If I do the downgrade using Flashtool, will the phone retain the "data" and "apps"?
When I say data I mean photos and files.
I see an option for wiping data is check off, I'm assuming this is temporary O/S stuff.
Regards,
Mike
If you're reverting from ICS, then I would suggest you did a full wipe, since ICS apps arent (in their majority) compatible with GB
Pictures, documents and stuff like that are stored on your SD card, so you're not going to lose them.
Personal data stored on the phone is: contacts, SMSs/MMSs, preferences and settings for your apps. And nothing more, if I'm correct.
Feanor88 said:
Pictures, documents and stuff like that are stored on your SD card, so you're not going to lose them.
Personal data stored on the phone is: contacts, SMSs/MMSs, preferences and settings for your apps. And nothing more, if I'm correct.
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If I uncheck the data checkbox will that work? Also, how about apps. that have been moved to SD? I don't know if .58 supports that.
Regards,
MIke
If you uncheck "wipe data" in flashtool, you won't erase personal data. It should be fine, as far as I know
Feanor88 said:
If you uncheck "wipe data" in flashtool, you won't erase personal data. It should be fine, as far as I know
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Looks like the answer is no, it's not possible to preserve the data. There are some of these personal data things that look to be phone settings that interfere with operation after a new ROM is installed. I ended up getting many errors trying to preserve my data on the phone.
Mike
My, my... you're right, don't know what I was thinking when I said that... I obviously forgot that you were going to downgrade... sorry man, it was totally my fault
Feanor88 said:
My, my... you're right, don't know what I was thinking when I said that... I obviously forgot that you were going to downgrade... sorry man, it was totally my fault
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No need to apologize, guess that's what happens when you try stuff that isn't fully baked
Mike
I have a BIG problem. Some tutorials mention to wipe data/cache before flashing, after selecting the desired ROM. Well, some of (eg.) Xperia Arc LT15 ROMs do not show up completely in FlashTool. After I chosed a ROM, the ROM's files do not show up in the middle column and ther's no "Wipe data" and "Wipe cacha" options. Could Flashtool be the problem?
cipri92 said:
I have a BIG problem. Some tutorials mention to wipe data/cache before flashing, after selecting the desired ROM. Well, some of (eg.) Xperia Arc LT15 ROMs do not show up completely in FlashTool. After I chosed a ROM, the ROM's files do not show up in the middle column and ther's no "Wipe data" and "Wipe cacha" options. Could Flashtool be the problem?
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What device are you trying to do this with and which ROMs? Just asking because this isn't an Arc forum and it sounds like you are flashing Arc Roms and even on a device as close as the Ray this is going to cause some problems.
Xperia Arc LT15i with an official 4.0.2.A.0.42 GB. All FTFs I could find aren't showing up completely.
cipri92 said:
Xperia Arc LT15i with an official 4.0.2.A.0.42 GB. All FTFs I could find aren't showing up completely.
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Well....um.....I am sure that there are people here that can help you because all the 2011 xperias are similar, but you will probably get much better information if you ask in one of the arc specific forums/threads. You have posted into the Mini, Mini Pro, Active, Ray, Live with Walkman section.
Here is the Arc thread for flashtool: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000012
Here is the Q&A forum for the ARC: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1182
It is probably best if you use the "search this thread" or "search this forum" box before you post your question because if it is a common problem, you will find your answer much quicker.
OK, thanks for the advice! Cheers!
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Hey there, just got a question.
I did the root process a few times on my phone and did a couple times to flash back to stock firmware. Now after flashing or just factory reset, it seems like the scrolling isn't smooth as it used to be. Like for example scrolling on the drawer or even just browsing through the market.
Now I know sometimes flashing firmware might leave files or stuff left behind. Is this correct?
Any insight on this?
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Hey there, just got a question.
I did the root process a few times on my phone and did a couple times to flash back to stock firmware. Now after flashing or just factory reset, it seems like the scrolling isn't smooth as it used to be. Like for example scrolling on the drawer or even just browsing through the market.
Now I know sometimes flashing firmware might leave files or stuff left behind. Is this correct?
Any insight on this?
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I've had an HD2 before, and it did slow down your system, on the HD2 you preform whats called a "Task29" to format your phone for a new flash, i don't know how this works on the X10 actually, i just wanted to give you some information.
Yea that's why I want to find out. Any devs care to comment on this?
Looking forward to the comments!
i think se official firmware is better than rooted custom firmware i prepared to use the official firmware than rooted one because is not well developed by the devteam...i'll root my x10i until the devteam make it really stable....but thanks devteam for all your efforts....
