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[Q] Sony Xperia Arc S won't boot up.

When I try to boot it up (using the power button of course), the LED above the USB connection place flashes green, and the phone vibrates once and does nothing.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Dr4G0nZ said:
When I try to boot it up (using the power button of course), the LED above the USB connection place flashes green, and the phone vibrates once and does nothing.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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Your question is too general. Did you do anything to your phone?

popthosegaskets said:
Your question is too general. Did you do anything to your phone?
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I found the issue; can't use SEUS after you unlock the bootloader. Thanks anyways! All I did was flash a rom that relocked my bootloader (?? don't know the terms), and then run SEUS again.

you cant relock a bootloader with a rom.. you need help fro this thread. download a ftf firmware and flash t using flashtool so that the phone boots p and then check the bootloader status .....later depending on it, flash a custom kernel and rom (optional though recommended)

Dr4G0nZ said:
I found the issue; can't use SEUS after you unlock the bootloader. Thanks anyways! All I did was flash a rom that relocked my bootloader (?? don't know the terms), and then run SEUS again.
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Well, there are scripts available that can relock the bootloader...
Link-in's method works too.
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link-in said:
you cant relock a bootloader with a rom.. you need help fro this thread. download a ftf firmware and flash t using flashtool so that the phone boots p and then check the bootloader status .....later depending on it, flash a custom kernel and rom (optional though recommended)
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popthosegaskets said:
Well, there are scripts available that can relock the bootloader...
Link-in's method works too.
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Whoops, guess I meant I flashed an FTF... lol. Something I found on YouTube.
But yeah, I've run into another problem; while rooting the phone (using this guide over here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1683957), I think I've bricked my phone again. I didn't enable USB Debugging and Unknown Sources, so it got stuck at Daemon Started Successfully. Haven't been able to boot into my phone since. Sorry if this problem has been solved before, wasn't able to find the solution while searching that thread.'
EDIT: ...sorry again, managed to stumble my way through and revive my phone.

Dr4G0nZ said:
Whoops, guess I meant I flashed an FTF... lol. Something I found on YouTube.
But yeah, I've run into another problem; while rooting the phone (using this guide over here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1683957), I think I've bricked my phone again. I didn't enable USB Debugging and Unknown Sources, so it got stuck at Daemon Started Successfully. Haven't been able to boot into my phone since. Sorry if this problem has been solved before, wasn't able to find the solution while searching that thread.'
EDIT: ...sorry again, managed to stumble my way through and revive my phone.
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Android is like that, phone brick doesn't mean need to send to repair centre, you can fix it urself
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Any way to get BE back?!!

Hi guys:
I have an Xperia Ion unlocked bootloader , i didn't do TA backup so i lost my DRM key.
Any way to get the Bravia Engine back again?

The $niper said:
Hi guys:
I have an Xperia Ion unlocked bootloader , i didn't do TA backup so i lost my DRM key.
Any way to get the Bravia Engine back again?
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Hi Sniper.
Actually if you flash any, Relock File For Your Xperia With TA partition ticked while flashing.
It will get you DRM keys back.
I have tested it myself on my Xperia.
And Everything is working for me.
You can try as well.
I hope this information seems helpful to you,
Greetings,
~Dwarkesh Soren

dwarkesh2492 said:
Hi Sniper.
Actually if you flash any, Relock File For Your Xperia With TA partition ticked while flashing.
It will get you DRM keys back.
I have tested it myself on my Xperia.
And Everything is working for me.
You can try as well.
I hope this information seems helpful to you,
Greetings,
~Dwarkesh Soren
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Hi noob
I didn't understand you very well.
I have a relock.ftf that can relock my bootloader but they told me it will not get the BE back because i lost my DRM.

