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[Completed] How to succesfully flash custom lollipop firmware on sony xperia m dual!

1.Download lollipop firmware
2.Download gapps
3.Download dual sim patch from and copy all zip file to your sd card
4.Now root your device,it can be easily done without pc using app called towelroot and click on make it rain!
5.After rooting unlock your bootloader
6.When you will successfully unlock the bootloader you may brick your phone but dont worry
7.From the above lollipop firmware extract the file named boot,img
8.To flash that file you need to download software known as flashtool 0.9.15.0
9,Install appliction and connect your device in fastboot mode,To connect your phone in fastboot mode hold the volume up button and connect your phone to your pc on the screen it will inform that device connected in fastboot mode
10.Now click on the flash icon located on top left and click on fastboot mode`and click ok
11.Now click on select system to flash and then a window will popup to select file now see on the bottom it will be selected *.sin change it into *.img
12.Now locate your boot.img file that you extracted on step 7
13.Now click ok it will be flashed
14.Now poweron your phone and long press the volume up key and you will see that notification light first turn orange and then green and you will come on recovery mode now select wipe and clear all data,system cache,dalvic cache and now come back to main menu and click on install and select micro sd and flash all the zip file we downloaded before
15.After flashing click on reboot
16.Now to make your both sim work use root explorer and goto system/build.prop and Remove these following ones :
CODE:
ro.ril.telephony.mqanelements=4
persist.radio.oem_socket=false
And write
CODE :
persist.radio.multisim.config=dsds
persist.radio.dont_use_dsd=true
17.For any problem please comment!
Enjoy!

Hi,
here isn't the right place for this kind of thread. Please see this forum for Xperia M
Sony Xperia M
Thanks for understanding
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Can you fix this Problem????

Hi i have an Honor8 and it's kinda destoryed
Problem :
1 Phone is stuck honor 8 logo or it show me the EMUI Huawei eReocover where i have three options A) shutdown B) reboot C) Download latest Version and recovery [ tried options C But i fails to download the package everytime ]
2: my honor 8 is usb dead meaning my pc dosent recognize my phone in anyway so.... yeah
3: Dont have stock Rom or custom rom
4: cant boot to twrp recovery at all
Good news at this point :
The Power and volume bottoms work ..........
Oh and i have Mrico SD card .........
IF you can solve this Problem you my friend are a certify genuineness

Rommco05 said:
Put full fw to sd card and turn on phone with buttons +/-/on,off together or flash .zip fw via twrp
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are you saying that i should download the Frimeware to the miroc sd and press + - and power toghther i ll try that
and i cant boot to twrp to flash the zip
the for the replay i'll report after i try it

Rommco05 said:
Put full fw to sd card and turn on phone with buttons +/-/on,off together or flash .zip fw via twrp
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I tried it but it said the the uppdate pakage dosent exist

Use Method 2
How to install Nougat Firmware on Honor 8 –
Method 1
1) First, download Android 7.0 Nougat ROM for Honor 8 from above and extract it.
2) Now create a folder dload in the root of your SD card and place the update.app file in that folder.
3) Now dial *#*#2846579#*#* from your phone dialer to open a hidden menu.
4) Now click on Project Menu -> Software Upgrade -> SDCard Upgrade.
5) Now select and run the update.
6) Wait until the installation process is complete and then reboot your device.
7) Now extract the second file (update_data_full_hw_eu) from above and save all the files in the dload folder.
8) Now repeat step 3 to 6 again.
9) Done.
Method 2
1) Download Stock ROM for Huawei and extract it.
2) Now create a folder dload in the root of your SD card and place the update.app file in that folder.
3) Now turn off your device.
4) Now press “Volume Up + Volume Down and Power Button” together. The update process will start automatically.
5) Now wait for some time to complete the process.
6) Now extract the second file (update_data_full_hw_eu) from above and save all the files in the dload folder.
7) Now repeat step 3 to 5 again.
8) Done.

Rommco05 said:
You have all ready fw in sdcard? Go to Huawei web download full firmware B131 and copy this file to sdcard
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Yes i have Frimeware in my sdcard what know?

PhantonKid said:
Yes i have Frimeware in my sdcard what know?
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press volume up, down and power when you start the phone. The firmware (UPDATE.APP) should be in a folder called dload and it should install.