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Now I know sometimes flashing firmware might leave files or stuff left behind. Is this correct?
Any insight on this?
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There won't be any stuff or files left behind ...
Kind Regards
notimplementedyet
As a rule of thumb, you should ideally do a "factory reset" after a flash for optimum performance. Do make sure you have your data backed up first.
050177e said:
i think se official firmware is better than rooted custom firmware i prepared to use the official firmware than rooted one because is not well developed by the devteam...i'll root my x10i until the devteam make it really stable....but thanks devteam for all your efforts....
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You don't know what you are writing. The root firmware is completely same as original only the access rights of ONE file (the SH) is manipulated. After that is done we install su and superuser (and betterterm, htcime keyboard etc but you can delete all of them or just outcomment in the batch if you dont want them).
So what you are writing is bull**** because the firmware is the same.
Regards
Bin4ry
050177e said:
i think se official firmware is better than rooted custom firmware i prepared to use the official firmware than rooted one because is not well developed by the devteam...i'll root my x10i until the devteam make it really stable....but thanks devteam for all your efforts....
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Bin4ry is right - please do some research into things before you make comments like this.
If you've followed all of the instructions correctly, it's the applications and games that you've installed that are causing problems - nothing else.
MarylandCookie said:
As a rule of thumb, you should ideally do a "factory reset" after a flash for optimum performance. Do make sure you have your data backed up first.
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I've never done the "factory reset" after I've flashed.
What gets lost? APN settings, Email addresses, contacts, SMS?
Programs still intact?
Thx
Izzy_Deadyet said:
I've never done the "factory reset" after I've flashed.
What gets lost? APN settings, Email addresses, contacts, SMS?
Programs still intact?
Thx
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You will lose all user data and settings, i.e contacts, sms, mms, alarms, calendar entries, system settings and all user installed apps. Thats why you should back up everything before a full flash, once flashed, do a full factory reset and then reinstall your data.
Will take longer than your usual method but it is recommended
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You will lose all user data and settings, i.e contacts, sms, mms, alarms, calendar entries, system settings and all user installed apps. Thats why you should back up everything before a full flash, once flashed, do a full factory reset and then reinstall your data.
Will take longer than your usual method but it is recommended
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Thanks, wasn't sure about the apps.
I guess with my combo of Titanium backup and My Backup Pro it shouldn't be that big of a job
I found out why my phone was going slow and laggy scrolling. I took out the micro sd and the phone was fast like when I first got it.
So I backed up the files in the card and formatted. It didn't work at first but now it is ok. I thought the micro sd reader was faulty causing the phone being slow so I don't really know.
Heya,
Hence I haven't found anything about this topic (or I'm just dumb), I wanted to post this question.
What I basically want:
- Have all my Apps and their data
- Have all the settings
in one ROM I could flash onto my device in the case that I "accidentaly" brick my phone.
Is there a way to do that?
Cheers.
Use xRecovery.
XperiaX10iUser said:
Use xRecovery.
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Alright I am dumb xD. Haven't hought about this one going to test it out in a sec.
Thanks
Edit: So I just got into the Backup & Restore menu and backed up the system, I hope I'm doing everything right.
Sounds like it so far.
Ok I apparently have a folder inside the xRecovery folder. It's named after todays date and there are some system img files etc. in there so I suppose that's it.
Pretty much yes.
sniperbag said:
Heya,
Hence I haven't found anything about this topic (or I'm just dumb), I wanted to post this question.
What I basically want:
- Have all my Apps and their data
- Have all the settings
in one ROM I could flash onto my device in the case that I "accidentaly" brick my phone.
Is there a way to do that?
Cheers.
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I had always wanted to ask this...
telmoabff said:
sniperbag said:
Heya,
Hence I haven't found anything about this topic (or I'm just dumb), I wanted to post this question.
What I basically want:
- Have all my Apps and their data
- Have all the settings
in one ROM I could flash onto my device in the case that I "accidentaly" brick my phone.
Is there a way to do that?
Cheers.
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I had always wanted to ask this...
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If you are talking about xRecovery, all you have to do it make 1 backup, this backs up ALL data/apps/settings (also stuff like call logs, SMS, accounts, boot-animation, themes).
I use restore my main backup multiple times a day when I'm working with ROMs.
If you are talking about a backup that can be restored with X10Flash, well I would also like to know the answer to that.
(how to generate SIN files?)
Is what you guys are talking about like creating a "backup image" like you would for a PC?
highaltitude said:
Is what you guys are talking about like creating a "backup image" like you would for a PC?
