Flashing SE Xperia phones

EASY WAY  (for newcomers and basic users) 

I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG!!!

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OPTION 1 – Install *.ftf files

1. Install Flashtool 

2. Copy the *.ftf files that you `ve downloaded earlier to firmwares folder from Flashtool.

3. Click “Flash” button from flashtool and select the *.ftf file firmware and click “OK”

4. Relax and wait a while. When the proccess is completed you will get a popup message (don`t click on that!!!)

5. 

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a. Unplug your USB cable from PC
b. Power off your phone
c. Press back button and keep your finger on button
d. Plug USB cable to PC
e. Check if the green LED appear
f. On popup message press "OK" button
g. When "Found at USB/........" appear on flash tool you may release "back button", sit down, relax and wait.


6. IF the “Start Flashing” message appear everything`s ok if not…repeat. Sitdown and relax (again  )

7. When last message appear unplug/plug USB cable

8. Repeat steps 2 – 7 for MT

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 HARD WAY (for advanced users) 

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OPTION 2 – install *.sin files

1. Install Falshtool.exe
2. Unzip your FW version
3. Unzip Dualtouch
4. Now, after install flashtool you will get this files

5. Copy your FW and Dualtouch to firmwares folder

6. (optional) Copy kernel.sin from Dualtouch foler to your FW forder and overight the existing one.

- this step will install dualtouch on flash

7. Open X10FlashTool.exe from Flashtool folder and go to Advanced > Bundle Creation

8. Click on dots

9. Choose the path to you FW and click “open”

10. Put whatever you want on (1) select all files from left, click right arrow (2) and ok (3)

11. Now wait a while and you will get your *.ftf file on firmwares folder

- This is the file you`ll use to flash your phone. Now go up to STEP 1 on 2nd POST.

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I have nothing to do with this!

All credits and donations goes to Androxyde &  Bin4ry (for making this genial tool) and Ricardo Rendeiro for this genial tutorial.

SE X8 “secret” menu (aka Service menu)

When screen locked press Unlock button but don’t unlock screen!

Then type “secret” sequence: □ ← ← □ ← □ □ ← on lock screen of your phone.

(This works only on stock ROM’s)

How to flash generic ROM to HTC Desire S.

First off you need to create a Gold Card
Use the memory card that came with the phone (I think is somehow linked to phone)!

Install Goldcard helper from market, run it and copy the CID for MMC2

This number has already been reversed so go to here, fill out the required fields.

That will then email you an image file. You can then using Gold Card Tool flash your image file to your phones SD card via the phones USB cable.

Next for the actual downgrade
You’ll need this unzipped

in a command prompt, goto the directory you unzipped to
connect the phone via USB

then:

adb push misc_version /data/local/tmp
adb push GingerBreak /data/local/tmp
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/misc_version
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/GingerBreak

This copies the files to the phone and changes the permissions so they will function

adb shell

This will enter the terminal for the phone

./data/local/tmp/GingerBreak

This will then temp root the phone you should now have # at the terminal prompt instead of $, which means you have higher privileges

From this point you can then run misc_version (Thanks to Blezz for the version number) This changes the version reported by the phone to 1.27.405.6, you cannot check this on the phone tho, as it will still report the other number.

cd /data/local/tmp
./misc_version -s 1.27.405.6

From here you can then install the update/downgrade from the exe, no need to dump zip files or anything. As with anything here, results may vary and I won’t be buying new hardware if it breaks yours! But it works a treat on mine. 

Note #1: best ROM is RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe_1.28.401.1_Radio_20.28b.30.0805U_38.03.02.11_M_release_177977_signed , as it’s generic version for European market. All european languges supported.

Note #2 : keep your “gold card”, don’t format it as it will be needed for future updates (OTA or RUU).

(HUGE thanx goes to sonikz & newrad67 from xda-developers.com for this perfect and easy guide).