Hey Guys,
I'm not an expert at this. I recently took my rooted phone to a phone shop and the guy said he could unlock my phone for me for £10.00. He did it, but since then my phone restarts during calls.. I asked the guy to fix it and he said "because my phone is rooted, the kernel was damaged". Now, am i correct in thinking that the kernel can just be re-flashed along with a new rom? I have added custom roms to this phone before but now I cant unlock the boot loader. It won't work in flashtool, it gives me a "your phones bootloader cannot be unlocked". Any ideas?
Andy
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Hello,
im trying to get a cfw on my x10i ( which i bought second hand a while ago and dont know what already bin done whit it ). Which means i have to unlock my bootloader, ive tryed s1tool which wont work for me. ( gives me an error about not finding some path, did read somewhere that repairing phone firmware with seus should fix that.)
Also i did read somewhere ( unfortunatly i cant find it anymore, shame on me ) something about a small r and a big R within the bootversion, but im not sure anymore.. the small r meant it was unlocked? Or im i mistaking? My bootversion says:
s1 boot version: 1226-2253 r8AO33. ( found it within service menu --> software info. )
So does this mean my phone already got an unlocked bootloader and i can install a cf without myself going through the hassle of unlocking my bootloader, or does it mean something else?
Hoping some one could help me out on this,
Greeting mellowbug.
does it show sony ericson logo on booting????? if its unlocked..it shouldnt show usually....
At OP, yes your bootloader is unlocked. Happy flashing
@smithinsundar: Unlocking the bootloader does not imply that the SE boot logo would vanish. This is related to the boot logo which is in the kernel itself. So only by flashing a kernel for unlocked bootloaders would make the SE logo go away.
Oke great, thanks aR_ChRiS now i can start flashing and feeling i bit more secure. Yeah..
greetings. mellowbug.
Strange little story– A tale of (apparent) success snatched from the jaws of chronic stupidity and without any idea why it all worked.
I was given an unwanted X10 Mini Pro for my daughter – which was locked to 3 UK. So I unlocked it using a server unlock bought through eBay. That all worked perfectly but then I wanted to unlock the bootloader and install CM9.
I’d installed CM7 on another X10MP for a friend last year and so I had S1tool etc but of course it reported “RA0405” (locked bootloader) and “non recognised certificate” . (Awww, sh1t !)
Well then I read that flashtool can now unlock the bootloader so I thought I’d give it a try. Running Flashtool 8.10 I tried it but couldn’t get beyond the pop-up window where it asks you to connect the phone in flash mode. (Aww, Double sh1t!!)
Then clicking around the options on flashtool I came across “Root” and thought I’d give it a go in case the BL unlock needed root access. Well it threw up a few lines of text and reported that I was rooted. I re-ran the BL unlock again but no joy. (Awwww, double bugg3ry sh1t!!!).
Call me pig-headed but I then tried S1tool one last time. Again, it don’t work but it did throw up one line that told me specifically that while I still had the dreaded “Capital R” locked bootloader that it was “already rooted”.
On the basis that the phone had cost me nothing and that “root” normally indicates “take me any way you like , big boy” I then went back into flashtool and flashed the NaA ICS kernel. It worked!
I tried to restart into CWM – It worked too!! I wiped and flashed CM9 – It worked!!!!
I rebooted praying to all the saints that it wouldn’t bootloop and eventually a lockscreen appeared and it let me in to the start of the usual setup wizard.
Now, the BL unlocking guides all said that forcing a BL unlock with a non-SEMC/SETools or Optimus unlocked phone ccould either break your Sim-unlock or bork your radio functions completely so I still wasn’t optimistic but I shut the phone down slapped in my daughter’s Voda SIM, restarted and – “By the sacred balls of St Bartholemew!!” everything works just perfectly.
Now my question is simple. In true “idiot savant” mode have I got to the right end-point by a totally illogical and a “that should never have worked” series of blunders? Or could someone intelligent tell me why it worked and (if so) why it isn’t already written-up somewhere as another way to get past your BL and do a custom ROM install?
I’m not touching the damn thing again – in case my luck has now run out - that much I do know……
Could you post the output of S1Tool?
Unlocking the bootloader on an unrecognised simlock-certificate MAY work, but more often than not it destroys the radio-capability.
I'm fairly sure your bootloader is unlocked, can't imagine the nAa-kernel working otherwise, but without the output of S1Tool there's no way of telling
I bought this tablet 2 months ago in our local t-mobile. And everything was fine until 2 weeks ago when it suddenly started loosing gsm signal.
At first i thought it had something to do with me rooting it. So i tried repairing it 2 times but with no luck. After that i tried downgrading to 4.1.2 and that didn't work either.
So basically i can be online (surfing,downloading etc.) for few minutes before it drops gsm signal (no signal icon in statusbar) and after few minutes it comes back and then it drops again...
