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USB Port problems when rooted..how to unroot without USB port

Hello, so im a relative noob in the forums per say, by my post count, bt ive been stalking the xda forums since my HTC Touch Pro 2..Usually, with enough searching i can fix my problems on my own, bt I can't afford to break this fone..
Here is the story. (sry if im giving TMI) (THE ACTUAL QUESTION IS AT THE END. RELATIVE INFORMATION IS AS FOLLOWS)
I was content with my stock EL29 rom,bt I wanted to try the new ICS update. So, I manually updated to FF18 using this link:
http://android.clients.google.com/p...bbe3997e3067.SPH-D710_update_EL29_to_FF18.zip
I used QBKing's video's steps to update. Big shout out to him, btw.. So after i wanted to root to eventually flash a custom rom. So i rooted using sfhub's one click for FF18 :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Now, i few days of reading later, i decided to install the recovery to start installing custom roms. However, my fone got a bit wet a few days ago from a thunderstorm video recording adventure and I couldnt install the recovery.
I plugged in my fone and it wasnt recognized by any of my three computers at home. I uninstalled and re installed the samsung drivers numerous times. Keep in mind that I had previously used sfhub's one click sucessfully, so it is unlikely to be a computer problem.
So a few days later my fone starts telling me that im charging it (or its overvoltage) when its nt even plugged in. Now, it wont even turn off. it restarts as soon as it turns off.
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So basically, I have come to the conclusion that I have a hardware usb port phone problem. Now, since its rooted,just with a stock FF18 rom, will Sprint give me problems if its an obvious hardware problems?
Is there a way to unroot without plugging it into my computer? Im thinking mobile ODIN,bt i heard it cant flash modems? would that be a problem if im from a rooted FF18 going to EL29? Or shud I just go back to stock unrooted FF18?Or shud I just take it to Sprint and hope they dont check the phone software wise?
I wud appreciate multiple opinions or even confirmations of other ppls ideas. Bt thanks for reading all this.. Hope I didnt put u guys to sleep
Thanks for all the help in advance guys...u guys rock..

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wsteeven said:
Hello, so im a relative noob in the forums per say, by my post count, bt ive been stalking the xda forums since my HTC Touch Pro 2..Usually, with enough searching i can fix my problems on my own, bt I can't afford to break this fone..
Here is the story. (sry if im giving TMI) (THE ACTUAL QUESTION IS AT THE END. RELATIVE INFORMATION IS AS FOLLOWS)
I was content with my stock EL29 rom,bt I wanted to try the new ICS update. So, I manually updated to FF18 using this link:
http://android.clients.google.com/p...bbe3997e3067.SPH-D710_update_EL29_to_FF18.zip
I used QBKing's video's steps to update. Big shout out to him, btw.. So after i wanted to root to eventually flash a custom rom. So i rooted using sfhub's one click for FF18 :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Now, i few days of reading later, i decided to install the recovery to start installing custom roms. However, my fone got a bit wet a few days ago from a thunderstorm video recording adventure and I couldnt install the recovery.
I plugged in my fone and it wasnt recognized by any of my three computers at home. I uninstalled and re installed the samsung drivers numerous times. Keep in mind that I had previously used sfhub's one click sucessfully, so it is unlikely to be a computer problem.
So a few days later my fone starts telling me that im charging it (or its overvoltage) when its nt even plugged in. Now, it wont even turn off. it restarts as soon as it turns off.
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So basically, I have come to the conclusion that I have a hardware usb port phone problem. Now, since its rooted,just with a stock FF18 rom, will Sprint give me problems if its an obvious hardware problems?
Is there a way to unroot without plugging it into my computer? Im thinking mobile ODIN,bt i heard it cant flash modems? would that be a problem if im from a rooted FF18 going to EL29? Or shud I just go back to stock unrooted FF18?Or shud I just take it to Sprint and hope they dont check the phone software wise?
I wud appreciate multiple opinions or even confirmations of other ppls ideas. Bt thanks for reading all this.. Hope I didnt put u guys to sleep
Thanks for all the help in advance guys...u guys rock..
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Now, I haven't had this problem, but on my old moment, what I did was flash it back to an old version of Stock (say EL29 [on this phone use MobileODIN]), then try to apply the OTA update, or even download the OTA update files and place them on your SD card and try that way. Then you phone would look stock when you take it in, just make sure have a battery as full as possible.

thanks for the suggestion. I ended up bringing it to Sprint and as soon as I left my car, the power button stopped working for some reason.
They ended up focusing on that and ordered me a replacement phone. I guess since it was still on the stock rom, they didnt realize it was rooted.