The $niper said:
Hi noob
I didn't understand you very well.
I have a relock.ftf that can relock my bootloader but they told me it will not get the BE back because i lost my DRM.
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Hello @THE $niper,
First off all,
After the Relock and retrieval of TA partition from Stock Clean ftf
My Track ID, Bravia Engine, And All The Services From Sony Works.
If Its still hard for you to understand I'd try to make it more simple for you.
I hope this information helps you in some way, basically its just backing up the TA partition.
I hope you understand now?
Reagrds,
~Dwarkesh Soren :good:

There's a guided topic on how to get BE back here on xda
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i thought the drm keys are linked to the specific handset, so i don't think that relocking and flashing a generic ftf will get your drm keys back?
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having said this, i'm sure i read somewhere recently that the JB firmware's don't need drm keys for things like music info/BE/track id etc to work? I honestly can;t rememebr which thread i was reading this in though, sorry :\

dwarkesh2492 said:
Hello @THE $niper,
First off all,
After the Relock and retrieval of TA partition from Stock Clean ftf
My Track ID, Bravia Engine, And All The Services From Sony Works.
If Its still hard for you to understand I'd try to make it more simple for you.
I hope this information helps you in some way, basically its just backing up the TA partition.
I hope you understand now?
Reagrds,
~Dwarkesh Soren :good:
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So you mean i have to flash the relock.ftf then install stock ICS with Flashtool and the BE will get back to work??!
zaidx said:
There's a guided topic on how to get BE back here on xda
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Where?
Gloris said:
i thought the drm keys are linked to the specific handset, so i don't think that relocking and flashing a generic ftf will get your drm keys back?
::EDIT::
having said this, i'm sure i read somewhere recently that the JB firmware's don't need drm keys for things like music info/BE/track id etc to work? I honestly can;t rememebr which thread i was reading this in though, sorry :\
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I have LEAK 4.1.2 and the BE is not working.

The $niper said:
So you mean i have to flash the relock.ftf then install stock ICS with Flashtool and the BE will get back to work??!
First of All Since You have Unlocked Your Bootloader Already I dont think you can recover your DRM keys from TA partition
What you can do now?
1. FLash Stock (Exclude TA prtition)
2. Flash Relock (Include TA partition)
3. Update JB via PCC or SUS
4. Your phone will have working BE, XLoud, Track id and all Sony Enhancements.
Guide from where I got back DRM ----> HERE
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dwarkesh2492 said:
The $niper said:
So you mean i have to flash the relock.ftf then install stock ICS with Flashtool and the BE will get back to work??!
First of All Since You have Unlocked Your Bootloader Already I dont think you can recover your DRM keys from TA partition
What you can do now?
1. FLash Stock (Exclude TA prtition)
2. Flash Relock (Include TA partition)
3. Update JB via PCC or SUS
4. Your phone will have working BE, XLoud, Track id and all Sony Enhancements.
Guide from where I got back DRM ----> HERE
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I saw that last thread but i didn't do backup TA before unlock.
in number 2 i have relock.ftf that include "loader.sin" and "preset.ta" So is that inogh? and after updating i will got all of it working?
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The $niper said:
dwarkesh2492 said:
I saw that last thread but i didn't do backup TA before unlock.
in number 2 i have relock.ftf that include "loader.sin" and "preset.ta" So is that inogh? and after updating i will got all of it working?
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After updating the ICS.
Update to JB via PCC or SUS
And You Are Done! :good:
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dwarkesh2492 said:
The $niper said:
After updating the ICS.
Update to JB via PCC or SUS
And You Are Done! :good:
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Thanks for guide , i will try that.
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[Q] Unlocking Bootloader without SDK

Hi. So, I have a SONY XPERIA S with bootloader locked. I recieved a mail from SONY with the unlock bootloader key. The next step should be to download the SDK. But since the SDK is almost 500 MB in size and I have a slow connection, and a limited data plan I cannot download the SDK. My question is : Is there another easy way to to this? To unlock my bootloader?

i'm not sure if this help, but just trying to help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42407269

Perfect
Alin Theron

Any advantage of unlocking?

