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[Q] Rooting confusion (LT18i, gb2.3.4, 4.0.2.A.0.62 )

Hi,
I am trying to root my phone. I have read many many guides on here but am still very confused...
I have successfuly unlocked the bootloader but I am unsure what to do next, every guide seems to be for different versions and the ones that are for the same version are too technical (I am new to the world of smartphones).
I have downloaded loads of files but I just dont know which ones I need and what to do with them...
can somebody please tell me which files I need, where do I put them and what I need to do (in plain English please).
My main reason for rooting is to remove the bloatware and get more performance/battery life for my device. I would also like to try out ICS (The update wasn't available in my country).
Thanks for any help and please dont say 'try searching', I have been reading for like 2 days now and just ended up getting more and more confused...
Thanks again.

A post from another thread...
Flash rootXperia.zip through CWM. That's it, you're rooted
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Seems this is what I need to do, but how?

The easiest thing to do is find stock kernel with cwm installed and use that to flash the root.zip or you could install a custom rom?
Sent from my LT18i using xda app-developers app

So you want to root Gingerbread? Or do you want to update to ICS and then root it?
Either way, it doesn't matter. Since you already have an unlocked bootloader, it's a breeze.
Download a custom kernel with CWM and flash the superuser binary through it. If you want to root GB, make sure it's a GB compatible kernel and likewise with ICS as well.
If you want to update to ICS, have a look at the thread here. I suggest you grab the 4.0.4 Generic Global World .431fw. It's got the least bloatware and it's pretty snappy.
Update to the latest version of Flashtool. Get it here. The latest is v0.8.6.0. (Make sure that USB debugging and Unknown Sources are allowed beforehand).
Update to ICS.
Grab a custom kernel with CWM from the Development section. I use Jimbo77's ArcKnight kernel.
Get the latest superuser binary here. Place the zip file in the root of your SD card.
Hotboot the kernel using Flashtool. When the LED lights up blue, press the Back button. (If you think you're going to miss that instance, start spamming the Back button when it lights up).
There's an option to install a zip file. Browse to the superuser.zip on your SD card and flash it. That's it. When you reboot your phone, you automatically go back to the Stock kernel but you will have root access.
Cheers!

Thanks for your replies.
I figure I should stick with Gingerbread for the moment, at least til I know what I am doing...
I have a file called LT18i_4.0.2.A.0.62_Generic World UK.ftf. Is this the custom Kernel with CWM?
How do I flash it?
I have a file called rootXperia.zip, from what I understand, I need to put this onto the SD card, attach the phone in fastboot mode, open fastboot and click 'flash', is that right? Where do I put the ftf file?
Sorry for all the dumb questions, I'm quite clever really, just very new to this...

That file which you have is the fw. You need to put it in the firmware folder of Flashtool.
To flash the fw, you need to put it in flash mode i.e. holding the back button.
Get a custom kernel from the Development section. Try the appropriate DooMKernel for GB.
Use the latest superuser file I mentioned in the previous post.
For the kernel, put the phone in fastboot mode i.e. holding the menu button.
Swyped from my SE Xperia arc (LT15i) using Tapatalk 2

no dude LT18i_4.0.2.A.0.62_Generic World UK.ftf is a stock OS image file..it doesnt have custom kernel.. search in dev section..u will find one advanced stock kernel by doomlord if u want to stick to stock kernel.
u can flash ftf files using flashtools and u have to be in fastboot mode to flash custom kernel

Ok, So I have downloaded a file called ARC-advanced-Stock-v01-boot from DoomLord (I couldn't open the download for DoomKernel but he says its the same minus some features). This is in my firmwares folder
SuperUser-3.1.3-arm-signed is on my SD card.
Now I go into fastboot mode and open flashtools and click flash?
Im starting to think it might be easier and quicker to fly to India and have you do it for me....

go into fastboot mode..in flashtools click on "lightening" icon and select fastboot mode..then click on select to flash kernel..then browse and let it flash ..it will take only 1 second tats all then you are done..

Now my phone wont boot!
If I press power then it vibrates but nothing happens...
If I take the batt out then hold menu and plug in I can still get into fastboot mode, should I flash with ARCRecovery to fix it?

