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[Q] Problems with SEUS

Hi - more questions, but this time its a problem I'm having. Before flashing the latest O2 UK firmware I want to decrypt my current Orange France 2.3.2 firmware in case I need to go back to it. However, I'm assuming that I need to connect with SEUS once (and possibly update whatever they have) so I can then find the current firmware files in the SEUS folders on my PC.
Anyway, the long and short of it is that when I am told to hold the back button while connecting the phone, NOTHING HAPPENS. I've tried loads of times, tried reinstalling SEUS, nothing. Some drivers started to install, and all seems OK there - no yellow triangles in device manager. Also installed PC Companion (automatically offered when I connected the phone with it turned on). It installed drivers then too. All fine. I tried using a different USB cable too - no luck.
Any clues ?? Searched Sony Ericsson site and it is bare of useful info. Did a search here too but no luck either.
Thanks in advance.

and you followed the instruction as they say:
1. switch off the phone
2. wait for 30 seconds or so (pref. remove the battery and insert it)
3. hold the back button
4. insert usb..
it should detect the phone no matter what. i hope there is some juice in battery...

I've heard that SEUS and PCC now are able to detect rooted phones and don't let you reinstall stock software. It needs the stock build.prop

Thanks for the replies. I have been pulling my hair out on this. I realised that it is to do with my SECM USB Flash drivers being faulty or something.
I tried to use PC Companion and it got to the same bit where SEUS crashes - right when it wants to get in to flash mode on the phone. It hangs the computer up.
I have googled like crazy and have seen reports of others PCs hanging at the same place. BUT, I can't find a way to repair or reinstall the USB Flash drivers - I've reinstalled SEUS and PC Companion plenty of times, with my anti-virus off. And tried to get in to flash mode with the anti virus off.
Problem I think I had is that a lightning storm stopped my first installation of PC Companion - I think it may have screwed something.
Any ideas how to fix the usb flash drivers ???

Have you tried de-installing SEUS and PCC, then in device manager search for and remove the USB Drivers for SEMC.. then reboot.. then re-install SEUS..
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im_iceman said:
Have you tried de-installing SEUS and PCC, then in device manager search for and remove the USB Drivers for SEMC.. then reboot.. then re-install SEUS..
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Thanks - tried that but no luck unfortunately. Couldn't even see anything in Device Manager to do with SEMC, SEUS or Sony Ericsson - was looking under USB Controllers. When I did a full search I did find plenty of traces of the drivers GGSEMC (Gordons Gate Flash USB drivers) in both system32 folder and in the Sony Ericsson folder left over after uninstalling SEUS. Didn't want to just delete the ones in system folders.

you could try doing the "update driver" operation - my driver was called Sony Ericsson seechri (or something like that!).... see if you can repair..

Perhaps you could try on ur friends pc. Just to confirm that seus is the problem.

SOLVED (sort of)
Thanks for the advice.
OK - I tried on another machine (why didn't I do that 6 hours earlier ). Works fine on Win7 64 bit. Maybe the drivers didn't get installed properly on Win XP ?? Going to have a go rolling back to an earlier restore point on the XP machine to see if I can get it working.
Anyway, SOLVED. Thanks

[Q] Changing LT15i to LT18i

So.. I'm using CM7 at the moment, and I have changed my build.prop from LT15i to LT18i.
STILL it says 'LT15i' on PC Companion when I connect the phone to my computer.
Anyone know how to change this?
Its just a silly thing, but it annoys me quite a bit.

Did you change every occurrence of LT15i to LT18i ?

Yes. Replaced ~8 LT15i's. The marketplace and all the apps knows I'm using a LT18i, its just the PC Companion that still sees it as a LT15i.

Maybe you've to uninstall the PCC on your computer.
Then activate Install PC Companion in Settings - Sony Ericsson - Connectivity settings.
After that connect your phone with your PC and install PCC again with the upcoming prompt.

dp94 said:
Maybe you've to uninstall the PCC on your computer.
Then activate Install PC Companion in Settings - Sony Ericsson - Connectivity settings.
After that connect your phone with your PC and install PCC again with the upcoming prompt.
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Just tried it. Still says LT15 when connecting the phone to the computer

Flashtool drivers problem

Hi everyonen, i just hard resetted my pc and just installed back flashtool 0.9.5.
I installed the driver that were in its driver folder, i also let pc companion install them but everytime i connect my Arc S (Debug USB ON and MSC), flashtool dosent reconize my Arc cause of the driver, infact if i check the device connected to pc, the arc is shown as without driver. so i tried to manual install them from it and it failed. few months are passed since first time i did it did i forgot something?