[Q] Unrooting issues

Okay, last week, my old droid died in it's sleep. I'm currently unemployed and a friend was kind enough to give me his old Incredible. He has it rooted with CyanogenMod, and I have been trying to activate it on PagePlus. I have not been able to OTA activate it as is, and I've read it's because of the non-stock mod flashed on. I've been scouring these and similar forums for the past week, going through solution after solution to no avail. It's become a time-sensitive issue.
What I have done so far:
Downloaded the s-on and pb31img.zip: The s-on thing flashed properly, but when I try to flash the PB31IMG.zip, it just says installation aborted. I've tried downloading the zip file from multiple sources, in case it was an issue with the file. I've tried flashing Jellybean just to see if there was an issue with flashing any other roms at all and it worked fine.
Downloaded, installed, and updated HTC Sync and the correct RUU to go with my baseband. I can not for the life of me get either of these programs to recognize my phone while it's plugged in, despite the phone and computer separately recognizing each other and being able to interact normally otherwise. I believe this to be a driver issue, and I can not find the appropriate driver. All inquires to the correct one have guided me towards getting the SDK package, downloading the driver from there and installing it. I did this. When I attempt to search for drivers in the designated folder, it tells me that it can't be installed correctly. I have tried this from two computers with Windows 7 to the same effect.
I would appreciate any help on this asap, as I am waiting on several employment-related calls and have reached my wit's end on finding a solution on my own.

Did you tried to flash stock rom?
May be this helps
doug piston post, just found it in a quick search on the web
http://www.incredibleforum.com/foru...s/5723-how-get-back-complete-stock-s-off.html
Hope it helps mate.
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axyllum said:
Did you tried to flash stock rom?
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Yes, I did. It did not work. That, from my understanding, is what I was attempting to do with the PB31IMG.zip.

axyllum said:
Did you tried to flash stock rom?
May be this helps
doug piston post, just found it in a quick search on the web
Hope it helps mate.
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I appreciate the quick search, but I have done those things to the letter multiple times and described doing them as such, as well as the issues I encountered.

IanStraka said:
Okay, last week, my old droid died in it's sleep. I'm currently unemployed and a friend was kind enough to give me his old Incredible. He has it rooted with CyanogenMod, and I have been trying to activate it on PagePlus. I have not been able to OTA activate it as is, and I've read it's because of the non-stock mod flashed on. I've been scouring these and similar forums for the past week, going through solution after solution to no avail. It's become a time-sensitive issue.
What I have done so far:
Downloaded the s-on and pb31img.zip: The s-on thing flashed properly, but when I try to flash the PB31IMG.zip, it just says installation aborted. I've tried downloading the zip file from multiple sources, in case it was an issue with the file. I've tried flashing Jellybean just to see if there was an issue with flashing any other roms at all and it worked fine.
Downloaded, installed, and updated HTC Sync and the correct RUU to go with my baseband. I can not for the life of me get either of these programs to recognize my phone while it's plugged in, despite the phone and computer separately recognizing each other and being able to interact normally otherwise. I believe this to be a driver issue, and I can not find the appropriate driver. All inquires to the correct one have guided me towards getting the SDK package, downloading the driver from there and installing it. I did this. When I attempt to search for drivers in the designated folder, it tells me that it can't be installed correctly. I have tried this from two computers with Windows 7 to the same effect.
I would appreciate any help on this asap, as I am waiting on several employment-related calls and have reached my wit's end on finding a solution on my own.
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Reflash soff and then just flash touch of blue and you can activate on page+ from there and if you want cm back just flash cm7 and the gapps because a factory wipe in recovery won't make you reactivate
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Thread moved. Please post in the correct sections of the forum, all questions belong here in Q&A, unfortunately ticking the "Is this a question" box doesn't automatically put it in here.
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I would get s-off back, as it will not affect activating. Then either do this ruu http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip, thru hboot, or as stated earlier reroot and flash the stock 4.08.605.15 rom or Touch of blue. If the ruu dosent work, try reformating your sdcard fat32 and then try again.