Only ftf files should be kept in the firmwares folder.
The kernel can be anywhere. Connect your phone in fastboot mode. (Switch off your phone, press and hold the menu button and then plug in the USB).
Press the lightning button on Flashtool and choose fastboot. Choose to hotboot a kernel and point to the kernel you downloaded. Then follow what I said about installing the zip through CWM.
Swyped from my SE Xperia arc (LT15i) using Tapatalk 2

Bricked?
So I followed all the instructions but now my phone wont switch on.
At first I was getting a boot screen that just said 'SONY', the key lights came on and I could get into the recovery menu but nothing else, it just kept rebooting.
I flashed another Kernel, thinking that somehow I had flashed the wrong one before and now I dont even get the SONY screen, just nothing. The screen backlight is on but there is no boot screen.
Any advice?

if u see sony logo then its not a kernel problem..most likely it is ROM problem...
do one thing...flash advanced stock kernel again properly. and flash a ROM called aconium 8.2...it is stock ROM with tweaks...

Mate, go grab another ftf.
This time, try ICS :fingers-crossed: LOL! Just follow the instructions I had given here.

When I select flashmode it does not show the ftf files on my computer, I also cannot drag and drop them into the flashtool window, am I misundersanding something?

drag and drop should work irrespective of whether phone is connected or not..if it doesnt allow DnD then there is some problem..

Install the drivers from the Flashtool folder again.
Swyped from my SE Xperia arc (LT15i) using Tapatalk 2

*sigh* I think I should give up, my phone is f*cked now.
Hopefully someone ina phone shop might be able to do something with it. If not then I guess Ill buy a new one and stick with having it unrooted.
Thanks for trying to help me guys, you have been very patient.

dont giveup dude..go through some tutorials and start again from scratch..
uninstall flashtools and reinstall and install drivers from here http://www.multiupload.com/0XZV1LXRVA

I just reinstalled and updated flashtools and installed all the drivers but it still wont let me drag and drop and still doesnt show ftf files in flashmode. I have restarted my computer and done everything I can think of.
Is there any possiblity that the damage to my phone is permanent (I assume that as I have only updated software then it should be reversable) and do you think that if I took it to an expert they would be able to fix it?

[Q] Phone went does not boot up after rebooting

Xperia Arc LT15i, last installed was FXP150 - CyanogenMod 10 Android 4.1.2
- which I was using for almost 2 weeks without any reboots or crashes nor any setting tweaks.
Yes, I have tried checking through a lot of searches and googling, haven't found any solution so far.
I had initially rebooted my phone to recovery using the option within the OS. It went on and loaded CWM, there I just looked around the menu, and clicked "reboot system now". After that the phone started booting, but after the FreeXperia screen, just displays a blank screen and gets stuck there. I re-entered CWM, and tried rebooting, still won't boot the regular OS. I tried re-installing FXP from sd-card (the same one that I had installed 2 weeks back) but now it won't install that release either. I tried toggling signature and re-installing, it still doesn't install.
I tried connecting the phone as mass storage through CWM, but my laptop won't detect it. The adb drivers don't work despite being installed correctly. Fastboot is the only thing that seems to detect my phone. But I cannot install new ROM using fastboot.
Please help.

Switch off your phone (if you can't try battery pull)
Use flash tools and install stock firmware and follow onscreen instructions
(Search and download ics stock firmware
Connect phone in flash mode by pressing back button and connecting)

sakthi444 said:
Switch off your phone (if you can't try battery pull)
Use flash tools and install stock firmware and follow onscreen instructions
(Search and download ics stock firmware
Connect phone in flash mode by pressing back button and connecting)
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Cant I use the tool SONY has launched for this purpose ?

Ya it'll install stock firmware... Then you have to start all over again
Sent from my Ultimate Arc S

sakthi444 said:
Ya it'll install stock firmware... Then you have to start all over again
Sent from my Ultimate Arc S
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Is there no way to make it work on FXP from this point itself ?
I was kinda hoping I could get it to run FXP directly....

If you can access Cwm get a complete back up and then after installing stock after installing Cwm you can restore...
But the best way is to flash stock and install fresh to avoid problems
Sent from my Ultimate Arc S

sakthi444 said:
If you can access Cwm get a complete back up and then after installing stock after installing Cwm you can restore...
But the best way is to flash stock and install fresh to avoid problems
Sent from my Ultimate Arc S
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yes, will do that ofcourse. But was wondering if there was any way to get it to work as it is.
CWM is already working, and the sd-card already contains the package too.....

