hello i just did a clean fresh install on official se 2.1, rooted, busybox installed, flashed xrecovery about ten times now so i can flash the new zKernel. i can only get xrecovery to actually work prob 1 in 10 power ups and iv flashed the 20072011.zip file 3 times now yet it doesnt actually work. when i open about in settings its still the stock kernel, is there a way of flashing the new kernel using the flash tool or just plain without xrecovery????
cheers if anyone can help
What baseband are you using with the zkernal and tell me how to you make xrecovery appear on the boot up? There is only one way to do it.
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had the same problem... just made a work around which worked for me.. as i see, flashing zkernel does not delete anything... but this uuntz kernel delets the stock kernel any applies the custom kernel... so what i do is first flash the uuntz kernel which deletes the stock kernel and applies itself.. and straight after it without reebooting i flash the zkernel... and it works... i dont know how the hell it works this way but it works...
im having problems with xrecovery as well so flashing the two kernels is proving to be difficult. iv had xrecovery for about 6mths and booted into it fine everytime but now im on official se rom as i mentioned less than 1 in 10 boot ups will boot into x recovery
its giving me the ****s i hacked/flashed different roms from day 1 of owning this phone but now im on se rom nothing works iv even let se pc suit update it three times and started from scratch. ill keep trying xrecovery cheers for your help
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I am completely new to all this but I install some custom roms on my x10 but so far every rom ive installed either doesnt see my sd card or gives me service but no 3g or no service at all. Ive read around and people are saying to flash the rom or something but I have no idea...please help
Hey man,
What have you updated to?
I have the same issue on my phone, ever since i've tried new roms its either been on and off or completely not working.
Theres baseband which i believe is the main basis for the rom, so without the right baseband the rom wont work as it should. Some roms come with the correct baseband. You need to put the .zip rom onto your SD card.
First flash with the right baseband then install Xrecovery. Reboot phone, once it vibrates keep pressing down on the volume control and install custom zip. It should work from there, but so far I haven't had it work for the roms I've tried ;(
ok thanks. How do I flash the rom with the right baseband? I have no idea
I finaly got it to work! I did a reinstall with seus and a factory reset then flashed a generic firmware for x10a with the flash tool to my device. rooted it with z4root installed busybox and xrecovery and then through xrec i installled my custom .zip and I got servie but no 3g so I manually typed in the apn settings from this site....they wont let me post a link .... and everything works perfectly!
Hello to all,
Firstly first post to this site and also new to the world of rooting/flashing so bare with me on this one..
Ok as title states I would like to know on how to successfully flash my x10 and receive the benefits that xda have given to alot of us!
Phone specs:
Xperia x10a.
Ver 2.1update1.
Rooted via super one click.
So far I have only been able to root the phone.. I have TB and have performed a back up recently. I do also have the Rom Manager app whilst watching a tutorial via youtube flashing using the Rom Manager I was not able to use the Flash ClockworkMod Recovery as the x10 was not in the listing to proceed. I have also got xrecovery ver 0.3 and tried another method using this but I was not able to install xrecovery properly.. I downloaded it all well and good but went to install and the 3 windows never became ticks just crosses.. Uninstalled and reinstalled but to no avail it did not work..
So my questions are:
Have I done something wrong on my end for this not to work? (knowing my luck yes).
And all I'm after if someone could take the time out and lay out a clear somewhat easy path in order for myself to be able to flash and install custom Roms? cm7 is what I would like to use unless if a good recommendation is given.
Thank you in advance to all and I do apologize for the long post I just wanted to make sure I covered everything.. Still new to this
Kind Regards.
Agera.
Xrecovery installer can be a bit troublesome. Sometimes it doesn't even work for me.
In my opinion, the best way to install xrecovery, root, & jit enable your x10 is through flashtool. You will need a PC but the process works better than the installer. Try that method and find out if that works.
Hey thanks for your reply, my noobness is showing greatly at this point regarding xrecovery... it'll help if I actually click install busy box and destination folder (duh) made me look....yeah Ok well now I have a phone that has been rooted and now have xrecovery in operation, I guess now comes to install a custom rom.
Now to sum it all up basically I have to copy paste desired rom and google rom pack load it onto the sd card (not in any file inside sd but just on sd) perform final backup get into xrecovery factory wipe first? I believe then custom rom reboot then get back into xrecovery then install google apps reboot and done?