Just plug in your arc, go to your Flashtool folder and install them straight from there [With your device connected]
Kudos!

already did, also through pc companion and manual but i continue to get this
15/011/2012 10:11:26 - ERROR - Drivers need to be installed for connected device.
15/011/2012 10:11:26 - ERROR - You can find them in the drivers folder of Flashtool.
Now when its on it reconize him, but when i turn it into fastboot mode to flash the kernel it gives me the error again

Could someone post the download link for the latest flash tool?
Sent from your backyard...
Slender watches what you do...

-SlenderMan- said:
Could someone post the download link for the latest flash tool?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=965

i installed flashtool, drivers,pc companion, hard reseted phone houndred of time...
i saw that we can install kernel also with the cwm but i cant find any .zip one. can someone give me a kernel.zip so i can put the kernel i want inside it and flash it?

deniel said:
i saw that we can install kernel also with the cwm
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Not sure where you saw that.

my friend told me and he always did it with Galaxy Nexus. i also googled it to see if it was true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bH_H_vjohM&feature=related (for example)
Well the proble its still that flashtool recnoze my phone when connected, but not in fastboot mode. i installed the drivers in everyway but it still doesnt reconize it. any ideas please?

Galaxy nexus???
Envoyé depuis mon LT18i

well guess kernel flash emthod its similiar for everyandroid, also saw it on other device as the video one

cant fastboot, drivers arent reconized
it stay on forever telling me <waiting for device>

UP?
sorry but i uninstalled and installed again flashtool, installed drivers over and over again, hard resetted the phone, nothing changes

I have the same prob.

timour79 said:
I have the same prob.
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So I'm gonna try and root an LT18i. Do I install the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, Xperia neo, Xperia PLAY, .... drivers and Flashmode and Fastboot drivers? Also, I heard that for flash tool to work, PC Companion and other Sony applications shouldn't be present on the PC. Correct?

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Was this the solution to this thread? It's a few months old now, and the video is not available anymore, and i have the same problem. Cheers if you remember!

deniel said:
Hi everyonen, i just hard resetted my pc and just installed back flashtool 0.9.5.
I installed the driver that were in its driver folder, i also let pc companion install them but everytime i connect my Arc S (Debug USB ON and MSC), flashtool dosent reconize my Arc cause of the driver, infact if i check the device connected to pc, the arc is shown as without driver. so i tried to manual install them from it and it failed. few months are passed since first time i did it did i forgot something?
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When i was instal kernel with flashtool i got hang pc, my pc got bluescreen and restarted..
I try instaling kernel with cmd, and i did it
Regards.
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Device' : Xperia Arc
ROM : ★ Xperia Z Jelly Bean v3 ★
Kernel :

waiz13 said:
When i was instal kernel with flashtool i got hang pc, my pc got bluescreen and restarted..
I try instaling kernel with cmd, and i did it
Regards.
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Device' : Xperia Arc
ROM : ★ Xperia Z Jelly Bean v3 ★
Kernel :
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I answered in an other thread were i solved on my own, the problem was that everyboy (also here) upload the windows 32 bit drivers, and i needed 64 one

Phone is not found my computer

I have this strange problem, that I've had for a while. on plugging my xperia s into the computer PC companion doesn't find the phone no matter what I try. However if I select "Install PC companion " in settings, when I plug the phone in and select the option to install the software it does show up and I can use it fine.
But I would rather not have to do this every time I plug my phone in, is there a way to fix this? If I can remember correctly I had the same issue on GB and I flashed to ICS via flashtools which made no difference...
cheers

I have this problem too actually, I googled it and came across that answer of installing PC companion, which does the job but now I am trying to root the phone and reallly need this fixed so it is able to be rooted
thanks

Try add device under task manager, it'll detect a eerror with xperia s driver. Click fix and it will reinstall the phone driver. It should work afterwards.
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Lusterboi said:
Try add device under task manager, it'll detect a eerror with xperia s driver. Click fix and it will reinstall the phone driver. It should work afterwards.
Sent from my LT26i using Tapatalk 2
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under devices and printers? I selected add new device and plugged the phone in but it doesn't find it.
But actually it does show up in that window as 'LT26i' see the photo but when I click on it it doesn't really say anything

Is your device recognized by Windows ? I had the same problem until I installed the drivers. Check the device manager.

