HI, I HAVE JUST GOT INTO THE WORLD OF CUSTOM ROMS AND HAVE HAD A :laugh::fingers-crossed: OR TWO AMONGST THE MOMENTS OF
Anyway my phones rooted bootloader unlocked xrecovery installed .
I AM STILL HAVING TO GO TO SONY PC SUITE.....REPAIR AND RE-INSTALL SE ROM 2.3.3 ,THEN ROOT AND XRECOVERY ALL OVER AGAIN WHEN THINGS DO NOT GO QUITE RIGHT AND A BRICK OCCURS.??
SO AM I MISSING SOMETHING ?
CAN SOMEONE HELP ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION FROM HERE , ..COZ I AM A BIT MIFFED...
Try to install a stable rom llike Donuhd and then backup your phone via xrecovery. This way you can always go back to a rooted state where every thing is working.
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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
Sent from my X10 TripNMiUI using XDA Premium App
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.
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
hi all of you.
I installed CyanogenMod 7 on my x10mini on this linkhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068553
Installation successful,but i prefer Android 2.1 version(my old android) phone.
Can someone tell me how restore to original version.
*I tried using PC Suite,but does not recognize the phone.
i will try to help, dont know if i can
first i belive i dint do a backup whit the recovery before instaling, so that option wont work( would be the easy one)
you can try the Gintonic rom (i`m using it) or other tha has the SE launcher because i found it almost the same as stock but with more funcionalitys(i also prefer the stock desing)
or if you really want to go back to stock here one way i know
considering you havent unlooked the bootloader
the way i did when i wanted to get back to stock was with phone unpluged open pccompanion-> suport zone->update the software--> reapir celphone, and then he will guied you trought the processes
hope this helped
I managed to restore with pc companion/software update/repair phone.
It works great. Tnx rodrigocp .
HELP!!! after searching all the posts i cant find a fix for this, i was running Team Rom on my X10, decided to change to MIUI prime, for some reason my phone then wont boot up after reboot? just stays on SE logo,I tried the SE PC companion, and after running the update process there, it returned error: there is no software available for your phone at this time??
I cant find any reference to this anywhere online??
Has anyone come across or know of a fix??
Thanks in advance
Get Flashtool. Look in the dev section.
just flash back your original firmware http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936733 using Flashtool and redo the rooting back..back to your MIUI Rom flashing problem..did you read the cobrato method of flashing locked/unlocked bootloader?? if yes..after flashing the MIUI Rom completed using CWM5..immediately flash lockedBL.zip (i presume your X10 is locked)..then reboot
I had a similar problem, I screwed up flashing between roms and the phone wouldn't boot up. I ended up wiping everything, on phone and sd card. I really screwed up! I tried SEUS repair but it wouldn't let me, my bootloader is unlocked so that's why I suspect. In the end I flashed a stock 2.3.3 rom and went from there, all's good now. As for SEUS, even re locking the bootloader didn't help, something to do with DRM, not sure, at least flashtool is a life saver
you could always try the Update service from Sony, saved me a lot of times as that little gem
Flash back to 2.1 generic firmware using flashtool.
You'll need to find the 2.1 firmware on Google(its an xda thread). Then via flash tool flash that firmware. Now everything should work.
I hope you know how to put your phone in mto flashmode
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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!