Solved it guys thx for all the Help
it work omg so happy dint have i phone for tre days
download the Frimeware
Extart it
made new fold named dload
put the Uppdare.app in dload
power voulme + and -
and magic it works
you are all certify genuineness

StratOS_HTC said:
Use Method 2
How to install Nougat Firmware on Honor 8 –
Method 1
1) First, download Android 7.0 Nougat ROM for Honor 8 from above and extract it.
2) Now create a folder dload in the root of your SD card and place the update.app file in that folder.
3) Now dial *#*#2846579#*#* from your phone dialer to open a hidden menu.
4) Now click on Project Menu -> Software Upgrade -> SDCard Upgrade.
5) Now select and run the update.
6) Wait until the installation process is complete and then reboot your device.
7) Now extract the second file (update_data_full_hw_eu) from above and save all the files in the dload folder.
8) Now repeat step 3 to 6 again.
9) Done.
Method 2
1) Download Stock ROM for Huawei and extract it.
2) Now create a folder dload in the root of your SD card and place the update.app file in that folder.
3) Now turn off your device.
4) Now press “Volume Up + Volume Down and Power Button” together. The update process will start automatically.
5) Now wait for some time to complete the process.
6) Now extract the second file (update_data_full_hw_eu) from above and save all the files in the dload folder.
7) Now repeat step 3 to 5 again.
8) Done.
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I dont understand step six Now extract the second file (update_data_full_hw_eu) from above and save all the files in the dload folder.
what second file ??

PhantonKid said:
I dont understand step six Now extract the second file (update_data_full_hw_eu) from above and save all the files in the dload folder.
what second file ??
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The file named "Update_data_full_hw_(insert your region here).ZIP" It's a US, EU or Asia specific file you should flash as well. It include soft keyboard and other useful stuff.
Place ALL of its contents in the dload folder when flashing.

Help me ) NewFlasher Flashing Method

Because flashtool doesn't work on xzp
So i found flashing tool
Found a tool named NewFlasher
they said move flasher app to firmware downloaded folder by XperiaFirm
So i did and doing well
But it stopped working while flashing System.sin(maybe)
And i rebooted but it didn't boot
And just white Sony logo(and n and y letter is broken(?)
I go to flashmode but fastboot didn't work at all
What should i do...
and threre are any files i need to EXCLUDE when i flash again?
I didnt exclude any files and flashed. Am i doomed now?

did yout try to restore with xperia companion?

I unlocked the bootloader
kistigun said:
did yout try to restore with xperia companion?
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I unlocked the bootloader
Is there any way to relock the bootloader ?
I unlcoked xz unlock at the sony developers site(xz unlock works to xzp)

( Help me ) NewFlasher Flashing Method
Hi,
Somethings wrong with your flashing.
do the thing only what i do ok.
1. if you have original download file from downloaded by xperiafirm, open it.
2. if not download the file again.
3. then open it and copy only .sin files to new folder name as XZP.
4. go to the downloaded file and there is a rar file name as partition.
5. extract that file to that new folder with name as partition in XZP folder.
6. then copy the newflasher.exe to the XZP folder.
7. Run newflasher.exe
8.type N and click enter.
9. then connect your phone to the PC while touching your Phone volume down key.
10. wait until finish the process and press ok and disconnect the phone.
11. switch on and you can see it as new one

Kanchuka said:
Hi,
Somethings wrong with your flashing.
do the thing only what i do ok.
1. if you have original download file from downloaded by xperiafirm, open it.
2. if not download the file again.
3. then open it and copy only .sin files to new folder name as XZP.
4. go to the downloaded file and there is a rar file name as partition.
5. extract that file to that new folder with name as partition in XZP folder.
6. then copy the newflasher.exe to the XZP folder.
7. Run newflasher.exe
8.type N and click enter.
9. then connect your phone to the PC while touching your Phone volume down key.
10. wait until finish the process and press ok and disconnect the phone.
11. switch on and you can see it as new one
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thank you for your kind explanation
i didn't know that at all
Did my IMEI and other devices own info gone away....?

Kanchuka said:
Hi,
Somethings wrong with your flashing.
do the thing only what i do ok.
1. if you have original download file from downloaded by xperiafirm, open it.
2. if not download the file again.
3. then open it and copy only .sin files to new folder name as XZP.
4. go to the downloaded file and there is a rar file name as partition.
5. extract that file to that new folder with name as partition in XZP folder.
6. then copy the newflasher.exe to the XZP folder.
7. Run newflasher.exe
8.type N and click enter.
9. then connect your phone to the PC while touching your Phone volume down key.
10. wait until finish the process and press ok and disconnect the phone.
11. switch on and you can see it as new one
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thank you for your kind explanation
i didn't know that at all
Did my IMEI and other devices own info gone away....?