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Indeed. I need this because of constant rom flashing. I brick my phone way to often and its a hassle to set everything the way it was before.
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Pretty simple question, i want to upgrade to the latest build by mik. Will this basically wipe everything that isnt on my SD card ? i.e. everything on my desktop, all my settings, all my apps etc.
thanks.
Yes, you will have to wipe everything...
If you want, you can backup your data with apps like "Titanium Backup" or something like those...
U will lost all ur settings,sms,contacts,apps..nd u will lost ur data in sd bcoz u hv to do partition for aps2sd..Its recommrnded to do backup of all ur apps,contacts,sms,nandroid before flashing
oh ok. so ill install apps2sd, move all my apps across, backup contacts and what i can with titanium , flash.
what is this google sync business with contacts ??
so i just flashed to the latest, and its booted back in, and everything is still on my desktop ? like nothing got erased.
i did a full batch titanium backup. did it automatically restore everthing ? even my desktop settings ?? im lost
thedawg said:
Pretty simple question, i want to upgrade to the latest build by mik. Will this basically wipe everything that isnt on my SD card ? i.e. everything on my desktop, all my settings, all my apps etc.
thanks.
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Haha so luckily you got me and my patience on your thread lol and you questions are simple yeah but not short to answer!
For your question, yes! flashing any rom will exactly wipe EVERYTHING on your phone.
BUT IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM OLDER VERSIONS OF MIK'S 2.3 ROM, it will NOT wipe anything except your google/facebook accounts information.
By the way, for the manual action of "wiping", it depends what android version you are at.
If you are using Froyo 2.2 NOW, yes wipe everything on the list of your custom recovery.
If you are using Gingerbread 2.3 NOW, then you dont have to wipe anything except [cache] and [dalvik cache]. <- You must wipe these two!
thedawg said:
oh ok. so ill install apps2sd, move all my apps across, backup contacts and what i can with titanium , flash.
what is this google sync business with contacts ??
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I dont get what you mean by "install apps2sd". But whatever you shouldn't do that before flashing a rom. If you mean the Non-froyo App2SD+ (What the hell is non-froyo a2sd?), you should flash it AFTER you have flashed the rom in order to let it activate in the new rom.
Yes. backup all the things with titanium is necessary.
For the google contacts syncing. It is a service provided by Google and it is for you to sync the contacts between your Gmail and your phone. So you can view all your contacts anywhere. You can sync your contacts to gmail and then after rom flashing, the contacts are gone. Simply login back to gmail with the newly flashed rom and then click auto-sync. All of your contacts will be back after a couple of minutes.
But remember one extra point, its sort of a new feature in gingerbread but BE SURE TO UNTICK THE OPTION OF "BACKUP MY DATA ETC TO MY GOOGLE ACCOUNT" after you login your gmail with android 2.3. Why? It actually doesn't backup your data (well for me, i couldnt see it anywhere) but DUPLICATES YOUR MESSAGES WITH NO REASON!
thedawg said:
so i just flashed to the latest, and its booted back in, and everything is still on my desktop ? like nothing got erased.
i did a full batch titanium backup. did it automatically restore everthing ? even my desktop settings ?? im lost
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IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM ANDROID 2.2 FROYO
NO. After you flash, every single thing will be GONE COMPLETELY. You will have to perform a titanium batch restore to get everything back in order.
IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM ANDROID 2.3 GINGERBREAD (older versions of mik's rom)
Then Yes everything is still on your "desktop" (I think you meant launcher) and ALL SETTINGS WILL REMAIN. However in some cases, home screen widgets will have problems and you will have to place them again. Information in widgets (such as your city for weather widgets, your to-do-list widgets) are NOT BE ABLE TO BACK UP USING TITANIUM OR ANY OTHER METHODS. So make sure you have written down what you have wrote in your widgets!
And finally if you have missed or made mistakes in any step, dont panic! You can always restore your phone back with KDZ UPDATER (Picture guide in this link)!
And when you are using mik's rom, and you would like to have a try on franco.Kernel which provides excellent performance, dont forget to discuss them in the thread The fantastic combination of mik_os' CM7 and franco.Kernel!!
Hope I was clear enough and if any parts of my post have helped you, dont forget to hit the thanks button at the bottom of my post
Good luck! Happy playing with mik's roms!
Thanks alot, makes it clearer.
I will definitely put francos kernel on, the phone still could do with some imporvement in performance.
next thing i need to learn about is the launcher. is it essentially just the UI ?
thedawg said:
Thanks alot, makes it clearer.
