Is it okay to flash XA Ultra Dual or Single Firmwares with Flashtool (0.9.22.3)? Share your experience here. Thanks.
Sithu Htun said:
Is it okay to flash XA Ultra Dual or Single Firmwares with Flashtool (0.9.22.3)? Share your experience here. Thanks.
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Wrong place, technically the same but they run different firmware no's so no good for the normal xa and multiple repeat questions in different threads/forums is called spamming and a also against xda rules I do believe I've answered your question already
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It is not the same, dude. I got three devices, X, XA and XA ultra. I am asking for all devices for safety because my friend bricked his XA ultra by flashing with flashtool.
Sithu Htun said:
It is not the same, dude. I got three devices, X, XA and XA ultra. I am asking for all devices for safety because my friend bricked his XA ultra by flashing with flashtool.
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Flashing a device is never fully safe, not only on phones. You will always see warnings about that. Read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)
I know the term. There are two types, soft brick and hard brick. I have flashed over hundred xperia devices with flashtool and got never hard bricked. I just want to know the experience of flashing new Xperia X series cuz XA and XAU are MTK devices.
Sithu Htun said:
I know the term. There are two types, soft brick and hard brick. I have flashed over hundred xperia devices with flashtool and got never hard bricked. I just want to know the experience of flashing new Xperia X series cuz XA and XAU are MTK devices.
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Flashed mine a week ago, got a Hardbrick :crying:
merolrockstar said:
Flashed mine a week ago, got a Hardbrick :crying:
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A messages for bricked phones with void warranty, did you tried to open the device and remove the battery for flashing? You can see around the Web that's a solution to unbrick some MTK devices.
rrvuhpg said:
A messages for bricked phones with void warranty, did you tried to open the device and remove the battery for flashing? You can see around the Web that's a solution to unbrick some MTK devices.
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No, I didn't open it, just send it inmediated to service, and they give me a new one in less an hour
merolrockstar said:
Flashed mine a week ago, got a Hardbrick :crying:
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How to Xperia XA Ultra Dual F3216 on fw install
Win Paing Soe said:
How to Xperia XA Ultra Dual F3216 on fw install
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See other post, there is a way to do it using script
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I have uk Xperia Ultra and tried to install pa on her last night which failed and I ended up with a soft brick which I managed to recover back to stock firmwire, I have now rerooted my phone and have full root I now understand I need to unlock my bootloader but when I do that *# thing it says I cannot unlock bootloader and flashtool also says that ? So does that mean I can never install custom rom on my phone ?????
Sonic1981 said:
I have uk Xperia Ultra and tried to install pa on her last night which failed and I ended up with a soft brick which I managed to recover back to stock firmwire, I have now rerooted my phone and have full root I now understand I need to unlock my bootloader but when I do that *# thing it says I cannot unlock bootloader and flashtool also says that ? So does that mean I can never install custom rom on my phone ?????
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Ouch.. Yes, you're right as far as i know (but things might change?). I'm like 99% sure this is the case, but i'll let somebody else that are not completely new to Sony device (like me) to answer this.
LordManhattan said:
Ouch.. Yes, you're right as far as i know (but things might change?). I'm like 99% sure this is the case, but i'll let somebody else that are not completely new to Sony device (like me) to answer this.
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Yeah I'm the same mate I've been Samsung since 2008 this is the first Sony I've had and I proper bricked it last night lol managed to get her back using Sony of companion and stock firmware but I'm devastated I can't install.paranoid android as it always been my favourite I've posted similar question in the pa thread but still.no answer
Sonic1981 said:
Yeah I'm the same mate I've been Samsung since 2008 this is the first Sony I've had and I proper bricked it last night lol managed to get her back using Sony of companion and stock firmware but I'm devastated I can't install.paranoid android as it always been my favourite I've posted similar question in the pa thread but still.no answer
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I had the same issue yesterday. It happens due to missing drivers and the like.it was on a win8 PC.I moved to win7 and was able to unlock bloader and install pa
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Sonic1981 said:
Yeah I'm the same mate I've been Samsung since 2008 this is the first Sony I've had and I proper bricked it last night lol managed to get her back using Sony of companion and stock firmware but I'm devastated I can't install.paranoid android as it always been my favourite I've posted similar question in the pa thread but still.no answer
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Well that sucks. Did you purchase your Ultra from a carrier or something?