IanStraka said:
Okay, last week, my old droid died in it's sleep. I'm currently unemployed and a friend was kind enough to give me his old Incredible. He has it rooted with CyanogenMod, and I have been trying to activate it on PagePlus. I have not been able to OTA activate it as is, and I've read it's because of the non-stock mod flashed on. I've been scouring these and similar forums for the past week, going through solution after solution to no avail. It's become a time-sensitive issue.
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Page Plus doesn't care a hoot if you've got a stock ROM, CyanogenMod, are rooted, or any of that stuff. And they certainly can't tell if you are s-off or s-on. I have had zero issued doing OTA programming on my Dinc regardless of the many ROMs I've had on it. I've always just dialed *22890 to activate and *22891 to update the PRL. Granted, I haven't changed my phone number or deactivated in quite a while...
But yeah, like others said, get s-off back if you at all can. If you flash Touch of Blue or another stock-based ROM, you will have more access to manually programming it that you can get with CyanogenMod.

[Q] Help! Xperia Play black screen, tried Flashtool

Hi, my friend's sister's ex messed up his Xperia play, like a year ago.. My friend tried fixing it with no luck, gave up.
He found it the other day, was going to throw it out, but I was like, just give it me, I want try fixing it.
So yeah, I've been trying to find threads on XDA with people who are experiencing the same issue as me, and every fix leads to Flashtool... I tried it, several times and it's not working for me..
The Play has a black screen, won't turn on, I can't get into fastboot mode (BLUE LED), I can get into flash mode (GREED LED), and sometimes there's a stable RED LED, idk wtf that means...
Whenever I try booting it up, I feel the phone vibrate briefly, and then nothing.
It's the R800a model, I'm in Canada, I believe it's locked to Rogers and/or Fido.
I'm not sure how the guy messed it up, what he was trying to flash, nor can I ask. I don't know how to contact him, it would be weird even if I did, and my friend and his sister aren't on good terms with him, so asking him isn't an option.
Anyways, I went to the firmware collection thread, I tried flashing 2.3.3 Rogers and 4.0.2.A.0.42. I also flashed some bootloader relocker. The latest version of Flashtool didn't work at all, so I used an older version, V8, and I was able to flash everything, but the device still doesn't boot. :S
Oh, and I tried the Sony PC companion, it said it installed the firmware fine, but the device still didn't boot~
So, yeah, what's wrong with it? How do I fix it? ;x
EDIT: I noticed that when I plug it in, windows tries to install dirvers for it, but always fails. I DID install the drivers that came with flashtool though. :S
EDIT2: Also, I get an ORANGE LED sometimes too, wtf does that one mean?

Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1252038 :good:If Alejandrissimo can't help then no one can :fingers-crossed:

tallman43 said:
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1252038 :good:If Alejandrissimo can't help then no one can :fingers-crossed:
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Alejandrissimo is your best friend.... he is awesome.... your best bet is to add him to your google talk ( Gmail messenger) look up his profile under contact and his gmail address is there. Be advised he is busy and it may take some time for him to contact you back.

I actually found his thread earlier. His method REQUIRES SETool dongle/box, correct? Does anyone know where to buy one from?
EDIT: Found some on eBay. OMG they're so expensive. D:
I'm not willing to spend that much on something I'm only going to use once.