This is general section, pls post question on Q&A section... Tq
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The advantage is that with unlocked bootloader I can make root

AlinTheron said:
The advantage is that with unlocked bootloader I can make root
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Mmm, did you know that you can 'root' with locked bootloader also?... the real advantage is that you can use custom kernels

I tried, not working.

Any ideas on how to root with locked bootloader?

AlinTheron said:
Any ideas on how to root with locked bootloader?
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Yes.

AlinTheron said:
I tried, not working.
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Would you mind sharing more feedback of what you have already tried for rooting?? and which steps are you failing at? so we can help you out :cyclops:

I've tried a zip package from doomlord

i'm using XAS, base on .200 ROM, all i do to root was this.
1. UL BL
2. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2309117
3. place this SuperSU-1.25-Busybox-1.20.2-UPDATE.zip file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=42005929&postcount=3 onto internal storage
4. flash SuperSU-1.25-Busybox-1.20.2-UPDATE.zip in recovery
that's what i did on both XAS

I'll try it right now

Done. SOLVED

Now it works just fine.

SOLVED

How to get the key from Sony?
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http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/instructions

[Q] Need to flash CWM through ADB

Hello,
I did something very wrong, I tried to change my kernel from Lupus to DoomKernel and picked the wrong one, the Xperia ARC one instead of Xperia Play (v22 instead of v14).
I now have a half-dead phone, stuck with a blank screen at boot, no recovery, no fastboot (fastboot keeps waiting for the device).
The only thing I can do is opening it through ADB shell and see the filesystem. It at least partially seems ok, since I managed to uname the phone and see my kernel version.
I saw matt4321's thread and thought it could help me to flash a new recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25052229
But unfortunatly, the linked online recovery build tool always *crashes* before getting the job done:
http://builder.clockworkmod.com/
repo sync failed.
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
Archiving artifacts
Finished: FAILURE
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My question is: can anyone help me to get a working (and ADB flashable) ClockWorkMod "recovery.img" file in order to mend my phone please ? Any working link would be greatly appreciated !
And please forgive my bad english (be assured I do my best to be understandable !).
Regards

lincruste said:
Hello,
I did something very wrong, I tried to change my kernel from Lupus to DoomKernel and picked the wrong one, the Xperia ARC one instead of Xperia Play (v22 instead of v14).
I now have a half-dead phone, stuck with a blank screen at boot, no recovery, no fastboot (fastboot keeps waiting for the device).
The only thing I can do is opening it through ADB shell and see the filesystem. It at least partially seems ok, since I managed to uname the phone and see my kernel version.
I saw matt4321's thread and thought it could help me to flash a new recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25052229
But unfortunatly, the linked online recovery build tool always *crashes* before getting the job done:
http://builder.clockworkmod.com/
My question is: can anyone help me to get a working (and ADB flashable) ClockWorkMod "recovery.img" file in order to mend my phone please ? Any working link would be greatly appreciated !
And please forgive my bad english (be assured I do my best to be understandable !).
Regards
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Can you enter flash mode? Hold back while plugging usb. If flashtool report that you are in flash mode then just flash stock firmware (ftf) file. That should fix all errors

Bakisha said:
Can you enter flash mode? Hold back while plugging usb. If flashtool report that you are in flash mode then just flash stock firmware (ftf) file. That should fix all errors
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Thanks for your very fast answer. I'm now downloading Flash Tool on SonyMobile website. Will I loose my root access if it ever works ?

lincruste said:
Thanks for your very fast answer. I'm now downloading Flash Tool on SonyMobile website. Will I loose my root access if it ever works ?
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That will also work (at least at part to flash stock firmware)
But i mean flashtool from http://flashtool.net
But please, while you are downloading it, read sticky threads in general and q&a section.
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Bakisha said:
That will also work (at least at part to flash stock firmware)
But i mean flashtool from http://flashtool.net
But please, while you are downloading it, read sticky threads in general and q&a section.
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Thank you again for the link. I see that Sony flash tool is now called Emma, so it's dead end here.
Bakisha said:
But please, while you are downloading it, read sticky threads in general and q&a section.
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Sorry about that, I did not mean to be an ass.