Not to say the obvious but did you install the driver package found in flashtool? It's not a button, rather in the folder that contains flashtool.exe there's another folder called drivers. Just run the file.
~Jaramie
sent by my ION

Xperia Z said:
under devices and printers? I selected add new device and plugged the phone in but it doesn't find it.
But actually it does show up in that window as 'LT26i' see the photo but when I click on it it doesn't really say anything
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If nothing works, uninstall the drivers and PC companion. Reboot the PC. Connect the Phone to the PC and let it install PC companion again.

Here is something that worked for me:
go to settings-----storage----seetings----mtp on
after that my computer recognized the phone

I managed to fix the issue, by installing the .55 firmware with full wipe. I had ruled this out as the problem was there when I upgraded from GB to ICS.
But to the OP, if you are still having this issue I would recommend doing that as well. or try @memphis77's suggestion
cheers

Try to reinstall latest version PC Companion again ,and check in Devices and Printers.

[Q] [PROBLEM]Updating Android with Flashtool

Hi.I wanted to update my Xperia S to android 4.0 with PC Companion, but i had problem with 'Preparing mobilephone for installation' where you had to press volume down button while plugging it to my PC.I did ale the stages but nothing happened.So I tried to do it with Flashtool.I click 'Flash' and follow instruction included in thread about Flashtool and using it with my Xperia S.I have .ftf file with Android ICS.So, i click flash,I get to part witch holding down Volume button while plugging in my device, and thats what i get:
Code:
ERROR-(X10flash,java:374) -
ERROR-(X10flash,java:374) - Error Flashing. Aborted
So, what have I done wrong ?

Just make sure u have the latest version of flashtool and Xperia drivers installed.
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algates said:
Just make sure u have the latest version of flashtool and Xperia drivers installed.
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Just install SUS and PCC for drivers
boyheadkick™
Sent from my Xperia Acro S using Tapatalk

Or confirm your system. Is it a 64Bit or 32Bit OS, then use proparity Flashtool.

while you'll find all this info littered around the forum; i'll try to run down the exact order to install stuff...at least the order that worked for me...as flashtool, and your phone, seem to fight windows pretty hard at points...
this is all assuming a fresh start...uninstall the device, flashtool, etc if you have to: also this is for an Ion, but it works pretty much the same i'm assuming.
phone ON, MTP connectivity selected; connect to PC with usb cable. Don't touch anything at first. Windows should find and recognize both the internal and external flash drives of the phone (depending on device), and install necessary drivers. If you're using flashtool, i'd suggest not even bothering with the installation of PC companion. PCC will fight flashtool in some cases when connecting the phone, so if you do install it be sure and turn it off when connecting with flashtool.
Set all your autoplay settings to 'do nothing' or 'take no action' when prompted. This too will help prevent windows from trying to do multiple things when you connect with flashtool running.
now unplug the phone, turn it OFF...while holding the phone volume button DOWN...reconnect the usb cable and continue holding the button. This is where i get different results depending on what machine i'm using. My home computer gives a prompt for new hardware which eventually turns into 'SEMC flash driver installed'. My work computer prompted 'S1 Boot Driver installed'...in either case...flashtool would NEVER work right until one of these showed up...and in my case, trying to get this driver to install with flashtool running simply wasn't happening.
if that works, move on...you may have to keep trying that a few times, though. If the green LED light on the phone immediately turns off and the phone attempts to charge, you'll probably have to try again. For whatever reason windows doesn't always react the same, so it takes some patience.
Next install flashtool like normal. After that, find the usb_drivers.exe and run it. Regardless of phone, i just installed everything listed (even though, for my Ion, not one of them specifically says xperia Ion or LT28...)
after that...reboot computer
Now you should be good to go. I run AVG free on both machines, and it never seemed to fight flashtool, but some have said some anti-virus software will interfere...
load up flashtool, select your firmware (i'm assuming you've read how to do all that)...select what you want to do...connect phone with volume down pressed...hold until the flashing starts...and you should be fine.