I hope I got that down I'm trying to remember processes without having to go back to a tutorial, if I left anything out permission to give me a clip over the ear
Cheers.
When you pick a ROM, make sure the phone's baseband matches the ROMS baseband the developer wants. Also, follow how the way the dev wants the ROM installed, like phone wiped and cache wiped and stuff. And sometime there are multiple files that needed to be flashed in a specific order in xrecovery. So make sure you follow all the devs directions. Hope this helps.
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and you can find different ROMs that don't require you to flash googleapps as well, that just makes it confusing. I started with FreeX10, as it was simple and easy to install. once you have a hang of it, I recommend using Trip's GB MIUI. and you said you backed up phone before you installed xrecovery? I recommend you backup using xrecovery first
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fixed phone was able to get back into xrecovery and do a restore...
Ok, something I want to ask regarding what I did today when I went to update to a newer o/s eveything went fine until after the phone rebooted and came back to the home screen the 2.2.1 froyo rom I used seemed to be refreshing itself every 2 seconds which made it next to impossible to navigate around the phone... The arc version 2.3.1 opened up and about 30 seconds it froze restarted and shut down again did that for a while... So both didnt work for me only other thing I opened up was the google pack so I could get the market and gmail, I also tried it without installing google apps... same thing happened.
So my question is have I forgotten to put an extra file in? or was it my blind luck that I used to unstable roms?
I've really tried here.. if anyone can please post a link that is certain to work with exactly what i need to do and what files I need that would be really great. Whether its 2.2 or 2.3 it doesnt matter to me so long as it works at this stage I'm having no luck getting something solid here...
Cheers.
first of all, allow me to say the main, obvious cause of the bricking of my poor x10:
i'm an idiot. A huge one.
With that being said, here's what's going on and how i end up suiciding my phone.
Was messing up, for my first time ever, with custom kernels.
I had free10 beta 4 with hotfix and latest xrecovery, and i decided to pop in a custom kernel; went to try out the freekernel 14xxxxxx "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13022717#post13022717", so i did all the passages.
At the end, everything was fine, but wifi didn't work.
So i downloaded and installed the wifi module and flashed with xrecovery, wifi the worked, but for some strnage reasons neither emails not (new) marked were working; they both gave no connection problem.
That's where i started losing my patience, i did full wype, went back to old market, but still no connection.
So went back here and found another newer kernel, 15xxxxx; xrecovery flashed that, and found out that wifi went back to gave error. Then i noticed that the kernel didn't boot, so what i did, like the huge idiot i am???
Went back to xrecovery, did full wype, reinstalled in this order: freex10 beta 4, beta4 hotfix, beta4 gapps, beta4cyanogen mod, kernel 15xxxx (again...), AND last thing, what i think bricked my phone: i installed this again "[OPTIONAL] if u want to make CUSTOM kernel as DEFAULT booting option then flash this file: chargemon_FXRec_default_CUSTOM.zip using recovery ONLY after u have installed the BootKit [Step 2]".
rebooted and BAM, it starts doing 2000 force close including system and android.launcher and if i turn off the phone and turn it back on pressing back to try to acces the xrecovery, it doesn't work.
Sorry for the long post but i wanted to make sure you all know what i did in details.
What the heck can i do right now??? Is there a way to get back to stock kernel? Is there a way to access again the xrecovery???
Re Flash with SEUS or FlashTool an your X10 will like a New one..
oh gosh i got carried away and forgot that ahahah.
Yeah i already did and god saves my soul my poor x10 is back at stock 2.1 but at last is working
pelly_jelly said:
oh gosh i got carried away and forgot that ahahah.
Yeah i already did and god saves my soul my poor x10 is back at stock 2.1 but at last is working
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That's why we have xRecovery!
Always make a backup before messing with your phone!
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it's also OK for not having backups, as there are folks out there providing global ROMs...
so, are you going to flash custom ROMs again? ;-)
I've looked and not found an identical problem.
I've an x10 mini pro (U20i) which workls fine with the SE firmware, but as soon as I install a new kernel (tried the gingerbread and ICS nAa) I get the system freezing after the kernel boot logo.
