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Xperia S without system - HELP!!!

Hello.
A few days ago i bought my new Sony Xperia S. I gave this phone to a moment for my friend - he would install CyanogenMod 9 on this. Installation from androidauthority[.]com/xperia-s-lt26i-ics-cyanogenmod-9-unofficial-81581/ tutorial are failed, and my Xperia actual runs only bootloader and recovery mode. Installation of Cyanogen is not working, it failure after one-two seconds of install. What i to do with my phone, for recovery the factory Android?
Please help to me, my phone is actual like brick

Use flashtool flash this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588586
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1537296
after flashing you will return to stock
head to the Arc foruums

Qwerty123 \m/ said:
Use flashtool flash this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588586
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1537296
after flashing you will return to stock
head to the Arc foruums
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Thanks. I downloaded both files - App and FTF, launched FlashTool (Windows), i chose Flashmode, and linked to file FTF. Everything is all right, but after clicking OK the program displaying prompt "How to put phone in FastBoot mode" - of course my phone is already in this mode. What is the cause?
Greetings!

Fastboot mode
phanthomas_ said:
Thanks. I downloaded both files - App and FTF, launched FlashTool (Windows), i chose Flashmode, and linked to file FTF. Everything is all right, but after clicking OK the program displaying prompt "How to put phone in FastBoot mode" - of course my phone is already in this mode. What is the cause?
Greetings!
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to connect the phone is fastboot mode power off the phone and hold the volume up key and connect the phone to pc via USB,it should show a blue led that indicates fastboot mode

Here is the fix buddy
phanthomas_ said:
Hello.
A few days ago i bought my new Sony Xperia S. I gave this phone to a moment for my friend - he would install CyanogenMod 9 on this. Installation from androidauthority[.]com/xperia-s-lt26i-ics-cyanogenmod-9-unofficial-81581/ tutorial are failed, and my Xperia actual runs only bootloader and recovery mode. Installation of Cyanogen is not working, it failure after one-two seconds of install. What i to do with my phone, for recovery the factory Android?
Please help to me, my phone is actual like brick
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I had the same problem when i tried to flash something i ended up having the same problem. Phone keeps rebooting into recovery mode.
I also have the Sony Xperia S LT26i.
Flash the phone using fastboot using this command: "Fastboot flash boot kernel.sin".
For that you need the kernel file. I'm guessing that your kernel and my kernel are the same because we have the same phone. If you want the kernel file, email me then i will send you the files. Hope this helped

Imtiaz383 said:
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I had the same problem when i tried to flash something i ended up having the same problem. Phone keeps rebooting into recovery mode.
I also have the Sony Xperia S LT26i.
Flash the phone using fastboot using this command: "Fastboot flash boot kernel.sin".
For that you need the kernel file. I'm guessing that your kernel and my kernel are the same because we have the same phone. If you want the kernel file, email me then i will send you the files. Hope this helped
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Question: did you noticed this topic is about 2 months old?
Sent from my LT26i with Tapatalk 2

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Imtiaz383 said:
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I had the same problem when i tried to flash something i ended up having the same problem. Phone keeps rebooting into recovery mode.
I also have the Sony Xperia S LT26i.
Flash the phone using fastboot using this command: "Fastboot flash boot kernel.sin".
For that you need the kernel file. I'm guessing that your kernel and my kernel are the same because we have the same phone. If you want the kernel file, email me then i will send you the files. Hope this helped
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Not really. But thought it could be helpful to others who might ever come across the same problem like i and he did. By the way how did you know i commented on this post?

[q] cannot flash cm10

Hey there, i have rooted my phone using SRS Root, unlocked my bootloader. But whenever i tried to flash CM10 Rom, the cmd or flashtool keeps telling me ''The device is not ROOTED''. it says my device is not rooted?bullsh*t !. please help, im still a newb at this.
p/s. i've also bricked my phone once, but i did unbricked it. after that, whenever i want to flash using fastboot, it says my device is not rooted. could bricking it be the problem?

