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Q) Xperia S l26i rooted,unlocked bootloader. Now stuck in bootloop. Please HELP

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to install custom recovery in my Sony Xperia S L26ii , So rooted it a week ago. It is rooted for sure., I installed titanium backup and backed up everything. Yesterday I did unlock my bootloader so that I can install a custom recovery and custom rom. I followed the procedure of official way of unlocking bootloader by getting the key and unlocked it using fastboot command.
Till This everything works fine.I could boot into my device.
I flashed Twrp recovery adb fastboot. After this I wanted to backup my Stock rom. While I try to perform backup i got an error "unable to mount data" and it was unsucessfull.
I tried to reboot the system and shocked that it is stuck in boot loop now. I am seeing the word "Sony " and again it is rebooting,
I tried whatever I can by browsing internet. It seems I cannot use pc companion since I unlocked bootloader and installed custom recovery.
i tried to download tft file from somewhere and tried to flash through flashtools and got an error "ERROR - Processing of loader.sin finished with errors."
Dont know what to do. Any help would be highly appreciated. All I could access is TWRP recovery . currently I powered off the phone.
Please help me in the right direction.
Regards,
Suresh

ssuresh005 said:
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to install custom recovery in my Sony Xperia S L26ii , So rooted it a week ago. It is rooted for sure., I installed titanium backup and backed up everything. Yesterday I did unlock my bootloader so that I can install a custom recovery and custom rom. I followed the procedure of official way of unlocking bootloader by getting the key and unlocked it using fastboot command.
Till This everything works fine.I could boot into my device.
I flashed Twrp recovery adb fastboot. After this I wanted to backup my Stock rom. While I try to perform backup i got an error "unable to mount data" and it was unsucessfull.
I tried to reboot the system and shocked that it is stuck in boot loop now. I am seeing the word "Sony " and again it is rebooting,
I tried whatever I can by browsing internet. It seems I cannot use pc companion since I unlocked bootloader and installed custom recovery.
i tried to download tft file from somewhere and tried to flash through flashtools and got an error "ERROR - Processing of loader.sin finished with errors."
Dont know what to do. Any help would be highly appreciated. All I could access is TWRP recovery . currently I powered off the phone.
Please help me in the right direction.
Regards,
Suresh
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It is the "ftf" file, not "tft". Try Flashing the stock ftf file immediately again after You get the error, it will work. You get the error first time.

Mirhawk said:
It is the "ftf" file, not "tft". Try Flashing the stock ftf file immediately again after You get the error, it will work. You get the error first time.
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Thank you bro for replying and correcting me. Yes ftf file. I am downloading stock ftf from XDA forum (thanks for the member) and Will try to flash it (by pressing volume down and connecting usb cable to it) and will let you know.
Im just wondering , yesterday when I saw the phone in bootloop , I paniked and try to perform factory reset couple of times . Though it did not help in anyway. Will it disable usb debugging? If so is there any way we can reenable it from recovery or any other way?
-Suresh

ssuresh005 said:
Thank you bro for replying and correcting me. Yes ftf file. I am downloading stock ftf from XDA forum (thanks for the member) and Will try to flash it (by pressing volume down and connecting usb cable to it) and will let you know.
Im just wondering , yesterday when I saw the phone in bootloop , I paniked and try to perform factory reset couple of times . Though it did not help in anyway. Will it disable usb debugging? If so is there any way we can reenable it from recovery or any other way?
-Suresh
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Nah it won't affect You while flashing the ftf file. You can always flash the ftf file using flashtool by fastboot, no matter what.

Mirhawk said:
Nah it won't affect You while flashing the ftf file. You can always flash the ftf file using flashtool by fastboot, no matter what.
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Bro, You are great. That worked. It did revoked my root and locked bootloader though. But that is fine. I could do root and unlock the bootloader again..
A quick question. It all happened when I flashed TWRP recovery in this phone using this link (http://techglen.com/2014/02/12/install-twrp-custom-recovery-on-xperia-s-lt26i-nozomi/2/). I have already flashed TWRP in another HTC but it never caused this issue.
Is there any issue in installing TWRP in xperia sl ?
Should I use only CWM recovery?
If i can use Twrp , is there any good way/post or steps you recommend.?
Many Thanks again:good:
-Suresh

ssuresh005 said:
Bro, You are great. That worked. It did revoked my root and locked bootloader though. But that is fine. I could do root and unlock the bootloader again..
A quick question. It all happened when I flashed TWRP recovery in this phone using this link (http://techglen.com/2014/02/12/install-twrp-custom-recovery-on-xperia-s-lt26i-nozomi/2/). I have already flashed TWRP in another HTC but it never caused this issue.
Is there any issue in installing TWRP in xperia sl ?
Should I use only CWM recovery?
If i can use Twrp , is there any good way/post or steps you recommend.?
Many Thanks again:good:
-Suresh
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Weird. It should not lock Your bootloader, since locking bootloader has different procedure. Anyways, TWRP works fine with Xperia SL. Even My phone is a SL and I always use twrp. Which version where You using of twrp? Use this version. And flash it using the command by connecting Your phone in fastboot mode:
Code:
fastboot flash boot openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.1-LT26i.img

