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Hi,
I have a Xperia Pro mk16i which has been rooted succesfully, bootloader unlocked and installed cyanogen 10. No problem. I have a swedish/finnisg xperia pro with the physical keyboard that comes with and in cyanogen 10 I was happy to see that I had options for the physical keyboard and I could keep the swedish/finnish keyboard layout.
Anyway, I got a new phone now so I wanted to sell my Xperia Pro and so reflash the official firmware. I've done so, I just didn't find ANY firmware (official) with the swedish/finnish keyboard layout.
After 3 hours of searching, downloading, flashing and reflashing again I'm not only fed up but my phone seems to have serious problems.
1- I don't seem to find a way to have the physical keyboard to have the correct layout again, I know there's a solution on this forum but it requires root + CWM and I don't even know if I still have those.
2- I put my SIM in trying to update through PC companion, thing is it doesn't solve my keyboard problem but also my 3G internet connection is not working at all !!! It is activated but there's no internet at all. Even the network connection icon in the top status bar doesn't change like it should to show that internet is connected.
So, at best I would like to completely erase any trace of rooting or anything else I could have done and just reinstall the original official firmware for my SWEDISH/FINNISH phone. Is this possible ? Or am I doomed to use some tricks to have that keyboard working again (+ 3G data connection) ?
I don't know if I'm asking this properly but keep in mind that I'm no pro in phone hacking, even though I had no problem rooting, unlocking the bootloader and flashing a custom rom.
By the way, I don't find any options in my phone for the physical keyboard layout. And I'm 100% sure that with cyanogen 10 I had that option, and I'm quite confident that option existed before when my phone was running the official firmware (before I flash it to custom rom).
Thanks for the help !!!
EDIT: problem fixed so far with wotanserver.

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ms141289 said:
i've the same problem since the last update. hope it will fixed soon.
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Anybody?
Maybe something went wrong with the OTA flash?
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