[Q] Stock recovery image - Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey there,
does someone know, if there is the stock recovery image (for original firmware updates) available?
Thanks for your answers.

No there is not. Xperia devices do not have a stock recovery that you can access

But I can't update the stock firmware with custom recoveries.

PinguBene said:
But I can't update the stock firmware with custom recoveries.
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Yes you can, use flashtool.net to flash a FTF
Or PCCompanion to update if you have not unlocked the bootloader.

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revert back to stock

i have custom ROM with unlocked bootloader and rooted , how i can revert back to stock motorola ?
i have global version XT1032 .
Flash stock rom by lost101, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2854688 then flash stock recovery so you can get OTA
eddydc1 said:
Flash stock rom by lost101, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2854688 then flash stock recovery so you can get OTA
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would that work? not necessary to flash original firmware via fastboot?
arya5 said:
would that work? not necessary to flash original firmware via fastboot?
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Well, OP says "All of these ROMs will get future OTA updates as released by Motorola."

[Q] How to come back to stock RECOVERY?

hi,
I have Lolipop 5.0 in my Moto G + root + TWRP. I received the 5.0.1 OTA but of course I can't apply the update because of TWRP. I read (here) that I need to come back to stock recovery to apply the update. I'll loose root access but that's ok, I'll root again later. My question is: how do I come back to stock recovery?
Thank you.
The same way you flash twrp.
kiko321 said:
The same way you flash twrp.
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to flash TWRP I download the lastest version of TWRP on their website. How can I do the same with stock recovery???
There are links here where to download stock recovery. Can't browse the forum now. But i too have downloaded the stock from a post here. Hope it helps.
kiko321 said:
There are links here where to download stock recovery. Can't browse the forum now. But i too have downloaded the stock from a post here. Hope it helps.
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can't find XT1032 Lollipop stock recovery on XDA, I guess I'll have to open a new thread to ask... I flashed 4.4.4 stock recovery (through MotoTool AIO software) but I haven't been able to flash 5.0.1 update then. So I think 5.0 stock recovery is required to update to 5.0.1.
Thanks for your help.
If by chance you have the link to XT1032 5.0 stock recovery, please post it!
mehcoib said:
can't find XT1032 Lollipop stock recovery on XDA, I guess I'll have to open a new thread to ask... I flashed 4.4.4 stock recovery (through MotoTool AIO software) but I haven't been able to flash 5.0.1 update then. So I think 5.0 stock recovery is required to update to 5.0.1.
Thanks for your help.
If by chance you have the link to XT1032 5.0 stock recovery, please post it!
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I guess you're using custom rom so restore to STOCK ROM .
Follow this guide (at the end dont flash any custom recovery) Stock recovery XT1032
Automatically you'll get stock recovery
Megatron27 said:
I guess you're using custom rom so restore to STOCK ROM .
Follow this guide (at the end dont flash any custom recovery) Stock recovery XT1032
Automatically you'll get stock recovery
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no, I'm using stock ROM, with TWRP + root, that's it. So I just need to stock recovery to apply OTA update.
But thanks for the link, I understand how to use it to come back to stock recovery. Except... that this guide is for XT1033. Do you think I can use recovery.img XT1033 image file to flash my XT1032?

Stock Kernel and Stock Firmware

Hi,
I installed [STABLE] CM12 [20150120] Xperia Z3 [ALL VARIANTS] and now I want to get back to the stock kernel and stock firmware. Can I just download the stock firmware from here and flash it over the CM12.img? Or do I have to install another kernel before? A small tutorial would be nice.
My phone is only accessible via PC. So i can change between flash mode and fastboot mode in the flashtool or fastboot cmd. The bootloader is unlocked.
Thanks in advance
caelistic
caelistic said:
Hi,
I installed [STABLE] CM12 [20150120] Xperia Z3 [ALL VARIANTS] and now I want to get back to the stock kernel and stock firmware. Can I just download the stock firmware from here and flash it over the CM12.img? Or do I have to install another kernel before? A small tutorial would be nice.
My phone is only accessible via PC. So i can change between flash mode and fastboot mode in the flashtool or fastboot cmd. The bootloader is unlocked.
Thanks in advance
caelistic
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Flash a stock kernel. Flash a FTF.
Done
gregbradley said:
Flash a stock kernel. Flash a FTF.
Done
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Do you have a link for me where I can get download them?
I can't find a stock kernel. I would take the stock firmware from here.
caelistic said:
Do you have a link for me where I can get download them?
I can't find a stock kernel. I would take the stock firmware from here.
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Just use the advanced stock kernel from the development section. That will boot up a stock FTF and also give you root.
gregbradley said:
Just use the advanced stock kernel from the development section. That will boot up a stock FTF and also give you root.
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Okay I'll try it. Thank you.

[Q] Flash Customised Firmware on Carrier Device

I'm still confused about this. Can we do what the title says? Been searching it for a while and I can't find any answers because probably no one asked this. Thanks
Yes you can. Without root you can flash FTF,s. With root & recovery you can flash sony stock based roms. With unlocked bootloader you can flash custom kernels
gregbradley said:
Yes you can. Without root you can flash FTF,s. With root & recovery you can flash sony stock based roms. With unlocked bootloader you can flash custom kernels
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Ah thanks. Always thought there would be a conflict when flashing a generic firmware on a carrier phone.

Do we have non-root Xperia Z3 custom rom?

I am using unlock bootloader Xperia Z3 right now, having rooted custom rom and recovery. Currently I need to have my device become non-rooted for testing applications. I can flash FTF but my device will lost recovery and it would be tedious to flash recovery and rom again.
I tried to find any non-root rom but can't find yet. Or do I need to flash FTF to have non-root rom?
Felys said:
I am using unlock bootloader Xperia Z3 right now, having rooted custom rom and recovery. Currently I need to have my device become non-rooted for testing applications. I can flash FTF but my device will lost recovery and it would be tedious to flash recovery and rom again.
I tried to find any non-root rom but can't find yet. Or do I need to flash FTF to have non-root rom?
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If you are not rooted you are stuck with official stock roms only. Just flash a FTF.
However, this will not lock your bootloader, you will have to restore your TA partition to do this or use flashtool.

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