Hi All,
I am new to the forum and new to rooting. I did loads of reading and thought that I would give rooting a go on my Sony Xperia Z Ultra. After rooting, and doing dual boot install I downloaded Dirty Unicorns 4.4.4 and Gapps. Booted into recovery and flashed the two zip files. After booting up the rom, it keeps crashing and giving a systemui fail / crash message. So I cannot do anything with the rom because the message comes up a second after I close it.
Not only that, there is now no custom recovery on my phone. Has anyone else been in this situation or can anyone please let me know what I can do to either flash a custom recovery?
I have also tried connecting my phone to the Flashtool to flash the stock rom, however as soon as I connect my phone to my pc it boots the system up and doesnt allow me to go into flash / fastboot mode.
Please help!
Thanks,
RJ
Hi,
I will have your thread moved to your device section.
Good luck!
Darth said:
Hi,
I will have your thread moved to your device section.
Good luck!
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Thanks! Didnt know where to post.
Recovery should be included in the ROM (I've not flashed it though to test)
press the vol. up key just after booting when the LED turns purple should do the trick.
Do you want to load another custom ROM [1] or go back to Stock Sony [2]?
[1] Download custom ROM, flash boot.img in fastboot, flash ROM from recovery with wipes
[2] Download a FTF and flashtool (http://flashtool.net), flash FTF - fully clean Sony system again
RJacobz said:
Hi All,
I am new to the forum and new to rooting. I did loads of reading and thought that I would give rooting a go on my Sony Xperia Z Ultra. After rooting, and doing dual boot install I downloaded Dirty Unicorns 4.4.4 and Gapps. Booted into recovery and flashed the two zip files. After booting up the rom, it keeps crashing and giving a systemui fail / crash message. So I cannot do anything with the rom because the message comes up a second after I close it.
Not only that, there is now no custom recovery on my phone. Has anyone else been in this situation or can anyone please let me know what I can do to either flash a custom recovery?
I have also tried connecting my phone to the Flashtool to flash the stock rom, however as soon as I connect my phone to my pc it boots the system up and doesnt allow me to go into flash / fastboot mode.
Please help!
Thanks,
RJ
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Can you clarify what you mean by "doing dual boot install", are you referring to the multirom mod or something else.
Did you unlock your bootloader?
Because I see no mention of that and when I flashed scrubbers port of kitkat via twrp it bricked my ultra and I had to buy a new one.......
blueether said:
Recovery should be included in the ROM (I've not flashed it though to test)
press the vol. up key just after booting when the LED turns purple should do the trick.
Do you want to load another custom ROM [1] or go back to Stock Sony [2]?
[1] Download custom ROM, flash boot.img in fastboot, flash ROM from recovery with wipes
[2] Download a FTF and flashtool (http://flashtool.net), flash FTF - fully clean Sony system again
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Hey how to unlock the bootloader in sony phones and after its unlocked how to go to fastboot mode..
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Hi, few month ago, I have unlocked the bootloader, rooted my phone, and installed CWM and CM 11.
It was quite buggy, and OTA updates didn't work, and I needed something more stable.
Yesterday, I wanted to reboot into recovery, and try flashing SlimKat or a newer CM if I don't like the Slimkat.
The combination of keys for Recovery didn't work and there wasn't any reasonable way to get around it.
On adb, the phone got detected, but offline, so I wasn't able to reboot into recovery this way.
Fast forward couple of hours, I have tried flashing about everything, but didn't manage anything besides being able to pass adb commands.
Now,
- when I turn on the phone the phone hangs on the Sony logo and I have to force turn it off
- I get the phone on ADB even when it keeps hanging on the Sony logo
- I can get into Fastboot by holding the up button on conneting to computer
- I have flashed the boot.img from CM11 for XPeria P to bring CWM back, but didn't happen, or did happen, but I can't get into recovery
- "adb reboot recovery" brings me to the same old hanging SONY logo.
- pushing whatever on boot doesn't help > SONY logo
Please help!
Why not just flash stock with flashtool?
[SOLVED] Partially...
I have downloaded FTF file for the device, and manage to flash it using Flashtool (worked only if I flashed incl. Kernel) and got the device up and running. I tried reflashing CM and Slim again, but none worked as I still wasn't able to get into recovery, so I reflashed once more. Finally, the device is working - with the stock firmware, at least...
davidszedely said:
worked only if I flashed incl. Kernel
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This is a solution. When you flashing CM you need to flash CM kernel too. In some cases kernel needs to be flashed several times(for example before flashing CM and after flashing it).
Sorry for my bad English.
Thanks a lot for explanation. I'm happy to have the stock now, and will probably stick with it for the time being.
Ok guys, Heres what I do & what happens,
(model # C6833)
1- root device
2- install new boot kernel (adv-stock-v4) (( Even tried v5))
3- unlock bootlader (only had to do it the first time, bootloader stays unlocked)
4- install cwm/TWiRP
5- get into TWIRP or CWM & wipe as I should
6- install rom. (It wont install)
7- reboot
8- stuck @ sony logo. & then reboots,
9- reinstall stock rom
This happens every time I try to install a rom.