Switch off the phone
Extract the CM10 update.zip
Reboot into fastboot (press Vol + key while inserting USB cable)
Kick the Lighting button -> Fastboot Mode -> Flash Kernel.
Chose the boot.img from above extracted file.
Reboot the Phone, keep continously pressing vol - key while the Sony Logo appears.
Install from Zip, chose the complete update.zip from above.
Wipe Cache/Data.
Your done!

arefasyrf said:
Hey there, i have rooted my phone using SRS Root, unlocked my bootloader. But whenever i tried to flash CM10 Rom, the cmd or flashtool keeps telling me ''The device is not ROOTED''. it says my device is not rooted?bullsh*t !. please help, im still a newb at this.
p/s. i've also bricked my phone once, but i did unbricked it. after that, whenever i want to flash using fastboot, it says my device is not rooted. could bricking it be the problem?
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Mate Did u Unlocked ur boot loader if not do it but this voids warrenty be sure that its up to u

Please tell me how are you planning to install cm10. Zip file from cmd????
It is clearly said to use recovery...
thank me if I helped you.Sent from my xperia E dual C1604....

hussain59 said:
Mate Did u Unlocked ur boot loader if not do it but this voids warrenty be sure that its up to u
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i already did unlocked my bootloader

mathewsj114 said:
Please tell me how are you planning to install cm10. Zip file from cmd????
It is clearly said to use recovery...
thank me if I helped you.Sent from my xperia E dual C1604....
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oops, wrong info. im trying to flash CWM using flashtool and Cmd. both of them didnt worked. it says that my device is not rooted

arefasyrf said:
oops, wrong info. im trying to flash CWM using flashtool and Cmd. both of them didnt worked. it says that my device is not rooted
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Check the thread...might get something useful
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2352081
Hit the thanks button..it does not cost you anything.
it's worth something for me...
sent from my Sony Xperia e dual

[Q] What i need to do now probably soft bricked d2303 boot loop

Hello Guys.
I have a little problem after succesfull unlocking bootloader and adding a CWM Link. My d2303 has a bootloop , ill try to flash it with flashtool but when i go in flashmode and choose the file phone will go ON without using a power button... Still i can enter in CWM but i cant install a zip with stock 4.4.4 (I dont try older versions yet)
So i cant flash it and now i need help .
@edit: After download stock 4.3 recovery will see rom but cannot flash it cause of error "failed to load keys installation aborted" . Any ideas how to fix it?.
really sorry for my bad eng but i learn it at home alone

You can try to flash stock kernel with Flashtool but using fastboot instead of flashmode. You can try entering fastboot holding Vol + and connecting the phone to PC.

nlooooo said:
You can try to flash stock kernel with Flashtool but using fastboot instead of flashmode. You can try entering fastboot holding Vol + and connecting the phone to PC.
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ill try it but when i choose "select system to flash" FT see just *.sin / *.img / *.ext4 and yaffs2 .
@edit: aw my bad i didnt read properly, will try with stock kernel.
@edit2: now bootlooping 1 sec after a home screen.
@edit3: Problem solved, just need to relock bootloader then flash in FT... i dont know the difference but work...

If you relocked bootloader now you can flash it using Sony PS Companion to get a full stock OS with right customization and start from scratch.

nlooooo said:
If you relocked bootloader now you can flash it using Sony PS Companion to get a full stock OS with right customization and start from scratch.
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No i cant even if i use "repair" option. Companion give a info i have a latest compilation. Flashtoll do the job after relock in 1st hit.

[Q] No Flashmode Xperia D2302

Hi Everyone,
I am having an issue since last one month. Researched a lot but nothing helped me.
I tried to flash my xperia m2 dual (D2302) with a custom rom (MIUI V5, from ROMs section). I got the devices booted but when I realized lots of bugs in the ROM, I planned to switch back to stock ROM. I had flashed stock ROM couple of times earlier and so I follow the flash instructions again. I then realized the device is not booting in flashmode. Whenever I am connecting the device while switched off with holding the volume down button, A green led flashes and goes off. The flashtool says
Device connected with USB debugging off.
For 2011 line devices, make sure you are not in MTP mode.
I tried a lot but couldn't resolve the problem. Then I found CM11 nightly build. With that ROM I am using my device but it also has two major issues.
1) Sudden reboots (while chatting or while playing games)
2) No audio after using device for an hour or so after reboot. Reboot solves the problem for an hour but audio goes off again after one or one and half hours.
I want to go back to stock ROM. But unable to do so because of no flash mode.
For information:
1) I am using 64Bit windows 8.1 (I had flashed my xperia d2302 with this machine a couple of times before I flashed MIUI V2)
2) Drivers are properly installed, USB cable changed but not luck
I request everyone with the android development knowledge, please help me out. I am a newbie in this area and so don't know much. Please let me know how can I resolve the flashmode problem or can I revert to stock ROM using a way other than flashmode.
Or if you can tell me how can I fix the CM11 sudden reboot and no audio issues.
Please help me out. Please

