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[Q] need a push in the right direction

hey guys im new to the scene and trying to figure as much stuff out on my own as i can, usually i do a good job and don't need to ask for help. but i do when i have to, so the problem i am having is with a sony xperia play .
its my brothers phone and i was thinking about getting one but i want to "root" it and see whats what with it but i am trying to do so without unlocking the bootloader just incase anything goes wrong with it later so it remains under warranty. im coming from the iphone jail-breaking scene so this is a little different. but i want to give it a go. so i'm trying to root it i checked out this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044765&page=1
i realize at the top of the post it says not all devices are supported because of new FW's does the FW i am on fall in this category?
i tried it with the 1.2.apk and the 1.1
im not sure why it is not working.
but i have a feeling its got something to do with the FW the phone has come with
its running 2.3.3
build number 3.0..1.A.0.145
model number r800i
kernal version 2.6.32.9-perf
i formatted the SD card before anything then after i installed gingerbreak to the phone itself. (also tried it without formatting it, i installed gingerbreak and tried to run it then and it didnt work so i rebooted formatted SD card and tried again and still nothing)
made sure the phone was set to be in USB debugging mode.
gingerbreak opens and has the options there but when i tap "root device" it just says "running exploit" ect on screen and nothing changes. on the post it says usually about 10 minutes but i read through it and one person said it worked for theirs but it took an hour and a half, but another said it took 3-5 minutes.
so i do not know what i am doing wrong. but i have a feeling its the FW it has come with out of the box but i have not been able to find out any information about it as of yet.
i have found another post saying to flash it with a UK generic FW 2.3.2 .184
but im guessing i cannot downgrade to a FW that was not on the phone from packaging. although i may be wrong but that is usually the norm with this kind of thing.
any help in getting me in the right direction is greatly appreciated, and i hope to be able to help others in the future. yes it doesn't seem like i am of much help right now seeing as i can't even get it rooted yet. but i tend to pick up on things very fast. today i am having trouble getting in to it. but soon enough i will get there thank you to anyone who read this i know it is a little long but i wanted to make sure i gave as much information as possible to make sure i haven't left out something critical if i have left out anything let me know and once again thank you for taking the time to read this post and reply (if you did reply =] )

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anyone available who can help me out at all
i know im new to the forum/site but please don't let that stop any of you. if that is stopping you
ive done as much searching as i can and i keep drawing up blanks.

[Q] help rooting Xperia Play 2.3.3 .145

hey guys im new to the scene and trying to figure as much stuff out on my own as i can, usually i do a good job and don't need to ask for help. but i do when i have to, so the problem i am having is with a sony xperia play .
its my brothers phone and i was thinking about getting one but i want to "root" it and see whats what with it but i am trying to do so without unlocking the bootloader just incase anything goes wrong with it later so it remains under warranty. im coming from the iphone jail-breaking scene so this is a little different. but i want to give it a go. so i'm trying to root it i checked out this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...1044765&page=1
i realize at the top of the post it says not all devices are supported because of new FW's does the FW i am on fall in this category?
i tried it with the 1.2.apk and the 1.1
im not sure why it is not working.
but i have a feeling its got something to do with the FW the phone has come with
its running 2.3.3
build number 3.0..1.A.0.145
model number r800i
kernal version 2.6.32.9-perf
i formatted the SD card before anything then after i installed gingerbreak to the phone itself. (also tried it without formatting it, i installed gingerbreak and tried to run it then and it didnt work so i rebooted formatted SD card and tried again and still nothing)
made sure the phone was set to be in USB debugging mode.
gingerbreak opens and has the options there but when i tap "root device" it just says "running exploit" ect on screen and nothing changes. on the post it says usually about 10 minutes but i read through it and one person said it worked for theirs but it took an hour and a half, but another said it took 3-5 minutes.
so i do not know what i am doing wrong. but i have a feeling its the FW it has come with out of the box but i have not been able to find out any information about it as of yet.
i have found another post saying to flash it with a UK generic FW 2.3.2 .184
but im guessing i cannot downgrade to a FW that was not on the phone from packaging. although i may be wrong but that is usually the norm with this kind of thing.
any help in getting me in the right direction is greatly appreciated, and i hope to be able to help others in the future. yes it doesn't seem like i am of much help right now seeing as i can't even get it rooted yet. but i tend to pick up on things very fast. today i am having trouble getting in to it. but soon enough i will get there thank you to anyone who read this i know it is a little long but i wanted to make sure i gave as much information as possible to make sure i haven't left out something critical if i have left out anything let me know and once again thank you for taking the time to read this post and reply (if you did reply =] )

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anyway if anyone here can help me at all please do,
what use is knowledge if it isn't shared or spread.
none.

