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[Q]Need help for various problems faced during rooting and flashing stuff in Xperia E

I decided to root my mom's Xperia E and put CM10 in it. So I began. I first rooted with cydia impactor and put supersu manually and installed binaries. It was successfully rooted. Now when I unlocked my bootloader I faced a bootloop, so I flashed stock ftf and then rooted again. So now I have a rooted and bootloader unlocked xperia e. Then I decided to install cwm. I tried to do it using cmd prompt but everytime it would show <waiting for device> and then nothing happens (I booted in fastboot mode). After that I decided to put zeus kernel. In the download section, confusion started as there were 2 versions, for cwm and TWRP respctively, I tried the cwm one and flashed it using flashtool but then my phone's UI was like gone. I was only able to open settings app. So I decided to flash stock FTF and keep it in stable state for now. So what do I need to do to install cm10?
Thanks in advance

When it says <waiting for device> just follow these steps:
1.Turn off the phone
2.power off button + volume UP
3.wait to finish flash
If it dosn't work reinstall drivers.

AvinabaDalal said:
I decided to root my mom's Xperia E and put CM10 in it. So I began. I first rooted with cydia impactor and put supersu manually and installed binaries. It was successfully rooted. Now when I unlocked my bootloader I faced a bootloop, so I flashed stock ftf and then rooted again. So now I have a rooted and bootloader unlocked xperia e. Then I decided to install cwm. I tried to do it using cmd prompt but everytime it would show <waiting for device> and then nothing happens (I booted in fastboot mode). After that I decided to put zeus kernel. In the download section, confusion started as there were 2 versions, for cwm and TWRP respctively, I tried the cwm one and flashed it using flashtool but then my phone's UI was like gone. I was only able to open settings app. So I decided to flash stock FTF and keep it in stable state for now. So what do I need to do to install cm10?
Thanks in advance
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Nothing much if you flashed Stock FTF recently then just flash Zues Kernel the CWM one, make sure you have the proper drivers to flash using flashtool.
Then boot up and go into recovery and flash the CM10.zip. Then you will need to flash the CM10 kernel. Its usually inside the ZIP named "boot.img"

Stock recovery problem

How do I stop my stock recovery from flashing it self again I've custom recovery ? This is causing me great problems!/
I have lollipop 5.0.2 stock firmware (rooted phone)
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From what I know that shouldn't be happening. Could you explain what happens more specifically?
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When I flash the cust recovery and then open it , it works fine but then when I reboot my device and again open the recovery .. The stock one is again there with that dead android display with written no command.
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Rahul Maheshwari said:
When I flash the cust recovery and then open it , it works fine but then when I reboot my device and again open the recovery .. The stock one is again there with that dead android display with written no command.
Sent from my XT1033
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You may want to contact the developer of the recovery. Otherwise do a factory reset.

HopperPlaysMC said:
You may want to contact the developer of the recovery. Otherwise do a factory reset.
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I had a factory reset for like 6-7 times but nothing is working ! Can you tell me how stop stock recovery from reflashing itself
Sent from my XT1033

Flash custom recovery with the phone in fastboot mode and use the fastboot menu buttons to boot into the newly flashed recovery. Do not let the phone reboot.

audit13 said:
Flash custom recovery with the phone in fastboot mode and use the fastboot menu buttons to boot into the newly flashed recovery. Do not let the phone reboot.
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Did that ! This is the only time when recovery works. And after the reboot again stock recovery. What do I do now?
Sent from my XT1033

If you are rooted, you may need to rename the stock recovery by adding .bak to the end recovery file name, boot to fastboot, flash recovery, and reboot to recovery. This is what I had to do with my Motorola Atrix HD. I have an xt1032 and never had to rename the recovery file.

Which recovery are you using? Because on cwm, if you flash on stock the first time you reboot it asks you whether to prevent the stock recovery from overwriting it. Even Philz has a setting to disable that from happening, I think.

[email protected]$h98 said:
Which recovery are you using? Because on cwm, if you flash on stock the first time you reboot it asks you whether to prevent the stock recovery from overwriting it. Even Philz has a setting to disable that from happening, I think.
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I flashed both the roms philz and cmw but neither of them asked me to not flash the stock recovery again!/
Please guide me through this coz u do not want to brick this phone!
Sent from my XT1033

This usually happens on non-rooted devices. Have you rooted your device? If not, flash Philz from fastboot and boot into recovery directly after flashing. And now flash SuperSU through philz and reboot. Problem should be solved

[email protected]$h98 said:
This usually happens on non-rooted devices. Have you rooted your device? If not, flash Philz from fastboot and boot into recovery directly after flashing. And now flash SuperSU through philz and reboot. Problem should be solved
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My device is rooted with SuperSU working fine. And still I tried flashing recoverys again but still the same problem
I will try once more , you provide me with the recovery you talking about (link for download) and let's see if that work!
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Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2563599

[email protected]$h98 said:
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2563599
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Thanks dude it worked for me and now I am having cmw working fine for my device
Sent from my XT1033

I have no idea how to stop flash recovery to stop flashing itself. Maybe contact the devs of the mod and see what they can do.