I can get into recovery if I hit the back key during startup, but other than that all I can do is remove the battery.
I've tried booting with just the new kernel and with new kernel +minicm7
Ive been using the flashtool (tried on both ubuntu and windows xp) and that shows that the bootloader is unlocked OK, and will allow me to go install the new firmware.
Even though the phone freezes, I can still get in with flashtool to upgrade the kernel again - but that doesnt help.
I'm using PC companion to take the phone back to build 2.1.1.A.0.6 firmware 2.1-update1 with baseband ending 4015 after my attempts fail.
I've tried now with and without a sim (phone is sim locked o2 uk) with 16gb sd and 2gb sd but I'm getting the same result every time.
I must be doing something stupid, but I can't see what. I've exactly followed instructions here and elsewhere to no avail.
So suggestions?
Is there any way that I can monitor what is going on through the boot process?
Is there another kernel that I should try?
I'm going to grab my wifes X8 and try that tomorrow, but for now I'm off to bed.
thanks in advance for any help.
I'm kind of thinking you're trying to use the kernels with the stock rom, and that will never work.
You say you tried the new kernel with minicm7, but which kernel did you flash when you tried that? and did you wipe the data/factory reset, the cache and dalvik-cache after you installed the rom?
All these things can have an impact on what you're trying to achieve
If you use the nAa ICS Kernel, you need the MiniCM9 ROM.
If you use the MiniCM7 ROM, you need the nAa-Gingerbread kernel.
Hope i've helped, and if the answer isn't here, you may need to be a bit more specific in what combinations you've tried and maybe where you got the kernels and roms from.
Sleep well
Hi,
Maybe thats it? I updated the kernel to gingerbread first then used the built in boot manager toinstall miniCM7 from the sd card.
Kernels taken from here, downloaded several times - in case of corruption.
Should I have installed CM7 first? I assumed the kernel needed updating before installing the updated interface.
So I'll need to install CWM onto stock first, then use that to install CM7 then once happy that that is OK upgrade the kernel?
I'll try it that way this evening.
No, installing the kernel and then installing minicm7 is ok, no need to do that the other way around
But did you make sure you got both from them both from the proper forum?
GB kernel from Here
MiniCM7 from Here
Strange by me it also freeze as i flash the kernel first. I install always with CMW on stock kernel and flash the nAa kernel than.
Interestingly:
requirements for that kernel are : miniCM7
requirements for CM7: latest kernel
However - redownloaded from those link and it worked.
Which is good, but also bad because I didn;t do anything differently to get it to work.
Since I did download a couple of times before, all I can think of is that I've inadvertently downloaded from elsewhere.
Hmmm
maybe is the bad memory management but when it happend to me i hard rebooted the phone then pressed the back button to go to recovery and before kernel boots to recovery i realesed it.If this problem keep existing then flash kernel,when it sows the logo pull out the battery quickly and then boot again
Hi Everyone
I have been readind pages on this site for a while, I have a Xperia mini pro sk17i on UK O2 and I would like to remove the O2 and Sony bloatware along with the facebook rubbish. With a you tube guide I have made a back up of my existing rom using flash tool, I have tried it seems in vain to find a standard rom, the type you have on a unlocked phone from the UK, the mny guides are a bit confusing i have the4.0.2.A.0.62 build and understand I need to down grade first, I did try this a few weeks ago but my phones screen locked up completely luckily at the same time as i had used a foreign rom by mistake so I reflashed and pulled the plug part way through so a little triangle apperared and O2 repaired it and had to replace the screen it seems, that crapped me up a tad. So I thought I would get some advice this time. So im looking for the r4ight rom to flash with then root to remove the rubbish. Apologies if this has been brought up before but some of the liks I go to say the roms have been removed.
Thank you for any assistance you can provide.
Mark
P.S if my rom back is helpfull please let me know I can upload it or email it to you.
Check out my signature there's a step by step guide how to root and then Update to .62 again. Then you can uninstall Facebook etc
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Hi
Thanks I flashed to the firmware and did the zerg bit but could not upgrade or remove anything also the radio did not work so i assume i need to flash with a baseband 64.
Thanks
Mark2260 said:
Hi
Thanks I flashed to the firmware and did the zerg bit but could not upgrade or remove anything also the radio did not work so i assume i need to flash with a baseband 64.