I'd like to know if it can be fixed without taking it to nearest sony repair service. Did anyone encounter similar problem and manage to fix it?
btw bootloader is locked (unlock allowed: no) so flashin another kernel/ROM is out of the question...
wh15tler said:
I bought this tablet 2 months ago in our local t-mobile. And everything was fine until 2 weeks ago when it suddenly started loosing gsm signal.
At first i thought it had something to do with me rooting it. So i tried repairing it 2 times but with no luck. After that i tried downgrading to 4.1.2 and that didn't work either.
So basically i can be online (surfing,downloading etc.) for few minutes before it drops gsm signal (no signal icon in statusbar) and after few minutes it comes back and then it drops again...
I'd like to know if it can be fixed without taking it to nearest sony repair service. Did anyone encounter similar problem and manage to fix it?
btw bootloader is locked (unlock allowed: no) so flashin another kernel/ROM is out of the question...
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Have you tried factory resting it ? Also you can unlock the boot loader just search xda im sure ive seen a guide somewhere ? i was going to say take it back to Sony as it might be a hardware problem but since you have rooted it your warranty has been voided...
N1NJATH3ORY said:
Have you tried factory resting it ? Also you can unlock the boot loader just search xda im sure ive seen a guide somewhere ? i was going to say take it back to Sony as it might be a hardware problem but since you have rooted it your warranty has been voided...
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Well firmware flashing via SUS repair option usually does that for me.. but yeah, i tried factory reset as well. And about bootloader unlocking i've been searching for a guide ever since i bought it. No such luck... Apparently if it's "bootloader unlock allowed: NO", it's meant to stay that way. At least until someone finds a way around it.
I've got a vague idea about how does rooting work and that tells me if i did a complete wipe and flashed my tablet, how can they detect it?
I mean.. it's a complete reinstall, how are they supposed to know that the tablet was rooted on previous firmware if it currently isn't?
wh15tler said:
Well firmware flashing via SUS repair option usually does that for me.. but yeah, i tried factory reset as well. And about bootloader unlocking i've been searching for a guide ever since i bought it. No such luck... Apparently if it's "bootloader unlock allowed: NO", it's meant to stay that way. At least until someone finds a way around it.
I've got a vague idea about how does rooting work and that tells me if i did a complete wipe and flashed my tablet, how can they detect it?
I mean.. it's a complete reinstall, how are they supposed to know that the tablet was rooted on previous firmware if it currently isn't?
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Well im no pro, but don't they have some kind of binary counter witch tells the manufactures the devices has been rooted ? i know that's how Samsung goes about identifying if the devices has been rooted... But Sony im not too sure, Also your theory does hold ground, if you clean install from the ground up then Sony shouldn't be able to tell, if the device has been rooted, also you do know that Sony have a guide on there website on how to unlock the boot loader ? Here check it out http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/unlock-bootloader/
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Well im no pro, but don't they have some kind of binary counter witch tells the manufactures the devices has been rooted ? i know that's how Samsung goes about identifying if the devices has been rooted... But Sony im not too sure, Also your theory does hold ground, if you clean install from the ground up then Sony shouldn't be able to tell, if the device has been rooted, also you do know that Sony have a guide on there website on how to unlock the boot loader ? Here check it out...
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I know about that website. That's how i unlock every sony i come across that needs unlocking :laugh:
But it also says if the "Bootloader unlock allowed" is NO in service menu, then there is no hope for unlocking the bootloader. At least not officially.. until someone comes with a solution for that..
So i managed to get some extra details on that problem.
Apparently i can't get LTE signal anywhere. And when i get LTE, connection automatically drops.
Could it be that the LTE chip is faulty? Does that mean that i'll probably get another device... because somehow i doubt that theyll try to replace the motherboard
I was flashing a google play edition rom onto my phone and when i did that i also had the harman karmon speakers flashed and my phone went into the HTC boot screen. The screen never loaded into the phone so i waited for it to die. After it died i went into the bootloader and tried to boot into recovery to wipe the phone, but when i got into the bootloader my phone said CID incorrect
"press the power button to restart". I did this and it just does the same thing, never loads into the phone and always says CID incorrect. please help. My phone is rooted, has s-off, and unlocked bootloader. any suggestions would be appreciated
If you installed HK by the following thread, it says right there it doesn't work with GPE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2737498
Or did you follow some other process?
Is anything else showing up on the bootloader screen, is it trying to install an update? I don't think I've seen this before, where it says incorrect CID in bootloader, unless its trying to install something.
"Bootloader unlock allowed: no", but on a phone that was previously unlocked??
Hi all,
I have a Z5C and I unlocked it in the past. At the time I needed online banking and got annoyed with not being able to hide the fact my phone was rooted, so I restored stock Android 7.1.1 onto it.
I came back to this after a year or two and thought that I could just root the phone again. Lo and behold, it now says the bootloader cannot be unlocked and everyone says that means it's the end and nothing can be done.
Is that true? Is it possible to unlock the bootloader, but then permanently re-lock it somehow? That seems really strange to me, but perhaps that's what happened. Anyone else have any input on whether this can be reverted somehow?
Thanks,