Mirhawk said:
Weird. It should not lock Your bootloader, since locking bootloader has different procedure. Anyways, TWRP works fine with Xperia SL. Even My phone is a SL and I always use twrp. Which version where You using of twrp? Use this version. And flash it using the command by connecting Your phone in fastboot mode:
Code:
fastboot flash boot openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.1-LT26i.img
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Bro. I flashed this recovery and now after reboot phone is going to recovery only. I manually tried to reboot it to bootloader and it is getting to TWRP recovery only. I tried to flash a Kitkat rom which was in my internal memory as zip file it failed with error " error executing updater binary in zip" did google search on it and got to know to overcome this error I had to be on TWRP 2.8.0.1 but we are already in that code, I dont know why I was still getting that error.
So I used the ftf file again to flash . I followed the forum "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28305266&postcount=3" to get the ftf file. I could see there are ftf for ginger bread and ICS , but I could only flash Ginger bread since I am getting error when I flash ICS ftf. not sure why.
Now having stock Ginger Bread rom rooted and bootloader unlocked.
I am happy that you brought me this far. It Would be great if you could guide me to proceed further to install any custom recovery and any custom rom of Jelly bean and higher. :good:
- Suresh
I also wanted to try something before you come online . so flashed the custom recovery which you have provided and flashed cyanogenmod 9 latest nightly and current status is
Rooted, bootloader unlocked, installed custom recovery(TWRP){with your wonderful assistance} , flashed cyanogenmod 9 nightly(ICS)
All I need now is a jelly bean rom or KITKAT rom (preferable )

ssuresh005 said:
All I need now is a jelly bean rom or KITKAT rom (preferable )
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My Bad, that procedure installs a Kernel, and since it was not compatible with the ROM You were using, it only booted to the twrp. Copy the file to Your internal sdcard and use these following commands on Terminal Emulator app from playstore:
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/fotakernel.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
where fotakernel.img is the name of Your .img file.
It was weird that You go that error while flashing a Kitkat ROM. Which ROM were You trying to flash? If You wan to flash a Kitkat ROM, then follow the procedure here, no matter which Android version You are on, no need to do anything else.

[Q] Xperia S kernel

Hey guys, I want Android 4.4.4 on my Xperia S (am running 4.1.2 standard now). But to install another ROM, you need another kernel. Does anyone have the link to the kernel to use for me? I can't find it...
(And is there anything particulair ROM anyone can recommend?)
EDIT: Alright, does anyone have a tutorial with Flashtool too, because I can't figure it out, and its driving me nuts.

Ramshield said:
Hey guys, I want Android 4.4.4 on my Xperia S (am running 4.1.2 standard now). But to install another ROM, you need another kernel. Does anyone have the link to the kernel to use for me? I can't find it...
(And is there anything particulair ROM anyone can recommend?)
EDIT: Alright, does anyone have a tutorial with Flashtool too, because I can't figure it out, and its driving me nuts.
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The kernel for any ROM is in the zip of ROM itself. The boot.img file is the Kernel. If You flash the any ROM via recovery, it will automatically flash the kernel too, as long as the boot.img file is present in the ROM.zip.

Mirhawk said:
The kernel for any ROM is in the zip of ROM itself. The boot.img file is the Kernel. If You flash the any ROM via recovery, it will automatically flash the kernel too, as long as the boot.img file is present in the ROM.zip.
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I followed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1963961 this tutorial, however, when I click fastboot via ADB, my phone reboots and then the blue flashlight goes on. But then my phone continues to boot, so if I click fastboot via fastboot it doesn't work.
I'm getting: ERROR - This action can only be done in fastboot mode and ERROR - Drivers need to be installed for connected device... Any help you can give?

