Hello, I just rooted my Xperia Play, and I before I get into anything too crazy, I'd like to take an image of the phone so if I should mess something up. I tried using RomManager, but when I try to boot to recovery it does not work. Based off of some searched the Xperia Play does not have a Recovery mode that can be used for that purpose. So how do I get myself a nandroid that I can use to restore to?
Thank you.
You either need an unlocked bootloader or root access. With root, you can install CWM to the system partition from an app on Google Play. Custom kernels (bootloader unlocked) often come with CWM that gets loaded from the boot partition
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I got jb update today. HTC_044
First I recovered my stock rom(rooted)
than flashed stock recovery from ( my friend shared it)
Than I relocked boot loader. Than I hit update button (ota).
than I found that it is not installing. It's rebooting. It's not going to recovery. Than I checked recovery, I found that its not installed ( I mean its not going to recovery- just rebooting when I hit reboot to recovery option in hboot.) Than I tried to unlock boot loader again using same unlock.bin file. But it fails. ( to reflash recovery)
So my question is why its not installing?
How to re unlock boot loader?
how to flash stock recovery?
First of all, you need to re-unlock your bootloader no matter what, so double check everything, then redo the the whole process. There is no way it wont work, so do it calmly.
Unlocking the bootloader means you will lose all your apps and stuff; hope you had a backup.
BTW: All you had to do was this; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26967480
Do you have the nandroid backup every guide always tell you to do?.. Then, re-unlock bootloader, flash clockworkmod recovery, restore your backup, *Use RootKeeper at this point*, flash stock recovery, update OTA and youre done;
..Then, reflash clockwork recovery, make a new backup, then at long last, you will be really done and ready for the future!!
Hello xda members,
I own a Xperia Arc, was running android 2.3.4 and decided it was time for a new rom for the phone, i carried out a couple of steps but in the end i got stuck, and i can't get into cwm recovery to restore or install a new rom, and i cant even root the phone, here are the steps that i carried out in order to try and install a new rom( Sorry they are long):
1: rooted my Arc using a program called "Eroot v1.2", I enabled usb debug mode and connected, pressed the button and it rooted it, I managed to see the superuser app installed and i also downloaded an app called "root checker" which verified that my Arc was rooted successfully.
2: I downloaded a program called "recoverx" to install cwm recovery on my Arc and once again it was done successfully, i switched the phone off and back on while holding the volume up button and i got into cwm recovery.
3: I went into cwm and made a rom backup
4: I downloaded the new rom (Xperia Ultimate HD Rom) onto my sd card and went into cwm recovery and deleted everything such as wiping the
data, and a factory reset, and i deleted the delvik cache and the bettery stats
5: I went to the install from sd card, and installed the new rom, and at the end i unchecked the "Reboot" button, and it took me back to cwm recovery and pressed on reboot into cwm
So after this point everything seems fine and to me im sure iv carried out all the correct steps, but....
6: after this point the phone rebooted, and after the sony logo, it gave a black screen and was stuck at that screen no matter what, at that point, i could not get into cwm recovery anymore.
7: After reading and searching the internet I managed to educate myself that i was supposed to flash something called a kernel, so i downloaded a tool called sonyericssson xperia flash tool, and downloaded a kernel called lt15i_4.1.b.587_kernel.ftf and flashed it, turned the phone on only to find that my Arc was stuck in a boot loop, it was restarting after the sony logo immediatly.
8: I then downloaded another kernel called lt15i_4.1.b.431_kernel only.ftf and flashed it which cured my boot loop and the phone booted successfully, however my main problem now is that I can no longer root my Arc, and I can no longer get into cwm recovery no matter what.
Iv also read about using the fastboot method to install kernels but when i do it, it says failed as the phone is not rooted, so now i have no way at all of rooting or installing the cwm recovery.
I currently have a locked boot loader as well.
So if anyone can please tell me how i can sort this problem out it would be amazing, or if you could just tell me what i did wrong or where i went wrong and how i can sort it out, I really want to install cwm recovery and just restore my old rom back, or even install a totally new rom.
You can't flash kernels
Try SEUS or PC Companion to repair your phone
Then root it, install CWM and restore your backup
For UHD you need ICS kernel so update your arc to official ICS, then root it, install CWM and flash UHD
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I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here. Started with a completely stock/unbranded phone, EasyRoot v8 and backup TA, unlocked the bootloader through Sony, installed the .108 unbranded UK FTF, verified that bootloader was still unlocked, EasyRoot v8 again and installed dual recovery 132 and managed to have it boot into TWRP on that first instance and installed SuperSu 2.01...and I haven't been able to get into recovery since. I've tried through an Xposed power menu mod, through the NDR Utilities bundled with the dual recovery, and through ADB - and they all just go through the standard boot process instead, never giving me the purple light either. I tried re-flashing the dual recovery as well, no dice.
I haven't tried a custom kernel other than DoomKernel, which gets the phone stuck at boot (seems incompatible with .108); I don't want to deal with re-flashing the FTF and setting my phone up all over again if the kernel fails to boot again.
And another issue I'm having - I can't get access to /system to do stuff like remove/replace system apps. Everything root that involves system-related stuff seems to install fine and doesn't throw errors, but any file explorer I've tried isn't able to do anything with system files.
Is this something to do with the .108 update, or am I doing something wrong? I've searched and read all over and can't seem to find what I'm doing wrong.
EDIT: And I just tried installing AdAway hosts and wasn't able to. Interesting how I have root like half-working...
Hello guys,
at first i like to thank everyone for their effort to "open the mind" of the hima. i appreciate your work.
Now to my problem: i got a "live demo unit", which i want to flash with a stock firmware. In this Demo-Mode are necessary options blocked (e.g. adjusting brightness) and theres always a demo displayed on the sleep of the device.
At first, i started to unlock the bootloader and flashed twrp. Until this point everything went fine. I just tried to flash a firmware from this post via twrp and thought, that the flashing is only possible with the stock recovery, as adb sideload didn't worked for me. So i decided to reflash the stock recovery. From this pointit's not possible to boot anymore. i can only access the bootloader & download mode. the stock recovery is running, but can't mount the data from the internal storage an tells something about that he can't access to it. Now i reflashed twrp after relocking & unlocking again the bootloader. i would hopefully try at next to flash a custom rom via twrp.
Any hints by now? Everything would be helpful....and btw: sorry for my bad english
Hi!
I've recently rooted my phone using StumpRoot and I've decided to flash CWM Recovery using the ROM Manager from Google Play Store...
Ofcourse I forgot that V20c has a locked recovery, so now whenever I try to boot into recovery, I get "Secure booting error". Fortunately, the system works just fine, so the only harm done is the complete lack of recovery
Have anyone tried unlocking the bootloader on KitKat using FreeGee app? I've seen it mentioned more often than once, though I can't find any info regarding its usage on Kitkat v20c. Can the secure booting error cause further problems if I try the FreeFee app?
OK, tried FreeGee, the bootloader seems to be unlocked with CWM Recovery installed. Rebooting into recovery in ROM Manager (from Google Play Store) works like a charm.
Used the MAKO method, installed CWM-6.0.4.7.
Now whenever the phone boots up, first Google logo will appear, followed by LG, followed by carrier/LG animation