lincruste said:
Thank you again for the link. I see that Sony flash tool is now called Emma, so it's dead end here.
Sorry about that, I did not mean to be an ass.
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Emma is used to flash stock firmware on Xperia phones with unlocked bootloader, it is not dead end.
With Flashtool is just much easier
Edit: no need to apologize, we were all noobs at the begining
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Bakisha said:
Emma is used to flash stock firmware on Xperia phones with unlocked bootloader, it is not dead end.
With Flashtool is just much easier
Edit: no need to apologize, we were all noobs at the begining
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It's alive !
Many, many thanks.
Best regards

Tablet Z2 System Dump

Hi All,
I just received my Z2. Here's the system partition dump:
http://dl.free.fr/jBKtmVukO

bbarou said:
Hi All,
I just received my Z2. Here's the system partition dump:
http://dl.free.fr/jBKtmVukO
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How is the tablet?
Any thoughts/impressions?
Thanks!

bbarou said:
Hi All,
I just received my Z2. Here's the system partition dump:
http://dl.free.fr/jBKtmVukO
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Hi,
can you provide the Firmware as FTF?

UserX10 said:
Hi,
can you provide the Firmware as FTF?
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I'l look into it. If I need root for it then it'll have to wait.

jonlad1 said:
How is the tablet?
Any thoughts/impressions?
Thanks!
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Look for my posts in the Initial impressions thread in the general section.

bbarou said:
I'l look into it. If I need root for it then it'll have to wait.
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No root is needed.
Update / flash again the Firmware over SEUS and then you can create the FTF File...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2334653

UserX10 said:
No root is needed.
Update / flash again the Firmware over SEUS and then you can create the FTF File...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2334653
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Sorry, it looks like it's not gonna be possible at this point.
If I undersatnd correctly I need to use Sony PC Companion to download the firmware. Problem is PC Companion refuse to connect to the tablet.
When I connect it, it says "PC Companion needs to be updated". I'm running the last version (2.1).
I can only wait for Sony to release an update.

How does it feel to own one. Does it feel good?
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it feels very good, got my z2 today, came from TF201 and it is so much light weighted

but even this firmware doesnt have new media apps which are shown in z2 videos....!!!

If anyone could dump boot.img and give me i could create a cwm/twrp recovery

MasterAwesome said:
If anyone could dump boot.img and give me i could create a cwm/twrp recovery
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For locked or unlocked bootloader? cause there's already a kernel for unlocked one with cwm. If it might be for the unlocked one, how is it possible to install it without root? I can help you with the boot.img, but i can't get how it might help youl...

nos1609 said:
For locked or unlocked bootloader? cause there's already a kernel for unlocked one with cwm. If it might be for the unlocked one, how is it possible to install it without root? I can help you with the boot.img, but i can't get how it might help youl...
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For unlocked bootloader;Even though most recoveries are based on cwm , custom ones like philz and twrp has a better GUI and function.
I was thinking about building twrp/philz

I'm not seeing any talk, reference, rumor or even crying over a locked bootloader exploit for the Z2T. Is there something special about it (I know all Xperia's are harder than the average android) or is there just not enough demand? I rooted my Z1C and am pretty happy with the Sony skin as long as it's rooted, but the unrooted skin on my Z2T is pretty hard to live with. Don't want to unlock the bootloader, but may have to...
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bbarou said:
Hi All,
I just received my Z2. Here's the system partition dump:
http://dl.free.fr/jBKtmVukO
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Is there a guide on how to dump partition?

Diomorgan said:
Is there a guide on how to dump partition?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1578099
For the command "dd" you'll have to navigate it to your boot partition which can be found by analysing the files partition, mounts which is present in /proc
Use that and give me the boot.img I'll make a recovery
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