[Q] .62 rooting instructions unclear

I've had my phone for a year now. I've hit the internal memory limit thanks to the app updates and I'm getting really sick of the performance issues.
I've been wanting to root for a while but thanks to .62 being nigh unrootable by normal methods (including unlockroot.com), I'm stuck trying to figure out the instructions for flashing which for some reason are incomprehensible to me. I appreciate FMA965's efforts to explain things as much as possible, but I'm still lost on a few things and hope you guys can help.
My first attempt at using Flashtool nearly ended in disaster. There wasn't anywhere mentioning specifically what flashing is and that flashing the firmware wipes the phone. I did back up so the losses were minimal (just my notes and some progress on a game in FPSe either because I forgot to backup or the backup function was screwy). I tried flashing a second time and that seemed to have bricked the phone somewhat, but I managed to restore it back to stock.
It seems the stock firmwares I downloaded weren't properly recognized by Flashtool. I thought I was flashing into .42 or .58 but only the .62 I got for recovery was being recognized.
Also, how do I know if I have the correct USB drivers installed? Currently all the softwares I tried (Flashtool, unlockroot, SuperOneClick and the SE PC Companion) recognize my phone. Am I done with that part or am I missing something? Also, how do I know which stock roms are compatible with my phone? I'm not very knowledgeable about custom roms, so I'd rather just stick with a rooted stock so I can at least get rid of the bloatware and free up precious memory.
After tons of google searching in and out of the board I've seen several methods but there's always one or several steps that I have no idea how to do (for the record, I checked and it seems I can unlock the bootloader or my R800i):
1- Clockwork Recover Mod before FMA965's guides a lot of people were pointing to this as the way to root the Play 0.62. I can't find any instructions on how to apply this thing.
2- The ADB/SDK force SD card install method. Does this method make anything get installed on the SD card regardless of root? Or does it just put the stuff that can already be moved so you don't have to do it manually?
3- How to root 2011 Xperia range. "For this guide i will be using official firmware xx.xx.xx.62 which will be flashed via wotan."<-- I do not understand this step. Why does .62 need to be flashed and why by wotan? What is fastboot and why do I need to do that?
4- Doomlord's Advanced Stock Kernel. When everyone is talking about Doomlord's ASK, is that what they are referring to?
5- Root and Install CyanogenMod7 after Unlock Your Bootloader. Does this method still work?
So right now that's about 3 methods to root but I unsuccessfully tried one and can't figure out the other two.
Appreciate any help in sorting out this confusion.

If you can unlock your bootloader, I think the easiest way is probably to go ahead and do that first, then you can follow the instructions to install the Gin2JB Rom here which I find is the fastest one around and the process is very simple. You will need to install the Lupus kernel here.

Thanks, but that step requires flashing, which is still a process I'm having trouble with due to incompatible stock firmware roms.

AceWhatever said:
Thanks, but that step requires flashing, which is still a process I'm having trouble with due to incompatible stock firmware roms.
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you mean you are having troubling flashing kernel or flashing the stock image using flashtools ?

The easiest way to root ANY Android device, running ANY verison / firmware, is to boot into recovery and flash a superuser.zip
In the case for the Xperia Play, you can easily have your bootloader unlocked, and use fastboot to flash a custom kernel and boot recovery or use fastboot to boot a recovery.img , either method , then just flash the superuser .zip like normal and BAM your rooted

216Monster said:
The easiest way to root ANY Android device, running ANY verison / firmware, is to boot into recovery and flash a superuser.zip
In the case for the Xperia Play, you can easily have your bootloader unlocked, and use fastboot to flash a custom kernel and boot recovery or use fastboot to boot a recovery.img , either method , then just flash the superuser .zip like normal and BAM your rooted
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Yeah that's what I would do.
Sent from my R800i using Tapatalk 2

See, this is why it's so confusing.
You guys just mixed steps from like 3 different tutorials. Will this wipe my phone like flashing a rom? And can I use a custom kernel with a stock rom?
Lemme try to piece this together:
I unlock the bootloader. Then I grab the fastboot package from this thread and extract it to the PC. Shift + Right Click the folder and press "Open Command Window Here", then I run the run_me.bat file then I turn off my phone, plug the USB and hold the search button to go into fastboot. Did I get that right so far?
Where do I get recovery.img and superuser.zip and where do I put them? The SD card?