Blu Advance 4.0 L A010U ROMs

Hey guys,
I really need to find at least the stock ROM for the new-ish Blu Advance 4.0L (model A010U), because the most recent OTA update unforgivingly bricked mine. Now I want to try to re-flash the stock ROM, but I am also open to custom ROMs, if there are any available. Please help me out! Thanks in advance

I am really surprised no one has replied yet, but again I am facing the same problem and I've been searching the Internet for one month now and I found absolutely nothing for this phone (specifically for version A010U).
So I am going to post a different question in the hopes that someone will read it and help us out:
I have two Blu Advance 4.0 L A010U phones, which are identical except for the color (white and green). They were manufactured a month apart one in 10/2015 and one in 9/2015.
Unfortunately after only a couple of months of light use and for no apparent reason (did not drop it, or wet it, etc) it started going through a boot loop. It will start, show the "bold like us" logo then restart again without making it to the operating system at all. Like I said I've been looking for over a month to find a ROM (stock or modded) to reflash but with no luck. Then I had an idea. Since I have the other identical phone that's working fine, is there a trick I can do using the working phone to create a ROM that I can use in my broken one. By the way, the non working phone will allow me to get into the recovery menu, but unfortunately nothing happens if I wipe the cache or even if I reset to factory defaults.
Anyone knows what's causing that "boot loop", how to fix it and where to find a ROM or even "extract" or "create" one using a working Advance 4.0 L ???
Thank you very much!

Man I wish I knew. I'm kinda a novice. I have the same phone with a similar problem... I downloaded the recent ota update and the first time it said it couldn't unzip it. I tried again and it seemed to work but when it rebooted into recovery it said there was an error... So it won't boot up, it just goes to the screen that says "no command". I'm pretty sure the there's a way to make a copy of the working ROM but since I don't use a PC for anything I've never taken the time to learn the method.

Deuler93 said:
Hey guys,
I really need to find at least the stock ROM for the new-ish Blu Advance 4.0L (model A010U), because the most recent OTA update unforgivingly bricked mine. Now I want to try to re-flash the stock ROM, but I am also open to custom ROMs, if there are any available. Please help me out! Thanks in advance
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I just got ahold of a couple of these devices myself and am in the process of going through all the in's and out's of them....I'm a Samsung nerd so I haven't messed with something like these in a while but I got one (that was supposedly dead bricked per the lady friend of mine I got them from) at least able to boot into factory mode and recovery via ADB and just as I'm posting this I'm in adb shell going through the device's internal memory.....so we'll see what all I find and can pull out of this one and possibly know enough to post an intelligible reply with solutions next time
The boot looping sounds like a common problem with these and when I get to that point I'm going to get rid of the stock bootanimation.zip ASAP and try something else. I get the idea that these things aren't exactly power houses built for much so the littlest thing or small bug in their coding could lead to this kind of crap happening.
Hopefully you figure yours out before I toss these out the window! lol
Cheers y salud!
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good.m. said:
Man I wish I knew. I'm kinda a novice. I have the same phone with a similar problem... I downloaded the recent ota update and the first time it said it couldn't unzip it. I tried again and it seemed to work but when it rebooted into recovery it said there was an error... So it won't boot up, it just goes to the screen that says "no command". I'm pretty sure the there's a way to make a copy of the working ROM but since I don't use a PC for anything I've never taken the time to learn the method.
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Forgot to add a couple things about your post, sorry! I beleive (and I just started digging into this phone) that the no command part is the locked bootloader these phones appear to have. I think it was a combo of holding both volume buttons down from a powered off state then pressing power button on that came up with the option for factory mode or recovery (which led to the sad 'no command' droid), i went into factory mode and theres an option for Tp Upgrade which Im assuming is F/W or something similar but I just hooked up to the PC and in that mode it's reading the internal and external memory of the phone and that's about where I'm at so far.

Wow! I'm surprised this thread is still going.
Anywho, I found a repository that is storing the default ROM for the 4.0L. The files were just added recently. I would have liked to have seen a custom Lollipop ROM made by now, but this device is far too irrelevant to get any attention, unfortunately. Just root and forget, I guess.

I can't wait to try it, thank you! And btw, were you able to get root successfully and if so, how?

Deuler93 said:
Wow! I'm surprised this thread is still going.
Anywho, I found a repository that is storing the default ROM for the 4.0L. The files were just added recently. I would have liked to have seen a custom Lollipop ROM made by now, but this device is far too irrelevant to get any attention, unfortunately. Just root and forget, I guess.
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Hey Deuler93 -
You have my respect for digging out that BLU ROMs link and sharing with the rest of us. I downloaded the one for my Advance and used SP flash tool to flash the phone that was stuck on a boot-loop. Of course first I had to download and install the MediaTeK drivers for USB connectivity with my PC. Everything worked flawlessly, no glitches what so ever. All these links are easily found and widely available online if anyone is interested I can share here too. I just hope that this boot-loop was due to some software glitch and not hardware failure. Everything seems to work fine for now, keepint my fingers crossed it will NOT happen again.
Well, one less headache to worry about. By the way we're not that far, if you're ever in the Chicago area, I owe you a beer or something. Thank you!

