Solved! For any others that run into this issue, visit this thread that Enetico has kindly linked me to.
Hey guys, after hours of trial an error, and searching the internet for a solution, i am at a loss. I've had my Xperia Play for quite some time now, and its starting to get slow. I've heard that phones sometimes run faster when running on custom firmware and rooted and such. So i figured i'd try it.
After reading around a bit, i found out that flashing and rooting only works on 2.3.3 and, as the title says, I am on 2.3.2. However, when i go to Software Update in the Settings menu, I am constantly met with and error. It doesn't explain, it just says there was an error, and to try again later. I have been coming across this error for months. I've looked for a way to manually update it, or update it via PC Companion, neither of which have worked.
So, here i am. What is there, if anything, that i can do?
Go to this post and install the 2.3.3 firmware for your phone
Thank you very much.
you welcome! if you have any questions let me know.
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Alright...I was not sure to post this in development or what because of the thread that stated it was not a Q&A thread, so I came here.
Reason for is I am totally stuck...i have a rooted evo 4g with omj eclair v1.6 and from there it has given me nothing but trouble. At this point i cannot put my phone in recovery for what ever reason (may I add that i have tried all the necessary ways to do so) and now I can't seem unroot my phone. I followed the youtube vid constantly to every detail but I constantly get get the usb error then I tried doing by powering off my device and turning it on with volume buttons and I constantly get the gives me the 140: bootloader version error. At this point I have no other alternative but to try and return the phone for a new one. If there is any other solution for this problem I would be greatly appreciated because I just want to unroot my phone please.
reference this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712844&highlight=ruu
Have you tried looking that this guide and look for the USB part of the thread?
yea the guide is useless because I constantly get errors and for the ruu, again I will try it but I may get the same result. Rest assure if it happens a few more times I will try to gamble and take it back for a replacement phone.
Do you have HTC Sync installed?
lol, guys like i said before when i made the thread, I have tried most of the options that I have found on the net....yes that includes D/L htc sync. If there is no solution for my case then don't worry bout it becasue I have an appointment to go to sprint store tomorrow. Although I do appreciate the help.
Hi Guys,
I have run into a strange issue where Google and searching this forum is not proving helpful.
I am trying to unroot using Unrevoked 3.3 reflash tool. I have Android 2.1 Update 1, so basically the stock build from the summer of this year.
I have hboot drivers installed
HTC Sync Uninstalled
USB Debugging Enabled
Running As Administrator
When I run the process with Unrevoked, it basically pushes the Recovery, goes into recovery, says it's waiting for a bunch of stuff, then waiting for reboot, my phone starts rebooting. It says something like, Still waiting, waiting for system to settle, and basically, the moment my phone comes back on, Unrevoked just says (very briefly, "Starting root" and Immediately switches to):
Internal erorr: am reported error starting service.
That's it, that's where it all ends, nothing further happens to my phone or in the App.
Can anyone please tell me what's going on? What am I doing wrong, am I using the right tool and etc?
Sorry for my ignorant questions, I have been an EVO guy, just coming to Inc.
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you guys in advance for your help!
Think you might have to upgrade to 2.2. But I would try #unrevokedtest on freenode first.
That did the trick, thanks doug !!!
I also had this problem, but a different solution - which might be helpful for other people happening upon this thread...
I think this happened because I changed the default install location for apps to sd card. I suspect this causes the unrevoked service (called "zyspkloit") to be installed to SD. As the SD card is unavailable immediately after boot, the service is unable to start.
The solution that worked for me:
1. Set your default app install location to "phone"
2. Use "manage applications" to uninstall "zyspkloit"
3. Re-run unrevoked
Same issue here
Hi,
I am seeing this same issue, but do not understand the reference to #Unrevokedtest on freenode. Regarding the second suggestion I'm not sure where to go to check the default for installing applications, but did delete it and try again without success. My device is the HTC Aria running with that recent 2.1 upgrade. Any additional information would be appreciated.
Thanks !
Louis
Now looking for unrevoked 3.21
Hi,
I actually managed to make sense of the #unrevokedtest, but the recommendation there was that I needed an older version of unrevoked, specifically 3.21. Unfortunately they couldn't find a copy, does anyone here have that version for me to try?
Thanks !
Louis
v3.21 found and all is well
Hi,
Found a copy of 3.21 after several Google searches, worked like a champ.
Thanks,
Louis
Had the same problem with Unrevoked3.31
Using 3.21 did the job !
Thx all.
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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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.
Thanks
AvRS
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.
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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.
Hi everyone, first post here, I only just discovered the whole rooting thing, despite normally being up on all this hacking and modding stuff.
I have a Sony Ericson Xperia Play R800i, Android Version Gingerbread 2.3.4, Build Number 4.0.2.A.0.42, no carrier.
After trying Flashtool and noting that ZergRush no longer works, I found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240285&highlight=root
It seemed to work, installed Superuser, and Titanium worked for a few minutes until I decided to reboot my phone.
After that, Superuser doesn't seem to work at all. It fails to load when an app is asking for access, and it also fails to update when requestiong root access. Sometimes it will say 'fail', and other times it will simply stop working.
Anyone have any idea how to get it to work again? I've tried to regular stuff, clearing data, reinstalling the apps, unrooting and rerooting through the same app.
I'm stumped.
EDIT:
After a little playing around, I managed to get root access again. At least until I took out my USB cable.
As soon as I removed the cable, SuperUser started acting up and it's exactly as it was before.
Could this be an issue with my phone, or am I doing something wrong?
EDIT 2:
I've found that I can only retain root while my USB cable is plugged in and Debugging is enabled. Is there a way to ensure I have permanent root, seeing as I don't seem to be able to keep it?
Flash your xperia using 4.0.2.A.0.62 firmware. I think your kernel is not rootable. Flash it to a rootable kernel before rooting. Ask Mr. Google where to download those firmwares
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240285
Hey guys,
I got it to stick! I just need to leave USB Debugging turned on, I think.
Eh, who knows, at least it's working.
@lucasmoney10 That's the same app I used, I think you even used the same link that I posted... Cheers anyway.
Thanks for the advice and ideas guys, turns out I'm just a bit new to this whole deal.
robelse1992 said:
Hey guys,
I got it to stick! I just need to leave USB Debugging turned on, I think.
Eh, who knows, at least it's working.
@lucasmoney10 That's the same app I used, I think you even used the same link that I posted... Cheers anyway.
Thanks for the advice and ideas guys, turns out I'm just a bit new to this whole deal.
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oh sorry i put the wrong link
try install/reinstall the drivers from flashtools folder and root again just for se if works.
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!