Sonic1981 said:
I have uk Xperia Ultra and tried to install pa on her last night which failed and I ended up with a soft brick which I managed to recover back to stock firmwire, I have now rerooted my phone and have full root I now understand I need to unlock my bootloader but when I do that *# thing it says I cannot unlock bootloader and flashtool also says that ? So does that mean I can never install custom rom on my phone ?????
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as far as i know, no one has discovered an exploit yet with the Z1 or Ultra... so you can't unlocked a bootloader (with a locked device)
I'm guessing its likely to happen, as with the two devices being basically internally identical, you'll have double the chance.
both phones has shinano platform, so maybe it would work, but if not, will this hard brick my device?
I tried to flash Xperia SL, acro S and ion firmware on my Xperia S (all four phones has fuji platform) and it was working, so I think that it should work with Z2 and Z3 too. I also tried to flash Xperia T and Z firmware on my Xperia S and it wasn't working and just soft bricked my device. I tried to flash custom rom on locked bootloader Xperia S and it was just a bootloop. I have tried many stupid things on my XS and nothing has hard bricked it. I read that locked bootloader devices cannot be hard bricked just soft bricked, is it true? I can't hard brick a locked bootloader phone?
Its somewhat true, a Locked Bootloader is Harder to hardbrick that a unlocked Bootloader but the Z2 has a dedicated reset Key
Z3 firmware should run fine on Z2, just needs to be modified a tiny bit and compiled with the correct board config
Im not going to try it because i actualy need my phone
And why do you need to flash Z3 firmware when 167 update is a near direct port from the Z3
Envious_Data said:
Im not going to try it because i actualy need my phone
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I also need my phone. it can be unbricked if it wouldn't work, right?
Envious_Data said:
And why do you need to flash Z3 firmware when 167 update is a near direct port from the Z3
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I don't know why, I just want it. and maybe Z3's 5.0 update comes a bit sooner than Z2
maddboss said:
I also need my phone. it can be unbricked if it wouldn't work, right?
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Sure, you can get back your phone to work by flashing FTF File
maddboss said:
I don't know why, I just want it. and maybe Z3's 5.0 update comes a bit sooner than Z2
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Emm, don't think so. Sony said that both Z3 and Z2 will be first to receive 5.0 so I think we both should have a 5.0 on the same day.
my z3v biricked after flashed with z3 firmware.i can not enter flashmode fastboot any more.i have no setool box and have no method to solve the problem.please help me
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Your phone is done for because it was stressed hard enough that the Z3v is entirely different from the Z3. Better luck finding another one, since you can eBay for ones less than $200 now.
xnlbin said:
my z3v biricked after flashed with z3 firmware.i can not enter flashmode fastboot any more.i have no setool box and have no method to solve the problem.please help me
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use your Sony warranty if your phones in perfect shape tell them tour screen went black.. Theres an fastboot or recovery tool I saw on xda for a z1c or a z1 that guy was trying all sort of craziness and using that tool to recover it may work or not at all I havnt tried search in xda for it good luck.
GigaSPX said:
Your phone is done for because it was stressed hard enough that the Z3v is entirely different from the Z3. Better luck finding another one, since you can eBay for ones less than $200 now.
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Unfortunately, I know they different too late.thank you for your reply
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Tigerhoods said:
use your Sony warranty if your phones in perfect shape tell them tour screen went black.. Theres an fastboot or recovery tool I saw on xda for a z1c or a z1 that guy was trying all sort of craziness and using that tool to recover it may work or not at all I havnt tried search in xda for it good luck.