Hi guys !
Thank you very much for the Advance 4.0L Roms.
I have successfuly recovered my phone, but the IMEI got lost.
So, I need to root it in order to recover the IMEI, but I just can´t get success on any method :
Kingroot
Framaroot
Towelroot
is there another way to root it ?
Thank you very much.

I got temporary root using the kingroot apk. But it messed things up and I don't trust it anymore. None of the other mentioned methods worked for me either, maybe try the PC kingroot method

well this helps one thing
good.m. said:
Man I wish I knew. I'm kinda a novice. I have the same phone with a similar problem... I downloaded the recent ota update and the first time it said it couldn't unzip it. I tried again and it seemed to work but when it rebooted into recovery it said there was an error... So it won't boot up, it just goes to the screen that says "no command". I'm pretty sure the there's a way to make a copy of the working ROM but since I don't use a PC for anything I've never taken the time to learn the method.
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umm. . . when the no command option comes up just press the power button and the rest of options will appear. doesnt exactly solve your problem however unless you have the ZIP file to install, which is what I'm looking for.

What might happen if a ROM is used for another blu phone. ??
A similar phone as well.
Plz advise.

Damn! This thread just keeps going!
I haven't even looked here in a while, so I will bunch my commentary here. I'm also salaried now, so I bought into a OnePlus X (onyx), a more expensive cheapo device, so I do not use the 4.0L anymore.
As for rooting tools, I used the Kingroot APK successfully in the stock environment. I never tried flashing something SuperSU myself, but it could work. Is flashing a SU app possible from the fastboot interface?
And to Steve's question - it is technically possible to flash a ROM for a different device onto your own device, but is considered a bad idea due to the possibility of introducing incompatibilities and missing proprietary requirements. I feel like this would hold especially true to stock ROMs because the manufacturer probably has no interest in supporting anything more than the device that they are manufacturing for. Doing so removes many possible "compatibility" issues from even having to be considered, but I digress. In short, try to find a ROM made for your device and your device only.

Did you find the zip file for the recovery
Marya Wynter said:
umm. . . when the no command option comes up just press the power button and the rest of options will appear. doesnt exactly solve your problem however unless you have the ZIP file to install, which is what I'm looking for.
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i root my blu advance 4.0l a010u with the kingoroot PC apk, but i got some issues with the lock screen and some apps, so, i need some advice..
i was looking for a zip to use it via recovery but i can't find any..

Recover IMEI
srspinho said:
Hi guys !
Thank you very much for the Advance 4.0L Roms.
I have successfuly recovered my phone, but the IMEI got lost.
So, I need to root it in order to recover the IMEI, but I just can´t get success on any method :
Kingroot
Framaroot
Towelroot
is there another way to root it ?
Thank you very much.
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You dont need root to recover imei all you have to do is type *#*#84666364#*#* in your dialer and you will be entered in EngineerMode then go into connectivity ,CDS information and radio information phone 1 or 2 then you will see AT+ type something eg.A then backspace and select the first thing you see. Put a space after AT+ and then put you imei code here "IMEI" between these "" You can find your imei by removing your battery it willl be there. After sending command reboot and imei is back.

links are down....check this instead
Hey guys, links here seems to be down .
Maybe this link would be useful for you all... stock firmware can be downloaded and useful help on videos is available too... Enjoy

Is there anything I can do?? Locked bootloader R800x, rooted.