I will definitely put francos kernel on, the phone still could do with some imporvement in performance.
next thing i need to learn about is the launcher. is it essentially just the UI ?
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erm for the launcher its totally simple - ur phone can have multiple launchers, but you usually only use one. and they gives you the app drawer and some screens for you to place your shortcuts and widgets. how are they? what are their performances? differ on different launchers. they all can simple be found on the market, and after installation you will be able to choose the one you want to use, by clicking the home button.
ADW launcher and Launcher Pro being the most famous ones and you may try GO Launcher as some people are using and appreciating it too.
new users if i have given some help you know what to do and happy androiding.
A few days ago i put on Siyah neweset 5.0.1 kernel on my S2 and overclocked but my performance hasn't increased much so i'm gonna put Ressurection Remix ROM now but the first step on the guide says to format my phone and i hate loseing my things, is there anyway to keep my stuff on the new ROM D: ? I'm not sure what to do QQ i don't wanna screw this up, also i'm gonna make a few backups, cuz 1 isn't enough.
Over clocking doesn't increase performance per se.
You can use titanium backup to backup and restore your current apps. Use SMS backup+ for your texts and call lists.
Images, vids, music etc are unaffected by formatting via CWM.
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If you want to switch to another ROM, I guess it's best to backup all your apps via Titanium Backup. As far as I remember, the list displays white apps, red ones and green ones. The red ones are system apps and you should backup them since they differ from ROM to ROM. The white ones are apps which you have installed on your phone (via Google Play...). The green entries are things like "Messages" "Phone call history" and stuff like that.. I guess you can backup them too.
You won't loose your contacts as long as they are stored on your googlemail-account. So no need to safe them.
Then just backup your current ROM via ClockworkMod (I guess one backup is enough :b - If you want to be 100% sure try to backup and right after it finished try to restore the backup. If it works (in 99,9% of all cases) you can just flash your new ROM - if it didn't work try to backup+restore again. As soon as you've got a working backup (I guess the first backup will be OK), flash the new ROM and restore the needed apps via Titanium Backup again. (Just download Titanium Backup right after flashing RR and you will be able to restore every single app again).
More and more ROM devs advise not to restore apps via Titanium Backup, but it always worked fine for me
Hope I helped you,
experience7
Smileyz0r said:
A few days ago i put on Siyah neweset 5.0.1 kernel on my S2 and overclocked but my performance hasn't increased much so i'm gonna put Ressurection Remix ROM now but the first step on the guide says to format my phone and i hate loseing my things, is there anyway to keep my stuff on the new ROM D: ? I'm not sure what to do QQ i don't wanna screw this up, also i'm gonna make a few backups, cuz 1 isn't enough.
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You dont need to format everything to install a Custom Rom. Just wipe data, cache and Dalvik cache(under advanced).
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boki9999 said:
You dont need to format everything to install a Custom Rom. Just wipe data, cache and Dalvik cache(under advanced).
Sent from my GT-I9100
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I made a backup but in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1436854
It was first step : Factory reset, won't factory reset delete my backup?
Smileyz0r said:
I made a backup but in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1436854
It was first step : Factory reset, won't factory reset delete my backup?
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Wipe Data/Factory reset will not delete the backup u made since as its stored in ur internal sdcard ma8
What the hell kind of titke for a topic is "D:" ????
Please use some common sense and use proper descriptive titles, Not silly things lik this that dont tell people anything when browsing forum.
Sun90 said:
Wipe Data/Factory reset will not delete the backup u made since as its stored in ur internal sdcard ma8
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So... I make a backup, i backup apps, and i factory reset from phone settings right?
TheATHEiST said:
What the hell kind of titke for a topic is "D:" ????
Please use some common sense and use proper descriptive titles, Not silly things lik this that dont tell people anything when browsing forum.
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"D:" is the best description of the problem i could think of
Smileyz0r said:
So... I make a backup, i backup apps, and i factory reset from phone settings right?
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If ur on Stock Rom then, Yes, its that way
Sun90 said:
If ur on Stock Rom then, Yes, its that way
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I did all the steps and now i'm stuck at Reussrection remix boot loop
And i can't go into recovery, when i remove-put in battery it automaticaly start back up on this loopy thing
EDIT: My fault, i didn't untick don't restart.
I managed to get back and wipe everything and now it works perfectly
Sadly... i lost all my stuff ... ( i mean... it's not installed but i have the files, but they are useless )
But it was tottaly worth it becouse this is ORGASMICLY fast.