Here are some instructions for if you want stock firmware, kernel and all. If you want to change the kernel and/or rom, I'll add such instructions upon request.
Turn your phone off with the battery intact.
Go download an older firmware from here (you'll have to scroll down quite a bit).
Place the .ftf file in "C:\Flashtool\firmwares" or wherever your flashtool installation is.
Open Flashtool (as administrator if option is available).
Click on the lightning icon and click 'OK' on the following pop-up.
On the left of this new menu, highlight your downloaded .ftf (it should read somewhere along the lines of "|R800i |4.0.2.A.0.XX | -Name of vendor or region goes here- ). On the right, leave all settings as they are except "Wipe data" which you must uncheck. Now click 'OK'.
Wait for the menu instructing you to plug the phone in. Do so: insert the usb of the turned off phone while holding down the back (leftmost) key. Please note that if the menu does not vanish upon doing this then you do not have the required drivers.
Wait while Flashtool does its job. You will know that it's done when the text "Device disconnected" appears in the program window.
Disconnect the phone and turn it on.
If you followed the instructions properly, the phone should boot into the older version with all downloaded apps, data and settings intact.
Insert USB.
Follow instructions here.
There you are. It's rooted. There may be certain apps missing; these are usually preinstalled apps that were on your system partition which was formatted during the flashing process.

AceWhatever said:
See, this is why it's so confusing.
You guys just mixed steps from like 3 different tutorials. Will this wipe my phone like flashing a rom? And can I use a custom kernel with a stock rom?
Lemme try to piece this together:
I unlock the bootloader. Then I grab the fastboot package from this thread and extract it to the PC. Shift + Right Click the folder and press "Open Command Window Here", then I run the run_me.bat file then I turn off my phone, plug the USB and hold the search button to go into fastboot. Did I get that right so far?
Where do I get recovery.img and superuser.zip and where do I put them? The SD card?
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You have it right indeed. First thing i would flash the 4.0.2.A.0.62 FTF file using FlashTool (flashtool can be found in the development section, first or second thread) after it is done and If your boot loader is unlocked, go to the LuPus v7 for Gingerbread thread (also in the development section) download his kernel, then to make it easier, rename the file "boot.img" now plug your phone in USB for fast boot mode, and in the command window type " fastboot flash boot boot.img" When it is done unplug and power it on, when the notification lite turns blue press up or down (up or down will indicate which "recovery" version you want to enter) once in recovery choose "instal from SD card" and select the superuser.zip and instal it. You can find the superuser.zip in a few places, but Wedgess made it easy, its also in the LuPus v7 for Gingerbread thread so you can download it from there. Then reboot and your rooted with running 2.3.4!
It seems like a lot I suppose but once you a familiar with it, it becomes second nature, once you get that down, your ready to give some custom roms a try, the developers in the xperia play forums have done some nice work!
Sent from my R800at

Thanks, but like I explained before I don't understand why the .62 needs to be flashed and I'm having trouble finding stocks that are recognized by Flashtool on my R800i. Is there a region independent .62 or .58 I can use?

Flashing the stock ROM (.62) will wipe everything, it's more like a factory reset and will make it the pure original Xperia Play ROM, meaning that there will be nothing that could cause problems when installing custom ROMs on top of it. There's a link of stock .ftf files in the "official firmware" section here, see if you can flash R800i_4.0.2.A.0.62_phoenixvendor.ftf onto your Play with flashtool, as when you also flash a custom kernal later, this will unlock some hidden internal space.
On the other hand, have you managed to unlock the bootloader using Sony's official method (that you linked in #7)?

Yes. That was luckily the easiest step.
After much fidgeting around and cross comparing instructions, I finally managed to root the damn thing. I would have preferred not install a custom kernel without fully understanding what it does but I was getting impatient and everything seems to be working fine so far so no problems there. Feels good to finally be able to use Titanium Backup to toss all that stupid bloatware out.
Thanks to everyone who helped! :good:
So I'm assuming that in the future any updates or replacements to the kernel or the need to install a custom ROM will require wiping everything all over again? It's not a huge hindrance to me since I don't have a lot of apps and data restoration is simple, but I figure that since this is an almost weekly/monthly thing for some people here is there some kind of method to batch restore all your data and settings in a few steps?

[Q] Restore TWRP nandroid from PC

I'm a newbie and I am in trouble. I have a rooted Nexus 7 2013 and I have a TWRP Nandroid backup which I had copied to my WIndows PC.
Now my Nexus 7 crashed and won't go beyond the X on bootup. The Nandroid and Titanium backups are on my windows PC.
How do I restore the Nexus 7 to working status by restoring from the Nandroid backup and data I have copied to the PC?
Please help. Thanks.