I also get the message before I reboot, no root, would you like cmw/twirp to fix it, I go with yes. & ive tryed no as well. no difference. Still get stuck @ Sony logo & get reboot loop.
Any ideas ?
Im not new at rooting & roming.
Hey, it sounds like you're installing NUT's dual recovery and are trying to flash a CM/AOSP based ROM? I didn't find it possible to flash non-Sony ROMs using that recovery, myself. What you need to do is to first flash the kernel (boot.img) from the ROM you're trying to flash. You can do this using fastboot with the phone set to fastboot mode. The FlashTool program comes with what you need, and there's a guide to using it in the development forum. The kernel contains the recovery (either CWM or TWRP), so after flashing that, you can boot to recovery and install any CM/AOSP ROM you wish.
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Hey, it sounds like you're installing NUT's dual recovery and are trying to flash a CM/AOSP based ROM? I didn't find it possible to flash non-Sony ROMs using that recovery, myself. What you need to do is to first flash the kernel (boot.img) from the ROM you're trying to flash. You can do this using fastboot with the phone set to fastboot mode. The FlashTool program comes with what you need, and there's a guide to using it in the development forum. The kernel contains the recovery (either CWM or TWRP), so after flashing that, you can boot to recovery and install any CM/AOSP ROM you wish.
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I did the flashtool thing. ( I'll edit my post ) I did the boot.img & Im trying to use SlimRom. Everything seems to be fine until I try & install the rom. Then it goes to hell.
Btw, Slimrom is compatable.
So what's the actual error message you get upon installing a ROM?
Something like, installation canceled. could not install rom. It goes threw a few steps. gets a few things installed (or so it seems) & then it hangs & I get that message. I thought, at first, it may have been a corrupt download. But after a few times of downloading it. I kinda think its no longer that.
Have you tried another ROM? Someone else is also having boot trouble with Slim in its development thread.
No actually, I have not. I will soon though now. And report back. First I need a stock U.S. rom. Just in case. Cant seem to find one.
Been using a CE (Central Europe) based stock rom.
HI Friends, my z ultra stuck with sony logo.
i've tried to install custom rom. i did wiped sustem,accidently.
my phone was unlocked bootloader, rooted and installed dual recovery.
PLEASE HELP ME.
ARUNNREVA said:
HI Friends, my z ultra stuck with sony logo.
i've tried to install custom rom. i did wiped sustem,accidently.
my phone was unlocked bootloader, rooted and installed dual recovery.
PLEASE HELP ME.
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You wiped system so yes of course you are stuck on the sony logo. You need to flash a rom to have a system to boot to.
Download any rom and boot to recovery and plug-in your usb cable to mount mtp storage and push the .zip file. Remove the cable and flash the rom.
Example of rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z-ultra/development/rom-c6833-hybrid-rom-t3157992
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xpe...m-xperia-z-ultra-pre-rooted-firmware-t3149504
or flash an .ftf stock rom if you want full stock rom
Yeah just flashtool ftf it happens to me.
thank you super user. i'll try to flash.
my phone won't boot recovery mode. how to boot recovery?
thanks lot.
It seems a bit trendy to mess with the recovery, resulting in a brick or bootloop.
Just making a new thread cause my case is a bit different.
I was on Existenz 4.7.0 when I decided to flash 5.0.
Wasn't a clean install, resulted in some app fc'ing and restarting, so i went back to trwp and used my backup, keeping in mind to come back and make a clean install when I can take the time it needs.
Made a few backups today and wanted to start the trwp backup when I realised that I wasn't able to enter recovery.
Installed the trwp app, which wasn't able to reflash the recovery.
So I read another posting and I decided to delete the chargemon and rename the chargemon.stock, but that wasn't that smart, I decided later.
So back home I downloaded the dual recovery software from NUT's website to totally reinstall the recovery. After some ADB trouble I managed to get everything running, the batch file installed the recovery, everything looked pretty, at the end of the process the Z2 rebootet and e voila, I'm stuck in bootloop, clueless.
When I power the phone you can feel the first small vibration, then the Sony logo appears, stays, and it reboots.
Reset Button, powering on and holding Volume up isn't doing anything, so is Volume down.
What can I Do?
I know I made a few mistakes, but help is still needed!
Bro, Please read carefully before installing recoveries.
Nut's Recovery is NOT for Marshmallow. and it will cause bootloop and same problem you encounter here.
Only Solution is to flash via flashtool and re-root.(personally i would flash a kitkat .ftf then root it with any of the available methods. you can try kingroot it is the easiest) after that install Nut's recovery and flash your MM rom which will come with its own working recovery.
Oh, ok, so thats the cause. Didn't know that, shame on me.
So Existenz 5 messed up my recovery and maybe the silly try of reflashing killed it totally or just the bootloader.
So I will try to setup a Win7 PC and setup flash tool properly (didn't seem to work on win10)
Thanks for that finger point I the right direction
Flashtool works on windows 10 no problem for me.