[Q] please help phone bricked can't flash

I was trying to flash this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/son...-lollipopxperiacb-2-16-stable-tested-t3011897
And I got to flashing the recovery and I flashed it using Mobileuncle as suggested.
I restarted and went into recovery, wiped dalvik cache and data and restarted by mistake.
The Sony logo appeared and stayed there.
I can still go into recovery but it doesn't flash anything and it keeps saying "error bad file"
I downloaded the stock ROM in .ftf format and tried flashing it using flashtool but it gets stuck at 0% saying "flashing loader" forever and I think that's because the boot loader is locked
Any suggestion would be much appreciated.
Thanks

mshtob said:
I was trying to flash this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/son...-lollipopxperiacb-2-16-stable-tested-t3011897
And I got to flashing the recovery and I flashed it using Mobileuncle as suggested.
I restarted and went into recovery, wiped dalvik cache and data and restarted by mistake.
The Sony logo appeared and stayed there.
I can still go into recovery but it doesn't flash anything and it keeps saying "error bad file"
I downloaded the stock ROM in .ftf format and tried flashing it using flashtool but it gets stuck at 0% saying "flashing loader" forever and I think that's because the boot loader is locked
Any suggestion would be much appreciated.
Thanks
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You are able to go in cpockworkmod recovery right?
As for flashtool have you installed the drivers
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abhishekr700 said:
You are able to go in cpockworkmod recovery right?
As for flashtool have you installed the drivers
Sent from my C2305 using Tapatalk
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I can access clockwork but it doesn't flash the rom I downloaded I will try another rom

mshtob said:
I can access clockwork but it doesn't flash the rom I downloaded I will try another rom
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if u cant access recovery how can you say it cant flash rom??

abhishekr700 said:
if u cant access recovery how can you say it cant flash rom??
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thank you very much I was able to flash the stock .ftf rom using Wmshua Flash Tool and everything is back to normal

Can't Access TWRP Recovery

Hi guys, I flashed the latest factory image, then flashed the latest TWRP but can access it 1 out of 10 tries.. What am I doing wrong? Is it a faulty replacement phone? Never had this issue with my other nexus 5 (same recovery file but lollipop and not marshmallow) and now I have this problem.. Tried to riflashato the factory image 5 times, boot to recovery without installing but nothing changed.. Thanks in advance!

If you just just flashed TWRP, then booted into Android, then reboot into recovery.. Android will overwrite TWRP with the stock recovery.
a hammerhead wrote this.

beekay201 said:
If you just just flashed TWRP, then booted into Android, then reboot into recovery.. Android will overwrite TWRP with the stock recovery.
a hammerhead wrote this.
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Never happened before.. How can I prevent this? Sometimes I can't even boot to twrp after flashing and not rebooting to android..

carlese said:
Never happened before.. How can I prevent this? Sometimes I can't even boot to twrp after flashing and not rebooting to android..
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do you finde fix

slavisa037 said:
do you finde fix
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Downloaded twrp again and used flashify..

carlese said:
Downloaded twrp again and used flashify..
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This is not really a fix, since to use Flashify one needs to be rooted already.
What I did to work around this was reflash LMY48M. After reflashing that, fastboot correctly boots/flashes twrp.
I've read that the issue arises when trying to boot and/or flash twrp with MRA56K installed, AND the device is connected to USB.

Ok, i got some of problems here, i tryied to root my Nexus 5 with other Android 6 version, it was the first one launched after development version. Now i have MRA58K version.
Problem 1 : I have no stock recovery, i first rooted original version of Marshmallow with CWM and i soft bricked, so no backup, no factory images. Installed MRA58K and there is no stock recovery, thanks god i can use bootloader. I can install TWRP, but i want to install the old recovery, Tell me how to do it.
Problem 2: Actual version of Marshmallow ask me to install a patch, but when installing i got stuck in TWRP, it cant install it (yes, android was rooted, but i installed twrp before root, and the update were before it.)
Thanks.

You can flash a stock ROM using the flash-all file in a command prompt. This will install stock ROM with stock recovery. Make sure the phone has an unlocked bootloader and you should be fine.
Official OTA updates cannot be installed with a custom recovery.

I tryied 3 times to install OS with flash-all. All the problems start after i installed CWM and try to root the phone, but after that, i used a stock rom image that was different build than actually one.
I`m not sure yet who`s fault is.
Any ideas?

I don't recommend using CWM, only TWRP.

After you flash TWRP always boot into it, and since you're flashing a custom recovery I'm going to assume you don't care about OTA's, swipe to allow system to be mounted. TWRP will automatically patch the system to survive android trying to overwrite it. Reboot into TWRP a second time to be safe. TWRP should stick from now on until you flash over it or restore stock system partition.

Yes, now i have TWRP as recovery, but i want to replace it with stock recovery.
Problem is, when i upload stock recovery and try to boot in recovery mode, i got the green dead android with red triangle.
But after TWRP uploading and booting in recovery mode, TWRP is there..
I really don`t know what`s wrong.

Flash stock recovery, select recovery from the fastboot menu, hold the power button and press volume up button.

Tried downgrading from CM13 to CM12 and stuck in bootscreen. Help!

My moto g XT1033 was running fine on CM13 nightly. Since i had few bugs i tried to flash PA 5.1 which is based on CM12. And my phone is stuck in bootscreen. Not able to enter recovery also. Only the bootloader is accessible.
Pls help.

jayabharath2612 said:
My moto g XT1033 was running fine on CM13 nightly. Since i had few bugs i tried to flash PA 5.1 which is based on CM12. And my phone is stuck in bootscreen. Not able to enter recovery also. Only the bootloader is accessible.
Pls help.
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Did you try to flash recovery by fastboot ?

ssinghebay said:
Did you try to flash recovery by fastboot ?
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yes i tried it, But cant flash recovery, and i cant access recovery also.

jayabharath2612 said:
yes i tried it, But cant flash recovery, and i cant access recovery also.
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better wipe and reflash stock rom 5.1.1 through fastboot.
I owned same 1033. almost everyday I flash any custom rom with twrp. and yah switching 5.1/6 doestnt matter to me when I flash or restore or wip. no problem here.

Mine also stuck once, I let the stay as for some hours than try to go to recovery, wiped everything including internal, than flashed new cm. No problem after that