Guys, someone please help.
I don't know how to get out of this mess. I'm still stuck on X.
I can power off the Nexus 7 and power to the recovery screen where I find Teamwin's menu.
I restored (several times) the nandroid backups I found on this menu (they were all done after the last reset) but rebooting then just gets me back to the X screen and no further.
I have a good nandroid backup on my PC but no way to get it into the tablet so TWRP can restore from it. Is there a way to transfer a file to or from the tablet when it will not boot completely?
The advanced screen of the Teamwin recovery menu lets me access a file manager. Is there any way I can use it to move files on or off the tablet to "anything" else?
The last time the boot froze on the X screen, I was able to go to the recovery screen with the android on his back and an X and from there to a reset. But this time I cannot get there and the recovery screen gets me to the Teamwin recovery menu. This has a wipe option. Will this reset the Nexus if selected. Will it remove root? I don't want to go through rooting it all over again.
Essentially I just want to do 2 things:
a) extract data from the stuck Nexus 7
b) reset and restore the nandroid backup I have on my pc.
Please help.......

Bill235 said:
Guys, someone please help.
I don't know how to get out of this mess. I'm still stuck on X.
I can power off the Nexus 7 and power to the recovery screen where I find Teamwin's menu.
I restored (several times) the nandroid backups I found on this menu (they were all done after the last reset) but rebooting then just gets me back to the X screen and no further.
I have a good nandroid backup on my PC but no way to get it into the tablet so TWRP can restore from it. Is there a way to transfer a file to or from the tablet when it will not boot completely?
The advanced screen of the Teamwin recovery menu lets me access a file manager. Is there any way I can use it to move files on or off the tablet to "anything" else?
The last time the boot froze on the X screen, I was able to go to the recovery screen with the android on his back and an X and from there to a reset. But this time I cannot get there and the recovery screen gets me to the Teamwin recovery menu. This has a wipe option. Will this reset the Nexus if selected. Will it remove root? I don't want to go through rooting it all over again.
Essentially I just want to do 2 things:
a) extract data from the stuck Nexus 7
b) reset and restore the nandroid backup I have on my pc.
Please help.......
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Just choose the wipe option in twrp.
That should allow you to start android.
Then copy your backup from PC to virtual sdcard, reboot to twrp, and restore.
You can copy files while in recovery but it is more involved so I would try this first.

sfhub said:
Just choose the wipe option in twrp.
That should allow you to start android.
Then copy your backup from PC to virtual sdcard, reboot to twrp, and restore.
You can copy files while in recovery but it is more involved so I would try this first.
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But will it remove the root I worked so hard to get?

If you worked hard to get root on a Nexus device you did something wrong. It should be as simple as unlocking the bootloader (already done), flashing a custom recovery (already done), and flashing the SuperSU ZIP file (this is the only step you'd need to repeat).
That said, doing a factory reset should not remove root. Even if it does, it would be restored when you restored your rooted Nandroid.

raptir said:
If you worked hard to get root on a Nexus device you did something wrong. It should be as simple as unlocking the bootloader (already done), flashing a custom recovery (already done), and flashing the SuperSU ZIP file (this is the only step you'd need to repeat).
That said, doing a factory reset should not remove root. Even if it does, it would be restored when you restored your rooted Nandroid.
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Easy for an expert. I'm a newbie. I used the WUGfresh toolkit and it took multiple frustratng attempts and forever for it to finally download the correct adb drivers that would recognize the Nexus 7. Then all went smoothly.
But back to the present. I'm all fine now (till the next time the Nexus 7 crashes on me). For other newbies like me who run into this problem and need simple instructions here is what I did.
The first time this crash with the boot stuck on the X screen happened, going to the recovery screen (Power button + Volume up simultaneously) showed me the android on his back with a red triangle. Pressing power button and briefly volume up gave me the option to reset the tablet without removing root. Because I was traveling and did not have my TWRP backups with me (they were on my laptop 1,000 miles away) this removed all my data and I had to re-install all my apps and everything again.
The second time this happened, the recovery screen took me to the TWRP recovery screen. TWRP recovery had apparently survived the crash. I needed to save my data before reseting the tablet again. By trial and error I discovered that the TWRP menu has under the Advanced Tab a file manager. also discovered that if you connect a flash device to the tablet's usb port the TWRP file manager could read and write to it (!!!) in a folder called usb-otg (but not to my windows laptop). I copied what I wanted to save to the flash drive. Then I used the "wipe" tool to return the tablet to android.
I installed a free app, Recovery Manager, to reinstall TWRP recovery. Copied my previous TWRP nandroid backup to the tablet and restored everything as it was.
Easy as pie if you know how. I hope this helps some other befuddled user.
sfhub and raptir: Do you know what can be done to prevent this from happening again? Could Google Play being conected to in Europe after it was used to being to conected to in the US cause the problem? Both times the crashes happened shortly after I used the tablet in Europe and the the second time after I used it for the first time in the US.