한구긴 said:
thank you for your kind explanation
i didn't know that at all
Did my IMEI and other devices own info gone away....?
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I have flashed my phone. but nothings change. but you cant safe your documents and data. because your phone already software crashed. so you can do it.
please note. this app is not recommended like flash tool. but you have no option to recover your phone.
did you try to repair your phone using Xperia companion.
before flashing using new flasher. try to repair your phone using Xperia Companion. which is officially recommended application. open xperia companion and click repair then select phone and wait until show you connect your phone with press and hold volume down key. if this works no need to use new flasher. if this not work you have to use new flasher

Kanchuka said:
I have flashed my phone. but nothings change. but you cant safe your documents and data. because your phone already software crashed. so you can do it.
please note. this app is not recommended like flash tool. but you have no option to recover your phone.
did you try to repair your phone using Xperia companion.
before flashing using new flasher. try to repair your phone using Xperia Companion. which is officially recommended application. open xperia companion and click repair then select phone and wait until show you connect your phone with press and hold volume down key. if this works no need to use new flasher. if this not work you have to use new flasher
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I've already unlocked my bootloader
Is there any way to relock the bootloader?
(I tried xz's unlock method)

한구긴 said:
I've already unlocked my bootloader
Is there any way to relock the bootloader?
(I tried xz's unlock method)
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No, you can not relock the bootloader since your DRM key are history

Honor 8 update

Hello guys. I have a Honor 8 (Al-C900B120 version) how run Android 6.0 with EMUI 4.1. I want to update it to Android 7 and EMUI 5 or more but i don.t find the pack with update because my phone don.t want to riceve it. Can somebaby help me to solve this think and let here a link .
Tnk !

Hello! Do you already tried to install and use HiSuite software on your computer to get an update?

Micdu70 said:
Hello! Do you already tried to install and use HiSuite software on your computer to get an update?
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Yes but nothing

Iosifcosmin said:
Yes but nothing
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Okay... you have a "Rollback package" (C900 = free region). So now, you need to flash a complete firmware. It's easy with "dload" folder method.
Honor Chinese website doesn't give any firmware for Honor 8 now... I found B135 (Android 6.0 and EMUI 4.1 but you can do OTA updates, so it's good ) which will flash correctly on your phone and here is a link: https://mega.nz/#!ZgU22BYa!FP8UYXghy0dXxOYFeSf4BKdlF5_8AbVMKQ0ONkV5VpQ (It's for AL10 AND AL00 too, no worry!)
Steps for "dload" folder method:
0. Backup your phone! Factory Reset (Wipe internal storage only) can be made after update or needed if you have freezes/crashes/bootloop
1. Unzip firmware and copy dload folder to the phone (check if you have "dload/update.app" file - in SD card it's always working, but you can try internal storage too)
2. Turn off phone, wait 10 sec.. Turn on phone by PRESSING BOTH (UP AND DOWN) VOLUME KEYS AND POWER KEY until emui screen, then release. The update installs automatically.
3. After long update, phone boot can be very slow (2-5 minutes) so wait patiently!
4. If successfully booted, check now if you have OTA updates. (you can delete the "dload" folder if all is okay then )

Micdu70 said:
Okay... you have a "Rollback package" (C900 = free region). So now, you need to flash a complete firmware. It's easy with "dload" folder method.
Honor Chinese website doesn't give any firmware for Honor 8 now... I found B135 (Android 6.0 and EMUI 4.1 but you can do OTA updates, so it's good ) which will flash correctly on your phone and here is a link: https://mega.nz/#!ZgU22BYa!FP8UYXghy0dXxOYFeSf4BKdlF5_8AbVMKQ0ONkV5VpQ (It's for AL10 AND AL00 too, no worry!)
Steps for "dload" folder method:
0. Backup your phone! Factory Reset (Wipe internal storage only) can be made after update or needed if you have freezes/crashes/bootloop
1. Unzip firmware and copy dload folder to the phone (check if you have "dload/update.app" file - in SD card it's always working, but you can try internal storage too)
2. Turn off phone, wait 10 sec.. Turn on phone by PRESSING BOTH (UP AND DOWN) VOLUME KEYS AND POWER KEY until emui screen, then release. The update installs automatically.
3. After long update, phone boot can be very slow (2-5 minutes) so wait patiently!
4. If successfully booted, check now if you have OTA updates. (you can delete the "dload" folder if all is okay then )
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if i do this , in the chines version the google play will be work ?