Ramshield said:
I followed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1963961 this tutorial, however, when I click fastboot via ADB, my phone reboots and then the blue flashlight goes on. But then my phone continues to boot, so if I click fastboot via fastboot it doesn't work.
I'm getting: ERROR - This action can only be done in fastboot mode and ERROR - Drivers need to be installed for connected device... Any help you can give?
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You have not installed the fastboot drivers then. The drivers can be found at inside 'drivers' folder where You installed the flashtool. Install fastboot and flashmode and Sony Xperia S related drivers from the list.

Mirhawk said:
You have not installed the fastboot drivers then. The drivers can be found at inside 'drivers' folder where You installed the flashtool. Install fastboot and flashmode and Sony Xperia S related drivers from the list.
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Sorry to bother you, but when I check fastboot and fastmode, I get: http://puu.sh/dVUDt/347d16f514.png (Running Windows 10 x64?)
EDIT: Booted with safe mode, to disable something with driver signature, installed the drivers and flashed the kernel. Took me total of 8 hours, but got it all working, thanks a lot for your help!
Does Lollipop 5.0(.2/3?) work properly on Xperia S, and how about the issues with memory, and applications closing itself?

Ramshield said:
Sorry to bother you, but when I check fastboot and fastmode, I get: http://puu.sh/dVUDt/347d16f514.png (Running Windows 10 x64?)
EDIT: Booted with safe mode, to disable something with driver signature, installed the drivers and flashed the kernel. Took me total of 8 hours, but got it all working, thanks a lot for your help!
Does Lollipop 5.0(.2/3?) work properly on Xperia S, and how about the issues with memory, and applications closing itself?
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Ah yes, Windows 8/10 cause drivers issue. It works properly for daily use. The latest version of nAOSP is not causing Me any force closing f apps now.

[Q]

I have Redmi 1s. I can not flash custom recovery through updater as well as in recovery mode. I tried to install MI flashing tools to my system but its not installing. How can install MI flashing tools to my computer plz help.

What miui version you use right now? Download twrp 2.8.4.0 with mi recovery included, and put it in internal memory and try the updater again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56064716
Sent from my HM 1SW using Tapatalk

Am using miui6 6.6.2 version. Before flashing miui6 i had install twrp to my device after flashing miui 6 don't know how twrp get deleted. After that I tried lots of time to install twrp but I couldn't install. I tried in fastboot mode also it shows successfully completed but twrp is not installed. Plz suggest.

navi449 said:
Am using miui6 6.6.2 version. Before flashing miui6 i had install twrp to my device after flashing miui 6 don't know how twrp get deleted. After that I tried lots of time to install twrp but I couldn't install. I tried in fastboot mode also it shows successfully completed but twrp is not installed. Plz suggest.
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custom recovery got replaced when installing miui 6.6. samething happened to me [emoji6]
I use adb to install twrp.
and thats the only thing you can do, I think...
goto
https://twrp.me/devices/xiaomiredmi1s.html
and follow the instruction on
"Fastboot Install Method" section.
I'm not responsible what will happened to your device. do it with your own risk. find more info on this site. and make sure you know what you're doing..
Sent from my HM 1SW using Tapatalk

I jst not getting how to install abd drivers and how to install twrp through abd. Can any one plz send the screen shots of this and tell me the full method of installing abd and twrp correctly. Thank you.

navi449 said:
I jst not getting how to install abd drivers and how to install twrp through abd. Can any one plz send the screen shots of this and tell me the full method of installing abd and twrp correctly. Thank you.
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If u have used fastboot rom yes recovery gets replaced
just follow these steps
If u r windows 8 or 10 u dont need to install any drivers . Windows downloads it automatically but if u r on 7 u have to install the drivers.
And follow these steps (ignore if u know these already)
0)Make sure your pc have adb drivers .If u r on w7 then download them (just google them fior redmi 1s)
1)Download mfastboot files from here and extract them into a folder
2)Download twrp-2.8.7.0-armani image from here and move it to the folder of extracted mfastboot
3)Now hold shift and right click on mouse and click on open command window here
4)Now get your phone to fastboot mode
5)use this command mfastboot flash recovery twrp-2.8.7.0-armani.img and press enter
6)Tada recovery installed

Problem installing custom roms

Hello, i have a big problem with installing custom roms on Z1C. I have new z1 with unlocked bootloader. I have flashed a few different TWRP. I don't remember how many, but when im choosing rom to install from TWRP its restarting and there is nothing done ;/ My firmware right now is 14.4.A.0.157. In twrp logs are only "full se linux support is present"

yaroszek said:
Hello, i have a big problem with installing custom roms on Z1C. I have new z1 with unlocked bootloader. I have flashed a few different TWRP. I don't remember how many, but when im choosing rom to install from TWRP its restarting and there is nothing done ;/ My firmware right now is 14.4.A.0.157. In twrp logs are only "full se linux support is present"
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Did you full wipe, (system data and caches)? Coming from KK, I'd say its a good idea.