TOTTALY WORTH IT <333
CYA SOON MAYBE
<3 Smiley
Smileyz0r said:
"D:" is the best description of the problem i could think of
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Don't be ridiculous.
What about something simple like "How to backup data before installing new rom?"
In any case you should have searched google or XDA first as there is plenty of topics on how to flash roms without losing data or how to backup all your apps/appdata etc.
TheATHEiST said:
Don't be ridiculous.
What about something simple like "How to backup data before installing new rom?"
In any case you should have searched google or XDA first as there is plenty of topics on how to flash roms without losing data or how to backup all your apps/appdata etc.
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I can't find the button to change tittle, it must be hidden under 3 layers of bedrock.
Anyway, i've been useing this rom since yesterday, it's awesome .. mostly
Some minor disadvantages, some things like Clock crash, won't update some things but that's normal.
My stock benchmark was 6800, now 6200 D:
Probably becouse the rom uses more RAM than stock.. Overall 8.7/10 <3
I'll keep testin.
EDIT: OH YEA! what were those "modems" it asked me when i was installing it?
Smileyz0r said:
I can't find the button to change tittle, it must be hidden under 3 layers of bedrock.
Anyway, i've been useing this rom since yesterday, it's awesome .. mostly
Some minor disadvantages, some things like Clock crash, won't update some things but that's normal.
My stock benchmark was 6800, now 6200 D:
Probably becouse the rom uses more RAM than stock.. Overall 8.7/10 <3
I'll keep testin.
EDIT: OH YEA! what were those "modems" it asked me when i was installing it?
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Modem is software that controls and makes connection with mobile network possible.
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You edit your 1st post.You just go into the title area and change the text there.
Something like "I love theAtheist".
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Hey guys, my sisters phone for some reason got bricked. There weren't any modifications made on it, after some work I was able to make Sony Update Service recognize it. The big question is: When resetting the phone with Sony Update Service, is the internal storage erased too or not? She has some important pictures which she really needs, so could someone suggest a way in which the internal storage stays the way it is?
I tried the hard reset button found under the next to the sim card already with no result. The phone responds with 3 buzz when the power button is pressed for 2-3 sec.
Norbertooo said:
Hey guys, my sisters phone for some reason got bricked. There weren't any modifications made on it, after some work I was able to make Sony Update Service recognize it. The big question is: When resetting the phone with Sony Update Service, is the internal storage erased too or not? She has some important pictures which she really needs, so could someone suggest a way in which the internal storage stays the way it is?
I tried the hard reset button found under the next to the sim card already with no result. The phone responds with 3 buzz when the power button is pressed for 2-3 sec.
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AFAIK there's no way to make a backup of the internal storage while the phone is off.
I believe that resetting the phone with SUS won't erase internal storage (only apps and related data).
I've never had the chance to try it though, but I say the above due to past experience with other Sony devices.
EDIT: I just read somewhere that repairing phone via PC Companion wipes all data including internal storage.
You can use flashtool to reflash a firmware to your device
Deselect wipe data and select, reset customizations
I think that should do it
Check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2775411
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Just supporting answer, download ftf from here. . http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2759934
There is a guide for flashtool also, so if you find difficult with the guide on the page above. You can also have a look it.
HussainQ said:
AFAIK there's no way to make a backup of the internal storage while the phone is off.
I believe that resetting the phone with SUS won't erase internal storage (only apps and related data).
I've never had the chance to try it though, but I say the above due to past experience with other Sony devices.
EDIT: I just read somewhere that repairing phone via PC Companion wipes all data including internal storage.
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Unfortunately in new xperia phone the internal storage is mounted at /data/media so it gets erased too when you wipe /data
Thanks anyway
Envious_Data said:
You can use flashtool to reflash a firmware to your device
Deselect wipe data and select, reset customizations
I think that should do it
Check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2775411
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Thank you, I will try it in a few minutes.
CenteaOSD said:
Just supporting answer, download ftf from here. . http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2759934
There is a guide for flashtool also, so if you find difficult with the guide on the page above. You can also have a look it.
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Thanks for the suggestion, will flash it in a few minutes!
Norbertooo said:
Unfortunately in new xperia phone the internal storage is mounted at /data/media so it gets erased too when you wipe /data
Thanks anyway
Thank you, I will try it in a few minutes.
Thanks for the suggestion, will flash it in a few minutes!
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how did it go?
Frantiic87a said:
how did it go?
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Actually nothing happened, she had to go back the next day and I didn't have time to try fixing it. She will just take it back to the service provider and make them fix it.