Iosifcosmin said:
if i do this , in the chines version the google play will be work ?
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I don't know why it will can not work. It could be not pre-installed but you can install (and use) "Google services" APKs easily. (Don't forget to allow "Storage" permission / give full permissions)
Total size of the firmware given above is 5.29 GB (!!!) and you need to use "7-zip" to extract .tar.gz archive inside "Soft..." or "...Soft" folder. Extract archive again until you have "dload" folder which have "UPDATE.APP" file and 5 directories.
If I knew your phone model (AL00 or AL10?), I can try to give you the last firmware allowed to install on your phone (the "FullOTA" one - complete package firmware).

Micdu70 said:
I don't know why it will can not work. It could be not pre-installed but you can install (and use) "Google services" APKs easily. (Don't forget to allow "Storage" permission / give full permissions)
Total size of the firmware given above is 5.29 GB (!!!) and you need to use "7-zip" to extract .tar.gz archive inside "Soft..." or "...Soft" folder. Extract archive again until you have "dload" folder which have "UPDATE.APP" file and 5 directories.
If I knew your phone model (AL00 or AL10?), I can try to give you the last firmware allowed to install on your phone (the "FullOTA" one - complete package firmware).
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My phone is Al-10

Iosifcosmin said:
My phone is Al-10
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EDIT: Check your vendor info, type this phone number: *#*#2846579#*#* then go to "Network Information Query" > "Vendor Country Info". If you see "Vendor: all" and "Country: cn" = OK you can follow:
EDIT 2: If you see "allwyf" in vendor info, tell me and I will give you the good zip files!
Try to flash FRD-AL10C00B396 - "all-cn" vendor - January 2018 security patches included, via dload method. But there is 3 files to flash (in order!):
0) Backup your phone! Factory Reset (Wipe internal storage only) can be made after update or needed if you have freezes/crashes/bootloop.
/!\ It's better to use a SD Card, don't know if it works if you send files into Internal Storage! /!\
First flash: update.zip
1) Unzip archive, create "dload" folder inside root of SD Card memory if not present -or- delete "dload" content if exists, then transfer extracted file named "UPDATE.APP" inside "dload" directory.
2) Turn off phone, wait 10 sec.. Turn on phone by PRESSING BOTH (UP AND DOWN) VOLUME KEYS AND POWER KEY until emui screen, then release. The update installs automatically.
3) First Boot can take some minutes, wait patiently...
Second flash: update_full_FRD-AL10_all_cn.zip
4) Unzip archive and transfer extracted file named "UPDATE.APP" inside "dload" directory. (click "Yes" for erasing previous file)
5) Turn off phone, wait 10 sec.. Turn on phone by PRESSING BOTH (UP AND DOWN) VOLUME KEYS AND POWER KEY until emui screen, then release. The update installs automatically.
6) And... Boot again... ^^
Third flash: update_data_full_public.zip
7) Unzip archive and transfer extracted file named "UPDATE.APP" inside "dload" directory. (click "Yes" for erasing previous file)
8) Turn off phone, wait 10 sec.. Turn on phone by PRESSING BOTH (UP AND DOWN) VOLUME KEYS AND POWER KEY until emui screen, then release. The update installs automatically.
9) All files were flashed! OTA update will not give you updates because it's the latest OTA update (currently)...
10) If any issue, Factory Reset can help.

Micdu70 said:
Okay... you have a "Rollback package" (C900 = free region). So now, you need to flash a complete firmware. It's easy with "dload" folder method.
Honor Chinese website doesn't give any firmware for Honor 8 now... I found B135 (Android 6.0 and EMUI 4.1 but you can do OTA updates, so it's good ) which will flash correctly on your phone and here is a link: https://mega.nz/#!ZgU22BYa!FP8UYXghy0dXxOYFeSf4BKdlF5_8AbVMKQ0ONkV5VpQ (It's for AL10 AND AL00 too, no worry!)
Steps for "dload" folder method:
0. Backup your phone! Factory Reset (Wipe internal storage only) can be made after update or needed if you have freezes/crashes/bootloop
1. Unzip firmware and copy dload folder to the phone (check if you have "dload/update.app" file - in SD card it's always working, but you can try internal storage too)
2. Turn off phone, wait 10 sec.. Turn on phone by PRESSING BOTH (UP AND DOWN) VOLUME KEYS AND POWER KEY until emui screen, then release. The update installs automatically.
3. After long update, phone boot can be very slow (2-5 minutes) so wait patiently!
4. If successfully booted, check now if you have OTA updates. (you can delete the "dload" folder if all is okay then )
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i follow your steps but when i turn on my phone (press up and down key + power key) the update stop at 5% and it stuck.... and after that it turn . What can i do to work the update?