Bill235 said:
sfhub and raptir: Do you know what can be done to prevent this from happening again? Could Google Play being conected to in Europe after it was used to being to conected to in the US cause the problem? Both times the crashes happened shortly after I used the tablet in Europe and the the second time after I used it for the first time in the US.
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I can't say for sure what is happening in your case, but in my experience getting stuck on X means your user data got corrupted. The cases I've seen fall into 2 categories:
1) faulty EMMC flash memory. Sometimes if you wipe a couple of times the bad blocks get locked out and you don't see the problem anymore. Other times, they keep coming back. In the latter case, return/exchange/rma the unit
2) android crashes (random reboot) and unfinished writes are not completed corrupting the user data. They put in code in the latest ROM to mitigate this so if you think you are suffering from this type of corruption, install the latest ROM if you haven't done so already.

Thank you for the excellent and clear reply. I'll hope the 2 wipes I did may have gotten rid of my bad blocks.
I'll update to the latest stock rom too.
Thank you.

Bill235 said:
Thank you for the excellent and clear reply. I'll hope the 2 wipes I did may have gotten rid of my bad blocks.
I'll update to the latest stock rom too.
Thank you.
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The updating part got me in trouble.......
I accepted the system update and am now running android 4.3 but lost root.
So I went back to the WUGfresh Nexus Root kit. Updated everything, am now on version 1.7.3 of the toolkit, followed all the instructions (uninstalled and re-installed driveers) and got stuck on the same problem I had the first time I tried rooting: the adb : step3 of the full driver test. adb device not found .
I did reboot twice, am using the oem asus cable, etc. What a pain!!
Unfortunately I am dependant on the toolkit because I do not know enough to root manually.
Suggestions? Thanks.

Bill235 said:
The updating part got me in trouble.......
I accepted the system update and am now running android 4.3 but lost root.
So I went back to the WUGfresh Nexus Root kit. Updated everything, am now on version 1.7.3 of the toolkit, followed all the instructions (uninstalled and re-installed driveers) and got stuck on the same problem I had the first time I tried rooting: the adb : step3 of the full driver test. adb device not found .
I did reboot twice, am using the oem asus cable, etc. What a pain!!
Unfortunately I am dependant on the toolkit because I do not know enough to root manually.
Suggestions? Thanks.
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So you're stock 4.3 now? Rooting manually isn't hard bud, setting up the toolkit is harder IMO.
You just need to download and install the Android SDK. Then download a custom recovery .img file, and a SuperSU flashable zip. Put the SuperSu flashable zip on your /sdcard. You'll then boot into the bootloader, open a command prompt and change directories to your Android SDK (Ex. mine is at C:\sdk\platform-tools) and run the command: fastboot flash <name of recovery file>.img
Then reboot into recovery, flash the SuperSU zip, reboot, done. You're rooted. There are plenty of How To's stickied in the General Forums for the N7 here.

RMarkwald said:
So you're stock 4.3 now? Rooting manually isn't hard bud, setting up the toolkit is harder IMO.
You just need to download and install the Android SDK. Then download a custom recovery .img file, and a SuperSU flashable zip. Put the SuperSu flashable zip on your /sdcard. You'll then boot into the bootloader, open a command prompt and change directories to your Android SDK (Ex. mine is at C:\sdk\platform-tools) and run the command: fastboot flash <name of recovery file>.img
Then reboot into recovery, flash the SuperSU zip, reboot, done. You're rooted. There are plenty of How To's stickied in the General Forums for the N7 here.
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Will look into your suggestions later because I am rooted again. It was the adb drivers again. The universal ones just would not work for me. The Samsung signed drivers on the other hand worked smoothly and then the toolkit ran smoothly and I am rooted. But it wiped out my TWRP recovery so I will re-install that next.
Thanks for the help.
About your advice, than you. But as a newbie I need clearer instructions. "download and install the Android SDK". Where? to the pc or the tablet? etc.
I need to learn more so I don't keep getting into these ridiculous binds!