Yes i've installed many custom roms in many devices Lg l9, l5, Samsung device,s and xperia J without problems here i cant even flash supersu through recovery. I want to install RR5.1.1. can wipe partitions mount them in TWRP but cant install;/
Update: i cant go into fastboot and download mode. When plugging usb with vol + or - red led is blinking and thats all;/

yaroszek said:
Yes i've installed many custom roms in many devices Lg l9, l5, Samsung device,s and xperia J without problems here i cant even flash supersu through recovery. I want to install RR5.1.1. can wipe partitions mount them in TWRP but cant install;/
Update: i cant go into fastboot and download mode. When plugging usb with vol + or - red led is blinking and thats all;/
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Strange - maybe incompatible recovery issue. Try one of the links here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=65996596&postcount=6 Also, do you have updated Sony bootloader with real recovery, or are you using old recovery?

I tried both recoverys from yours links. On both same problem. As I said before, right now i cant even connect my phone to PC through flash mode or fastboot

yaroszek said:
I tried both recoverys from yours links. On both same problem. As I said before, right now i cant even connect my phone to PC through flash mode or fastboot
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Sounds like a Flashtool/PC companion repair job...

Ok, but Flashtool doesn't recognize phone. I can't power on my phone.

Ok, I will write here what I've done to install custom roms maybe someone will tell me what i've missed or done wrong:
1. root from this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784900
2. backup TA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2642081
3. unlock bootloader from official sony site
4. flashed recovery TWRP 2.8 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-z1-compact/general/fota-twrp-recovery-amami-t2909719 with boot from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56176856&postcount=17
Recovery reboots when i'm trying to flash new rom
5. flashed TWRP3.0 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-z1-compact/general/fota-twrp-3-0-0-0-amami-t3310794 same reboots when flashing
6 flashed boot from official CM site http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=amami and tried flash clean CM12.1
No succes i don't renember what error i had.
My goal is to flash RRemix5.1.1 any help will be appreciated

yaroszek said:
Ok, I will write here what I've done to install custom roms maybe someone will tell me what i've missed or done wrong:
1. root from this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784900
2. backup TA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2642081
3. unlock bootloader from official sony site
4. flashed recovery TWRP 2.8 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-z1-compact/general/fota-twrp-recovery-amami-t2909719 with boot from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56176856&postcount=17
Recovery reboots when i'm trying to flash new rom
5. flashed TWRP3.0 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-z1-compact/general/fota-twrp-3-0-0-0-amami-t3310794 same reboots when flashing
6 flashed boot from official CM site http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=amami and tried flash clean CM12.1
No succes i don't renember what error i had.
My goal is to flash RRemix5.1.1 any help will be appreciated
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I'm surprised that neither flash mode nor fastboot works anymore just because you flashed some recovery and boot imgs. Usually you have to do something more drastic to cause that. However, if you really can't getbinto flash mode or fastboot, and you can't boot anything, then that petty much eliminates your normal procedures. Possibly there's been hardware damage. Try Sony PC Companion, and choose repair phone option.

Unable to install twrp

So this is my millet 6, I try Adb, TWRP manager, but my computer can use U disk mode, you can also use the official phone assistant to install the development version, but can not install the TWRP Manager to TWRP Recoey. You can view the video, hope everyone can help me.
https://www.facebook.com/100015187571561/posts/614327575750156/

潇霄小云 said:
So this is my millet 6, I try Adb, TWRP manager, but my computer can use U disk mode, you can also use the official phone assistant to install the development version, but can not install the TWRP Manager to TWRP Recoey. You can view the video, hope everyone can help me.
https://www.facebook.com/100015187571561/posts/614327575750156/
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Did you unlocked bootloader? You have to flash twrp with adb while the phone is in fastboot mode.

mArIuS% said:
Did you unlocked bootloader? You have to flash twrp with adb while the phone is in fastboot mode.
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I am sure to unlock bl。

The twrp manager always downloads the img file repeatedly, as if the img file could not be used. My moto xforce button is blue and can be installed after clicking twrp

Hey, I'm having the same issue here :S Already tried with Linux and Windows, both same issue... Fastboot detects my device, but it got stuck in there... I'm using the latest version of stock firmware...
I never faced this issue before, for sure my phone is unlocked and I already flashed like hundreds of time in the past. Is there something new?
Thanks!