The way to get in to flashmode is to make sure your phone is turned OFF , then you just have to connect your phone to a USB while holding volume down.
If you can't get it right this way, you could always try to flash trough fastboot, first of all go to your device information, where you can find your Android version etc. ... tap the build number for like 5-6 times , so the developer options become visible in the options.
Then in the developer option , turn ADB debugging on, connect your device with your computer.
Make sure you got the adb drivers installed and fastboot drivers also for your device.
Whenever your computer connects trough adb with your phone, you gotta allow the connection by allowing it on your phone. (There will be a pop-up screen).
Then you gotta make sure you got Android SDK installed, there will be a map called SDK, open it and then open the platform-tools map.
Move your kernel, recovery, and system images you want to install into this map too. ( Take one which is able to boot in Flashmode)
Then you gotta open up a command window. My path to the map is C:\SDK\Platform-tools, to get to the map you use the cd command, like this:
cd C:\SDK\platform-tools
then first of all make sure you got a backup of all your images etc. just in case....
in the command window type,
adb reboot fastboot
then these ones (all seperatly):
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
After it is done succesfull you can type
fastboot reboot
You can try to be quick and allready press the volume down button to boot in flashmode.
Otherwise you gotta turn off your phone and try it again.
Hope to hear it works....

Xperia devices use FTF files for flashing. I don't have the stock boot.img and I am unable to get it.
I extracted the FTF but I got lots of sin files. I don't know how can I create boot.img from these.
Do you have any idea about it? Or if you have boot.img for Xperia D2302, please post me link for the same.
Thanks for the reply.
Sent from my Xperia M2 Dual using XDA Free mobile app

markandeyp said:
Xperia devices use FTF files for flashing. I don't have the stock boot.img and I am unable to get it.
I extracted the FTF but I got lots of sin files. I don't know how can I create boot.img from these.
Do you have any idea about it? Or if you have boot.img for Xperia D2302, please post me link for the same.
Thanks for the reply.
Sent from my Xperia M2 Dual using XDA Free mobile app
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You don't have to extract anything, load whole ftf in Flashtool and leve unchecked Kernel (if that's what you want to flash) you'll flash only Kernel.
Xperia M2 D2303 on K.K. 4.4.4

Thanks for reply dzepar. But I am not able to get in flashmode. How can I flash kernel from ftf using fastboot.
Sent from my Xperia M2 Dual using XDA Free mobile app

markandeyp said:
Thanks for reply dzepar. But I am not able to get in flashmode. How can I flash kernel from ftf using fastboot.
Sent from my Xperia M2 Dual using XDA Free mobile app
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What's the problem? What Windows you use? Does your phone get recognized by pc(do you have all drivers instaled)? Do you have PC companion installed?
If you do, there is power off button by the sim card, press it then try to connect usb while holding volume down.
Try to repair your phone with PC companion. Then see if the problem is solved.
Good Luck!
Xperia M2 D2303 on K.K. 4.4.4

Yes. The phone is being detected by PC. I am able to get into fastboot mode but not in flash mode.
Pc Companion is installed. I am using windows 8 64 bit. Drivers are installed properly. I tried repairing the phone with pc companion but it is not detecting the phone while repairing.
May be the boot partition is corrupted. What recovery are you using? If you are using cwm then can you send me the boot.img from the stock rom cwm backup?
This may solve my problem.
Sent from my Xperia M2 Dual using XDA Free mobile app

markandeyp said:
Yes. The phone is being detected by PC. I am able to get into fastboot mode but not in flash mode.
Pc Companion is installed. I am using windows 8 64 bit. Drivers are installed properly. I tried repairing the phone with pc companion but it is not detecting the phone while repairing.
May be the boot partition is corrupted. What recovery are you using? If you are using cwm then can you send me the boot.img from the stock rom cwm backup?
This may solve my problem.
Sent from my Xperia M2 Dual using XDA Free mobile app
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I'm using This recovery and i have D2303, but i fi it help you here is my boot.img.
I think you have problem with flashmode drivers or your usb cable. I had problem with stock Sony's usb cabele now i'm using 10cm cable from Nokia that i had
Good Luck.

Hi Dzepar,
The link to boot.img is taking me to some apk location. Can you please check once.
Sent from my Xperia M2 Dual using XDA Free mobile app

markandeyp said:
Hi Dzepar,
The link to boot.img is taking me to some apk location. Can you please check once.
Sent from my Xperia M2 Dual using XDA Free mobile app
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Sorry for that, try this

For All The Xperia M2 Models Who Are Unable To Boot Into Flashmode
Connect One End Of Usb 2 Ur PC...open flashtool select ur ftf....Click on flash...Wen the Wizard Or Animation Of "CONNECT UR PHONE INTO FLASHMODE" appears.. connect other end of usb to ur phone...
DO NOT CONNECT BEFORE THE FLASHTOOL PROMPTS U TO CONNECT....THE GREEN LIGHT GOES OFF IF U CONNECT BEFORE IT ANd Ur Phone Wont Go Into Flashmode

shaikhnabil4 said:
Connect One End Of Usb 2 Ur PC...open flashtool select ur ftf....Click on flash...Wen the Wizard Or Animation Of "CONNECT UR PHONE INTO FLASHMODE" appears.. connect other end of usb to ur phone...
DO NOT CONNECT BEFORE THE FLASHTOOL PROMPTS U TO CONNECT....THE GREEN LIGHT GOES OFF IF U CONNECT BEFORE IT ANd Ur Phone Wont Go Into Flashmode
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Hi, Thanks for reverting.
It's not working.

