03_003-ota-0042.001.zip would help. Its only thing i think ive not tried but cant find that version anywhere. Idea popped in head last week as there was a lot of reference to sku error being a region specific problem but then it went away until just now.
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Naming the file update.zip does not help as we can not see what is fully going on. Anyway it fails due to a messed up vendor. This would make sense as JB files would mess them up. Then it switches partition and that also fails due to vendor, but a slightly different error.
Anyway installing 0042 should work as they do not rely on vendor files. This is HoneyComb 3.2.1R2 and it is ROOTABLE. From there you can use flasher again. See my signature for links
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4shared.com/zip/m-xXuCCv/signed-nbx03_001-ota-0042001.html
4shared.com/zip/03dah__B/signed-nbx03_001-ota-0042001.html
4shared.com/zip/8nuDXOQZ/signed-nbx03_001-ota-0042001.html
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nkxtc said:
Hey thanks for getting back to me its appreciated. Tried all three files you sent link for. None worked it gives the prohibit/sku error. I've attached recovery files of each files attempt if you like to look at it. I've looked through a lot of your other posts and a few very similar ones as this and come to conclusion its damaged beyond repair and am tempted to use the warranty and chance my luck as its got few month left. Unlocked bootloader or the legendary files you have mentioned in another post would be useful but doubt we get to see either soon.
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Here's a shot in the dark...As tablet was originally a UK model and was changed for ICS is there any possibility that it has somehow defaulted back to UK and file signed-nbx03_003-ota-0042.001.zip would help. Its only thing i think ive not tried but cant find that version anywhere. Idea popped in head last week as there was a lot of reference to sku error being a region specific problem but then it went away until just now.
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Sorry should have mention (but thought you would notice) they were the same file. Ok that is failing for the same reasons. Seems it is pretty messed up. You tried a factory reset yet? If not you may have some adb access on the boot logo???
Here comes a rant
stifilz said:
Sorry should have mention (but thought you would notice) they were the same file. Ok that is failing for the same reasons. Seems it is pretty messed up. You tried a factory reset yet? If not you may have some adb access on the boot logo???
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I did notice but i eternal optimist and sorta hoped they different files even though filesize gave it away plus I already had that file from your links in sig but wouldnt be first time a company names files the same but different regions. Factory reset did numerous times now.
Didnt realise could get adb from logo screen so got hopes up again when lo and behold there in device manager was MTP device. After couple hours messing with it and getting lots of errors saying no driver etc I figured out putting hardware id in different adb usb driver inf files (USB\VID_054C&PID_05B3&REV_0100) would give me a working driver or so I thought. The PC decided after few minutes to give yellow exclamation and driver no longer works. Persevered with it until got driver stable but from command prompt adb says no devices in list.
Now all this happened early hours since 3am so not having greatest amount of patience (4hours not bad) i took a huff turned everything off and said [email protected]#k it ive had enough. This aint ever gonna work im resigned to this fact.
Now i may have not read one tiny part of the AIO tool which turned out to be biggest mistake i made in all this however for anyone else unfortunate to have a blonde moment would it not be possible to put some sort of checker in the tool to determine what is actually attached to be flashed based on hardware ID or something before any system changes occur. Having flashed many many devices from phones to consoles each and every one has a check of some sort before hand.
However putting that aside I think its disgraceful how Sony have treated this tablet and how locked down it actually is. This pains me but the £300 wouldve been better on a damn ipad.
@stifilz appreciate help you tried to give mate