Thanks
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Why weren't you able to update? Something wrong or just no notification for the update?
You can flash the update via flashtool, but for that you will have to use local-prop and push-root-files method as far as I know...
Yes flash the baseband you had before or the recommend for your provider/region. I don't even changed my baseband, so I don't know much about the baseband
Hi Again
Ok flashed again and then flashed to baseband 64, radio works interweb ok super user icon shows up still no update but i have no wifi at my home only hard wired. Now how do i get rid of the crap please?.
Thanks for your help so far.
Mark
update now shows but will have go round to my brothers as he uses wifi. just need to know how to getrid of useless rubbish now. o/
update 2 cannot update to 62 with wifi can i use somthing else?
Mark2260 said:
Hi Again
Ok flashed again and then flashed to baseband 64, radio works interweb ok super user icon shows up still no update but i have no wifi at my home only hard wired. Now how do i get rid of the crap please?.
Thanks for your help so far.
Mark
update now shows but will have go round to my brothers as he uses wifi. just need to know how to getrid of useless rubbish now. o/
update 2 cannot update to 62 with wifi can i use somthing else?
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You have to use wifi, otherwise you could update to .69 firmware version. Download from here the 4.0.2.A.0.69 zip file to install via cwm.
Download x-parts from playstore and install cwm. Then do a backup and flash the zip via cwm. Do a factory reset, wipe cache
and davlik cache and you should have superuser installed and it should work
If you don't know how to use cwm, ask here and I will tell you exactly what to do!
Hi
Ok I went daft got bored and updated by sus, and now I am happy I have ICS everythingworks spot on apart from front camera option missing but thats no big deal, I disabled all the crap and it runs just as sooth as gb and i have more memory and ram left, pictures are just as good as before, I am very happy with this, I made a ftf file in case anyone wants it. This is on a uk phone on the giffgaff network.
Many thanks for your help.
Mark
I got a (sk17i / o2) 4.0.2.A.0.62 today and im also confused on how to get root, put on cwm & upgrade it beyond 2.3.4
DK71 said:
I got a (sk17i / o2) 4.0.2.A.0.62 today and im also confused on how to get root, put on cwm & upgrade it beyond 2.3.4
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Check out my signature for a link to the rooting guide. There you should find out how to root it. It's an easy tutorial for newbies
Thanks Mihahn I will check out the guides.
Whats the best stable custom ROM for the mini pro ?
Im just waiting for my 7 days cooling off period to pass before I play
DK71 said:
Thanks Mihahn I will check out the guides.
Whats the best stable custom ROM for the mini pro ?
Im just waiting for my 7 days cooling off period to pass before I play
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Best stable custom rom for locked bootloader? Don't know on gingerbread there aren't many custom roms and on ics there are only a few like real ics lite and MiniCMSandwich...
I'd stay on stock gingerbead rom, best rom for everything
I managed to root the phone but on each custom ROM I tried thats listed as suitable for locked bootloader (3 different ROMS)
I had a stuck black screen after the SE words after powering up.
DK71 said:
I managed to root the phone but on each custom ROM I tried thats listed as suitable for locked bootloader (3 different ROMS)
I had a stuck black screen after the SE words after powering up.
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Did you wipe data/factory reset wipe cache and dalvik cache (and on some roms required format system) BEFORE you installed the zip file?
Yes I done the wipes & formats. All CWM installs gave me black screen no matter what options & roms I tried so I used flashtool & put on 4.0.4 after 4.0.2.A.0.69 just to get the phone functional & to try it out for speed & problems. Will have a crack another day when my hair loss grows back
DK71 said:
Yes I done the wipes & formats. All CWM installs gave me black screen no matter what options & roms I tried so I used flashtool & put on 4.0.4 after 4.0.2.A.0.69 just to get the phone functional & to try it out for speed & problems. Will have a crack another day when my hair loss grows back
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When you want to install custom roms like real ics and similar ics roms for locked bootloader, flash them through cwm when you are on ics. If you have been on gingerbead before, it won't work, but if you are on ics, it should work
On 4.1.B.0431 I dont have root or CWM so I will no doubt get a headache when I next have a tinker around.
Im actually shocked I didnt turn it into a paper weight!