Dzepar said:
Sorry for that, try this
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Hi Dzepar,
After a long time am reverting back. I am still facing the same issue. The boot image that you sent is not being installed. It's saying "not a valid boot image".
Are you still using M2 Dual?
If yes, Can you send me a fresh CWM backup of your ROM so that I can make my phone usable. Please.

markandeyp said:
Hi Dzepar,
After a long time am reverting back. I am still facing the same issue. The boot image that you sent is not being installed. It's saying "not a valid boot image".
Are you still using M2 Dual?
If yes, Can you send me a fresh CWM backup of your ROM so that I can make my phone usable. Please.
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I have D2303 Sorry

markandeyp said:
Thanks for reply dzepar. But I am not able to get in flashmode. How can I flash kernel from ftf using fastboot.
Sent from my Xperia M2 Dual using XDA Free mobile app
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Just try to find the right driver for flashmod to your windows version
I had the same problem on my d2302 and i found driver for flashmod then i lost fastboot driver and flash tft its working good ... Sorry for my bad language ?

Try power off, then hold vol up whilst connecting to pc it should install the required drivers
D2303 18.3.1.C.1.15 kk deodexed, rooted, philz touch recovery, xposed, z1 bravia engine 2 + x-reality+ z3 super vivid, viper audio

On Flashtool page in FAQ, there is great tutorial (with pictures) how to install drivers on Windows 8.1.
Xperia M2 D2303 on K.K. 4.4.4

HTC desire 816 soft bricked!

Hi guys,
I have a very bad problem with my HTC Desire 816G, it bricked and i can't now flash the stock or custom rom!
When i turn on my device it going to the stock recovery!
bootloader is unlock, i want to install the TWRP but i can't because i can't access the fastboot!
I don't know what i must do! I'm so worry and uneasy! plz help me...

alirezarz62 said:
Hi guys,
I have a very bad problem with my HTC Desire 816G, it bricked and i can't now flash the stock or custom rom!
When i turn on my device it going to the stock recovery!
bootloader is unlock, i want to install the TWRP but i can't because i can't access the fastboot!
I don't know what i must do! I'm so worry and uneasy! plz help me...
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In stock recovery, if there's an option like 'Reboot into bootloader', that's the fastboot mode, enter it and flash TWRP..
If there's no other way, flash the original firmware from here: http://androidtechnics.blogspot.in/2015/06/htc-desire-816g-htc-d816h-dual-sim.html using SP Flash Tool..
How did you soft-brick your device first of all?

GokulNC said:
In stock recovery, if there's an option like 'Reboot into bootloader', that's the fastboot mode, enter it and flash TWRP..
If there's no other way, flash the original firmware from here: using SP Flash Tool..
How did you soft-brick your device first of all?
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there is no option like that in the stock recovery!
i just downloaded the stock rom and tried to flash with SP Flash Tool but device is not detected by pc!
i unlocked the bootloader and then i reset the phone, device began updating with the stock update center for the stock rom! and...

alirezarz62 said:
there is no option like that in the stock recovery!
i just downloaded the stock rom and tried to flash with SP Flash Tool but device is not detected by pc!
i unlocked the bootloader and then i reset the phone, device began updating with the stock update center for the stock rom! and...
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Install VCOM drivers and Android CDC Gadget drivers in computer and connect phone in switch off mode..

GokulNC said:
Install VCOM drivers and Android CDC Gadget drivers in computer and connect phone in switch off mode..
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still doesn't detect! sorry, what do you mean of switch off mode?:crying:

alirezarz62 said:
still doesn't detect! sorry, what do you mean of switch off mode?:crying:
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Remove battery for 5 secs, then put it inside and connect to computer

GokulNC said:
Remove battery for 5 secs, then put it inside and connect to computer
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Unfortunately this device has no removable battery!
is there any other way?

I was trying to flash cm 12 thats how i bricked and sp flash tool is not working in my case. my boot loader is unlocked . when i reboot system from cwm recovery it restarts to cwm recover itself help fix plz.