Hello. I've rooted my Verizon Xperia Play, but I can't unlock my bootloader. I've checked the service menu, I don't have the ROOTING STATUS menu, and the Flashtool identifies BOOTLOADER STATUS:UNROOTABLE.
I've tried Sony's unlock site but my MEID contains letters whilst the website states it has to be numeric. I've used the S1tool with the TP method and S1tool appears to hang, with the green bar along the bottom freezing after the "usb connected" noise plays; but if I unplug the usb I get an error, so I know the application didn't crash. I don't know if I'm letting go of the contact, or even if I'm doing it correctly because almost all pictures of the TP method are gone. I also don't know how long the S1tool TP procedure should take, and I've (or I think) held the contact for 15 minutes without any prompt or change in the program.
I don't know what to do now, or does this simply imply a sealed fate? Is it just not possible for me to unlock my bootloader?
I really need to partition my storage and ram but apparently can't without an unlocked bootloader.
(wrote all this with on-screen keyboard, sorry about errors/confusion)
Any help is deeply and sincerely appreciated!!
Thanks Again,
From a Newbie

haha I didn't think anyone would be in the same boat as me, let alone within the same year
I've been scouring the web for probably a good 5 hours on this and I'm stuck right where you are. By some miracle, I was able to find all the files I need for CM9, the flash tools, Gapps, and etc.
I also was able to get it rooted, and in dt674's guide I'm stuck on step 15. Fastboot recognizes my device and all the files but when I try to send the recoveryPLAY.img it returns the "FAILED" error and tells me that it has to be rooted first... Even though it already is rooted... I would assume it would have to do something with the bootloader still being locked, and like you, the Sony website didn't accept my MEID code for not being entirely numerical... If I find anything else out though I'll keep in touch.

I'm in the same boat as you guys... Managed to get my R800X rooted by flashing to 2.3.3 then using the oneclick method, but I've got the same issue with the bootloader and the numerical MEID.
Honestly given the Xplay's age I think we're pretty much SOL and too late to the party when trying to look for support on this device. Most of the ROM links are dead, and the more supported/popular ones are for the GSM models, and the ones that still have their files hosted require an unlocked bootloader at that. Unless one of you guys has a magical solution for why our MEID's are messed up I'm stuck on 2.3.3 for now. At least I can still sideload mostly everything I need.

Yeah I'm pretty sure zzkoto is right lol. Just too damn old haha, so we're SOL.
I have reached out to the developer site support though, and I'm trying to get them to investigate the problem regardless. I've only gotten one email back in...a two month time period about? So we'll see what happens. Apparently they updated their site and fixed the problem... but it's still broke for me. Will post if I get any juicy details from them, or they email me about any fixes with the MEID errors on the site.

LADS, so they HAVE fixed their website, it's just at a new URL, and they haven't decommissioned the old one yet for some reason, which can be found in this very hyperlink.
And it works great, I got my code after inputting my MEID, shoved that into an ADB string and ka-blammo it's unlocked no problem.
Now I'm running LuPuS Kernal with CM9, but now I'm hitting a brick wall where the darn Wifi won't even bother to turn on (when it did with stock before) which I guess is a problem with R800x and the Play in general... Back to the drawing board lol.... Think I'm gonna scrap the CM9... Anyone Come across any good Kernal/Rom combos that make the Xperia Play a lean mean Emulation Machine? I'm feeling some classic PS1 MGS lately...

Alright here's one last update, just in case y'all have the same problem as me with Wifi.
I went back to stock 2.3.4 and my recovery Kernal, and Wifi worked again, so I decided to try something different. Installed DoomLords 2.3.3 Kernal v01 (the only download that worked on that page). Then after booting into recovery, I restored into Cola v6. After that I installed DoomLords wifi modules zip in CWM and boom wifi works again, and Play works completely as intended. Only hang up now is that the Android Market won't let me download anything because it's so old, but It's easy to get the apk's on my other phone and move and install them. Other than that it's incredible. Happy hacking y'all.

Great find on that bootloader fix mate, I'll have to look into that and getting some custom ROMs/kernals installed.
For the market not working, Google discontinued support for the old Android Marketplace services or something back in early 2017. But if you install the latest 2.3 compatible version of the Google Play Store, Google services should be back up and running with modern-ish apps.
Here's the link: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-6-2-02-release/

Yo I figured it was something like that haha but I was overthinking it way too much. Thanks for the link to the Market, now I'm gonna go ham and get ALLL the emulators lol. Retro games here I come!