Need help asap update has my phone @#$%^&

I have never had luck with doing any kind of modding to my phones. I was one of the few where the g2x actually worked. In the beginning I hated b/c of restartes but a hard reset for some reason fixed. That is besides the point. I figured a update from the manufacture would be a breeze, and nothing I shouldnt be able to handle. I followed lgs steps to a T and now my phone is stuck on s/w screen. After a google search I see that 100's have the same problem. I hate LG b/c of this, but I will worry about that latter. I need this fixed asap as I am a truck driver and I use my phone everyday for work. I noticed some people took a different direction at installing it by using a file called KDZ. I also saw some mention of needing a driver from forums. I saw a link on lgs site for this also, but their instruction didnt mention anything about needing to download it.
My biggest problem is I need step by step instructions to do this. I have ZERO experiance at this type of thing therefore any missed step with most likly throw me off. So I need this run down to me like your telling it to a kid lol not someone that has done this before and is familiar with steps left out. Mainly things like if I need the KDZ file, how do I download it, what do I do with it after I download it? Do I download it to my phone or computer and then my phone? I need detailed info so I understand how this stuff works please. I have tried using the KDZ file already and it either freezes or cant find my phone. My phone also is not recognized by the lg update anymore either. I noticed some people were stuck at 4 percent. I actually got to about 50 when it said to remove battery and restart test because of conection issues or something along those lines.. I did as it instructed and here I am lol.
Like I said I need my phone working asap so any help is appreciated. Also if someone tells me to just download this and that and it will fix it, I most likly will be lost. If this need to be unziped after download or little key information like that is left out I will not know to do it.
Thank you for the help and sore for the spelling and punctiation. I am on a old phone.

Help please

So today i just got my new android back from att after the charger port broke and i thought i would hack it with Gingerbread. well as soon as i installed it i ended up my screen all messed up and blured in funny colors. Well i was able to get the phone into recovery mode to the download screen. I tried installing what was supposed to be fryo 2.2 threw odin and the damn thing froze up and now my phone has the soft brick screan so i tried the one click unbrick but i cant run the program as administrative at my girls house because i dont have the admin password even thought there isnt one. i have been up sense 1am trying to trouble shoot this thing i cant seem to fix it and i have work in 3 hours. can some one please help me with a solution on what i can do. att wont cover another phone.
sorry for the bad grammer

i don't i'll be able to help in this, but for others to help, you need to mention your phone details

[q] can i recover hard bricked vibrant with adb windows terminal

Can i use adb windows terminal to recover samsung galaxy (s)ucks i cant get odin to recognize device cause of the hard bricked state of the overpriced phone but last night i was jacking around and i pulled up the device through the command prompt is there any way i can push a .pit and.tar into the (piece of ****) phone.
i used odin to flash a bootloader phone was rooted
Vibrant_GB_Mod.tar <----------------------------------------------------------------------------------guess this is where i effed up
that was the file
no power up at all could be a nice display piece at a flea market phone booth
model # is sgh-t959v
ok so im sorry if i wasnt born with the samsung gene and i missed the sign at the entrance that said no noobs but here i am i already have my a+, net+, and security+ oh and i already taught myself how to fix hdtv's, plasmas and 3d tv's which was very simply so i guess all that is left is cdma/gsm technology which i am picking up on very quickly not really to concerned with the price of the phone as to the knowledge i will gain from the expense oh and dont forget the hours of entertainment i will get out of desoldering the board and frankenfrying it but i will from this point on research the model, firmware software hardware and be sure not to slip off the tightrope you have laid before me and others to cross into the xda dev world

If you have a vibrant you are in the wrong forum. Check the model number under your battery.

First, don't blame the phone because you screwed something up. It's not the phones fault you flashed the wrong stuff to it or couldn't read properly first before jumping in. Thousands of us use the phone, have it modded and haven't hard bricked it.
2nd sticked thread right at the top here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1066
THIS PHONE IS NOT THE VIBRANT.
If you do have the 959v and you flashed something made for the 959, how is that the stupid phones fault? You don't even have to flash bootloaders, so not sure why you even did that.
I'm not sure if a usb-jig will get you out of that mode or not, or if you'll have to send it away.
Feel you're frustrated, but it's like getting blaming Sony because your PS3 is bricked because you tried to flash a 360 firmware to it. Not their fault.

Mama said if u aint got nuthin nice to say then dont say ****
OK MADE A JIG SEEMS TO PUT DEVICE INTO DOWNLOAD MODE ADB RECOGNIZES DEVICE BUT SEEMS LIKE FILE SYSTEM IS EMPTY NO RECOVERY NOW I AM STUMPED ANYONE WANT TO TAKE A SHOT I WILL FED EX YOU THE DEVICE AND PUT AN INSURANCE ON IT GOD FORBID THAT SUMTHING SHOULD HAPPEN TO IT CAUSE I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS THING OUT
this is where i would post a link but since xda developers wont allow it cuz i havent posted 10 links yet i will just post this sentence.

if you're in download mode, eolie's 1 click flashing with bootloaders should get you back to stock.