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Thank you very much for your reply, I am now in China, the warranty does not function. Tools you mentioned, I searched, only support 8974 chipset, but Z3V is 8974AC, so sad????
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is it now working????
p.shashikiran94 said:
is it now working????
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No, it's a $200 brick now.
GigaSPX said:
No, it's a $200 brick now.
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did he back up any thing? through any recovery?
p.shashikiran94 said:
did he back up any thing? through any recovery?
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No matter what backups he did, the phone cannot restore anything if it doesn't even have the right software on it. It's a costly mistake but it's a valuable lesson to learn from.
yea im in same boat, stuck on bootloop, ughhh,even when i flash ftf file with flashtool , getting TA partison failed. plx there must be a way to fix this bootloop. hellpppp
scgelin said:
yea im in same boat, stuck on bootloop, ughhh,even when i flash ftf file with flashtool , getting TA partison failed. plx there must be a way to fix this bootloop. hellpppp
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I bootloop my phone sometimes 5 times in a day trying different stuff if ur phone boots to a boot animation its fixable. pm me
ok i just pm tigerhoods
I have a doubt about flashtool and this device and my doubt arises when I try to load software in the compilation .100 at the end of the process try to turn it on but I realize that it has suffered a hardbrick my question is because this is because the model It's recent oh why this happens :crying:
kaiiori said:
I have a doubt about flashtool and this device and my doubt arises when I try to load software in the compilation .100 at the end of the process try to turn it on but I realize that it has suffered a hardbrick my question is because this is because the model It's recent oh why this happens :crying:
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I've used the latest version of flashtool on my own xa F3111 several times no problems at all.
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My xperia xa ultra for second occasion flashtool has given me hardbrick for the day of today fulfills a 1 day in guarantee I will waive that they will deliver it to me again
Same with me, Flashtool hard brick my F3213
aidy.lucas said:
I've used the latest version of flashtool on my own xa F3111 several times no problems at all.
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What version is safe to use?
Aphex33 said:
What version is safe to use?
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I used the latest version of flashtool several times on my xa F3111 no problem at all, only use it in simple mode and the only thing I left out was the simlock.ta part of the ftf i included everything else and as long as the boxes checked match the ones in the attached image you should have no problems...
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aidy.lucas said:
I used the latest version of flashtool several times on my xa F3111 no problem at all, only use it in simple mode and the only thing I left out was the simlock.ta part of the ftf i included everything else and as long as the boxes checked match the ones in the attached image you should have no problems...
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I think that there is a dangerous problem with Flashtool and XA Ultra. I flashed many times my XA without problems (upgrade and downgrade) too. As you can see I opened 2 threads to centralize bricked devices to confirm that. I hope that unlucky users will reply on them to help us understanding the origin of the problem.
Anyone asked the author of Flashtool?
My situation is that after rooting, my front camera just stopped focusing, and i also noticed that the app crashes when it need to adjust the exposure (if i bring the phone to a more bright enviroment), so i believed that using the Xperia companion "repair software" option would unroot my phone and lock the bootloader again, but surprise! I just recently saw on a sony support page that Xperia companion doesn´t works with modified devices, so i don´t know what to do in order to restore my XA ultra to verify if the root was the cause of the front camera stopped working
Model F3213
Sorry for my bad english, greetings from México!
I got same issue as you (mine f3216)..don't worry, you just need to reflash stock firmware by latest flashtool..make sure you exclude all .ta file before flash stock firmware.
I found this issue and make an experiment and i believe this problem exist after flash boot.img...we need help from rrvuhpg to compile boot.img from latest firmware..
Btw, now my f3216 hard bricked when i downgrade fw..i sent to sony..waiting my dead f3216 live..huhu
So if I exclude all the.ta files before flashing my XA won't hard brick? I don't want to take the risk of going into a hard brick, the Sony team here on Mexico is a mess
Madroid24 said:
So if I exclude all the.ta files before flashing my XA won't hard brick? I don't want to take the risk of going into a hard brick, the Sony team here on Mexico is a mess
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This is what I included when I flashed my xa F3111
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