Just install the right drivers and install 0.9.18.6 version of flashtool and try different drivers it shall work
Will do, thanks a lot. Seems to me that I had a 4.7 Existenz Rom with bootloader/recovery from MM, which I destroyed.
Is it possible to reflash the old bootloader? Or will flash tool spare my datas on internal SD card?
why to flash a boot loader?? is your device unlocked bootloader??
It's locked.
So it can't be a broken bootloader?
So it's just because the recovery is messed up?
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It's locked.
So it can't be a broken bootloader?
So it's just because the recovery is messed up?
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yes bro don't worry.
It seems that you are new to sony or you re coming from samsung or any other device with recovery partition.
By default, Sony doesn't have a recovery partition like in samsung. that is why developers made the recovery a part of the system (your ROM) the chargemon files are the one responsible for the recovery. so when you install a recovery it is like you are installing a system application which can be messed up if it is not compatible with your rom version.
PS:Be carefull never wipe the system partition from recovery and restart your phone before installing a new rom because if you restart without having installed your rom your phone won't have a recovery(part of the rom) neither a system----> Bootloop and need to reflash.
you can unlock your bootloader and make a recovery partition and install aosp roms. but on sony once you unlock your bootloader you will loose a lots of features and camera enhancements. so better keep it Locked and use stock based roms like existenz and MIUI roms which are stock based.
I hope i have been able to clarify all
OK, makes sense.
Seems like I'm still pretty new to Sony. Came from Samsung last December, just got enough knowledge to flash and improvise, quick and dirty.
So if I could get hands on my old chargemon file, (from when I didn't tried to install Existenz 5) I may get the Z2 running again?
Of course a pretty clean install afterwards.
Just asking, cause of backup reasons
Edit: I knew that unlocking the BL has a few disadvantages. I'm happy with Existenz but now I know a few things more, thanks michel090428
it is very difficult now even if you have the chargemon file. i don't know what could be messed up with the system. go for a clean flash it is the most safe way to do it.
Read this guide if you want a help with flashing it is very easy and detailed. and remember it is better to flash kitkat .ftf as it is easily rootable.
http://www.gizmobolt.com/2015/04/09...z3-23-1-a-0-690-ftf-using-flashtool-manually/
Hey folks, I'm back again!
Managed to setup a Win7 PC, installed the correct drivers, setup Flashtool, found correct ftf file and so on.
Problem is that I'm only able to get into fastboot mode with my Z2, for me it seems like Flashtool won't work when the device is only in fastboot mode.
What can I do?
why you can't start your device with flashmode?
You need to shutdown the device then when flashtool ask you to start in flash mode you press volume down(keep pressed then you plug in USB cable and it should start in flash mode directly.
have you tried to follow the guide i posted in the first page? where are you stuck? which step?
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why you can't start your device with flashmode?
You need to shutdown the device then when flashtool ask you to start in flash mode you press volume down(keep pressed then you plug in USB cable and it should start in flash mode directly.
have you tried to follow the guide i posted in the first page? where are you stuck? which step?
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Was a bit tricky, did the 'vol down + plug in' thing several times and it worked suddenly, flashtool flashed the ftf. Now it's FCing several tasks while it would do the android setup. Trying to flash a 4.4.2 ROM now, thanks for patience and help, appreciated this!
WIPE DATA
JackDCalloway said:
Was a bit tricky, did the 'vol down + plug in' thing several times and it worked suddenly, flashtool flashed the ftf. Now it's FCing several tasks while it would do the android setup. Trying to flash a 4.4.2 ROM now, thanks for patience and help, appreciated this!
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You re Welcome Bro,
Concerning the FC You need to check the WIPE DATA option in flashtool i think it will solve the FC's
I'm with 23.1.A.1.28 now and it's fine. Just need to get root, there should be an exploit but it's not working for me, reasons unknown. Going to have a look at it later. Want to flash Existenz, that's the goal.
Bro , Use KINGROOT it is able to root .28 firmware.
there is a thread here for kingroot.
Hello guys I need help with my Xperia z2 D6543 I tried several ways to leave the bootload permanent but I can't.
I went back to version 5.1.1 I did the Root and put the Dual recovery more from this point I can not do anything anymore, I tried to update the TWRP to 3.0.2
more every time I install the .img the phone does not turn on anymore.
I was trying to install Oreo 8.1Custom more every time I install the system breaks and no longer turns on the phone.
People help you if you can help me, give me a light at the end of the tunnel ..
People sorry for my English.
I don't understand what is the problem but you can always use flashtool to flash stock firmware.
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I don't understand what is the problem but you can always use flashtool to flash stock firmware.
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The problem is that whenever I try to update twrp to 3.02 the device dies and does not turn on or in recovery mode it enters, with that I can not install any Custom Rom.
I install Stock rom 5.1.1 which I found, then I do Root, then I install Twrp 2.8.7, but when I install 3.0.2 the device dies ..
Why you don't install stock 6.0.1 with flashtool .