What do you see/have when you do this:
Check your vendor info, type this phone number: *#*#2846579#*#* then go to "Network Information Query" > "Vendor Country Info".
?

not able to install 9.0

hello, I still have the latest janjan rom on my phone and it deny updating through phone and flashtool 9.25.0... is there any instruction for installing it or? thanks

nevenx said:
hello, I still have the latest janjan rom on my phone and it deny updating through phone and flashtool 9.25.0... is there any instruction for installing it or? thanks
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You need to flash using newflasher.

This will wipe the phone, so back-up everything you want to keep!
What I did (coming from old stock oreo with unlocked bootloader):
-Download firmware using XperiFIRM
-Download latest newflasher (V13 i believe)
-Go to the folder with the firmware, inside the XperiFIRM folder, where you see all the .sin and .ta files
-Remove ALL the .ta files, just search for *.ta in the folder and delete them all
-Turn the phone off
-Press and hold volume down and connect the phone to the PC. You will see the notification led turn blue (i think its blue with volume down and green when you hold volume up while connecting, can be other way around)
-Double click newflasher.exe
-Press 'n' and 'enter' twice, it will now flash the rom
-(optional)Go to the folder where you have the latest TWRP for the xz premium, open a command prompt there and execute "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" or whatever your twrp file is called.
-Boot the phone. If you just installed TWRP you can flash magisk. No need to flash any DRM fix or custom kernel.
This will wipe the phone, so back-up everything you want to keep!
http://www.xperiablog.net/2018/01/2...-firmware-for-xperia-xz-premium-xz1-and-more/ <-- Same story but with screenshots

Moarten said:
This will wipe the phone, so back-up everything you want to keep!
What I did (coming from old stock oreo with unlocked bootloader):
-Download firmware using XperiFIRM
-Download latest newflasher (V13 i believe)
-Go to the folder with the firmware, inside the XperiFIRM folder, where you see all the .sin and .ta files
-Remove ALL the .ta files, just search for *.ta in the folder and delete them all
-Turn the phone off
-Press and hold volume down and connect the phone to the PC. You will see the notification led turn blue (i think its blue with volume down and green when you hold volume up while connecting, can be other way around)
-Double click newflasher.exe
-Press 'n' and 'enter' twice, it will now flash the rom
-(optional)Go to the folder where you have the latest TWRP for the xz premium, open a command prompt there and execute "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" or whatever your twrp file is called.
-Boot the phone. If you just installed TWRP you can flash magisk. No need to flash any DRM fix or custom kernel.
This will wipe the phone, so back-up everything you want to keep!
http://www.xperiablog.net/2018/01/2...-firmware-for-xperia-xz-premium-xz1-and-more/ <-- Same story but with screenshots
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and if dont delete the ta files?

Moarten said:
This will wipe the phone, so back-up everything you want to keep!
What I did (coming from old stock oreo with unlocked bootloader):
-Download firmware using XperiFIRM
-Download latest newflasher (V13 i believe)
-Go to the folder with the firmware, inside the XperiFIRM folder, where you see all the .sin and .ta files
-Remove ALL the .ta files, just search for *.ta in the folder and delete them all
-Turn the phone off
-Press and hold volume down and connect the phone to the PC. You will see the notification led turn blue (i think its blue with volume down and green when you hold volume up while connecting, can be other way around)
-Double click newflasher.exe
-Press 'n' and 'enter' twice, it will now flash the rom
-(optional)Go to the folder where you have the latest TWRP for the xz premium, open a command prompt there and execute "fastboot flash recovery twrp.img" or whatever your twrp file is called.
-Boot the phone. If you just installed TWRP you can flash magisk. No need to flash any DRM fix or custom kernel.
This will wipe the phone, so back-up everything you want to keep!
http://www.xperiablog.net/2018/01/2...-firmware-for-xperia-xz-premium-xz1-and-more/ <-- Same story but with screenshots
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thanks, I installed it, can you link me a thread for how to install twrp and magisk on PIE? if its not problem for you