Bill235 said:
Will look into your suggestions later because I am rooted again. It was the adb drivers again. The universal ones just would not work for me. The Samsung signed drivers on the other hand worked smoothly and then the toolkit ran smoothly and I am rooted. But it wiped out my TWRP recovery so I will re-install that next.
Thanks for the help.
About your advice, than you. But as a newbie I need clearer instructions. "download and install the Android SDK". Where? to the pc or the tablet? etc.
I need to learn more so I don't keep getting into these ridiculous binds!
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Review the General forum for the N7 2013 here, as there are threads stickied to the top of that forum which has write-ups and video how to's that'll explain it all. I suggest to review those FIRST before you try doing things just so you can get a picture of what's going on. It may seem like a lot, but once you do it, it really is not.
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Xperia Arc Stuck in Loading

Hey guys! Today I rooted my device, installed CWM and installed a ROM onto my Arc device today. It all went fine but when I rebooted after the install the device seems to be stuck at the "Sony" logo. I cant seem to boot it into CWM (tried it couple of times). I'm new to this so does anyone know what the problem might be?
Thanks in advance

Did you unlock the bootloader? Flashed the right kernel? Explain a bit what did you flash and how.

troubled_android said:
Did you unlock the bootloader? Flashed the right kernel? Explain a bit what did you flash and how.
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I'm kinda new to this and I just did what the guide told me to do , which is the following:
For Locked Bootloaders: Root your phone using this tutorial, than install CWM using this app
Place ROM on SD-Card
Back up user apps and data. (Various apps available, search Google Play. This is a popular one)
Power off phone.
Boot to CWM (Keep pressing the Volume Down key after the Sony logo appears)
Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Mounts and Storage --> Format /System
Advanced > Wipe Battery Stats
Install zip from SD card > Choose Xperia Ultimate HD
Follow on screen instructions on AROMA.
After Complete Installation untick "reboot" and select reboot in CWM
Give the phone a good full charge, and enjoy your brand new phone!

Okay I suppose you flashed this rom and installed it with aroma installer. And you can't boot into recovery mode when logo appears (by pressing vol down button?)
Argh I had the same problem when using different rom with aroma installer and I couldn't boot in recovery mode. The main problem was not getting into cwm so I had to flash the stock rom (ftf file) back on arc using flashtool and I rooted the phone and unlocked BL again. Then I restored the previous backed up rom.
Is there any particular reason to have locked BL? You can do it with flashtool.
I don't know what the problem would be since I don't have enough experience with aroma installers, I just know the basics of flashing, installing and I can solve problems on my own arc when I f*** up something but I'm a bit confused here so you better wait for someone who has more brains than I do.

troubled_android said:
Okay I suppose you flashed this rom and installed it with aroma installer. And you can't boot into recovery mode when logo appears (by pressing vol down button?)
Argh I had the same problem when using different rom with aroma installer and I couldn't boot in recovery mode. The main problem was not getting into cwm so I had to flash the stock rom (ftf file) back on arc using flashtool and I rooted the phone and unlocked BL again. Then I restored the previous backed up rom.
Is there any particular reason to have locked BL? You can do it with flashtool.
I don't know what the problem would be since I don't have enough experience with aroma installers, I just know the basics of flashing, installing and I can solve problems on my own arc when I f*** up something but I'm a bit confused here so you better wait for someone who has more brains than I do.
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I just want to put my standard rom on there atm, can you link me to something that tells me how to do that?

Ok, so here's thread with stock, custom roms, kernels etc. here find the stock rom and choose version (lt15i or lt18i depends on which phone you have and where you're from) and download the ftf file.
Then go to this link where you'll get direct instructions on how to flash. It's really not that complicated. Just open flashtool, choose flashmode and browse for the ftf file, then flash it.
Good luck.

If you wish us to help you, at least tell which ROM you installed.

For a locked bootloader, flash the original TFT through Flashtool.
Root.
Install CWM.
Reflash ROM.
If your bootloader is unlocked, just flash a kernel with CWM included.
Mount your SD Card.
Put the ROM on it.
Flash.
Hope I helped you !
Cheers.